Answering Sam Harris / Christopher Hitchens

 

Sam Harris says that the "atheist" doesn't need to believe in an after-life but can enjoy life knowing they're star dust:

By that same logic, you can also say that becoming nihilistic is just as much a conclusion of someone's mental state.  so now the question is, how many will find hope in believing they are merely stardust with no intrinsic purpose in life and find ultimate satisfaction in this verses falling into a maladaptive nihilistic mentality which can bring on depression, learned helplessness, and suicidal ideation, etc.  

Human common sense SHOULD answer that for all of us.

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Christopher Hitchens has said that the so-called atheist can "do good" also, because they don't need God:

That's actually NOT the important point of this matter.  The point is that while all of us have what we may perceive to be good/bad in us, (By God's grace) the grounding of the WHY anything is good/bad is necessary in order to hold it to a universal standard of which the professed atheist can't do outside of God.

Until they have a solid standard of what is right or wrong, good or evil, they can't make any claims to moral judgments because they'd be operating on a subjective moral standard which shifts and alters. Also, their judgments have no foundation other than the professed atheist's own arbitrary subjective feelings and preferences.

*Check out my most recent podcast on "Answering Dillahunty and Hitchens.  anchor.fm/trunews365

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Answering hostile skeptics

I'm working on a new podcast.

More on this topic coming soon.

God bless!

Answering the dishonest skeptic

 

On my next podcast, I want to address how to deal with dishonest skeptics and haters of Christ when we as Christians have to confront them.  Not everyone has a genuine curiosity of scripture or a benign motive for confronting Christians.  Often times, we can avoid hostile interactions but what about brothers and sisters in the Lord who need to learn how to answer for the faith?

Can you defend your faith not just in a loving manner but intellectually and scholarly manner?

Do you know enough about the history of your faith and what's in scripture in order to teach someone who'll ask you for the faith that is in you?

You might not want to make much of the skeptic who's heckling you but what about those who are at ear-shot of this interaction, who also need to know that there actually are answers to many of skeptics unfair accusations of Christianity?

There are not only answers but answers that will strengthen our faith every single day because God has handed down to us, a miraculous written revelation in the scriptures.

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The POWER to choose God?

 

In this video, Sean McDowell makes it seem like men are "FREE" to choose God and that God wants humanity to be "FREE" to choose or not choose Him.   (some sort of fairness we're pursuing here)

But why does he or anyone think that human freedom is so much a part of God's interest?   This sounds more like something MAN is concerned about - not God!

After all, men can't be FREE in any way EVEN if they don't "choose" God because as the Bible teaches,  we're all "SLAVES TO SIN".  

"What does it profit you to gain the whole world, yet lose your own soul" -  Mark 8:36

Free from God but slaves to eternal death?   How much is that "freedom" worth in God's eyes?

So perhaps God isn't too concerned about man's freedom to deny Him as much as some people believe.

Especially since the call to come... is a COMMAND not a suggestion.

(Acts 17:30)

Do we have the power to CHOOSE God... as in, come to salvation... as in, seal ourselves with the Holy Spirit?... 

That is what it means to BE SAVED or "BORN AGAIN".  The "New Birth"; REGENERATION... RESURRECTION.   

Those of us who say we can CHOOSE our salvation... are we remembering that salvation involves all of the above?

So do we still think our salvation is something that WE do?

What is OUR PART in that experience?   Are we 10% active in that regeneration or 50%? ... 

All we know is that we must obey, respond, come forward, do the right thing; repent, change, grow in The Lord, etc., etc.

We are in that walk in REAL TIME but God has already fashioned the road of that walk in the eternal.

(Ephesians 2:10)

So do we have FREE WILL?

Yes, I exercise it every day for breakfast...  Eggs or oatmeal?

But REGENERATION?... SPIRITUAL RESURRECTION?  Is a bit above OUR paygrade - wouldn't you say?

With regard to salvation, it's us in the now but only because of what God had already decreed for us from before the foundation of the world.

Listen to my video above and tell me what you think.

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Grace, Joy and Peace!

Megan Rapinoe's bad pro-death arguments

 Megan is indeed sincere but she's wrong.

She's sincerely wrong.

And not any of her empathy or sympathy is offered towards the humanity in the womb who's being snuffed out and massacred, in the most inhumane way -- just to appease our current cultural feminist goddess for bodily autonomy, and sexual liberation.

Same Sex Fatherhood?

 Check out my video commentary on Doug Wilson's video interview between Dave Rubin and Jordan Peterson.

Dividing Line 7-12-22

Incredibly important cultural topics discussed on this episode of The Dividing Line with Dr. James White.

 

ASK A ?

 

In response to someone who recently left me an anonymous question:

"Why doesn't God just do away with Satan and evil everywhere?"

God is not going to do away with Satan and leave evil people who are under his influence without judgment.  He will do away with all evil which includes anything and everything also influenced by that evil.  And that is indeed the plan as stated in scripture - in due time, and in HIS TIME. However, He is merciful, waiting for more and more people to come into the fold of His grace by repentance; acknowledging, confessing Him and coming to faith in Him as Lord.

2 Peter 3:9

"The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance."

As it is written: "If you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts."

(Hebrews 3:15)

Thank you for your questions.  Feel free to use the above link to leave me a voice message or the message/contact form below.  

God bless.

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