Belief Follows Truth: Why do the Skeptics make futile attempts to make fun of those who believe?

Why do they make fun of us? Is it because they think we don’t understand that they’re hurting and they’re lashing out at God? Let the reader know that we hurt also and we tend to get angry with God at times because we do not understand His ways. Yet, we believe that God reassures us in due time and that we will understand and be comforted.

Let the reader also know that there is a difference between getting angry and getting hateful. Anger does not distort the mind but hatred does distort the mind. As God’s Word says, “Be angry, and do not sin”: do not let the sun go down on your wrath. Ephesians 4:26 His Word also says, But they have done this to fulfill the word that is written in their Law, ‘They hated Me without a cause.’ John 15:25 And, His Word also says in John 15:18: “If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. Through their hatred toward God and toward us, they have ridiculed, mocked, and insulted us in vain. They think that by not believing in God that they can’t hate Him which is a lie. The truth is, that their non-belief toward God is a testimony to their hatred toward Him. They may beg to differ but they can't change the truth.

18For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, 19because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. 20For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse. Romans 1:18-21

And, 1Only fools say in their hearts, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, and their actions are evil; not one of them does good! Psalm 14:1

Their futile mocking includes their ignorant knowledge of God’s Word and they arrogantly display that ignorance in their attempt to discredit Him. They also try to fit the one true God, Yahweh, into their agenda of false gods, including those they’ve made up themselves thinking that this will somehow justify their non-belief in Him. To their frustration, they find that it is impossible to do. Disbelief in God doesn't mean that He's not there.

5 I am the Lord, and there is no other; There is no God besides Me. I will gird you, though you have not known Me, 6That they may know from the rising of the sun to its setting That there is none besides Me. I am the Lord, and there is no other;
7I form the light and create darkness, I make peace and create calamity; I, the Lord, do all these things.’ Isaiah 45:5-7

Skeptics have nothing to support what they believe, and yet, they still make fun of us who believe. Dejection,They’re like filthy pirates on a sinking ship mocking those who sank them. Will they ever learn the Truth?

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ElwoodBlues · M

@GodSpeed63 says

You've got the age of the earth wrong by 4000 years. It's obvious you got everything else wrong. Make sure that you know what you're talking about before posting.

Where is your evidence for that 6000 year claim? How do you refute all the massive amounts of counter evidence?? Did Yahweh HIDE all those dinosaur bones in the rocks???

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Visit any limestone cave. Stalactites grow at a rate of about 1mm per 10 years. So a 10 meter stalactite has been growing about 100,000 years. And close examination of cross sections shows the year by year layering (where rainfall is seasonal). These stalactites can be found all over the world. The ages are corroborated by radiometric carbon dating.

Tree rings are clocks. The oldest living tree goes back about 4800 years. But wood from dead trees can contain records of volcanic events, thus extending the record back much farther.

Originally developed for climate science, the method is now an invaluable tool for archaeologists, who can track up to 13,000 years of history using tree ring chronologies for over 4,000 sites on six continents.

The ages are corroborated by radiometric carbon dating (establishing age by measuring ratios of radioactive vs stable isotopes).

Seasonal snowfall on glaciers accumulates to form countable layers. Greenland ice sheet layers can be counted back about 110,000 years. The ages are corroborated by radiometric dating. Other glaciers go back as far as 700,000 years, but on those the older data is mostly radiometric dating.

Salt flows from rocks into lakes and the ocean. If no salt left the ocean, that would give an age of 50 million to 70 million years. However, various geologic processes cause salt to leave the ocean at about the rate it's entering, so 50 million to 70 million years becomes a minimum estimate of the age of the earth.

Layering of sedimentary rocks - such as in the Grand Canyon - forms a series of clocks. These layers correspond to different stages in the evolution of life on the planet. The layers can be dated by positional order (bottom layer formed first), sedimentation rate, age of fossils found in the layer, and of course, radiometric dating. There are five main isotope pairs used for dating sedimentary rocks as well as the 'fissile track' method; you can read about it all here:
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/shaping-earth/radioactive-dating/

Then there's all the fossils of extinct animals found in the rock layers. They're not exactly a clock, but they are an indicator of the vast amounts of time over which evolution occurs.

Of course outer space offers many clocks. Accumulation of craters on airless bodies like the Moon forms a clock. Shells of glowing gas left over from novas and supernovas form clocks (the Lambda Orionis Ring is about 1 million years old). The redshift of light from galaxies billions of light years away form clocks. The Hubble expansion of the universe forms a clock. The frequency shift of big bang radiation to form the cosmic microwave background is a clock.

No one clock is perfect, but they all corroborate each other pretty well, and they ALL give life FAR MORE than 6000 years to evolve.

If you argue "God hid those dinosaur bones (and all the isotopes used for dating) in the rocks" I can't disprove it. If you argue "God built all those layers into the glaciers and into stalactites, made the nova remnants appear millions of years old, etc." I can't disprove it. But you've got to ask yourself, why would God put all these inter-corroborating clocks all over the Earth and all thru the galaxy if they were all false???

I eagerly await your evidence for refutation.