Religion Zingers If atheist really did not care about religion and society they could not advocate humanism; if they really had a don't-care attitude, they would remain silent; and if they did not feel some guilt, they would not be so evangelical and aggressive. Just the obvious need to join communities of atheism demonstrates a reaction to something of value, and in doing so generates their own value system that is a religion. The chip on their shoulder, like the gap in their soul and the lack of religious dimensions of personality, demands that their individual unregenerate character seek the justification of approval of a society while not so religious as they claim, does by and large favor moderation, respecting a God, Bible, and Christ about which they know little. Also an American democratic society against intolerance, whether that be on the religious or anti-religious side. The real religion of America is TOLERATION; and while evangelical Christians would have to agree on their evils of religious history, at the same time the evangelicals recognize something inherently wrong in their criticisms, zingers if you would, toward any appearance of faith and religion. To have you make positive statements of faith in and on their communities reminds one of the sensitivity of Muslims to the Prophet Mohammed. If you evangelize in the slightest you are proselyting, while if they advocate the influence and spread of the religion of atheism they are only defending their rights to exist. Like they demand a self- group determination of their own religion, they also demand, like Muslims, a careful choice of certain words; and the choice of those words themselves with the values of meanings behind them, determine to the rest of society their religion. They abound in hasty generalizations such as the zingers which place Islam and Christianity in the same category of religions to be fought against. If it were not for their objection to all religion, another hasty generalization, they would make good Buddhist that accepts all religions and gods. Like Henry Steele Commager of the famous AMERICAN MIND well maintained a certain paranoia among fundamentalists, so atheist go two ways in their thinking; namely, on one side of their personality, it is a crusade to protect humanity from religion and faith, while on the other hand they are busy aggressively spreading an alternate path of salvation in creativity and education, even worldly success and a false and superficial intellectual honesty. They think these other religions are a bubble that they can pop while they are blind to the venerability of their own bubble; while never stopping to think that they are in a majority of unbelievers, a horrifying opposite of one of the major tenets of their religion, “Thou shall not be in the majority”. Religion in the Bible {not in the Bible} We conservative, evangelical and Bible believing Christians by and large do not care about religion either. Is that a shock to you? Not if you consider that “religion” except for a few verses in the Bible is a social concept not a Bible concept. 1. Acts 26:5 as the Apostle Paul in the first century of Christianity made a defence of the Christian faith in comparison to the religion of which he was a champion before his conversion. “Which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.” (Acts 26:5) 2. It was a previous religion that allowed him to persecute “the church of God” (Galatians 1:13). “For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it...” (Galatians 1:14) 3. James of the first church in Jerusalem had something to say about religion that is impossible for atheist to practice because of their own religion. “If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.” (James 1:26) 4. That same first century Pastor defined “religion” for us. See if that stacks up against what you call religion, either your personal or of history. “Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.” (James 1:27) NOTE: Perhaps it could be considered on the positive side of atheism for humanity, that they are seeking a pure and unadulterated religion. Well, here it is: (1) do good things for others even a cup of water in the name of Christ; and (2) keep yourself unspoted in the world from all immorality, unethical, and counter to the holiness of God. You also see here the objection of Bible believing Christians to much relgion in history that is not religion according to the definition of our standard for relgion; and it would have to be said that herein Christians and atheists share about the only common ground possible. Surely that horrifies you! As a matter of fact, if it were possible the criticism of world regions including that of Christianity goes far beyond what you teach, in that long on the www. biblecombibleman.com of SunGrist_Bible, the Falling Away doctrine of churches and denominations has been preached to the extent of over 8 years ago publishing and giving away free “What Churches don't want you to hear”, that is, that churches and denominations especially in America are leaders in the Falling Away because they have more to fall away from. {It is available free in PDF right now as 8 years ago, simply download and save www.biblecombibleman.com/wcdwyth.pdf .} Perhaps we should start a new Google Plus community called Atheist and Believers United community against the Falling Away. Of course, that would perhaps not work since you atheist like Senator Graham on politics are “agin” everything positive and for action that is brought up. That is another tenet of your religion, and at some point in the Zingers a list should be made of the rules and commandments of the Religion of Atheism. It can be easily be derived from the rules and guidelines from many of their Atheist communities on Google Plus. You can find it listed on the “Atheist Zinger” page of www.biblecombibleman.com, or link to www.biblecombibleman. com/AtheistZinger.html . And like this Zinger which you can download in PDF at www.biblecombibleman.com/ReligionZinger.pdf , you can download that zinger at www.biblecombibleman.com/AtheistZinger.pdf . Christian Apologetics and Christian Evidences Bare min, hopefully you sceptics, atheists, and doubters are beginning to say something of the vast field of Classical Christian Apologetics and Evidences. Granted that there are many places to start and many approaches to make on the proofs or evidences for faith in God, Christ, and the Bible; however the presence of this Preacher/Technologist is to start with the Bible. Here is a book in the world, like a PCB found in the jungle by a native that demands a Designer, a book claiming to be the Word and words from God the Creator Himself, a claim on the lives of all humans created in the image of God, according to that book, must accept or reject. Now once you have made the positive choice in favor of the proofs for the Bible as Word of God versus the proofs against, then the way is clear for “he that cometh to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those that diligently seek Him”. {You should be warned that along with the comradeship of humanity comes a bias against God, sort f a built-in rebellion, called sin. If you are a son of Adam and Eve, you have inherited this bias, a bias of both evolution in science and religion of which Millikan speaks in his book on the subject. Not matter how objective those of science and relgion strive to be, there is a difference between absolute and ultimate truth. Unfortunately in spite of the superficial claims of the atheist to be objective, intellectual, and scientific, like Irwin Linton, a Supreme court lawyer wrote in his book, A LAWYER EXAMINES THE BIBLE, “I never met a person who expressed doubts about Christ and the Bible, who had honestly read it for himself. Yes, that is about unscientific as you can get.} Of course after personal experience with the Bible, it proves itself to be from the God our Creator who wrote it in the first place over thousands of years of human civilizations and history and through 40 carefully chosen Prophets and Apostles, after this personal experience, sort of like pragmatism in philosophy and sort of like the scientific method of experimentation, then you are free with a good foundation to accept both the God of that Bible and the Christ Who this God the Father sent over two thousand years ago for your own salvation. In short the Bible is a good starting and ending place as a standard for all we believe and practice. How can we compare anything man has said or is saying with the wisdom of God. The wisdom of the ages even if not recognized as from God and as such A STANDARD AND THE STANDARD. You see everything you as an atheist says we stack up against that standard, and most of the time except on the evils of religion and organization, you fall very, very short of that standard. The Bible Standard on Conscience Therefore pardon the Bible standard on the inherent personal and collective social conscience in all humanity, the same humanity for which they claim to be the crusaders and champions--{surely their religion includes the value system of a human conscience}-- a. Romans 1:19,20. “Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath showed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse...” (Romans 1:19,20) b. Romans 2:11-16. “For there is no respect of persons with God. For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law; (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: Which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;) In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.” Jerry McMichael for SunGrist_Bible NOTE: You can download a free copy of "Religion Zingers": (a) In PDF based on a web page print, or (b) in text PDF based on Open Office (this later PDF has the links available to an also free copy of WHAT CHURCHES DON'T WANT YOU TO HEAR! |