ATHEIST

   What is an ATHEIST?  An atheist by the basic meaning of  the word comes from two Greek words, "a" meaning  NOT, and "Theist" meaning one who believes in any god (although this writer will be using the term to refer to the true and living God).  Thus an atheist is one who does not believe in God (or for that matter in any god of  any sort).  If  you fit this category,  then you are an Atheist.   Essentially, your position is a negative one.
     Have you really thought through your position?  Logically, if  you have really rejected the existence of  a being which we call God, you must also reject all moral value.  This is not to say that you can not have any moral values.  It is simply stating that you have no basis for moral values.  Are you prepared to do that?  Most philosophers about whom this writer has ever read or heard were not ready to do that.  Furthermore, you would have to reject any spiritual reality and also any immaterial part of  man.  Though any atheistic philosopher would refuse to admit it, logically he would have to reject will, sensibility, conscience, and apart from saying the brain (the material blob of  cells in his head), his very mind.  Also, you would have to hold that the material universe is an accident and there is no meaning to its marvels.
     You would have to reject any causal  relationship (that is, you could not even say that A caused B regardless of observation) and also would have to reject any cause for one's own existence.  You may say that his parents were the cause of  his existence through sexual activity.  But you do not know this with any observation of  your own.  "Oh, yes I do," you may reply; "I know the facts of  Biology."  You mean you have been taught certain facts of  life which supposedly explain your existence, but you do not know it of  your own observation.  You have in reality accepted the word of someone else or several others.  You are taking their word on faith.
     Furthermore, you are claiming for yourself a knowledge which is far and beyond what your negation of  God allows.  In effect you are saying, "I know everything."  "Oh no, I don't claim I know everything," you may reply.  Then, how do you KNOW that there is no God?  You see then that your position of  saying "no God" is fallacious.  In effect you are claiming to be God, and thus putting the lie to your whole position.  As a John Foster of  the 19th century stated, "Unless this man [the atheist] is omnipresent [present everywhere at the same time],  unless he is a this moment in every place in the universe, he cannot know but there may be in some place manifestations of  a Deity, by which even he [italics his] would be overpowered."

     How much more rational and reasonable is the very first verse of  the Bible,  "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." (Genesis 1:1)  I am not going to insult your intelligence, but the Bible twice says of  you , "The fool hath said in his heart, 'There is no God.'"  I might ask you why you think  there is no God.  This is not really a rational decision; it is something you have in the heart [not the physical organ, but your inner most being].  Is it not just possible that if  you were to think--let alone say it out loud--that the REAL reason for your claim of  "no God" is that you know, deep down inside of  you, that you will have to answer to that supreme Being for you actions?  Therefore, you try to convince yourself that there is no God so that you do not have to face the issue of  dealing with such a Being.  

     In conclusion, you do NOT have enough understanding and/or knowledge to state "No God" (or even gods--with a little "g").  You are assuming something that you can not prove.  Therefore, repent--change your mind; do the REALLY intelligent thing, and put your trust in the Living God Who loves you and sent His Son, Jesus Christ to die for you.  You may wish now to return to the web page, How To Be Saved.  Atheism is, in its final analysis the refuge of  those who do not want  REALLY to think about the full implications of  their position.  If  you believe in the existence of  any supreme being by whatever name, you are not, in the strictest sense, an atheist.  Your denial, thus, is against a personal God, and in all probability against the God of  the Bible.  Therefore, your denial essentially boils down to whether or not the God of  the Bible exists.

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