Posted by: the warrioress | July 29, 2012

Should Christians Evangelize Atheists?

Atheist badges.

Atheist badges. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Question: “Should Christians try to evangelize atheists?”

Answer: As Christians who know the love of God and have the assurance of eternity in heaven, it’s hard to understand why anyone would want to be an atheist. But when we realize the sin nature and its strong influence on the mind and the heart, we begin to understand where the atheist is coming from. Biblically speaking, there is no such thing as an atheist. Psalm 19:1-2 tells us that the heavens declare the glory of God. We see His creative power in all that He has made. Romans 1:19-20 follows up on this idea, telling us that what may be known about God has been made plain to us through the creation, and anyone who denies this is “suppressing the truth in unrighteousness” (v. 18). Psalm 14:1 and 53:1 declare that those who deny the existence of God are fools. So the atheist is either lying or he is a fool or both. So what is it that causes someone to deny God?

The main goal of those under the influence of the sin nature is to make himself a god, to have complete control over his life, or so he thinks. Then religion comes along with obligations, judgments, and restrictions, while atheists presume to define their own meaning and morality. They do not want to submit to God because their hearts are at “enmity against God,” and they have no desire to be subject to His Law. In fact they are incapable of doing so because their sin has blinded them to truth (Romans 8:6-7). This is why atheists spend most of their time complaining and arguing not about the scriptural proof texts, but the “dos and don’ts.” Their natural rebelliousness detests the commandments of God. They simply hate the idea that anything—or any One—should have control over them. What they do not realize is that Satan himself is controlling them, blinding them, and preparing their souls for hell.

St Matthew the Evangelist

St Matthew the Evangelist (Photo credit: Lawrence OP)

In terms of evangelizing atheists, we should not hold back the gospel from someone just because he or she claims to be an atheist. Do not forget that an atheist is just as lost as a Muslim, Hindu, or Buddhist. God certainly wants us to spread the gospel (Matthew 28:19) and to defend the truths of His word (Romans 1:16). On the other hand, we are not obligated to waste our time trying to convince the unwilling. In fact, we are warned not to expend excessive effort on those who are clearly disinterested in any honest discussions (Matthew 7:6). Jesus told the apostles to go and preach the Word, but He did not expect them to stay anywhere until every single last person had been converted (Matthew 10:14).

Perhaps the best tactic is to give each person the benefit of the doubt, at least at first. Every question, honestly and truthfully answered, gives that person a chance to hear the gospel. But if that person is just arguing, being hostile, or otherwise not open, it’s probably time to move along. Some people are totally, completely, and absolutely hardened to the gospel (Proverbs 29:1). They may be rational, or irrational, but there are scriptural reasons to believe that some people are willingly immune to the influence of the Holy Spirit (Genesis 6:3). When we have made a good-faith effort to talk to someone, and he or she is unreachable, then we are commanded to “shake the dust off” of our shoes (Luke 9:5) and spend our time talking to those who are more spiritually open. As in all things, the wisdom of God is crucial. God has promised that wisdom to us if we ask (James 1:5), and we should pray for it and trust God’s prompting to know how and when to break off the dialog with a hostile atheist.

Recommended Resource: I Don’t Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist by Norm Geisler and Frank Turek and The Real Face of Atheism by Ravi Zacharias.

http://www.gotquestions.org/evangelize-atheists.html

Posted by: the warrioress | July 27, 2012

If I Were The Devil…

Devil-1 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The above video is something every person should watch and consider. It makes a lot of sense.  We all have different beliefs on the existence of evil, also known as the devil, Satan, the adversary, Lord of the Flies, the serpent, the Father of Lies, Lilith, Samael, Lucifer.

Does he exist or doesn’t he?

Lucifer

Lucifer (Photo credit: notArt)

 

 

 

 

 

Some think he’s a convenient scapegoat so that people don’t have to accept responsibility for their unfortunate choices and poor judgment. Some say that if you believe in God, you must also believe in Satan, because how can you have one without the other?

Lilith

Lilith (Photo credit: rami.sedhom)

Isn’t it strange that the narrator of this You Tube video, (Paul Harvey), made this little chat back in the sixties, so many years ago? How did he know how things were going to be in America? He seems to have nailed the state of our union, hasn’t he?

“The greatest trick Satan ever played on humanity was convincing them that he doesn’t exist.”  -The Usual Suspects

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Posted by: the warrioress | July 25, 2012

Sisterhood of the World Award

I was nominated for this lovely award by my sister in Christ, The 1 Saved By Grace.  She is a wonderful blogger and loves the Lord so deeply. I hope you’ll visit her blog and be as blessed by it as I have been.

