On Christianity and Atheism

ON CHRISTIANITY AND ATHEISM
There is nothing like feeling wasted from illness to bring thoughts of God, as well as His presence, very close and very strongly into the life and reality of the believer in Christ. The way I experience my illness varies from day to day, but my LORD is inmutable, unchangeable from eternity past into eternity future. The frailty in my mortal body speaks of weakness, corruption and death, yet as I face these things, day by day it becomes clearer to me that, in Christ and with Christ, none of these things matter in the end. For when everything is said and done, when I am done decaying as I grow older and more ill, when I am done spending my remaining years in blindness, when I finally breathe my last, then comes eternity, first my immediate abode in the presence of the Christ who purchased me with His blood, then, at the appointed time, the resurrection of my body in glory and perfection, and not only of my body, but that of all the saints who ever lived. For we shall live in our resurrection bodies for all eternity, as promised by our great God, who can not lie. So what are a few decades of hardship as compared to such a blessed eternity? In Christ we the saints are given this certainty, we serve our LORD in this certainty, and we die in this certainty. We can not fail.
If atheists declare that there is absolutely no God and no afterlife, then why is it that they are so terrified of death? If they were certain of their claims they would be of all people the calmest, the most at peace with our mortality, since they claim that there is only oblivion after death. So what is there to be afraid of? Despite their claims of the non existence of God or of an afterlife, upon the death of one of their loved ones, atheists will talk about the departed loved one as going to a better place, or to some enlightened plain of existence, or embarking in some kind of journey at the spiritual level. What better place? What enlightened plain of existence? What spiritual journey? Is this not the most contradictory thinking? We believers in Christ base our truth claims on the word of God, the Bible, a clear text faithfully given to us by God Himself. Atheists have no text at all to base their contradictory claims on. And they claim to be scientific and rational while accusing us of the contrary.
Beloved brothers and sisters in Christ, if you know someone to be an atheist, pray for their salvation in earnest, pray the LORD to open their eyes for spiritual understanding of the truths of God. My dear atheist, if you find yourself reading these lines, examine your views with all courage and honesty, and see if, in reality, as the Scriptures teach, you are forcefully suppressing the truths of God, which He has written in every human heart.
Zoraida Morrison

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