Over the years I’ve learned that once someone tells me they’re an atheist or an agnostic, it’s a good idea to ask them, “Why? Why are you an atheist/agnostic? What evidence have you found that proves that God does not exist?”  Not one of them has been able to come up with a good answer.  After that simple little question, some of the atheists changed their stand to agnostic.  And that’s the point where I want to lead them. 

“There is no such thing as absolute truth.”

Really?  What does 2 + 2 =?  Four.  And not just sometimes…every time.  Truth, by definition, is very narrow.  It has one right answer but it can have many wrong answers.  There’s only one planet in our solar system called Earth.  Last year’s Super Bowl had only one winner.  One right answer but many wrong answers.  I would expect that when it comes to eternity, there is one right answer and many wrong answers.  There’s only one truth to eternity, and it’s found in the bible.

You see, it doesn’t matter what you believe, it only matters what is true.  I might believe that the sky is orange, but it’s not.  My agnostic friend Stanley may think I’m going to send him a million dollars tomorrow.  Fat chance. 

Some say that as long as they believe something in their heart to be true, then it is.  Now there’s something called relative truth, which basically is the belief that truth is relative to a particular situation.  This is not the same as absolute truth.

Here’s my argument for that:  “If Adolph Hitler believed in his heart that it was okay to kill six million Jews, then was it really okay?” Of course not.  There has to be only one absolute truth. 

One night, on a show called Politically Incorrect, there was a woman on there that asked the others, “In what situation is rape okay?”  Everybody just sat there in silence.  Since it’s not okay, then the statement that rape is wrong would be an absolute statement. 

“Prove that God exists.”

Unbelievers often ask this question, implying that our faith is blind while they have reasoning on their side.  I disagree.  God never asked us to have blind faith.  That’s what leads people to cults.  We use calculated faith for most decisions, and we should do the same for eternal decisions. 

Let’s take four things:
1.      Creation
2.      Design
3.      Art
4.      Order

Every time you see a telephone, you know it had a creator.  Every time you see a watch, you know it had a designer.  Every time you see a painting, you know it had an artist.  Every time you see order, like clothes in a closet separated by color, you know it had an orderer.  When you look around the universe, you see creation, design, art, and order.  If every other thing has these characteristics, why would you not think that the universe also has a Creator, a Designer, an Artist, an Oderer? 

Romans 1:20 says, “For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse.”

Atheists and agnostics both have blind faith.  No?  Well, again I ask the question, “Prove that God does not exist.”  The same thing that they accuse Christians of is what they themselves use to make their decision for eternity.

“Prove the bible is true.”

A most frequent question.  Pilate asked Jesus, “What is truth?”  In John 17:17 Jesus said of God’s Word, “thy word is truth.”  The bible’s internal information points to it being the true word of God.

Of course, non-believers will argue that you’re just using circular reasoning.  Most Christians just say they that they simply believe the bible to be true.  The problem with that, again, is that it doesn’t matter what you believe, it only matters what is true.

So is the bible true?  Consider these points:

1.      The bible is the best-selling book in the world.  So what, that doesn’t mean it’s true!  You’re right, it doesn’t.  But because it is the best-selling book, perhaps we should read it.  About 150 million are sold each year.  Show me another book that has those numbers.  It’s possible that the bible contains at least some truth, so why not read it and see?

2.      The bible claims to be written by God.  Now this is important because many believe men wrote it.  But scripture records, “All scripture is given by inspiration of God” (2 Tim. 3:16); and “for prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.” (2 Pet. 1:21)

Now just because the bible claims to have been written by God doesn’t mean that it was.  I could sign a letter, “Love, God,” but that doesn’t mean that God wrote it.  Read on.

3.      Evidence supports the bible. To date, no one has ever been able to prove a single historical mistake anywhere in the bible.  Now that’s pretty amazing.  If man wrote it, someone would’ve found at least one mistake somewhere.  Let me plug some books that I recommend:

·        Evidence That Demands a Verdict, by Josh McDowell

·        The Case for Christ, by Lee Strobel

Both of these books provide strong evidence for God’s authorship. 

4.      Archaeological evidence supports the bible.  So far, not a single archaeologist has found anything in the Middle East to prove the bible wrong.  I read somewhere where there has been something like more than 20,000 archaeological finds relating to things in the bible and nothing has contradicted scripture.  If I’m not mistaken, the books I mentioned above also contain this information.  My question is, “If you can believe the historical and the archaeological evidence of the bible, why can’t you believe the spiritual part?”

5.      There are many fulfilled prophecies in the bible which validate its accuracy.  Fulfilled prophecies prove the reliability of the bible as well as God’s existence.  What book contains hundreds of detailed prophecies?  The bible; not the Quran or the Book of Mormon.  If a book contained prophecies that did not come true, what does that say about that book?  It’s worthless.  I’ve already covered in my last blog the probability of one man, the God-man Jesus, being able to fulfill so many prophecies so I won’t get into that again.  But who is the only person that could see to it that so many prophecies were fulfilled?  God. And by the way, it’s not circular reasoning to cite fulfilled prophecies.  The bible is compiled of 66 books by roughly 40 writers over a 1600 year period.  

That’s all for now boys and girls.  More to come later.  Keep the Faith.