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Please take a few
minutes to take this test. You may be a bit skeptical, but hey, you have nothing
to lose here and everything to gain. Just check it out, think of it as a
confirmation of your beliefs:
The theory of the evolution of the Coca Cola can.
Billions of years ago, a big bang produced a large rock. As
the rock cooled, sweet brown liquid formed on its surface. As time passed,
aluminum formed itself into a can, a lid, and a tab. Millions of years later,
red and white paint fell from the sky, and formed itself into the words "Coca
Cola 12 fluid ounces." Of course, my theory is an insult to your intellect,
because you know that if the Coca Cola can is made, there must be a maker. If it
is designed, there must be a designer. The alternative, that it happened by
chance or accident, is to move into an intellectual free zone.
The banana -- the atheist's nightmare.
Note that the banana:
- Is shaped for human hand
- Has non-slip surface
- Has outward indicators of inward content:
Green-too early,
Yellow-just right,
Black-too late.
- Has a tab for removal of wrapper
- Is perforated on wrapper
- Bio-degradable wrapper
- Is shaped for human mouth
- Has a point at top for ease of entry
- Is pleasing to taste buds
- Is curved towards the face to make eating process easy
To say that the banana happened by accident is even more
unintelligent than to say that no one designed the Coca Cola can.
TEST ONE
The person who thinks the Coca Cola can had no designer is:
___ A. Intelligent
___ B. A fool
___ C. Has an ulterior motive for denying the obvious |
Did you know that the eye has 40,000,000 nerve endings, the
focusing muscles move an estimated 100,000 times a day, and the retina contains
137,000,000 light sensitive cells?
Charles Darwin said:
"To suppose that the eye could have been formed by
natural selection, seems I freely confess, absurd in the highest
degree."
George Gallup, the famous statistician, said:
"I could prove God statistically; take the
human body alone; the chance that all the functions of the
individual would just happen, is a statistical monstrosity."
Albert Einstein said,
"Everyone who is seriously interested in the pursuit
of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the
universe—a spirit vastly superior to man, and one in the face of which our
modest powers must feel humble."
If man cannot begin to make a human eye, how could anyone in
his right mind think that eyes formed by mere chance? In fact, man cannot make
anything from nothing. We don't know how to do it. We can re-create, reform,
develop . . . but we cannot create even one grain of sand from nothing. Yet, the
eye is only a small part of the most sophisticated part of creation-the human
body.
TEST TWO
A. Do you know of any building that didn't have a builder?
___ YES ___ NO
B. Do you know of any painting that didn't have a painter?
___ YES ___ NO
C. Do you know of any car that didn't have a maker?
___ YES ___ NO
If you answered "YES" for any of the above, give details:
_____________________________________________
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Could I convince you that I dropped 50 oranges onto the
ground and they by chance fell into ten rows of five oranges? The logical
conclusion is that someone with an intelligent mind put them there. The odds
that ten oranges would fall by accident into a straight line are mind-boggling,
let alone ten rows of five.
TEST THREE
A. From the atom to the universe, is there order?
___ YES ___ NO
B. Did it happen by accident?
___ YES ___ NO
C. Or, must there have been an intelligent mind?
___ YES ___ NO
D. What are the chances of 50 oranges falling by chance
into ten rows of five oranges? ______________________
If you answered "YES" for any of the above, give details:
_____________________________________________
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The declaration "There is no God" is what is known as
an absolute statement. For an absolute statement to be true, I must have
absolute knowledge.
Here is another absolute statement: "There is no gold in
China."
TEST FOUR
What do I need to have for that statement to be true?
A. No knowledge of China.
___ YES ___ NO
B. Partial knowledge of China.
___ YES ___ NO
C. Absolute knowledge of China.
___ YES ___ NO |
"C" is the correct answer. For the statement to be true, I
must know that there is no gold in China, or the statement is incorrect. To say
"There is no God," and to be correct in the statement, I must be
omniscient.
