Interesting comment from an atheist – Ray Comfort<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

An atheist writes: "I have no sin. I've made some poor choices and some bad judgments over the years, but we make amends where we can and move on... realize many of you need this emotional crutch to cope, and that's OK. Otherwise you'd be out killing people and such."A Christian responds: "What is your objection to killing people? If it's just a 'poor choice' or a 'bad judgment' what's the problem? Murderers can just make amends where they can, and move on..."The issue here is morality. If the Creator is without morals, we are all okay. That means that there is no accountability. That means there's no right or wrong. Rape, murder, adultery, Nazi Germany, etc., are nothing but poor choices and bad judgments. But why would any rational person seriously entertain such a philosophy? The wisdom of Solomon has the answer. Scripture says, "Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil" (Ecclesiastes 8:11). Why is it that we give ourselves to things that we know are wrong? It's because God doesn't respond. If a man rapes a woman and successfully silences her by threatening to take her life if she snitches, there's no swift divine justice. The man got away with evil. When humanity gives itself to pornography, fornication, adultery, blasphemy, etc., there is no response from Heaven. God is silent when it comes to evil. So the erroneous conclusion is that God doesn't exist, or at least He doesn't care or hear. There is one other conclusion. It's the one we see (in principle) with civil law. When a criminal who gets away with murder, becomes emboldened in his crime, it doesn't mean that civil law doesn't care about what he's doing. It means that he is making things worse for himself when the law catches up with him. The same applies to humanity every time we violate God's Law (the Ten Commandments). The Amplified Bible puts it this way (this translation takes the original Greek and brings out the depth and meaning of each word):"And do you think or imagine, O man, when you judge and condemn those who practice such things and yet do them yourself, that you will escape God's judgment and elude His sentence and adverse verdict? Or are you [so blind as to] trifle with and presume upon and despise and underestimate the wealth of His kindness and forbearance and long-suffering patience? Are you unmindful or actually ignorant [of the fact] that God's kindness is intended to lead you to repent (to change your mind and inner man to accept God's will)? But by your callous stubbornness and impenitence of heart you are storing up wrath and indignation for yourself on the day of wrath and indignation, when God's righteous judgment (just doom) will be revealed. For He will render to every man according to his works [justly, as his deeds deserve] . . . " (Romans 2:4-6). No one is getting away with a thing. God's justice will be swift, severe and very thorough: "But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. Time will prove that to be true" (Matthew 12:36).

Harmony in the Cosmos

Albert Einstein said that the evidence that convinced him that a Creator existed, was that there was incredible "harmony in the cosmos"[1]. The word "cosmos" comes from the Greek word kósmos, and it means "order, form, arrangement, the world or universe." Just as every arrangement of music has an arranger, so this world has One who orchestrated it. Take for instance, the dawning of an average Spring day. The birds blissfully sing as the sun rises over the vast ocean's curved horizon. The air is fresh and clean. This is because without the heat of the sun, the temperature of the night air dropped, then coagulated into moisture (gaining mass) and fell through the air, cleansing it of impurities--and at the same time providing moisture for the soil. As the massive sun lifts off the ocean, it does so a moment later than it did on the previous morning, lengthening the day as summer approaches. But this isn't the only sunrise that is taking place on this day. At any moment of any day, somewhere around the earth this same sunrise scenario is taking place. It is a perpetual occurrence. Every moment of every day, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, the sun is rising, somewhere. Yet at the same time, somewhere in the world the same sun is perpetually setting. There is such harmony, such incredible precision in the cosmos, we can predict the exact moment of the sunrise and the sunset of any location on earth, many years into the future. For example, in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Honolulu, Hawaii, on January 18th, 2050, the sun will rise at 7:11 a.m. and set at 6:13 p.m. On November 6th, 2063, the city of New York will see the sun rise at 6:32 a.m.[2] Such predictions are only possible because of the synchronization of creation. It is perfectly orchestrated. This harmony also exists in the seasons that faithfully come around each year. At the same moment that the coolness of Fall is changing the color of the leaves of the U.S. and ending their life, Spring is causing the leaves of the trees of New Zealand to bud and break into new life. Like the sunrise and sunset, Fall, Spring, Summer and Winter are perpetually happening every moment of every day of every year on this great earth. Harmony exists in the clouds that form in the sky. They predictably drop their rain, then they reform as the water of the earth evaporates and ascends into the heavens. All this happens to keep the air clean and to give the earth and its inhabitants life. Notes:1. "In the view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are yet people who says there is no God. But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support of such views." The Expanded Quotable Einstein, Princeton University, page 214. 2. http://aa.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/aa_rstablew.pl