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If You Have Any Question On Why The Bible Say Atheists Are Fools, Ask by ysyowel(m): 8:02am On Oct 28, 2017
I am a Minister, a Dicipler, a teacher and a Biologist, i discover that many OPS are claiming God never exist, they believed in the scientific theories, they believed that apes are their ancestors, monkeys are their relatives, chimpanzees are their brothers, they believe that they and idiots have came from the same long existing unknown creature.... the Bible called you a fool if you didn't believe that God exist, if you can question that well we are ready for you.

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Re: If You Have Any Question On Why The Bible Say Atheists Are Fools, Ask by OtemSapien: 8:13am On Oct 28, 2017
ysyowel:
I am a Minister, a Dicipler, a teacher and a Biologist, i discover that many OPS are claiming God never exist, they believed in the scientific theories, they believed that apes are their ancestors, monkeys are their relatives, chimpanzees are their brothers, they believe that they and idiots have came from the same long existing unknown creature.... the Bible called you a fool if you didn't believe that God exist, if you can question that well we are ready for you.

See this one undecided
And you can't help but to use an atheist's website to propagate your message. May God save you and your bible from blasphemy against atheists undecided

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Re: If You Have Any Question On Why The Bible Say Atheists Are Fools, Ask by ysyowel(m): 8:39am On Oct 28, 2017
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The fool hath said in his heart,
There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is
none that doeth good, The LORD looks down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there are any that act wisely, that seek after God. They have all gone astray, they are all alike corrupt; there is none that does good, no, not one. Psalm 14:1-3

The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt
are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth
good. Psalm 53:1

The word ‘fool’ does not imply that atheists have a low intelligence, that they are barely literate when they claim that there is no God. When you glance at the books of that famous quartet of anti-Christian writers today, then you know that you are confronted by a group of highly intelligent and academically qualified men. The word ‘fool’ is not referring to intellectual inadequacies, and as i understand them they’re not saying bluntly, “There is no God,” but that they don’t believe that there is a God.

The word ‘fool’ initially refers to those who lived as though God did not exist. Their problem was moral obstinacy and perversion, it was not that they were mentally deficient. The Hebrew word for fool is nabal and such a person is epitomized in a man actually called by that word, Nabal, in I Samual 25. He was the man who was married to Abigail, who had the opportunity to put David the future king in his debt by helping him and his men with food and provisions when they were outlaws hunted by Saul. Nabal, however, was an aggressive fool; he rudely refused to help David, answering the future king’s servants, “Who is this David?” disdaining him. David was known and loved by the nation! David would have had him killed then and there if it had not been
for the intercession and the gifts that Abigail brought him. The proverb says, “A fool’s tongue cuts his own throat.” Soon Nabal had died, and then David married Abigail. What a foolish man was Nabal, practically a fool, not intellectually foolish.

The word ‘fool’ means a fading, a withering, a dying, like a fallen leaf or a plucked flower. The vigour and health of heart that Jesus Christ gives to a believer is not in the atheist. “I have come,” said our Lord, “. . . that they might have life and have it more abundantly,” but when Christ is ignored and locked out of our hearts then his life of joy and wisdom and godliness is not present in men’s lives. They are walking sepulchres, dried up and decayed.

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Re: If You Have Any Question On Why The Bible Say Atheists Are Fools, Ask by OtemSapien: 9:16am On Oct 28, 2017
The writer of that verse of the bible said so because of his lack of tolerance. Even though Christians have a higher tendency of being termed as 'foolish' going by what we see everyday about the pastor and their sheeple, about their nickname 'sheep'! etc. yet we who are wise restrain from calling them 'fools' because we know how provocative that word could mean.
I personally wish in my meditation that the light of God Almighty will visit all Christians(sheeple) and reveal, their foolishness to them to make them wise. Peace.
Re: If You Have Any Question On Why The Bible Say Atheists Are Fools, Ask by NPComplete: 9:39am On Oct 28, 2017
I have noticed one thing about Christians on Nairaland. If they are craving attention, they just create a thread with "atheist" in the title and get attention.
Most of the Christian threads without that go unnoticed.
Lol

