Hour 1: Atheists Finding God
In the Market with Janet Parshall
Moody Radio
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
In a Western culture of increasing skepticism towards conservative Christianity, what motivates intellectually driven atheists to believe in the reality of God and become passionate followers of Christ? A review of social science literature confirms a predominant functional approach to religious conversion, effectively reducing a complex, substantive phenomenon to a partial functional explanation. Today, Jana Harmon will take a broader look at religious conversion to determine the precursors and pathways from atheistic disbelief to belief in God and Christianity within an educated population. Many former atheists not only experienced a change in their worldview, but also a dramatic transformation of their ‘whole world.’
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, friends, this is Janet Partial. Thanks so much for choosing to spend the next hour with us. |
| 0:09.7 | Today's program is pre-recorded so our phone lines are not open. But thanks so much for being with us and enjoy the broadcast. |
| 0:16.3 | Here are some of the news headlines we're watching. |
| 0:17.9 | When the time the conference was over, the president won a pledge. |
| 0:20.4 | So our Americans worshipping government over God. |
| 0:22.9 | Extremely rare safety moved by a major... |
| 0:25.4 | 17 years, the Palestinians and Israelis negotiated. |
| 0:29.2 | We hear a lot of time. |
| 0:30.8 | We hear a lot of time. |
| 0:31.6 | We're not a lot of time. Hi, friends. |
| 0:45.1 | Welcome to In the Market with Janet Partial. |
| 0:47.0 | Be prepared. |
| 0:47.9 | You've been warned to be thinking critically and biblically this hour. |
| 0:51.2 | By the way, that's not an either or, not a multiple choice test. |
| 0:54.3 | It is a both and. And I want to ask the question. So why would someone become an atheist in the |
| 1:01.7 | first place? You can use a lifeline, call a friend if you want to, or we can flip that question |
| 1:06.2 | around and say, how would someone who thought they had an atheistic worldview suddenly found faith in a |
| 1:12.7 | god they didn't believe in? I mean, when you think about it, just think of this. The Bible says out |
| 1:16.6 | of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks. So Richard Dawkins says, as an example, we are all |
| 1:20.3 | atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one God |
| 1:26.8 | further. Or the man who wrote the Hitchhackers Guide to the |
| 1:30.2 | Galaxy, isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies |
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