Atheists don't accept Christianity because Christianity states that God cannot dwell with sin, so therefore ANY sin, no matter how small, keeps a person out of heaven. They cannot accept that a person who generally makes good choices, doesn't kill, doesn't steal, etc. is still unworthy of heaven because of a few small sins.
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Most of them would agree that points like equality, respect, kindness, gentleness, fairness, integrity, bravery, love, loyalty, grace, mercy, helpfulness, faithfulness, and truth are good. These aspects are main themes of the Bible. Yet, atheists reject the entire Bible simply because of a few things like the creation account, old laws in Leviticus and Deuteronomy, and God saying that He is supreme.
Why do they have a problem with these verses? Well, obviously, because the doctrines in these small verses are the medium through which people understand the rest of the Bible. For instance, if God isn't supreme, then loving my neighbor as myself comes from a completely different motivation. (Google search: "Freud" and "Libido")
God views our sin similarly. In order for something to be pure, it must be 100% pure. An impure diamond is actually not a full diamond. It is more like 99% diamond and 1% something else. We were made to be pure, but if we do one impure thing, then we are no longer what God made us to be. God is therefore forced to see our good deeds through the context of our bad ones. Think of this: if there were a spot of ketchup on your shirt, you wouldn't go around telling people that it's a clean shirt, even if--save for the spot--the rest was spotless. If there is a sin in your life, then you are not being 100% of what you were created to be. If you spend your day doing 90% of what God wants, but 10% of what Satan wants, then you can't say you were 90% living for God. You were either living for God the entire time, or you weren't. If you are 10% Satan's then you are actually 100% Satan's. Or think of it another way. If a wife is 90% faithful to her spouse and has affairs 10% of the time, is she faithful or unfaithful? That little 10% actually makes her 100% unfaithful. Furthermore, any faithful acts she performs to her husband, become nothing less than a lie to hide the adultery. She is not being a wife anymore but a 100% liar and adulteress. However, she was intended to be 100% wife.
Do you see? This is why God died for you, so you can accept Him and God can view you through Jesus' perfection instead of your own failures. You are GOING to fail. That's a given. But guess what, you don't need to stress out, because you don't have to be recognized a failure unless you reject God's payment.
God fixes His "discrimination" problem by dying for us. What do atheists do to fix their discrimination problem? Nothing. Therefore, their rejection of the whole Bible for some picayune details is hypocritical if they are going to further reject God because of His condemnation of unbelievers for every sin they commit.
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It's funny that you should point out that Athiests don't believe in God because how could God exist and send sinner's to Hell. Their reasoning is based on speculation and conjectures.
It is hard to win an argument with Athiests. Especially when they ask the question "How could a good and loving God let bad things happen to good people." For a long time it seems I asked the same question and never found any answers until one day I realized I was looking at from the wrong point of view.
We are taught to always view life with a positive attitude. The glass is half full - not half empty. We are mostly good and not bad. Therefore if we are mostly good then why do bad things happen. That is what is so great about the examples you gave of of the wife being 90% faithful and 10% unfaithful. If we always look at the glass as half full then of course this analogy of the wife would hold water - but it doesn't! Just the 10% causes the wife to be 100% unfaithful. So it is with God.
God is 100% good. We on the other hand have sin and may be 90% good and 10% bad but just that 10% makes us 100% bad in the eyes of God. So, instead of asking the question "Why does God allow bad things to happen to 90% good people?" we should be asking "Why does God allow good things to happen to any of us since we are all a fallen people?" This is truly God's grace! When we get what we don't deserve since we all deserve Hell.
Athiests believe in a god - the god of themselves. Who wants to serve a god with human traits even if they are 90% good - it is the 10% bad that defiles the whole thing. Much like your water illustration in a previous blog.
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