MORNING MANNA          3-7-21

Robert Ingersoll was an American lawyer who travelled the country campaigning for agnosticism. His efforts were so extreme that he gained the nickname “The Great Agnostic”. Walt Whitman called him “the greatest orator of his time”. Although he was born into a Christian family and his father was a preacher Robert took great pride in his position and spent his life fighting against God.

In his lectures he would insist that if God really existed he should prove it by striking him dead within a five minute time period at the end of his lecture. When the five minutes expired he exclaimed that it is proof that God did not exist.That just goes to show you what foolish lengths some people will go in an effort to justify their claims.

The fact of the matter is that God didn’t need to strike him dead to prove His existence. He has already proven His existence, His goodness, greatness, and grace. Acts 1:3 says, “…he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:” Then we read in Romans 1:4 that Jesus proved He was who He claimed to be – “And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:”. Then there is the glorious truth of Rom. 5:8 which says, “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”