God’s Not Dead

 “God is Dead” was proclaimed by Nietzsche in the Nineteenth century. He was an atheist for his adult life and by his statement, he wasn’t saying that there was a God who had actually died, rather that our idea of one had. He believed that men wouldn’t be able to handle a world without a God, but as time has progressed, we find that first this concept is not new. Agnostic means not knowing, they are basically on the fence people, of they don’t know if God is real or not. These people were around when Paul taught, the people in the times of Moses, believed in every form of god and worshipped images made by men, ranging from birds to animals and even moon and sun. To think that God didn’t exist and or that faith is blind even has troubled prophets, and I early on in my walk and at times had questioned if God was real. I think it’s a valid thought and struggle for all mankind. People say science proves God doesn’t exist, that death and famines, prove it also. Billy Graham before he started his Los Angeles tent revival said he went to the desert with his Bible and questioned whether God was real. This after his longtime friend and co-evangelist Charles Templeton lost his faith after seeing a Life magazine  picture with a starving child on it and said God can’t exist.

Hebrews Eleven is known as the “Faith Hall of Fame” where it recounts many people in the Bible who lived and died for their faith in God. 

Hebrews Eleven verse Six says, “No one can please God without faith, for whoever comes to God must have faith that God exists and rewards those who seek him.” 

I’ve stated numerous times as does the Bible that no matter the amount of evidence given, your mind is made up to believe what you will believe, until you choose to hear and listen to the Spirit and believe. God gives every chance for one to believe and all of creation alone speaks of the wonder and beauty of God. In my times of doubt I learned that it was my selfish ways and me wanting to live without consequences as oddly enough is what “practical atheists” are defined as. The sad part is that the notion of God is dead that started in Europe with philosophy and man creating their own lives, and science breakthroughs as reason for not needing God. In America, it started in Government misinterpreting separation of church and state, and took God out of the schools, courts and eventually in homes. Television became the new “bible” as did sports and “me,” and with the rise of cults in the late Eighteen Hundreds and early Nineteen Hundreds, into the scandals of the Catholic and Christian churches, man’s idea of God became more dead. So was Nietzsche right?  

Psalm Fourteen eloquently puts it, “The fool has said in his heart, “ There is no God.” They are corrupt, They have done abominable works, There is none who does good.” 

Charles Templeton was interviewed by Lee Strobel in his book “A Case For Faith” and in it Lee concludes that before his death that Mr Templeton realized that God did exist and that he had wasted his life. God waits for all to decide and believe and only you can make that choice, perhaps today, perhaps not, but please before your last breath, for I would hate for you to find yourself without God on the other side of this life.” Jose Barajas

“Let hope arise and make the darkness hide

My faith is dead I need resurrection somehow

Now I'm lost in Your freedom; In this world I'll overcome

My God's not dead; He's surely alive ;

He's living on the inside; Roaring like a lion; God's not dead” Newboys