I received the following email yesterday:
I have a next-door neighbor, married with two children who is an atheist. They both are nosey and troublemakers. We have another neighbor who lives very close that is a young minister and he’s mentioned the name of Jesus to them, and this neighbor lets him know up front, they do not want to hear it. This is a very small community that once was all family and we have never had anything like this go on here. The minister and his wife have a small line of communication with them thinking that one day they will accept the Lord.
They love to kayak and want the teen daughter to get into the Olympics. This is their entire lives being on the water. Little do they realize that God is going to deal with them. They have managed to alienate everyone except the minister. I am a recent widow and will be moving on about February but hate to see new owners faced with this, especially if they are Christians. Any advice?
I think I would invite them over for some vanilla ice cream. Several years ago, I was sent the following:
VANILLA ICE CREAM DEFIES EVOLUTION!
“Nearly everyone has enjoyed a delicious bowl of vanilla ice cream. However, vanilla ice cream wouldn’t even exist if evolution were true. Let’s start out with a little history. Until more recent times, Mexico was the only producer of vanilla. In the 1520s, a man by the name of Hernán Cortés traveled down to Mexico, and after tasting it loved vanilla. So, he brought some back with him to Europe. For the next 300 years, the Europeans tried but were never able to produce vanilla.
Vanilla is a vine that grows up trees. Eventually, the vine produces an orchid. To make the vanilla bean, the orchid must be pollinated. The problem is it only blooms one morning per year for pollination. If it isn’t pollinated within 12 hours, it withers. To make things more difficult, a hood-like membrane covers the part of the vanilla orchid which produces pollen. This makes the production of the vanilla bean very difficult as insects cannot penetrate the membrane.
In 1836, Charles François Antoine Morren traveled down to Mexico to figure out why they couldn’t produce vanilla beans in Europe. As Morren was studying the vanilla orchids, his attention was drawn to a little bee (the Mexican Melipona Bee). This bee landed on the orchid, lifted up the little hood-like membrane, collected pollen, and then flew off to the next flower. This bee was pollinating the orchids. After some time, the orchid produced a vanilla bean.
To this day, the Mexican Melipona Bee is the only insect that has been found that knows how to pollinate the vanilla orchid.
This simple fact puts evolution in an extremely difficult position. Without the Mexican Melipona Bee, we simply could not have vanilla today. Think about it, The bee and the vanilla vine had to be created at the exact same time. Not to mention, this bee had to be given specific knowledge about how to pollinate the vanilla orchid. Again, no other insect knows how to do this. This bee had to be wonderfully designed, and purposefully created to pollinate the vanilla orchid, and thus, produce vanilla.”
So much of our world points to the Creator. For crying out loud, even vanilla ice cream proclaims the glory of God. So, the next time you sit down to enjoy a full bowl of vanilla ice cream, invite an atheist to enjoy a tasty treat. Then tell them it was only made possible through the power of God!
To be an atheist defies logic. To believe that nothing created everything and non-life created life as truth should be embarrassing to anyone who espouses it. Interestingly, many of those that seek to deny God are found in academic circles, where atheists are warmly welcomed. Though they hold a variety of advanced degrees and are published in noted academic journals, the Bible clearly labels them “fools.” And unfortunately, it is hard to lead them to the light.
Euripides once said, Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. – But we must try . . . And as I told the lady who wrote seeking advice, pray for this young family that is so far off track.
Psalm 14:1
“The fool has said in his heart, ‘There is no God”
Have a great weekend and go to church this Sunday!