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There Are No Atheists In Hell
Contributed by John Gaston on Jan 25, 2023 (message contributor)
Summary: People with "no religion" have grown to over 30% of the population. We must reach them.“There Are No Atheists in Hell” because all of them became believers, just too late! See the reasons why, God's efforts to reach them, and what you need to tell them.
2. GOD INTERVENED IN HISTORY TO LEAVE A LASTING LEGACY. God used the nation of Israel to establish His faith and show how He deals with us as humans. 2 Sam. 7:23, “Israel—the one nation on earth that God went out to redeem as a people for Himself, AND TO MAKE A NAME FOR HIMSELF, and to perform great and awesome wonders…” & SENT HIS SON!
3. GOD PUBLISHED HIS WORD IN THE BIBLE. More Bibles have been printed than any other book, in more languages than any other book, and is older than any other religious book! More than 5 billion (as of 1/1/19) copies into 3,350 languages.
4. GOD WROTE HIS LAWS ON OUR HEARTS. Even those who’ve never heard the Gospel have it written on their hearts, “...written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness...” Rom. 2:15. We all have an innate sense of right and wrong, at least, when born.
5. GOD ALSO GAVE THE HOLY SPIRIT TO SPEAK TO US and to try to persuade us to do what is right. Gen. 6:3.
B. CLEAR WITNESSES OF GOD IN NATURE “God has not left himself without witness...” Acts 14:17.
1. COMPLEXITY POINTS TO DESIGNER
a. BRAIN. In man is a 3 pound brain which has a 100 billion neurons intricately linked to each other. The total number of connections in the brain approaches 1015 or 1,000 million million.
b. DNA. A one-celled bacterium, E. coli, is estimated to contain the equivalent of 100 million pages of Encyclopedia Britannica, (1012). This is more information than the total writings of the classic Greek civilization (109), and the holdings of the three largest libraries in the world (Oxford, New York, Moscow) have only 1013.
c. EYE. Your retina is thinner than paper, yet its tiny surface (only 1 inch square) contains 137 million light-sensitive cells. These retina cells perform up to 10 billion calculations per second in determining the nature of the image transmitted to the eye by light photons. No supercomputer on earth is capable of matching these virtually instantaneous calculations.
2. PHYSICAL LAWS: NOT COINCIDENTAL
a. “The universe and the laws of physics seem to have been specifically designed for us. If any one of about 40 physical qualities had more than slightly different values, life as we know it could not exist” Stephen Hawking, Austin American-Statesman, 10/19/97.
b. “[O]ur own universe...appears to be fantastically well designed for our own existence. This specialness is not something we can attribute to lucky accidents, which is far too unlikely. The apparent coincidences cry out for explanation.” Leonard Susskind [The Cosmic Landscape (2005); he is a father of String Theory].
3. VASTNESS OF OUR UNIVERSE
a. On Mount Palomar, there’s a 200-inch telescope. Astronomers looked through it at the cup of the Big Dipper. In the cup of the Big Dipper they estimate there are one million galaxies like our galaxy, the Milky Way. One of the furthest stars is a quasar; it generates enough power, in one second, to fuel all the needs of the world for one million years—just in one second. It’s 90 billion trillion miles away. Who made it all? How did it get there, so orderly?
