Atheist Really Do Believe

There was a little old lady, who every morning stepped onto her front porch, raised her arms to the sky, and shouted: "PRAISE THE LORD!"....One day an atheist moved into the house next door. He became irritated at the little old lady. Every morning he'd step onto his front porch after her and yell: "THERE IS NO LORD!".....Time passed with the two of them carrying on this way every day.....One morning, in the middle of winter, the little old lady stepped onto her front porch and shouted: "PRAISE THE LORD! Please Lord, I have no food and I am starving, provide for me, oh Lord!
The next morning she stepped out onto her porch and there were two huge bags of groceries sitting there. "PRAISE THE LORD!" she cried out....."HE HAS PROVIDED GROCERIES FOR ME!"
The atheist neighbor jumped out of the hedges and shouted: "HA! HA! THERE IS NO LORD I BOUGHT THOSE GROCERIES!!"....The little old lady threw her arms into the air and shouted:"PRAISE THE LORD! HE HAS PROVIDED ME WITH GROCERIES AND MADE THE DEVIL PAY FOR THEM!
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An Atheist is “one who denies the existence of God”, according to the Merriam Webster Dictionary.
When we as Christians decide that we do not need God to help us with our problems, trials, or tribulations; when we decide that we can do everything ourselves, are we not also, at least for those moments, denying the existence of God? At those times in our lives, we are saying that there is no God who can take us through our situations, therefore we need to take care of it all alone....OK, I agree; that is a little bit of a stretch, but you must agree that there is some truth in that concept.
I also believe that it is a stretch, quite a stretch, to say that our Heavenly Father, the Creator of all things, does not exist! To deny the existence of God when there is so much evidence around us, everywhere that we look, I believe, is foolish.
The Word of God says in Psalm 14:1, “The fool has said in his heart, 'There is no God.' They are corrupt, they have committed abominable deeds; There is no one who does good.” Mitchell Kahle, an atheist and the founder and president of Hawaii Citizens for the Separation of State and Church, uses this Scripture to say that “Atheists are often branded as amoral or wicked” by Christians and Bible believers. In this Scripture God is not looking down from heaven at just the atheist, but instead He is looking at all mankind and sees that they have all played the fool. This is referring to one who denies God's moral control of the world and who are morally perverse and profane toward God and God's people; the psalmist sees people all about him acting like fools.
As Followers of Christ, we are not saying that all atheists are “fools”, but again I say that I believe it is “foolish” to believe there is no God. In fact, I believe it is “foolish” to not believe that God is a sovereign God and is in control of all that effects us. I especially believe that it is “foolish” to not trust in Jesus Christ as your personal Savior and Lord, for without Jesus in your life you have no eternal future in heaven. Please don't be mistaken though, you will have an eternal future! It will instead be a future of eternal death and destruction in hell.
Mitchell Kahle also says, “that the freedom of belief includes the freedom to not believe;”....The problem here is that atheists actually do believe; they believe that there is no God! I say that freedom of belief allows you to believe what you choose. If you believe there is no God, that is your choice. Just please don't ask me to not believe that you are foolish; that is my freedom to believe, as I trust and believe on God's Holy Word.
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