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Sir Isaac Newton was Right. Atheism is senseless.

"Prove that the world is a creation. If you can prove that, then you must also prove that it is your God who created it. Run along now." Bill

The Bible doesn't mince words. It calls the atheist a "fool" (see Psalm 14:1) and speaks of "his foolish heart" being "darkened." It says that certain godless man are "proud, knowing nothing," and that they are "obsessed with disputes and arguments over words, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions, useless wranglings of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth..." (1 Timothy 6:4-5).

How can any person have meaningful dialog with someone who is unreasonable and refuses to call creation what it is--a creation? But the root of the corrupt tree isn't atheism—-it's pride (see Psalm 10:4). I am encouraged that some, who profess to be atheists, write to me outside of this blog, and some even show up at the ministry for lunch or just to chat.

These types of people are open-minded, show a measure of humility, and they are the very reason this blog exists.

Please, soften your heart and think about the issues of life and death. You only get one chance at life. Don't blow it.For Evangelism Resources, please visit LivingWaters.com.

Attacked by a Parrot

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Atheists Cashing in on the Rapture

Regarding the stupidity of predicting the rapture, Richard Dawkins said,

"An aspect of religion that intrigues me is its capacity to con money out of a seemingly endless supply of gullible idiots. Is there anything so stupid that, if you put it out there, you can't find thousands of people (and their money) to believe it."

And those who believe what the professor says can buy his books, DVD's, trinkets, T-shirts, etc., from his website. There is an endless supply who do.

Pic. Atheist earrings, just $22.For Evangelism Resources, please visit LivingWaters.com.

The Atheist's Ultimate Mistake

Rugby is a great game. It's like American football, except there are no pads, it's faster, and the ball can't be tossed forward.

Our son records games for us so that we can enjoy watching them, and the cool thing is that he only gives us games in which our team doesn't lose. It's a win/win situation. So we never panic when the other team gets ahead. Not in the slightest.

Such is the case with Christianity. We can't lose. I never panic for a second when an atheist thinks he's ahead of the game by saying that God doesn't exist, that things evolved, or that the Bible is full of mistakes.

God exists. Nature (creation) proves that. Knowing Him proves it. The reality of the conscience prove's it. Having the gift of everlasting life proves it. Then on top of all that I have foreknowledge of Scripture. God has recorded the game from the beginning to the end.

Every sign of the age in which we live is perfectly lined up--from increased godlessness, increased knowledge, fear of the future, the trouble in the Middle East, earthquakes in different parts of the world, hypocrisy in the Church, and much more—perfectly pinpointed in Scripture. Then there's the verses that tell us that skeptics will predictably say that these signs have always been around…and they have, but the trouble around Israel gives us the timeline.

The only mistakes in the Bible are mistakes people have made, and atheists are making the ultimate mistake when they reject God's mercy. When they think that they will ultimately win, they delude themselves. But this isn't some game. Its outcome will determine where they will spend eternity.For Evangelism Resources, please visit LivingWaters.com.

I Found a Thinking Atheist

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJQFVqnlZTw&feature=player_embedded

He is right. These people will owe us an apology...then again, if they are right, I will gladly apologize to them. The Bible says "But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only" (Matthew 24:36).

We don't know the Day or the hour, but we can certainly know the "signs of the times." See Matthew 24, Luke 21, 2 Timothy 3 and many other passages. And keep your eyes on Israel. He is coming:

"...when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. These shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power, when He comes, in that Day, to be glorified in His saints and to be admired among all those who believe, because our testimony among you was believed" (2 Thessalonians 1:7-10)For Evangelism Resources, please visit LivingWaters.com.

Stephen Hawking's Senseless Atheism

To say anything negative about Stephen Hawking is like bullying a blind man. He has an unfair disadvantage, and that gives him the benefit of his own bully-pulpit.

Peter Sellers once played a very simple gardener, who was mistakenly thought to be extremely intelligent--it was because of that fine dividing line between genius and insanity

Such is the case with Professor Hawking. He is heralded as "the genius of Britain," and yet some of his beliefs border on the insane, or at least they are very weird.

