DAD WAS AN AGNOSTIC

DAD WAS AN AGNOSTIC

Wednesday, July 22, 2015

John [GW] 3:17-18 [Jesus explained] God sent his Son into the world, not to condemn the world, but to save the world. Those who believe in him won't be condemned. But those who don't believe are already condemned because they don't believe in God's only Son.

Hebrews [GW] 11:6-7… No one can please God without faith. Whoever goes to God must believe that God exists and that he rewards those who seek him. Faith led Noah to listen when God warned him about the things in the future that he could not see. He obeyed God and built a ship to save his family. Through faith Noah condemned the world and received God's approval that comes through faith. …

  My Dad was a self-declared agnostic most of his life. He stated that only fools were atheists believing creation and existence were by happenchance.  Though he had been witnessed to by me and others Dad persisted in this agnosticism until his final days. Then as he lay wasting away in the hospital that Tony Rice visited him and unashamedly shared the good news about Jesus. At that time Dad made a profession of faith and soon thereafter died peacefully.

  But what is an agnostic, and how do they differ from atheists?

  An atheist says they believe there is no God, period.

  An agnostic is quite different, typically believing one of two positions:

·          There is a supreme being as creator and sustainer, but that they/we cannot know him/her personally; god lives, but there is no possibility of fellowship.

·         It cannot be proven that a supreme being is or is not. (Whereas atheists declare “Is not!”)

  Atheists and agnostics are different and yet they are in the same critical position; both live under the terrible condition of “condemned already”. This condition is not however without escape, for God is longsuffering and “He doesn't want to destroy anyone but wants all people to have an opportunity to turn to him and change the way they think and act.” (GW 2Pet.3:9)

  My Dad was a self-declared agnostic most of his life.

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For further study: Ecc.3:11; Ps.19:1-4; Lk.22:42-43; Rom.1:18-22;