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SHORT ARTICLES BY TOM ELSEROAD
	2020-11-25	The Atheist Is Either An Agnostic Or A Fool
		Ps 14:1 The fool has said in his heart,"There is no God" (Ps.14:1; 53:1) It is interesting to note in the writings of atheists that there is tension in their view. It is like they are preaching to themselves. They are trying to convince themselves that there is no God. Now ATHEIST means “A” for 'no' and “Theist” for 'God'. Thus, 'No God.' When a person says there is no God, he is saying there is no God in his knowledge or experience. He is saying, there is no God in me and there is no God far away. Ask the Atheist how can you know there is no God on the backside of Mars or wherever? His answer is, 'How can you know there is?' It sounds like a stalemate. If having limited knowledge creates this stalemate, then no one can learn or know anything. How can I claim with limited knowledge, there is a God? And how can the Atheist with his limited knowledge say there is no God? I cannot go to where God is, and I cannot see what cannot be seen. God is invisible. I cannot give the Atheist any empirical evidence (touch, handle, and see), or an experiment he can repeat that there is a God. I say the God of the universe has penetrated my area of knowledge to reveal Himself to me. God has revealed Himself to my consciousness. Now I know Him, but not because I have all knowledge. I don't. With the little knowledge I have He has made Himself known in my experience. So how can the Atheist say I have not experienced this? And that I do not know God? He is basing that on the limited knowledge he has. He would admit he has less than 1% of all knowledge. So how can he say there is no God when you can say there is a God? The way God has revealed Himself to me is multifaceted. Let's consider nature itself. When I walk through the woods and I find a wrist watch lying on the ground, I do not say, “Wow, if you give a hickory tree enough years, look what it can produce.” No, I would say, “Some man has been here, and has lost his watch.” The watch is a testimony, even though I have not seen the man, that a man has certainly been here. So when I come across an intelligent universe, I see an intelligent Designer. Just plain reason would indicate that a Designer is involved in the universe (Ro.1:20). Also the God of this design has revealed Himself to me through a book. This book is one in which He inspired and produced that speaks of Him. That book is the Bible. The Atheist would say, there are many holy books in the world. And many books claim to be from God. But this book, the Bible, vindicates itself to be the book of God. It proves that it is what it claims to be. It does this by doing something impossible. It predicts the future. This book gives fine details of the future 3-4 thousands years ahead of time. When I open this book and read it, it speaks to my spirit and my intellect and convinces me there is a God out there. So having confidence in what that book says I experienced a psychological, emotional, soulish, and spiritual transformation inside. This made me a new creature. It has given me an abundance of life by believing in the God of this book. Most who call themselves Atheist, are really agnostics. So if you cannot say there is a God, then that makes you an agnostic. This means, 'No knowledge'. So if you have no knowledge that there is a God, and I have knowledge that there is, that makes the agnostic a student. Thus I am here to share with you the wonderful message and discovery that I have made. The fact is that there is a God, who is alive and can live in each one of us. There are no real atheists because their knowledge is admittedly limited. The so-called Atheist comes across as having all knowledge in order to say, “There is no God.” The Bible's response is, “The fool has said in his heart, There is no God.” So they are really agnostic students who have not yet learned the truth, or they are simply “fools” claiming what they do not know. Pastor Tom Elseroad

 

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