Words of Comfort: Lack of belief in gods...

“The only thing you can say about all atheists is that they all lack belief in gods.” Tom Shmenkman

Tom, who made you the international spokesperson for all atheists? There are many atheists around the world who don't embrace your carefully worded modern definition. They simply say "I believe that there is no God." Your cut-and-paste movement only started a few years ago. But you are still connected to the old “I believe” atheists. This is why. If I have a car and say, “I lack belief in makers,” it means I believe that my car had no maker.  It means that I believe that nothing made it.  So, carefully worded though your modern definition may be, it still leaves you believing the scientifically impossible—that nothing made everything. No wonder the Bible says, “The fool has said in his heart, there is no God.”  

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Words of Comfort: Homosexuality is a hot issue!

Homosexuality is a hot issue. Open your mouth against it nowadays, no matter how lovingly you do it, and you will almost certainly be accused of using “hate speech.” There is, however, a way around this for the Christian.

When I meet a homosexual, I never talk about his sexual orientation.  This is because I care about him and want to share the gospel, and I don’t want him to be offended before I do that. So I witness to him the way I witness to any heterosexual.  I ask if he thinks he’s a good person. When he predictably says that he is, I take him through the Ten Commandments—has he lied, stolen, and blasphemed God’s name? When I ask about lust (see Matthew 5:27-28), I don’t mention any gender. After seeing his transgressions in the light of God’s Law he will understand his guilt—that he’s headed for Hell and desperately needs the Savior.

Before he saw his sin, he was proud and self-righteous, but now he’s humble of heart. That means he is able to be reasoned with, without being defensive.  So I tell him that to be saved he must repent of all sin and trust alone in Jesus. I then show him what “sin” is, by referring to 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 (which lists those who will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven): “Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.”  I gently tell him that if he has a problem with the list, he should take it up with God, because it’s His list.

Is it biblical to use the moral Law (the Ten Commandments) when speaking with homosexuals?  It certainly is: “But we know that the law is good if one uses it lawfully, knowing this: that the law is not made for a righteous person, but for…fornicators, for sodomites, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, and if there is any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine” (1Timothy 1:8-10).

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Today’s Show Notes: Friday, 14th June 2013.

“End Times ‘Left Behind’ movie reboot

(THE BLAZE) The new project, set to star Nicolas Cage, Chad Michael Murray and Ashley Tisdale, will take on an entirely different tone from the first trinity of Bible-based, end-times-themed movies...While the Christian message will still be at its core, the intended audience for the project is more far-reaching — and that’s only one of the intended changes.

• Producer and script writer Paul LaLonde, who was behind the previous Left Behind films, said: “This is a much bigger movie a much bigger investment — we are certainly aiming this time to have more of a crossover movie . . . When we did the first ‘Left Behind, it was never an outreach. It was made by Christians for Christians … there was never an idea that we’re going to put this in the cineplex next to ‘Spiderman’ and compete for the same audience.”
• To hit theaters Spring of 2014
• It will initially open up on at least 1,200 screens

Speech Tournament 2013 (The Rock Solid Bible)

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Words of Comfort: Galileo...

Someone wrote: "Galileo was censured by the church, and he's far from the only example. When the church would claim dominion over that which rightfully belongs to science, then atheists have every right to be angry at it for preventing human advancement. Would we have ever landed on the moon if the church had kept convincing everyone the Earth was flat?”

Galileo wasn’t an atheist. When the Roman Catholic church confined him to house arrest, he protested “I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.” Also, everyone (including scientists) believed that the earth was flat (except the theist, Christopher Columbus). And don’t forget that the men who landed on the moon read Genesis chapter one from space, and just before the landing they took communion and thanked God for sending a Savior.

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Today’s Show Notes: Thursday, 13th June 2013.

What would you say?
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Words of Comfort: Hawks and Electricity.

When a hawk is around, other birds hide for fear of their lives leaving an eerie silence in the trees. They instinctively know their enemy. It seems that a bird brain works better than a human brain, because most human beings don’t see death as their enemy. They think that it’s just part of life. But around death, the ungodly have an eerie silence. They don’t fight it. They roll over and get ready to die. Riding high in April, shot down in May. That’s life. But the Bible speaks of death as an enemy, saying that Jesus Christ has “abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.” Of course, many don’t believe that, and that’s their problem. They refuse to trust the Word of God, and yet trust is the basis for any relationship, both horizontal and vertical.

An atheist is like a man who shuts off the main electric source before he walks into an electrical store, and mocks the fact that the appliances don't work. Remove the supernatural from the Bible and nothing makes sense, because you have removed the power of God. Leave Him in the equation and animals fit comfortably onto the ark, the Red Sea opens without any problem, the 5,000 get well fed, water gets walked upon, and stopping a storm with “Peace be still” is a breeze.

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Today’s Show Notes: Wednesday, 12th June 2013.

He Has Sent Redemption

Words of Comfort: Nature

Skeptics mock the thought that the existence of God can be proved scientifically. But the word “science” simply means “knowledge.” Creation (Nature) gives us knowledge that there's a Creator (a Maker). It is scientifically impossible for Nature to have made itself. To say that it did, is to say that it was pre-existent to be able to make itself, before it made itself, which is ludicrous. So each of us has an intuitive knowledge that God exists, and because of our conscience (“con” is “with” and “science” is “knowledge”) we are “with knowledge” that we are morally responsible to Him. The building gives us knowledge there was a builder. The painting gives us knowledge there was a painter.