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Re: If You Have Any Question On Why The Bible Say Atheists Are Fools, Ask by ysyowel(m): 10:02am On Oct 28, 2017
See what the Bible say about fools
1. Proverbs 18:2-3 Fools have no interest in understanding; they only want to air their own opinions. Doing wrong leads to disgrace, and scandalous behavior brings contempt.
2. Proverbs 1:5-7 Let the wise listen to these proverbs and become even wiser. Let those with understanding receive guidance by exploring the meaning in these
proverbs and parables, the words of the wise and their riddles. Fear of the LORD is the foundation of true knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
3. Proverbs 12:15 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.

The mouth of a fool.
4. Proverbs 10:18-19 He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool. In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise.
5. Proverbs 12:22-23 Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight. A prudent man concealeth knowledge: but the heart of fools proclaimeth foolishness.
6. Proverbs 18:13 Spouting off before listening to the facts is both shameful and foolish.
7. Proverbs 29:20 There is more hope for a fool than for someone who speaks without thinking.
8. Isaiah 32:6 For the fool speaks folly, and his heart is busy with iniquity, to practice ungodliness, to utter error concerning the LORD, to leave the craving of the hungry unsatisfied, and to deprive the thirsty of drink.
9. Proverbs 18:6-7 Fools’ words get them into constant quarrels; they are asking for a beating. The mouths of fools are their ruin; they trap themselves
with their lips.

They continue in their foolishness.
10. Proverbs 26:11 As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his foolishness.

Arguing with them
11. Proverbs 29:8-9 Mockers can get a whole town agitated, but the wise will calm anger. If a wise person takes a fool to court, there will be ranting and ridicule but no satisfaction.
12. Proverbs 26:4-5 Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you yourself will be just like him. Answer a fool according to his folly, or he will be wise in his own eyes.

Trusting them
13. Proverbs 26:6-7 Trusting a fool to convey a message is like cutting off one’s feet or drinking poison! A proverb in the mouth of a fool is as useless as a paralyzed leg.
14. Luke 6:39 Then Jesus gave the following illustration: “Can one blind person lead another? Won’t they both fall into a ditch?

The difference between an intelligent man and a fool.
15. Proverbs 10:23-25 Doing wrong is fun for a fool, but living wisely brings pleasure to the sensible. Doing wrong is fun for a fool, but living wisely brings pleasure to the sensible. When the storms of life come, the wicked are whirled away, but the godly
have a lasting foundation.
16. Proverbs 15:21 Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uprightly.
17. Proverbs 14:8-10 The wisdom of the prudent is to
give thought to their ways, but the folly of fools is
deception. Fools mock at making amends for sin , but
goodwill is found among the upright.
18. Ecclesiastes 10:1-3 As dead flies cause even a bottle of perfume to stink, so a little foolishness spoils great wisdom and honor. A wise person chooses the
right road; a fool takes the wrong one . You can identify fools just by the way they walk down the street!

Fools say there is no God.
19. Psalm 14:1 For the choir director: A psalm of David. Only fools say in their hearts, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, and their actions are evil; not one of them does good!
20. Psalm 53:1 The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, doing abominable iniquity; there is none who does good.
21. Psalm 74:18 Remember this, O LORD, that the enemy has reviled, And a foolish people has spurned Your name.

