This guy really hates religion, but most of all God himself. I just wondered and maybe thought what some of my brothers and sisters feeling are concerning such hatred and defiance of God. He is spreading along with Bill Maher such Anti-God messages by trying to shoot down the virgin birth.
I welcome hearing from u all
Praises to the God of Abraham as revealed to us by Yeshua!!!!!
There are those who are so blinded to the truth
and there are those who refuse to acknowledge
God's will and wisdom. Christopher Hitchins
is the latter. He has chosen to life apart from
God without hope and without a future!
Looking through my journal from this last year..I have run across this man's name mentioned..I have been praying for God's mercy to save him..He will be so suprised to find out how wrong he has been..what a sad sad awakening..Let us pray for him with genuine concern for his salvation. He is missing out on the greatest,most wonderful relationship ever...I pity him..but even for him there is still hope.
I feel for him, there is a sense of very obvious lost-ness, but he is extremely prideful in his so called assessment that "God is not great", and that is what really stinks about his message. It is the pride that stinks, Jesus paid a price for this guy also, but I sense a FEAR and self insecurity that causes him to speak so blatantly rotten of christendom.
Thanks guys and gals
Blessings
I just looked him up in wikipedia.
The thing which strikes me, is that a person who cannot separate God from His servants - that is, His so-called servants who have done such a work of turning him away from God - probably has had some really bad experiences of meaningless religion forced on them at a very early age.
It takes genuine determination from an intellectual, as well as the willingness to be wrong about their earlier and much-proclaimed understanding of who God is, to get down to the detail in God's presence, and honestly ask for Him to show Himself as He is, and not as He has been portrayed.
Pride plays a part in a person's survival which God understands completely. He is never out to destroy the person, and knows what it means to be a broken reed or a smoking flax. The person himself has to acknowledge (to himself and to God), the dawning of clearer understanding as God breaks down his resistance (as only God can).
There is always hope. Remember Malcom Muggeridge? And C.S. Lewis?
One last thought: sometimes a man holding his position knows he is looking at an early death if he changes his mind about God. That's not easy.
Likewise, he may be looking at an early death if he doesn't.
[b]14But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
[i]1 Cor 2v14
It doesn't matter whether you have the mind of Einstein. If you don't have the Spirit of God, you're flapping around in the dark. Men like Christopher Hitchens need prayed for. They'd be great assets for the Kingdom of God if only they'd come to Christ.
The scriptures point out such a man, a man by the name of Saul of Tarsus, he vehemently spoke out against and toward God and the movement that was so prevalent and totally effective.
But he Saul had the wonderful experience of becoming Paul the Apostle, the Apostle of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, the very God he was attempting to speak out on behalf of.
I think Hitchins is simply walking in confusion, a confusion that he would rather chalk up as being "Godless".
let us pray for him brethren, earnestly
The scriptures point out such a man, a man by the name of Saul of Tarsus, he vehemently spoke out against and toward God and the movement that was so prevalent and totally effective.But he Saul had the wonderful experience of becoming Paul the Apostle, the Apostle of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, the very God he was attempting to speak out on behalf of.
Amen
Thanks for these thoughts, Linn
dorcas wrote:I just looked him up in wikipedia.
The thing which strikes me, is that a person who cannot separate God from His servants - that is, His so-called servants who have done such a work of turning him away from God - probably has had some really bad experiences of meaningless religion forced on them at a very early age.
It takes genuine determination from an intellectual, as well as the willingness to be wrong about their earlier and much-proclaimed understanding of who God is, to get down to the detail in God's presence, and honestly ask for Him to show Himself as He is, and not as He has been portrayed.
Pride plays a part in a person's survival which God understands completely. He is never out to destroy the person, and knows what it means to be a broken reed or a smoking flax. The person himself has to acknowledge (to himself and to God), the dawning of clearer understanding as God breaks down his resistance (as only God can).
There is always hope. Remember Malcom Muggeridge? And C.S. Lewis?
One last thought: sometimes a man holding his position knows he is looking at an early death if he changes his mind about God. That's not easy.Likewise, he may be looking at an early death if he doesn't.
I had to look him up too, never heard of him before!
