To the Atheist

To the Atheist

“A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.” 
                                                                             C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain.
The Bible does not debate whether there is a God or not. It makes it clear there is a God. In the very first verse it states,
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 
                                                                             Genesis 1:1
It make it clear there is a God and He created the heavens and the earth.
In the New Testament the Apostle John states,
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  He was with God in the beginning. 
Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.  
In him was life, and that life was the light of men....”
                                                  John 1:1-4.
John even goes one step further saying that the individual can become children of God.
“Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—  children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.” 
                   John 1:12,13.
Then he makes an even more incredible statement,
“The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.” 
                                                                                                         John 1:14.
God came into His creation.
If you think about it from a purely natural way of thinking the above statements from the Bible are bazaar. Yet Christians believe them to be true.
Christianity and Judaism from which it came truly believe in a Creator God. A God who wants a relationship with His people.
A Jewish writer wrote,
“Faith in God is the strongest bulwark of a free society.  Human freedom began when men became conscious that over and above society and nature there is a God who created them...who fashioned them in His likeness, and that they are, therefore, possessed of intrinsic and independent significance and are endowed, as individuals, with original and irrevocable rights and authority.”
                         Abba Hillel Silver
Every civilization since the dawn of creation has believed in an after life and a God. Many civilizations had a whole hosts of god’s. The Greeks going as far as erecting an alter to an unknown God.
Without God without God in my estimation life is meaningless.
I know there are many atheist out there that will never agree with me but I hope at the very least they will consider what I have written.
C. S. Lewis wrote,
“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.”
                                                                C. S. Lewis
Think about it.