Where I Stand on The Word
I have recently shared some opinions on The Bible with an atheist friend of mine...He does not believe that God exists...a common belief amongst atheists...I challenge them quite often...but they stand firm on their belief that God isn't real. They believe that everything started with a Big Bang and that the Bible is just a make-believe bunch of stories. I question, then...just what is the Big Bang? They would come up with some scientific terms...words that I am not too familiar with...and say that they are much more correct and can prove their theory. I ask...How? Again, more terms, more scientific thoughts purported by "great" scientists...men who are supposedly so smart they have it all figured out...and some are still attempting to "figure things out"..with even more advanced and up-to-date theories. Now, what is more convincing..molecules and atoms coming together and forming all things great and small, wise and wonderful...or a Supreme Being creating the earth, moon, sun and stars, the planets..all living creatures and the first two humans that began humanity? I don't know about you...but I think that Genesis existed way before Charles Darwin and I think that the writer of Genesis knew more about how everything came into existence than Darwin or anyone before or after his theory of evolution! I challenge anyone to look in the mirror and then look at a chimp at the zoo and still think that we are in any way related to that species....If you do...then I suggest you may want to join them for a while and see how well you can relate to them. I would imagine that communication with them may be slightly inhibited.
They claim that the Bible is unbelievable and bring up talking animals...talking serpents...many things they claim as unbelievable..yet they want us to believe that we evolved from a lowly species that grunts and throws poop at each other! I don't know what to think of my friends, the atheists...I have grown quite fond of some of them and really hope to convince them they are wrong...but I feel that it will take more than me to persuade them to come over to my way of reasoning! I will continue to talk to them...sometimes argue with them...but I will always love them the same as I do my Christian friends....I know that they are only human and that they are subject to the same forces I am...and that God is working in their lives just as He is in mine...they just don't know it yet....but when God is finished with them..they will know Him in a mighty way.....I know that if just one of them were to read this...they would laugh and scoff at me..and believe me....I am used to all of their dissing on me. When they do...I just think to myself....I used to be very similar to them....I never actually believed that there was no God...but I never paid much of a mind to Him...now I realize what all I missed out on and am turning over a new leaf...their trees are still in the budding stage..some still in the dead of winter...some never even been planted yet!
