A letter from an Atheist

This is an excerpt of an e-mail to Ray from an atheist.
"You are really convinced that you've got all the answers. You've really got yourself tricked into believing that you're 100% right. Well, let me tell you just one thing. Do you consider yourself to be compassionate of other humans? If you're right, as you say you are, and you believe that, then how can you sleep at night? When you speak with me, you are speaking with someone who you believe is walking directly into eternal damnation, into an endless onslaught of horrendous pain which your 'loving' god created, yet you stand by and do nothing.
If you believed one bit that thousands every day were falling into an eternal and unchangeable fate, you should be running the streets mad with rage at their blindness. That's equivalent to standing on a street corner and watching every person that passes you walk blindly directly into the path of a bus and die, yet you stand idly by and do nothing. You're just twiddling your thumbs, happy in the knowledge that one day that 'walk' signal will shine your way across the road.
Think about it. Imagine the horrors Hell must have in store if the Bible is true. You're just going to allow that to happen and not care about saving anyone but yourself? If you're right then you're an uncaring, unemotional and purely selfish (expletive) that has no right to talk about subjects such as love and caring."

Week of July 27th Memory Verse

Hebrews 9:27

And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes the judgment.

The Problem of Evil

Have you ever heard some say they have an issue with evil and why doesn't God do anything?

It is recorded in Genesis that Satan infected other angels and Adam and Eve. He placed the temptation before Eve to willfully choose evil rather that trust God’s words. So, she chose evil over good and infected Adam. Adam chose evil too. They knew, consciously they had disobeyed God. This disobedience in attitude, thought and deed was an evil act. It was not a ‘thing’ or substance like in the movie Spiderman. It was not a Symbiant goo that is external to us that makes us evil. Since the fall of Adam and Eve this evil is built into our nature.

Romans 5:12
Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned
Psalms 51:5
Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity,and in sin did my mother conceive me.

This sinful nature was and is from our conception as David said. This original-sin spread from Adam and has infected us all. Not only are we predisposed to sin, but we choose to do evil rather than good. Ephesians 5:8 further states that we were once darkness. The evil is us. We are liars, fornicators, adulterers, covetous, murderers, haters and we love our sins more than God. That is the judgment, the light came into the world, but the world loved the darkness rather than the light because their deeds are evil. The Reformers called this total depravity. We stand condemned before God for the original-sin, thoughts, words and deeds.

God has done and will do something with Evil. He sent his Son Jesus to live a sinless life (no evil) and died our death on the cross. On Him was put the sin (evil) of the world and took God's wrath and rejection, so we could be holy and blameless on judgment day.

Those that don't repent and trust Christ, they and their evil will be cast into hell.

Be careful about asking God to get rid of evil because evil is us. Look into the mirror of the law and truly see yourself.

Weely Memory Verse

John 1:12

But to all who did receive him,
who believed in his name,
he gave the right to become
children of God.

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