{"id":6416,"date":"2016-08-16T03:50:06","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/no-reason-for-atheism\/"},"modified":"2016-08-16T03:50:06","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:50:06","slug":"no-reason-for-atheism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/no-reason-for-atheism\/","title":{"rendered":"NO\n  REASON FOR ATHEISM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>Topics:<\/b> Atheism; Faith; Mind; Reason; Thoughts; Unbelief<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>References:<\/b> Job 12:7\u201325; Isaiah 42:1\u20139; Romans 1:19\u201320<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>If there is no intelligence behind the universe, then nobody designed my brain for the purpose of thinking. Thought is merely the by-product of some atoms within my skull.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>If so, how can I trust my own thinking to be true? And if I can\u2019t trust my own thinking, I can\u2019t trust arguments leading to atheism and therefore have no reason to be an atheist, or anything else. Unless I believe in God, I can\u2019t believe in thought; so I can never use thought to disbelieve God.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'>\u2014C. S. Lewis, <i>Broadcast Talks<\/i> (London, 1946)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topics: Atheism; Faith; Mind; Reason; Thoughts; Unbelief References: Job 12:7\u201325; Isaiah 42:1\u20139; Romans 1:19\u201320 If there is no intelligence behind the universe, then nobody designed my brain for the purpose of thinking. Thought is merely the by-product of some atoms within my skull. If so, how can I trust my own thinking to be true? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/no-reason-for-atheism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NO<br \/>\n  REASON FOR ATHEISM&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}