I was brave, yesterday I opened up a copy of renowned atheist Richard Dawkins and began to read. Dawkins asserts “that a supreme creator God does not exist, and a personal deity is a delusion.” (Richard Dawkins, Wikipedia). In his book The God Delusion, he reveals his bias early on. He says that he decided not to take on all gods, but specifically The Monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and then says “but since I only know about Christianity from experience, I will focus on that one.” Right out the gate Dawkins reveals he is an antichrist. He does not have the integrity to take on all the gods, all the religions, just the Monotheistic three specifically Christianity. He asserts Buddhism is a philosophy not a faith, which is an insult to Buddhists since in Buddhism there are wrathful deities (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrathful_deities), and adherents believe it is a religion not a mere philosophy.
Dawkins major attack of Christianity is that because Jesus’ genealogies in Matthew and Luke contradict, that there are more names in one bloodline proves its made up. If Dawkins had a rudimentary knowledge of genealogy, archaeology, and history, he’d known the genealogy of Christ in Matthew is Joseph’s bloodline, while the one in Luke is Mary’s bloodline, so there are going to be differences, because Mary and Joseph came from different families! What truly matters is Mary’s line because Jesus’ body was formed in her womb and conceived by the Holy Spirit, “In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. And the virgin’s name was Mary. And he came to her and said, “Greetings, O favored one, the Lord is with you!” But she was greatly troubled at the saying, and tried to discern what sort of greeting this might be. And the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. [31] And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus. [32] He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David, [33] and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.”
And Mary said to the angel, “How will this be, since I am a virgin?”
And the angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy—the Son of God.” (Luke 1:26-35). And the providence of the Holy Trinity is that nowadays, Jews only consider someone a Jew by the maternal bloodline, and so Jesus being from David’s line is assured even by today’s Jewish standards!
Dawkins is an antichrist claiming to be an atheist. His admonition that he will only take on the three monotheistic faiths, and really only Christianity shows his agenda is against Christ. He does not have the courage to take on all gods, to try and deconstruct all theism, it is one faith in particular he has his cross hairs on and its Christianity. This bias invalidates his work, it should be titled The Christ Delusion, not the God Delusion, a anti-Case For Christ, he is the anti-Lee Strobel, and has not the honesty to admit. His case against our Lord Jesus is based on bad assertions, straw arguments, and obvious partial anti-sermonizing. He clearly hates Christ and the Church, but in his ire he is blinded to how weak his arguments are, he says Paul invented Christianity.. uh most atheists and non-believing historians admit Jesus existed and was a moral teacher, so him claiming its Paul proves he is on his own soap box without facts. Jesus is asserted to have lived, Josephus, and Tacitus record that Jesus lived, and his sect. Historians today agree Jesus lived and was crucified, “Craig Blomberg states that most scholars in the third quest for the historical Jesus consider the crucifixion indisputable. Christopher M. Tuckett states that, although the exact reasons for the death of Jesus are hard to determine, one of the indisputable facts about him is that he was crucified.” (Crucifixion of Jesus, Wikipedia). So if our gospels in Bible which claim Jesus was crucified are proved true by secular scholarship, how much more can it be trusted Jesus taught, and started Christianity, not Paul!
Dawkins fails because wisdom and knowledge are in Christ, “Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.” (Colossians 2:2-3). He has turned his back on the well of wisdom. I urge we pray for Him, that like Lee Strobel, he realizes the truth that Jesus is real, Jesus is God, and faith in Him will give any who believe in Him eternal life. Amen.
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