And now on with the requirements for this award. I have placed the award into this post and onto my blog. I am now listing..

Seven things about me that few bloggers know:

1) I love analyzing everything and have a background in psychology (BA) and a Masters degree in counseling.

2) I want to use these above skills in my capacity as a Christian in however God desires me to use them; I would like to get paid for doing so, but God is in charge in this regard.

3) I love Chinese food, especially combination fried rice and crabmeat rangoons!

4) I love to cook!

5) I love the beach, the lake, rivers, and anything that has to do with being out in nature, including camping, swimming, but not hunting.

6) I have one sibling, a younger brother.

7) I am beginning a book, but I don’t want to think about it too much, advertise it, or even focus upon it except when I actually sit down to write, because I shy away from anything like this that puts me on the spot and I begin to doubt myself. (I’ll write faster and with more confidence if I sneak up on myself and write when I feel like it, or in other words, no pressure & no expectations!).

And my final duty is to name seven lady bloggers (sisters) who I feel also deserve this award; (I’m sorry but I had to name eight), so here goes:

One of the ladies whom you simply must visit is not a wordpress blogger but she’s excellent and she’s been a faithful reader/commenter of mine for a long time. Her blog is super.

http://afragileclayjarwithatreasureinside.blogspot.com/

The other ladies are all with wordpress, & they too rock!

http://craigmotor.wordpress.com/

http://justmyfaithtalking.wordpress.com

http://virtuouswoman73.wordpress.com/

http://underthemountainbunker.wordpress.com/

http://www.wimpsforchrist.com/category/minimalist-christian/

http://rescuinglittlel.wordpress.com/

http://clotildajamcracker.wordpress.com

There are so many more too!! I’m so sorry, ladies, that I can only name seven of you. I read many more who also deserve this award, but not to worry, I’ll get to you eventually. 😉

Please do stop by the lady bloggers I have listed here and have a gander at their blogs. It is most definitely worth it and a learning experience!

God bless all of you, sisters! And if you don’t believe in God, just blessings in general. I love your blogs!

Posted by: the warrioress | July 21, 2012

The Degradation of OctoMom

I was reading on another blogging site and came across the news about OctoMom and her “moral demise” or alleged “fall from grace.”

It would seem that Nadya Suleman has had to agree to strip for money so that she can feed and house her fourteen children. The article and pictures within the blog were terribly sad and I felt almost ill as I glanced through them. The comments on the blog were stunningly rude, hate-filled, ugly, and just mean.

The various commenter’s were calling Nadya a skank, whore, slut, idiot, and countless other more-insulting phrases. All I could see and think about was the dead look on Nadya’s face and in her eyes as she hung on the pole in the high black boots, black fish nets, and school girl Catholic skirt. I cringed inwardly at the demeaning humiliation of what she was enduring by choice, for whatever her reasons.

I thought about Jesus Christ and what He might have thought, had He been present for her humiliation. What would He have said, hearing those casting their fiery darts of judgment at her? This saddened me nearly as much as the Aurora, Colorado shootings, but in a completely different kind of way. To me, both of these events show the absolute lack of compassion and desensitization of American society and what has been slowly happening to us over time.

One situation is a terrible tragedy brought on by a deeply disturbed, cold-hearted man who is obviously psychopathic and out of his mind, and the other is a woman who is degrading herself publicly so that she can survive independently, while society cackles, sneers, and throws stones in her face, enjoying her public debasing. What really upsets me most is the heartless, compassion-less articles and comments from other human beings.

People’s hearts have grown so cold, exactly as the bible said people would become as we move closer to the end of life as we know it. In her degradation, OctoMom moves me to tears. I wish there was anything I could do to change her life story and situation and the life story and situation of so many in this nation, America. We are in a sad time now in this once beautiful country of ours and I wish God could and would help us.

Posted by: the warrioress | July 21, 2012

I wanted to blog something about this, in response to this tragedy, but I finally found a blog that did this better than I ever could. Mr. Park sums everything up concisely.

Posted by: the warrioress | July 18, 2012

Debating Unbelievers

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I’ve spent what feels like many days engaging in some lengthy debate and argument, though I don’t think I’ve argued with every person that disputed my beliefs; still it is clear that there is a point at which debate and argument become unproductive; they can actually encourage angst, rage, anger, frustration, and eventual dislike as well as unkindness in response.

