We are the same with many things.

Have you never watched a debate between Christopher Hitchens and a theist, hahaha? Christopher Hitchens doesn’t make an argument. He just says, “God doesn’t exist, and I hate Him.”

As for Richard Dawkins, he won’t actually debate a Christian apologist. Well, he did debate John Lennox and Lennox took him to the tool shed, but that was a while ago. And this is Dawkins argument:

1.) If something as complex as the universe needs a creator, then God needs a creator.
2.) God needs a creator.
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3.) God does not exist.

As you can see, this is logically fallacious. For if he wants to keep premise (2) then the universe had to have been created. And another problem with premise (2) is that Christians don’t believe in a created god. And again, God isn’t more complex then the universe because Dawkins is thinking of God is physicalist terms, which God can’t be thought of that way, because God is spirit. So there is nothing complex about God. And then of course (3) doesn’t follow from the argument at all.

Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett aren’t incredibly intelligent people. They may be good in their field, but that’s it. They obviously don’t have an philosophical training because their arguments have (1) been refuted for about 100 years or more because they just borrowed from Hume and Kant, etc., and (2) their conclusions don’t follow from their premises. All they really do is rant and rave about how bad God and religion are, and then give about two pages of argumentation, which aren’t even valid. That’s why most atheists are embarrassed by them.

Let him show it: by his life, by the humility that comes from wisdom. (Humility like Mother Theresa or many thousands of truly humbly wise souls whom I cannot name because they didn’t make themselves famous.)

Those who harbour bitter envy, selfish ambition and arrogant pride are not wise (like so many of our haughty intellectuals and power-brokers).

But the wisdom that comes from heaven is pure, peace-loving, considerate, humble, impartial and sincere. It is not proud, but open to reason.

This is the definition of ‘true’ wisdom from James 5:17, as opposed to ‘earthly’ wisdom that will be stripped naked at the end of it all.

The above scripture is called “The greatest commandment”, but what is a commandment? There is no commandment to obey gravity; no “thou shalt fall down when stepping off a cliff”, because we have no choice in the matter. Commandments are about the choices God has given us the freedom to choose, and the consequences they entail. The greatest commandment is then about the greatest choice He gave us in life; to either love Him or not. We are free to choose, and to accept the consequences thereof.

In this Age of Grace, brought on by Jesus’ new covenant with mankind, God will offer no proof, as the world understands it, of how we should choose. That would reduce our freedom to choose to a fool’s choice. Even the stiff-necked Israelites chose God when He parted the Red Sea and Pharoah was on their heels. But a choice made from fear is not earnest, as that story quickly showed. Just as you would not be impressed if your spouse said he/she loved you “because what else could I do?”, the coming Bride of Jesus will be a body of those who freely chose Him.

So while you won’t find proof before you choose Him, there is lots of evidence. God’s promise is that IF you earnestly use your mind to seek Him, you will find Him.

“Other examples of God’s foreknowledge of the false wisdom man would embrace: “For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.” Rom 1:21-23″

MY COMMENT

Gee, if I was going to fabricate a story that I’d want people to believe as the truth, I think I WOULD mention that there are going to be those who don’t believe me. Don’t people do this all the time? Someone tells you a talltale and then says “Now I know Susie won’t believe me but you do, right?”

It’s like reverse psychology.

Building in “protection” against doubters is built into almost every religion. It’s a question of self preservation, pure and simple. It is for that reason you should doubt and question everything in every book you read, especially The Bible. You can’t deny the fact that there are many references within the bible to wisdom being crushed (for lack of a better word). If a country, in today’s day and age, decided to stop, prevent even, it’s populace being educated, we would all cry foul. The accusations would be that an educated populace would not stand for the oppression. Yet when this behavior is endorsed by The Bible, you seem fine with it. Can you draw comparisons between the two? I can.

“They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.” 2 Th 2:10-12

So it appears these kinds of conversatons, or the rebellion of men from God, are nothing new.