In a way I have more hope for someone who is violently anti-God than someone who doesn't care. Maybe this man too is "kicking against the pricks"
One hopes so.
Jeannette.
I wonder if the fact that we are praing for him is a sign that the Lord is indeed working in his heart.
ejg wrote:
The scriptures point out such a man, a man by the name of Saul of Tarsus, he vehemently spoke out against and toward God and the movement that was so prevalent and totally effective.But he Saul had the wonderful experience of becoming Paul the Apostle, the Apostle of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, the very God he was attempting to speak out on behalf of.
I think Hitchins is simply walking in confusion, a confusion that he would rather chalk up as being "Godless".
let us pray for him brethren, earnestly
I would ask prayer for Richard Dawkins too, the violently and irrationally atheistic scientist.
Blessings
Jeannette
this is where the demonstration of the gospel comes in.
For most of us it is theory. We read about the mighty works of God.
What moves the skeptic is when he sees that Jesus is alive and still does what he did before.
What will yank this guys chain is the prophetic.
When the dead are raised,blind eyes are opened deaf hear,leapers are claeansed,and demons cast out.
Yes the Good news of the gospel is amazingly good news.
It is such good news that when the Gospel is preached in power that signs and wonders follow.
A true Holy Ghost filled man of God can go to the worst demon filled religious stronghold in India and say" When I preach to you Jesus and he is still alive the he will do the same things he did when he walked the earth.
Now if he is no longer alive then nothing will happen. But he is Alive and when I preach Jesus , blind eyes will open,the deaf will hear,the lame will walk,the leapers will be made whole and demons will tremble and flee.
And if this doesnt happen then I am a false prophet and you have my permission to stone me"
........but tary in Jerusalem untill you are indued with power.
David
Psalm1 and Little gift, I love your posts, I do, I really love the truthful content of these sort of words. It also epitomizes the fact that real and spiritual good news must come forth, not the everyday mundane words that we use, i am with Art Katz and Brother Tozer when it comes to words. Our words must resound from Heaven, our own words, our own tolerance must no longer b tolerated.
We as Believers must tarry in Jerusalem sort of speak, and wait on that true refreshing.
We also must have the confidence to trust God to do in us what he did in our previous "fathers" if you will. We need HIM to do in us what he has done in others, but I hear HIM saying, give yourself to me, give yourself to me!
We must come full circle with true authentic patience, faith, and a waiting that is synonymous of our forefathers if you will of scripture.....
I am not trying to sound spiritual or so holy, trust me, I am small in the plan of the Almighty, I would just love to be moved and filled by our Lord as never b4...
We must, we must, we must, we must be born again
With love Saints
EJG
Mr. Hitchens doesn't like much of anything and religion is an easy target. Nothing new:
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“Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea” Madelyn O'Hair.
Ms. O'Hair hated God, too. but i think her criticism of prayer in public schools was good for the faith and brought the subject of religion into the public. (and public prayer in school probably never saved anyone)
So, when Mr. Hitchens criticizes Christianity, he not only brings the subject into public domain, but also he lays out his rationale for arguement.
For example, he criticizes Jesus' teaching of "love your enemies" as being suicidal, . . of not being in the best interests of the individual. It is easy to see that he has interpreted this teaching by assuming the worst possible circumstances about it: that the person has to bear their throat to their enemy, or some such nonsense. He doesn't examine the societal implications of this teaching at all. so it is easy to criticize from this lazy point of view.
i say, let him ramble on in his alcoholic stupor. he makes it easy to see the flaws in his approach.
in the end he will come crawling on hands and knees saying he didn't really mean it. just testing us for our own good, or some such.
Ms. O'Hair's critcism of religion in general is much more valid, although i cannot imagine the void in life if there was no God or spiritual realm or religion . . . if we were just so many atoms bouncing around randomly.
Indeed, the Crusades, the witch trials, and way too many other examples of misery caused by religion exist.
But, what a horrible idea, a world without the love of God!
bub
Maybe he's running. Maybe there's a call of God on his life and he's confused and/or afraid. I've seen this happen in my own circle of friends. Perhaps what he really needs is prayer to see him through his issues. Just a thought.
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