Sin Has Literally Driven You All Out Of Your Minds
A woman atheist on Facebook named Kay writes:
"Chris, you have a mental illness. Please seek the help of a mental health professional."
McCann reply:
Have you looked out your window lately into your world? And I don't even need to know where you live because it’s the same view everywhere. Here's what you're seeing:
Ecclesiastes 9:3 This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
The ol' "my aren't you crazy" bit doesn't work. Because the madness of the people of your world is way too evident.
Kay replied:
"you are the one who thinks a God speaks to him.
You're the one who thinks he's going to live forever.
And you are quoting from a book written by those who had no idea where the sun goes at night."
McCann reply:
What does that have to do with the disgusting condition of your world? No defense of it? Past generations believed man was progressing to a higher and more glorious plateau of goodness and kindness. That's out the window now I know. But still, no effort to uphold the dignity of your world.
Dignity and this world aren't really words that fit together.
Oh, it all starts to make sense. When your world is moving under your feet. When its ever downward spiral into moral depravity descends lower and lower and lower – you turn to criticize religions (definitely worthy of criticisms) and God and His holy book, the Bible (definitely not worthy of finite man's foolish criticisms) and distract yourself from the absolutely pathetic condition your world is in. And yes, it is your world.
Even the corrupt religions (including all churches today) that you criticize are part of your world. All that is a lie is of men. Is of the world.
It’s not my world. I was taken out of it and no longer am a citizen of it. By God's grace, I'm just passing through. A stranger soon to go my eternal home.
John 17:14 I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
Again, your world. Which is so bad and foolish because it is a world of rebels (like yourself) who have rebelled against the One who is true wisdom and goodness. Today the world is enjoying its just desserts. Reaping what it has sown.
Kay replied:
"stay on topic. You want to go on about "everyone is evil". I was talking about your mental illness."
McCann reply:
When everyone is mad and full of evil (remember Ecclesiastes 9:3) the point is that they are totally unqualified to assess anyone's state of mental health. Especially the mental health of one who has been restored to sound mind by the sobering power of the Word of God:
Mark 5:2 And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,
3 Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains:
4 Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.
5 And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.
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13 And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were choked in the sea.
14 And they that fed the swine fled, and told it in the city, and in the country. And they went out to see what it was that was done.
15 And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his RIGHT MIND: and they were afraid.
The actual point I'm making is that your opposition and your world's opposition to the Bible and the God of the Bible is lunacy. Sin has literally driven you all out of your minds.
Which is why your world is so evil it cannot have a single day of true goodness, and peace, and love.
Murder. Theft. Backbiting. Explosions. Kidnappings. Yelling. Gossiping. Griping. Lying. Cheating. And a whole host of all kinds of other evils are everywhere in your world. So much so – that one might think – it’s actually a world of sinners. Just like the Bible says:
Romans 3:10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
15 Their feet are swift to shed blood:
16 Destruction and misery are in their ways:
17 And the way of peace have they not known:
18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.