R C Sproul | A Word to the Atheists

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THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST

What is the gospel?

The word gospel literally means “good news” and occurs 93 times in the Bible, exclusively in the New Testament. In Greek, it is the word euaggelion, from which we get our English words evangelist, evangel, and evangelical. The gospel is, broadly speaking, the whole of Scripture; more narrowly, the gospel is the good news concerning Christ and the way of salvation.

The key to understanding the gospel is to know why it’s good news. To do that, we must start with the bad news. The Old Testament Law was given to Israel during the time of Moses (Deuteronomy 5:1). The Law can be thought of as a measuring stick, and sin is anything that falls short of “perfect” according to that standard. The righteous requirement of the Law is so stringent that no human being could possibly follow it perfectly, in letter or in spirit. Despite our “goodness” or “badness” relative to each other, we are all in the same spiritual boat—we have sinned, and the punishment for sin is death, i.e. separation from God, the source of life (Romans 3:23). In order for us to go to heaven, God’s dwelling place and the realm of life and light, sin must be somehow removed or paid for. The Law established the fact that cleansing from sin can only happen through the bloody sacrifice of an innocent life (Hebrews 9:22).

The gospel involves Jesus’ death on the cross as the sin offering to fulfill the Law’s righteous requirement (Romans 8:3–4; Hebrews 10:5–10). Under the Law, animal sacrifices were offered year after year as a reminder of sin and a symbol of the coming sacrifice of Christ (Hebrews 10:3–4). When Christ offered Himself at Calvary, that symbol became a reality for all who would believe (Hebrews 10:11–18). The work of atonement is finished now, and that’s good news.

The gospel also involves Jesus’ resurrection on the third day. “He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification” (Romans 4:25). The fact that Jesus conquered sin and death (sin’s penalty) is good news, indeed. The fact that He offers to share that victory with us is the greatest news of all (John 14:19).

The elements of the gospel are clearly stated in 1 Corinthians 15:3–6, a key passage concerning the good news of God: “For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, and then to the Twelve. After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers and sisters at the same time, most of whom are still living.” Notice, first, that Paul “received” the gospel and then “passed it on”; this is a divine message, not a man-made invention. Second, the gospel is “of first importance.” Everywhere the apostles went, they preached the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ. Third, the message of the gospel is accompanied by proofs: Christ died for our sins (proved by His burial), and He rose again the third day (proved by the eyewitnesses). Fourth, all this was done “according to the Scriptures”; the theme of the whole Bible is the salvation of mankind through Christ. The Bible is the gospel.

“I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile” (Romans 1:16). The gospel is a bold message, and we are not ashamed of proclaiming it. It is a powerful message, because it is God’s good news. It is a saving message, the only thing that can truly reform the human heart. It is a universal message, for Jews and Gentiles both. And the gospel is received by faith; salvation is the gift of God (Ephesians 2:8–9).

The gospel is the good news that God loves the world enough to give His only Son to die for our sin (John 3:16). The gospel is good news because our salvation and eternal life and home in heaven are guaranteed through Christ (John 14:1–4). “He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This inheritance is kept in heaven for you” (1 Peter 1:3–4).

The gospel is good news when we understand that we do not (and cannot) earn our salvation; the work of redemption and justification is complete, having been finished on the cross (John 19:30). Jesus is the propitiation for our sins (1 John 2:2). The gospel is the good news that we, who were once enemies of God, have been reconciled by the blood of Christ and adopted into the family of God (Romans 5:10; John 1:12). “See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!” (1 John 3:1). The gospel is the good news that “there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus” (Romans 8:1).

To reject the gospel is to embrace the bad news. Condemnation before God is the result of a lack of faith in the Son of God, God’s only provision for salvation. “For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son” (John 3:17–18). God has given a doomed world good news: the Gospel of Jesus Christ!

The Gospel, only bible verses.

[standforchrist]

There's a reason people are athiests, discovered it recently:
As the Scriptures say, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise" and discard the intelligence of the intelligent.” Since God in his wisdom saw to it that the world would never know him through human wisdom
1 Corinthians 1:19, 21
But Jesus said, “Let the children come to me. Don’t stop them! For the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to those who are like these children.”
Matthew 19:14

We can't know God if we come searching for Him through our worldly wisdom, instead we must come to him by being as humble as little children, for then only will we enter the Kingdom of God

[BMTroubleU]

“It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.”

[marcaoalvess]

Knowledge without evidence is not knowledge, it is a good story at best.

[frankt]

In their wisdom they've become fool.. (Roman's 1: 22-25) says it all.... R.I.P. Mr. R.C.

[someoneforhim]

As a side note. "Shepherds of Death" sounds like a cool name for a heavy metal band.

