A couple years ago a 23-year-old woman in our town was killed. She’d been walking along the train tracks, going home from technical college. As the train came barrelling down on her from behind, the whistle blew repeatedly. She refused to move.
It was only later that the news released the information that she was deaf. She didn’t hear a thing.
Did she expect that the only train to come would be from in front?
If someone had jumped in front of her to warn of the train, would she have heeded the warning?
Did she know exactly what she was doing?
We’ll never know.
To me, this is somewhat like atheists. Eternity is bearing down on them like a freight train and they are as oblivious to that fact as this deaf woman.
They’ve got plans.
They’ve got thoughts.
They’ve got lives to live, families to raise, products to purchase.
Atheists are concerned with everything except the one thing that counts the most.
And when you warn them, what happens? Nothing.
Deaf as a post.
Doomed by their negligence.
Stuck with their noses deep in the box looking for the last kernel of buttered pop-corn while an eternity that will be forever spent separated from their Creator is just moments away.
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By "atheists," you obviously mean the 4 billion* people on the planet who don't buy in to your particular version of "eternity."
* and close to 2 billion other people who are close to your beliefs, but not quite right and will thus be denied the eternal reward you're warning everyone they're going to miss.
Correction: Doomed by their negligence should read: Saved by their intelligence.
Yes, apparently this 23 year old was quite a bright woman. It did her as much good as your intelligence is doing you.
I pray to Thor that someday you will be released from your cocoon of delusion. You want so much for what you beloieve to be true that you have abandoned rationality when it comes to this aspect of your life. I guess that's ok as long as it makes you happy and doesn't interfere with the lives of others ....
"Yes, apparently this 23 year old was quite a bright woman. It did her as much good as your intelligence is doing you."
The difference between eternity and a train in this example is that we have observable evidence of the train and knowledge of what will happen when it hits you.
Sometimes it needs to be "good enough" to trust the Designer that this is how it works.
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