Eternal consequences
“Atheism is cheap on people through because it snobbishly says nine out of ten people through history have been wrong about God and have had a lie at the core of their hearts.” Peter John Kreeft ph.d.
Over the years I’ve had Atheist friends, my brother is an atheist and frankly I believe they have the right to their opinion and belief.
However to my mind what they espouse is counter to what the majority of people who live or have ever lived believe in.
History tells us that every culture in the world believes in an after life. The Egyptians built great monuments to usher their leaders into the next world.
Other cultures placed grave goods deemed essential for the next life in the graves of their departed.
I know people can look and say the ancient civilizations were not as intelligent as us. But the builders of the pyramids were not dummies. Nor were the Greek philosophers.
Yet all believed in a life after death.
I know I will not convince the most ardent atheist there is a God. Some people will never believe in God no matter what the proof. The apostle Paul said,
“For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”
Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe.
Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
For the foolishness of God is wiser than man’s wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man’s strength.” 1 Corinthians 1:18-25.
The apostle Paul spoke the following in Athens. It tells plainly what Christians believe and are certain of. He said,
“Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: “Men of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious.
For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Now what you worship as something unknown I am going to proclaim to you.
“The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands.
And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else.
From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live.
God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.
‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’
“Therefore since we are God’s offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone—an image made by man’s design and skill.
In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent.
For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to all men by raising him from the dead.” Acts 17:22-31.
If what Paul has said is not true then Christians have little to fear for if there is no God then no harm can come to the Christian or anyone.
However if what Paul and all Christians believe is true then at the very least the non-believer in Christ has a lot to, at the very least think about, because their decision can have eternal consequences.
What do you believe?
Please think carefully about it.
“Atheism is cheap on people through because it snobbishly says nine out of ten people through history have been wrong about God and have had a lie at the core of their hearts.” Peter John Kreeft ph.d.
Over the years I’ve had Atheist friends, my brother is an atheist and frankly I believe they have the right to their opinion and belief.
However to my mind what they espouse is counter to what the majority of people who live or have ever lived believe in.
History tells us that every culture in the world believes in an after life. The Egyptians built great monuments to usher their leaders into the next world.
Other cultures placed grave goods deemed essential for the next life in the graves of their departed.
I know people can look and say the ancient civilizations were not as intelligent as us. But the builders of the pyramids were not dummies. Nor were the Greek philosophers.
Yet all believed in a life after death.
I know I will not convince the most ardent atheist there is a God. Some people will never believe in God no matter what the proof. The apostle Paul said,
“For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”
Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe.
Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
For the foolishness of God is wiser than man’s wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man’s strength.” 1 Corinthians 1:18-25.
The apostle Paul spoke the following in Athens. It tells plainly what Christians believe and are certain of. He said,
“Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: “Men of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious.
For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Now what you worship as something unknown I am going to proclaim to you.
“The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands.
And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else.
From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live.
God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.
‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’
“Therefore since we are God’s offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone—an image made by man’s design and skill.
In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent.
For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to all men by raising him from the dead.” Acts 17:22-31.
If what Paul has said is not true then Christians have little to fear for if there is no God then no harm can come to the Christian or anyone.
However if what Paul and all Christians believe is true then at the very least the non-believer in Christ has a lot to, at the very least think about, because their decision can have eternal consequences.
What do you believe?
Please think carefully about it.
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