Atheism Defined | Rapp Report Daily 0161 | Striving for Eternity
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- Welcome to The Rapid Bull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.
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- This is a ministry of striving for eternity. Many of us have noticed a new definition provided for atheism.
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- Now, atheism is the belief that there is no God. Agnosticism is the claim that they do not know if God exists.
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- But the reason we see a change in atheism is because they want to avoid having to actually give an account for what they state.
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- Because the statement that God does not exist is absolutely impossible to hold to, and they know it.
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- Because of the fact that to believe or to exist requires a person to know all things that there are in the universe.
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- And that would make you God. Knowing that they hold to an impossible position, they treat atheism as a lack of belief in God.
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- And they argue that they no longer have to provide support for their claim, because they only lack a belief.
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- And that they're taking a negative argument. The reality is negative arguments can be proven, whether right or wrong.
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- If I take the negative position that there's no rice in China, all I need to do is show some rice in China, and I have proven that this statement is wrong.
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- So to say that I lack a belief in God is not valid. In fact, nobody makes any decisions or actions based on a lack of belief.
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- They always make decisions based on a positive belief. And when those who profess to be atheists go out and write blogs and books and do things like that, they're doing it on a basic belief that is positive about what they do believe.
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