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Bible Truth For You is a ministry that enthusiastically embraces the Christian Fundamentalist perspective; that is, we believe that every word of the Bible is literally and totally true and are from God, accurately and faithfully recorded and preserved in the Received Text, which has authority over every person's life. God commands people to repent of sin, trust in the atoning work of God the Son Jesus Christ, believe and receive him as God. we are to be born anew in a new life by God the Holy Spirit and enter into a new and loving relationship with God. We should master his teaching from the Bible, pray, forsake the evil ways of this world, submit to God in all things, strive to live in purity and holiness, and live lives of love, empathy, charity, mercy, and understanding to all men, ministering God's truth so that they may be saved from destruction.

We do not embrace either right or left wing politics, capitalism or socialism, conservatism or liberalism, or any other system that has been invented by men. We advocate obedience to clear directives in the Bible from God for the conduct of every life and encourage every Christian to examine whether his beliefs are scriptural or merely very strong personal preferences. We believe that no Christian should ever elevate his preferences up to the same level as biblical doctrine or seek to teach or preach such opinions to others as God's Truth; such an act would be a sin before God and a denial of the gospel.

Temporary Atheists

Published 5 January, 2012 | By Anon Christian Writers

The death of an unbelieving person is a sad event, for there is no longer any opportunity for mercy to be given. An atheist has made his choice and must suffer the consequences of it.

Christopher Hitchens, one of the most militant atheists of our generation, died recently. Another temporary atheist.

Why temporary? Because there are no atheists in the cemetery. Why? Because whichever viewpoint you hold eliminates the possibility of atheism after they die.

Consider how a Christian views the death of an atheist. According to the Bible, all people have an everlasting spirit and all people have rebelled against God to whom they are accountable, and atheists go to hell when they die to wait in torment for the Judgment of the Great White Throne and the Lake of Fire. Why? Is God mean? No, God is holy; it's man that chooses to sin against the God that created him and to whom he is accountable. Yet God is also merciful and seeks to save sinners, not condemn them; It cost God that which was most precious to him, his Son, to make it possible to satisfy his holiness and yet extend mercy to sinners who desire the mercy of forgiveness.

If a sinner disdainfully rejects Christ, God's mercy and even his very existence, then it isn't God's fault and he's not being mean or unjust; it's the sinner's fault for being rebellious and prideful in loving his sin more than the God who created him. The only people in hell are those who have rejected the mercy of God so they could pursue their lives of sin, being unwilling to repent of them. God doesn't condemn anyone to hell who doesn't deserve the punishment; we all deserve this punishment for we are all accountable to him, the difference is that some ask to receive God's mercy, which he gives freely and generously but which has cost him a great deal. This isn't comfortable doctrine and doesn't tickle the ears with what people want to hear; it is grievous, yet it is the truth and only a fool ignores it.

In hell the atheist knows that the God of the Bible is real and that he is accountable to him for his angry rejection of Christ. A man who knows that God has put him in hell for his sins is no longer an atheist. He may still hate God and rail against Him, but he can no longer deny the existence of God.

There are no atheists in Hell.

Universalists, Unitarians, and modernists would like us to believe that atheists go to Heaven, like everybody else (they think), but there are no atheists in Heaven.

No man comes to the Father but by Christ, so there are no atheists in Heaven, either.

Don’t believe the Bible? Well consider how the atheist views his own death, and you will still see that atheism is temporary.

The atheist believes that there is no life after death. He believes he ceases to exist the moment he dies. So if he ceases to exist at death, then his atheism ceases the instant his conscious existence ceases. By his own admission, death makes him a non-existent atheist, and non-existent atheists are not atheists.

It’s a fact that there are no atheists in eternity. And there are no atheists in the cemetery. So where are the atheists? They are here on earth for a little while, and it's a fact they deny the existence of the compassionate God who gives them their every breath and every good thing that they enjoy every day of their lives, tragically rejecting His gracious offer of eternal salvation. And then death comes knocking, and they cease to be atheists.

Temporary atheists. Voltaire, Robert Ingersoll, Christopher Hitchens, and a host of others called themselves atheists while they were alive, but Christians know from the Bible that, sadly, the moment they died, they ceased being atheists. I think it would be well to have markers on their graves that say, ‘No longer an atheist.’