The Google definition of an atheist is: "a person who disbelieves or lacks belief in the existence of God or gods." If a person doesn't believe God exists, they also don't believe that the threat of hell exists. If reading a little piece of paper that just told him God and hell exists without giving any evidence to back it up was enough to convert him, then he wasn't an atheist. He was somebody that deep down believed God existed, but was angry at him so denied it. That's not atheism.
+Kevin Kelleher Then you'll need to amend your definition of atheist to also include someone who will never, ever change their mind on the issue. Close-minded.
+Living Waters not close-minded. just not so open minded that his brain falls out. being open minded only means that you are willing to hear what the other people have to say and will judge what they have to say fairly, it doesn't mean that you must believe whatever is said to you. if you are open minded but have no level of skepticism you would have to believe any and all claims regardless of their veracity. the only claims that hold any weight are the ones that have a reasonable amount of evidence backing them. for instance if you believed things without asking for evidence you would have to believe in every conspiracy theory you have ever heard. You would believe in big foot, aliens, and probably deny the moon landing. evidence is a tool that we use to cut out the make believe from reality. never changing your mind on an issue does not make you close minded, what makes you close minded is if you are unwilling to change your mind on an issue when presented with evidence.
+Living Waters So are you suggesting that all atheists are atheists because they're closed-minded? That they actually do believe in God, but are choosing to not accept it for whatever reason? If you are, then you clearly don't have an understanding of why most atheists chose to be atheists. If not, I'm not sure I understand what you're saying.
+Kevin Kelleher We don't use words according to some definitions but according to the impressions they make. This is true for the word god as for the word atheist.
The beliefs of the majority of people that call themselves atheists match with that definition. There are far more people who call themselves atheists that genuinely don't believe in God than there are which do, but refuse to accept it.
I hope christians don't think all atheist have come to it through such tragic and damaging experiences. I hope they realize that the vast majority of us just want to live in peace. I know there is a vocal minority of us who attack you and others though I do believe this can be stated for both groups. I just hope that both sides of this argument realize that not everyone is a fanatic out for blood.
As a Christian, I hope the same the other way around. And that one day every atheist gets to experience the peace and life that only Jesus can offer, through the gift of Eternal life with Him.
The way you should come to belief in God is through realisation for your need for a saviour. We have all lied, stolen, lusted, blasphemed and the list goes on. We have all fallen short of the glory of God. My friend. You and I are sinners! There's no denying it. We are guilty of the utmost high treason before a thrice holy God. God should send us to hell. Its what we deserve. BUT God sent us His son, Jesus Christ, who lived a sinless life and died in our strad. He bore the wrath of God the Father on Himself so that we dont have to. And He rose from the grave, defeating death. If we want to be saved from our sin, we must repent and believe unto Jesus for salvation.
We just ordered some £1 million tracks, and they came the other day! So mum gave her first one out on Monday, to a guy at the till in poundworld, and it went great! When mum had finished giving him the money for the shopping, mum said "Here take this, it's a 'million pound note' for you!!!" He happily took it and said "I wish I was, then I wouldn't have to work here!!!" And then mum said that there was something on the back for him to read!!! I was very impressed how things went, so I will definitely be giving some out soon!!!!!!
I was just saying to myself, I'd love to hear a testimony from someone who was touched to true repentance, by the outreach of Living Waters Ministries! Hallelujah 🙌❤
I received a tract about the Flying Spaghetti monster and my life flashed in front of me and I knelt down to pray to the Flying Spaghetti monster. That's how this story sounds to atheists.
+savedbygrace The brain virus has used a positive feedback loop to reinforce its presence in your brain. Kindly detach your brain slug and please don't go spreading it around, especially to children.
I believe because I believe what God says about Himself and His standard of good and evil. "Without holiness no one will see the Lord" (Hebrews 12:14). Any Christian would readily include themselves in the "unholy" category before having trusted in the saving work of Jesus Christ. We evangelize because we recognize the danger unbelievers are in and want to make them aware. I think most people would characterize that as good person behavior. If you feel judged or criticized by this it's because you entirely missed the point.
This reminds me of the tracts that people were ripping off waitresses with. The waitresses are already christians and we're receiving tracts instead of the $10 tips they thought they were getting. Here is $0. Keep being yourself. You're welcome! ;-)
MrBradFu "He said.. " Yes, I know, but i don't believe him. He is describing his "being an atheist" in a way that no atheist I have ever met would describe it. Further, he is describing atheism in the weird convoluted way that Christians think atheists are. therefor ... i think he is lying about it.
Like yourself? And all other raging atheists who scream until they're blue in the face that they aren't mad, while calling God ugly names? Those guys? Yeah, then there is no such thing as an atheist.
***** Ah, I see, the ol' I tell you something that completely refutes everything you said and proves you wrong and unveils how you're rambling in anger without making an argument and you just insult me and use the two fallacies of personal attack and diversion to make me think I somehow was proven wrong because you said something unkind and then when I call you out on it you'll probably continue to do it and just prove my point further trick. Works every time.
Fred Jan " I tell you something that completely refutes everything you said ... there is no such thing as an atheist." Perhaps i missed it. When did you refute anything that ***** said? An Atheist is one who has no belief in any God or Gods. I personally have no belief in any God or Gods existence, therefor I am an Atheist. A person who is "mad" at God would necessarily believe that a God exists and is therefor a Theist. Sound to me like you are using the Preacher's definition of the word "Atheist." instead of the definition that is used by the people who call themselves "Atheist".
Scott M Savage I said there's no such thing as an atheist? Do you mean my first comment? I wasn't literally saying that, I was only playing off your original comment.
he had faith in a imagined God, one who gives people the material things they think they need. Praise God that He purposed to have this man come to true faith, to repent of his sins and believe in Jesus alone for salvation; the best gift ever.
No offense, but I find it amusing that so many atheists that post here are defending their religion of atheism the way we defend Christianity. We say, based on the Bible, that you can't be a Christian and lose your Christianity. An atheist says basically you can't be an atheist and lose your atheism. Christianity promises eternal life as a gift from God (Romans 6:23). There is no need to fear death and you desire the salvation of the lost. Christ offers hope and new life through His supernatural grace. Atheism promises...? And the atheists cares about others to become atheists because...? Atheism offers....?....and a ? life through nature? I praise God for the testimony of this man and anyone that has come to the Lord.
humanoid21 Here are three definitions of religion from Webster’s Family Dictionary. First definition: “A set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, esp. when considered as the creation of superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code for the conduct of human affairs.” Notice this definition doesn’t have to apply to those that believe in a deity. Atheists have beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, though they don’t know the cause, say everything is purposeless, and describe the nature of things based on their senses. It is still a set of beliefs. Atheists also believe in the creation of superhuman agency or agencies, though not God. For instance, you believe a big bang came from nothing; this is supernatural. You believe intangibles like knowledge, logic, and morals exist, but have no starting point of foundation outside finite man that lives and dies, therefore, it must come from something transcendent. Eventually you come to a conclusion like star dust or Martians (it is documented that Atheists have said this; look it up on RUclips) though they would need a beginning. This beginning must be self-existent or “beginnings” would go on and on. Either way, both are supernatural. Atheists have devotional and ritual observances; this is the reason you have RUclips channels, web sites, and Reason Rallies, because you want to get together and devote your time to reason and do so ritually. And finally, you do have a moral code for conduct; in fact, Atheists pride themselves in saying they don’t need God for morals. So, though you can’t account for morals, you have a code for it. Second definition: “A specific fundamental set of beliefs and practices generally agreed upon by a number of persons or sects.” Enough said. You don’t have to be a Christian to be religious. The Reason Rally proves this definition true or all of the Atheists and skeptics wouldn’t get together for a group meeting. When Christians do it, we call it church. And since even Atheists want to have atheist churches (yes, it has been documented that you have them), it would seem Atheists fit this description. Third definition: “The body of persons adhering to a particular set of beliefs and practices.” This rightly describes Christians, but doesn’t it also describe the Atheist? Indeed it does. You all believe there is either no God or no empirical proof of God. You believe in your own reason and your senses to determine truth. You believe you can be moral without God. You believe your beliefs are the only true belief, basically saying all other religions that adhere to a deity is false. (Interestingly, Christians say that Jesus is the only way based on His own words in John 14:6, yet Atheists say their way is the only way over all religions, though the way to what? Meaningless life that leads to death.) You also practice a life without God, though you have the same moral foundation as those that know God, yet can’t account for them outside of yourself. You adhere to relative truth. Final analysis: By definition, Atheism is a religion. It’s just a religion without a deity. You worship yourself (man), evolution (the creation), and your own reason (worldly wisdom that God finds foolish). Sounds like the very description of all lost people found in Romans 1:18-23. So by the authority of the Bible and the definition of secular sources, I stand by my assertion. Atheism is a religion. Thanks for reading.
gogreyhound Go back and carefully read the definition of religion from the dictionary. Based on the definition and the consistent actions of atheists found on the internet, RUclips, rallies, etc.; atheism falls into that category. I don't want to make an assertion that atheism is a religion without comparing the actions and views of atheists to the definition of religion. Religion doesn't require a deity, as you notice from the definition, therefore, atheists are as religious as those that believe in a deity. Since you make the assertion that it is not, could you please go over the actions, views, and words of atheists and show how it doesn't line up with the definitions I gave in my other post. Just assertions made hold no weight without reasonable explanations, which atheists are supposed to be known for.
