Have been since the beginning.
True. The enmity promised between the Seed of the Woman and the seeds of the serpent did play out as divinely promised and now we know who the Christos/Messiah is.
But God's Redemption Plan is still ongoing which is a blessing for those of us born now, so teach your family well.
Because others are trying to teach them lies.
And as HT reminds us....
they have been since the beginning.
As far as atheism, the devout atheist who would live to be one of the last centuries greatest Christian apologists, C. S. Lewis often wrote how there is no such thing as an atheist because every human places faith somewhere.
This passage from his book
Mere Christianity is an example of his commentaries that are known to be straight forward and written for the common man/woman;
If a good God made the world why has it gone wrong? And for many years I simply refused to listen to the Christian answers to this question, because I kept on feeling "whatever you say, and however clever your arguments are, isn't it much simpler and easier to say that the world was not made by any intelligent power? Aren't all your arguments simply a complicated attempt to avoid the obvious?" But then that threw me back into another difficulty.
My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust? If the whole show was bad and senseless from A to Z, so to speak, why did I, who was supposed to be part of the show, find myself in such violent reaction against it? . . . Of course I could have given up my idea of justice by saying it was nothing but a private idea of my own. But if I did that, then my argument against God collapsed too -- for the argument depended on saying that the world was really unjust, not simply that it did not happen to please my private fancies. Thus in the very act of trying to prove that God did not exist -- in other words, that the whole of reality was senseless -- I found I was forced to assume that one part of reality -- namely my idea of justice -- was full of sense. Consequently atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.Blessings,
Mark
