battling atheism

Today is our last full day in the swing of things in India. I've been mentally drifting to be ready to be home, but I'm finally feelings of sadness to leave this place. It's been so sweet to get to know girls at college we're spending time at.

Monisha and Treasa are the freshmen that I've gotten to spend the most time with. They are both super fun and are enjoyable to be around. Monisha has especially been fun for me since she loves to discuss politics and religion...two of my most favorite (and sensitive) subjects. Monisha comes from a Christian background, but is openly searching for truth. We talked a lot about athiesm and how is simply is a contradiction. Many atheists say there is no god, but true hard line atheism says there can be no belief systems. However, atheists are themselves adopting their own belief system: that there are no belief systems. It was definitely the Spirit that pointed us to Romans 1:19-21 where Scripture says that God is made plain to people through His invisible attributes and creation. So basically that God's power and presence are made known by simply seeing creation. There is natural order in how trees grow, how the sun sets, how clouds move, how mountains are formed, how our cells work, how animals live. There is order and it's not all chaos and random. This in and of itself should point people that there is a higher power that has created it all.

Also in Psalm 14:1 is says only fools say in their hearts "there is no god." Romans 1:18 also talks about people suppressing the truth as the real culprit not merely people not hearing of the gospel. I mean I know many people who've heard the truth about Christ- that He's the only way to know God and yet they don't care or want to find flaws, and as Romans says "suppress the truth."

Anyway, it was a thrilling conversation for me and we covered topics from how the Bible was put together to God's existence to why Adam and Eve sinned to what Jesus' role in the Bible is to how to the Old Testament and New Testament flow together and all point to Jesus Christ.

Monisha is a true joy to be around and I want her to experience truth- both knowing truth and having a relationship with truth, Himself.