A Gospel
street-preacher was being heckled by an atheist who challenged him to a debate.
The preacher said he would accept upon one condition: the atheist would have to
bring one person to the meeting who had been saved from a life of drunkenness
and crime and had been restored to a useful place in society as a result of
atheistic teachings, and that he would bring ten such witnesses to the power of
the Gospel. Needless to say there was no debate. This is not to say that all
atheists are drunkards or immoral: it is only to say that there is no moral virtue
in the denial of a God of absolute truth, in the denial of man’s moral responsibility
before God, and in the denial of absolute truth. Truth to the atheist must be a
relative matter, perhaps simply what the individual feels is going to benefit
him most in any particular situation. He will ask with Pilate: “What is truth?”
Every man is free to make his own definition of truth and morality. Atheists may
see the need to curb human passions for the good of society, they may see the
wisdom of adopting certain ethical principles which originated through Christian
influence, they may take a utilitarian point of view, but none of these things
in which there may be any virtue can be said to be the result of atheistic philosophy.
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