That’s true. We are claiming that the eternal source of all life can make (and made) material objects, from nothing. Atheists don’t claim that "anyone" can (or did) make material objects from nothing. They claim that nothing can (and did) make material objects from nothing.
Of course, whenever I say that, I get railed on. Professing atheists know how silly that sounds and so they say that they believe that something created everything, they just don't know what that "something" was. As I have said many times before, they are therefore not atheists.
A number of people have been wanting me to define "life." That’s not difficult. God is life, and He is the well-spring of all human life.
When God became a human being, Jesus continually spoke of Himself as being the source of life. He said he was "the way, the truth and the life," "the resurrection and the life," "I have come that you might have life," and the Bible says "In Him was life." The Apostle Paul further said, "Christ, who is our life." Jesus said that His words were life, and with His words raised that dead and warned that all that are in the graves will one day hear His voice and be raised for judgment.
So when you reject God’s mercy in Jesus Christ, you aren’t rejecting a religion. You are rejecting the most precious thing in the universe--life itself.
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
