Where are the honest atheists?

Just some random thoughts on atheism--

If atheism is true, then how did life spontaneously generate?  There is absolutely no evidence that this ever happens.  There is though plenty of evidence that life spontaneously degenerates...

Can it be proven God does not exist?  If so, then forget about it all...but if not, why live as if it is impossible?

If we are just random molecules bouncing around without purpose or meaning...then why do atheists take themselves and others so seriously?  Random is as random does...

If atheists really knew what they were talking about, wouldn't they have figured out in a sensible and logical way, why, without any God behind them, the Apostles died willingly for a resurrection they all witnessed (or didn't)?

How many rocks have atheists found bridging the gap between life and lifelessness?  Where are they?

Where did love originate in a godless universe...or hate for that matter?

How does an atheist deal with the near universal acceptance of a god as an evolutionary process? 

If atheists were all so smart, wouldn't they be better people?  And this is not a slam...it is just a real observation from actual experience...

"Saintified"

Philippians 1: 1 Continued

Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, To all the saints in Christ Jesus at Philippi, together with the overseers and deacons: NIV

One of the most frequently used terms for the born again believer found in scripture is the term “saint”.  Forty-five times the term “saint” is found in the NT compared to 27 times the term “believers” is used and three times we find the term “Christian”.  The Greek word translated saint is a very picturesque name for Christ’s children.  It means separated out ones, sacred ones, ones devoted to God.  It does not carry with it the commonly held view that it describes super Christians who have either been martyred or lived lives far above the common crowd of believers.  Hagios, translated saint describes the reorientation that occurs in the one who has been born again.  The saint has been called out by God; she belongs to God and is God’s own possession, set apart for God’s plans and purposes.  There are two qualities of the saint as found in the definition of the term.  First, it reminds us that the saint is one who has been separated out from the unbelieving world. She is boundaried:  walled off by her commitment to Christ and God’s call upon her life.  As Peter puts it, she is a stranger or refugee in a world not her home.  The saint cannot fit in, not comfortably for the Holy Spirit of God dwells in her and is permanently conforming her values and interests to that of God’s.  She will not remain comfortable with the sinful, unbelieving actions of the world nor with sinful unbelieving actions of herself.  To borrow a phrase from common vernacular, she will not be able to live with herself if her lifestyle is not conforming to the changes God has brought to her heart.

The second quality of the saint is that she has been separated unto the Lord.  It is no accident that the Saints are called “saints in Christ Jesus”.  The word translated saint comes from the same root word as the term translated holy.  The Sabbath is called “holy” because it is not ours it belongs to God.  The tithe is called holy-10% of each person’s income is not his own, it belongs to God.  The temple of the Old Testament was called holy because it was a structure built to honor God alone.  The city of Jerusalem was called holy because it was to be a city on a hill whose people were the Lord’s.  The ground where Moses stood as he heard the voice of God was declared holy by God because it was His place of intervention with man.  The saint is one who is holy because he belongs to Christ.  He is a saint not because his righteousness gives him special status but he is a saint because he is the possession of God.  That the saint is in Christ defines him.  As a bird is in the air, we are in Christ.  As a fish is in the sea, we are in Christ.  As the stars are in the sky, we are in Christ.  For the saint, Christ is her place of existence, her source of life.  She cannot be separated from Christ and continue on in any way.  It is at best disastrous, at worst deadly for the saint not to abide in Christ.  Jesus said, “I am the vine, you are the branches.  If a man abides in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit, apart from me you can do nothing.”