If you
are an Atheist through and through, you basically sign up to the following
beliefs:
You came
from nowhere and you have no cause.
There is
no reason for your existence and no greater meaning to your life other than
the continued survival of your species. What
Dawkins says is that you are a DNA production assembly and that’s it, the
production and distribution plant for your particular DNA.
Your
death is certain and afterwards there will be nothingness.
You have
no foundation of hope and no guarantees for the future.
Love is
nothing more than neurochemistry. Joy is merely one evolutionary step further
on than a dog wagging his tail.
Essentially,
as Richard Dawkins said "The Universe is bleak, cold and empty".
In fact,
"everything is meaningless under the sun".
This is
the conclusion that a wise teacher came to about 3,000 years ago. His
thoughts are recorded in the book of Ecclesiastes within the Bible.
The
following is taken from chapter 1, verse 2 to 11,
"Meaningless!
Meaningless!" says the Teacher. "Utterly meaningless! Everything is
meaningless." What does man gain from all his labour at which he toils
under the sun? Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains
forever. The sun rises and the sun sets and hurries back to where it rises.
The wind blows to the south and turns to the north; round and round it goes,
ever returning on its course. All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is
never full. To the place the streams come from, there they return again. All
things are wearisome, more than one can say. The eye never has enough of
seeing, nor the ear its fill of hearing. What has been will be again, what
has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. Is
there anything of which one can say, "Look! This is something new"?
It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time. There is no
remembrance of men of old, and even those who are yet to come will not be
remembered by those who follow."
In fact,
the first 8 chapters of Ecclesiastes give a good description of how
meaningless your life is without God.
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2 Tim 2:10 ESV "Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the Elect, that they also may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory."
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Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Atheist philosophy
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