ATHEISM
As Christians
we accept one foundational truth – God – and everything else makes sense. An atheist denies God and has to accept
incredible explanations for everything else.
It takes more faith to deny God than to believe in Him.
The Ultimate Priority, Moody Press, 1983, p.
38.
What do you
conceive God to be like? Some would say
to believe at all in a personal God requires a giant leap of faith – but I am
convinced that belief in God is a far more reasonable position than
atheism. Nature, the personal experience
of literally billions of people, and something innate in the heart of man all
testify to the existence of God.
Who Said That? Moody, 1994, p. 210.
He wants to
know about the problem of evil. My
answer to the problem of evil is this: There is no problem of evil in an
atheist's universe because there is no evil in an atheist's universe. Since there is no God, there is no absolute
moral standard, and nothing is wrong.
The torture of little children is not wrong in an atheist's
universe. It may be painful, but it is
not wrong. It is morally wrong in a
theistic universe, and therefore, there is a problem of evil of perhaps the
psychological or emotional sort, but philosophically the answer to the problem
of evil is you don't have an absolute standard of good by which to measure evil
in an atheist's universe. You can only
have that in a theistic universe, and therefore, the very posing of the problem
presupposes my world view, rather than his own. God has a good reason for the evil that He
plans or allows.
The Great Debate: Does God Exist? University of California, Irvine, 1985.
Atheists
express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.
CS. Lewis
If there were
no God, there would be no atheists.
G.K. Chesterton
Why is the
Atheist’s main target always Jesus of Nazareth, and
never Buddha, Confucius, or Mohammed?
Why is the aspiring athlete’s target always the
true champion and never the also-rans?
The atheist
can’t find God for the same reason that a thief can’t find a police officer.
I tried
atheism for a while, but my faith just wasn’t strong enough.
He that doth
not believe that there is a God, is more vile than a
devil. To deny there is a God, is a sort
of atheism that is not to be found in hell.
A Puritan Golden Treasury,
compiled by I.D.E. Thomas, by permission of Banner of Truth, Carlisle, PA. 2000, p. 28.
Belief is a
wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be
proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves
false? If you gain, you gain all; if you
lose, you lose nothing. Wager , then, without hesitation, that God exists.
Pascal’s Wager.