Friday, January 20, 2017

Athiesm? pt 1


We’re hearing that the founder of Facebook, who many thought was an atheist, has had his heart opened to the fact that there is a God and returned to his roots as a Jew...What a wonderful revelation it must have been to him these many years from his blindness. We can only continue to pray that he and so many like him seek deeper and grow as they find the true source of life, joy, peace, truth, etc…..Jesus!

On atheists, Dr. D.James Kennedy, the mighty minister of God at Coral Ridge Ministries, once wrote in his book, ‘The Presence of a Hidden God’ pg.24, something about atheism that is interesting...I will pass it along somewhat condensed. “Quite a few years ago I was invited to debate an atheist on the radio. The first thing I asked this doctor was, “Are you an atheist?” He said, “Yes.” I said, “Do you deny the existence of God?” He said, “Oh absolutely.” I said, “Wonderful. I suppose you understand that atheism is irrational.” He said, “What do you mean? Of course not.”

Dr. Kennedy then said, “Atheism, of course, is a universal negative. Atheism says there is no God.” Everyone who has studied logic knows what my friend on the radio didn’t know: it is impossible to prove a universal negative.  If you say there’s no such thing in the entire universe as little green men, let me assure you, you can’t possibly prove it. Should you travel to every planet and every star and through every galaxy in the entire universe and come back and tell me you didn’t see one, I would simply say to you, “well, you missed him.  While you were going that way, he was zigging this way.”  You would have to examine every single part of the universe at the same time.  I’ll say it again: it is impossible, according to the laws of logic, to prove any universal negative.

A universal negative is when you say, “There’s no such thing in the universe as....” –as little green men, angels, or God. Therefore, atheism is a logical contradiction, and to affirm a logical contradiction is irrational.

A thought: If we could wrap our minds around the infinite God, we would be greater than He is.....Part 1of 4