10 Keys to Sharing Your Faith — Shane Idleman

Evangelism as Spiritual Warfare

Ten keys to sharing your faith. And before I do I want to remind you that evangelism is warfare. Okay, anytime you go to evangelize or anytime you're going to share your faith You are hitting a spiritual realm.

You are it's a spiritual battle. So when you go into Sharing your faith. I'm assuming most of you want to share your faith, right? Go get good 11 a .m. Is more awake than the nine. That's good. But sharing your faith and wanting we have this desire, but sometimes we don't know how.

What to say when to say it? What's a good time? What's a bad time what to expect? So I want to look at Acts 17 this morning. Acts 17 verse 1 and kind of give you some principles to sharing your faith.

And I like what Vince Lombardi said, he's a famous coach of the Green Bay Packers. He said that any man's finest hour his greatest sense of achievement is when he lies Exhausted on the field of battle victorious.

So it is a battle, but you come out of it victorious you come out of it built up you we are called to share Our faith and I will submit to you that I think a reason many people are dealing with. Or struggling with a lack of a sense of purpose.

There's a lack of joy. Have you ever felt that way Lord? What have you called me to do? I'm just going through life. It's meaningless. I'm Lacking a passion for what you've called me to do or what have you called me to do?

I don't have joy that Shane talks about. I don't have this piece many times. It's because we are getting full of the Word of God, but you have to let it out. Now if we're talking about health for a minute what happens when you eat too much.

It's stored. Right. It's that's what we gain weight is because that energy is being stored because we didn't use it same thing spiritually if you're being filled with the Word of God you have to Let it out.

Paul said woe is to me if I don't woe to me if I don't preach the Gospel I'm receiving. I've got to give it out. So maybe some of you are struggling with what's my calling? What's my purpose and you will struggle with it until you step out and you begin to serve you begin to share your faith.

You begin? To witness to others you begin to be filled with God's Spirit and a sense of purpose and peace returns. So don't just tune me out and think about what's for lunch when you hear how to share my faith.

I know how to share my faith. I well trust me. You'll gleam something if you're open and teachable. That's one of the points by the way so chapter 17 Paul and Silas came to Thessalonica where they were where there was a synagogue of the Jews.

Then Paul as his custom was went into them and for three Sabbath. Sabbath this with the s on the end. So it's three Saturdays. He reasoned with them from the scriptures explaining. Explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead.

Saying this Jesus whom I preached to you is the Christ and some of them were persuaded in a great Multitude of devout Greeks and not a few of the leading women joined Paul and Silas. So the first point is know your audience and the rebuttals.

Knowing the Audience and Preparing for Rebuttals

Know your audience. Paul went in talking to the Jews and he knew his audience. He knew the rebuttals. He knew how they thought he knew what they were thinking and you might be thinking well Shane that's going to take a little work.

Yes, it is. It's called apologetics. It's called studying the Word of God and giving people a reason for the hope that is within you. I mean, it makes it very difficult if you've been a Christian ten years and somebody says, why do you believe?

Well, I I don't know. I they teach you at church and the Bible says something. That isn't that doesn't carry a lot of weight there. You want to know your audience? For example, if I'm going to talk to an atheist, let's say I'm going to talk differently and present things differently than I would with say a Mormon or those Who are Jehovah's Witness or those in a different religion?

I'm going to talk to them a little bit differently because if you say if you tell an atheist. Well, here's what the Bible say says. Well, they're not real concerned about that. You've got to show them the inerrancy of Scripture.

You've got to show them God in creation. The Mormon for example actually puts the Book of Mormon above the Bible. Wait a minute wrong order here. Let's get back to this and you and you argue from a position of spiritual authority with the Word of God and you you shoot At them differently.

Well, the Bible says this right? Joseph Smith says this so you can't have both Jesus and Joseph Smith, right? They both can't be right. One of them is wrong. Who are you choosing and People sometimes get upset because they say Shane you shouldn't put down other religions.

I'm not putting them down. I'm trying to show you the difference and I want to show them the difference because the truth is in the difference and If you're being led astray or led in a wrong direction.

Because you're following wrong information I have an obligation to say hey. You might want to check out what the Bible says because I can tell you by the authority of Scripture. You cannot deviate and have some other book that contradicts it Jehovah's Witness Mormon, whatever it is.

