Why atheism falls on its face!

A new trend is beginning to pick up amongst young people, Naturalism. Naturalism is the idea that the observable world is all there is. Naturalism rules out the possibility that any "supernatural" events exist within the universe. The most common school of thought that accompanies naturalism is the atheistic world view. Atheism by definition means, "not believing in a god or gods, knowing that there is no evidence for god(s) and no reason to believe in theism". There are many reasons why atheism is an absurd school of thought. First and foremost, to say there is no god would require infinite knowledge of all things. Dr. Ravi Zacharias puts it this way, "To sustain the belief that there is no God, atheism has to demonstrate infinite knowledge, which is tantamount to saying, "I have infinite knowledge that there is no being in existence with infinite knowledge." Saying this is a contradiction in itself, and beyond the contradiction it's perhaps the most narcissistic/ arrogant thing you could say.  Now, the true chink in the armor of atheism/naturalism  lies in the realm or morality. There is no moral law in atheism! You might be asking yourself, well why isn't there moral law in atheism? The reason there is no moral law in atheism, is because moral law invokes a moral law giver. Logic works this way, if you were to assume evil exists, then by default good must also exist. Therefore, if God doesn't exist neither does moral law. And if moral law doesn't exist, neither does good and evil.  Therefore, morality can only be real if there is a lawgiver. Many problems arise with a lack of morality. A morality-less society cannot discern what's permissible and what's not. Atheists have taken the view that if you want to be free life has to be meaningless. A well known atheist Aldous Huxley put it this way, "I wanted to be liberated therefore I had to adopt the philosophy of meaninglessness.". If life truly is meaningless, then the statement can be made that nothing is "absolutely wrong". Is murder always wrong? Is rape always wrong? Is it always wrong to run someone off the road because he's driving too slow? Without morality you don't have any basis for saying something is wrong. The truth is that most people know what's right and what's wrong...It's written on their hearts!!! Whether they admit it or not God has made it evident to all people what's right and wrong. Even though atheists take the view that life is meaningless...doesn't change the fact that life has meaning and purpose. Outside the truth of Jesus, there are no answers. He is the way the truth and the life, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God" John 1:1.  Timothy Keller has a great sermon that highlights the loaded word "Logos" which is the Greek term John used for "Word" in John 1:1. Logos means the reason for something, so "In the beginning was the reason for life, and the reason for life was with God, and the reason for life was God". The reason for life was is and always will be God.  I'll conclude with yet another awesome Dr. Ravi Zacharias quote:

"I remember lecturing at Ohio State University, one of the largest Universities in this country. I was minutes away from beginning my lecture, and my host was driving me past a new building called the Wexner Center for the Performing Arts.
He said, “This is America’s first postmodern building.”
I was startled for a moment and I said, “What is a postmodern building?”
He said, “Well, the architect said that he designed this building with no design in mind. When the architect was asked, ‘Why?’ he said, ‘If life itself is capricious, why should our buildings have any design and any meaning?’ So he has pillars that have no purpose. He has stairways that go nowhere. He has a senseless building built and somebody has paid for it.”
I said, “So his argument was that if life has no purpose and design, why should the building have any design?”
He said, “That is correct.”
I said, “Did he do the same with the foundation?”
All of a sudden there was silence.
You see, you and I can fool with the infrastructure as much as we would like, but we dare not fool with the foundation because it will call our bluff in a hurry"

Glory be to God

What is God about?

As a young Christ follower I  believed everything I heard. I never took the things I heard and tested them against scripture to see if they lined up...One of the most common phrases I heard was, "God is all about us".  Naturally I liked the sound of that...it had a good ring to it. I loved the idea that God was all about me, and that he obviously created me awesome so that I could boast of my awesomeness.  So as my new found life continued...a couple years and hundreds of Christian inspiration books later, I decided it might be a good idea to pick up my bible.  The idea of "God is all about me" now translated into how I read my bible. I would insert myself into almost every scenario I could put myself in. I found tons of scripture to support the idea of how "God is for me", but the interesting thing is somehow I felt so prideful.  I was so proud that God loved me...the more I inserted myself into scripture the more prideful I was becoming. The more I opened my bible the more the Holy Spirit began to reveal the truth to me. He revealed to me the bible is not about me, and for far too long I had been reading it that way. Yes, God is for me! Yes, God loves me! But there was a clear motive for why HE DOES. What I began to realize is that God is for God ultimately, and that His motive behind all of His love for me is for HIS NAMES SAKE. God created me for His glory!

Psalms 23  

"The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures.

He leads me beside still waters.He restores my soul.

He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake."

John 7:18

"The one who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory; but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood."

Matthew 5:16
"In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven."

 Isaiah
God created us for His glory
God called Israel for His glory.
God rescued Israel for His glory.
God defeated Pharaoh, for his glory.
God spared Israel in the wilderness, for his glory.

Romans 25-27
"whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By a law of works? No, but by the law of faith."

 Rev 21:23-27

And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb. By its light will the nations walk, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it, and its gates will never be shut by day—and there will be no night there. They will bring into it the glory and the honor of the nations. But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life. 

Again and again God reveals that all things are for His GLORY...including why He loves us so much.

 John Piper says it better than I ever could, "God’s God-centered Love Is the Greatest Love for Us
Why does God remind us over and over that he makes much of us in a way that is designed ultimately to make much of him?
The answer is this: Loving us this way is a greater love. God’s love for us, that makes much of us for his glory, is a greater love than if he ended by making us our greatest treasure, rather than himself. Making himself our end is a greater love than making us his end. The reason this is greater love is that self, no matter how glorified by God (Romans 8:30), will never satisfy a heart that is made for God.
God loves his people infinitely. He sent his Son to die that he might have us, and that we might have him (1 Peter 3:18). He will not let us settle for wonderful and happy thoughts of self. Not even a saved, glorified self. He will not let our glory, which he himself creates and delights in, replace his glory as our supreme treasure. That would not be love.
We are loved by God. We are precious to God, and the greatest gift he has for us is to not let our preciousness become our god. God will be our God. God alone, forever. And this is infinite love.
When we experience this love deeply—when we are compelled by this love in everything—God is greatly glorified."


TO GOD BE THE GLORY!!!