Psalms 14:1 The fool has said in his heart “There is no God.”
Romans 1:20-22 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse, because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools…”
So let me understand this correctly: Less than 15% of people in the world claim that there is no God.
No God, and yet, all the EVIDENCE points to the fact that this Earth and the Universe it is seated in, could not Possibly have happend by chance:
Over 2,500 Biblical Prophecies, all perfectly fulfilled with 100% accuracy. The complexity of the human cell, leaving absolutely no doubt that life could have happened by chance. An earth and Universe so delicately balanced, perfectly tuned and decidedly designed for life to exist within very narrow boundaries, dictates that it could not have occurred by happenstance.
The inherent quality that man has whereby he instinctively knows the difference between what is right and what is wrong, and this being universally present in every social order of the world. An instinct for morality that cannot be explained outside of this ability being created within the heart of all people.
We know that the Universe is not eternal. It had a “first cause”, and it is slowly winding down over the process of time. Since the Universe is not eternal and clearly began from nothing, who wound up what is now winding down?
The Sun has not been in our solar system forever, and the Universe has not been here forever. If the Universe had been here forever, Then the Sun in our solar system would have burned out already, in fact all of the stars in the Universe would have already burned out.
The second law of thermodynamics, the law of Entropy states that everything in the Universe is wearing out, winding down, running out of energy. Over time, energy becomes less and less usable. This means that the Universe had to have a Beginning.
It took the scientist quite a long time to admit this fact, but the most credible scientists today admit that the Universe must have had a beginning.
How does the Bible start?
Genesis 1:1 In the beginning…
How did the Bible know there was a beginning? Perhaps we should pay some attention to this book!
How did the Beginning, Begin? With a “Big Bang”, some say.
Where did the energy for the “Big Bang” come from? Why did it Bang just then? How did you get the human brain out of a “Big Bang?’
It is not possible that energy was just hanging out somewhere in the vastness of Space waiting to make a Big Bang because the energy would have entropied.
We are then driven by logic that there was a time when Nothing existed, because “Things” wear out. The next step then is that you cannot get “Everything” out of “Nothing”. There had to be “Someone”. Someone who has no beginning and no end.
How does God introduce Himself to Moses in the Bible?
Exodus 3:14 And God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.”
“I am the self existent One, without beginning, without end…”
As human beings, we cannot comprehend this kind of being, with no beginning and no end. Someone who has the power, knowledge and technology to create “Everything” out of “Nothing”.
It is interesting that in the first line of the first book in the Bible, it says this:
Genesis 1:1 “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”
In the original Hebrew language that this verse was written in, the word “Created” is “Bara”, which means to “Create from Nothing”.
How did the Bible know that the Universe was created from nothing, since energy could not have existed before, just waiting for a Big Bang, since all energy runs down over time?
Psalms 19:1-2 The heavens declare the glory of God; And the firmament shows His handiwork. Day unto day utters speech, And night unto night reveals knowledge. There is no speech nor language Where their voice is not heard.
Romans 1:20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse,
2 Corinthians 4:18 while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
The Power, Wisdom, Glory, and Intelligence of God, His capacity to create is evident by the intricate, balanced, well ordered and detailed creation that we see all around us. And this all happened by accident? Illogical!
We can see more than enough evidence in Creation that an intelligence made everything, but these things do not tell us about Him as a person. His Love, His Passion, His Patience, His Purpose, for mankind and what has gone wrong between us and Him and more importantly, how that relationship can be restored. These things we can only know by His Word.
The Bible is His Word and it is the most extraordinary book ever written. Upon a serious study of it’s 66 volumes, any logically thinking, reasonable person would come away with on one conclusion:
There is a God, there has to be a God, for everything that we see could not have happened if there was no God.
Yet in the following article, those who claim that there is no God, are once again trying to tell us why there is no God. seems to me that if a person doesn’t believe something is true, they would not spend such a great amount of time and energy trying to disprove it.
For some reason, aroung every Christmas season, the 15% who don’t believe want to convince the 85% who do believe, that we are such fools. Foolishness is defined by someone who see’s all the evidence, yet insists that it isn’t there.
