'If I have to spend the rest of my life . . .'

Here's a quote from Epicurus that Greek-loving "atheists" love to quote:

 

“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”

At a Bible conference once in Michigan it was reported to us from the podium that a Grace Believer decided to become an atheist. One of the reasons he gave: “I just can’t believe a good God would allow evil in the world.”

“That’s a common idea of people who don’t want to believe in God," explains Richard Jordan. "The problem with that it is it assumes that a good God could have no reason for allowing evil to happen.

"People think, ‘Why, I wouldn’t!’ That’s the problem! It’s your pride. That thinking assumes you are omniscient and knew every possible reason for everything that happens.

*****

“You’ll never meet anybody who’s an honest atheist. When I say an honest one, I mean somebody who doesn’t have an ax to grind like guys such as (Sigmund) Freud.

"Freud said that the reason he hated religion is because he crossed the street one day and a guy standing on the corner was preaching, ‘You’re going to go to hell if you don’t trust Christ. You’re going to burn in hell.’

“Freud spent the rest of his life trying to prove that religion was just a repressed sex drive. And he’s the guy where all you got to do is drop his name and everybody thinks, ‘Oh, you’re a real intellectual.’

*****

“You’ll never meet an honest person who spent 15 hours looking at the actual evidence of the resurrection of Jesus Christ say they don’t believe in it because, if you look at the actual evidence for the resurrection, there’s only one conclusion—He came out of the grave.

“Obviously what that means is up to you. I mean, you can put any meaning to it you want to. I read a book years ago by a Jewish rabbi who believed in the resurrection of Jesus Christ based on the historical evidence, but didn’t believe He was the Messiah; he didn’t trust Him. He didn’t get the meaning that God attached to it.

“But when you recognize that there’s one man who went into death and came out, and that there’s objective, physical, historical, demonstrable evidence that you could go into a court of law with and prove it happened, well, that’s different.

“And you see that’s what Doubting Thomas came up with when he said, ‘My Lord and my God.’ He figured it out right when he saw it."

(new post tomorrow)