I once read an article in the Independant Newspaper by a very intelligent man who had become very cynical and opposed to Christianity. The position he took was that there was no truth or logic in the Christian viewpoint. I have reprinted my reply in this blog post. Hopefully it will make you think and bring you to the point where you take the claims of the Bible seriously.
'My imagination was engaged as I started to read your piece on "The
Bible Society’s debt to Arthur C Clarke?" You had obviously carried out some
good research about the society and highlighted some key statistics which would
be very interesting to a number of people. I was then quite amazed that you
chose to so violently misrepresent the teaching of the very book that the
society has spent so long translating and making available to the world. For
example you chose to ignore that the Bible and Christianity has developed more
education programs, opened more hospitals and changed more societies for the
good than the current world atheistic belief system has ever done. People who have
been successful, in theory, in establishing atheistic states have generally
produced societies which have been just as corrupt as capitalist ones. Incidentally they have ultimately been unsuccessful because of the corrupt heart of humanity. All of this however only
looks at the outcomes of the opposing world views without actually discussing
the validity or plausibility of their views.