Of course, buildings and paintings are inorganic (non-living) and so are great mountains, vast oceans, and the massive clouds—“The heavens declare His glory.” However, the existence of living forms (including ourselves) gives us even more light into the genius of God’s creative hand—that we are “fearfully and wonderfully made,” so that we are without excuse. No one needs faith to know that God exists. All we need are eyes that can see and a brain that works. However, if we want to approach Him, then we must have trust, for without an implicit trust it is impossible to please Him (see Hebrews 11:6).

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Words of Comfort: Atheism is for Intellectuals.

This is a popular atheist poster on which are Ernest Hemmingway, Abraham Lincoln, Carl Sagan, Mark Twain, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklyn, Albert Einstein, and Charles Darwin along with the words “Atheism Good enough for these idiots.” Clearly, atheism is for intellectuals.

But one moment…Abraham Lincoln wasn’t an atheist. He said “Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.”[1] Neither was Carl Sagan. He clearly stated, “I’m an agnostic.”[2] Mark Twain hated religion, but he certainly wasn’t an atheist, saying, “None of us can be as great as God, but any of us can be as good.”[3] Benjamin Franklin said, “God governs in the affairs of men.”[4] You will find Thomas Edison listed on "Celebrity Atheists,"[5] on “Positive Atheism”[6] and other atheist websites,[7] but wasn’t an atheist. He said, “There is a great directing head of people and things — a Supreme Being who looks after the destinies of the world.”[8] Thomas Jefferson said, "Say nothing of my religion. It is known to myself and my God alone.”[9] Albert Einstein rejected the Bible as the Word of God, and said that the Creator was unknowable—and that God being personal was “childlike.”[10] He lamented, “In view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human understanding, am able to recognize, there are yet people who say there is no God. But what really makes me angry is that they quote me for the support of such views.”[11] He categorically said, “I am not an atheist,”[12] and when referring to those who deny the Creator, he used the term “fanatical atheists.”[13] And Charles Darwin spoke of God seven times in Origin of Species.

So, out of the eight famous men on the poster, there is only one who was an atheist—Ernest Hemmingway. According to his biographer, back in 1961 Hemmingway "pushed two shells into the twelve-gauge Boss shotgun ...put the end of the barrel into his mouth, pulled the trigger and blew out his brains."[14] There’s your poster-boy when it comes to atheism.

NOTES 

[1] http://thinkexist.com/quotation/sir-my_concern_is_not_whether_god_is_on_our_side/164075.html

2 From a March 1996 profile by Jim Dawson in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune

3 Mark Twain's Notebook, 1902-1903.

4 http://thinkexist.com/quotation/the_longer_i_live-the_more_convincing_proofs_i/261270.html

5  http://www.celebatheists.com/wiki/Thomas_Edison

6 http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/edison.htm

7 http://atheism.about.com/library/quotes/bl_q_TAEdison.htm

8 As quoted in The Romance and Drama of the Rubber Industry (1936) by Harvey Samuel Firestone

9 http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jul/05/local/me-beliefs5

10 Albert Einstein, letter to Guy H. Raner Jr., Sept. 28, 1949, quoted by Michael R. Gilmore in Skeptic, Vol. 5, No. 2

11 Prince Hubertus zu Löwenstein, Towards the Further Shore (Victor Gollancz, London, 1968), p. 156; quoted in Jammer, p. 97

12 From G. S. Viereck's, Glimpses of the Great, Einstein, in response to a question about whether or not he believed in God.

13  http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1607298,00.html#ixzz28b9PxWLC

14 http://www.timelesshemingway.com/content/fathersandsons

Today’s Show Notes: Monday, 10th June 2013.

Ten Ways To Break The Stronghold of Pornography
by Ray Comfort

1. Take some pornography to church and look at it during worship. You may as well; because God is just as present in your bedroom as He is in a building we call a "church."
2. Face the fact that you may not be saved. The Bible speaks of false apostles, false teachers, false prophets, false brethren and false conversion (see Mark 4:1-20).
3. Come to the realization that when you give yourself to pornography, you are committing adultery (see Matthew 5:27-28).
4. Grasp the serious nature of your sin. Jesus said that it would be better for you to be blind and go to Heaven than to allow your eye to be offended, and end up in Hell (see Matthew 5:29).
5. Those who profess to be Christians yet give themselves to pornographic material evidently lack the fear of God (Proverbs 16:6). Cultivate the fear of God by reading Proverbs 2:1-5.
6. Open your Bible at Psalm 51 and make it your own prayer.
7. Memorize James 1:14 and 1 Corinthians 10:13 and quote them when you are tempted.
8. Make no provision for your flesh (see Romans 13:14). If you can't control yourself, you have to then get rid of every access to pornographic material--the Internet, printed literature, TV, videos and movies. Stop feeding the fire.
9. Guard your heart with all diligence (see Proverbs 4:23). Don't let the demonic realm have access to your thought-life. If you give yourself to it, you will become its slave (see Romans 6:16). Read the Bible daily, without fail. Quote the Word of God when you are tempted (see Ephesians 6:12-20).
10. The next time temptation comes, do fifty push-ups, then fifty sit-ups. If you are still burning, repeat the process (see 1 Corinthians 9:27, and 1 Corinthians 7:9).