Ray Comforttag:www.bullypulpit.com,2010-07-05:/raycomfort//672011-09-21T10:39:05ZMovable Type 4.34-en“Your religion is all about faith.”tag:www.bullypulpit.com,2011:/raycomfort//67.34672011-09-21T10:39:05Z2011-09-21T10:39:05ZMuch of what we do in life has its foundation in trust. We trust our dentist when he drills, our taxi driver when he drives, our pilots when they fly us. We trust our history books, our teachers, and some...Ray Comforthttp://www.LivingWaters.com The questioner’s statement implies that Christians are living by a naïve, “blind” faith based on something for which we have no evidence, when the opposite is the case. Our faith is rational and reasonable, and is based on credible, verifiable, historical evidence. The God who created us has given us all the evidence we need to come to know Him, and He invites us, “Come now, and let us reason together” (Isa. 1:18).
The fact that some do not recognize the evidence doesn’t mean it is not there. God has given light to every man (see John 1:9)—through this wonderful creation, through the undeniable voice of the con- science, and through plain old common sense. We have the Bible’s thousands of fulfilled prophecies, “many infallible proofs” of the resurrection (see Acts 1:3), and He even promises to reveal Himself to those who obey Him (see John 14:21).
It is also important to explain the difference between believing something (the Bible), and trusting Someone (Jesus Christ). Skeptics think that a Christian is someone who simply “believes” in God’s existence. When the Bible speaks of “faith” in God, it is not a reference to an intellectual acknowledgment that He exists (we all intuitively know that). It is speaking of an implicit trust in His person and His promises. There’s nothing difficult about having trust or “faith” when the One you are trusting is utterly trustworthy.
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Most Atheists Don't Know Their Bible...tag:www.bullypulpit.com,2011:/raycomfort//67.34312011-09-14T13:05:07Z2011-09-14T13:05:07Z"Mr. Comfort can I ask a question about baptism, for the first say 1500 years was seen as necessarily for salvation, yet your organization holds that it is not." RobertIt seems that you don't know your Bible very well. Baptism...Ray Comforthttp://www.LivingWaters.com It seems that you don't know your Bible very well. Baptism isn't (and never has been) a requirement for salvation--see Ephesians 2:8-9. A gift cannot be earned nor can it be deserved (see also Romans 6:23). If you think you can earn the gift of salvation, then eternal life isn't a gift at all—-you are owed it by God because you earned it by "doing" something. This is a very common and tragic error made by the millions (perhaps billions) of religious people, who think they can buy their way into Heaven. God will not be bribed on Judgment Day.
"But you make your living off the Bible, which is fine, but the Bible was not written in a vacuum, it was not a dictated document, it was written translated, and then re-translated. It was messy, and rather human."
It was inspired and preserved by God (see 2 Timothy 3:16). Nothing has changed down through the ages. You can see this for yourself by checking Greek and Hebrew manuscripts (do a search and study). Don't believe what people tell you. Check it for yourself--because your own eternal salvation is the issue at hand.
"Now from what I have seen here you and your ministry seem to have a deep contempt for being human, you are pro birth, but have deep contempt for those that are born, you hold to the sanctity of life, but you think all humans are utterly lost and enemies of God."
You seem a little confused about this issue also. God knows that I have a deep love for humanity, and have spent just on 40 years pleading (without pay) in the open air--over 5,000 times--to those that the are referred to as "the unsaved" (because they are heading for death and then Hell). Your confusion may come from the fact that I wholeheartedly side with God and His testimony regarding the wickedness of humanity, including myself. See Romans 3:10-23 for His testimony about us, and then watch tonight's TV news to have it confirmed.
Man is not good at all. He is desperately wicked. Then do an honest soul-search, judging yourself from the perfect holiness of God's Law (see Matthew 5:27-28) so that you don't make the mistake of judging yourself by man's very low moral standard.
If you do judge by man's standard, you will think that you are morally good, and never seek God's mercy--which is alone in Jesus Christ. You will stay in your sins and reap the Justice of a holy Creator...and that is a fearful thing.
