Athiests, Idols, and the Skeptical Christian that support them

Blaise Pascal said:   
"What else does this craving, and this helplessness, proclaim but there was once in man a true happiness, of which all that remains is the empty print and trace?  This he tries in vain to fill with everything around him, seeking in things that are not there, the help he cannot find in those that are, though none can help, since this infinite abyss can be filled only with an infinite and immutable object, in other words by God himself"

I would have to say, that the part of the Natural Man is his religious nature,  This religious part of our existence only gives an indication that there was once a perfect "religion" so to speak.  Even though man hates God since childbirth, he still goes for religious things in the forms of idols.  Atheistic Scientists, fail to realize that they themselves are a part of religious system of idol worship. 

To the skeptic Christian, I wonder if he sees this?  If he does, what does he do with it when he applies it to the Evolutionist he supports? An Atheists worships the idea of Evolution as savior from the Lord.  It is their idol, a fortress mindset that blocks out the knowledge of God in their life.  They sacrifice their time, money, and energy in supporting this idol.  They seek to convince others of their idol, in order that they might worship it too. 

If you do not believe that Evolution is an idol, attack their idol, and see the backlash!  Why are skeptical Christians so willing to accept other people's idols?  Do we not see that they are destroying themselves?   What good can and idol bring into a person's life but they as Jonah says "those who cling to worthless Idols forfeit the grace that could be theirs"

When the Skeptical Christian takes the idol of Evolution what does he sacrifice?  He sacrifices his time and effort to support the idea of Evolution.  They sacrifice the truth of the Bible, which erodes confidence in it.  They sacrifice their own credibility to the Atheist, the Atheist knows that he has an idol that is contrary to God, and when a Skeptical Christian supports him, he laughs.

 Sadly, many Atheists are the children of Skeptical Christians.  If you ask Atheists, you would be surprised that how many grew up in Christian homes.  Their parents didn't have an answer to the idol of Evolution, and they needed one.  The need was filled by the idol of Evolution, and with the help of the Skeptical Christian they forfeited the grace that could have been theirs.

The Naturalistic Christian

A.W Tozer writes in his book “The Attributes of God”

“The Bible knew nothing about “the laws of nature.”  The Bible knows only that God was there.  If it rained, it was God watering His hills from His chambers.  If there was lightning, it was God, and if there was thunder, it was the “voice of the LORD” that “maketh the hinds to calve” (Psalm 29:9).  The writers of Scripture were acutely God-conscious, and they were never lonely because God was there.  “Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not.” said Jacob (Genesis 28:16).  This Idea that god is an absentee engineer running His universe by remote control is all wrong.  He is present in perpetual and continual eagerness, with all the fervor of rapturous love pressing His holy designs.  If you don’t feel that way about it, it’s unbelief that makes you feel otherwise; it’s preoccupation with this world.”

In the age of Science, we now have laws of nature, where we explain everything away into a tight little package.  This is how we want to explain God, but He will not, and cannot be explained away like this!  How much of the life of the common Christian is just explained away by nature?  This leads us to think naturally about everything, and expect nothing supernatural.  It’s a walking unbelief and preoccupation with the world, says Tozer!

No wonder we have so many skeptic Christians in this world.  Romans 12 tells us to renew our minds, but the average Christian thinks that he or she only needs to renew enough of their mindset to acquire a get out of Hell free card.  Or that sure the Bible is God’s Word, but modern man needs more.  Sure they might venture further into the renewing of their mind when a crisis comes, say their marriage is in trouble, or they have a wayward child; but it doesn’t say to renew just a piece of their mind.

“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind…” Romans 12:2

The World thinks naturally – is not that, the basis of Philosophical Naturalism?  That Nature and the Laws of Nature are all that exist.   It brings the view of God down to something manageable, or not there at all.  People have used the tools of Science, not for the good of man, but for the elevation and deification of man.  It’s natural for man to think he can handle this life on his own.

Even this is how the average Christian operates, with little consciousness of God in the midst of all things.  He is conformed, not to the Word of God, but to the rudimentary things of this world.  He has such a low view of God, and creates a high view of himself.   When Jesus says to deny ourselves and pick up our Cross, the Skeptic Christian does not see it as a divine command to be obeyed, but a natural consequence of being a Christian.

Oh what misery, this naturalistic view of God has done in my life!  C.S. Lewis rightly said that to be free from myself is like a drop of water to a man in the desert!  Be pricked in your heart and ask God whatever shall I do?  And He will say – repent, and turn to Me!  To see God as the author and finisher of our faith, to count it all as loss and to be found in Him!

Answering the Skeptic Christian!

You would think all we would have to answer to is the skeptic non-Christian – but that’s not the case!

Before anything is said, however let me remind myself and the reader:

Romans 11:34-35 “For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been His counselor?  Or who has given a gift to him that he might be repaid?”

That ultimately God knows, and we don’t.  God has only revealed enough in Scripture to pertain to Salvation, and Godly living.  While my desire is to defend a Biblical Worldview, we don’t have some corn market on Theology, or Science.  I cannot claim and say that just because a Christian does not believe exactly how I believe about Creation means that they are unsaved.  God had to do a work in my heart, and renew my mind just like everyone else.

Ephesians 4:1-6 has a list of major doctrines of the Bible, which every believer must agree on in order to work together.  Everything else is a minor.  Now that does not mean that unbelief in the whole of Scripture being God’s word does not have its consequences.  I myself suffered the inconsistency when I rejected Genesis chapters 1-11 as they are written – literal historical.  God renewed my mind, and I had help, so my desire is to help other Christians.

This hopefully will be a blog title that I come to again and again as I hope the Lord will grow and develop the ministry.  Though it is sad that most attacks on ministries come from people who profess faith in Jesus Christ, it is just the reality of the sinful heart.  Christians, and myself especially, are not exempt from attacking Christian beliefs