Ray Comfort - Dinner With 40 Atheists

Ray Comfort- National columnist for Christian Living magazine-

 Dinner With 40 Atheists

By Ray Comfort

Late in 2007, a courageous Christian dropped a handful of one of our tracts-The Atheist Test-at a gathering of atheists, who meet once a month at the IHOP at the John Wayne Airport in Orange County, California. Those atheists later invited me to join them for dinner on January 8th, 2008.  

They requested that I get there an hour early to "set a baseline" because they said some  of their members "got a bit hot headed when discussing religion." I accepted their invitation and decided to take my manager, Mark Spence, Dean of the "School of Biblical Evangelism," with me. Before the dinner, I got permission to bring Mark and a handheld HD camera. I was determined not to go to win an argument, but rather to simply show that I cared deeply for these people. Most atheists seem to have the impression that Christians don't like them.

An Act of Kindness

Mark and I arrived about five minutes early, shook hands and sat down. After our orders were taken, I quietly approached the waiter and asked him to give me the bill for the entire party. When he brought it to me, I was almost shaking with excitement. If someone had tried to take it from me, I would have physically fought them. I felt like I used to feel with my kids on Christmas morning. When the atheists found out that I had paid the tab, they were grateful, polite, pleasant, kind and extremely thankful (1 Peter 2:15). That experience was a highlight of my life.

            After dinner, about ten of us huddled around a table for about an hour and talked about the things of God. It was up close and personal. Mark calmly and eloquently answered every question and objection they raised (It's all on video and is available through the ministry.).

I took copies of my new book, How to Know God Exists, and all the folks at our table wanted one (it's a strange feeling signing a Christian book for atheists). Then we posed for pictures and left. I was almost bursting with joy after that wonderful opportunity to meet and talk with these dear people. Maybe the next time they meet for dinner (at the International House of Prayer) hundreds will show up saying, "We heard that this is the atheist group where you get a free meal."

Honey Bees Needed

Speaking of atheists and free meals, scientists are now extremely concerned about the human race because one-third of the honey bees in the United States have disappeared. The bees are dying by the millions, and the concern is that since crops everywhere require pollination, if there are no bees, fruits and vegetables can't grow. They need bees. Experts can't point to a single factor as a cause for the bees' disappearance.
            So... I am making an exciting suggestion. To fix the problem, all we need to do is figure out how evolution created the first male and female bees and repeat the process. We will need material for a couple of wings, bee skin, bee blood, a small heart, a complex digestive system, eyes, reproductive organs, lungs, a brain, blood vessels and an instinct to pollinate flowers, search out nectar and bring nectar back to the hive. We will also need those little bags for collecting the nectar and whatever bees use to make it into the honey.
             Oh! Wait a minute. I forgot something important. We don't need any materials to begin with. We will make the bees from nothing. That's how evolution did it in the beginning. Right? Hmmm. That kind of has me stumped. I'm not sure how to make something from nothing. Oh well, back to square one.

If you have any suggestions, please let me know so that I can pass your knowledge on to the scientists.

(From Ray Comfort's free blog: http://raycomfortfood.blogspot.com/ )