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180 is Coming...tag:www.bullypulpit.com,2011:/raycomfort//67.34042011-09-09T06:10:54Z2011-09-09T06:10:54ZSome atheists are getting a little nervous, because millions are going to see "180," think about their eternal destiny and what they believe about abortion, and do a 180. And we know what that means.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7xhCpAnxDs&feature=player_embeddedHere are just some of the...Ray Comforthttp://www.LivingWaters.com
Here are just some of the endorsements from those who have seen the whole video:
"Brilliant and powerful." Joseph Farah - CEO WND.com
"Life-changing!" Jim Bob & Michelle Duggar - TLC's 19 Kids & Counting
"Mind-blowing and unforgettable!" Randy Alcorn
"Brilliant..." Kay Arthur
"Riveting!" Joni Eareckson Tada
"I am absolutely in awe at this!" Janet Parshall
"This was a riveting presentation of historical precedent and logical deductions..." John Reynolds - Co-Founder SoldiersBibleMinistry.org
"180 is brilliant! You can't help but be moved by it." Howard Conder - co-founder and host, Revelation TV
"180 is the most gripping video I've seen this year." Penny Young Nance - President, Concerned Women for America
"Very powerful...It will change lives." Larry Gatlin - American country music singer/songwriter
"'180' is the most powerful production of its kind that I have ever seen." Allan Parker - President, The Justice Foundation
"Amazing...really powerful and inescapably compelling logic." Dr. Carl Moeller - President/CEO, Open Doors USA
"A life-changing message that will impact the nation." Bill Gothard
"Incredible. It'll blow you away!" Jill Stanek
"With one question, Ray Comfort shows how you can change minds, save lives, and awaken the conscience of a nation. Why hasn't anyone thought of this until now?" Dr. Frank Turek - Founder & President of CrossExamined.org
"Powerful, disturbing...'180' is our wake up call." Francine Rivers - author of The Atonement Child
"Absolutely amazing!" Abby Johnson - author of Unplanned
“Totally incredible!” Skip Heitzig - Pastor, Calvary of Albuquerque
"Truly revolutionary and inspiring!" K.P. Yohannan
"Ray Comfort's bracing questions cut like a laser through all the mind-numbing...compelling those he interviews to grapple with life, death, and eternity." Dr. Kenyn M. Cureton - Vice President for Church Ministries, Family Research Council, Washington, DC
"As one who was scheduled to be aborted, this astounding video struck me at my core that this is needed more now than ever. It is more than powerful...it is a vehicle of God's voice to this generation, and must be seen!" Ron DiCianni
"Paradigm Shattering! A most powerful message that will change and save lives!" Johnny Berguson - Pres. Kingdom, Inc.
"You don't view this video. You experience it!" Garry T. Ansdell
"After viewing 180 last night one couple wanted to invest in a couple of thousand copies, and give them away in the surrounding neighborhoods near our church." Trisha R. (TX)
"Leaves you utterly speechless! 180 is going to change the direction of the nation." Stacy L. Massey - president, Abortion Recovery International
"Riveting, shocking, jaw-dropping!" Allen Atzbi 4 Share
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Heart Failure, and the Atheisttag:www.bullypulpit.com,2011:/raycomfort//67.33772011-09-05T12:59:35Z2011-09-05T12:59:35Z"Human beings live for an average of between 70 and 80 years. The human heart beats 70 to 80 times a minute, for a total of several billion times during the course of an individual's lifetime. The Abiomed company, known...Ray Comforthttp://www.LivingWaters.com Even though modern science has access to God's materials so that we can recreate a human heart, it has failed. We don't know how to do it. A product of the latest technology, this artificial heart was tested in calves before human beings, although the calves survived for only a few months. The artificial heart developed by the company has been put into safety trials in human heart failure patients since 2004, but researchers find the human heart so difficult to imitate.
Steven Vogel of Duke University, a biomechanic who has also written a book on this subject, describes why:
"It’s that the engines we have available, whatever their power output or efficiency work so differently. Muscle is a soft, wet, contractile engine, and that’s just unlike anything in our technological armamentarium. So you can’t imitate a heart . . ."
Even though the artificial heart looks like a real heart, consisting of two ventricles, that's where the similarity ends. Bioengineer, Alan Snyder of Penn State University, who led the research, says:
"In the natural heart, you're using muscle as a container and the container pumps on its own."
