Today’s “new atheists” seek to deprive you of your belief
system in order to elevate their own.
Atheists believe in mans’ superiority, rather than the superiority of
God. “A man says, in his heart, there is
no God.”[1] “A man is right in his own eyes.”[2] An evolutionary atheist is a person who uses
the gifts God has given him to prove there is no God. Today’s “new Atheists” not only consider you
less intelligent than they are, but also consider you their enemy. They have forgotten that they were only
allowed to exist in our country because of the tolerance of our Christian
nation.
Intellectualism often exalts ‘the man over God’ world
view. Faith is not based on intellectual
prowess, but rather the ability to establish faith in your life. This is not based on IQ levels, but rather
the leading of the Holy Spirit. All are
welcomed by God, through faith in His Son: the brightest as well as the least
bright because “God is no respecter of persons”.[3] God is a respecter of the willing. Intellectualism often blinds people in their
search for the meaning of life because “none is so blind as he who will not
see”[4]. The underlying thinking, that centers most in
the unbeliever’s life when they reject Jesus, is that if Jesus is Lord – they
are not. The Bible is the best selling
book in the world for some reason. Surely
not everyone can be buying them to put on the coffee table in order to look
religious.
Religion is an all encompassing word. On the other hand, Christianity is an all
exclusive word. Christianity is the only
religion that offers a personal relationship with God. No other religion has this relationship. All other religions, because they are made up
out of the mind of man, cannot have this relationship due to the lack of a
foundation in the One True and Living God.
Thomas Jefferson said: “question even the very existence of
God”. He did not add; and you will find
none. Rather he was saying study and discover
for yourself. God said: “seek me and I
will show myself to you”[5]. As you twist the lens barrel of the camera,
the image comes into focus. As you study
the Bible, the image and Word of God comes more into focus. It takes effort to aim the camera and adjust
the lens to get the sharpest image. It
also takes effort to understand the Bible, and as it comes into sharper focus
and understanding, you realize it is worth the effort. A clearer image of God’s love can only be
obtained through the study of His word.
Lee Strobel and Dr. Ivan Panin are excellent examples of
atheists, out of many, who set out to prove the Bible was wrong and only proved
to themselves the validity of the Bible.
Lee Strobel set out to disprove the Bible and, in his research,
discovered that it had to be true.
Atheist-turned-Christian Lee Strobel, the former award-winning legal
editor of The Chicago Tribune,
is a New York Times
best-selling author of more than twenty books and has been interviewed on
numerous national TV programs, including ABC, Fox, PBS, and CNN.[6] Dr Panin was a scholar in Greek and Hebrew as
well as a doctor of pure mathematics. His
original mindset was to prove the Bible was a hoax. He found a uniformity and structure, through
comparison of hundreds of ancient biblical manuscripts, which are only found in
the Bible, in Genesis through Revelation.
Dr. Panin came to know the Lord Jesus.[7]
Atheists believe that there is no God, but eventually must
respect that God knows their thoughts.
They believe that the believing people of the world are inferior to them
in intellect and knowledge. Atheists
cannot prove a negative; therefore their battle is within themselves. Their best claim to refute a Creator God is
evolution which has no basis in scientific fact. It doesn’t even qualify as a theory under
scientific terminology. Christians claim
a personal experience with God. Do
atheists claim a personal relationship with nothingness?
The drastic reduction of the level of education in the United States United States
In essence, Abraham, concerning Hell, said that if a man
won’t listen to the word of God and the prophets, he won’t listen to a man who
has returned from the dead.[9] Jesus returned from the dead, and even though
there were over five hundred witnesses to that fact, there are still those who
won’t listen and believe.
What can we do for the benefit of atheists? We are instructed, by the Bible, to love them
as God first loved us. Our God is a God
of love: He loves them as part of His creation, and we should follow His
example. We are instructed not to judge
them as they may someday come to be saved like us[10]. We are instructed by the Lord to pray for
them and treat them kindly; helping and feeding them if necessary.[11] We are to be the salt and light of the world. Jesus said: He did not come for the righteous
but for the sinner[12].
[1] Psalm
14:1, Psalm 10:4
[2] Proverbs
21:2, Proverbs 28:11
[3] Acts
10:34
[4] Ezekiel
12:2, Deuteronomy 29:4, Romans 11:8, Luke 10:23
[5] Luke
11:9, Deuteronomy 4:29, Jeremiah 29:13, 1 Chronicles 28:9, 2 Chronicles 15:2
[9] Luke
16:31
[10] Luke
6:37, 1 Corinthians 5:12
[11] Romans
12:17-21
[12] Luke
5:32, Matthew 9:13, Mark 2:17
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