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you can lead an atheist to evidence but you can't make him think

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To be an atheist is to play Russian roulette with all the barrels loaded. An atheist just can’t win. Of course, he feels and acts like a big player, until the trigger is pulled.

The issue isn’t the existence of God. If the atheist is wrong and there is a Creator, then he was wrong. He gambled and he lost; no big deal. The real gamble is that there’s no hell. That’s what makes the player sweat, just a little. “What if?” is the deep and nagging doubt. He believes it’s worth the excitement of the game. Yet atheism isn’t a mind game; it is intellectual suicide.

It’s been said, “You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink.” That maxim is true. If there is no thirst, the horse won’t drink. However, you can “salt his oats” to increase his thirst.

Even though the atheist lives every day with the evidence of creation right under his nose, that’s often not enough to make him thirst for the truth. He needs something else to give him a thirst he never thought he would have—a thirst for the God he once denied. In You Can Lead an Atheist, evangelist Ray Comfort presents in a lively question-and-answer format portions of conversations he has had with atheists on his blog, Atheist Central. Ray answers such questions as:

The staunch atheists Ray encounters on his blog often have the zeal of religious fanatics. They are fundamentalist in their belief that there is no God—and, armed with basic Richard Dawkins phrases, they are spoiling for a fight. They are often unreasonable, angry, and bitter at God, and color their speech with blasphemy against His name, despite professing that God doesn’t exist. They don’t see the illogic in professing hatred for something that doesn’t exist—their hatred proves that, deep down, they do know that God exists. They just need empirical evidence before they’ll admit it.

Within this book is not just empirical evidence for the existence of God, but the reasons why atheists in particular desperately need His forgiveness.

Join best-selling author Ray Comfort as he “talks to the atheists,” revealing not just the weakness of the atheist argument but the solid foundation upon which the Christian stands.

 

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