+Cole G. I was having trouble with my keyboard ,wiseguy. That actually proves my point about the arrogant faith people have in modern technology. Your "god" is a fallible circuit board one solar flare and poof its toast. I know my Redeemer lives and I shall see Him when we stand together at the latter day upon the earth.
My dad died of cancer, my whole family talked about good and all that stuff, i loved my father as every son, but, if your ideas are clear, and you are truly an atheisth, you won't let the life use the sorrow to change your mind.
He was raised on god. Got upset and then didn't believe. Learned a bit about evolution and partied. Then goes to a movie and meets someone who still has faith that does a very nice gesture and restores his faith. I don't want to be mean but how is that a true conversion? I call that getting back on track. I personally don't believe in this. Every religious thing I have watched just leaves me with more questions about the dumb things I'm being told. I was trying to watch an Anime about giant fictional robots when I was forced to watch one of Living Waters's adds. I'm the last person you want to be converting.
You will if you accept Jesus' payment for your sins. If you aren't willing to believe God's Word you will not. Have you ever read the Gospel of John? Do you want to know how to be saved? You need to humble yourself and be sorry for offending God with your sin. Faith of a child is needed. That implies humble trust in your Maker and Savior. Until then you don't need to concern yourself with Heaven. It's Hell you should be worried about. And denying it won't make it disappear. No one needs to prove anything to you. It's God you will answer to. If and when you decide you want to know God's truth, you will find it.
So the million dollar question is a question of gullibility? Fear based questions made to manipulate people into submission are morally bankrupt. Will I go to heaven when I die? No. Will you? I doubt it. Next question.
+Trevor Lentz The question is suppose to get you to think about your eternity man. Very important issue to think about. Fear based question, come on man.
+Jimmy Weez My eternity? I don't know if I have an eternity (let alone what it would look like). As a skeptic, how am I to discern which religion is correct when all are based on faith? Faith, it seems is not a reliable path to truth as it brings people to mutually exclusive conclusions.
Trevor Lentz Christianity alone is based on just faith. "We are saved by grace through faith not of works lest anyone should boast". The others religions of course require faith but they teach a work righteous doctrine. Cant happen, we all suffer from sin and cannot escape it. Jesus did the work for us, we need just to believe and tell others of the good news. Repent and trust Christ with your life. *To answer your question, if man worked his way to heaven he would brag about it. Man has to much pride. Righteousness cannot be achieved by works.
Isaiah Phillip Suppose that we could speak with an embryo in his mothers womb and that you would tell him that embryonic life is only a short one after which follows a real, long life. What would the embryo answer? He would say the answer atheists give when we talk about heaven and hell. He would say that life in the womb is the only one and that everything else is religious foolishness. But if the embryo could think, he would say to himself, 'here arms grow on me. I cannot even stretch them. Why do they grow? Perhaps they grow for a future stage of my existence, in which I will have to work with them. Legs grow, but I have to keep them bent toward my chest. Why do they grow? Probably life in a large world follows, where I will have to walk. Eyes grow, although I am surrounded by perfect darkness and dont need them. Why do I have eyes? Probably a world with light and colors will follow.' So if the embryo would reflect on his own development, he would know about a life outside of his mothers womb, without having seen it. It is the same with us. As long as we are young, we have a vigor, but no mind to use it properly. When, with the years we have grown in knowledge and wisdom, the hearse waits to take us to the grave. Why was it necessary to grow in a knowledge and wisdom that we can use no more? Why do arms, legs and eyes grow on an embryo? It is for what follows. So it is with us here. We grow for what follows. We are prepared to serve on a higher level that follows death.
Is an atheist's lack of belief always consistent or do they at times wonder if they are mistaken and God perhaps really does exist. People go through a range of emotions and may not always be rock solid in whatever beliefs - or lack thereof - they may hold.
I was raised Christian but now I am an atheist. As for your question it depends on the person really. I started to disbelieve for various reasons as a teenager but I still didn't say I was an "atheist". Even in my early 20s I would struggle with what I believe. It wasn't until I really became fascinated with the subject and really learning everything I could about it, that I became more "rock solid". I can articulate it much better now about what I believe. When I was Christian my mind was a chaotic mess of personally held truths that contradicted each other, now my mind is much clearer and concise.
It is a fallacy that any significant number of atheists no longer believe in god(s) because of some tragedy in their life. Do you disbelieve in the _Flying Spaghetti Monster_ due to some tragedy?
@Be Ye HOLY You dishonestly avoided the question. Try again. *"Atheists...are totally dedicated..."* Sounds like you're implying we secretly believe gods exist. More dishonesty. I fight the _evil_ perpetrated by religions and many of their followers. Evils such as attacks on reproductive freedoms, attacks on LBGTQ equal rights, attacks on science, indoctrination of the young or emotionally/intellectually compromised people, attacks on the absolute sovereignty of our bodies, etc.etc. How real can your god be if it can only be defended with dishonest means?
@Bre Bre “warn” as in implying that if you don’t go to heaven the alternative is hell. It could easily be rephrased as “will you go to hell when you die?” It’s just about striking fear into people
@@juleshale8847 Well since it is the truth, sometimes we gotta scare them. I'd hope if someone was warning me that the bridge I was on was going to collapse that they wouldnt try to avoid scaring me and just tell me to get off. Then I'd look at them like "You can't tell me what to do" but if they came up and said "THE BRIDGE IS COLLAPSING!" I would get scared and then run to safety. The fear would have shown why I need to be saved. So the fear of going to Hell can bring you out of the danger and into the hands of our savior Jesus Christ, but if there is no danger and no God's wrath, why would someone who is comfortable in their sin want to be "saved"?
@Cameron Tyndall where’s the bridge? In your example you’re on a bridge and you can see it collapsing, and yet I don’t see any bridge (hell) in the first place. You aren’t convincing anyone by saying we’re going to hell. You’re just trying to scare people who had already been indoctrinated with this crap as a child. Cosmic Skeptic made a good video about this if you’re interested, about how one can be an atheist and yet still occasionally feel irrational fear of hell because that fear was instilled in them as a child. Children are sponges. Stop using fear tactics. Once again, it’s disgusting.
@@TheJimtanker I think the Ressurection of Christ is the most important one,if that Isn't backed up the whole Christianity is made up,right?But,that is not the case,Here is credible evidence that the Ressurection did indeed happen which alone fulfills Bible Prophecies and proves Jesus claims;ruclips.net/video/A0iDNLxmWVM/видео.html
@Be Ye HOLY No, we're fighting against ignorance and the effects of it. People vote to take away the rights of others and use their religious beliefs to justify it.
Guy stops believing because of difficulties he faces then starts believing because he's worried about himself not going to heaven. Does this person just think of himself? Does he ever think about the world around him?
To those that see beauty in this story, I applaud your ability to find such. Just don't think that this will ever hold up as a justification for the existence of god if you are ever speaking to an atheist. I am not commenting to defend the atheist position, though I am an atheist. I am trying to illustrate the fact that personal revelation, and subjective experience will always be rejected by anyone who relies on empirical evidence.
