Over the years we have had many conversations with people, especially young people, who call themselves atheists. For someone who has “encountered God” such conversations are filled with a mixture of sadness (that the other hasn’t) and “anger” that the education system and society at large encourages a disbelief in God, to the point often of ridicule of “theists”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
From the outset the theist and atheist perceptions of what human beings are is totally at odds. The atheist is simply a brain and a body, an intellect with feelings. Bipartite <\/strong>if you will. The Christian is Tripartite <\/strong>(a Trinity), body, mind and spirit <\/strong>(or soul). The atheist has <\/em>no afterlife<\/strong> to anticipate or be concerned about. The Christian knows <\/em>that death is not the end<\/strong>, indeed that this life determines the nature of that afterlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Clearly a conversation is difficult from the outset! “How do you know?” “Prove it” “Where is God?” <\/p>\n\n\n\n Sadly, the world and the media daily reinforce that this is all we get, make the most of it, do what makes you happy, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Way better and more qualified people have websites dealing with the logical reasons to believe. Suffice it to say for now that I would encourage anyone not get bogged down in the first few chapters of Genesis, but rather to examine the evidence for the existence of Jesus and the Resurrection<\/strong>. Once you are convinced that He really did die and rise again everything else will fall into place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By way of a kind of post script I have found it very interesting that people on the autistic spectrum,<\/strong> who by nature are very logical in their thinking, tend to be atheist <\/strong>because God is outside the observable<\/em>. HOWEVER I have met some whose logical mind has led them to absolutely believe that there has to be a God because of the observable creation<\/strong>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Over the years we have had many conversations with people, especially young people, who call themselves atheists. For someone who has “encountered God” such conversations are filled with a mixture of sadness (that the other hasn’t) and “anger” that the education system and society at large encourages a disbelief in God, to the point often … <\/p>\n