There is something I wonder about. How to answer these?
"The Bible says that God is not mocked, but athiests like us mock God every day!!11 Bible false!11!"
"The Bible says that there is no male nor female in Galatians 3:28, but they both can be demonstrated to exist!!"
"The Bible says that all have sinned. ALL!! ALL!! Romans 3:23. Have babies sinned?? Have fetuses in the womb at 2 days old sinned? What was their sin?? Do the unborn know how to repent? Well they are doomed to hell if they die if that verse is correct!!"
Please rebut the potential athiest arguments used above ^.
Anything lifting itself above or at God's Knowledge is set to fail.
Psalm 14:1
Sunday School level arguments and rather vapid.
1# “ There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus” (NIV: Gal.3:28). Context is clear, [in Christ Jesus] qualifies Paul’s meaning. Spiritually,
in Christ (even if not in the church) there is no racism, classism, nor sexism. Paul was no solipsist.
2# “This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus” (NIV: Rm.3:22-4). Again, if folk but know how to read, the wider context will be clear enough: Paul spoke about the adultlike (22), not about the preborn. We often assume similar things when we speak: “visiting the Smiths we all played Monopoly”, literally ignores that the Smiths’ baby did not play, but what twit would add that baby did not play? And note that v23 is sandwiched by verses which speak of adultlike response: “all are justified” (24) presumes the adultlike belief/response of v22.
Admittedly, some Christians have theorised v23 to have an “all in Adam” meaning in the sense that, as we might say, his genome sinned, and having sinned it’s as if all humans conceived in his genomic line sinned at that historical point: ie, that we all sinned preconception. I don’t think that that theory is required.
Atheism can offer better than silly pedanticism, as Anthony Flew showed.
PS: it’s [atheist], not [athiest].
PPS: Ps.14:1 was in its culture not about
philosophical atheism (a denial that the concept, God, is valid) but about
practical atheism (a denial that God mattered): interestingly Nietzsche was unhappy believing that the concept was invalid, believing that it had mattered. The fools of Ps.14 were wicked, disregarding ethics (which is predicated on theism). “Within the congregation they could mimic the sounds of faith, but their true self showed disregard for God, his commandments, and his people” (Willem A VanGemeren,
Psalms (EBC), 2008:175).
