Atheist Sat Next to PreacherThe Contrasts are Clear

• Minister, Jacksonville, AL• Editor and writer for House to House / Heart

to Heart• On a mission trip to Tanzania, Africa• Sat next to an atheist, a professor of

Anthropology

Allen Webster

• Atheist – World began with a big bang• Preacher – World will end with big bang2 Peter 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as

a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.

Big Bang

• Atheist – World began with a big bang• Preacher – World will end with big bang Genesis 1 - “And God said” - 12 times in

chapter 1.

Big Bang

Psalm 33:6 By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, And all the host of them by the breath of His mouth.Psalm 33:9 For He spoke, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast.

Big Bang

• Atheist – Interested in the age of rocks• Preacher – Interested in the Rock of AgesDeuteronomy 32:17-18 17 They sacrificed to

demons, not to God, to gods they did not know, to new gods, new arrivals that your fathers did not fear. 18 Of the Rock who begot you, you are unmindful, and have forgotten the God who fathered you.

Interested in Rocks

1 Corinthians 10:4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ

Interested in Rocks

1 Peter 2:4-5 4 Coming to Him as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious, 5 you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Interested in Rocks

Psalm 19:1-2 The heavens declare the glory of God; And the firmament shows His handiwork. 2 Day unto day utters speech, And night unto night reveals knowledge.

Interested in Rocks

Psalm 8:3-4 3 When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, The moon and the stars, which You have ordained, 4 What is man that You are mindful of him, And the son of man that You visit him?

Interested in Rocks

Psalm 8:5-6 5 For You have made him a little lower than the angels, And You have crowned him with glory and honor. 6 You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet,

Above Apes / Below Angels

Genesis 1:26-27 26 Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." 27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

Above Apes / Below Angels

Genesis 1:29-30 29 And God said, "See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food. 30 Also, to every beast of the earth, to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food"; and it was so.

Above Apes / Below Angels

Atheist – Man created GodPreacher – God created manWhere did the hen come from? Egg.Where did the egg come from? Hen.Where did the hen come from? Egg.

Who Created Who?

Genesis 1:21-22 21 So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters abounded, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 And God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."

Who Created Who?

Atheist – Seeking the missing linksPreacher – Seeking lost soulsHebrews 3:4 For every house is built by someone, but He who built all things is God.There are NO missing linksFor atheists – the chain is missing

Seeking __________

Luke 10:10 for the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost." Mark 16:15-16 15 And He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. 16 He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned.

Seeking __________