You can't deviate from that or other religions. Well, the Bible is good, but it's not this you can't have both. That's why when Jesus said I am the way the truth the life nobody comes to the Father except through me.

That's pretty narrow right that doesn't leave you a lot of other options out there. It's either he is the way or he's not it's either. This is the truth or it's not and I'm Assuming that most of you are here because of that that we believe that so when you share your faith know your audience.

And believe it or not the reason I started to study a lot is because I didn't know my audience 18 years ago or so 19 years ago. I came back to the Lord around 1999 2000. He began to give me a hunger for his word a hunger for these things and I would be stumped often.

It's like oh, I never thought of that. Oh, that's true I don't know and just like not knowing what I really believe well the Bible says it would you don't need the Bible's wrong here. Here really it's wrong now.

I've learned to ask where's it wrong show me Just one place well. Yeah unless you get somebody says something ridiculous, but most of the time The key is to know your audience and the rebuttals what I mean by that is.

You if any of you salesmen in this room or have a sales experience? Nobody in this whole room. No, that's oh you just don't want to admit it right with sales right they teach you that no Terry I know you do right you work for me 24-hour fitness many years ago.

We remember we talked about no just means. Yes, you just haven't convinced me yet. No just means you haven't convinced me yet. So you keep hearing no you have rebuttals well I need to go talk to home go home and talk to my husband right well wouldn't he want you to get in shape and Start now.

Oh, that's true. I don't have the money now. You can post a to check right you just rebuttals. And you have rebuttals you know what they're saying so you have rebuttals same thing when witnessing. I know what an atheist is going to say often.

I know what these different religions are going to say now as a word of encouragement you might not know all the rebuttals. It doesn't matter if you have the Spirit of God in you the power of God some scripture.

You can still share your faith. I don't want to discourage, but for those of you who want to build your faith in this area know your audience. And what Paul did he said this is Jesus. Let me quote Isaiah 53.

It was the Lord's will to crush him crush Christ and cause him to suffer and to raise him to life. So that many people could be forgiven now. This is a tough scripture for many people wasn't for the Jews they understand that it The father bruised the son and it's hard for us to really fully understand the ramifications of that.

But when you understand John 3 16 that God so loved the world. That he gave his only begotten Son that who show ever whosoever believes will have eternal life. They will not perish so that please the father to bruise the son and for to provide redemption for us.

So the Jews understood this is going to be a suffering Savior. He's going to be beaten. He's no bone will be broken. They will cast lots for his clothing. All of this was laid out in the prophets the prophets.

They used to read at every service. So Paul's saying listen, this is the Christ that we've been reading about. This is Jesus who rose from the dead so he knew his audience. But the Jews verse 5 who were not persuaded becoming envious.

Took some of the evil men from the marketplace and gathering a mob. Set all the city in an uproar and attacked the house of Jason and sought to bring them out to the people so Paul and Silas were obviously with Jason and The Jews that were not persuaded that tells me that some are persuaded some aren't right.

Opposition Is the Rule, Not the Exception

So the second point is this opposition is the rule. Not the exception. We sometimes think that okay, there's going to be opposition. That's the exception that might happen. You better go into this knowing that opposition is the rule if you're stirring the spiritual realm if you're if you're Upsetting the demonic influences if you're doing what God wants you to do.

There will be Opposition here's a point proof point right here. How hard is it for you to get to church? You and your spouse. Well, let's go to the movies and watch Walking Dead. There's no problems. Right, let's have that terrible popcorn.

Let's drink 32 ounces of sugar. Let's go. Let's go watch his garbage. There's no problems. The flesh is in unity but when you start to stand up for what God wants and Try to try to just announce to your kids and your family.

We are going to start having family devotionals at dinner. All hell will break loose. All hell will break loose right. Mood swings will come in the little ones. This is just that there's just demonic something happens when you want to do things for God and often that's part of the fight.

The fight comes then the victory so opposition is the rule. Expect it. When these false kings and systems of thought were challenged the response these people had were hate and anger. They were there's opposition.

Studying Scripture and Letting Scripture Examine the Heart

So now let's fast-forward to verse 10 then the brethren Immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea. So they went from Thessalonica to Berea when they arrived they went into the synagogue of the Jews.

These were more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica in that they received the Word of God with all Readiness and they searched the scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so. So in Thessalonica the Jews were persuaded some got upset these.

