Here’s a thing that somebody wrote.
It’s a super important question.
On par with “How many angels can dance on a pin?” or “Can God make a rock He can’t lift?”
Atheists like to write about stuff like this because it’s stupid and meaningless.
And atheism is a stupid, meaningless worldview.
Behold:
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Atheists were born with non-sense!! Haha!! I was raised in a non-Christian home and lived as a heathen until my senior year in college. God totally SOUGHT ME OUT! He loved me into the family through His Son Jesus Christ. The atheists refuse to believe that God can interact with His creation personally.
What are we born with? As far as I can tell there are two ideas that Christians talk about: the moral law and a God-sized hole. C. S. Lewis made in fairly straightforward arguments for both of these observations in “Mere Christianity”. We know innately the difference between right and wrong. We are born with a hope, a hunger for something — someone — we cannot name.
What is that something, that someone? It is interesting that that post never once mentions the concept of divine revelation.
I don’t think it ever occurred to them that if people are incapable of knowing about God on their own, atheism cannot possibly be true.
We’re brainwashed with God fantasies…says the people who can’t explain their own existence.
So, that rawgod comment is… Extremely confusing to me. Apparently, he holds that the first invented concept of gods must have been a lie told to others, rather than an actually held belief… That seems like a fringe model for the origins of religion, to put it kindly.
Bonus: there are many problems with the “Rock so big” thought exercise that makes it a stupid question after a while (if it wasn’t already; though has a philosophy student, I’m not one to shy away from stupid questions, hehe). My favorite problem is that the rock will eventually have a greater gravitational pull than the surface that God is apparently lifting from… In which case, God is actually doing a leg press of the said surface, rather than lifting the rock. Unless the surface is also growing with the rock, in which case the rock needs to be bigger to satisfy the question…
As I understand it, the question is a paradox and therefore has no answer. And some things are impossible. God cannot do the impossible.
Yeah, that’s a boring, though legitimate answer ^_^.
For the record, Dylan, I appreciate your attempt to answer stupid questions WAY MORE than JB’s. 🙂
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If indeed we are born with an innate knowledge of God then the atheist will truly be out of excuses when they stand before Him to give an account of their life. It seems you have to work a lot harder to not believe than believe. Is this a question born out of the fear that we just might be?
There is a lot of evidence to suggest God has a way of cropping up in people groups around the globe and throughout history.
That is a cute grandson picture. I think he is contemplating the Prime Mover.
Psychologists would disagree.
I probably wouldn’t listen to them anymore than I would a christian counselor. podcast callback.
This conversation is a very convenient time for these Godless “philosophers” to forget that many of the past Century’s greatest Christian apologists we’re atheists from childhood into adulthood and only became Christians when they found the evidence for Christianity to be overwhelmingly obvious. They love to fall back on accusing Christian parents of “brainwashing” their kids, as if that is the only way Christianity continues to exist. But the knowledge of God is our natural state. It’s unavoidable, which is why there has never been a truly atheistic culture, even when the government tries to suppress it. The Christian Church is growing stronger in China where it is Illegal than it is in Europe. Even these self professed atheists on the blogosphere know they are wrong and that the God of the Bible is real. First, because Romans 1 tells us that, but also because there is no reason they should spend SO MUCH TIME discussing something they really don’t believe. They don’t even try to pretend to be apologists for their lack of faith. They sound like people trying desperately to convince themselves of something they already know isn’t true.
As always, thanks for sharing, JB.
When you suggest that people would never believe in God unless other people brainwash them, you need to explain how you the first brainwasher came to exist.
“I assert that we are not born with a belief in God, but there are studies that show we need to be connected to something. Oh well. Here’s some quotes from an ancient prolific scholar and a professor of philosophy vs. a quote from a guy who wrote a blog. Clearly you can see who the better thinker is.”
Yep. We sure can