Christmas is coming soon and everyone is busy with gifts and decorations. There is a mounting air of joy alternating with increasing stress.

 

When I was in high school my mother like to read the "Christmas story" from Luke aloud to the family but that was about all the Christian exposure I got. We did have a glorious 12 ft. Christmas trees and the decorations and gift wrapping was a family project. That atmosphere was possibly the best of my childhood memories.

 

I chose to take Jesus as my lord and savior when I was in college. Now as a relatively mature Bible believing Christian I am very conscious of the "reason for the season" which is Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, the Creator of heaven and Earth, and our Lord and Savior. So what is the big deal with His birth as the Son of Man? He came to Earth to live and teach as a human person, to experience all that we do first hand and to endure being utterly rejected tortured and murdered. Along the way He demonstrating His divinity through numerous miracles witnessed by thousands. All of this was to provide a justifying sacrifice for our sin that enables us to be acceptable to be in the presence of God the Father for eternity if we accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior. That is the big deal that we celebrate. And joyous it is.

 

Much of our society sees Christmas very differently because they are naturalist or materialists not theist. To them the theology and the person and purpose of Christ is simply foolishness. To them the only thing that exists is matter and energy. As such they see no logical reason that any one set of attitudes or "morals" is inherently any better that any other. To them society can choose whatever it wants as good or moral. To them there is no absolute truth, everything is relative and all things are equally capable of being regarded as good or not.

 

What can we offer them? They don't believe God or the Bible so don't expect them to do much more than be polite. Some will be aggressive and demeaning. But might they respond to logical reasoning if we start where they are and move forward? Steve Lem says yes they might. Philosophy offers a strong line of reasoning through formal logic that there must be a God and evil and salvation and justification. Steve will bring us a tour de force of formal logic from philosophy that will fascinate and amaze. You will better understand what is going on in the culture around us today. You will also see that that truly no man has any excuse to not believe God and His offer of salvation trough His Son.

 

When speaking with nonbelievers one should always make sure to give them the basic gospel message first. But if they are unresponsive it can be helpful to know how to show them some flaws in typical atheist reasoning in a friendly way. Having heard Steve's presentation, you will be armed with a little more ammunition for the Holy Spirit to use.

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