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▊ VERY FEW REAL ATHEISTS. The true test of a real atheist works like the true test of a superhero: Jump from the Empire State building (New York) or the Burj Khalifa (Dubai) and see if you can fly; fail the test and you’re gone.
⦿ A BELIEF-SYSTEM. e.g., 'Death-after-Death'; 'the Bible is a myth'; 'God is dead'; 'God is evil'; 'Jesus Christ was a charlatan, an imposter' etc.
We have one life to live and, should we choose Atheism and were found to have chosen wrong, we are gone forever. In this life there may be several ‘second chances’ but after death … none.
The Christian’s true test of a real atheist, however, is relatively simple: A real atheist will not repent from his/her Atheism to make his/her peace with God … not even on his/her deathbed.
▊THE RELIGION OF ATHEISM EXPOSED. Contrary to what atheists would want us to believe, there is no such thing as a ‘neutral position’ or ‘demilitarised zone’ in this war of ideas of light versus darkness, good versus evil. As imperfect beings in a broken world, we nevertheless are still living in a moral Universe and usually will have an affinity either for good or for evil.
According to the Bible all people, including the wicked and the ungodly, are sinners; but not all sinners are necessarily wicked or ungodly. God may be in the ‘salvaging of sinners’ business, but He will salvage only those who want to be salvaged. Furthermore, in terms of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, sinners who accept Jesus Christ become children of God (John1:12) and 'sinners saved by grace' (i.e., 'saints' founded on the righteousness of Jesus Christ and not on their own merit), an important distinction.
According to the Bible all people, including the wicked and the ungodly, are sinners; but not all sinners are necessarily wicked or ungodly. God may be in the ‘salvaging of sinners’ business, but He will salvage only those who want to be salvaged. Furthermore, in terms of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, sinners who accept Jesus Christ become children of God (John1:12) and 'sinners saved by grace' (i.e., 'saints' founded on the righteousness of Jesus Christ and not on their own merit), an important distinction.
Really evil, wicked and ungodly people will, for obvious reasons, rarely if ever want to be salvaged; like the proverbial derelict drunkard drowning in the wine vat, they refuse point blank to be rescued. Just as a drunk driver on the road and the drunkard in the wine vat usually will reckon themselves to be 'sober enough', so the atheist reckons himself to be 'safe enough' by depending on his own experience, resources and faculties.
Be that as it may, when we reject the friendship, mercy and grace of God, we risk being labelled by the Bible as 'wicked', 'ungodly' lovers of darkness and may be in mortal danger of losing the friendship of the Heavenly Father forever, a prospect simply too ghastly to contemplate (and also too ghastly not to contemplate).
▊ALL THE TRAPPINGS OF A RELIGION. Atheism has all the hallmarks of a bona fide religion.
⦿ A CAUSE to believe in. "We BELIEVE in Atheism." (Religious terminology).
⦿ PRINCIPLES to espouse. Atheism is predicated upon the principle that there are 'No ‘Deities’ and with values like Moral Relativism & Situational Ethics, i.e., 'No Moral Absolutes' and 'No Absolute Truth'.
⦿ A CAUSE to believe in. "We BELIEVE in Atheism." (Religious terminology).
⦿ PRINCIPLES to espouse. Atheism is predicated upon the principle that there are 'No ‘Deities’ and with values like Moral Relativism & Situational Ethics, i.e., 'No Moral Absolutes' and 'No Absolute Truth'.
⦿ A BELIEF-SYSTEM. e.g., 'Death-after-Death'; 'the Bible is a myth'; 'God is dead'; 'God is evil'; 'Jesus Christ was a charlatan, an imposter' etc.
The atheists’ religion-of-choice usually is Darwinism ('Scientific Pantheism' or ‘creation-by-chance’) i.e., belief in the mystical triumvirate of Father TIME (for the magic wand of ‘billions of years’), Mother NATURE (for ‘natural selection’, ‘beneficial mutations’, ‘survival of the fittest’ etc.) and their de facto ‘messiah’, Charles Darwin; or, some hybrid forms of Darwinism, e.g., 'World Transformation Movement', 'Scientology', 'Christian Atheism' ('Postmodernism'),
▊THE TWO ATHEISMS. Now, there are many brands of Atheism as there are brands of cellphones or colours of lipstick, but which can easily be reduced to the two major worldviews of i.e., (i) 'God is dead' and (ii) 'God is evil'.
Now how God can be both dead and evil at the same time is a bit puzzling; maybe it is a new form of ‘divine ultra-omnipotence’ that Christians have not been informed of yet. The point is that, between the atheists themselves, at least one of the two ‘worldviews’ is untrue (invalid); they cannot both be right (valid) at the same time. As far as we are concenred, they are both untrue. So, already to begin with the atheists had not yet encountered a single Christian apologist and they are already contradicting each other over 'who' and 'what' God is. That is the hallmark of Atheism ... confusion.
The fact that Atheism is growing with the number of atheists in the world increasing actually affirms the historicity, authenticity and veracity of the Bible, for the Bible has warned in no uncertain terms of the apostasy ('falling away from the true faith') to come. Population growth alone will already anyway guarantee an influx of compassless candidates into the fold of Atheism.
The fact that Atheism is growing with the number of atheists in the world increasing actually affirms the historicity, authenticity and veracity of the Bible, for the Bible has warned in no uncertain terms of the apostasy ('falling away from the true faith') to come. Population growth alone will already anyway guarantee an influx of compassless candidates into the fold of Atheism.
Bear in mind, however, that being on the side of the ‘majority’ may not always be a good idea: The majority of citizens of Sodom & Gomorrah were destroyed in spite of being in the majority as against the hapless minority of Lot and his family. During the Great Flood, only Noah and his small family were saved ... the majority drowned. In Eternity and at the Great White Throne Judgment (to be presided over by Chief Justice Jesus Christ) ‘majority rule’ will not be accepted as a legitimate defence just as it wasn’t accepted as a defence by the justices at the Nuremberg trials of the Nazis.
▊ WHAT DO ATHEISTS HOPE TO ACHIEVE? What does the belief in Death-after-Death hope to achieve? For instance, should the atheist be ‘right’ then this life would be all there will ever be with no hope of any future beyond the grave (and what a depressing, morbid way to look at life and our existence in the Cosmos). Should the atheist, however, be wrong, he/she will one day in Eternity have to stand before Chief Justice Jesus Christ at the Great White Throne Judgment with no reasonable, rational explanation or legal defence for his/her Atheism, for the Bible clearly teaches that atheists have no excuse for not fearing and not believing in God. [Romans1:18-22].
The strangest aspect of Atheism is the atheist’s insistence on the principle that there is no such thing as Absolute Truth … except for the 'absolute truth' of Atheism.
The strangest aspect of Atheism is the atheist’s insistence on the principle that there is no such thing as Absolute Truth … except for the 'absolute truth' of Atheism.
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