He believes the scientific impossibly that nothing created everything (Sir Isaac Newton called atheism "senseless and odious"), that there are space aliens, and that if we (us six billion plus human beings) don't start living in space, we will become extinct within a century.

Not only does he have this insight way back into our origins, into deep space, but he also has a unique knowledge of the afterlife.

He knows that Heaven doesn't exist.

John Lennon wasn't so sure. He said to pretend there's no Heaven. That's easy if you try. Then he said he hoped that someday we would join him. No doubt when he wrote those words, he wasn't thinking about where he would be, someday.

Notes:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/201...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/sp... Evangelism Resources, please visit LivingWaters.com.

What Can an Atheist Know?

"You're being dishonest. You don't know hell is real, you believe hell is real." Zathras Have you heard of Tadmor Prison? Do you know if it exists or where it is located? If you don't know anything about it, should you therefore say that someone who maintains it is real, is dishonest? Of course not.

In the natural world, we can't really "know" anything. There was a time when men "knew" that the earth was flat, or that there was nine planets or that the earth was millions of years old. Now they know that it's billions of years old, and they will think they know that until someone who knows better will convince them that they don't know.

We think we know that the sky is blue, but it's not, or that we know the direction of up and down, when we don't. Up is down, down-under. We don't even know if this life is nothing but a dream from which we will awake to reality.

So in a natural world, we can only "know" something to a certain extent-—where we are as convinced as can be. But when God wants us to know something, we aren't talking about a natural realm. The equation changes. In the supernatural realm, nothing is impossible and God always has His way.

Even before I came to know God, I didn't doubt His existence for a moment. The amazing order of natural life--from the atom to the universe--told me that there was a super-natural-Maker. It is a scientific impossibility for nature to make itself, because nature would have had to have existed before it made itself.

I also intuitively knew that this supernatural Maker required moral accountability. But it wasn't until I was confronted with God's Law (the Ten Commandments) that I realized the degree of accountability-—that He considered lust to be adultery and hatred to be murder.

The moment I acknowledged my sins, the cross made sense to me—-I had violated God's Law, but Jesus paid my fine. That meant that God could legally dismiss my case and allow me to live. My death sentence was commuted by the mercy of God.

When I obeyed the gospel, repenting of my sins and trusting alone in Jesus Christ, I was made a new person overnight. It wasn't as though I had simply had a change of mind. It was a complete change of person. Ray Comfort BC died, and Ray Comfort AD came to life.

That was nearly 40 years ago, and I'm still shaking my head at the radical nature of the new birth. I suddenly loved God when I hadn't given Him a serious thought in my 22 years of secular life. I was brand new, had a peace I couldn't understand, and a joy that I couldn't express.

When I opened the Bible, its words came alive and I began to read specific details in this 2,000 year old book of what had happened to me. It explained why I felt brand new, why I had a "peace that passes all understanding" and a "joy unspeakable." It explained everything I had experienced when I "called upon the name of the Lord."

If I purchased a complex appliance that came with an instruction book that told me to follow 27 directions, one after the other, at the end of which the appliance worked, I could then "know" that the book was the correct instruction book. Any other conclusion would be irrational.

The Bible proved itself to be the Maker's Instruction Book that made the appliance work. It proved itself by explaining the supernatural experience of conversion, and it also warns of Hell...hundreds of times.

But there's an even greater reason we can "know" that Hell is real. We know that a fool denies that God exists (see Psalm 14:1), but there is something just as foolish. There are some who acknowledge God's existence but say that He doesn't care about right or wrong-—that He has no concern for righteousness, justice and truth.

To believe such is to be guilty of violation of the First and the Second of the Ten Commandments. It is to make up a false image of God, one that says that God couldn't care less that Hitler slaughtered millions of innocents—-that He is like a corrupt judge that turns a blind eye to injustice.

