{"id":2039569,"date":"2023-09-20T22:26:11","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T02:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/atheism-isnt-just-false-its-immoral\/"},"modified":"2023-09-20T22:30:46","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T02:30:46","slug":"atheism-isnt-just-false-its-immoral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/atheism-isnt-just-false-its-immoral\/","title":{"rendered":"Atheism: False and Immoral."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">8<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fatheism-isnt-just-false-its-immoral%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2039569&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Does God exist? \u2063The Immoral Position\u2064 of Atheism<\/h2>\n<p>That\u2019s a \u2062question every human\u2062 must answer. \u2064There\u2019s only\u200c one honest\u200b answer, and everyone knows it in \u2064his heart and mind. The only legitimate answer to the God question is, \u201cYes, God exists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those who answer \u201cno\u201d or \u201cmaybe\u201d come to that erroneous conclusion not through\u2062 the intellect but through the will. Atheists\u2064 and agnostics lie to themselves so they can live according \u200dto\u200b their own rules.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Atheism is fundamentally a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/usa-today-editor-was-fired-for-massive-error-blames-white-supremacy\/\" title=\"USA Today Editor Was Fired For Massive Error, Blames \u2018White Supremacy\u2019\">moral position<\/a>.<\/h3>\n<p>As William\u2063 Taylor put it in his lecture \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.st-helens.org.uk\/resources\/talk\/57454\/audio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The \u2063Cross and Suffering<\/a>,\u201d atheism\u200b is\u2063 \u201cfundamentally a moral \u200bposition.\u201d \u200dBetter yet, it\u200b is fundamentally an immoral position.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Bible backs this\u2062 up.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Psalm+14&#038;version=ESV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Psalm\u200b 14<\/a> begins, \u201cThe fool\u2062 says in his \u2064heart, \u2018There is \u200cno God.\u2019\u201d According to\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/shepherds.edu\/responding-biblically-to-atheism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jarl Waggoner<\/a>, \u201cthe Hebrew term for \u2018fool\u2019 (\u05e0\u05d1\u05dc <em>nabal<\/em>) \u200cdoes not \u200cspeak\u2064 to a person\u2019s intelligence but to his moral character.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>God\u2019s existence can be proved\u200b philosophically, \u200das St. Thomas Aquinas demonstrated\u2062 in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.corpuschristiphx.org\/blog?month=202007&#038;id=868252034&#038;cat=931661708&#038;pg=1&#038;title=St.+Thomas+Aquinas%26%238217%3B+Five+Proofs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">five ways<\/a>. It can be \u200cproved morally necessary, as C.S. Lewis argued\u200b in \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/questionofgod\/ownwords\/mere1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mere Christianity<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But you don\u2019t have to crack a\u2063 book to know \u200bthat God\u2062 exists. As\u200c St. Paul writes in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Romans+1%3A18-25&#038;version=ESV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Romans 1:18-25<\/a>, all you really have to do\u200b is\u2062 look around you.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cFor what can be\u2062 known about \u200bGod is plain to\u200c [men], because God\u2064 has shown it\u200b to them. For his invisible\u2063 attributes, namely, his\u200b eternal power and \u200bdivine nature, have been clearly\u2062 perceived, ever since \u200dthe creation\u200d of the world, in the\u2062 things that have been made.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/famous-atheist-richard-dawkins-former-right-hand-man-converts-christianity-realizing-truth-jesus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Atheists<\/a>, \u200btherefore, are \u201cwithout excuse\u201d and have \u201cexchanged the truth of God for a lie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So the atheist is not only intellectually \u2064dishonest but\u2063 morally \u2063culpable\u2064 because\u200b of it.\u200c Lying \u2014 even to oneself\u2062 \u2014 is\u2062 immoral.<\/p>\n<p>But\u2063 what about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/christians-beware-sparkle-creed-openly-mocks-god-blasphemous-way\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christians<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>In his\u2064 lecture, Taylor cited Paul Bayes, the Church of England\u2019s former Bishop of Liverpool. In 2021, Bayes\u200d gave a <a href=\"https:\/\/cofe-equal-marriage.org.uk\/sex-on-the-brain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">keynote address<\/a> to\u2063 the Movement of\u2062 Supporting Anglicans for an Inclusive Church.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe world beyond the\u200c church has \u2063set the moral agenda,\u201d Bayes said. \u200bHe was \u200cnot lamenting that sad\u2063 truth\u200c but \u200dscolding those Christians \u201clooking for \u200ca ditch\u2064 to die in\u201d who believe what\u200d the Bible \u2063says about \u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/cnn-humiliated-truth-men-arrested-new-anti-gay-laws-comes-light\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">homosexuality<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Taylor seized on Bayes\u2019 \u2062moment\u200d of honesty \u2062to \u200cillustrate that many who\u200d claim to be Christian \u2014 and who hold positions \u2063of spiritual leadership, no less \u2014 are far more akin to atheists.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe Bishop \u2063of Liverpool hates Jesus\u2019 Word,\u201d Taylor said.\u2062 \u201cThe Bishop of Liverpool hates\u200c Jesus.\u200b The Bishop\u2062 of Liverpool does not know God.