Jekob Caudill Dude if God does exist, then I will go to heaven and you will go to hell. If he doesnt, we will all jst die and nothing happens. For me, its a win win situation. I dont read the Bible because of what God offers, but because of who He is. Lets say that when I die, nothing happens, I dont care because the Bible brought me a peaceful, comfortable and a joyous life for me and my family. I would have died in peace and happiness and with a sense of purpose. What is YOUR purpose? To maybe become really successful and enjoy that lifestyle for maybe 20 - 30 years and then die? For nothing? Think beyond just the 80 years that we live here on earth, there is a MUCH bigger purpose for EVERYTHING
I put Gospel tracts in old bank envelopes, and leave them hanging around places. Everyone is willing to pick up a bank envelope to see how much is left inside. Some may see it as a prank, but others pass it along.
Even if this is legitimate (which I don't believe), it doesn't change the fact that there are many more ex-theists than ex-atheists. Why? Because agnostic atheism is the most logical/reasonable position.
Logical and reasonable? Hardly. In a chance universe there is no reason to expect there to be logic. Even if we grant its existence, your worldview cannot account for its properties. Given that the universe is in a continual state of change, why should laws of logic be exempt? We all assume that they will be the same tomorrow, but this belief is unwarranted in your worldview. The existence and properties of laws of logic are unjustified in the secular worldview. And hence, any belief based on them is also unjustified.
+Living Waters In any universe, logic can be present. It doesn't matter wether the universe was created by a god or by chance, logic is reasoning that is supported by valid principles. Logic could be "I don't see a pattern here, so I think this is random", or "I see a pattern here, so I think this will happen again". You can find logic in a chaotic universe just as well as in a more orderly universe, regardless of their origins.
+Living Waters Did you not read what I just said? Logic is present even in the most random of universes, it does not need to be based on predictability. And I fail to understand why theists like yourself claim that their religions are more logical than the unfaithful worldview. I hope you understand that atheism is not a belief system and that we will believe in a god (or anything unproven for that matter) so long as proper evidence is presented. It is illogical to assume something for no reason, in fact, that is the opposite of logical reasoning. And it is exactly what major religions like Christianity do.
+Joemanjamz An infant doesn't have the mental capacity unfortunately, but as our brain develops we can obtain more and more advanced information. Imagine you have a species whose female organs develop at a separate rate, that's not exactly helpful for the species and therefore, with time, will die out. That means that only species with similar development rates will survive and likewise that's about all there is in nature today. Don't give up too easily, you can look for explanations without resorting to giving the credit to a God.
Are you kidding me? This guy grew up in Christianity, lost his faith when things got hard for his family (because praying to God for money or anything else does not work) and then someone gave him a note that reminded him of his psychologically damaging upbringing and scared him that he might not go to heaven (and would therefore go to hell). So he ran like a baby back into mommy religion's arms.
Honest questions: How do you share the gospel with the many strangers that you pass by you each day? Do you stop and talk to each one? Or when you talk about sharing the gospel with your life, do you mean it's for those that get to know you and see your lifestyle, such as family and friends?
Living Waters amen thank you for your question, once I became a true Christian born again, God changed my life but not like any normal thing everyone is used to. We moved and my family and I have been a witness to everyone of our friends and family so much more than we ever had before trying to just speak of the gospel rather than being a living witness with our lives. There are strangers that have passed me by and asked me if I was a Christian because they saw the light of God in me, there's nothing good in me but God. I go to nursing homes with a group from my church and we sing to them and they feel the Holy Spirit very close and a few realize they don't have enough power in the flesh to overcome their struggles and they receive the Holy Spirit. God must help us to discern who is going to accept his light and who will reject it, and we must go unto those lost souls that see that they are lost and sick in need of a savior and healer. Those are the people that God leads us to when we are sensitive to him and his voice. Thank you for your questions God bless you.
Hold on a minute.Shouldn't they also witness Jesus to the person while passing out those Gospel tracts? I mean even the guy in this video said he was meaning to through it away.
"No evidence that God Exist" the creation & conscience is enough proof that there is a God (Rom 1: 20-32). That's like saying every building has no builder.
One thing an atheist can’t deny is that history has proven the existence of God and Jesus dying on the cross and resurrecting from the dead If history has proven this, why wouldn’t you want to believe this ?
I speak from experience. He wanted to deny God, but couldn't quite do that entirely. We blame God when all goes bad. We get disillusioned. We expect everything to go well and then tragedy happens. It shakes our world. Eventually God will reach us through someone he put in our path. Then God pulls us out of our pit of dispair. That's when we have a wonderful conversion of our thinking and become truly saved. Up until then we are not true Christians. We we're just attending church, singing songs. Now when I go to church I PRAISE God when I sing. He lives in my ❤️ heart now.
No, it's a warning. If I see you laying down on railroad tracks with an oncoming train in the distance, I warn you of the danger you're in. It's not me "threatening" you with a train. God's not threatening anyone either, you can choose to believe and trust in Him or choose your own way and be eternally separated from Him (which signifies being eternally separated from anything good). Just don't say you were never warned.
How to Irritate an Atheist and Make Him Not Want to Read Your Stupid Pamphlet: 1. Tell him that he’s a liar when he says that he doesn’t see any reasonable evidence for God’s existence, and that he actually just hates God. 2. ????? 3. Profit
All have fallen short of the glory of God. Your good works will not get you into Heaven. It is appointed once for man to die then the judgement. If an offender told a Judge "I did this offense but I did all this good in my community" The Judge will still issue punishment for the offense done. The same is true of Almighty God. 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 New King James Version (NKJV) 9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals,[a] nor sodomites, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. Only faith in what Jesus Christ & God Almighty have done brings salvation. 1 John 1:7 King James Version (KJV) 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. Going on the same example. Offender now tells the Judge. "I admit to the wrong doing I did & I place my faith in Jesus Christ and His blood that washes and cleanses me of all unrighteousness". Now the Judge would see that the offense has been paid for. Turn to the Lord Jesus Christ and live.
I see it more like He believed in God all His life, but for that while He didn't WANT to belive in Him because of the things He went through. And only became a Christian after that.
@@JustCameronT That seems more likely, yeah. So, easily swayed, yet still never _actually_ converts from atheism to theism, because he never converted to atheism in the first place.
I was born an atheist. Argued with people of faith.. persecuted them in every way. And like Paul, Yeshua (Jesus) appeared to me and asked me why I was persecuting Him. Now I follow the Messiah, Jesus... So atheists can become followers of God... He is relentless in His pursuit of us... it is we who refuse to see Him...
I see these people praying together before going out and sharing the Gospel. I pray for that level of involvement and support when I do it. People are happy to read Ephesians 2:8-9 but turn their brains off for 2:10. I don't understand. This is not to gossip or slander. Rather, it grieves me.
Conviction, and drawing of the Father. John 6:44 No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day.
@@JustCameronT drawing by the father ? what does that even mean ? In order to be convinced of something one has to deliver a sensible argument /evidence supporting his position. I don't see how quoting the bible gets you anywhere, i could give you a quote of the quran or any other religious text but you probably wouldn't consider that evidence.
@@benediktk.8228 Call me crazy, but since I believe in God, I believe God literally speaks to sinner's hearts to draw them to Him. The same way He speaks to me through His word or through prayer. 🙂
@@JustCameronT But my question is why do you believe it ? In which way does god speaks to you 'through prayer' ? I know many people get a feeling of sensation through prayer because they are in a kind of meditative state and feel like they're talking to a higher power, but this feeling isn't evidence for gods existence, since it starts with the assumption that god is real and people create that sensation by themselves. This sort of spiritual feeling can be created by many things, including entirely normal things like listening to great music or looking at the milky way during a clear night.
