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that faith in Him is the only way to God. Christians believe that Jesus lived a perfect, sinless life and was crucified for the sins of the world and raised from the dead. Faith in Jesus as Saviour and Lord imparts forgiveness and His perfect life to the believer.

 


  

What about religion?

Religion is a belief in and reverence for a supernatural power or powers regarded as creator and governor of the universe.

 

Religion can also be a personal or institutionalised system grounded in such belief and worship.

 

Religion, by definition, is man in search of God, god or gods.

 

It could be argued that the same reasons for dismissing other religions should be applied to your own as a test of authenticity and truth. Religion is an example of the truth that man is naturally inclined to believe and worship. Even Atheism is a belief system, belief that there is no God. A form of religious “worship” can be loosely extended to sport, possessions and people to name but a few.

 

So we see that there are a fair amount of faiths in opposition to Atheism. Most of them are very well worked out and seem pretty rational and reasonable. They don’t, however, help us with the question, “Is Atheism Rational. For this we will have to look deeper at the origins of the universe and of life etc.

 

Firstly, some quotes:

 

According to Seneca the Younger (4 b.c.- 65 a.d). “Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful”.

There is undeniable truth in this statement. People do regard religions, particularly eastern religions as true, though in

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