NO Neutral Ground

Godless men and women, only truly hold themselves accountable to themselves.

What could be more prone to corruption and deceit than this? If our intended purpose, mission and design is to love God and all humanity…who will regret it most that we squandered life being the slaves of entertainment, greed, selfishness, vanity, pride and the other lies and tricks of the godless world?

I have been looking at pro-atheism media and I see many sincere people cry out that they see more love and hope in the action of human beings then they ever did in religion or a 'whimsical' god. I agree, that man-made religions and man-made gods are of no real value...but there is no such thing as real hope and love outside of a creator that offers hope and love. If there is no ultimate transcendent source of love and hope, than there is only a temporary, delusional source.

1 Corinthians 6: 19-20…

What I want to shout out from the mountain tops is that there is hope! There is a way out of the perverted mockery of life that we have been born into. There is master plan, and the good master is one of love! The End of the Story has already been declared, Good prevails over Evil. God prevails over godlessness. What we fight for now is to take back as many enemy stolen lives as we can, before we no longer can. Our choices have consequences. That is an unchangeable law of this existence. Every choice you make means an eternal difference for the cause of God or against. And this is why you are so important. Every human is born into a world at war, and we daily choose which side we will fight for. Each soldier is given a piece of creation to fight for, primarily his own Spirit, and those of the people with whom he is in relationship with (but ultimately effecting everyone).

One very important factor to consider:

There is no neutral ground in the universe; every square inch, every split second, is claimed by God and counterclaimed by Satan. –C.S. Lewis

Not making a choice, IS making a choice. Not opening your eyes, IS choosing to be blind. Not acting, IS choosing to do nothing.

It is one thing to be deceived, and another not to care whether you are or not. The truth matters. Your hopes, dreams and wishful thinking will not suffice when confronted with the immovable reality of truth. Our only hope is to align ourselves with the Truth, whatever it may be. Or else, we must be content to live a lie and face the consequences of our own self-enabled, self-chosen delusion.

Beyond Opinion

I have read a number of accounts of people commiting suicide, despite having all the outward appearences of a meaningul, successful and happy life.

It is a disturbing thought to consider how men and women with good jobs, good families, goodhealth and the other pleasures of life could leave suicide notes filled with such hopelessness.

Somedays I can hardly imagine the frame of mind it would take to do that.

Somedays I feel as though I can intimately understand their fatal decisions.

I don't know why I feel this way today. Honestly I don't.

I refuse to be comforted by a lie. I cannot be comforted by a lie.

If God was not real. If he did not present himself to me. If there was no ultimate hope or meaning... I would not be in this world.

Why some of us can see, and why some of us will die not seeing, is beyond my comprehension. There are too many variables and secrets hidden in the human heart for me to know why one person will see God, while another chooses to deny him. The only one I know well is myself.

For myself, I say I could not believe a lie, I could not be content to live with false comfort. My life testimony is that God exist who gives me purpose and meaning, and that there is hope in Jesus Christ. Truth and reality originates in the Creator. Not our whimsical desires.

No doubt there are many questions we all need and want answers too. Some we will not be able to answer in this life. But there are more than enough real answers to warrant our trust in God. There are more than enough answers to deem our sometimes mysterious relationship with God reasonable and coherent. There are more than enough answers to make sense of this gift of life that has been given out of love unto us each.

Opinions are preferences amid options. Convictions are woven into one's conscience.

-Ravi Zacharias in Beyond Opinion: Living The Faith We Defend

In a world of horrific evil and suffering (from nature and humans), the solution will use the touch of human hands, but must originate from the strength and heart of God. Nature, chance, and purely physical explanations of our life do not care whether the weak live or die, or suffer and cry. How is it that we all intuitively know that the world ought to be another way? From where did this whisper of another better way come into our understanding? The deer never said to the lion "mercy, can't we all just live in peace." But yet we do? Something beyond the physical speaks.

Again for the umpteenth time!

I would treasure a chance to defend and discuss this potentially 'offensive' statement to anyone.

There are more real and coherent answers in even the deepest mysteries of Christianity than there are in even the simplest supposed facts of atheism.

Truly, when held to the light of a open and critical analyses, Christianity holds true while atheism stumbles upon itself in total absurdity.

This is not a hostile challenge, this is a cry for fair play and being willing to go wherever the argument leads.

The hostility towards the reality of real and absolute truths, serves as nothing but an obstacle to honesty and reason.

Uncovering the truth can be a frightful and overwhelming prospect. But thank God, it turns out to be the greatest journey any human can take, and more than worth the risk.

Book about Anthony Flew

Notorious Atheist CHANGES his mind! :)

I am reading this interesting book called There Is a God by Anthony Flew.

Google him if you're interested in more about him. Anyways this is from an appendix in his book.

More gentle reminders to good men and women who seek truth, but are still atheist :)

It's simply inconceivable that any material matrix or field can generate agents who think and act. Matter cannot produce conceptions and perceptions. A force field does not plan or think. So at the level of reason and everyday experience, we become immediately aware that the world of living, conscious, thinking beings has to originate in a living Source, a Mind.

-Roy Abraham Varghese

There are only two possibilities for what ultimately gives authority to one man over another man.

It is either:

1) Corruptible, flawed, subjective, manipulative, self-serving human power...

or

2) Perfect, loving, all-encompassing, fair, righteous and Holy authority from God.

One power coerces, the other acts out of love.

What a pain to suffer!

In His character, God alone is the absolute expression of love that is never separated from holiness. God cannot be at the same time holy and unloving or loving and unholy. In turning our backs upon Him, we lose the source of defining love, live with the pain of unholiness and suffering remains an enigma- leaving our blemished characters in search of a moral law and our finite minds crying out for an answer. Which of us does not hurt when we see pure love abused and despised? Our hearts reveal a hunger for a love that is pure, and in this world we have lost both definitions because we have denied their source.

-Ravi Zacharias from Cries of the Heart.

Pain and suffering outside of a loving God has no hope. Pain and suffering outside of a loving God has no greater meaning. Pain and suffering outside of a loving God has no purpose.

I cannot find any way out of this reality. Can you? Please let me know if you do.

Pain and suffering exist. There is no way to escape the reality of it. Even for those of us humans who feel that life is meaningless, who are numb and broken... that condition comes most likely out of unresolved pain and suffering.

Animals experience pain and suffering. But unlike humans they do not question the greater purpose, meaning, context, morality or justice of the pain or suffering in question. Whether we like to admit it or not, I think all of us struggle to make sense of the utter despair our world is in.

Holiness...or as described to a child 'pure and perfet goodness.'

Again, as complex and enormous the issue is. The old sunday school lesson turns out to once again be true. Understood by children, contemplated by wisemen... "God is good, he loves you, you can trust him."

What I would like to add is "even when you don't yet understand his ways."

Really, what other choice is there? Either a good God, delusion or despair. This is not to say we trust because we have no other choice, but more so to recognize that when it comes to God he is always by a very large infinite margin, simply just the best choice. Like it or not :)