The God Delusion

[monkeys]

Has anyone read the book "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins? The author of the book argues that:

Faith is a delusion. He says that faith is a "persistent false belief held in the face of strong contradictory evidence." He thinks that when many people suffer from delusion it is called religion. His book has been on the best sellers list even. That means there are thousands of people reading his material.

This is extremely scary everyone. There are people who are reading this book that can be turned away from God, or people that already believe that will be turned away from God. They are even using this book as a textbook in my school.

What do you all think of this? What do you think can be done to solve this problem, or what would you say to someone who thinks that it is delusional to believe in God?

 

[ladylovesJesus]

Pesonally I believe the Word of God is true and would not read a book which says otherwise.

There are people out there who try and pick holes in our Faith.

We have the Spirit of God inside of us to help us discern what is right or wrong.

No true born again Christian will turn away from God because of some silly statement in a book.

God says Faith comes by hearing and hearing comes from the Word of God.

God says it I believe it, that settles it. No doubt.

I found this on the internet.


Our belief in God is a belief of faith. We have faith in His Son for salvation, faith in His Word for instruction, and faith in His Holy Spirit for guidance. Our faith in God should be absolute, since when we put our faith in God, we depend on a perfect, omnipotent, omniscient Creator. Our belief in science should be intellectual – and nothing more. We can count on science to do many great things, but we can also count on science to make mistakes. If we put faith in science, we depend on imperfect, sinful, limited mortal men. Science throughout history has been dead wrong about many things, such as the shape of the Earth, powered flight, vaccines, blood transfusions, even reproduction. God has never been proven wrong.

Truth is nothing for any Christian to fear, so there is no reason for a Christian to fear or hate good science. Learning more about the way God constructed our universe helps all of mankind appreciate the wonder of creation. Expanding our knowledge helps us to combat disease, ignorance, and misunderstanding. However, there is danger when scientists hold their faith in human logic above faith in our Creator. These persons are no different than anyone devoted to a religion – they have chosen faith in Man, and will find facts to defend it.

God bless :rose: :rainbow:

 

[like_jesus]

I think that anyone that is ignorant of faith and denies it denies himself, people over the world believe in something be it material or immaterial.
If the author can confidently say he has nothing he believes in then he shared his idea, but if he believes in material things, then how can we not believe in the Holy God.

 

[monkeys]

Thank you for sharing. I just wanted to know what you all thought about this. I saw this book in the school library and I wasn't too sure what it was about until I did some research on the internet.

I understand what you are saying ladylovesJesus, but I have to read this book. I have to understand what this author is saying, because my boyfriend and I are currently writing a book. It's so scary to think that there are many unbelievers who laugh at God, and think that this man's assumptions are facts.

If feels like the end of the world is comming soon...

 

[monkeys]

ladylovesJesus, I just remembered something...and wanted to post it before I forgot.

There are people who are new to the faith that could be sawed away from God after reading this book. My brother-in-law to be is very confused. He is in the process of finding out more about God.

So what if he read the book and got swayed away from Christ? We shouldn't only think of the people that already have a strong faith, but all those who are new to the Kingdom of God!

Thank you so much for sharing again!

Many Blessings,
monkeys