Many of us fear the act of dying - but for Christians the fear of death itself is practically non existent. Yet when we listen to the average 'whistling-in-the-dark, aggressive atheist', they have clearly convinced themselves that it is the 'proposed heavenly rewards' which motivate Christians into belief - or failing that, fear of hell.
They transfer their own fears of death onto believers and have some wild self delusion that what Christians have as a relationship with God could not possibly be anything other than an exercise in overuse of the imagination .
The arrogance of so many atheists never ceases to amaze me. How dare they belittle MY experiences - my reality when they have chosen not to follow the same route as I have wherein that experience was gained in the first place?
I pray daily for Richard Dawkins - but the hardest prayers of them all to get positive answers to are those where you are asking Father to overrule somebody else's freedom of choice.
It is a freedom we are all granted. Nobody is sentenced to hell - all are volunteers. All are on that route already - the only thing we have to do is to take God's proffered, free gift in order to avoid it. The price paid for us to escape was a high one.
(And for those argumentative types who cannot grasp the larger picture - may I thoroughly recommend a study of Romans 2?)
Long story short - if you haven't had the experience, then you do not know what you are talking about!
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