Such a belief couldn't be further from the truth. The Bible calls Him "the habitation of Justice," warning that He will "bring every work to judgment including every secret thing, whether it is good or evil."

The Bible tells us that we can supernaturally "know" certain things—"You will know that you have passed from death to life," "You will know the truth and the truth will make you free," "I know and believe and am persuaded..."

The knowledge that a converted person has is far more than an intellectual belief and even more than subjective experiential knowledge.

If you have the word of a Supreme Court judge, you have a high authority—-you can pretty much rely on his or her word. If you have the word of a King, you have a high authority that you could certainly depend upon. But in the Bible we have the Word of God, above which there is no higher authority and therefore you can "know" that what it says is absolute truth. And the Word of God warns that there will be a Day of retribution, and that Hell is the just reward of the wicked.

So it would be disingenuous of me to say that I "believe" that Hell is real. I "know" it is, and will therefore spend the rest of my life "warning every man" as the Bible tells me to.For Evangelism Resources, please visit LivingWaters.com.

From Israel

I'm Manuel Brambila, Ray's Personal Assistant. We are in Israel filming Season Five of "The Way of the Master" television program.

Ray won't be blogging until next week because filming is so time consuming.

Best wishes to all of you,

Manuel

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Hitler, Religion, and the Holocaust (Promo)

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Genesis on Trial

31And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

It was the brilliant father of science, Sir Isaac Newton, who once said,

"Opposition to godliness is atheism in profession and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors."

If he was alive today, he may like to revise his last six words. We live in an age where there is a revival of the senselessness of atheism. But he certainly put his finger on its cause. Normally those guilty of the sin of idolatry pick and choose the attractive characteristics of the nature of God—"My God is a God of love and mercy. He would never create Hell."

And they are right. He would never create Hell because he couldn't. He doesn't exist. He's a figment of their over active imagination—the place of imagery. The nature of the Creator of the Universe, as revealed in Holy Scripture, is not only love and mercy, but also justice and truth, holiness and righteousness.

The atheist's buffet, however, is a reverse idolatry. He picks and chooses a god from the characteristics he finds unattractive—"The God of the Bible is a judgmental, homophobic, unloving, wrath filled, merciless tyrant. If that's your 'God of love,' I want nothing to do with him!" But the god he doesn't believe in doesn't exist. He is also a figment of the human imagination.

Remember, Newton said, "Opposition to godliness is atheism in profession and idolatry in practice."

The atheist is in truth just the criminal offspring of Adam, still imitating his first forefather, by trying to hide from God. And the best hiding place he can find is in atheism.

In 2008, as Los Angeles County Sheriff's homicide investigator Kevin Lloyd routinely checked out some snapshots of tattooed gang members, he noticed a crime in which he was very familiar. One gang member named Anthony Garcia, had a tattooed scene of the killing of 23-year-old John Juarez.

The tattoo showed Christmas lights on the liquor store where Juarez was murdered, where the body was found, a bent street lamp, the name of the gang that was suspected of killing him, and a helicopter above the scene firing bullets. The police put an undercover police officer in Garcia's cell and got a confession from him. He then faced a sentence of 65 years to life.

Every crime we have ever commited against God is engraved with the point of a diamond upon our conscience, whether we believe in the existence of God or not. On the Day of Judgment God's Law will seek it out and we will be punished with a life sentence, without parole.

What a fool this man was-—to boast on his flesh of the crime of murder. His trophy became his damnation. And what fools sinners are when they boast about their fleshly sins, because they believe that God doesn't exist, or doesn't see or doesn't care.

God warned Israel that He saw their every transgression, by saying "The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart..." (Jeremiah 17:1). He means what He says. He will punish every sin, right down to the thought and intent of the heart.

Fortunately, not all sinners are hardened atheists. Some have an open mind and are prepared to think and listen.

P.s. We leave for Israel this Sunday--to film Season Five of our television program, so Monday's post may be delayed a little.For Evangelism Resources, please visit LivingWaters.com.