The Only Failure With Prayer Is Atheists' Misunderstanding Of It

The Atheist will claim prayer is useless because God should prove Himself by giving the Atheist whatever he or she prays for.

Here's an example:

"If God is real, then I want proof by being given 6 winning lottery numbers."

This demontrates a fundamental misunderstanding on the part of the skeptic. Prayer is not the same as the Genie granting a wish to Aladdin, or Santa Claus giving children the toys they ask for.

Prayer is conversation. It doesn't necessarily involve asking for stuff. And when it comes to asking, there's no guarantee that the answer is "yes".

God is not interested in winning souls by giving away toys and money. God isn't "Wheel Of Fortune" or "The Price Is Right". This idea on the part of Atheists is insulting. God condescended to certain people because He had a purpose in doing so. If you want to see what God is truly looking for, just read the Book Of Job.

The Bible also mentions the times when the prayers of Jesus failed because of a lack of faith on the part of the beneficiaries (Matt. 13:56-58). If the recipient was skeptical the prayers for healing failed.

So let's say God lets the Atheist have the 6 winning numbers plus the Powerball. The Atheist may say "thank you Jesus" then proceed to blow that money on toys and a party hearty lifestyle until it's all gone, as most Lotto winners are prone to do. Remember the Parable of The Progical Son? Except the Atheist may say "God prove yourself again by giving me more" instead of begging for his Dad's forgiveness.

God's answer might be"Tough luck, Chuck, you had your chance. When you had the means, did you do anything to honor me past your little thank you? Did you bother to think I might have given you this money for a greater purpose? You think I'm a fool, yet you're broke once more and still headed for an afterlife of misery."

Atheists claim they'll only believe if they receive what they have no right to expect. Christians, receiving no earthly riches, are thankful for the grace given to them by a God who sacrificed His Child for the sake of those who had no right to expect anything.

Think about it, Skeptics.

Atheists Need To Read The Bible Before Commenting On It

 An Atheist posted this in a religion forum.

Hear me out. Until I was 20 I was sure there was < Sunkist62 > 2023-01-28 07:47

a being who could see everything I did & who didn't like most of it.He seemed to care about the minutia of my life, like on what day to worship, eat meat, or fish on Fridays.
And yet, he let earthquakes & hurricanes, floods & fire destroy entire communities, ignoring the "saints" among them who followed the assigned rules.

Eventually, I realized that I didn't believe there was such a being. It didn't seem reasonable.
I stand against forcing anyone to pray; in schools, football fields, etc. It's not Constitutional

Perhaps this Atheist should have paid more attention to the Bible. Nowhere does God promise that no harm will come to His People. God promised his protection, but like any good parent, God knows that adversity can build character. God isn't a cosmic Santa Claus. He doesn't guarantee paradise on Earth until the time comes for the end of all things. All things ultimately work towards a good end, and it is for the people of God to understand what that ultimate good is.

Complaining about forced prayer is irrelevant, and doesn't help this person's stance. Prayer is communication with God. Any good parent appreciates communication. Even His Son provided a model for that communication.

My message to Atheists is to pay better attention and learn who God really is. These rants like the one I'm citing only show how ignoarant the average Atheist really is when it comes to the God of the Bible.

'Nuff said.

Where Atheism Fails

So, where does Atheism fail? That answer is really quite simple: from the beginning.

Atheism starts out by taking an illogical position and assumes it to be true.

The Atheist will say "gods don't exist", and when I ask for proof of this truth claim, I'll be told "You can't prove a negative" and "the burden  of proof is on the believer". Not only are these brush-offs both fallacies, but they fail to address the reason for God's supposed non-existence.

Both Richard Dawkins, the great Evolutionist, and Christopher Hitchens, the Vanity Fair opinion writer, tried to prove Atheism in their own ways. Dawkins did a horrible job of making his case and proved his field is science, not philosophy. Hitchens wrote a bitter polemic against God's existence but didn't quite state that God isn't real. He at least was still willing to consider the matter up to the point of his death from cancer.

But the problem for Atheists remains: there is more evidence for the existence of God than there is proof that God isn't real. And even worse: lack of proof (as Atheists claim) doesn't make their case. If a murderer erases all the evidence, does it mean the crime never occurred? Atheists have a real conundrum here, and yet most of them refuse to admit that it takes faith to believe in Atheism.

Faith.

Remember that. Atheism may require even more faith than belief in God.

'Nuff said.

If you're pro life, you're now a "Religious Extremist"

The recent decision by the United States Supreme Court to make abortion a States' Rights issue has Atheists all over the Internet up in arms. Groups like American Atheists and Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) label anybody who's pro-life a "religious extremist", as if you have to believe in God in order to be pro-life.