@@benediktk.8228 Well it definitely is more than a feeling. Getting kind of personal here, but I've faced a lot of hard things in my life, and I'm still facing most of them today. Life is super tough, and just about a year ago I fell into deep depression. If it wasn't for God's love I don't know where I would be, I wanted to kill myself but the only thing that kept me going is because God was with me every second, did I always feel it? No! And to be honest, there may have been times I doubted God was even with me anymore... But He continued to help heal me in ways that only could have been through Him and I've gotten joy and peace through everything hard in life. And He has used my story and my trials in general to help me and to help encourage others. And all of it has brought me closer to Him and helped me to know His heart. Believing things like this is almost the same way you know you love someone. You don't have physical evidence of love, but it is more than a feeling (believe me, sometimes I definitely don't feel love for certain people but I still know I do love them. 😅) In my opinion, evidence isn't alway going to help. People literally watched Jesus perform supernatural miracles and still didnt believe. Most atheists already have their mind made up, and even they themselves have no clue when enough evidence is... Enough evidence. So I see it a lot of times as a heart issue and not a logic or reasoning issue. Not to say that there isn't evidence. If you have ever heard the story of Lee Strobel. He spent a lot of time and effort trying to get all the evidence AGAINST the existence of God to prove to his wife that she was crazy. After going to multiple scientists, doctors, archeologists, and such. He was overwhelmed by the amount of evidence that support God rather than his world view. So God can use evidence too, but some people just need to hear the truth that they need a Savior. For me, I grew up in a Christian home, and of course I claimed to be a Christian, but my actions didn't show it. I was super disrespectful to my parents, and had a lustful and selfish heart which got me into pornography but if you had asked, I would have told you I was a Christian, but my secret life didn't support that. Years later, I kept hearing the gospel in different ways I've never heard before, it made me realize what Jesus really went through for my sins and the reality hit me, that made me want to change my life but I couldn't. Long story short, Romans 6 opened up to me that I didn't have to try to stop sinning, I had to trust that I was dead to sin, because Jesus won the battle for me on the cross already, and I was able to stop the sins I had! I don't know if I was saved before that but I know I was after that point and then I hit the tribulations that grew me closer in my personal relationship with God. But then like a year or so later, I found myself trying to be a better person for people in my life, and I noticed I was getting worse at sin and such, then had to come to anorher realization that I live for Christ before people, and when I did, everything got better and that's really when I was freed from depression! Sorry for rambling 😅 But just trying to show that I view my whole life as my testimony for God and sometimes evidence just is never going to be enough 🙃🙂
Wait, hold on. You don't "embrace atheism" because god's promises fell through. You "embrace atheism" because you don't believe there's any such thing as a god who can make promises in the first place.
Atheist Lehman I'd argue that "atheism" is the null hypothesis. Everyone ought to hold that view unless and until enough evidence is presented to reject the null hypothesis. I'm still waiting for the "enough evidence" part.
Seems like this young man had a falling out with the fake teachings of the prosperity gospel. The name it and claim it garbage we see on t.v. (most people do) and God finally called him back to true Christianity of the Bible. Good to see the prodigal return. Praise God. For those of you who call yourselves atheist there's a great documentary called "Atheist Don't Exist" here on youtube. Check it out if you have time.
Ignoring the "trolls," bless you, Pastor Comfort, and your ministry. Along with Pastor Kenneth Ham's 'Answers in Genesis,' Pastor Gabriel Hughes's 'When We Understand the Text,' and Pastor Todd Friel's 'Wretched.' I'm ecstatic to see others getting saved. I was at seven-years-old, and wouldn't be typing this today were I not. You all's videos continue aiding the sanctification God keeps molding in a sick man's (id est my) daily life.
ha haa, this is like a comedy, all you need is an atheist saying "if he converted from atheism to Christianity then he wasn't a proper atheist to begin with, meh grumble grumble?!" can't believe people still believe in Gods, anyone who looks at a bit of history would never believe any bronze myths about gods, it's clearly man made.
+TheGreg6466 Just like man created the human race or the earth and all the dwell in it. Just because you were taught a false history doesnt make it true. Communists are manipulated from young on how communism is the only way, capitalism is wrong etc. Does that make their teachings true? Go outside the box and search for yourself. God doesnt dwell in history books.
***** For we do not follow cleverly devised myths when we made to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. 2 Peter 1:16 Knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someones own interpretation. For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit. 2 Peter 1:20-21 Eyewitnesses what more fact do you want?
***** Then why dont you seek the proof for yourself? A personal relationship with Jesus will provide all the evidence you will need to put your faith in him. What can it hurt? Pray, ask Jesus to work in your life, trust him.
This will probably be good [in a trolling, not appreciated by the creators of this video sort of way. The term LOL comes to mind]. (Typed before this video started)
+Peter Smythe Well it did not disappoint; this video was the exact cliche of exactly what I was expecting it to be. Ray Comfort is quite a predictable character.
While Jesus may not have had tracts he did have the word of God from what we now call the Old Testament and at one point and read a passage from it, sat down and said that what is said had been now been fulfilled.
it is amazing tracts. im in japan now i wanted to evangelize this nation but quietly hard to talk to japanese people, i thank it will help me if this kind of tract having also in japanese version or translation of the word they use in the tract.
some judgemental comments here... I have personally met such a person who had a similar experience, only his story was way more extreme... the tract unlocks a long locked up desire inside... and he, like so many atheists, are that way due to some chip on the shoulder from a past experience. Just angry at the idea of "God". Atheists typically are not the level and balanced thinkers they make themselves out to be; that's just deception. Otherwise they would have to throw out evolution... and other hypothetical notions which can't be proven and for which there is no consistent evidence. Neither are they able to investigate the Bible for fear that they will have to come to terms with themselves and the lie that they live.
The Google definition of an atheist is:
"a person who disbelieves or lacks belief in the existence of God or gods."
If a person doesn't believe God exists, they also don't believe that the threat of hell exists. If reading a little piece of paper that just told him God and hell exists without giving any evidence to back it up was enough to convert him, then he wasn't an atheist. He was somebody that deep down believed God existed, but was angry at him so denied it. That's not atheism.
+Kevin Kelleher Then you'll need to amend your definition of atheist to also include someone who will never, ever change their mind on the issue. Close-minded.
+Living Waters not close-minded. just not so open minded that his brain falls out.
being open minded only means that you are willing to hear what the other people have to say and will judge what they have to say fairly, it doesn't mean that you must believe whatever is said to you.
if you are open minded but have no level of skepticism you would have to believe any and all claims regardless of their veracity. the only claims that hold any weight are the ones that have a reasonable amount of evidence backing them.
for instance if you believed things without asking for evidence you would have to believe in every conspiracy theory you have ever heard. You would believe in big foot, aliens, and probably deny the moon landing.
evidence is a tool that we use to cut out the make believe from reality.
never changing your mind on an issue does not make you close minded, what makes you close minded is if you are unwilling to change your mind on an issue when presented with evidence.
+Living Waters So are you suggesting that all atheists are atheists because they're closed-minded? That they actually do believe in God, but are choosing to not accept it for whatever reason? If you are, then you clearly don't have an understanding of why most atheists chose to be atheists.
If not, I'm not sure I understand what you're saying.
+Kevin Kelleher
We don't use words according to some definitions but according to the impressions they make.
This is true for the word god as for the word atheist.
The beliefs of the majority of people that call themselves atheists match with that definition. There are far more people who call themselves atheists that genuinely don't believe in God than there are which do, but refuse to accept it.
I hope christians don't think all atheist have come to it through such tragic and damaging experiences. I hope they realize that the vast majority of us just want to live in peace. I know there is a vocal minority of us who attack you and others though I do believe this can be stated for both groups. I just hope that both sides of this argument realize that not everyone is a fanatic out for blood.
As a Christian, I hope the same the other way around. And that one day every atheist gets to experience the peace and life that only Jesus can offer, through the gift of Eternal life with Him.
@@Sarah08850 you can do that with psychs with around 10 bucks
The way you should come to belief in God is through realisation for your need for a saviour. We have all lied, stolen, lusted, blasphemed and the list goes on. We have all fallen short of the glory of God. My friend. You and I are sinners! There's no denying it. We are guilty of the utmost high treason before a thrice holy God.
God should send us to hell. Its what we deserve.
BUT
God sent us His son, Jesus Christ, who lived a sinless life and died in our strad. He bore the wrath of God the Father on Himself so that we dont have to. And He rose from the grave, defeating death.
If we want to be saved from our sin, we must repent and believe unto Jesus for salvation.
@@onehitkillxp1940 But atheism does not correspond and stand up to reality
We just ordered some £1 million tracks, and they came the other day! So mum gave her first one out on Monday, to a guy at the till in poundworld, and it went great!
When mum had finished giving him the money for the shopping, mum said "Here take this, it's a 'million pound note' for you!!!" He happily took it and said "I wish I was, then I wouldn't have to work here!!!" And then mum said that there was something on the back for him to read!!!
I was very impressed how things went, so I will definitely be giving some out soon!!!!!!
So telling that you have to be so dishonest to push your religion on people.
Glory to Jesus.