Fair-minded means more balanced. They were more balanced. They said, okay Paul Is it in here? Well, not the last quarter right is in the Old Testament. Is it in the scriptures that we have is what you're saying Paul in here Jesus suffered road.

That's right. It's right here in Isaiah. They were fair-minded. That's where have you ever heard the term Bereans? Bereans mean that they study the Word of God and often say have a have a have a Berean heart but not a Berean spirit what happens is the Berean heart is to study the Word of God the Berean spirit is getting puffed up in pride and arrogance and That they had this sense of superiority in this pride and arrogance because they are puffed up by the Word of God.

So the Bereans were studying the scriptures. They're there's they're saying is it really so and I want to remind you to leave here knowing that this is the authority. This is the authority. This is the best way to expose cults because this is our authority.

So when a cult says their authority comes on top of this you say no. They know well, have you read our track from our society. I. Mmm. But have you read you've got to read this book. No, this isn't though, right?

This this is this is the authority. That's that's the point study the Bible and let the Bible study you see because when you argue or argue right when you debate or when you Have apologetics and when you're discussing your faith, you're really coming with this.

This is the authority. This is where you're you're ministering from this is what you're sharing. The truth is in you so you're sharing the truth, but if you don't have the truth that the truth is not in you.

Right, you're not gonna be able to share it. That's why I believe that most people can't share this effectively because they're not they're not quite sure what it is in here. I mean, I know Shane said this at Church Sunday.

I know Jesus right he died for me I know he raised from the dead. That's why we celebrate Easter and Christmas. He was born and I got I got those things down. But you'll be tongue-tied if you get with anybody who knows anything about the Bible.

Because you've got to know this you can't rely on Shane on Sunday morning. That's that's actually the primer. Have you ever remember those old diesel engines you get some ether? Like you're just like this gasoline you spray into the engine to fire it up.

That's all I'm doing. Let me give you some ether this morning. Let me get some motivation and then you don't just die on the vine till next Sunday. You've got to be in the word and then you and then you as God's teaching you every day you can share or no.

But I just learned this I just learned this we're gonna have wives in heaven. Mormon Church, well, I just read Jesus said there's no marriage in heaven. We'll be like the angels. So who's right? God was once like us and we will be like God really?

Well, it doesn't say that here's a chapter and verse. It does not say that and you begin to understand your faith. So start with small steps. Don't be so overwhelmed like I'll never be able to read the Bible.

Yeah, just start 20 minutes a day. You can get through the whole Bible in a year. Then what then you start again? They start again and you start to get the heart of God you'd be able to to to articulate the truth.

So that's the third point study the Bible and let the Bible study you what I mean by that is I'm studying this. I'm getting sharpened. I'm getting my character is getting tweaked a little bit if I can use that it's getting Smashed a little bit the ego is getting smashed and God's working on my heart because you have to remember something very important that God prepares the messenger.

Before you go out and spread the message God prepares your heart. He shapes your heart. He gives you if once you start to get a love for the people in the hospital homes, then you go. Once you start to get a love for those in your neighborhood and they're dying around you.

Then you go because if you don't have love you go in wanting to argue and prove your point. And win the argument been there done that many times, right? I'll get home. My wife will go how'd it go? And I go, I don't know but I sure let him have it with the scripture.

Right. What was that? See that's not that what Jesus did. He would listen and he would actually the people he rebuked were the religious leaders more than anybody. So know the Bible and and it's almost like In one year out the next we talked about that a lot, but we talked about it because it's not being done.

How many of you would just why don't you why don't just give up Facebook for a month and read the Bible instead? Oh, that's painful. It's painful to the flesh. But not to the Spirit. See if we're led by the Spirit will make changes to where this becomes a priority.

This becomes the focus of our lives then we're able to minister from that. Search and see he said search and see if I'm thinking God's thoughts. So if you want to know, you know, what are these God's thoughts?

Does he want me to do this? Is this really you God or myself? Because I've often said the worst enemy is not the devil. It's within. But I'm more afraid about what's within Than the man with with wearing red with a pitchfork and tell which he's not right.

You know that the devil's an angel of light can appear an angel light demonic influence. I don't think of this cute little thing. It's demonic and destructive. He's sent to kill still and to destroy. But that's how I know is by looking at this are these thoughts God's thoughts.