[christobotha]

Let me get this straight. None believers argue logical and consistently, but don't listen to them because you believe that they start with with a lie. The equivalent of putting our fingers in your ears and going lalala.

[MrGabrucho]

If your first premise is the acceptance of what you don't know to be true, then the more brilliant you are thereafter and the more consistent you are thereafter the furthermore you are away from truth 😎

[Gospelman]

Amen . We must come as a child. If you start with just a little belief God will use that and soon you won’t “think” you will know. God will show you!

[Karmasu_L]

I always confused how people can assume what's going on in other peoples heads.

Is that arrogance or ignorance?

[harvey]

My beginning premise is actually infact, "since there is no good evidence of a god or gods".

Always start with the propisition of evidence and the null hypothesis.

[_Keith_]

"Shepherds of death." Never heard that one before.

[nicholaspoling]

You seem to be mistaken,

Many Atheist start out religious to some degree, the idea that there is a God, and then they begin to question, to examine, to research and explore, to seek knowledge and understanding of God and Humanity and their nature and relationships.

When you bring evidence it has to be examined to make sure it is what you claim it is.

And the "evidence, " that you and any other religious never means what you claim it does.

I suggest watching TheraminTrees or Aron Ra, or Viced Rhino, Prophet of Zod, here on YouTube for better explanations.

We as Atheist went looking for God only to find that all Gods and the Supernatural were just tricks of the mind, either a trick we did to ourselves, or one don to us.

But go on present you're evidence to be examined.

[nickmurden]

An athiest in the weak conclusive sense is someone who came to the conclusion that the claim that God exist is not sufficiently justified to warrent belief.

You can spin this to say that they believed in God and in turn denied the claim therefore the original claim is fundamental to believe as a presupposition,
But that is not nessesary to be an athiest, as there are tribes that do not have a concept of a God being and that fundamentally makes them athiest even if they don't understand it by understanding the contrast.

If we are talking about what you can reasonably come to belive as a truth statement about reality,
God then is not warranted as a presupposition.

The laws of logic are not an extant thing that are inherently know to people, they have to learn these things.

When a person has a foundation that they then become convinced they were not warranted in believing,
they enevitablty end up discarding that belief.

For me it was learning three basic ideas about logic that made me discard the belief in God because I did believe
that a God was positively indicated,
sufficiently validated,
and exclusively concordent with the evidence,

I came to realize that positive indication is not based on inference,

And that even if a claim is sufficient to the effect that it preportedly caused
that tells you nothing about the cause beyond the fact that it is propositionly sufficient to justify the effect.

And I the end I learned that nothing about the God claim is exclusively concordant at all,
there does not need to be a God that can justify the existence of logic.

Like this admits we can still use logic, there is nothing about the claim that is fundamental to the absolutes of logic which are identity, non contradiction, and excluded middle.

The claim that we have a progression is true specifically when it is someone believing in a God and then learning they did not have reason to believe anymore,
Because the consequences of not coming to terms with what you understand to be the case is
cognitive dissonance,
which is not logical at all.

The laws of logic are very clearly set in the universe and are not evidently set by a God.

"If their premise is a denial of what they know to be true"
Sir.
You do not understand how beliefs are formed.
They very OVBIOUSly do not have to deny the claim as false to say they disbelive the claim.
In a court, a verdict of innocent does not mean that you believe they are not guilty of the crime,
but that you do not have sufficient evidence to warrent a guily verdict,
In the same way that people do not need know that God is real or false too come to a conclusion about what is sufficient to believe.

Maybe you use the word know different than I do,
because innate knowledge about a thing that exists
I don't find conclusive about whether or not it exists,
Since like I said with a God belief,
there are tribes that dont even have a concep of such a thing,

And because those things that are believable,
are testable,
and they have to be testable to establish validity in the belief.

I have seen no conclusive evidence that warrents the guilty of existence verdict.

[iveseen]

God gave me free choice, it's his fault not mine.I am a shepherd of life, reason and free thought, any god wanting praise is not worthy of it.

[alexmorgan]

If I'm denying and refusing your claim it's because it hasn't met the burden of proof, and I have not seen evidence.

And you're right, we can argue consistently, but I have yet to meet a Christian that remains consistent with their reason for belief.

[StevenSeagul]

Can anyone help me? I’m worried it’s to late and I have been rejected by God

[Daniel-indj]

Beware of "False" Reasoning...because it's all around you and me the children of truth .

[dansmith]

Did this man really say “if you don’t start by assuming god is true, all logic and reason will consistently confirm that there’s no reason to believe in one.” And think that was a drop the mic moment?

[vladtheemailer]

You made that Strawman look like a fool.