Scientists attempting to create a heart that contracts by itself, put the interior walls of the two ventricles into motion by putting an engine between them, and powered it with a battery that was located in the patient’s body. This had to be recharged continuously by radio waves that were emitted by a rechargeable battery-pack that each patient wears on the outside of his body. However, the heart that God made doesn't need anything to create energy, because it creates its own energy in every cell.
Another feature that scientists don't know how to copy, is its pulses. The human heart is able to pump over a gallon of blood each minute while it's at rest, and this can rise to more than five gallons during exercise. Kung, Abiomed's director, said that of this function "a challenge that currently no mechanical device can meet."
The atheist believes that the heart made itself. Sure.
Notes: Robert Kunzig, “The Beat Goes On,” Discover, January 2000
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Did PZ Myers do a 180?tag:www.bullypulpit.com,2011:/raycomfort//67.33492011-08-30T09:36:52Z2011-08-30T09:36:52ZI hear that PZ Myers just stated publicly that he thinks I'm a fraud. See: http://bit.ly/njFaBW Does that mean that up until today he thought that I was genuine in my faith, but after viewing our latest video (called "180")...Ray Comforthttp://www.LivingWaters.com Then again, if I am a fraud, why would we be planning to freely give away (that's no charge) 200,000 copies of the video, in September, October, November, or perhaps December of this year? Why would we make it freely available for viewing (that's no charge) on www.180movie.com Why would we be selling the professionally produced 33-minute video (in an attractive jacket) for the exorbitant price of one dollar?
We have 2,000 faithful workers who are chafing at the bit to get "180" into people's hands because it has such a powerful message. These are the same wonderful workers who volunteered their time to give away about 200,000 copies of Darwin's boring book (with the Introduction that presented Intelligent Design and the Gospel), at one hundred of America's top universities. Atheists messed up that giveaway-date. We came a day early and sent them in a panic.
So make sure you get the date right this time--so that you can once again try and protest free speech, and attempt to stop (censor) us from giving "180" away. And make sure you get the right universities this time. I will give you a hint as to which ones we will visit. There are a total of 2,618 in the United States, and we will be going to 100 of them. Share
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Question for Geekstag:www.bullypulpit.com,2011:/raycomfort//67.33482011-08-30T09:34:42Z2011-08-30T09:34:42ZVelcro was discovered by Georges de Mestral, a Swiss engineer who, in 1941 went for a walk in the woods and wondered if the burrs that clung to his trousers (and to his dog) could be turned into something useful....Ray Comforthttp://www.LivingWaters.com How many other things can you think of, that the design in nature has inspired?
Photograph: The hooks of a piece of Velcro. Source http://www.flickr.com/photos/olivepixel/220573311/
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Athiest's Proof that God Doesn't Existtag:www.bullypulpit.com,2011:/raycomfort//67.33282011-08-27T17:26:38Z2011-08-27T17:26:38Z"Ray, the nice thing about modem science is that it's testable, demonstrable and repeatable. If someone makes a claim in a peer reviewed scientific journal about which I am skeptical, I can recreate the experiment. If my results differ from...Ray Comforthttp://www.LivingWaters.com The frustrating thing about atheists (and those who believe the theory of evolution to be true), is that they hide behind the shirts of true science, when there is nothing scientific about the idea of Darwinian evolution. Science is testable, and scientists who use the scientific method come to a place where they believe their hypothesis.
However, they don’t know anything to be 100% true because their conclusion may change as more information is discovered and believed.
The theory of evolution, however, cannot be tested. If you believe otherwise, please present how the scientific method has proven Darwinian evolution to be true, and how because of it you "don’t have to believe anything." In truth, you have faith (trust) in what you have read or what your professor has told you, and his beliefs are based on the same weak and shaky premise.
Look at this comment from a typical atheist who believes evolution:
"On occasion, after feeding my dog I might lazily leave an empty can of dog food on my kitchen counter for 2-3 days. The amino acids in what's left in the can form organisms by way of maggots and flies. Anyone with half a brain can understand that this type of process is what led to the existence of life on Earth. Chemistry made it happen, not god's magic wand."
