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This is where Dawkins leaves me cold. He doesn't understand Christianity and there is a large gap in his knowledge. However there is one thing I do agree with him and that is the slogan "Jesus for atheists." That is so true, this is why Jesus came into the world, he came to seek and to save those who are lost. The "lost" are the unbelievers or in today's terminology the atheist and it is the atheist who Jesus seeks to save, firstly from their ignorance because they do not understand the things of the spirit.
We comprise three parts, (1) our body, (2) our brain or intellect, and (3) our soul which is immortal.
Dawkins talks about the meme pool and the “super niceness in a post-Christian society.” Good for him and it is nice of him to say so.
So how does this change come about? Well it happens when we let Christ into our lives. Jesus is the only one who can change us. Mahatma Gandhi can't change us, neither can Mother Teresa and neither can any other human being for the simple reason we are talking about things of the spirit and not things of the flesh. People including you and me are born of the flesh in the first instance as babies, but when Christ comes into our life we are born of the spirit.
(Just as male and female unite to be born of the flesh, when our spirit unites with the spirit of Christ we are born again, not of flesh but of the spirit. This is the “New Birth” and this is when the change takes place in our lives that Dawkins talks about.)
“If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, the new has come!” (2 Corinthians 5:17)
So we need a picture of Jesus on our “T” Shirt because it is Jesus who came to seek and to save those who were lost which includes me as well as you.
“For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” (Ephesians 2:8)
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