I must know how many hairs are upon every head, every thought
of every human heart, every detail of history, every atom within every
rock...nothing is hidden from my eyes...I know the intimate details of the
secret love-life of the fleas on the back of the black cat of Napolean's
great-grandmother. To make the absolute statement "There is no God." I must have
absolute knowledge that there isn't one.
 Let's
say that this circle represents all the knowledge in the entire universe, and
let's assume that you have an incredible 1% of all that knowledge. Is it
possible, that in the knowledge you haven't yet come across, there is ample
evidence to proved that God does indeed exist?
If you are reasonable, you will have to say, "Having the
limited knowledge that I have at present, I believe that there is no God."
In other words, you don't know if God exists, so you are not an "atheist," you
are what is commonly known as an "agnostic." You are like a man who looks at a
building, and doesn't know if there was a builder.
TEST FIVE
The man who sees a building and doesn't know if there was a
builder is:
___ A. Intelligent
___ B. A fool
___ C. Has an ulterior motive for denying the obvious |
Perhaps you have questions that hold you back from faith.
First, almost every question you have about suffering humanity etc., can be
adequately answered.
 Second,
we have faith in plenty of things we don't understand. Did you understand the
mechanics of television before you turned it on? Probably not. You took a step
of faith, turned it on, and after it worked, understanding how it worked wasn't
that important. We accept that there are unseen television waves right in front
of our eyes. We can't see them because they are invisible. For them to manifest,
we need a receiver, then we can enjoy the experience of television.
 God
is not flesh and blood. He is an eternal Spirit-immortal and invisible. Like the
television waves, He cannot be experienced until the "receiver" is switched on.
Here is something you will find hard to believe: Jesus said,
"He who has My commandments and keeps them, he it is
who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love
him and manifest Myself to him" (John 14:21).
Either that is true or it isn't. Jesus Christ says that He
will manifest Himself to anyone who obeys Him. Approach the subject the same way
you approached your first television set. Just take a small step of faith. If it
works, enjoy it, if it doesn't, forget it.
Or have you an ulterior motive? Could it be that the
"atheist" can't find God, for the same reason a thief can't find a policeman?
Could it be that your love for sin is clouding your good judgment? If the Bible
is true, and Jesus Christ has "abolished death and brought life and immortality
to light through the Gospel," then you owe it to yourself just to check it out.
Here is how to do that:
TEST SIX
With a tender conscience,
check this list of the Ten Commandments:
- Have I always loved God my Creator with all my heart,
mind, soul and strength?
- Have I made a god in my own image, a god to suit myself?
- Have I ever used God's name in vain?
- Have I kept the Sabbath holy?
- Have I always honored my parents implicitly?
- Have I murdered (God considers hatred as murder)?
- Have I committed adultery (including premarital sex and
lust)?
- Have I stolen (the value is irrelevant)?
- Have I lied (including fibs and these questions)?
- Have I coveted (been greedy or materialistic)?
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you have even broken one Law, then you have sinned against God and therefore
will "surely die," for the "wages of sin is death."
We are all guilty of breaking the Commandments. Listen to the
voice of your conscience, and let it remind you of some of the sins of the past.
We are not perfect as we are commanded to be (Matthew 5:48), neither is our
heart pure. On Judgment Day our transgressions will be evidence of our shame.
Think of it: God has seen every sin we have ever committed. We share our
thought-life with Him.
We are guilty of violating His Law a multitude of times, yet
if we repent, God can forgive us because Jesus stepped into the courtroom 2.000
years ago and paid the fine for us.
His death on the cross satisfied the Law we so blatantly
transgressed, and at the same time demonstrated how much God loves us—"For
God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever
believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life." His
shed blood on the cross can make you clean in the sight of a holy God...as
though you have never sinned.
God doesn't want you to go to Hell. Please, forget your
arguments, repent and put your trust in Jesus and be saved from God's wrath.
Make Psalm 51 your prayer, then read your Bible daily and always obey what you
read; God will never let you down.
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Adapted from God Doesn't Believe in Atheists by Ray
Comfort (Living Waters)
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