This article is continuing with Satan's most useful idiot. He said the Christian letter writer that he is disputing sees a desperate need for prayer in schools. But she would disagree if half the class chose to pray to Mithra, Vishnu, Allah or the Goddess Easter. (This man can even read minds; that’s why he is so “intelligent.”) But it must have been written in invisible ink, for she didn’t say that. He also said that “fundamentalists” who insist on prayer in schools mean to pray only to their particular god. Neither the Christian letter writer nor the Constitution says that either. Of course, Christians want their children to be allowed to pray to the Judeo-Christian God for he is the one true God. But no one objects if others want to pray to another god.

There is much truth and moral goodness in other religions. But Christianity cannot forget its founder’s claim to have the only savior. Romans 1 and John 1:9 tells us that Jesus is a light into everyone’s mind, and speaks to all people through conscience. And Jesus has told us that if and when, and however, anyone is saved it must be by Him, Jesus, the one and only savior. He did not say he was one of the ways, nor even that he was the best way. He said He was the only way. So if a Buddhist, Hindu, pagan or atheist (or any other religion,) is saved, it is not by their religion, but by Christ.

Jesus' claim is different from the other’s claim. He claims to save from sin and its wages, which is eternal death. Others claim to save from ignorance of morality or lack of mystical enlightenment or social disaster. If Jesus’ claim is not believed, he cannot be raised above the level of Buddha or Mohammad, for he claims much more than they do: to save from sin and hell, and to be the only one who does.

Christianity’s claims are not for Christianity, but for Christ. His claims cannot be amended, watered down, made relative, negotiated away or changed even in the slightest. That is Jesus’s teachings, not that of Christians. So where did our know-it-all atheist get the idea that Christians were trying to “force their ‘childish theology’ on those who do not wish to partake of it.” If his house was on fire, and a Christian woke him up so he could escape, would he think Christians were just trying to push their religion on him? Or would he realize the Christian was only trying to save his life?

Again, the village atheist said that the Bible, although it is recognized constitutionally as the source of all authority and justice, “is a stupefying idea considering the contents of the Bible with all of its many contradictions.” This atheist is a real “bible scholar.” He is the same atheist who in his monumental ignorance directed us to a Muslim website to prove the contradictions of the Bible. One can only wonder at his “amazing intelligence” for he apparently knows even more than Jesus.

Passages the atheists allege as contradictions are called “Bible difficulties” by Christians. They are easily explained by a more careful reading. For example, Genesis 7:4 says the flood lasted 40 days. Genesis 6:19 says it lasted a year. The 40 days mentioned simply means that is how long it rained. The year simply means that is how long it took for the waters to recede so Noah and his family could leave the Ark and stand on dry ground. These inconsistencies are easy to see with careful study if you are not looking for something to criticize, as the atheists do. Atheists impose their own standards and values on ancient texts, which were written by people with radically different lifestyles. There may be quotes from the Bible, quoting other parts of the Bible, and the quotations may not exactly match. Jews in the time of Jesus quoted the Bible by memory and rarely verbatim. If atheists were really all-knowing, they could figure that out. (Robert Hutchison, The Politically correct Guide to the Bible.)

The inevitable end result of evolution is atheism. In spite of the fact that real history, documented by written records, covers only the past few thousand years, evolutionists still allege, but can’t prove, that earth is several billion years old. And that humans began to “evolve” from non-humans several million years ago. All of those are un-provable assumptions. Evolution would be the most wasteful, inefficient, and cruel process that could possible be conceived, by which to create human beings. But the atheistic evolutionists figure religion is a crutch, and would never try to meet Christians halfway, for they are intolerant of Christians. But no Biblically derived religion can be compromised with Darwinism.

How did belief in Darwinism become so widespread when it was developed by atheists? There have always been atheists and skeptics, (some somewhat intelligent, and some not so intelligent) who have fought against Biblical prohibitions, simply because it inhibits their lifestyle. This atheist says the contradictions in the Bible would destroy the validity of any other book. But there are no contradictions in the Bible, if it is rightly understood.

Often critics of the Bible mistake descriptions of actual human conduct for God’s will. It may appear on first glance that there is a contradiction. You cannot read a big book of ancient wisdom, like the Bible, which was written over a course of 1,000 years, in three different and difficult languages, and by many human authors in so many different places, the same way you read a newspaper. The majority of people on this earth claim some religious affiliation. So atheists see the majority of mankind as “dumb and ignorant” enemies. Its just a continuation of the long war against God.

© 08-19-2008 JS 

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