I was just saying to myself, I'd love to hear a testimony from someone who was touched to true repentance, by the outreach of Living Waters Ministries! Hallelujah 🙌❤
Powerful video! Sending love all the way from Israel! I'm also a Christian RUclipsr btw!
I received a tract about the Flying Spaghetti monster and my life flashed in front of me and I knelt down to pray to the Flying Spaghetti monster.
That's how this story sounds to atheists.
Your comment doesn't refute anything.
Justin G The video doesn't have anything that needs refuting.
Praise the LORD!!!!!! What an incredible testimony! Encouraged me so much!
+savedbygrace The brain virus has used a positive feedback loop to reinforce its presence in your brain. Kindly detach your brain slug and please don't go spreading it around, especially to children.
i want to have that million dollar tract, how can i purchase that?
If you believe just because someone doesn't accept your opinion of your god that they're going to hell, this makes you a bad person.
Who says what is rigth and wrong?
I believe because I believe what God says about Himself and His standard of good and evil. "Without holiness no one will see the Lord" (Hebrews 12:14). Any Christian would readily include themselves in the "unholy" category before having trusted in the saving work of Jesus Christ. We evangelize because we recognize the danger unbelievers are in and want to make them aware. I think most people would characterize that as good person behavior. If you feel judged or criticized by this it's because you entirely missed the point.
Christ radically transformed my life in an instant. I am so glad when I see others bow the knee in repentance.
This reminds me of the tracts that people were ripping off waitresses with. The waitresses are already christians and we're receiving tracts instead of the $10 tips they thought they were getting.
Here is $0. Keep being yourself. You're welcome! ;-)
Hallelujah praise God for this ministry !!!
This is a good video on what a fake Atheist is:
Any one who is mad at god is a theist.
MrBradFu "He said.. "
Yes, I know, but i don't believe him.
He is describing his "being an atheist" in a way that no atheist I have ever met would describe it.
Further, he is describing atheism in the weird convoluted way that Christians think atheists are.
therefor ... i think he is lying about it.
Like yourself? And all other raging atheists who scream until they're blue in the face that they aren't mad, while calling God ugly names? Those guys? Yeah, then there is no such thing as an atheist.
***** Ah, I see, the ol' I tell you something that completely refutes everything you said and proves you wrong and unveils how you're rambling in anger without making an argument and you just insult me and use the two fallacies of personal attack and diversion to make me think I somehow was proven wrong because you said something unkind and then when I call you out on it you'll probably continue to do it and just prove my point further trick. Works every time.
Fred Jan " I tell you something that completely refutes everything you said ... there is no such thing as an atheist."
Perhaps i missed it. When did you refute anything that ***** said?
An Atheist is one who has no belief in any God or Gods. I personally have no belief in any God or Gods existence, therefor I am an Atheist.
A person who is "mad" at God would necessarily believe that a God exists and is therefor a Theist.
Sound to me like you are using the Preacher's definition of the word "Atheist." instead of the definition that is used by the people who call themselves "Atheist".
Scott M Savage I said there's no such thing as an atheist? Do you mean my first comment? I wasn't literally saying that, I was only playing off your original comment.
So far, I don't think I've ever heard of an atheist converting to Christianity who was not brought up in a Christian home.
Great product, been using them for years, goal this year was 50,000 handed out, we are getting close to that goal! Praise God
he had faith in a imagined God, one who gives people the material things they think they need. Praise God that He purposed to have this man come to true faith, to repent of his sins and believe in Jesus alone for salvation; the best gift ever.
What an amazing testimony and what a great encouragement to the people who pass out the million dollar tracks, like me!
Wow. Very encouraging.
Glory to God! Hallelujah is my cry! 🙏❤️
where can i get this million dollar bill? 🙏🏼
You can order it from livingwaters..com
No offense, but I find it amusing that so many atheists that post here are defending their religion of atheism the way we defend Christianity. We say, based on the Bible, that you can't be a Christian and lose your Christianity. An atheist says basically you can't be an atheist and lose your atheism. Christianity promises eternal life as a gift from God (Romans 6:23). There is no need to fear death and you desire the salvation of the lost. Christ offers hope and new life through His supernatural grace. Atheism promises...? And the atheists cares about others to become atheists because...? Atheism offers....?....and a ? life through nature? I praise God for the testimony of this man and anyone that has come to the Lord.
humanoid21 Here are three definitions of religion from Webster’s Family Dictionary.
First definition: “A set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, esp. when considered as the creation of superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code for the conduct of human affairs.” Notice this definition doesn’t have to apply to those that believe in a deity. Atheists have beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, though they don’t know the cause, say everything is purposeless, and describe the nature of things based on their senses. It is still a set of beliefs. Atheists also believe in the creation of superhuman agency or agencies, though not God. For instance, you believe a big bang came from nothing; this is supernatural. You believe intangibles like knowledge, logic, and morals exist, but have no starting point of foundation outside finite man that lives and dies, therefore, it must come from something transcendent. Eventually you come to a conclusion like star dust or Martians (it is documented that Atheists have said this; look it up on RUclips) though they would need a beginning. This beginning must be self-existent or “beginnings” would go on and on. Either way, both are supernatural. Atheists have devotional and ritual observances; this is the reason you have RUclips channels, web sites, and Reason Rallies, because you want to get together and devote your time to reason and do so ritually. And finally, you do have a moral code for conduct; in fact, Atheists pride themselves in saying they don’t need God for morals. So, though you can’t account for morals, you have a code for it.
Second definition: “A specific fundamental set of beliefs and practices generally agreed upon by a number of persons or sects.” Enough said. You don’t have to be a Christian to be religious. The Reason Rally proves this definition true or all of the Atheists and skeptics wouldn’t get together for a group meeting. When Christians do it, we call it church. And since even Atheists want to have atheist churches (yes, it has been documented that you have them), it would seem Atheists fit this description.
Third definition: “The body of persons adhering to a particular set of beliefs and practices.” This rightly describes Christians, but doesn’t it also describe the Atheist? Indeed it does. You all believe there is either no God or no empirical proof of God. You believe in your own reason and your senses to determine truth. You believe you can be moral without God. You believe your beliefs are the only true belief, basically saying all other religions that adhere to a deity is false. (Interestingly, Christians say that Jesus is the only way based on His own words in John 14:6, yet Atheists say their way is the only way over all religions, though the way to what? Meaningless life that leads to death.) You also practice a life without God, though you have the same moral foundation as those that know God, yet can’t account for them outside of yourself. You adhere to relative truth.
Final analysis: By definition, Atheism is a religion. It’s just a religion without a deity. You worship yourself (man), evolution (the creation), and your own reason (worldly wisdom that God finds foolish). Sounds like the very description of all lost people found in Romans 1:18-23. So by the authority of the Bible and the definition of secular sources, I stand by my assertion. Atheism is a religion. Thanks for reading.
+Eric Smith uh... no.
gogreyhound Wow, deep assertion. Not convincing. Definitely wrong.
+Eric Smith atheism isn't a religion.
gogreyhound Go back and carefully read the definition of religion from the dictionary. Based on the definition and the consistent actions of atheists found on the internet, RUclips, rallies, etc.; atheism falls into that category. I don't want to make an assertion that atheism is a religion without comparing the actions and views of atheists to the definition of religion. Religion doesn't require a deity, as you notice from the definition, therefore, atheists are as religious as those that believe in a deity. Since you make the assertion that it is not, could you please go over the actions, views, and words of atheists and show how it doesn't line up with the definitions I gave in my other post. Just assertions made hold no weight without reasonable explanations, which atheists are supposed to be known for.
Greay video we really need stuff like this.
+Cole G. I was having trouble with my keyboard ,wiseguy. That actually proves my point about the arrogant faith people have in modern technology. Your "god" is a fallible circuit board one solar flare and poof its toast. I know my Redeemer lives and I shall see Him when we stand together at the latter day upon the earth.
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Such a clever idea making it million dollar bill. Is there a pound or euro version available?
+Good News This Morning Yes, I'm happy to saw our agency in Europe has several versions: www.livingwaterseu.com/store/tracts/money-tracts
My dad died of cancer, my whole family talked about good and all that stuff, i loved my father as every son, but, if your ideas are clear, and you are truly an atheisth, you won't let the life use the sorrow to change your mind.
He was raised on god. Got upset and then didn't believe. Learned a bit about evolution and partied. Then goes to a movie and meets someone who still has faith that does a very nice gesture and restores his faith.
