Comments on: Hitchens’ Twisted Mind

By: Jo

Jo — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:40:32 +0000

+i think the verse is clear..it means: the sacrifices of the people who didnt worship God, but the baal. and that burning their children as a sacrifice God didnt command the people, nor did it enter His heart..
in the case of Abraham, God’s intention was to see whether Abraham was obedient and faithful and not to sacrifice his child because mayb the most precious thing in his life was his son, so whoever loves his wife, son, more than Me is not worthy of Me..the sacrificing of issac didnt enter into God’s heart-if it did then God will love to murder His children-BUT NO IT DIDNT ENTER HIS HEART..it was to test abraham n had nothing to do with issac, he was just a tool to test Abraham’s obedience, love and faithfulness to God..Of course God keeps ALL His promises and that includes isaac-”I will make ur seed as the dust of the earth”. -Genesis 13:16
“I will establish my covenant with him(Isaac) for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him. -Genesis 17:19
and abraham trusted in God 100% -Genesis 22:8″God will provide himself the lamb.”
so thats y God sent the angel of God to stop him and EVEN GAVE HIIM A RAM TO SACRIFICE!!…-genesis 22:11-13
clearly the people who are making up the athesitic theories are against God..and those who are against God WILL NEVER SUCCEED!! NEVER!!!!

oh and another great thing to match with this blog that God has done..with my sunday school class, i have just finished the story of Abraham!!!! 4 weeks of it!!! IT WAS SO AMAZING!! i learnt alot!!!!

By: Romani sergyos

Romani sergyos — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:25:22 +0000

once people stop believing in God , the problem is not that they will believe nothing ;rather the problem is that they will believe anything …they are discontent and despair ….they are poor in the spirit with narrow mind …..they need to search and find the spiritual contentment and it only found in that narrow road and not that narrow mind , the narrow road is “whoever drinks of the water that i shall give him will never thirst ;the water water that i shall give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life “”John 4:14″….if they choose the narrow mind and not the narrow road, it will lead them to the broad way :”my people have committed two evils :they have forsaken me , the fountain of living waters , and hewed out cisterns for themselves , broken cisterns , that can hold no water “”Jeremiah2:13″….so which way pal do you want to take for your spiritual contentment !!!???so mate the spiritual contentment and hope is there in that narrow road , amen ….

By: Nate

Nate — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:52:59 +0000

I encourage you to read ‘God, Actually’ by Roy Williams.

It is very much a counter to the ‘God Critics’ Hitchens and Dawkins, and a very interesting read.
Williams himself was one of these ‘New Atheists’ until he was later attracted to Roman Catholicism…

Just a funny note, I saw a documentary by Richard Dawkins a while back. In it he claimed that the Bible and Christians are responsible for global warming; because in the Bible God commands Man to ‘be fruitful, multiply and replenish the earth’ and to have dominion over land and beast.
So, his arguement goes, Christians think it is their God-given right to exploit the world’s resources for their own benefit, which has resulted in global warming.

That did nothing but make me laugh…I guess it’s all our fault that the ice caps are melting, and that its not the natural cycle of the planet afterall…hahaha

By: tony

tony — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:29:01 +0000

Thanks Abouna! I have had difficultly trying to explain that to some people.

The author of Hebrews writes that Abraham expected that the Lord will raise up his son because Isaac was the child of promise.

In the past I explained it away- that Abraham must have had such a fervent faith to expect such a promise, having failed before by not believing in God’s promise the first time about Sarah having a child, and going in to Hegar.

Whilst, I had certain doubts of St Paul’s take on the story, but the more I think about, I am quite convinced of the truthfulness of the Hebrew’s description.

Hmmmm….I quite agree about the New Atheism….How do we get out to people sucked in to these things?