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A brief Introduction:

While studying to be a pastor in college I abandoned my faith. In fact, I abandoned everything I thought I believed and rebuilt.

To my own surprise at the time, I found that Christianity was much stronger than I had thought. As I rebuilt my belief system, I realized that there needed to be people out there responding to the questions people have. I had them myself. So, while not continuing on to be a pastor, I have focused on educating people about what Christianity is all about and responding to the various charges and accusations made against it.

There are some obvious challenges to being successful in that capacity, but a big part of it consists not in arguing with atheists and skeptics, but rather in providing Christians with accurate information in the first place to prevent them from leaving the faith in the first place.

Questioning is a very normal and natural part of growing up, and I am convinced that it is not wrong to ask questions of God at any age. God doesn't strike people down. On the other hand, if people are going to reject Christianity, it is my aim to at least make sure they reject the real Christianity and not a false view of it. Also, much heartache can be avoided by educating Christians properly to begin with. My experience has helped me... but it was unnecessary.

Paul said that some plant, some water, and others reap the increase. My job is to go out into the land and move rocks- or break them if necessary- till the land, and struggle through knee deep fertilizer... all in the effort to allow those who come later to plant, water, and reap the harvest. I look forward to the prospects of either serving you as someone who needs to haul rocks out of the field, or as someone who can look at the field, detect problems, and help farmers more effectively plant, water, and reap.

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Nudisnudum Christ sequi: A Naked Hope

Posted by Anthony on October 19, 2008

“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.”

CS Lewis has a fabulous essay entitled ‘The Seeing Eye.’ In this essay he recounts a news article asserting that Russian astronauts had ventured into space… and didn’t find God. Lewis counters the immature understanding of ‘God’ that leads one to expect to ‘find’ God in space in the first place but then makes an interesting set of points. He says that anyone can ‘see God’ in any place, but it depends on one’s frame of mind and general attitude. A Christian will see God everywhere: a sunset, a strand of DNA, a child’s smile. An atheist will see God nowhere.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was able to see God in a concentration camp. Elie Wiesel could not and did not and henceforth never did again. Dietrich Bonhoeffer died in that concentration camp, executed on a direct order from Hitler shortly before the concentration camp was liberated. Elie Wiesel survived the concentration camp, but never forgave himself for doing so.

What is the difference between the two men?

Or, one might consider an example like Richard Wurmbrand, who wrote the little book “Tortured for Christ.” He was imprisoned in the Romanian Russian prisons under the Communists. Communism perceived Christianity to be a threat and attempted to torture people out of their faith. Eventually Wurmbrand escaped- his faith intact- and eventually testified before US Congress, stripping to the waist to show what had been done to him. (Mind you, at that time a lot of people in America didn’t think the Communists actually did such things)

Wurmbrand and Bonhoeffer could see, and did see, God in all places at all times.

This, really, is the essence of hope. Read the rest of the entry… »