The report on my web site made me very happy. It can be read by going to the link given below. The most stunning part of it, besides having 1500 visitors, was that the most popular essay on the site was “To Atheists, with Hate.” There are four other essays on the Atheism link, but they hardly rate a click. I reread “To Atheists, with Hate” in hopes of discovering why it is so popular, even after 3+ years. I didn’t note anything special about it. There is an essay titled “To Atheists, with Love,” but it doesn’t get read much. Why? This is a mystery to me. Do people simply prefer things that reinforce their beliefs. And anger? Maybe they are afraid of “… With Love” because they fear they might discover there reason to change their minds. I did a Bing search for the title, and found my essay listed about eighteen titles down on the second page. On Yahoo, the same. On Google, not listed on the first five pages.
The point of the “Hate” essay is that I hate atheism, not Atheists, just as I hate Islam, not Muslims. I hate these systems because they are detrimental to humans, both in this world and the world to come – especially in the world to come. Atheists seem to be an intelligent and innocuous group; until they begin to talk against the existence of God. It is well known what God thinks of Atheists. Atheists don’t believe in God, they say, but God believes in them. He sacrificed His Son for their salvation.
Atheists are the personification of unbelief, and unbelief in the worst of all sins. It doesn’t matter how good a person is in this world, his goodness can never equal the death of Jesus on the cross. Do good men need salvation? Are good men lost? Here’s what God said about Noah in Genesis 6: “These [are] the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man [and] perfect in his generations, [and] Noah walked with God.” God trusted Noah with the salvation of the entire human race by instructing him to build the first great construction project – the Ark. After the Flood when Noah and his family got off the Ark, he offered a burnt offering. The perfect man offered a sacrifice. The perfect man recognizes the sovereignty of God, and His lordship. The perfect man recognizes the love of God for him, and God’s provisions for him. God’s love ought to cause any rational person to love Him, believe in Him. I have said many times that if a man loved his soul as much as God loves it, he would give it to God.
The ideal life would be to born to a devout married man and woman. At an early age, the child would have learned about the love and sacrifice of God for him, and accepted Christ Jesus as his Lord and Saviour. The next most ideal way to be saved is for a good, blameless man to read the Bible, or hear a teacher teach the Bible, and realize that God loves him, even though he is just a man. He acknowledges the truth of the Bible and is born again. It is not sin that condemns a man, but his denial of God and His love and grace. No sin is too great for God to forgive, except the sin of unbelief. Unbelief is the only thing God will not forgive.
In a sense, every person who denies Jesus Christ is an atheist since Jesus Christ is God. I wish my fingers were capable of typing words that could convince or persuade men. The joy I have known by the presence of the Lord in my life is so salubrious I would share it with everybody if I could. If I did not know the Lord Jesus as well as I do, the fatuousness and foolishness of my life would break me with remorse. The remorse is bad enough, but with Jesus, I can survive.
At least, some people are reading my posts, and I pray God will help me to write things that will cause somebody to stop and think.
Have a happy New Year and stuff.
