I hope the following two additional examples will arm you with some powerful sharing insights with your unsaved loved ones and friends and nominal Christians who say they love Jesus but rarely read the Bible.
The Tambourine and the Football
I used to work for JP Morgan Chase in New York City and for several years back in the 1980’s I used to bring my tambourine to work every Tuesday night. For you see on every Tuesday night I would go with some friends to worship the Lord at a wonderful lively church in Brooklyn, New York. I really enjoyed playing the tambourine during the song service and making a joyful noise unto the Lord.
Well, several people who had seen me at the bank with my tambourine thought I was a little strange. Well one day I had the chance to share with several of my co-workers something that the Lord had shown me at the very moment I was speaking with them.
As they looked at me wearing my fancy business suit and holding my bright blue tambourine I knew exactly what they were thinking. I said to them isn’t it interesting that every Sunday (this incident took place in December) you get 60,000 to 80,000 fans to pack themselves, in the freezing cold, into these huge football stadiums, screaming their lungs out for three straight hours over an oblong shaped dead piece of pigskin – and you view this behavior as quite normal. At least I am going to sing, shout, and play my tambourine in honor of the Creator of the entire universe. If I am a little crazy then they should lock these fans up!
They had no reply nor could they as my logic put them on the defensive. I have shared this story with many other non-believers and the response has always been the same – they have no response.
Heaven and its Logical Implications
Come with me now as we travel into the world of heavenly logic. It is remarkable how millions of Americans believe they are going to heaven after they die and yet don’t know Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior and have rarely if ever read the Bible. To these deceived individuals it is important that we show them the fallacy and extreme danger of their beliefs.
Follow with me as we discuss the illogical nature of these false heavenly seekers. If you were to ask the average person in the street if they were going to heaven after they die, many would say yes. But to believe you are going to heaven presupposes you actually believe there is a place called heaven. Our average person would of course have to acknowledge this.
But heaven is not like a chair. If I were to ask you, pointing to a chair, is this a chair, you could look at it, touch it, and even sit in it, to prove to yourself that it is indeed a chair. There is concrete physical evidence to back up your belief in the reality of the chair.
Heaven is a totally different concept which cannot be proven in the same way because it is a supernatural phenomenon. Logically for one to believe in this supernatural concept it would have to be somehow revealed to us in a supernatural way. We can’t feel or see heaven like a chair. Amazingly most of these people even though they may have never read the Bible, will tell you that the revelatory source for their belief in the existence of heaven is that God revealed it in a book called the Bible.
If we then ask them why they think they deserve to go to heaven almost all of this crowd will answer because they are basically good. Since most of these same people believe there is also a hell, where bad people are going to go, it is logical to believe that there must be certain conditions mentioned in the Bible which will determine where you will go to when you die.
To sum up: We have a large segment of our population which believe heaven exists, it exists because it is mentioned in the Bible, that when they die they are going there, and that they have met the entrance requirements to be allowed in.
However, this segment of heaven bound believers have never, or rarely read the very book, and the only book, which contains the entrance requirements into heaven – which they say they have met.
How sad, foolish, and naive to trust your eternal destiny to a series of beliefs that have never been checked against the source documents. Without reading and knowing the Bible there is really no way you can know what the conditions and requirements for heaven are. In reality you are trusting in your own ideas of what good is and relying on second hand opinions. May God have mercy on these poor souls and open their eyes before it is too late.
The Bible and logic seem to travel on a remarkably close course. The deeper we travel on the road to glory the more we will see the genius of God’s precious word.
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