Thursday 28 August 2014

Richard Dawkins Unguarded Statement

On Richard Dawkins' twitter account he said the most amazingly horrible thing that a human being could utter in an unguarded moment. Dawkins was responding to a person that stated they would face "a real ethical dilemma" if they found out they were expecting a baby with Down's Syndrome. His response was both brash and brutal, "Abort it and try again. It would be immoral to bring it into the world if you have a choice." WOW!!! No one should be surprised at comments like this from the one of the leading voices in the atheist movement. Amazingly when people called him out on those comments he said that they had been  "tactlessly vulnerable to misunderstanding".  In other words, he is saying,  I should not have been so honest with my comments. He went on to explain, "If your morality is based, as mine is, on a desire to increase the sum happiness and to reduce suffering, the decision to deliberately give birth to a Down baby, when you have the choice to abort it early in the pregnancy, might actually be immoral from the point of view of the child's own welfare". Oh, that really was a lot more tactful!
In public opinion the evolutionist have tried very hard to distance themselves from Adolf Hitler. Hitler sought to bring about a super race of people. One of the ways he tried to accomplish this was by killing all the Jews. He also wanted to kill all the mentally and physically handicapped people. I guess he was trying to affect "the sum happiness and reduce the suffering" of the German population or at least something along those twisted lines. I am not exactly sure what kind of "morality" Hitler had but I am convinced it was along the same lines as Richard Dawkins. It is long past the time where we should be honest about what is going on in the educational and scientific communities. Atheism = Evolutionism = Death! Death is something they love. From population reduction to euthanasia to, of course, abortion.  According to them we are only to love beautiful, healthy, and productive people. Ignorantly they don't seem to realize that they were not exactly without cost or trouble to raise when they were children. I'm certain that the sum happiness and suffering of his parents were often challenged when Dawkins was a young child!
The bottom line is that in I John 4:7-9  God has said  " Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love, In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotton Son into the world, that we might live through him." God is Love and to hate God is to never know genuine love. A love that gives, serves, and sacrifices. Someone put it so simple that even an atheist could understand it " No God = No Love, Know God = Know Love."

Friday 22 August 2014

DO or DONE!

Why are there so many religions in the world? This question is often asked by those who are truly perplexed by so many voices in the world saying " this is the way". Jesus said in John 14:6 " I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me". Jesus discards every other religion in the entire world. How could the Lord Jesus make such a sweeping statement? Because the reality is that there are only TWO choices when it comes to how a man can get right with the God of  Creation. Not that there are two different ways to get right with God but, that it all boils down to either God's way or mans attempt that will only lead to Hell. The bible introduces this truth as early as Genesis 4. Cain and his brother Abel brought offerings to God. Cain brought the labor of his own hands. His sweat. His blood. His tears. What he could do. God did not want his works so it was rejected. Abel on the other hand brought an offering of the flock. A blood sacrifice. As the lamb was offered up for Abel's sins God was well pleased. Abel offered up a substitute in his place.
All the religions of the world can be divided into these two groups. DO or DONE.  Every other religion in the world is centered on what man does. Some teach that what you eat will affect your relationship with God- what you do. Jesus said in Matt. 15:10-20 it is not what enters the mouth which defiles a man but it is what comes from his heart that defiles him. Some say where you worship God is what really matters. Jesus said in John 4:19-23 it is not where you worship but who you worship. And on and on the do's go. The truth is no matter what you or I do we can NEVER erase one single sin. The only ONE who can take away our sin is the Lord Jesus Christ. John records in John1:29 that when John the Baptist saw Jesus he said "...Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world".  2 Cor. 5:21 says " For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him." And again in John 3:16 " For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life". God did not give His only begotten Son so you could go your own way and try to save yourself through what you could do! If you could save yourself by what you did  God would have sent his Son in vain (Gal 2:21). When Jesus died on the cross for your sins he said in John 20:30 " It is Finished". It was! It is! Trust in Jesus and in Him alone for your salvation. The work is done.