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Re: If You Have Any Question On Why The Bible Say Atheists Are Fools, Ask by ysyowel(m): 10:09am On Oct 28, 2017
OtemSapien:
The writer of that verse of the bible said so because of his lack of tolerance. Even though Christians have a higher tendency of being termed as 'foolish' going by what we see everyday about the pastor and their sheeple, about their nickname 'sheep'! etc. yet we who are wise restrain from calling them 'fools' because we know how provocative that word could mean.
I personally wish in my meditation that the light of God Almighty will visit all Christians(sheeple) and reveal, their foolishness to them to make them wise. Peace.
quotes for you
“A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools.” Thomas Fuller

“Many have been the wise speeches of fools, though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.” Thomas Fuller

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Plato

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Re: If You Have Any Question On Why The Bible Say Atheists Are Fools, Ask by OtemSapien: 10:19am On Oct 28, 2017
ysyowel:

quotes for you
“A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools.” Thomas Fuller

“Many have been the wise speeches of fools, though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.” Thomas Fuller

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Plato



So if I may go by these posts, the first says 'a wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools'. Christians see atheists as ridiculous, because he actually is wiser than them all. So substituting 'fools' for Christian sheeple' and a 'wise man' for 'an atheist' we can now have

An Atheist may look ridiculous in the company of Christian sheeple

Note, I am not an atheist but I salute the courage of the atheists and their wisdom. They know that none of these noisemaker gods in the holybooks is the FIRST CAUSE and they are right.

I just hope that the light of the Almighty God who created Allah, Yahweh, Atum, Vishnu and other early beings would reveal the truth of it all to you, ase!
Re: If You Have Any Question On Why The Bible Say Atheists Are Fools, Ask by rekinomtla(m): 12:01pm On Oct 28, 2017
Atheism is indeed foolishness. I dont know how anyone can believe world came from nothing.
Re: If You Have Any Question On Why The Bible Say Atheists Are Fools, Ask by ysyowel(m): 12:22pm On Oct 28, 2017
Why are these fools?
1. God has revealed Himself (Romans 1:20 ). Paul, in the first chapter of Romans, gives many good arguments as to why people are fools for not accepting that there is a God and not making room in their lives for God. Paul said,

“For His invisible attributes, namely, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse” (Romans 1:20 ).

We are fools if we cannot look at the things of the world and realize that there is someone greater than ourselves. We are fools if we cannot see the power of this universe and that something divine created us. These attributes of God can be seen by anyone, not just the really smart, scholarly people. Because of these things, God says we are without excuse for not knowing there is a God.

2. People suppress the truth (Romans 1:18-19). If God’s invisible attributes can be clearly seen through the creation, why do people still claim there is no God and make no room for God in their lives? Paul addresses this question two verses earlier. “ For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them” (Romans 1:18-19). Paul tells us that people are suppressing the truth that has been shown to them by God because of their ungodliness and unrighteousness. People do not believe in God because they do not want to believe in God, and it is as simple as that. God has revealed Himself to all people. To then say that there is no God, or that there is no room for God, they simply suppress the truth which they know. This is why
they are fools: they are ignoring the clearly revealed truths of God’s existence.

Re: If You Have Any Question On Why The Bible Say Atheists Are Fools, Ask by spongeisback: 12:30pm On Oct 28, 2017
The wise ones!
It has served us well,This myth of Christ. Pope Leo x

Re: If You Have Any Question On Why The Bible Say Atheists Are Fools, Ask by ysyowel(m): 12:45pm On Oct 28, 2017
not all pastor are true ministers
Re: If You Have Any Question On Why The Bible Say Atheists Are Fools, Ask by ysyowel(m): 7:24pm On Oct 28, 2017
Those who say there is no God (atheists) are not simply saying that they have not seen sufficient evidence to convince them of God’s existence. If they simply lacked evidence, they would be agnostics. The atheist is much more bold and arrogant in his claim. Rather than saying he has not seen sufficient evidence, the atheist believes that no such evidence could possibly exist. Therefore, unless the atheist claims infinite knowledge (which would be a foolish claim in itself), he must make his assertion based upon an assumption of everything that he does not know.
Re: If You Have Any Question On Why The Bible Say Atheists Are Fools, Ask by ysyowel(m): 12:15pm On Nov 02, 2017
QUOTES ABOUT FOOLISHNESS
"A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!" - Thomas Fuller Topics: Wisdom, Foolishness

