I do not believe in Atheists.

I thought I was one true an unadulterated Atheist who use to say that “God was the creation of the imagination of man due to the fear of the unknown”. As it turnout I really was never such an atheist. In fact I couldn’t be because of the sovereign election and predestination of God who plans all things well and knows the end from the beginning.  

Nevertheless I accept that I was a young man full of resentment against the local priest that was the only thing close to God and values I knew in my village. If it were not for my grandmother’s love for Jesus and her testimony I would have not learn to talk by repeating after grandma the Lord‘s Prayer.

Our local priest had many “nephews” that we use to call them “Hijo de cura”. That is “Son of a Monk.” They seem to have everything but they would walk timidly. We envy their toys, but we never envy them.

My mother was a young widow and a former beauty queen and the local priest made me his altar boy and kept my pocket full with the small change from the offering plate. In spite with all that kindness I had an instinctive suspicion about the priest and at the advice of my grandfather I watch my mother like “a junkyard dog” and never let him come near her or leave them alone. I lost the generosity of the priest and my pockets were no longer full of small coins, but I never had a “Son of a Monk” as a brother either.

This is the first time I am talking about this part in my life perhaps as a reflection of the sexual immorality among the priesthood today. I am also showing off my memory in a display of fearless sincerity that one finds after seventy. At my age political correctness is not as important as just being right and seeking to please God with the true “Truth.”

Today I want to talk about the Atheistic Sadducees who say there is no resurrection but they talk about “Marriage and Resurrection” with Jesus more than anyone. The Sadducees said not to believe in the resurrection but when in front of Jesus they could not help it but speak about the very consuming doubts of their hearts about the truth of the Resurrection.
Jesus ignored their Atheistic inconsistences and at the same time set an example for us by calling things for what they are. In Matthew 22:23 to 33 Jesus said to the Sadducees straightforward words,

 

You are in error!
You do not know the scriptures!
You do not know the power of God!
You do not understand resurrection!
You do not marry in Heaven!
You will be like angels in heaven!
You are ignoring that God is the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.
God is not the God of the dead but of the living!

 

When everything is said and done. People respects and appreciate those who tell them what they need to hear and not what their itching ears want to hear. 

In other words, Jesus is telling to the Sadducees that their lack of knowledge of scripture and the power of God has led them in the path of error and therefore blindness to understand that Resurrection is only for the living that lives by faith such as Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. In the streets of life we cross paths with people that are alive and have life and with people who are alive but have no life. Jesus said, “I am the Life”. Only those who have Jesus in their heart can grasp the Resurrection with the mind of Jesus. 

 

“The Just shall live by faith!” says the word of God. “God is not the God of the dead but of the living!” says Jesus.

The dead cannot understand the resurrection, it’s beyond their grasp for the lack of faith and trust in the scripture and the power of God therefore they are in error and dead in their sins and transgressions. 
This was amazing teaching to the crows, because the Theology of Jesus was a Theology for the living not for the dead. Not for those who say one thing but believes differently.

The priests of my generation that caused me to temporarily wonder away from the things of God were those who said one thing but did something different. There must be no difference between what we said to believe and what we really believe. A man is not what he said to believe but what he really believes. There is a gap that should not exist as in Jesus there was no such a gap between what he said to believe and what he really believed.

 

Rejoice in the predestined predisposition to believe in Jesus in spite of Atheists, Sadducees, priests, monks and their “Nephews.”
God will take care of you through his “guardian angels in disguise”, such as a godly grandmother or some friends with vision in whose life’s you will see the fingerprints of Jesus.

There are no true atheists, because “eternity is in the hearts of men.” Just make sure to tell people about Jesus, whether they listen or fail to listen, but they will know that a prophet has been among them.”

Gerry Gutierrez.