I don't want to be mean but how is that a true conversion? I call that getting back on track.
I personally don't believe in this. Every religious thing I have watched just leaves me with more questions about the dumb things I'm being told.
I was trying to watch an Anime about giant fictional robots when I was forced to watch one of Living Waters's adds. I'm the last person you want to be converting.
Will I go to heaven when I die?
Nobody was able to provide me with evidence anyone will so- probably not
You will if you accept Jesus' payment for your sins. If you aren't willing to believe God's Word you will not. Have you ever read the Gospel of John? Do you want to know how to be saved? You need to humble yourself and be sorry for offending God with your sin. Faith of a child is needed. That implies humble trust in your Maker and Savior.
Until then you don't need to concern yourself with Heaven. It's Hell you should be worried about.
And denying it won't make it disappear.
No one needs to prove anything to you. It's God you will answer to. If and when you decide you want to know God's truth, you will find it.
So the million dollar question is a question of gullibility? Fear based questions made to manipulate people into submission are morally bankrupt. Will I go to heaven when I die? No. Will you? I doubt it. Next question.
+Trevor Lentz The question is suppose to get you to think about your eternity man. Very important issue to think about. Fear based question, come on man.
+Jimmy Weez My eternity? I don't know if I have an eternity (let alone what it would look like). As a skeptic, how am I to discern which religion is correct when all are based on faith? Faith, it seems is not a reliable path to truth as it brings people to mutually exclusive conclusions.
Trevor Lentz Christianity alone is based on just faith. "We are saved by grace through faith not of works lest anyone should boast". The others religions of course require faith but they teach a work righteous doctrine. Cant happen, we all suffer from sin and cannot escape it. Jesus did the work for us, we need just to believe and tell others of the good news. Repent and trust Christ with your life.
*To answer your question, if man worked his way to heaven he would brag about it. Man has to much pride. Righteousness cannot be achieved by works.
Isaiah Phillip When have you died and seen there was nothing?
Isaiah Phillip Suppose that we could speak with an embryo in his mothers womb and that you would tell him that embryonic life is only a short one after which follows a real, long life. What would the embryo answer? He would say the answer atheists give when we talk about heaven and hell. He would say that life in the womb is the only one and that everything else is religious foolishness. But if the embryo could think, he would say to himself, 'here arms grow on me. I cannot even stretch them. Why do they grow? Perhaps they grow for a future stage of my existence, in which I will have to work with them. Legs grow, but I have to keep them bent toward my chest. Why do they grow? Probably life in a large world follows, where I will have to walk. Eyes grow, although I am surrounded by perfect darkness and dont need them. Why do I have eyes? Probably a world with light and colors will follow.' So if the embryo would reflect on his own development, he would know about a life outside of his mothers womb, without having seen it. It is the same with us. As long as we are young, we have a vigor, but no mind to use it properly. When, with the years we have grown in knowledge and wisdom, the hearse waits to take us to the grave. Why was it necessary to grow in a knowledge and wisdom that we can use no more? Why do arms, legs and eyes grow on an embryo? It is for what follows. So it is with us here. We grow for what follows. We are prepared to serve on a higher level that follows death.
Is an atheist's lack of belief always consistent or do they at times wonder if they are mistaken and God perhaps really does exist. People go through a range of emotions and may not always be rock solid in whatever beliefs - or lack thereof - they may hold.
I was raised Christian but now I am an atheist. As for your question it depends on the person really. I started to disbelieve for various reasons as a teenager but I still didn't say I was an "atheist". Even in my early 20s I would struggle with what I believe. It wasn't until I really became fascinated with the subject and really learning everything I could about it, that I became more "rock solid". I can articulate it much better now about what I believe.
When I was Christian my mind was a chaotic mess of personally held truths that contradicted each other, now my mind is much clearer and concise.
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He was no athiest....he just denied god...but continued to believe in him....a true athiest belief has no troma involved
It is a fallacy that any significant number of atheists no longer believe in god(s) because of some tragedy in their life. Do you disbelieve in the _Flying Spaghetti Monster_ due to some tragedy?
@Be Ye HOLY You dishonestly avoided the question. Try again.
*"Atheists...are totally dedicated..."* Sounds like you're implying we secretly believe gods exist. More dishonesty. I fight the _evil_ perpetrated by religions and many of their followers. Evils such as attacks on reproductive freedoms, attacks on LBGTQ equal rights, attacks on science, indoctrination of the young or emotionally/intellectually compromised people, attacks on the absolute sovereignty of our bodies, etc.etc.
How real can your god be if it can only be defended with dishonest means?
“Will you go to heaven when you die?” That’s a blatant fear tactic and it’s disgusting.
For real dude. Smh
It’s not to make you scared because God did not give us a spirit of fear but it is to warn you and others to let them know if they are ready or not
@Bre Bre “warn” as in implying that if you don’t go to heaven the alternative is hell. It could easily be rephrased as “will you go to hell when you die?” It’s just about striking fear into people
@@juleshale8847 Well since it is the truth, sometimes we gotta scare them. I'd hope if someone was warning me that the bridge I was on was going to collapse that they wouldnt try to avoid scaring me and just tell me to get off. Then I'd look at them like "You can't tell me what to do" but if they came up and said "THE BRIDGE IS COLLAPSING!" I would get scared and then run to safety. The fear would have shown why I need to be saved. So the fear of going to Hell can bring you out of the danger and into the hands of our savior Jesus Christ, but if there is no danger and no God's wrath, why would someone who is comfortable in their sin want to be "saved"?
@Cameron Tyndall where’s the bridge? In your example you’re on a bridge and you can see it collapsing, and yet I don’t see any bridge (hell) in the first place. You aren’t convincing anyone by saying we’re going to hell. You’re just trying to scare people who had already been indoctrinated with this crap as a child. Cosmic Skeptic made a good video about this if you’re interested, about how one can be an atheist and yet still occasionally feel irrational fear of hell because that fear was instilled in them as a child. Children are sponges. Stop using fear tactics. Once again, it’s disgusting.
Love it!
Literally nobody becomes an atheist for these reasons.
@Iroquois Pliskin Lack of evidence for the god claim.
@@TheJimtanker Lack of evidence?Everytime I hear that it is just annoying and not educated claim
Provide ONE piece of credible evidence to support ONE supernatural claim in the bible and you will be the first.
@@TheJimtanker I think the Ressurection of Christ is the most important one,if that Isn't backed up the whole Christianity is made up,right?But,that is not the case,Here is credible evidence that the Ressurection did indeed happen which alone fulfills Bible Prophecies and proves Jesus claims;ruclips.net/video/A0iDNLxmWVM/видео.html
@Be Ye HOLY No, we're fighting against ignorance and the effects of it. People vote to take away the rights of others and use their religious beliefs to justify it.
Guy stops believing because of difficulties he faces then starts believing because he's worried about himself not going to heaven. Does this person just think of himself? Does he ever think about the world around him?
We don’t go anywhere as Christians until the great resurrection when Jesus Christ returns for His church.
So conformity and irrational fears lead to Christianity, got ya.
Can i have that same tract to give to some people here in india.. From where i can get it?
A link to where you can buy the tract is in the description
wow what an awesome video!!
To those that see beauty in this story, I applaud your ability to find such. Just don't think that this will ever hold up as a justification for the existence of god if you are ever speaking to an atheist. I am not commenting to defend the atheist position, though I am an atheist. I am trying to illustrate the fact that personal revelation, and subjective experience will always be rejected by anyone who relies on empirical evidence.
Jekob Caudill Dude if God does exist, then I will go to heaven and you will go to hell. If he doesnt, we will all jst die and nothing happens. For me, its a win win situation. I dont read the Bible because of what God offers, but because of who He is. Lets say that when I die, nothing happens, I dont care because the Bible brought me a peaceful, comfortable and a joyous life for me and my family. I would have died in peace and happiness and with a sense of purpose. What is YOUR purpose? To maybe become really successful and enjoy that lifestyle for maybe 20 - 30 years and then die? For nothing? Think beyond just the 80 years that we live here on earth, there is a MUCH bigger purpose for EVERYTHING
I put Gospel tracts in old bank envelopes, and leave them hanging around places. Everyone is willing to pick up a bank envelope to see how much is left inside. Some may see it as a prank, but others pass it along.
