{"id":225,"date":"2015-02-09T06:42:42","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T12:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brendamc.com\/?p=225"},"modified":"2015-02-09T06:42:42","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T12:42:42","slug":"challange-to-athiests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brendamc.com\/?p=225","title":{"rendered":"Challange to Athiests"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/brendamc.com\/?p=225\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"225px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>I woke up about 3 am this morning with this scenario going around in my head: talking to an atheist and saying, &#8220;Do you really not believe that God exists, or do you just not want to admit that He has the Authority to say what is right and wrong?&#8221;\u00a0 The atheist strongly restates that there is no God and I reply, &#8220;OK, if there is no God, then I challenge you to say these words, &#8216;<strong>God if You really exist, please reveal Yourself to me<\/strong>&#8216;.&#8221;\u00a0 The atheist protests and I continue, &#8220;Well, if there really is no God, then saying that is just dead words in the air, nothing will happen.&#8221;\u00a0 Further protests from the atheist.\u00a0 I reply, &#8220;Your reluctance to say that phrase belies your statements that you don&#8217;t believe God exists, and leads me to think that you are afraid to challenge this God whom you don&#8217;t believe exists.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then this song from Newsboys &#8211; God&#8217;s Not Dead &#8211; keeps going around in my head.\u00a0 HalleluYah!\u00a0 We serve the One, True, Living God!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S_OTz-lpDjw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up about 3 am this morning with this scenario going around in my head: talking to an atheist and saying, &#8220;Do you really not believe that God exists, or do you just not want to admit that He has the Authority to say what is right and wrong?&#8221;\u00a0&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/brendamc.com\/?p=225\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendamc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendamc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendamc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendamc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendamc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brendamc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227,"href":"https:\/\/brendamc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions\/227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendamc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendamc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendamc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}