To the surprise of nobody, there is some confusion among the atheists about my motivation for writing stuff. I’ll attempt to clarify my position for any heathen with the courage (and reading ability) to understand.
I don’t care if you ever come to believe in God. My goal is not to find agreement with you. If I wanted to win your approval, I wouldn’t write true things.
I am compelled by my Creator to speak the truth in love. That’s my goal. I am not responsible for your response to the truth. My job is to shine a light in the darkness. It is not my concern when you close your eyes
I gauge my success by your angry responses. If there is no truth in my words, you would ignore me. Your reaction to my words indicates that I’ve spoken truth. You behave just like vampires exposed to sunlight. The smoke rising off your flesh tells me I’ve achieved my goal.
I’m not trying to make friends with you vampires. I’m not working to win you over to my religion. Vampires can’t be Christians. God must destroy your wicked, undead corpse and replace your heart of stone with a heart of flesh. In other words, you need to die.
Of course, you can scurry back to the shadows and keep cursing the light. Jesus said that’s what most vampires will do. He told us that a few vampires who lose their lives for Him will live but the majority of you will try to stay alive by lurking in the darkness — and die.
I take no credit for the truth. It doesn’t come from me. All truth belongs to God. I can do nothing apart from Christ. Jesus is the only reason I am no longer a vampire myself.
Try to understand that your opinion of me is irrelevant. I’m not on a mission to make doomed people feel good about themselves. I’m on a mission to imitate Christ who was enormously unpopular among the prideful, arrogant denizens of darkness. You have an open invitation to join me, but I’m not going to lose any sleep if you don’t.
(Ezekiel 36:23) “I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.”
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Here on Word Press, atheists used to be lots of fun. We would comment endlessly on each other’s sites. Then came President Trump. After that they got mean and bitter and retreated into their own little echo chambers. They took to banning me. But before they did, they would censor and even edit my comments. I cannot image doing any of that. Although on one occasion I had to delete an atheist’s comment because he purposely and willfully blasphemed against the Holy Spirit. I didn’t want to be anywhere near the damnation blast radius on that one.
You tell it , John! 😊
This brings release. Thank you.