Often when I talk to an atheist
I find out they are experts
on just about everything.
In their effort to 'disprove' God
they'll quote you facts on evolution, physics, history, even the Bible.
It amazes me how knowledgeable they act.
They can tell you all sorts of things about logic and science
and trivial facts.
They can also be pretty good at insulting
both your intelligence and your sensibilities.
In what is clearly an attempt to justify themselves
I see in the atheist, including myself having been one, a vanity.
They argue based upon the expertise of strangers
and make this knowledge of expertise their god.
They become experts in hearsay (ironically close to heresy).
There's an important contradiction here that must be seen
for any atheist to come to the knowledge of God.
In their effort to disprove God and justify themselves
they focus on expertise in every area except the most obvious one
that will bring them to the Truth.
They never become expert on themselves.
Oh they might analyze their own behavior,
but their focus is cause and effect.
At best psychology and psychoanalysis is a study of behavior patterns
with some root cause analysis. It's not to the core of who they are,
it's not about their heart.
To become a real expert on you requires knowing your own heart.
I find with consistency atheists don't want to know their own heart.
I don't know if it is because they fear the revelation of it or
if perhaps they do know it enough to not like what they see.
One thing is true and universal,
if a man starts to know his own heart
he will begin to stare the truth in the face.
It will either condemn him, or lift him up.
There is no middle ground.
While it can be good to know things, to reason and to have feelings.
Sooner or later all these things will lead you astray, and that's bad.
But your heart, now that's something entirely different.
If you really know your heart it will never lead you astray
but will bring you face to face with the truth.
When we start to examine our own heart
we realize that it is the source of the things we say,
'out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks'.
It is the root of who we are,
'as a man thinks in his heart, so he is'.
Your words and your thoughts betray what's in your heart.
Is it full of love, or something else.
{3:19} And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him. {3:20} For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. {3:21} Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.
1 John 3:19-22
Examine your heart.
What's in it?
Be an expert on the only thing you really can be an expert at,
your own heart.
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