Hour 2: Atheists Finding God
In the Market with Janet Parshall
Moody Radio
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2023
⏱️ 46 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, our guest 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 of their worldview, but also a dramatic transformation of their ‘whole world.’
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friend. Thank you so much for downloading this podcast. |
| 0:02.8 | And as always, I certainly hope it edifies, |
| 0:05.0 | equips, encourage, and lightens, and then gently, but lovingly |
| 0:08.2 | get you out there in the marketplace of ideas. |
| 0:10.0 | But before you go, I want to tape up this month's Truth Tool. |
| 0:12.7 | Robert Morgan has written more than 40 books. |
| 0:15.2 | Five million of them are in print. |
| 0:17.3 | And I just love the way he writes. |
| 0:18.6 | In fact, in truth, I've actually offered one of his books |
| 0:21.2 | before. It was called The Red Sea Rules. |
| 0:23.8 | And it was really about going through those difficult times |
| 0:26.6 | and 10 God-given strategies that God gave us when we hit those |
| 0:29.9 | difficult times, and we all will. |
| 0:32.2 | Well, now he has a companion book to that called The Jordan River Rules. |
| 0:36.8 | And what I love about this book is it really and truly is based on |
| 0:39.8 | the parting of the Jordan River. |
| 0:41.5 | And what it does is it provides guidance for those moving toward |
| 0:44.8 | into the next stage of life. |
| 0:46.5 | You know, our life doesn't fold in stages. |
| 0:48.4 | In the opening chapters of the book of Joshua, God let us |
| 0:51.1 | people through the Jordan River into the promise land and into |
| 0:54.0 | the promised future he had for them. |
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