It has become clear to me over the years, that being an atheist requires just as much faith as I had when I became a believer in Jesus Christ. The problem is that theirs is a misguided faith in human wisdom and ability while ignoring God’s power and handiwork in the world and universe around them. Proverbs 21:30 says, “No human wisdom or understanding or plan can stand against the Lord.”
A friend of mine was given a small pamphlet titled “What People Have to Say About God”. She thought it was a positive piece until she began to read it. When she questioned why it was given to her the person said it was to show her the truth. It was filled with quotes from noted atheists along with a few selected quotes from other famous people obviously meant to give it more credibility. One that caught my eye was a quote from James Madison. It is from a letter he wrote and is the quote used by non-believers to try to separate church and state by keeping faith out of all government activities and off all government property. They will never tell you that it is taken from a letter Madison wrote to a Christian Pastor about a sermon he preached. Madison’s concern was obviously keeping government out of the church, not the other way around. In that same letter he wrote, “Christianity is the purest and best religion.” That quote wouldn’t support their religion of humanism so they ignore it.
They tout science as the source of truth, unless it conflicts with the other tenants of their humanistic beliefs. They believe a mother has the right to abortion ignoring biological scientists who agree that life begins at conception. They believe in man made climate change based on scientific conclusions using “adjusted” temperatures instead of actual temperatures. Did men tip the earth on its axis at the precise angle to sustain life? Did men put the earth in an orbit around the sun at a distance that allows life to exist? Did men unexpectedly create a carbon molecule on earth without which life would not exist? Yet they fully believe men can undo what God has done. They must, in order to cling to their humanist beliefs. Genetic scientists have discovered that the DNA in a single living cell is so complex the first living cell could not have come into existence by chance as the theory of evolution would ask us to believe. Like that other inconvenient line in James Madison’s letter, facts that cannot be challenged or erased will simply be ignored. They must ignore so much that their “wisdom” has made them “ignorant”.
Mark Twain wrote, “It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.” That may be true, but what is difficult for man is a snap for God. C.S. Lewis was an atheist professor who read the scriptures to disprove God and came away not only a believer but one of the greatest apologists of the Christian faith. Lee Strobel was an atheist award winning journalist who set out to prove that his wife’s Christian faith was baseless. In his research, he discovered the truth and became a believer. His book and the movie “A Case for Faith” document his search and the faith he found. They have touched the lives of many other seekers. God is good.