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FAITH - THE ATHEIST AND GOD - Dr. Charles S Price



Sometime ago an atheist sat in a meeting I was conducting. He was extremely hard and cynical. He lived alone in the room of a hotel, and his solitude had only added to his hard, critical, unbelieving nature. I preached that night on the subject “comprehending the incomprehensible”. I declared that it was possible to believe the unbelievable: to know the love of God that passes knowledge. The following morning he came to my room and asked for an interview. He was rather argumentative and I told him, when I did not have time for argument, I would be glad to answer any sincere, honest, question which he might put before me.He said, “I have no faith whatever. I do not believe the Bible, and I do not know if there be a God. I do see a law of order in nature and the universe, but what causes it, or where it came from, I do not know. Now, Dr. Price, your sermon last night was a challenge to my thinking. What I want to know is this: how can a man spend a dollar when he does not have one? How can you believe when you have no belief? How can God expect a man to exercise faith when he does not have any (assuming there is a God)? Where is there any justice in a set up like that?”



”Are you an honest man, and do you want to know the truth?” “What is truth?” was the reply. “What brand of it do you mean? I have never been able to find it, although I have spent a lifetime in search of it”.



On the wall of my apartment was hanging a picture of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane. His hands were clasped and His eyes were raised toward heaven in prayer. I walked over to the picture and looked at it for a moment or two without speaking. I intuitively knew he would be looking at the picture too. When at last I turned to face him, I said, “He is truth. He is the way. He is your life and faith. He has in abundance what you say you do not have. You have been trying to get it out of mind, thought, and intellect. He can put it there, as the river of His grace flows through your heart. That is why He came. He came to make men free…. free from doubt like yours…. free from fears and misgivings…. free from unbelief and free from sin.”“Sounds like a fairy story to me,” he interrupted. “Fine if you can believe it, but how can man or God expect a man to believe what he cannot believe? “He went away. A week later he came to me and offered his hand. When I looked at his face, I knew the miracle had happened. Into his heart there had come not only the conscious knowledge of sins forgiven, but a manifestation of the sweetness and love of God which had made him a new creation in Christ Jesus……“Do you know what happened? “He said. “I told the Lord to manifest Himself, if He was there. I asked Him to do something, which would reveal his presence, if He was there at all.  I became conscience that He was near me. I realized there was a God - that there was a soul to save. I did not understand it with my mind, but I knew it in my heart. Then I told Him I had no faith to believe, so he gave me His faith, and I believed. The work was done.”Why not? That is God’s way of salvation. “As many as received Him, to them gave He  power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His Name.” When I give an altar call, I invite every man, and every woman, to surrender their heart and life to Christ. If we are saved by faith, how do I know that all can have the faith to receive? How do I know that everyone whom I invite can find eternal life? Some might have faith, and others be entirely devoid of it. The fact that people believe what you say does not mean that they have the faith to translate that belief, or even heart hunger, into an experiential knowledge of sins forgiven.Nevertheless, I cry “Whosoever will, may come,” because I know that He will impart the faith which is needful to every sincere heart. I have quoted the 12th verse of the first chapter of John: “but as many as r...

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