I find it very easy to debate and argue and could do so endlessly in a foolish attempt to prove I am correct and thus “the winner.”  I could allow my ego its way and go directly against the bible and the passages below.

Grandstanding in this way is prideful though, and it is not biblical.  If I have learned nothing else, over time I have discovered that there are many reasons why this kind of debate and strife are pointless and an absolute waste of time.

Arguing Penguins

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In the past, I spent hours and hours and many days attempting to get through to those who deny what I believe, who enjoy the bickering and the oneupmanship of the whole thing. Do I ever wish now that I could get those days and hours back. At the time though, I thought I was doing the right thing; I actually believed this behavior was beneficial and appropriate in God’s eyes, for the Christian cause;  I know better now.

But in your hearts set apart Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect — 1Peter 3:15

 Avoid godless chatter, because those who indulge in it will become more and more ungodly. — 2 Timothy 2:16

Don’t have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments, because you know they produce quarrels. And the Lord’s servant must not quarrel; instead, he must be kind to everyone, able to teach, not resentful.  Those who oppose him he must gently instruct, in the hope that God will grant them repentance leading them to a knowledge of the truth — 2 Timothy 2:23 -25

But keep away from foolish disagreements. Don’t argue about family histories. Don’t make trouble. Don’t fight about what the law teaches. Don’t argue about things like that. It doesn’t do any good. It doesn’t help anyone. — Titus 3:9

When I say to a wicked person, ‘You will surely die, ’ and you do not warn them or speak out to dissuade them from their evil ways in order to save their life, that wicked person will die for their sin, and I will hold you accountable for their blood. But if you do warn the wicked person and they do not turn from their wickedness or from their evil ways, they will die for their sin; but you will have saved yourself. — Ezekiel 3:18-19

Posted by: the warrioress | July 15, 2012

What Would They Say?


What would they say
If we up and ran away
From the roaring crowds
And the worn out city faces
Would they carry on and on
When they found out we were gone
Or would they let us go
Would they tag along
Or would they know to

Leave us alone
We’d live in the country
Leave us alone
We’d make it just fine
Happy in a one room shack
And we’d not look back
Now would we

What would they do
If they found out we were through
With all the little lies
And the downtown aggravations
That we’d traded them away
For a quiet country day
That we had hoped to share
Would they try to find out
Where we were or

Leave us alone
We’d live in the country
Leave us alone
We’d make it just fine
Happy in a one room shack
And we’d not look back
Now would we

What would they say
If we up and ran away
Ran away

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Posted by: the warrioress | July 14, 2012

The Atheist Indoctrination Project

What follows are the words of men you should recognize. If you don’t know who these men are, you need to become informed, no matter what your religious beliefs.

 These men write about their plans and visions for the future of this world of ours. You’ll read their intent and motivations right from their own lips. 

After digesting what atheists have planned for us and our children, it would be wise to begin to see them as people within a group that are in the process of creating their own cult-like, indoctrinated community within the world we live in. This group has plans for America and for American children. If you have children and/or grandchildren of your own, you may want to pay close attention to the following reading. I suggest you click on this highlighted link after reading the partial section below, and read the rest in its entirety. Think about what you’ve read afterward and recognize what is going on within “the new atheism.”  

The Atheist Indoctrination Project:

It seems atheists have developed a comprehensive strategy to win the minds of the next generation. The strategy can be described simply: let the religious people breed them, and we will educate them to despise their parent’s beliefs.

“Faith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate,” writes Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion. “Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.”

Christopher Hitchens, author of God Is Not Great, writes,

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“How can we ever know how many children had their psychological and physical lives irreparably maimed by the compulsory inculcation of faith?” Religion, he charges, has “always hoped to practice upon the unformed and undefended minds of the young.” He wistfully concludes, “If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.”

If religion is so bad, what should be done about it?

It should be eradicated.

According to Sam Harris, author of The End of Faith, belief in Christianity is like belief in slavery. “I would be the first to admit that the prospects for eradicating religion in our time do not seem good. Still the same could have been said about efforts to abolish slavery at the end of the eighteenth century.”

But how should religion be eliminated?

ze New Atheism

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Our atheist educators have a short answer: through the power of science. “I personally feel that the teaching of modern science is corrosive of religious belief, and I’m all for that,” says physicist Steven Weinberg. If scientists can destroy the influence of religion on young people, “then I think it may be the most important contribution that we can make.”

What, then, happens to religion?

