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Atheism
Resident Evil or True Faith

I will be sending this article to many magazines and papers to see if
they will publish it

This is why I give atheists who believe that Jesus existed,
the benefit of the doubt, as they are only human and are often looking
for some kind of proof of our Creator God.

They only need to open
their eyes, and proof is all around them.

I will be sending this article to many magazines and papers to see if
they will publish it

Atheism
Resident Evil or True Faith

I am just a few hours back from Saturday Evening Mass, I was late for
Mass, but I was lucky enough to catch the words of the highly regarded
Priest's sermon as I dipped my hand in the Holy Water font at the
entrance of Church.

I will be sending this article to many magazines and papers to see if
they will publish it

I will be sending this article to many magazines and papers to see if
they will publish it

often looking
for some kind of proof of our Creator God. They only need to open
their eyes, and proof is all around them.

I will be sending this article to many magazines and papers to see if
they will publish it

Atheism
Resident Evil or True Faith

Many of the atheists of today seem to go out of their way to refute
the existence of God. In the survey I did in their newsgroup, I asked
if they believed that Jesus existed. Many of them replied that they
did believe He existed, but when I asked them if they believed in His
Divinity, they all said "No".

I will be sending this article to many magazines and papers to see if
they will publish it

Atheism
Resident Evil or True Faith

I would like to return,
with 12,000 from each of the 12 tribes of Israel, some day soon.

I will be sending this article to many magazines and papers to see if
they will publish it

Atheism
Resident Evil or True Faith

I am just a few hours back from Saturday Evening Mass, I was late for
Mass,

but I was lucky enough to catch the words of the highly regarded
Priest's

sermon as I dipped my hand in the Holy Water font at the
entrance of Church. "We all need to be re-born"

and when I had settled
in my seat, after lighting a candle for my Dad, he was talking about
how we need to open our hearts to the Lord, as this is where we feel
the greatest pain and greatest joy in our life.

I am currently reading the Holy Bible, gifted to me by a born-again
Christian, whilst I am a practising Catholic.

I have not previously
read most of the Old Testament, and I am beginning to understand why
the Jews only recognise the first 5 books of this Testament, that they
name the Torah.

I have never really met any person who has been
vehemently atheist, but I have got friendly with a few on the internet
via the atheist newsgroup,

when some of them were kind enough to
answer a quickly thought up survey of mine. I asked them some
philosophical questions that I don't remember the exact detail of, and
they showed their humanity and I imagined many of them to be good Dads
and family oriented. Many of them had read the Bible after they had
become atheist

and had made a decision to reject the teaching of the
Bible.

If you read the Old Testament, you see how the Lord, Our
Creator, can accept or reject his chosen people of Israel and many may
see this as quite ruthless and unforgiving.

Since my own Dad died, nearly 6 years ago, I can state that my Faith
has increased infinitely from the strong Faith I have always had when
I have been of sound mind. I must state that I am diagnosed with Manic
Depression and I have spent time in hospital for this twice for a few
months at a time. I am also on medication, seeing a Consultant
Psychiatrist and Care-Coordinator that I see as a Gift in my life,
rather than a hindrance as I did when I was younger.

In the past week, I have seen some lectures on television about great
men of science and art, which has prompted me to write this article.
The presenter of the lectures, who I find humorous and entertaining,
seems to put forward the view of a mocking atheist and acts quite
insultingly towards God at times, but I view it as just tongue in
cheek. Sometimes he goes out of his way to show that these great men
were actually atheists. Whether they became atheist after their
discovery of a scientific secret or were always atheist remains to be
seen. I must state here that my feelings about God were at their
lowest ebb when I suffered a mental breakdown when I was studying for
my A-levels at the age of 17. After an extra year of study I
eventually managed to gain A-levels in Maths, Physics and Chemistry.

These pioneers of Science who have been highlighted in the television
lectures, in my view, are geniuses of their time and they lived in a
time when the Popes would not be shy to exercise their position of
infallibility on matters of Science. Fortunately, the Church now puts
some faith in these men as proven by the fact that I received my
A-level teaching from Priests, at least in Physics which I did best
in. But I do not see these geniuses as Gods,

but pioneers of how they
proved the ingenuity of Our Creator in the way he created the laws of
Science.

I am not going to go into the laws of Physics in this
article, but once you understand the complexity of the rules they are
quite simple for man to understand. This takes nothing away from the
men who discovered the laws, they have a proper respect and place in
history, no matter what their belief in God was.

The presenter of the lectures does not just present the facts that
were proven by the pioneers,

but talks about their lives. A good
proportion of them had what can be seen as mental problems later in
life. I see this as a product of their creativity not being completely
accepted or understood by the people of the time, and many people
would have perceived them as atheist when they challenged the teaching
of the Catholic Church of the time. Who had the intelligence or the
knowledge to back up their fact?

Many of the atheists of today seem to go out of their way to refute
the existence of God.

In the survey I did in their newsgroup, I asked
if they believed that Jesus existed. Many of them replied that they
did believe He existed, but when I asked them if they believed in His
Divinity, they all said "No". This is the Crux of being a Christian, a
belief that Jesus Christ is the Divine Son of God. I believe He showed
and proved His Divinity and Glory when He was Crucified for the sake
of us.

I am not saying this is the actual teaching of the Catholic
Church, but it is the first step in accepting that He is capable of
returning, either in Spirit, or in human form to save us at some time
in our lives.

Muslims believe in Jesus as a Prophet, as far as I know from talking
to Muslim friends of mine. Before I received my copy of the Holy
Bible, I used to read a certain translation of the Bible on the
internet. In the Gospel of John the Apostle, there was the translation
of a conversation between John and Jesus the night before He was to be
put to death. John asked of Jesus, "Haven't you come to create peace?"
and Jesus answered him, "No, I have come to divide. Someone else will
come for Peace." I am not sure which version of the Bible this was,
but when I last looked at the same website, I couldn't find the
conversation. But for a while, this gave me a renewed hope for this
world that we live in.

The Holy Bible that I am reading is not a Catholic Bible, and I have
yet to read the Koran, which has been recommended to me by both a
Muslim and a Catholic. I am not thinking of changing Faith, but I
believe you need to know the basis of someone's faith before you can
assess them and whether their actions, that show their soul, are right
or wrong.

This is why I give atheists who believe that Jesus existed,
the benefit of the doubt, as they are only human and are often looking
for some kind of proof of our Creator God. They only need to open
their eyes, and proof is all around them.

I have been to Israel once, I felt a lump in my throat when the plane
landed at Ben Gurion airport in the land where Jesus had been born.

I
worked on a moshav, pruning flowers, in the Negev Desert for a couple
of days, then worked on a Kibbutz in the Northern Galilee region for
about 3 months and had the time of my life. I would like to return,
with 12,000 from each of the 12 tribes of Israel, some day soon.

True Faith is not just when you believe in God and yourself, it is
when others begin to believe in you as well ö Damian John Paul Brown
2004