1 John 4:7-21
God is LOVE, and Love Came from God
7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.11 Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
13 This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 15 If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God. 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.
God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. 17 This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus. 18 There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
19 We love because he first loved us. 20 Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. 21 And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.
Matthew 12:30
Whoever is Not With Jesus is Actually Against Jesus
30 “Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.
Matthew 28:16-20
The Great Commission
16 Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. 17 When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. 18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
John 14:1-4
Jesus Will Prepare a Place in Heaven for His Disciples
1 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. 2 My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. 4 You know the way to the place where I am going.”
Romans 8:28
God Works for the Good
28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
How do you explain love?...How do you explain that God is LOVE?...Love is needed and necessary in the world, how do you explain that?...
An atheist who tries to teach others about his own beliefs about God not existing, seems to me, is trying to teach the things that he has faith in and what he or she believes in...An atheist has a belief...And that belief is that God does not exist...A teaching atheist, it seems, is trying to teach his own religion and his personal belief system, just as the believer in God tries to spread the gospel of Truth, in what he says and does...So to me, the atheist has a belief system, as does the believer in God...Jesus, in my opinion, seems to say everyone has a belief in religion when He stated anyone who isn't with me opposes me, and anyone who isn't working with Me is actually working against Me (Matthew 12:30)...
The atheist, who gives his opinion on his beliefs, is telling us there is no God...If an atheist believes that believers must prove to others why there is a God, then he too, should also be ask to defend the reasons why he believes there is no God and offer his proof of why he believes there is no God...Then both proofs can be better reviewed, studied, and compared by all parties involved...Just to say there is no God or that there is a God may not prove to be helpful to those seeking answers to questions about God and Jesus...
Now Jesus wants us to work with Him, learn from Him and spread His Good News...I think, this Great Commission maybe hard for both the teaching and the non-teaching atheist to understand...But as we look at this Great Commission, the Disciples now had a purpose in their lives...Their purpose was to spread Jesus teachings...And after they spread the word in their time, they would die, but Jesus told there that He had prepared a room, a place for them in heaven...
This spreading of the gospel, maybe part of the Holy Spirit in each of us...Jesus certainly made His Disciples very aware of the Holy Spirit...And when one is spreading the Good News, the listener can believe the gospel or not believe in it...If an atheist truly believes that there is no God, then he or she should not be concerned about others teaching about God and His Son...After all, why would others change their mind if there is truly no God...
The atheist believes in randomness and the evolution of man and that man and woman and all living things came from a primeval chemical soup billions of years ago...And that this process started in a random explosion called the Big Bang theory...The atheist must believe that somehow their minds have evolved into a rational thinking mind and that their thoughts can be rational and can produce logic...But this does not make sense, since if their mind and beliefs are actually a mind and brain that have both evolved out of nothing from nothing and were created by this growing randomness and chance...I do not see how random time and random chance can produce rational and logic in the mind...Other animals and creatures have not produced rational and logic yet...And when the atheist dies, he believes everything is done and over...The believer sees things differently around him...The believer believes in God as the Creator of the heavens and universe -and that it is organized, finely tuned (for man) and detailed in such a way that earth and the universe shows that us God's creations, and thus shows us that there is a God...By just looking around one can see these visible things around them...And in seeing these things you can believe in Him...The believer believes that their thoughts have came from God's creating man, and that we are made in the Image of God...And when the believer dies he can go to heaven if he has Jesus in his heart...
The non-believer sees randomness in everything...He sees life as meaningless...He sees life as purposeless...He sees death as the end...Because that is how his world started and has stayed...From the Big Bang it has brought randomness, meaningless, purposeless to the universe...And from nothing comes nothing...If this is true, then we are no different than the living plants around us or the animals on earth...The believer, however, sees design and organization in all things, with God as its Creator...He sees beauty and love over randomness...Because that is the way it has been from the beginning of creation in a designed, organized Creator's world, beginning in the Garden of Eden...And that God somehow is always working for the good of those who love Him, to those who are called according to His purpose...And God brings hope, meaning, and purpose to our lives...
God is LOVE, and God gives us love...Love comes from God...Where did the human rights come from?...Where do morals come from?...Why does the world have and see this baseline of goodness, and the wanting of goodness to permeate the world?...I do not know how the non-believer can answer this one question, "Why is there love in the world?"...