Philosopher Daniel Dennett suggests that “our religious traditions should certainly be preserved, as should the languages, the art, the costumes, the rituals, the monuments. Zoos are now more or less seen as second class havens for endangered species, but at least they are havens, and what they preserve is irreplaceable.”

How is all this to be achieved?

The answer is simple: through indoctrination in the schools.

English: Atheist Bus Campaign creator Ariane S...

English: Atheist Bus Campaign (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

In his book Breaking the Spell, Dennett urges that schools teach religion as a purely natural phenomenon. By this he means that religion should be taught as if it were untrue. Dennett argues that religion is like sports or cancer, “a human phenomenon composed of events, organisms, objects, structures, patterns.” By studying religion on the premise that there is no supernatural truth underlying it, Dennett argues that young people will come to accept religion as a social creation pointing to nothing higher than human hopes and aspirations.

As for atheism, Sam Harris argues that it should be taught as a mere extension of science and logic. “Atheism is not a philosophy. It is not even a view of the world. It is simply an admission of the obvious….Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs.”

S is for Secularism

S is for Secularism (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Of course, parents—especially Christian parents—might want to say something about all this. That’s why the atheist educators are now raising the question of whether parents should have control over what their children learn. Dawkins asks, “How much do we regard children as being the property of their parents? It’s one thing to say people should be free to believe whatever they like, but should they be free to impose their beliefs on their children? Is there something to be said for society stepping in? What about bringing up children to believe manifest falsehoods? Isn’t it always a form of child abuse to label children as possessors of beliefs that they are too young to have thought out?”

English: Atheist avatar.

English: Atheist avatar. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Dennett remarks that “some children are raised in such an ideological prison that they willingly become their own jailers…forbidding themselves any contact with the liberating ideas that might well change their minds.” The fault, he adds, lies with the parents who raised them. “Parents don’t literally own their children the way slaveowners once owned slaves, but are, rather, their stewards and guardians and ought to be held accountable by outsiders for their guardianship, which does imply that outsiders have a right to interfere.”

Psychologist Nicholas Humphrey argued in a recent lecture that just as Amnesty International works to liberate political prisoners around the world, secular teachers and professors should work to free children from the damaging influence of their parents’ religious instruction. “Parents have no god-given license to enculturate their children in whatever ways they personally choose: no right to limit the horizons of their children’s knowledge, to bring them up in an atmosphere of dogma and superstition, or to insist they follow the straight and narrow paths of their own faith.”

The New Atheists @ Creepy Library

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Philosopher Richard Rorty argued that secular professors in the universities ought “to arrange things so that students who enter as bigoted, homophobic religious fundamentalists will leave college with views more like our own.”

Rorty noted that students are fortunate to find themselves under the control “of people like me, and to have escaped the grip of their frightening, vicious, dangerous parents.” Indeed, parents who send their children to college should recognize that as professors “we are going to go right on trying to discredit you in the eyes of your children, trying to strip your fundamentalist religious community of dignity, trying to make your views seem silly rather than discussable.”

This is how many secular teachers treat the traditional beliefs of students. The strategy is not to argue with religious views or to prove them wrong. Rather, it is to subject them to such scorn that they are pushed outside the bounds of acceptable debate. This strategy is effective because young people who go to good colleges are extremely eager to learn what it means to be an educated Harvard man or Stanford woman. Consequently their teachers can very easily steer them to think a certain way merely by making that point of view seem fashionable and enlightened. Similarly, teachers can pressure students to abandon what their parents taught them simply by labeling those positions as simplistic and unsophisticated.

176/365 No God? No problem.

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Children spend the majority of their waking hours in school. Parents invest a good portion of their life savings in college education and entrust their offspring to people who are supposed to educate them. Isn’t it wonderful that educators have figured out a way to make parents the instruments of their own undoing? Isn’t it brilliant that they have persuaded Christian moms and dads to finance the destruction of their own beliefs and values? Who said atheists aren’t clever?

Vladimir Lenin, Atheist Mass Murderer said:

“Our program necessarily includes
the propaganda of atheism.”

“Give us the child for 8 years
and it will be an atheist forever.”

“A lie told often enough becomes truth.”

Source: The Atheist Indoctrination Project

Posted by: the warrioress | July 11, 2012

Atheist Evangelism III

Ellie conversing with a praying mantis called ...