"Riches are the pettiest and least worthy gifts which God can give a man. What are they to God's Word, to bodily gifts, such as beauty and health; or to the gifts of the mind, such as understanding, skill, wisdom! Yet men toil for them day and night, and take no rest. Therefore God commonly gives riches to foolish people
to whom he gives nothing else." - Martin Luther Topics: Finances, Gifts, Foolishness

"I was being foolish. An atheist can't stand behind their assertion that God doesn't exist. The stupidest thing I ever could have done was to reject His Truth." - Kirk Cameron Topics: Atheism, Foolishness

"Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue." - Francis de Sales Topics: Character, Foolishness, The Tongue

"It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse." - Owen Feltham Topics: Character, Foolishness

"Every Christian who does not study, really study, the Bible every day is a fool."
- R.A. Torrey Topics: The Bible, Foolishness

"Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with; it makes a wise man modest, but a fool more arrogant, turning his weak brain giddy." - Owen Feltham Topics: Praise, Foolishness, Modesty

"Gold is the fool's curtain, which hides all his defects from the world."
- Owen Feltham Topics: Finances, Foolishness

"The fool wanders, a wise man travels." - Thomas Fuller Topics: Wisdom, Foolishness

"Hasty conclusions are the mark of a fool; a wise man doubteth; a fool rageth and is confident; the novice saith, "I am sure that it is so"; the better learned answers, "Peradventure, it may be so; but, I pray thee, inquire."" - Jeremy Taylor Topics: Ignorance, Doubt, Foolishness

"Never contend with one that is foolish, proud, positive, testy, or with a superior, or a clown, in matter of argument." - Thomas Fuller Topics: Reasoning, Foolishness

"Nothing doth so fool a man as extreme passion. This doth make them fools which otherwise are not, and show them to be fools which are so." - Joseph HallTopics: Character, Foolishness, Passion

"Return to the battle again, no longer trusting in the false and insufficient human resources which so foolishly we had taken into the battle, but now trusting in the limitless resources of our risen Lord." - Alan Redpath Topics: Faith, Foolishness

"Gravity must be natural and simple; there must be urbanity and tenderness in it. A man must not formalize on everything. He who does so is a fool; and a grave fool is, perhaps, more injurious than a light fool." - Richard Cecil Topics: Character, Foolishness

"The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month." - Fyodor Dostoevsky Topics: Humility, Foolishness
Re: If You Have Any Question On Why The Bible Say Atheists Are Fools, Ask by ysyowel(m): 9:40am On Nov 04, 2017
QUOTES ABOUT FOOLISHNESS 2
"Do not assume that after regeneration the wise have advantage over the foolish in making spiritual progress. Unless they are more faithful and submissive, their better mental comprehension adds nothing to their intuitive knowledge."
- Watchman Nee Topics: Wisdom, Foolishness.

"What can be more foolish than to think that all thisrare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!"
- Jeremy Taylor Topics: Atheism, Foolishness, Creation.

"A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools." - Thomas Fuller Topics: Wisdom, Foolishness.

"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." - Martin Luther King Jr. Topics: Family, Foolishness.

"As idle talk is often concealed under the garb of jesting, and wit, the Apostle Paul expressly condemns pleasantry, which is so agreeable as to seem a praiseworthy virtue, as a part of foolish talking." - John Calvin Topics: Foolishness.

"Foolish talking and jesting are not the ways in which Christian cheerfulness should express itself, but rather "giving of thanks" (Eph. 5:4). Religion is the source of joy and gladness, but its joy is expressed in a religious way, in thanksgiving and praise." - Charles Hodge Topics: Foolishness, Cheerfulness, Thankfulness.

"Many have been the wise speeches of fools, though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men." - Thomas Fuller Topics: Wisdom, Discretion, Foolishness.

"Return to the battle again, no longer trusting in the false and insufficient human resources which so foolishly we had taken into the battle, but now trusting in the limitless resources of our risen Lord. - Alan Redpath Topics: Faith, Foolishness.