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Progressive Christians like Bayes claim that the\u200c plain teaching of Scripture is outdated and needs to \u200bbe interpreted afresh as the world changes. Some religious\u2062 leaders are more subtle than\u200c Bayes, but the message is \u2064the same: \u201cWe can bend God\u2019s \u2062Word to our desires.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Like atheism, this is \u2064a moral belief. And, like atheism,\u200b it places man, not God, squarely\u200d on \u200bthe throne.<\/p>\n<p>In this hellish scenario, each individual \u2014 taking \u200dcues from\u2063 the \u200cprevailing moral trends of the day, of course \u2014 bears the impossible burden\u2062 of\u2062 deciding what is right and \u200cwrong for himself.<\/p>\n<p>This necessarily leads \u200bto division and confusion. But \u2062Christianity should \u2063bring \u2063unity and\u200b clarity.<\/p>\n<p>The church is to provide direction \u2063to the \u200cworld, not vice\u2064 versa. Anybody who claims otherwise \u200bis \u2063a friend of atheists and\u2064 an enemy\u2062 of Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/atheism-isnt-just-false-immoral\/\">Atheism Isn&#8217;t Just False, It&#8217;s Immoral<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> How does the suggestion to adapt to \u2064cultural\u200b norms \u200cand <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/atheism-isnt-just-false-its-immoral\/\" title=\"Atheism: False and Immoral.\">abandon traditional biblical teachings \u200cundermine<\/a> the authority of God&#8217;s\u2062 Word?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  =&#8221;_noopener&#8221;>controversial speech<\/a> in \u2062which he claimed \u200dthat Christians who didn&#8217;t affirm same-sex relationships were &#8220;on the wrong side of history.&#8221; Bayes also argued that the Church should &#8220;adapt&#8221; to the changing cultural\u200b norms and abandon traditional biblical teachings.<\/p>\n<p>Bayes&#8217;\u2064 views\u2063 are not only morally \u200cwrong but\u200c also theologically\u200d unsound. The Bible explicitly condemns\u2063 homosexuality in multiple passages, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Romans+1%3A26-27&#038;version=ESV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Romans 1:26-27<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=1+Corinthians+6%3A9-10&#038;version=ESV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1\u200c Corinthians 6:9-10<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Christians who endorse\u2062 or practice homosexual behavior are not being faithful to the teachings\u2063 of the\u200c Bible and the historic Christian faith. They\u2064 are compromising their beliefs in order to conform to the world&#8217;s standards.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Bayes&#8217; suggestion that the Church should adapt to cultural norms undermines the authority of God&#8217;s Word and the eternal \u2064truths\u2062 it contains. If the Church abandons biblical teachings whenever they become unpopular or\u2062 deemed outdated by society, then it loses its moral compass and \u2062becomes just another social institution guided by human opinions.<\/p>\n<p>Christianity \u2063is not \u2063about conforming\u200b to the world but about transforming the world\u200c through the power of the Gospel. It is about embracing the truth of God&#8217;s Word and living according to His \u2063commandments, even if they are countercultural or \u2063challenging.<\/p>\n<p>Christians\u2062 have a responsibility to uphold biblical \u2062morality and to \u2062lovingly proclaim the truth of God&#8217;s design for human relationships, including marriage\u200d between\u2063 one \u200cman and \u200done woman. This does not mean excluding or \u2062hating\u200d those with\u2062 different lifestyles, but rather, it means standing firm in our convictions while showing compassion and inviting others to experience the transformative love of Christ.<\/p>\n<p>We must be \u2063wary \u200dof <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dont-be-like-the-hippies\/\" title=\"Don\u2019t Be Like the Hippies\">false teachings<\/a> and leaders who \u200bdistort the Word of God to \u2062fit their own agendas. Instead, let \u2064us hold fast \u2062to the unchanging truth \u2064of God&#8217;s existence and His moral standards, seeking wisdom and guidance \u200dfrom His Word and\u2064 the\u2063 guidance\u200b of the Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, the question\u200b of God&#8217;s existence\u200b is not merely an\u200b intellectual debate but a matter of morality and personal choice.\u200d The evidence of God&#8217;s existence is all around us, and those who deny it\u2062 are without excuse.\u200c As Christians, \u2064we must remain steadfast \u200bin our faith and strive to live according\u2062 to God&#8217;s truth, even \u200cwhen it\u2062 goes against the prevailing\u200d cultural norms.<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion, atheism \u200cis \u200can immoral position that denies the \u2063existence of \u2063God and allows \u200dindividuals\u200b to create their \u200cown subjective moral standards. Christians are called to\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/analysis-how-the-pence-campaign-aims-to-win-nomination-remake-party\/\" title=\"Pence Campaign's Strategy: Secure Nomination, Revamp Party\">stand\u200c firm<\/a> in\u200d their\u200b faith and resist the temptation to \u2063compromise biblical teachings \u200cfor \u200bthe sake of \u200dsocietal acceptance. Let \u2063us embrace the\u200d truth \u200bof God&#8217;s Word \u2063and live lives that \u2063bring\u2063 glory to Him, trusting in His wisdom and\u2063 guidance for \u2062our moral decisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is God real? It&#8217;s a question we all must answer. Deep down, we know the honest truth. The only valid response is, &#8220;Yes, God exists.&#8221; Those who say &#8220;no&#8221; or &#8220;maybe&#8221; reach that mistaken conclusion not through reason, but through personal choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2131,"featured_media":2039570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2039569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2039569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2039570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2039569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2039569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2039569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}