Magical maggots are his proof that a Creator doesn't exist. It doesn't occur to him that a fly flew in when he wasn't looking at the empty can, and laid eggs.
The tragedy for those that believe in evolution is that they automatically discount the Genesis account of creation, which holds up perfectly under the light of honest scientific scrutiny. It informs us that God is the initial Cause of all things. He created male and female and caused every animal to bring forth after its own kind.
The theory of evolution has no explanation for the initial Cause (it is a case of "evolution-did-it" with the help of invisible sky-daddy of Father Time), nor does it have an explanation for why 1.4 million different kinds of animals, birds, fish, and insects have male and female.
All they have are a few dry bones they believe to be old, and bacteria that evolves into bacteria. And so the evolution believer refuses the offer of forgiveness of sins and everlasting life, based on non-existent evidence.
Unlike the idea of evolution, Christianity can be tested. Simply read the Sermon on the Mount—which tells us among other things that God considers lust to be adultery (see Matthew 5:27-28), and that leaves all of us in big trouble on Judgment Day, heading for Hell.
But God is rich in mercy and provided the Savior—-Jesus of Nazareth, who suffered, died, and rose again—taking our punishment upon Himself and purchasing eternal salvation for sinners. Repent and trust Him and you will pass from death into life, and know the truth--and the truth will make you free (see John 8:31-32). There's the proof.
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Cooped up in Californiatag:www.bullypulpit.com,2011:/raycomfort//67.32992011-08-22T20:42:59Z2011-08-22T20:42:59ZBruce Gleason, one of my atheist friends, has followed the example of his fellow atheists across the country by putting up a billboard that makes people think about God. His billboard went up along the southbound 55 Freeway here in...Ray Comforthttp://www.LivingWaters.com He said, "We've been getting a lot of comments from people saying we should have spent that money on charity." That made me smile. It's ironic that he spent big money boasting how atheism is philanthropic, when in truth, it's about as philanthropic as it is scientific. Yep, the world is bursting with atheist hospitals, atheist soup kitchens and atheist homeless shelters.
The news release also said, "The ad campaign is financed by 'an anonymous donor' to Backyard Skeptics, which boasts 440 members and sponsors assorted activities, including science-related field trips to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, monthly lectures and occasional movie nights (the latest screening is 'The Ledge,' about a love triangle involving an atheist and two Christians)."
Recently, Bruce asked me to speak at one of his backyard monthly meetings. We were both excited about it, until his fellow atheists chickened out, no doubt because they didn't want to have their feathers ruffled. But if they change their minds, I wouldn't want an honorarium, I would give them free books, would pay for their food, and I would count it an honor to gently challenge their belief system.
But I won't be holding my breath, because almost all atheists are big talkers hiding behind a computer, but chickens in the real world. Bruce excluded.
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What Atheists Believe...tag:www.bullypulpit.com,2011:/raycomfort//67.32872011-08-18T22:05:34Z2011-08-18T22:05:34Z"Actually, atheists tend to assume that gravity and heat created the water cycle, but put that aside. If God was providing, free of charge, enough water for San Antonio, there would be no price comparison between the cost of distilling...Ray Comforthttp://www.LivingWaters.com I appreciate why you would rather we put aside your belief that gravity and heat have the ability to create. Rather than put it aside, I would like to talk about what atheists believe, and consider it closely.
Atheists believe that gravity thinks intelligently, makes plans, and then creates the concept it has in mind. In this case, gravity created the water cycle. Perhaps you object to my saying that gravity must be intelligent to come up with the concept of the water cycle and then actually create it. Perhaps you think that gravity is mindless, and created it without thinking. I don't think so. I am in awe of the water cycle and couldn't imagine the most intelligent of human beings coming up with it.
But according to atheists, gravity didn't create alone. Its partner was heat. The two of them came up with the concept of water, vapor, clouds, rain, rivers, lakes, waterfalls, snow, evaporation, air, condensation, and then created them and caused them to work throughout the earth in perfect harmony. Atheism brings new meaning to the word "absurd."
