New Life – the last day of an atheist
Preface
This is my day of death as an atheist.
After I had realized I had an encounter with the Lord, I thought this was a unique or one in a million experience. Hearing what to me, had to be God’s voice speak to me was something I have never experienced. Nothing short of a miracle. I thought, “Wow! What an amazing experience!” Then as time passes I begin to hear more and more stories like mine. At first it surprised me a little. Then I kept hearing even more and more stories not much different than mine. And I thought to myself, “Wait a minute! This experience I had is not so unique! This isn’t a one in a million experience!”. But nevertheless, I am even more amazed every time I hear “one of these stories”. Why would I be amazed after hearing the same kind of story over and over again? Because it is God’s work. And God’s work will never cease to amaze me. God’s work doesn’t stop here either, now every time I look around, no matter where I am, I see God’s work. It has always been there in front of me. I just took it for granted. Read more
Mariage in the Bible
A good friend of mine who is an atheist, posted this image on Facebook and I felt compelled to respond. I hope he doesn’t mind.
I must add that my faith is not blind and that although I am no Alfred Einstein or super genius, I am of average intelligence, and my IQ has not gone down since my conversion to Christianity from atheism. 
As some think that to be a Christian you must be intellectually bankrupt.
Personally, I have also noticed that out of 66 books in the Bible, Bible critics, tend to focus on the Old Testament, and especially the book of Deuteronomy, and the New Testament is rarely mentioned. We certainly cannot compare our modern culture and customs with that of ancient Hebrew times.
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Question: “Why did God allow polygamy / bigamy in the Bible?”
Response to another of my atheist friends’ picture posts on Facebook
Was Hitler a Christian?
By John Baskette – but the information came from Marty Helgesen in a soc.religion.christian post.
The claim is sometimes made that Hitler was a Christian – a Roman Catholic until the day he died.
The book Hitler’s Secret Conversations 1941-1944 published by Farrar, Straus and Young, Inc.first edition, 1953, contains definitive proof of Hitler’s real views. The book was published in Britain under the title, _Hitler’s Table Talk 1941-1944, which title was used for the Oxford University Press paperback edition in the United States.
All of these are quotes from Adolf Hitler:
National Socialism and religion cannot exist together…. The heaviest blow that ever struck humanity was the coming of Christianity. Bolshevism is Christianity’s illegitimate child. Both are inventions of the Jew. The deliberate lie in the matter of religion was introduced into the world by Christianity…. Let it not be said that Christianity brought man the life of the soul, for that evolution was in the natural order
Christianity is a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature. Taken to its logical extreme, Christianity would mean the systematic cultivation of the human
The best thing is to let Christianity die a natural death…. When understanding of the universe has become widespread… Christian doctrine will be convicted of absurdity…. Christianity has reached the peak of absurdity…. And that’s why someday its structure will collapse…. …the only way to get rid of Christianity is to allow it to die little by little…. Christianity the liar…. We’ll see to it that the Churches cannot spread abroad teachings in conflict with the interests of the State. (p 49-52)
The reason why the ancient world was so pure, light and serene was that it knew nothing of the two great scourges: the pox and Christianity.
Originally, Christianity was merely an incarnation of Bolshevism, the destroyer…. The decisive falsification of Jesus’ doctrine was the work of St.Paul. He gave himself to this work… for the purposes of personal exploitation…. Didn’t the world see, carried on right into the Middle Ages, the same old system of martyrs, tortures, faggots? Of old, it was in the name of Christianity. Today, it’s in the name of Bolshevism. Yesterday the instigator was Saul: the instigator today, Mardochai. Saul was changed into St.Paul, and Mardochai into Karl Marx. By exterminating this pest, we shall do humanity a service of which our soldiers can have no idea. (p 63-65)
Christianity is an invention of sick brains: one could imagine nothing more senseless, nor any more indecent way of turning the idea of the Godhead into a mockery…. …. When all is said, we have no reason to wish that the Italians and Spaniards should free themselves from the drug of Christianity. Let’s be the only people who are immunised against the disease. (p 118 119)
Kerrl, with noblest of intentions, wanted to attempt a synthesis between National Socialism and Christianity. I don’t believe the thing’s possible, and I see the obstacle in Christianity itself…. Pure Christianity– the Christianity of the catacombs– is concerned with translating Christian doctrine into facts. It leads quite simply to the annihilation of mankind. It is merely whole-hearted Bolshevism, under a tinsel of
There is something very unhealthy about Christianity (p 339)
It would always be disagreeable for me to go down to posterity as a man who made concessions in this field. I realize that man, in his imperfection, can commit innumerable errors– but to devote myself deliberately to errors, that is something I cannot do. I shall never come personally to terms with the Christian lie. Our epoch Uin the next 200 yearse will certainly see the end of the disease of Christianity…. My regret will have been that I couldn’t… behold .” (p 278)
A reader asks,”Where did the quotes from Hitler’s Secret Conversations come from? How do we
Hitler’s Secret Conversations is a translation of a document called the “Bormann-Vermerke” or Borrman endorsements. They are a collection of hand written notes made by Martin Bormann who was Hitler’s personal secretary during the war. Bormann is known to have been an extraordinarily powerful figure in Nazi Germany and a notorious opponent of Christianity.
There is no real dispute regarding the authenticity of these notes. They are what Borrman wrote. They are published in the original German in Adolf Hitler, Monologe im Führerhauptquartier 1941-1944. published by Orbis Verlag, Hamburg, Approved Special Edition in 2000.