I see it for the trash that it is, and throw it away.
Your soul is priceless...
Statement of conversion fallacy.
Even if this is legitimate (which I don't believe), it doesn't change the fact that there are many more ex-theists than ex-atheists. Why? Because agnostic atheism is the most logical/reasonable position.
Logical and reasonable? Hardly. In a chance universe there is no reason to expect there to be logic. Even if we grant its existence, your worldview cannot account for its properties. Given that the universe is in a continual state of change, why should laws of logic be exempt? We all assume that they will be the same tomorrow, but this belief is unwarranted in your worldview. The existence and properties of laws of logic are unjustified in the secular worldview. And hence, any belief based on them is also unjustified.
+Living Waters In any universe, logic can be present. It doesn't matter wether the universe was created by a god or by chance, logic is reasoning that is supported by valid principles. Logic could be "I don't see a pattern here, so I think this is random", or "I see a pattern here, so I think this will happen again". You can find logic in a chaotic universe just as well as in a more orderly universe, regardless of their origins.
Again, in a random universe, you are unable to *account* for logic. To use it, is borrowing from a worldview that can account for it (Christianity).
+Living Waters Did you not read what I just said? Logic is present even in the most random of universes, it does not need to be based on predictability. And I fail to understand why theists like yourself claim that their religions are more logical than the unfaithful worldview. I hope you understand that atheism is not a belief system and that we will believe in a god (or anything unproven for that matter) so long as proper evidence is presented. It is illogical to assume something for no reason, in fact, that is the opposite of logical reasoning. And it is exactly what major religions like Christianity do.
+Joemanjamz An infant doesn't have the mental capacity unfortunately, but as our brain develops we can obtain more and more advanced information. Imagine you have a species whose female organs develop at a separate rate, that's not exactly helpful for the species and therefore, with time, will die out. That means that only species with similar development rates will survive and likewise that's about all there is in nature today. Don't give up too easily, you can look for explanations without resorting to giving the credit to a God.
Are you kidding me? This guy grew up in Christianity, lost his faith when things got hard for his family (because praying to God for money or anything else does not work) and then someone gave him a note that reminded him of his psychologically damaging upbringing and scared him that he might not go to heaven (and would therefore go to hell). So he ran like a baby back into mommy religion's arms.
Totally mixing up a story to make it sound dumb, alrighty
None of these atheists ever seem to have been familiar with atheist arguments
definitely one of the funniest videos on RUclips
Lol😂
Great!
The easiest and most effective way to share the gospel is with our lives not with fake bills
Honest questions: How do you share the gospel with the many strangers that you pass by you each day? Do you stop and talk to each one? Or when you talk about sharing the gospel with your life, do you mean it's for those that get to know you and see your lifestyle, such as family and friends?
Living Waters amen thank you for your question, once I became a true Christian born again, God changed my life but not like any normal thing everyone is used to. We moved and my family and I have been a witness to everyone of our friends and family so much more than we ever had before trying to just speak of the gospel rather than being a living witness with our lives. There are strangers that have passed me by and asked me if I was a Christian because they saw the light of God in me, there's nothing good in me but God. I go to nursing homes with a group from my church and we sing to them and they feel the Holy Spirit very close and a few realize they don't have enough power in the flesh to overcome their struggles and they receive the Holy Spirit. God must help us to discern who is going to accept his light and who will reject it, and we must go unto those lost souls that see that they are lost and sick in need of a savior and healer. Those are the people that God leads us to when we are sensitive to him and his voice. Thank you for your questions God bless you.
This is just amazing!! 😁😁😁
well im an atheist and i think there is no heven so i won't go enywhere after death .
can enyone try to convince me that god exist?
I've heard that atheists trust in themselves to spell things.
im sorry but i spell english very poorly.
and also my keyboard is broken.
Great testimony and great encouragement to show how a simple tract can be used so powerfully of God.
Hold on a minute.Shouldn't they also witness Jesus to the person while passing out those Gospel tracts? I mean even the guy in this video said he was meaning to through it away.
This video is as legit as a million dollar bill
beautiful testimony!
Easy, no I won't. Okay where's my million dollar now :D
"No evidence that God Exist" the creation & conscience is enough proof that there is a God (Rom 1: 20-32). That's like saying every building has no builder.
One thing an atheist can’t deny is that history has proven the existence of God and Jesus dying on the cross and resurrecting from the dead
If history has proven this, why wouldn’t you want to believe this ?
AMEN! 😊🤗
My answer to the million dollar question: No. And neither will you. Get over it and give me my cash.
+C'mon Think In the end the cash wont save you, nor can you take it with you sir.
xab3los Best ask yourself again for the truth. Show me where The Bible states such things. Difference between truth and wishful thinking.
+Jimmy Weez That sounds pretty ironic coming from a person who truly believes in the ancient myths of wishful thinking.
C'mon Think Like I said, where in The Bible does it state that will happen?
Xarai In what way is Genesis a lie?
I speak from experience.
He wanted to deny God, but couldn't quite do that entirely. We blame God when all goes bad. We get disillusioned. We expect everything to go well and then tragedy happens. It shakes our world.
Eventually God will reach us through someone he put in our path. Then God pulls us out of our pit of dispair. That's when we have a wonderful conversion of our thinking and become truly saved. Up until then we are not true Christians. We we're just attending church, singing songs.
Now when I go to church I PRAISE God when I sing. He lives in my ❤️ heart now.
If he was angry at god, he was not an atheist.
Was expecting some interesting argument for the existence of God, not a threat...
No, it's a warning. If I see you laying down on railroad tracks with an oncoming train in the distance, I warn you of the danger you're in. It's not me "threatening" you with a train. God's not threatening anyone either, you can choose to believe and trust in Him or choose your own way and be eternally separated from Him (which signifies being eternally separated from anything good). Just don't say you were never warned.
Brilliant!:)
Too bad everything about this is fictional...
...is something an idiot might say. Great testimony.
+Jarrod I don't think you read his whole comment - lol. Click "read more" on his post. I think you'll appreciate it. :-)
+Jarrod You're very welcome. Bless you heaps buddy. :-)
+Dopest Flyest O.G. Pimp Hustla Gangsta Playa That's a false analogy, but typical fare for a contextless atheist.
Jesus is so good
God bless you my friend!
How to Irritate an Atheist and Make Him Not Want to Read Your Stupid Pamphlet:
1. Tell him that he’s a liar when he says that he doesn’t see any reasonable evidence for God’s existence, and that he actually just hates God.
2. ?????
3. Profit
Everyone hush and just be a good person even if there is or isn't a God just be a good person.
All have fallen short of the glory of God. Your good works will not get you into Heaven. It is appointed once for man to die then the judgement.
If an offender told a Judge "I did this offense but I did all this good in my community" The Judge will still issue punishment for the offense done. The same is true of Almighty God.
1 Corinthians 6:9-10 New King James Version (NKJV)
9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals,[a] nor sodomites, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.
Only faith in what Jesus Christ & God Almighty have done brings salvation.
1 John 1:7 King James Version (KJV)
7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
Going on the same example. Offender now tells the Judge. "I admit to the wrong doing I did & I place my faith in Jesus Christ and His blood that washes and cleanses me of all unrighteousness". Now the Judge would see that the offense has been paid for.
Turn to the Lord Jesus Christ and live.
So, it's more like a theist, becoming an atheist, and then becoming a theist again. He seems easily swayed.
I see it more like He believed in God all His life, but for that while He didn't WANT to belive in Him because of the things He went through. And only became a Christian after that.
@@JustCameronT That seems more likely, yeah. So, easily swayed, yet still never _actually_ converts from atheism to theism, because he never converted to atheism in the first place.
praise God!!!
There's a reason why so many conversion videos use a good looking young woman; they are more disarming and you don't get spooked by them easy
I was born an atheist. Argued with people of faith.. persecuted them in every way. And like Paul, Yeshua (Jesus) appeared to me and asked me why I was persecuting Him.
Now I follow the Messiah, Jesus...
So atheists can become followers of God...
He is relentless in His pursuit of us... it is we who refuse to see Him...
If I had a choice between heaven with the Christian god and hell I’d choose hell any day
I see these people praying together before going out and sharing the Gospel. I pray for that level of involvement and support when I do it. People are happy to read Ephesians 2:8-9 but turn their brains off for 2:10. I don't understand. This is not to gossip or slander. Rather, it grieves me.
