In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
This post mushroomed into a debate with an atheist. I engaged in it against my better judgment… or so I thought. I am sure God does not want us to curl up and say nothing when an atheist speaks.
So much of what we hear about “Science” etc. is just so much jaw-flapping. Nevertheless, because we don’t know who else may be listening, or reading, we have a duty to stand up for God’s Word and Our Lord Jesus Christ. We do the best we can.
I’ve never had a gift for conversing with atheists. I’ve never had what I’d call a real conversation with any atheist. It always breaks down into name-calling.
They hate God but say He does not exist.
I admit it: that “your god” cliche really annoys me. As if we had created Him, rather than the other way around.
I never expect ordinary civility from atheists, and am astonished on those rare occasions when I encounter it.
“Oh, it rain on de rocks and de rocks come alive, doo-dah, doo-dah!” (And they say we have silly beliefs…)
I’m re-running this post today because yesterday I got another e-mail from an atheist who’s bent out of shape because God was mean to the Canaanites, I guess he wants another god: maybe the World Economic Forum.
This civilization of ours is in desperately bad shape, no small thanks to atheists; nor has the Church carried out its duty as a watchman.
You want proof of God? Well, here it is: we’re still here! In spite of our best efforts to destroy our own species, we’re still here. Only God can do that.
The first step toward Beethoven’s symphonies… and Gilligan’s Island reruns.
Yeah, yeah–it rained on the rocks and the rocks came alive, and we don’t need God because we’ve got Really Smart People and Science…
I can’t even imagine the horror of there being no God, no hope of justice, no mercy, no salvation or forgiveness, and no higher court than our own miserable excuses for government.
It is kind of funny, though, the way they claim God does not exist and that the Bible is just a lot of made-up stories–and then gnash their teeth and say they hate God (who doesn’t exist) for wiping out the Canaanites (which never happened).
That bit about it raining on the rocks and the rocks coming alive is pretty funny, too.
If the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, then what is it to have no fear of God at all?
I frequent a few websites whose members certainly think of themselves as more than usually intelligent and well-educated. Some of them are atheists, and they criticize, or even mock and insult, Christians for believing in God. The phrase they always toss around is “your God”–as if the God who made the heavens and the earth were some kind of possession of ours, rather than the other way around.
It’s “your god didn’t do this” or “your god shoulda done that,” blah-blah. They claim that not a word in the Bible constitutes true history, it’s all just made-up stories, and then burst into rage because God wiped out the Canaanites–I mean, why get so upset about something that you say never happened?
They pat themselves on the back for believing in Science. For us, science is a method of learning about God’s created reality. For them it is an idol to be worshiped. A substitute for God. They created it themselves, and then they worship it. Like a poor benighted heathen bowing down to a thing he carved out of a chunk of wood.
Science tells them God didn’t create anything because, of course, God does not exist (they hate Him anyway). Everything sort of evolved. And it all got rolling–by merest chance!–when it rained on earth’s primordial rocks… and the rocks came alive.
I find I just can’t get comfortable with all this “your god” stuff and can’t take it in stride. I come from a time when people didn’t talk like this. And I come from a belief that God hears what we say and will hold us to account for it. So to me such talk seems very dangerous.
The Bible assures us that the fool has said in his heart, “There is no God” (Psalm 13 and elsewhere).
When fools do things, it doesn’t turn out well.
Which, I think, explains this age.