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Bill Maher’s Attack on the Bible

October 10, 2008 by Pastor
Filed under: Bible 

I received this in an email from Brother David Cloud…
Pastor Art
Friday Church News Notes, October 10, 2008, www.wayoflife.org

Television personality and comedian Bill Maher continues his attack on the Bible in a new documentary entitled Religulous. Maher, of the TV show Politically Incorrect, takes aim at Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, pretending that all three are based on religious myth. There is plenty to rightly and wisely reject in man-made religions, but Maher’s folly is in attacking the Bible itself. He mocks such biblical teachings as Methuselah living 969 years and Noah building an ark to save humanity and the animals from the flood. Maher wants to make people laugh at religion and to encourage nonbelievers to talk more openly of their lack of faith (“Maher vs. God,” AP, Sept. 30, 2008). Maher says, “When you’re talking about a man living to 900 years old … it’s just a pile of comedy that was waiting for someone to exploit.”

All Maher has to offer a needy world is empty laughter and scoffing. He doesn’t know the answer to any of life’s big questions, such as how did this amazing universe come to be; what is the purpose of man’s life; what is man’s mind and spirit; why does man have a conscience; why is man so vastly different from the animal kingdom from which he supposedly evolved; why there is such incredible order and apparent design in a world that allegedly evolved by chance; why is man so intrinsically evil; is there a God and if so how can man know him; if there is an Almighty God, why should the miracles recorded in the Bible be thought impossible; who is Jesus Christ; did he rise from the dead; what did he mean when he said, “ye must be born again”; and where does man go when he dies. Maher can do nothing more than offer vague guesses about the most important questions in life, but he ridicules the Bible’s satisfying answers, even though there are many objective reasons for believing that the Bible is what it claims to be.

As for the evolutionist’s idea that the universe originated from a big explosion, THAT is indeed a line worthy of a comedian. Very funny, Maher, but the joke is on you and God will have the last laugh. “Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts” (2 Peter 3:3). “He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision” (Psalm 2:4).

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