I mean, I've changed course before try reading Proverbs before making financial decisions greedy or all those who are greedy are all or Something about greediness and gain and all those who are trying to get gain and become greedy and what it's going to lead to and and you look at something else about Proverbs and how This is going to lead to that and and you realize that you know what my thoughts Sometimes are not God's thoughts and I joked about that last week, but I was I was true.

It was it was a joke sure have ever wore that foot and mouth, right? I was joking about it, but it really wasn't a joke. It was true when we want what we watch determines how we live right every time we watch fixer-upper.

We want to travel to Texas and spend a hundred thousand fifty dollars hundred fifty thousand dollars on our house, right? I'm like if we could just get a loan and bear I think if we'd stop tithing to the church.

We could do it start the kids we sponsor. Let's cut those off and I think we can barely make it and then you see the Carl's Jr. Commercial with the Western bacon double cheeseburger. I got to stop by there and then I see the Lexus commercial.

It's like oh, it's only a thousand dollars a month. I'm sure between that right I mean, but see but these thoughts aren't God thoughts. How are you going to balance those unless you have the balancing act?

Hi, you know, is that a right thought? I mean, I'm so many people should you know or Marriage and marriage should I marry this person? Well, what does the Bible say do not be unequally yoked? I Not not well, I know but it's it's it's it's crystal clear.

It gives us guidance throughout the journey. So we look to the Word of God to see if my thoughts are God's thoughts. See if I'm acting according to the character of God. I mean if we we could end most marriage issues if we would just have husbands and wife read Ephesians every day and Apply it you could just you would just marriage counseling would go out the door.

Right husbands love your wives wives respect you and if you just follow these things the heart of God search and see if I'm parenting Correctly if I'm making decisions that align with God's Word. So don't so be Bereans to know what to say.

But also Bereans to know how to gauge your heart and then fast forward to verse 16. Now while Paul waited for them at Athens His spirit was provoked within him when he saw that the city was given over to idols.

Responding to Idolatry and the Spirit's Prompting

Has your spirit ever been provoked within you? I can't even go Las Vegas anymore. I Decided that 17 years ago, right? Oh my goodness the pervert you go to Los Angeles. I just provoked within me now Lancaster considering that 10 foot tall Buddha statue or 10 foot.

That's they have those in their home. 10 story. Did I say at the first service? I'm gonna have to go correct that. Okay, 10 story a 10 story high Buddha statue. Why is nobody provoked. You got all these other statues you've got ma Mosque and you've got Hindu temples and you got it's uh, so no big deal.

No big deal. Right. We're too involved in the things of the world. So it's no big deal. But somebody takes your Dodger tickets. Oh My spirits provoked within me. Somebody dent your car somebody takes your spot provoke.

So you get provoked on those things but not the things of God the things of God when the things of God are Demoralized it should provoke you when we can look in our nation. Now, we don't have to be a gender.

Kids can pick they'd want to be a it or an ism or a butterfly. I mean, it's just there's a provoking the Ten Commandments. Let's remove those and let's let's put all this perversion out there and glorify that that should provoke you.

Something should provoke you watch a partial birth abortion. And if you don't get provoked something is wrong in your heart. See these things provoke you what happens it provokes me now. I'm going to take action.

Actually many sermons coming from being provoked and being kicked off by what the enemy is doing. He's ticked me off so much. I might get a little bold. I might get a little loud. I'm provoked. To call things as they are.

So Paul here was sensitive to the provoking of the Holy Spirit. That's the next point. Don't ignore the leading the provoking of the Holy Spirit. Verse 17. Therefore he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and with the Gentile worshippers and in the marketplace Daily with those who happen to be there now.

I don't want to just gloss over this the promptings of the Holy Spirit. Right the promptings of the Holy Spirit. Sometimes we think God will speak to us. God if you would just shoot it across the sky.

Have you ever prayed that me my wife on a few things. God just just drop a letter in the mailbox from no one. Right with this special writing that says oh we'd have before oh, you know, we just want this mega message.

Many times it's not bad because we know the condition of our own heart and we know God. I just want to be crystal clear. I want to be sure that that you're in this God. I want you but I've found I've noticed it's a still small voice of The Holy Spirit.

It's a still small voice of God. That's how God leads us. Often it's that's that prompting that provoke provoking in the Greek Language here that they're writing it is to stimulate or to excite to provoke.

