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                  Letter In Reply To An Atheist      

                                                    June 15, 1997


Hi Eddy,

   I just returned from visiting my older daughter and her husband in
rural Virginia, at a place called Singer's Glen. One of their friends owns
a spring, where pure water gushes out of a hole in the side of a hill.
Not being a country boy myself, I had never actually seen anything like
this before.  My son-in-law and I went up into the woods and brought back
two gallons of this spring water for me to take back to my girl friend.

   As I was watching this spring gush forth pure water, I thought of you,
and it occured to me how totally impossible it would be for this huge,
intricate life-support system called Earth to have happened by itself, by
accident. Forget about "the origin of life," and "evolution," and "origin
of the universe," and all these questions with complicated theoretical
answers.

   Focus instead on the preposterous idea that mountain spring water,
forming streams, forming rivers, to the sea, then evaporated, up to the
atmosphere, cooled, raining down, soaked into the earth, re-cycled again 
could have happened by accident. You might as well believe that a Mercedes
Benz happened by some kind of accidental interaction between tools and
materials.

   No. This is a created Earth. It happened not by accident, but
by design. Evidence of design is everywhere.

   And if it is created, then there must be a Creator. And if there is 
a Creator, then why did He (it?) create it? And what does He (it?) want
from His (its) creation? Once you start answering these questions, it
leads you straight to the Bible, then straight to Jesus Christ.

   But the process all begins with a willingness to accept the
idea of an Earth created by design. If you can deny a created Earth,
then you can deny anything! And that is the essential position of
atheists: they are all in massive denial, because they do NOT
WANT TO DEAL WITH THE REALITY of a Creator. 

   Atheists like to attack the literal truthfulness of the Creation Story
in Genesis, and Christians feel compelled to defend it. But the literal
truthfulness of Genesis is a bogus issue. (Genesis is poetry anyway, not a
news report or a textbook.) The real issue is creation: was the Earth
created or not?

   If the Earth was not created, then you can forget about God, do
whatever you want. When you die, you die, and that is it.

   But if the Earth *was* created, then you had better get straight with
your Creator as soon as you can, before it is too late for you.

   And Jesus' offer of Salvation still stands, for you, good as ever.
Please accept it.

   Yours in Christ,

        Bill McGinnis
       
        http://www.patriot.net/users/bmcgin/ministries.html



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