There IS a God : World's Foremost Former Atheist, Antony Flew Writes a Book Explaining His Reasons.

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[secretagent]

"There Is a God" will finally put this debate to rest.

No, it won't.

[khnyny]

This link (sorry it’s Huffington) has the best “can’t miss” pictures. Totally hilarious.

Christopher Hitchens Gets a Really Extreme Makeover

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/09/06/vanity-fair-is-a_n_63263.html

“Hitchens sums up his life of scotch and cigarettes.

I need the junky energy that scotch can provide, and the intense short-term concentration that nicotine can help supply. To be crouched over a book or a keyboard, with these conditions of mingled reverie and alertness, is my highest happiness.”

‘Nuff said, lol.

[PetroniusMaximus]

“And your point is what?”

It not MY point, it was Flew’s.

[Blind Eye Jones]

You wonder if it is all “life is great if you don’t weaken” which means you don’t have to account or devise reasons or non reasons for anything, if you so chose. Flew did what he did, argued what he argued at an early age because life was great... and now it is as if the argument, his argument, argues against Flew: God doesn’t exist says the argument and now Flew almost doesn’t exist, says the argument. If you are young you can ignore this — and should — but when you are old it is hard, especially with the added weight of tradition, the weight of C. S. Lewis and Evelyn Waugh -- for example, Lord Marchmain’s relapse in Brideshead Revisited can influence ones identity. Is Flew now giving us a happy ending? These philosophers with literary ties! Does this convince the argument, his argument that he will shortly not exist, to be kind with him? Does this buy him time? How strong is he?

[fish hawk]

I second that prayer. Holy Spirit, do your work.

[dragonblustar]

Oh man. Hitchens in the shower was enough to beg for blindness.

I have a brother who is athiest and sometimes I wish he’d wake up and start using his brain instead of quoteing left wing liberal talking points.

[cartoonistx]

"Behold, I stand at the door and knock..."

Mr Flew is like a man who, upon hearing the knock of the Lord, finally comes to believe in the existence of doors! But if he does not get up and answer it he might as well have been deaf!

[SirLinksalot]

Antony Flew today

[Maelstorm]

My question is why not? I doubt that any atheist will be convinced by his conversion to belief any more than any believer would be convinced not to believe if the Pope came out claiming Jesus was really just a crackpot and all of Christianity is bunk. Those that are convinced by such trivial things only prove they never spent any time analyzing things for themselves and are just empty headed followers. I have never believed anything because of popular man or woman professed it. Truth is not a popularity contest.

[Sola Veritas]

“totally unaccountable for free will”

In my belief system man has a “free will.” However, his free will has been so corrupted by Adam’s fall, that left on his own, he will never chose to believe in the God of the Bible and Jesus Christ, God incarnate. In other words, man’s free will is so corrupted as to no longer be free will....he will only and instinctly not believe or believe anything other than the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Thus, it takes a supernaturnal work of the Holy Spirit to correct that corruption by making the person aware of his dreadfully lost status and his desparate need of a savior (this is what being born again really means - regeneration - the dead being made alive) He will be compeled to shun his own righteousness and seeking to win heaven by doing “good” or “refraining” from “bad.” He will realize that it is Christ and Christ Jesus alone that can save him by what He (Christ) did. The man will irressistibly be drawn to the only source of salvation and further given the ability to believe, savingly, in it.

[sr4402]

He’s reasoned himself to God in the abstract.

That means he may have gone from being an Atheist to an Agnostic. The Atheist says "There is no God in his heart", the Agnostic says "I do not know if there is a God".

I pray that the Lord may knock upon the door of Anthony Flews heart, and if he has been knocking that he knock all the more and drawn to Christ by the Heavenly Father.

[SunkenCiv]

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There Is a God: How the World's Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind by Antony Flew and Roy Abraham Varghese

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[VOA]

bump for future read