There's something there God I've got to act on this got a God. I've got to act on this. And those are the things those are the things you got to watch for. I remember all day yesterday I hope I can share this.

It's okay, but I was provoked to go the hospital home and share I visit you I see you here today and that's why she invited her and she decided and but all day yesterday. I'm at the beach I'm like what I want to go the hot what's wrong with me?

Like where's this coming from? Where where's this. I want to leave on time and get home and and go to the hospital homes and and This now you can ignore that, right? Don't think Shane's up here always listening to the Holy Spirit.

Oh No, no. No, I can put on the ant Button real quick like nope. I'm done. I'm not gonna listen, right? I'm but that's how so my encouragement is to listen for those and I don't know why I don't like I do.

Doesn't use a megaphone. But sometimes I think he's not gonna compete for our attention. It's like hey, I'm over here louder. Would you go? It's that still small voice you want to hear me silence your life quiet your life and listen to me seek me and you will Find me still your heart still your soul wait on me in silence.

There. I am to minister and to lead you. So it's a Holy Spirit's a prompting. It's it's it's something you can't Discount. I remember I was as I was leaving the hospital home yesterday I walked by this man, and then I went back in and just felt a need to pray for him and Things I can't share right now, but God confirmed it and just listening to that and I don't listen all the time or I ignore.

But that's my that's the whole reason I threw this point in there is you're not gonna have often sometimes I mean God will clearly give a Vision or a dream or it was so clear have you ever heard that or said that it was that was that was God as if Somebody was speaking to me, and that's okay.

He's had to give me a few of those before but often the leadings are just that a Quickening a provoking I've got to do something and and it lines up with God's will. You know you're not the person says.

I just I just have this leading to leave my spouse I I just know you probably the wrong spirit. It's a it's a wrong thing gauging so you have to be careful goes back to the other point. Does it line up with Scripture?

Verse 18 then certain then certain Epicureans and Stoic philosophers encountered him. There's a lot of hard words in this one and Some said what does this babbler want to say? Other said he seems to be a proclaimer of foreign gods because he preached to them Jesus and the resurrection and They took him and brought him to the Areopagus.

Saying may we know what this new doctrine is what you speak? For you are bringing some strange things to our ears there. Obviously right they've never heard anything like this a guy's raised from the dead.

He's yours Lord and Savior you better bow to him. There's a judgment coming. Whoa wait a minute. What is it? What are these new things? Therefore we want to know what these things mean for all the Athenians and the foreigners who were there spent their time and nothing else but either to tell or to hear something new.

Nothing has changed in 2 ,000 years. Right we're looking all these new things new concepts new ideas new diet plans. Do you know there's 1 ,200 a year diet books written oh? Gosh, that's a convicting part of this mayor.

Stay there for a minute, right? That did but there's something new all the time. They tell me if somebody just was reading the secret at a restaurant I was at don't go read it just but he said have you read this oh my goodness.

No, it's just repackaged New Age philosophy. Just repackage it runs its course here comes another one here comes another couple years later. Here comes another one here. It's new. It's new truth is never new if It's new it's not truth, and if it's truth.

It's not new. That's a good way to remember it what God set in motion when he created it still is in motion. So they're talking about what's new what's new nothing has changed. That's what they're doing now in our culture.

What's this new thing and that's what you what kept Oprah going she'd have something new every month right or knew this a new doctor. Dr.. Oz says this doctor. This is it and all these new things are coming out.

So that's that's is what they were up. This is what they were up against now. It's interesting the epicureans Epicureans they were atheists. And they believed in the the chief end of man is pleasure. All of you are here because a pleasure seek pleasure.

You'll be fulfilled. That's that's the end of us. We are born somehow. We don't know how from this DNA and and you survive and you make it and just get as much pleasure. You can then you go back to the earth back to the dust and I don't know what that was about.

So that's what they believed and now the Stoics Believed that we are one with the universe. Have you ever heard that that we're one with the universe that we are with the spotted owl and the sycamore tree and all?

Bananas, it's all one. It's just one. There's some type of deity out there. There's it's all one so they were spiritual where this group was 80 were atheists so that's what Paul was up against and a commentator by the name of house and said the two enemies that Christianity has always had to contend with are the ruling principles of the epicureans and the Stoics.