Amen! 🙏🏻
How do i get these tracts
Candy Mann you will find them on the living waters website.
"Meanwhile, in Africa..."
So he was conviced by what ...? He just blindly believed based on what was written on the note ?
Conviction, and drawing of the Father.
John 6:44
No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day.
@@JustCameronT drawing by the father ? what does that even mean ?
In order to be convinced of something one has to deliver a sensible argument /evidence supporting his position. I don't see how quoting the bible gets you anywhere, i could give you a quote of the quran or any other religious text but you probably wouldn't consider that evidence.
@@benediktk.8228 Call me crazy, but since I believe in God, I believe God literally speaks to sinner's hearts to draw them to Him. The same way He speaks to me through His word or through prayer. 🙂
@@JustCameronT But my question is why do you believe it ? In which way does god speaks to you 'through prayer' ?
I know many people get a feeling of sensation through prayer because they are in a kind of meditative state and feel like they're talking to a higher power, but this feeling isn't evidence for gods existence, since it starts with the assumption that god is real and people create that sensation by themselves. This sort of spiritual feeling can be created by many things, including entirely normal things like listening to great music or looking at the milky way during a clear night.
@@benediktk.8228 Well it definitely is more than a feeling.
Getting kind of personal here, but I've faced a lot of hard things in my life, and I'm still facing most of them today. Life is super tough, and just about a year ago I fell into deep depression. If it wasn't for God's love I don't know where I would be, I wanted to kill myself but the only thing that kept me going is because God was with me every second, did I always feel it? No! And to be honest, there may have been times I doubted God was even with me anymore... But He continued to help heal me in ways that only could have been through Him and I've gotten joy and peace through everything hard in life. And He has used my story and my trials in general to help me and to help encourage others. And all of it has brought me closer to Him and helped me to know His heart.
Believing things like this is almost the same way you know you love someone. You don't have physical evidence of love, but it is more than a feeling (believe me, sometimes I definitely don't feel love for certain people but I still know I do love them. 😅)
In my opinion, evidence isn't alway going to help. People literally watched Jesus perform supernatural miracles and still didnt believe. Most atheists already have their mind made up, and even they themselves have no clue when enough evidence is... Enough evidence.
So I see it a lot of times as a heart issue and not a logic or reasoning issue. Not to say that there isn't evidence.
If you have ever heard the story of Lee Strobel. He spent a lot of time and effort trying to get all the evidence AGAINST the existence of God to prove to his wife that she was crazy. After going to multiple scientists, doctors, archeologists, and such. He was overwhelmed by the amount of evidence that support God rather than his world view.
So God can use evidence too, but some people just need to hear the truth that they need a Savior. For me, I grew up in a Christian home, and of course I claimed to be a Christian, but my actions didn't show it. I was super disrespectful to my parents, and had a lustful and selfish heart which got me into pornography but if you had asked, I would have told you I was a Christian, but my secret life didn't support that. Years later, I kept hearing the gospel in different ways I've never heard before, it made me realize what Jesus really went through for my sins and the reality hit me, that made me want to change my life but I couldn't. Long story short, Romans 6 opened up to me that I didn't have to try to stop sinning, I had to trust that I was dead to sin, because Jesus won the battle for me on the cross already, and I was able to stop the sins I had! I don't know if I was saved before that but I know I was after that point and then I hit the tribulations that grew me closer in my personal relationship with God.
But then like a year or so later, I found myself trying to be a better person for people in my life, and I noticed I was getting worse at sin and such, then had to come to anorher realization that I live for Christ before people, and when I did, everything got better and that's really when I was freed from depression!
Sorry for rambling 😅 But just trying to show that I view my whole life as my testimony for God and sometimes evidence just is never going to be enough 🙃🙂
I guess when God touch it, God does it for sure
I Loved It
AMEN! PRAISE THE LORD!! "The farmer plants the seed by taking God's Word to others." - Mark 4:14
Wait, hold on. You don't "embrace atheism" because god's promises fell through. You "embrace atheism" because you don't believe there's any such thing as a god who can make promises in the first place.
Atheist Lehman I'd argue that "atheism" is the null hypothesis. Everyone ought to hold that view unless and until enough evidence is presented to reject the null hypothesis. I'm still waiting for the "enough evidence" part.
Atheist Lehman Agreed. There truly are some (hopefully few) atheists who really are atheists just because they're "mad at god."
Great message
It's a lie, like religion is.
I'm the 300 like!!! praise the Lord!!!
Thank you Lord for saving this man!
awesome - I am using Gospel Planet's Million Bucks, now, as well. God bless y'all :-)
Seems like this young man had a falling out with the fake teachings of the prosperity gospel. The name it and claim it garbage we see on t.v. (most people do) and God finally called him back to true Christianity of the Bible. Good to see the prodigal return. Praise God. For those of you who call yourselves atheist there's a great documentary called "Atheist Don't Exist" here on youtube. Check it out if you have time.
Very intelligent commentary thank you for your solid contribution..
Ignoring the "trolls," bless you, Pastor Comfort, and your ministry. Along with Pastor Kenneth Ham's 'Answers in Genesis,' Pastor Gabriel Hughes's 'When We Understand the Text,' and Pastor Todd Friel's 'Wretched.' I'm ecstatic to see others getting saved. I was at seven-years-old, and wouldn't be typing this today were I not. You all's videos continue aiding the sanctification God keeps molding in a sick man's (id est my) daily life.
ha haa, this is like a comedy, all you need is an atheist saying "if he converted from atheism to Christianity then he wasn't a proper atheist to begin with, meh grumble grumble?!" can't believe people still believe in Gods, anyone who looks at a bit of history would never believe any bronze myths about gods, it's clearly man made.
+TheGreg6466 Just like man created the human race or the earth and all the dwell in it. Just because you were taught a false history doesnt make it true. Communists are manipulated from young on how communism is the only way, capitalism is wrong etc. Does that make their teachings true? Go outside the box and search for yourself. God doesnt dwell in history books.
***** Then the same could for everyone else. Everything is false, no meaning, no purpose. Just opinion.
***** If there is no God then there is no higher authority. Everything is just opinion. Who has the higher authority?
***** For we do not follow cleverly devised myths when we made to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. 2 Peter 1:16
Knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someones own interpretation. For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit. 2 Peter 1:20-21
Eyewitnesses what more fact do you want?
***** Then why dont you seek the proof for yourself? A personal relationship with Jesus will provide all the evidence you will need to put your faith in him. What can it hurt? Pray, ask Jesus to work in your life, trust him.
Very good video.
This will probably be good [in a trolling, not appreciated by the creators of this video sort of way. The term LOL comes to mind].
(Typed before this video started)
+Peter Smythe Well it did not disappoint; this video was the exact cliche of exactly what I was expecting it to be. Ray Comfort is quite a predictable character.
Poor guy.
While Jesus may not have had tracts he did have the word of God from what we now call the Old Testament and at one point and read a passage from it, sat down and said that what is said had been now been fulfilled.
i have my own thoughts about religion and atheism, but am not going to touch it.... i will respect your belief as long u respect mine.
I respect you bro. I pray that God will open your eyes like he did mine. Sounds pretty weak-minded I'm sure, but there you go. Have a good day! :)
if I ever get given one of them I'd just roll it up and sniff coke up it.
Your soul is priceless...
People who dont believe in God sre missing out.
it is amazing tracts. im
in japan now i wanted to evangelize this nation but quietly
hard to talk to japanese people, i thank
it will help me if this kind of tract
having also in japanese version or translation of the word they use in the tract.
what a farce
Praise God!
In the bible it says that women should teach man. Why listen to her?
some judgemental comments here... I have personally met such a person who had a similar experience, only his story was way more extreme... the tract unlocks a long locked up desire inside... and he, like so many atheists, are that way due to some chip on the shoulder from a past experience. Just angry at the idea of "God". Atheists typically are not the level and balanced thinkers they make themselves out to be; that's just deception. Otherwise they would have to throw out evolution... and other hypothetical notions which can't be proven and for which there is no consistent evidence. Neither are they able to investigate the Bible for fear that they will have to come to terms with themselves and the lie that they live.
@@boterlettersukkel None of what you said is true and you know it. Romans 1:18-21 tells us why you hide behind the lies.
This is more than being subtlely manipulative, this is just a flat out lie