The foolishness of Atheism reminds me of one of my favorite lines from the movie Cold Mountain:
“They call this war a cloud over the land. But they made the weather and then they stand in the rain and say Oh My, it’s raining”
Those who claim that there is no God, call a belief in God a cloud over the land. But then they make their own weather by denying the truth of everything in the Universe that shouts so loudly, “This was made by a Creator”. Then they stand in the rain of their own foolishness and say, oh my, it’s raining…
Rob Robinson
The following article is just one more rung in the ladder of foolishness that those who claim there is no God build for all the rational world to climb upon
Laurie Goodstein
Just in time for the holiday season, Americans are about to be hit with a spate of advertisements promoting the joy and wisdom of atheism.
Four separate and competing national organizations representing various streams of atheists, humanists and freethinkers will soon be spreading their gospel through advertisements on billboards, buses and trains, and in newspapers and magazines.
The latest, announced on Tuesday in Washington, is the first to include spots on television and cable. This campaign juxtaposes particularly primitive — even barbaric — passages from the Bible and the Koran with quotations from nonbelievers and humanists like Albert Einstein and Katharine Hepburn.
The godless groups say they are mounting this surge because they are aware that they have a large, untapped army of potential troops. The percentage of American adults who say they have no religion has doubled in the last two decades, to 15 percent, according to the American Religious Identification Survey, conducted by researchers at Trinity College in Hartford and released in 2008. But the ranks of the various atheist organizations number only in the tens of thousands.
That is one reason for the multiple campaigns: the groups are competing with one another to gain market share, said Mark Silk, founding director of the Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life, which is also at Trinity College.
“There’s a competitive environment for ‘no religion,’ and they’re grabbing for all the constituents they can get,” Mr. Silk said.
Relying on the largess of a few wealthy atheists, these groups are now capable of bankrolling efforts to recruit and organize a population that mostly has been quiet and closeted.
Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-president of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wis., one of the groups running advertisements, said, “We feel the only way to fight the stigma toward atheists and agnostics is for people to feel like they know them, and they’re your neighbors and your friends. It’s the same idea as the out-of-the-closet campaign for gay rights.”
The groups’ leaders say they are trying to marshal secularists at a time when the religious right and politicians who say America is a “Christian nation” are on the march, thanks to the recent midterm elections when not only deficit hawks won seats in Congress, but many religious conservatives as well.
Several of the campaigns are pitched not just to nonbelievers, but also to liberal believers who might be alarmed about breaches in the wall of separation between church and state. The atheist groups believe that people who are religious and politically liberal have more in common with atheists and seculars than they do with religious conservatives.
“We must denounce politicians that contend U.S. law should be based on the Bible and the Ten Commandments,” said Todd Stiefel, a retired pharmaceutical company executive who is underwriting most of the ad campaign that cites alarming Scripture passages. “It has not been based on these and should never be. Our founding fathers created a secular democracy.”
The most expensive campaign is staged by the American Humanist Association. Mr. Stiefel’s foundation donated $150,000 — three-quarters of the cost, part of which goes for television and cable advertisements. That campaign plucks out bracing Scripture passages about women, homosexuality or the wrath of God, like this one from the Old Testament:
“The people of Samaria must bear their guilt, because they have rebelled against their God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to the ground, their pregnant women ripped open.” (from Hosea 13:16, New International Version).
This is contrasted with a quote from Albert Einstein saying that he “cannot imagine” such a God.
The campaigns range from friendly to confrontational. On the confrontational end of the spectrum, American Atheists, which was founded in 1963 by Madalyn Murray O’Hair, will just before Thanksgiving put a billboard on the busy approach to the Lincoln Tunnel from New Jersey heading into New York.
It features a Nativity scene, and the words: “You Know it’s a Myth. This Season Celebrate Reason.”
David Silverman, the president of American Atheists, said that the idea of the campaign is to reach people who might go to church but are just going through the motions. “We’re going after that market share,” he said.
The United Community of Reason, a group in Washington, is sponsoring billboards and ads on bus shelters in about 15 cities that say, “Don’t Believe In God? Join the Club.”
The ads by the Freedom From Religion Foundation take a more inviting approach, with big portraits of some famous and some workaday people, listing their hobbies and professions and giving a punchy, personal declaration of independence from religion. The group, which has been running advertisements on and off since 2007, has spent about $55,000 this year to put up 150 billboards in about a dozen cities.
One, featuring Barbara Wright, a restaurateur in Madison, says: “It’s not what you believe, but how you behave.”
Another running throughout the South shows Butterfly McQueen, the late actress who played Scarlett O’Hara’s maid in “Gone With the Wind.” The billboard says, “As my ancestors are free from slavery, I am free from the slavery of religion.”