Which is pleasure pleasure and pride? The two enemies of Christianity have always been pleasure and pride. Same thing back then same thing now and then. Verse 22. Paul is actually going to address the Areopagus without using the Bible.

Engaging Unbelievers With What They Already Know

But see with the Jews he uses scriptures that they're familiar with with this group of people Greek philosophers stoic. He's just going to talk to them based on other things, so let's see what he says without using the Bible.

How's he going to convict without using the Bible? Well, here's how? The truth is what he's talking about the truth is in the Bible. He's just not going to quote the Old Testament because the people are not familiar with it.

Verse 22. Then Paul stood in the midst of the of the Areopagus and said men of Athens. I perceive that in all things you are very religious. For as I was passing through and considering the objects of your worship I even found an altar with the inscription to the unknown God.

So they have all these altars to all these gods, and they're like just in case we missed one. This one's to the unknown God. Okay, whoever you are out there. I mean we probably missed you. This is to the unknown God, but let's stop here a minute and talk about point number key number five.

Acknowledge and encourage them. Acknowledge and encourage them now. I'm preaching myself here because this was hard for me at first. I don't want to acknowledge and encourage them. I just want to go right for the juggler.

Right for the throat. Right you're an atheist. Well. You're more like well hold on. But I'm learning and sure some of you have to that it's good to encourage them and listen. Like I see that you're religious like I would tell people that I would say you.

I see you're religious. I see you're you're wanting to find God. I see that you have a heart for seeking God. I see that that you want what God. I see you searching your searcher. I respect that and you build them up.

Right you encourage them and show them. I see where you're going. Because who know who in here doesn't want to ever be heard or you just want somebody to step all over you like a doormat. We don't want that back to the old adage right do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

Encourage them also. Number six use what they already know or believe. So Paul encouraged them and he showed them what they already knew this unknown God. This this what you're worshiping. I'm gonna show you who this is.

So he encouraged them, and he used what they already know knew and I like to use a sandwich approach. Okay, sandwich approach is this right the bread on top is the encouragement you're encouraging them.

You're building them up, and then BAM you come in with the meat. Oh Wow. Jesus is the only way the only truth. Well, this is then you sandwich them again. You give them. Hope you encourage. You don't just do one or the other it's it's it's this approach that is biblical.

Therefore then Paul said therefore the one whom you are worshiping without knowing. I'm going to proclaim him to you. Verse 24. God who made the world and everything in it since he is Lord of heaven and earth.

Does not dwell in temples made with hands so see he's telling them the truth. Listen you have all these temples. But God does not dwell in temples. Here's the difference between all the other religions on the planet all the other belief systems in the planet with Christianity you come speaking the truth.

All other systems are nothing. So when he says I will tell you about the living God. He's coming with a position of authority and truth and power. All other religions can't nobody that's why they often say well.

Here's what I think. Or here's what these philosophers said or here's speculation. It's all speculation and conjection and theory. But the truth of the Word of God is truth, and you can just lay it out like Paul is I?

I Mean think about he didn't say well. Here's what I'm thinking. I don't know what do you guys think he said the God who made everything? Since he is Lord of heaven and earth does not dwell in temples made with hands.

There's no debating there nor is he worshipped with men's hands as though He needs anything since he gives to all life breath and all things and he has made from one blood. Every nation of men to dwell on the face of the earth and has Determined their pre-appointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings.

This would be a whole sermon in itself because he talks about the sovereignty of God. He said God created you God sustained you the sovereignty of God who he is how he will be worshipped everything in this one paragraph to these people who was somewhat receptive and.

Using Supplemental Information to Make the Gospel Clear

Then the seventh point what we see Paul doing is he used supplemental information to make his point. So you as well you can use supplemental information to make your point. What I mean by supplemental is we have this.

But then you can bring in like with an atheist a lot of facts scientific facts granted a lot of them aren't ready to listen. Right they've already made up their mind, but you bring in other information like at the debate you can watch like I did in February that I brought in other quotes from atheists or Charles Darwin.

Who said I must freely admit that the way the eye is made the chances of that are absurd. Here's what he said. Here's another atheist who said he was the GMO. He was head of the genome project that studied how DNA was made and transferred.

He said there's got to be a creator and You quote you use the their own information on them you bring in the same you bring in supplemental things to show them the truth or Compare their writings to the Bible like for example these groups I named earlier that actually they believe in the Bible not to the same degree we do.