Christians what do You think about this letter from an atheist?

Question

“You are really convinced that you’ve got all the answers. You’ve really got yourself tricked into believing
that you’re 100% right. Well, let me tell you just one thing. Do you consider yourself to be
compassionate of other humans? If you’re right about God, as you say you are, and you believe
that, then how can you sleep at night? When you speak with me, you are speaking with someone
who you believe is walking directly into eternal damnation, into an endless onslaught of horrendous
pain which your ‘loving’ god created, yet you stand by and do nothing.
“If you believed one bit that thousands every day were falling into an eternal and unchangeable
fate, you should be running the streets mad with rage at their blindness. That’s equivalent to standing
on a street corner and watching every person that passes you walk blindly directly into the path
of a bus and die, yet you stand idly by and do nothing. You’re just twiddling your thumbs, happy in
the knowledge that one day that

Walk’ signal will shine your way across the road.
“Think about it. Imagine the horrors hell must have in store if the Bible is true. You’re just going
to allow that to happen and not care about saving anyone but yourself? If you’re right, then you’re
an uncaring, unemotional and purely selfish (expletive) that has no right to talk about subjects such
as love and caring.”

If we have great heaviness and sorrow in our heart for the lost, we will warn them of the realities of
hell and how to avoid it. contact me for witnessing tips.

Starting at "If we is a message from me".

Answer 1

How did Q get in here? Is security not on duty again? About the letter. If it's authentic, then that atheist is one complete donkey's ***. If he/she is complaining that Christians aren't doing anything to prevent non-believers from the unfathomable and eternal torments of hell, what does he/she think they've been doing in this forum? Twiddling their thumbs? Most people still don't get that God's love has nothing to do with why people walk themselves into the lake of fire after they die. God's love tried to prevent that while they were on earth. All this whining about how God is evil and unfair is a bunch of BS especially coming from people called atheists who don't believe in Him anyway. How assinine and self-defeating is that line? Who's responsible for that brand of self-induced hypocrisy? Oh, that's right- God and His people. I don't know what got into me there for a moment.....And would someone PLEASE call security and get Q safely delivered back to whatever psychward he escaped from this time? I'm almost positive he's missed his meds and electro-shock therapy today.

Answer 2

The author has a point.

The one thing Christians shouldn't be about evangelism is lukewarm (There's a bible passage about lukewarm)

If the message of salvation and hell is true
(or at the least firmly believed to be true)
It should be the principle concern of every group of Christians. But it isn't, for the vast majority of the churches and congregations I've known. Some have been not at all welcoming to outsiders.

There is a contradiction, or at least a tension.

This does not, however provide a license to do evangelism loudly, crudely and repetitively and then put the poor response down to hardness of heart in those subjected to it.

Answer 3

That's the way I felt about Religions who claim to have the truth but do not warn people. That's why I became a Jehovah's Witness and we go door to door searching for honest hearted ones. None of Jehovah's Witnesses get paid to do this work, it's all out of love for neighbor. We get doors slammed in our faces even by those who confess to be Christian, but we still come back. We are doing a life saving work.

Answer 4

This letter doesn't sound like it's from an athiest; an athiest would never want Christians to go around trying to convince everyone of the Bible's truth. Athiests, from what I've seen, just want to be left alone and couldn't care less if a Christian tries to "save" them or not.

Answer 5

If you offer a hungry dog a bone, do you force it on him if he doesn't take it or do you leave it with him in hopes that he will eat it for nurishment? That is how GOD and the Word is. As a Christian, I can share the Word with you and share my experiences with GOD with you but I cannot force you to accept the Word nor GOD. I can only leave it with you in hopes that you will let GOD in and let the Word edify you. You have to be open and willing to accept what thus saith the Lord. GOD made all of us with a free will. You can chose Him or reject Him. The choice is yours.

Answer 6

Sounds like you're thinking
sure you're not getting a little input from somewhere that's
making you a little uncomfortable with the atheist stand ?
keep listening

God Bless ya

Answer 7

but we Christians already told you about God (Since you do know about Him)
We have done our Job.
We leave it up to You to accept it.
We cannot Force you to accept Him.

Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath showed it unto them.
For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
Romans 1:19-20

"For the heart of this people has become dull, With their ears they scarcely hear, And they have closed their eyes, Otherwise they would see with their eyes, Hear with their ears, And understand with their heart and return, And I would heal them." Matthew 13:15

Answer 8

Yes, Hell is a horrible place and has horrors beyond our wildest imaginations, and yes all who do not believe in this life or the next will be eternally damned to those horrors in Hell. But, that is not what the Gospel is about, and thus that is not what evagelism is about. This is not an issue of "fire insurance," this is an issue of salvation, which is only through Jesus Christ and accepting His sacrifice on the cross at Golgotha as payment for your sins, and that He rose again on the third day following His death, claiming ultimate victory over death and the grave, thus paving the way for all who believe in Him and express their belief through service to Him that they will live eternally after this life with Him as their Lord on the Day of Resurrection. It is implied in accepting Jesus that you will escape the horrors of Hell, but that is not the main thing about Christianity. The concern that this Atheist person has in their letter is a valid one though, that many Christians who believe this sit and watch all of their unbelieving neighbours continue on in their unbelief as if to say that they don't care that those peopel are going to Hell because all that matters to them is that they themselves are saved. This concerns me because it doesn't seem to follow the Great Commission of Matthew 28:19-20 to go out into all the world and proclaim the teachings of Jesus and make disciples of every nation, tribe and tongue. This concern is made greater by the fact that what this person said is a true description of many "evangelical" Christians in the Western world. Many of us, as evagelicals, just sit and watch as the unbelieving people of this world fall further and further into their sin and unbelief, while not doing anything about it because that is their problem that they don't believe and not mine, so why should I do anything about it? As I said, this goes against the Great Commission of Jesus, His famous last words before ascending up to heaven to await the Day of Judgment and Resurrection, when He will return to judge the world according to their belief or unbelief, send the unbelievers into the Lake of Fire, while setting the believers apart to live eternally in the new earth under His divine rule and majesty. Many evangelical Christians need to wake up to the truth of the Gospel and get off their asses and try to do something about the unbelief of this world. This person's letter should be seen as a huge wake up call to many in the evangelical community, and should be seen as more of a challenge to your personal actions of faith than an attack on the faith, as I am sure many are going to take it as on here. Let us go out into the world proclaiming the joy of the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus and of the salvation of mankind through this great gift of mercy and grace. God bless you in your missionary work of evangelism!

Answer 9

Sounds like an atheist needs a hug!

The thing is, we Christians ARE trying to warn them, but they turn us down JUST LIKE HE DID!

God did not created hell for man to fall into as this atheist implied, but rather for Satan and his demons. If you REJECT God, then you ACCEPT Satan and you follow him STRAIGHT INTO HELL because that is where he is going.

the bible tells us that our destiny is hell, but God has not created it for us, and has GIVEN US A WAY OUT, but the atheists refuse it and then accuse us of being uncaring and not telling people about it... talk about someone being confused.

Answer 10

I am a Christian, and I am horrified that other christians can believe well-meaning atheists will go to hell. How can you live anything like a normal life believing something so sick?