Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Defend God?

I was directed to thes two links, here and here.

It seems there is a growing number of people who are attacking the foundations of Christianity and claiming that we are wrong or as the videos say, "delusional". So the question is, "Do we need to defend God?".

Atheists, like the one/s who made these videos claim to be revealing the truth to us. Sound familiar? These videos really struck a chord with me and made me think about how to respond to someone like this. I'm still not really sure how I would respond. The fact is, no overwhelming proof, scientific or otherwise, can be given to dispell the truth of God. Faith is what we have, a gift from a God, that fuels our belief in Him. Faith is not physical, so obviously it can't be seen. It's something that is spiritual and therefore cannot be proven by holding it in our hand and showing it to someone. But, alas, we can show it to them in other ways. Through kindness, compassion, love and by sharing all the gifts that God has shared with us.

I have argued before with people who are atheist. My conclusion is that arguing with someone like that is futile. Instead we, as Christians, need to stop arguing for proof and telling people how wrong they are and start sharing with them how much they are loved by the God by showing them our Faith. We need to stop Defending God and start Sharing God.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Yeah, we had to do this for philosophy class. It's hard to make people believe in something when they don't already believe in it. But when they die, I sure bet they'll start to believe!