Deaf Pastor Who Revealed He’s an Atheist Has a Big Message f

i already know about it and grieves me alot about it. it is really sad to hear that. i used to watch his vlog etc but not anymore. it shocked deaf christians to see and hear about that. we need to pray for him. actually there is 2 percents who are deaf christians in the world and there is alot of deaf people around the world about 200 to 300 million but they are not saved.

he made the news in cnn and christian post etc to tell them about God is not real. it is so sad, other thing is that God's Words will never fade and will not leave that deaf guy's heart. the words of God will pop in his mind and it will make him think about that.

I do not believe this man ever knew Christ. Anyone who truly knows Him, not just knowing OF Him, but KNOWS HIM in a relationship, can ever walk away from such Beauty. There are many things that aren't my hill to die on, but this is one of them.  I believe this is how people such as this can fall away.  They were never of the fold to begin with.

First of all, who loses faith in an Almighty God when man's system has failed them?  I could be failed by 1,000 pastors in life, but my faith in GOD will not be shaken.  It seems to me the poor man was fed a "works" Gospel, and found it vain and lacking (of which it most definitely is).  However, he never rested fully in the finished work of Christ.  I know this because he allowed philosophy to sway his heart.

A pastor I like to read, J.D. Greear, says Christianity is about posture.  If you think of a chair, those who are true believers have transferred their "weight" from their own strength on their legs, to the chair's strength when they sit down to rest.  Those who have sat down rest in Christ.  Those who haven't sat down do not rest in Him, and therefore, have the potential to wander away.

Being Biblically knowledgeable doesn't make one a believer either - consider the Pharisees.  This man could have gone to 50 seminaries and still the outcome would have been the same because the bottom line is: the Holy Spirit NEVER regenerated his heart.  A regenerated heart cannot revert back to being unregenerate unless God resurrects one's sins.  We know ALL OF OUR SINS were killed in the flesh of Christ, and He rose sinless on the third day - leaving our sins in His grave.  It is literally impossible for a true believer to turn away because God will NEVER resurrect our sin.  We can fall away and be backslidden, but that's when God shows His faithfulness to save us for His name's sake, not our own performance.

So this poor man believed a works Gospel while coveting the prosperity (and noting the hypocrisy) of his false teacher mentor.  Because the Holy Spirit had not regenerated his heart, he (mistakenly) began to believe that the false teacher he followed was the "norm" for the whole of Christianity, not realizing we are living in the age of apostasy and that he should put his trust in GOD ALONE.  It is not that Christianity is wrong because of so many people within the faith disagree, it's because should the Lord tarry, we're on the verge of another Reformation - where the true believers of Christ will separate themselves from the apostate "church" of the world.

It is unfortunate that the apostate far outnumber the true believers.  But I firmly believe that for anyone to fall away, they never "sat in the chair".  They never rested in Christ's finished work.  They never had a fulfilling, beautiful relationship with Him.  They never studied Scripture, either, because faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God (Romans 10:17).  However, since the Spirit is needed to open our minds to Scripture (Luke 24:45), it is doubtful that he could ever understand them without first sitting in that chair.  Indeed we should pray for him, but Hebrews 6:4-6 comes to mind...

~~Becka

Thanks for posting that, Becka. You said it better than I could have.

I will be completely honest with you all, reading through the article made my heart hurt, I didn't watch the video...many of the reasons he gave hit me hard, because these are issues that I think about a lot. There is a lot of strife and division within Christianity. It is hard for me at times to reconcile God allowing people to be created knowing that they will end up in hell.

None of that makes me believe that there is no God, however....what it does is make realize how little I understand about His plan. The Bible clearly tells us that His ways are higher than ours. He knows the end from the beginning, the Bible proves that over and over. One part of this man's testimony that got me was that he believes in evolution. Evolution is provably false, and it is a luciferian concept in origin, not scientific....I find it amazing that he doesn't understand this with his education

Regardless, I am praying for him to look past the lies of this world and to see the truth.

leeza123, I just love you're response! Christ has already done enough! There is just to much Meology, not enough Theology.

It's foreign to me, really, how people can turn away from Christ and renounce Him. I mentioned on my FB page about a week ago - it does not compute. It's like someone saying the sky is pink. It just doesn't make sense. No matter how angry I've gotten or how much I've been frustrated or haven't understood God's plan, never once has the thought crossed my mind to leave Christianity. It would be like divorcing my husband and then claiming he never existed, that I was never married in the first place. It doesn't make sense. But I suppose I have been sanctified by the Spirit to the point of no return; there is no longer doubt in my mind of God's reality, I've seen too much, learned too much, dreamed too much, and had too many prayers answered for God to be non-existent.

What I find interesting is that people such as these actively search for reasons and accusations to discredit Christianity. It's almost as if they try hard to convince themselves it isn't true. The person who is divorced knows they had a spouse at one time, regardless of convincing themselves otherwise. For the person who walks away from Christianity, they want to discredit their marriage license, the validity of the officiator, the legality of the document, and the authority under which the document was filed. Why? People who divorce just walk away. They do not become obsessed with a spouse they never believed existed.

It reminds me of the conditioning one goes through to "justify" their actions and sear their consciences, like how the Nazis convinced themselves the Jews were not humans, but no better than dogs. How the slave owners thought the same. And how the Pharisees justified murdering the Son of God. It is the same.

Amen, Liz. I fell away for a season, but never disavowed. I became a Prodigal...daughter. One who disavows must be a tare. It is hard to accept, because my husband is such a one. I must say being unequally yoked blindsided me. I never thought it would happen to me. But the Lord is faithful and He is good. Wherever He leads is where I follow. Where He goes, I go. I've put my hand to the plow. I won't look back to check if others come with me. All I can do is sow seed along the way. The Last Day shall reveal the wheat from the tares. To the glory of God.

How true it is that those who don't know Him depart from Him.

Absolutely right.  All I know is that when people offend the Lord, they offend me.  I can only be loving and understanding to other's up to a certain point, does that make me a judgmental Christian?  I don't think so.  But it offends me when people decide to walk away from the Lord and proceed to denigrate Him, OK so they don't believe anymore but don't try to convince others that He is a myth and that there is no God.

Hey, Jasp.  I rea a quote one time and I don't remember who it was by, but I thought, "How true that is."  The quote was "Only Christians kill their wounded."  I find that to be very true in a lot of senses and so saddening at the same time.
I guess I will nver understand how someone can claim to be born again and walk away from the Lord.  I have to agree with Becka on that.  Maybe they were never saved to begin with.  My hope is that they are the Prodigal son but I can't even conceive the thought of walking away from Him, no matter how our lives change and as may turns and twists there are along the narrow path. 
I look at it this way. First of all, I can't blame God for my wrong choices or because I am disappointed here and there or hae tribulation in this life. 
Secondly, I am WAYYY too scared to ever blame God because I know that it isn't His fault.  I fear Him, but with a reverent fear.  He has shown me more grace than I can ever earn or deserve.