Ellie conversing with a praying mantis called Dichard Rawkins. The scene satirizes popular atheist, biological theorist, and author of The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins. (Published 25 Nov 2009.) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

At Camp Quest, Atheists are intent on indoctrinating their own children at record rates! Richard Dawkins, who helped finance, sponsor, and set up these atheist summer camps for children, claimed he was against the indoctrination of children by the religious, insisting that it was akin to “child abuse!” 

Yet this perspective doesn’t appear to have deterred him or unbelieving parents from proceeding to indoctrinate their children and the children of other unbelievers into doctrines of atheism. 

More Proof  of Atheist Indoctrination of young children:

“Prof Richard Dawkins, the prominent atheist, has helped set up an atheist summer camp where children will be taught rational scepticism and sing John Lennon’s Imagine alongside the more traditional activities of canoeing and swimming.

The evolutionary biologist and author of The God Delusion, who stepped down from his post at Oxford University last year, has subsidised the five-day camp in Somerset.

IndoctrinationCamp-goers will be given lessons in rational scepticism, as well as sessions in moral philosophy and evolutionary biology. There will be more familiar camp activities such as trekking, tug-of-war, canoeing and swimming but children will also be taught to disprove phenomena such as crop circles and telepathy.

The retreat is for children aged eight to 17 and will rival traditional faith-based breaks run by the Scouts and church groups. It will teach that religious belief and doctrines can prevent ethical and moral behaviour. The camp is part of a campaign, backed by Dawkins and Professor AC Grayling, the philosopher and writer, designed to challenge Christian societies, collective worship and religious education.

Prof Dawkins said it was designed to “encourage children to think for themselves, sceptically and rationally”.

The emphasis on critical thinking is epitomised by a test called the Invisible Unicorn Challenge. Children will be told by camp leaders that the area around their tents is inhabited by two unicorns.

The activities of these creatures, of which there will be no physical evidence, will be regularly discussed by organisers, yet the children will be asked to prove that the unicorns do not exist.  Anyone who manages to prove this will win a £10 note – which features an image of Charles Darwin, the father of evolutionary theory – signed by Dawkins, a former professor of the public understanding of science at Oxford University.

“The unicorns are not necessarily a metaphor for God, they are to show kids that you can’t prove a negative,” said Samantha Stein, who is leading next month’s camp at the Mill on the Brue outdoor activity centre close to Bruton, Somerset. “We are not trying to bash religion, but it encourages people to believe in a lot of things for which there is no evidence.”

A spokesman for the Church of England questioned Dawkins’ decision to stage a summer camp for atheists. “We would defend the right for anyone to set up an event like this, as long as the young people are happy to attend,” he said. “But in his imitation of the type of youth events that religious groups have been running for years, Dawkins makes atheism look even more like the thing he is rallying against.”

Posted by: the warrioress | July 10, 2012

Atheist Evangelism II

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The Blasphemy Challenge is one of the sickest militant atheist indoctrination tools that I think I have ever witnessed. This is evidence that Satan is playing hardball, and few Christians can deny that this is anything but what it quite obviously is.

Cover of "The God Who Wasn't There"

Cover of The God Who Wasn’t There

Encouraging youth across the world to send in a videotape to You Tube of themselves blaspheming the Holy Spirit in order to get a free Dvd called “The God Who Wasn’t There,” can only be called repugnant and is sad beyond words. On some level it makes me angry, but it is so sick that it defies the ability to do much more than just shake one’s head in disbelief.

When one watches any one of these videos, it’s clear how many of our children are being misled by Satan. We should pray every day that God takes mercy upon our children because they are being indoctrinated at record rates by the unbelieving and this is no game.

Atheist De-Baptismal Certificate?

Yes, this is the latest sick attempt by the Freedom From Religion Foundation to mock and slur Christian beliefs and the ritual of baptism outlined within the bible as an outward manifestation of an inner commitment and experience with the salvation of Jesus Christ. And atheists have the gall to claim they are not attempting to influence and indoctrinate our youth, while complaining that we are?

“Although our DeBaptismal Certificate has some light touches, we think it’s time to spur some serious public debate over the meaning of baptism,” Gaylor added. “We would like to remind the public that people have been killed, schisms fostered and ‘holy’ wars sparked over debates on when to baptize and how to ‘sprinkle’ babies. Childhoods and peace of mind are still being blighted today by ignorant and vicious sermons promising  hell and damnation as a punishment for not being baptized.

“It should be utterly repugnant to people of conscience to tarnish newborns with the idea of ‘original sin’ or to subject any child or young person to this primitive ritual.”

http://ffrf.org/news/debaptism-certificate/

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