Sorry guys, but I was pro-life long before I started going to church or even became a Republican. I became a parent, and as I held my beautiful daughter I realized that I coud never support the killing of an innocent viable human being.

Most atheists are political liberals, and that means most of them do not believe that human life has its own intrinsic value. It's left up to the individual to decide if they're carrying a baby or a fetus. A baby has value. A fetus is worthless to the point of being treated as something less than human. The fetus has simply been dehumanized by the law, treated as a non-person until the baby is given a name. A non-person can't be murdered, and this loophole in the law makes it open season on otherwise viable humans.

In the Atheist world view, God has been eliminated and the human being has become God's replacement, holding power over life and death based on a person's whims.

Destroying the egg of a bald eagle carries the fine of 5000.00 plus jail time:

https://www.dividedstates.com/abortion-eagle%e2%80%99s-egg-vs-human-fetus/

An egg is not an eagle. It has the potential to hatch as an eagle. Yet the egg is assigned more value than a potential live person.

There is something seriously wrong with a society that places less value on a human than on a bird, and labels pro-humans "extremists". 

Posted in a Craigslist forum:

Tax the anti-abortion churches .. < nonukesgal > 2022-05-06 11:21

Why should I have to pay road taxes, property taxes, etc. etc. when churches are not paying their fair share..Subsidizing religion is nothing but welfare for the god fearing!

Does Ms. nonukes understand that road maintenance taxes are collected as part of taxes on gasoline?

This is funny, especially since the person identifiying herself as nonukesgal has boasted in the past about driving an electric car. Perhaps she should consider paying her "fair share" of road taxes before harping on churches.

Churches pay their own utility bills, maintenance fees, and even "police and fire protection fees" in lieu of property taxes.

So what does Ms. nonukes think she's helping to subsidize? Does she understand the tax system at all?

Dumb Question: "Who Created God?"

• The Atheist asks: "Who created God? and if God can exist without a creator, using the same principle, why can’t humans and all the living beings exist without a creator?"

 Because we are finite, that's why, and self-creation isn't possible.The Universe is finite according to the famous Dr. Einstein and Dr. Lemaitres, and no one has proven them wrong.

This continues to be a common attack by Atheists who are ignorant of the science they claim to base their belief system upon. Once more, we Believers have shown that we are logical and rational.

Our existence has a necessary proven cause, so we have to look at beginnings.

For a more detailed explanation of existence, read my previous blog entry:

https://atheist-nutters.blogspot.com/2019/09/logic-demands-creator.html

'Nuff said.

Big Mistake Atheists Make: Absolutist Claims

 What am I talking about? Atheists make truth claims that are unproven yet treated as fact.

A big example:

CLAIM: "There is no empirical evidence for the existence of God."

This is an unproven truth claim and the burden of proof rests on the person making it.

The Atheist must prove that:

   A: No empirical proof for God exists anywhere in the Universe.

   B: Even more important, that our Universe ISN'T that empirical proof. After all, if God did create everything (as I believe), we have the proof all around us, which we can see, feel, and experience all the time.

The Atheist cannot hide behind the "you can't prove a negative" excuse without admitting Atheism is also a faith-based understanding of the Universe similar to a Believer's faith.

Here's another:

CLAIM: "No Biblical Gospel was written by a witness to the events described in that Gospel."

First of all, anonymous authorship of a Gospel doesn't mean the writer wasn't a witness. On top of that, it doesn't negate the truthfulness of the narrative.

Also, the Atheist forgets the Gospel According to John. It doesn't name John as the author, but the weight of scholarship leaves us no other  logical possibility. Even when taking a minimalist view, the Gospel claims that it was written by one of the 12 disciples at the Last Supper, who would have been an eyewitness to the ministry of Jesus. Any other explanation makes no logical sense.

 And then we have the foundational claim of Atheism: "God Doesn't Exist". Not "I see no compelling evidence but I'm willing to look at some." That would imply Agnosticism. It's simply that "God doesn't exist and I can't prove a negative, so the burden is on you, Believer."

I have dealt with this in a previous post:

https://atheist-nutters.blogspot.com/2019/09/logic-demands-creator.html

Not only is God necessary but I don't need empirical evidence to prove He exists. Logic, which is mathematical in nature, clearly shows that God is not only real, He is NECESSARY for everything else to exist. Even the science of Quantum Mechanics leaves open the possibility of God's existence.

What does that leave the Atheist? FAITH, pure and simple.

'Nuff said.