You know what I find interesting about atheists?
The fact that they rely on their own intelligence and knowledge of how the world works to deny the existence of God.
To me, that’s such a crazy position to take.
Because here’s the thing.
The only way you can know for sure that God doesn’t exist is you’d have to be God yourself.
In other words, your knowledge of this world and the universe would have to literally be inifinite to know for sure there is no God.
That’s why it’s impossible to be an atheist.
At the end of the day, all atheists are agnostics.
They’re making what they consider to be an intelligent guess that there is no God.
But there isn’t anything intelligent about their conclusions.
I think it’s one of the stupidest decisions you could ever make.
Consider the devil himself for example.
Have you ever wondered how such a powerful and wickedly intelligent being could ever come to the conclusion he could overthrow the Almighty Himself.
We’re talking about an angelic being who once stood at the very throne of God.
I mean, let’s face it, Lucifer was no atheist.
And he was a million times smarter than fifty Richard Dawkins combined.
Yet, in spite of possessing intimate knowledge of heaven, and personally meeting the Son of God, he still chose to rebel against God.
It’s pure madness if you think about it.
Satan’s decision to defy God had nothing to do with intelligence.
It was rooted in pure insanity.
That’s why you can’t come to God based on your intelligence and logical thinking alone.
There has to be a degree of faith in your heart if you’re going to come to a saving relationship with your Creator.
Richard Dawkins is for sure a very, very smart man.
But again, there’s no way he possesses enough intelligence of this universe to know 100% for sure there is no God.
It’s like an ant trying to understand trigonometry or something.
That’s why at the end of the day, to become an atheist is one of the most irrational decisions you could make.
As I said, it’s pure madness.
And by the way, that will be the chief attribute of the Anti-Christ.
He will be one of the most wicked and deranged humans to ever walk the face of the planet.
Now, if you wanna get a good idea what the coming Anti-Christ is gonna be like, all you have to do is take a look at King Saul in the chapters ahead as he transforms into an utterly irrational and deranged human being.
Boy, it ain’t gonna be pretty.
I still like the old joke:
I used to be an Atheist, but then I found out they don’t have any holidays.
To me, the saddest thing about atheists and agnostics is that they have no future. Oh, yeah, they will live a life on earth, but there is nothing after that.
To me, the most atheistic book in the Bible (yes, I believe there is such a thing) is Kohelet (Ecclesiastes).
The writer spent his entire lifetime trying to figure out why, and couldn’t come up with an answer, and so he felt everything done on earth was no more satisfying and didn’t accomplish anymore more than chasing the wind.
That’s because he didn’t accept that God has the answers, but we don’t have the need to know.
At the end, he realizes that fear (meaning worship) of God is the only thing that matters, and is the true beginning of wisdom.
At that point, Kohelet was no longer agnostic or atheistic- he came to the conclusion that God not only exists, but that faith in him is what really makes us wise.
Or, in this case, sane.
Awesome comment Steven.
Thanks for sharing (and in the FB group as well).
Talk soon!
I once went looking for information about atheism, trying to discover whether it meant “no belief in any god” or ” refusal to believe in the Christian God”
I found that the word atheist appeared in English after 1590, when the Renaissance was underway in (western) Europe, and was coined to give the second meaning.
Seemingly NO rational human prior to the “Enlightenment” refused to believe in some god or gods before then, and those who needed a new word were the ones who’d grown up Catholic like everybody else, but were confounded by the new-fangled varieties of Protestantism, and needed a word to say “a pox on you all”.
Sadly, they are now reaping the rewards, while Africa, Asia and South America gladly embrace the gospel, despite persecution.
My own country, where the tangata whenua embraced it faster than anywhere else we know of (by 1860 two thirds of them were attending church weekly, after the gospel was first preached on Christmas Day 1814 ) is now reduced to about one third who are NOT atheists
I’m not surprised to hear the term “atheism” was coined to mean disbelief in the Christian God.
By the way, I’m curious, which country are you from?
New Zealand. Both sides of the family arrived here from Ireland and England/Scotland prior to 1860.
That’s a mighty respectable bloodline!
Be blessed!