A man in my Sunday school class was an atheist only nine
years ago. He now is a Bible-believing Christian, and his knowledge of the
Scriptures is growing each day. He spoke up in class and said that when he was
an atheist, he not only didn’t believe in God, but that he hated this God in
whom he did not believe.
He said he finally came to the conclusion that Christianity
had to be true, for a couple of reasons. First, he finally realized that the
atheistic worldview simply does not work, because he was unable to actually
live by what he believed. Without God, there is no basis for morality. Right
and wrong are determined by the individual. The ultimate end of trying to live
as if God does not exist and as if there is no absolute truth will invariably
be chaos. He looked at his own life, and that is exactly what he saw.
His second reason for believing that Christianity had to be
true was that as he analyzed world religions, they all, except for
Christianity, demanded that humans do something to prove their worth and earn
salvation. As he analyzed himself and mankind in general, he saw himself as
Paul saw himself, as “the chief of sinners.” He knew he could not possibly
satisfy the demands of a holy, righteous God, so he needed a Savior. He
realized that Christianity alone offered a virgin-born, perfect, sinless, suffering, and resurrected Savior to pay the
price for sin.
There is not much to add to that.
For a previous post entitled "Is Christianity True," click here.
For an article from the "Answers in Genesis" website entitled "Atheism: An Irrational Worldview," click here.
For a previous post entitled "Is Christianity True," click here.
For an article from the "Answers in Genesis" website entitled "Atheism: An Irrational Worldview," click here.
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