"The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises
it." - George Washington Topics: Virtue, Foolishness.

"There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the
greatest fool." - Francis Bacon Topics: Happiness, Wisdom, Foolishness.

"Those that disobey the commandments of God do so foolishly for themselves. Sin is folly, and sinners are the greatest fools." - Matthew Henry Topics: Foolishness.

"What fools are they who, for a drop of pleasure, drink a sea of wrath." - Thomas Watson Topics: Foolishness.

"Only a fool thinks he can fool God." - Woodrow Kroll Topics: Foolishness.

"The wise man considers what he wants and the fool what he abounds in." - Assorted Authors Topics: Character, Foolishness.

"There is nothing more foolish than an act of wickedness; there is no wisdom equal to that of obeying God." - Albert Barnes Topics: Foolishness, Wisdom
Re: If You Have Any Question On Why The Bible Say Atheists Are Fools, Ask by ysyowel(m): 7:31pm On Nov 04, 2017
QUOTES ABOUT FOOLISHNESS 3
"He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine." - Jeremy Taylor Topics: Finances, Foolishness.

"Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools." - Blaise Pascal Topics: Reasoning, Foolishness.

"Fools are without number." - Desiderius Erasmus Topics: Character, Foolishness.

"To have too much forethought is the part of a wretch; to have too little is the part of a fool." - Richard Cecil Topics: Character, Foolishness.

"Fools measure actions, after they are done, by the event; wise men beforehand, by the rules of reason and right. The former look to the end, to judge of the act. Let me look to the act, and leave the end with God." - Joseph Hall Topics: Faith, Foolishness.

"He that has no fools, knaves nor beggars in his family was begot by a flash of lightning." - Thomas Fuller Topics: Family, Foolishness.

"Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom." - Charles Spurgeon Topics: Knowledge, Wisdom, Foolishness.

"If you have ever prayed in the dawn you will ask yourself why you were so foolish as not to do it always: it is difficult to get into communion with God in the midst of the hurly-burly of the day." - Oswald Chambers Topics: Prayer, Foolishness.

"There is nothing more foolish than an act of wickedness; there is no wisdom equal to that of obeying God." - Albert Barnes Topics: Foolishness, Wisdom
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Re: If You Have Any Question On Why The Bible Say Atheists Are Fools, Ask by bloodofthelamb(m): 8:58pm On Nov 04, 2017
EPIC! I CONCUR
Re: If You Have Any Question On Why The Bible Say Atheists Are Fools, Ask by ysyowel(m): 6:09am On Nov 20, 2017
grin atheist hate this kind of thread
Re: If You Have Any Question On Why The Bible Say Atheists Are Fools, Ask by ysyowel(m): 10:53am On Nov 29, 2017
rekinomtla:
Atheism is indeed foolishness. I dont know how anyone can believe world came from nothing.
help me tell them ohh
Re: If You Have Any Question On Why The Bible Say Atheists Are Fools, Ask by ysyowel(m): 3:36pm On Dec 02, 2017
NPComplete:
I have noticed one thing about Christians on Nairaland. If they are craving attention, they just create a thread with "atheist" in the title and get attention.
Most of the Christian threads without that go unnoticed.
Lol
you are only just craving for comments and attention
Re: If You Have Any Question On Why The Bible Say Atheists Are Fools, Ask by kevoh(m): 4:14pm On Dec 02, 2017
Tomorrow another Daviddson will be crying that Christians are only opening threads concerning atheists... grin grin apparently the subject 'atheist' or 'atheism' is the life of this NL religion section.

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Re: If You Have Any Question On Why The Bible Say Atheists Are Fools, Ask by ysyowel(m): 9:35pm On Dec 12, 2017
bloodofthelamb:
EPIC! I CONCUR
cool
Re: If You Have Any Question On Why The Bible Say Atheists Are Fools, Ask by ysyowel(m): 3:42pm On Mar 05, 2018
Atheism is worship of science, technology and the world

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