Also, the concept of the god you don't believe in doesn't exist. He is a figment of your fertile and faith-filled imagination. The Creator is not your water-boy. Don't believe the television preachers that tell you that He will come running when you click your sinful fingers. He withholds the blessing of live-giving rain when a nation gives itself to evil and at the same time professes itself to be good.
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Thankless and Blind Atheismtag:www.bullypulpit.com,2011:/raycomfort//67.32792011-08-18T06:52:31Z2011-08-18T06:52:31ZWe can't live without water. An incredible 97% of it is in the form of salt water oceans and yet we can’t drink it or even use it for crops. Drinkable water for the billions on the earth only amounts...Ray Comforthttp://www.LivingWaters.com However, there is one other place in which vast amounts of fresh drinkable water are stored. Trillions upon trillions of tons of water sit above us in the form of pregnant puffy clouds. These great water deposits float like feathers above our heads, and they do so because of fixed laws.
The water gets there because of an incredible process called "the water cycle." This happens when the waters of the earth change from their heavy liquid form and become water vapor. As the sun heats the water, it rises and forms itself into lighter than air water deposits we call clouds.
As this happens, salt and impurities are left behind on the earth so that we can have a supply of salt to give taste to our food, and drinkable water, which, before the evaporation process, was pestilential.
The clouds sit above us, storing trillions of tons of clean, life-giving, fresh drinking water. This is placed at between 10,000 and 20,000 feet in the sky, and it if wasn't for the process of "condensation," that's where it would all stay, and we would all eventually die of thirst.
Condensation is the opposite of evaporation. It occurs when the gases that transported the water to the clouds because of heat, form back into water because of cold. This cooler temperature causes the gas to form into drops, and then drop (or drip), so that we can have crops from the drops and drink cool fresh water. This process is called "precipitation," or "rain" for us common folks.
The rain falls to the earth, is collected in lakes, rivers and streams, and because of gravity, eventually finds itself transported into the vast oceans where it evaporates, is cleansed, and falls again so that we can have crops and drinking water. This means that water never really disappears down the drain. Thank God, it comes back to us so that we can live.
So it seems that the water cycle is simple. Heat and drink. In other words, we could easily copy God’s water cycle and create fresh water from salt water, by heating salt water and catching it:
"In April 2000 the Texas Water Development Board approved a $59,000 grant to the Lavaca-Navadid River Authority to determine if building a $400 million plant on Matagorda Bay at Point Comfort would be economically and environmentally feasible. There is a power plant at this location that could supply the heated sea water for the membrane process. The study was released two months later and the cost rose to $755 million, but this included the cost of transmission facilities to San Antonio."
"Ocean water desalination is extraordinarily expensive – more than 10 times the cost of Aquifer water, and a plant and pipeline would cost well over $1 billion in today's dollars."
Look at the incredible cost--simply to imitate what God makes available to us at no charge. Of course, the atheist doesn't think of or thank God for all this, because he believes that nothing created everything, including the water cycle.
Notes: 1. http://www.edwardsaquifer.net/desalination.html 2. "S.A. urged to look to gulf for more water" San Antonio Express-News, March 10, 2010
Edit: "It covers 97% of the earth" changed to "An incredible 97% of it is..." (Thanks to James Bond).
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Bird Brains and Atheiststag:www.bullypulpit.com,2011:/raycomfort//67.32072011-08-06T10:54:57Z2011-08-06T10:54:57ZIn mid-2011, Markus Fischer and his creative team at Festo built "SmartBird"--a large, lightweight robot, modeled on a seagull. This amazing flying robot was unique in that it flapped its wings like a real bird. When Fischer spoke about his...Ray Comforthttp://www.LivingWaters.com Plagiarism is the copying of someone else's ideas, and representing it as your own original work. Fischer copied his bird directly from God's design, and humbly took praise for it as if it was his own creation.
Despite this copyright infringement, it is understandable why they praised him. He did something no other human being had managed to do. He made a flying, flapping, swerving bird. Sort of. It couldn't think breath, think, eat, and reproduce of itself. It couldn't even blink. Not that it needed to, because this was a blind bird.