The quotes are disputed by some because Hitler is often quoted as publically professing to be a Christian. The simplest reconciliation of this seeming contradiction is that Hitler lied to gain the support of the German people, 90% of whom where professing Christians.
What follows is an excerpt from “Inside the Third Reich” by Hitler’s chief architect and minister of Armaments, Albert Speer. It illuminates how Hitler “adapted his remarks to his surroundings”, thus making himself a friend of the church when it was convenient. It is also another independent witness to Hitler’s true feeling regarding Christianity — it was meek and flabby, Germany would have been better off if Islam had conquered Europe after the battle of Tours, and that Germany had the misfortune of having the wrong religion.
From Inside the Third Reich, Memiors by Albert Speer, Translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston, Avon Publishers, 1970:
What remains in my memory of social life at Obersalzberg is a curious vacuity. Fortunately, during my first years of imprisonment, while my recollections were still fresh, I noted down a few scraps of conversations which I can now regard as
Amid his political associates in Berlin, Hitler made harsh pronouncements against the church, but in the presence of women he adopted a milder tone — one of the instances where he adapted his remarks to his surroundings.
“The church is certainly necessary for the people. It is a strong and conservative element,” he might say at one time or another in this private circle. However, he conceived of the church as an instrument that could be useful to him. “If only Reibi [this was his nickname for Reich Bishop Ludwig Müller] had some kind of stature. But why do they appoint a nobody of an army chaplain? I’d be glad to give him my full support. Think of all he could do with that. Through me the Evangelical [Protestant] Church could become the established church, as in England.”
Even after 1942 Hitler went on maintaining that he regarded the church as indispensable in political life. He would be happy, he said in one of those teatime talks at Obersalzberg, if someday a prominent churchman turned up who was suited to lead one of the churches — or if possible both the Catholic and Protestant churches reunited. He still regretted that Reich Bishop Müller was not the right man to carry out his far-reaching plans. But he sharply condemned the campaign against the church, calling it a crime against the future of the nation. For it was impossible, he said, to replace the church by any “party ideology.” Undoubtedly, he continued, the church would learn to adapt to the political goals of National Socialism in the long run, as it had always adapted in the course of history. A new party religion would only bring about a relapse into the mysticism of the Middle Ages. The growing SS myth showed that clearly enough, as did Rosenburg’s unreadable Myth of the Twentieth Century.
If in the course of such a monologue Hitler had pronounced a more negative judgment upon the church, Bormann would undoubtedly have taken from his jacket pocket one of the white cards he always carried with him. For he noted down all Hitler’s remarks that seemed to him important; and there was hardly anything he wrote down more eagerly than deprecating comments on the church. At the time I assumed that he was gathering material for a biography of Hitler.
Around 1937, when Hitler heard that at the instigation of the party and the SS vast numbers of his followers had left the church because it was obstinately opposing his plans, he nevertheless ordered his chief associates, above all Goering and Goebbels, to remain members of the church. He too would remain a member of the Catholic Church, he said, although he had no real attachment to it. And in fact he remained in the church
Hitler had been much impressed by a scrap of history he had learned from a delegation of distinguished Arabs. When the Mohammedans attempted to penetrate beyond France into Central Europe during the eight century, his visitors had told him, they had been driven back at the battle of Tours. Had the Arabs won this battle, the world would be Mohammedan today. For theirs was a religion that believed in spreading the faith by the sword and subjugating all nations to that faith. The Germanic peoples would have become the heirs to that religion. Such a creed was perfectly suited to the Germanic temperament. Hitler said that the conquering Arabs, because of their racial inferiority, would in the long run have been unable to contend with the harsher climate and conditions of the country. They could not have kept down the more vigorous natives, so that ultimately not Arabs but Islamized Germans could have stood at the head of this
Hitler usually concluded this historical speculation by remarking: “You see, it’s been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn’t we have the religion of the Japaneses, who regard sacrifice for the Fatherland as the highest good? The Mohammedan religion too would have been much more compatible to use than Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?”
My first re-birthday
One year ago today The LORD came into my life and burrowed His Holy Spirit in my heart and I was born again. It has been one of the roughest years I have ever had, filled with growing pains but it has all been all for God’s plan for me. I may not fully understand His plan but I fully trust in Him.
Faith in Jeopardy
A few weeks ago, I was surfing the web, researching material on atheism to share on here (my website). While doing so I stumbled upon something that rocked the very foundations of my faith. Read more
Sugar Coated Truth
Is New Testament Preaching Outdated?
In today’s society man is more interested in being entertained than he is in being taught. Many churches are looking for a preacher than can captivate his audience with either eloquent or motivational speeches.
Movies & Documentaries
These videos are not intended to convert, convince, or change anyone’s mind. They are merely to tell a story. To convey a message. I grew up loving science and history and even as a (former) atheist, I kept an open mind and I watched historical and scientific documentaries on biblical events. I even watched Christian movies and found them very interesting, fascinating and even entertaining. I personally feel no need for any type of video to offer me any evidence for God’s existence. My personal experience alone is sufficient. These videos don’t dictate my faith but they help re-assure it.
The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God
by Lee Strobel
Alice Cooper returns to Jesus
Rock artist-pastor’s kid Alice Cooper returns to Jesus.
The Prodigal Son is home. Listen to his journey back to God.
Christian Music Videos
I’ll will be posting some of my favorite videos of Christian Music here. Whether you are a Christian or not, I think a lot of these songs are awesome and uplifting. Any video suggestions?
David Crowder Band – He Loves Us
Baptisim
Today, Leanna and I were baptized and we dedicated our daughter Ariana Bella. We made the commitment before God to live life according to Him and raise our daughter in a Christian home. Read more
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