Tag: Answering Atheism

Atheism is a Temporary Condition

On By TimIn Apologetics, Revelation 06Leave a comment

When Jesus returns to this Earth, atheism will be proven to be a temporary condition.

Then the kings of the earth and the great men and the rich men and the commanding officers and the strong and everyone, slave and free, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains. They said to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us, and hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, for the great day of His wrath has come. Who is able to withstand it?”

Revelation 6:15–17 — Modern English Version (Thinline Edition.; Lake Mary, FL: Passio, 2014)

However, given the hardness of the heart… That temporary condition has eternal consequences. When even knowing that return of Jesus before He is even seen they run and hide. Great plagues follow. There is a holocaust brought upon the earth by men. And what happens to all of those “believers” that hid underground and survived these?

The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands. They did not cease to worship demons, and idols of gold, silver, brass, stone, and wood, which cannot see nor hear nor walk. Nor did they repent of their murders or their magical arts or their sexual immorality or their thefts.

Revelation 9:20–21 — Modern English Version (Thinline Edition.; Lake Mary, FL: Passio, 2014)

Round and Round We Go

On By TimIn Apologetics, Romans 01Leave a comment

That is… Without God and a firm foundation for truth claims.

I have just recently encountered this truth claim from an avowed naturalistic atheist.

empiricism defines everything that is objective and everything that we can physically experience.

At face value, this person is making an objective statement. However, the conclusion of the matter addressed in the statement is telling us that objectivity is outside of science. It can be proven this way: The above statement is expected to be taken as objective, therefore it is imperative to have empiricism to define the statement because allegedly empiricism defines everything objective. Yet there is not any empiricism provided or available that defines that statement.

Such a truth claim fails because of the circularity.

As to empiricism defining everything… Where is the empiricism that defines love? Where is the empiricism that defines anger or even altruism?

I do not think there is even any empiricism that demonstrates the purpose of such things, let alone being able to define them scientifically.

I do feel a bit of pity for such an irrational and untenable view of reality. It cannot be sustained without borrowing the objectivity from God, in the same breath they use to mock Him. Such an idea belies that no critical thinking has been applied to what they believe is real is really real.

God says it this way:

Claiming to be wise, they became fools.

Romans 1:22 — Modern English Version (Thinline Edition.; Lake Mary, FL: Passio, 2014)

Wouldn’t we think it unreasonable to operate with such delusion and tell others it is real?