There are some who accuse God of being the ultimate egotist because they think that He demands worship. Scripture says "You shall worship the Lord your God and Him only shall you serve." However, to praise God for the gift of life—-for birds and all the amazing creation that surrounds us, is the right thing to do. To fail to praise Him and love Him with all of our "heart, mind, soul, and strength" for what He has done and Who He is, is to be guilty of the sin of ingratitude. Worship is commanded because we are dull in mind, selfish in heart, blind to reality, and so ungrateful that we need to be directed to give God due praise.
Despite Fischer's genius, there is no comparison between his flying robot and God's design of the bird. The model they copied has eyes that can see and relate images to an incredibly complex brain, that in the smallest of birds shames our most complex of computers. It has an amazing heart that sends life-giving oxygenated blood at just the right temperature, through a myriad of tiny blood vessels into complicated layers of perfectly designed muscles that are fastened onto hollow multifaceted bones that are curved especially for flight, and layered with amazingly shaped feathers that twist and turn as directed by the brain of each bird.
So what sort of crazy person could believe that there was no evidence that Fischer's robot had a creator; and what sort of bird-brain could believe for a moment that the one he plagiarized had no Maker?
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Atheists, Voltaire, Morality and Godtag:www.bullypulpit.com,2011:/raycomfort//67.31752011-07-29T22:06:43Z2011-07-29T22:06:43Z"Hello. I am writing regarding some evangelical booklets I have recently found around my high school. They keep turning up, mostly in bathrooms, and are essentially the 'Are you a good person' cartoon from your website in comic form. I...Ray Comforthttp://www.LivingWaters.com Sam, I appreciate the courteous way in which you wrote (may you read this reply in the same spirit).
I also appreciate your understanding of the importance of having the free exchange of ideas. With that said, as you step in as the intellectual savior of your peers, make sure you let them know that as an atheist you believe that nothing created everything (a scientific impossibility).
If you don't believe that, and instead believe that something rather than nothing created everything (but it wasn’t God), then you’re not an atheist; you’re an agnostic.
If you are embarrassed to admit that an atheist believes that nothing created everything, you could try to redefine the word "nothing," and say that it's actually "something." That will make you feel better.
Those who read our booklet may not have had a sense of guilt, fear, and terror that you had. Remember, it was Voltaire who said, "All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God."
God gave you a conscience, and because of it you are morally responsible to Him for your thoughts, words, and your deeds. So that fear you feel is legitimate. It has driven many a rebel to a sensible submission to the God who gave him life. John 8:31-32. Share
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A Friendly Visit from an Atheisttag:www.bullypulpit.com,2011:/raycomfort//67.31282011-07-22T07:12:30Z2011-07-22T07:12:30ZI had a pleasant surprise this week. My friend Thunderf00t emailed me, and said that was in Los Angeles and wanted to get together. Two years earlier we had a passive on-camera discussion. This time he suggested that we discuss...Ray Comforthttp://www.LivingWaters.com The next day we took two chairs outside, set up two cameras and began talking about an issue which most atheists would rather avoid.
When an atheist talks about morality he has a problem. He has no basis of right or wrong, other than whether or not something is good for society. Kind of like Nazi Germany. Killing Jews was good for the Arian society. It was also legal, therefore it was morally okay in the atheist world-view.
We respectfully argued back and forth on different issues for about 20 minutes, and then something wonderful happened. Thunderf00t let me take him through the Ten Commandments as a gauge to see if he was morally good. He wasn’t. He freely admitted to being a liar, a thief, a blasphemer, and when I said,
"Jesus said, whoever looks upon a woman to lust after her has committed adultery already with her, in his heart... ”
he smiled and (like every honest red-blooded male) pleaded guilty to the violation of the Seventh Commandment.
No wonder he (and every atheist) didn't like the thought of God's existence. Being morally responsible to Him isn’t a pleasant feeling for a guilty, sin-loving sinner. I know, because I have been where he now is.
He politely listened as I told him that Jesus took his punishment upon Himself so that he could go free from God’s wrath, and he was even able to finish the Bible verse,
"For God so loved the world that he gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him (trusts in Him) should not perish but shall..."
and he finished it off, "...have everlasting life.” Unlike many atheists, Thunderf00t knows his Bible.
We then had lunch together, and my son (Daniel), myself and Thunderfoot thoroughly enjoyed further discussions about things that really matter. I don't think the subject of Darwin's theory tale even came up.
It was a good time all round. After he left we prayed for God's richest blessing on this likeable, quietly spoken, sincere atheist, hoping that he will soon come to his senses and seek out the gift of everlasting life that is alone in Jesus Christ.
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The Atheist Experiencetag:www.bullypulpit.com,2011:/raycomfort//67.30892011-07-14T22:03:21Z2011-07-14T22:03:21Z"Ray believes I was a 'false convert' and was never a 'true Christian' the entire time I believed I was a born-again evangelical Christian for many years. I spoke in tongues, had the many gifts of the Holy Spirit, laying-on-of-hands,...Ray Comforthttp://www.LivingWaters.com He isn't the only regular on this blog who is the sad product of the false gospel. Another person continually says that he was a Christian minister, that he read the Bible many times, and that he truly believed, until he saw the light.
But notice the above person's "evidence" of his supposed conversion. It was "gifts," when the Bible says that it is by "fruits" (not gifts) that a Christian is known.
The Scriptures list the evidential fruits of conversion as fruit of righteousness (striving to do the right thing), the fruit of praise (giving God due praise for His kindness, etc.), the fruit of thanksgiving (having a thankful heart for the "unspeakable" gift of everlasting life, etc.), the fruit of repentance (living a life of holiness—-no longer serving sin), and the fruit of the Spirit (love, joy, peace, patience, goodness, gentleness, faith, meekness and temperance).
Instead of possessing these fruits, the false convert is a hypocrite. He doesn't come to know the Lord because his sin still separates him from God (see Mark chapter 4). He holds onto secret sins (lust, selfishness, bitterness, etc.), and it's only a matter of time (as with Judas) until he is exposed.
Many hypocrites are not yet evident, and so they will stay within the Church among God's people—-as goats among the sheep--and will be sorted out on Judgment Day.
The reason the false convert had a false conversion is that he never found a place of biblical repentance in the first place. He never saw sin in its true light. That's why the Ten Commandments should be thundered from the pulpits of churches, and not the unbiblical "God has a Wonderful Plan for Your Life" false gospel.
You can freely read about the false gospel and its tragic effects (or listen) on www.freewonderfulbook.com
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Way to go Dan!tag:www.bullypulpit.com,2011:/raycomfort//67.30172011-07-04T06:23:50Z2011-07-04T06:23:50ZWait a minute! The sign doesn’t make any sense. I thought atheists didn't believe that God existed. Oops, I mean that "atheists don't see evidence for God." Oops, I mean "evidence for a god" (small "g"). Gotta get the language...Ray Comforthttp://www.LivingWaters.com Once again, I commend my friends at "Free From Religion Foundation" for letting people know that they can be good without God. All you need is to have your own definition of "good." Most people are "good" in their own eyes (see Proverbs 20:6).
You can also be happy without God. Most people know that anyway, but it's good to be reminded.
I was extremely happy without God for 22 years of my godless life. So was a friend of mine who was a millionaire at 16 years old, was world famous, and could have any girl he wanted. Who wouldn't be happy with a lifestyle like that?
The Bible makes it very clear that you and I can be real happy without God. It says that Moses choose to suffer affliction with the people of God rather that "enjoy the pleasures of sin, for a season" (see Hebrews 11:25). Sin gives pleasure. It makes us happy. See also Luke 8:14, 2 Timothy 3:4 and Titus 3:3.
This silly and unbiblical thought that we can't be happy without God is the basis of a teaching I have done for years called "Hell’s Best Kept Secret" (you may like to freely listen to it on www.livingwaters.com ). When my famous friend preached it (from my notes) on TV, our website got over one million hits the following day.
So good work Mr. Dan Barker. Keep putting those (costly) signs around the country--signs that make people think about God, and give us Christians more opportunities to share the gospel of everlasting life with a dying world.
You are doing more for the Christian cause as a professing atheist, than you did for the whole 19 years you pretended to be a Christian.
EDIT: Added: "...for letting people know that they can be good without God. All you need is to have your own definition of 'good.' Most people are 'good' in their own eyes (see Proverbs 20:6)."