My Plea

Let me just start with this, you will die someday, so will I, and so will everyone you know, love them or hate them. This is the undeniable truth every single living person is facing. It’s like a cliff we are all walking towards, one you will be forced to fall off some day. There are different ways people deal with this knowledge. The two main groups that have answers for this are Atheists and the Religious.

I come from the religious side, specifically Christianity and this will be my plea to every other group out there to please hear me out. I will start with the unbelieving side and then touch on the religious views of the believing groups. When it comes to atheists and their ilk, we have been discussing for years different arguments back and forth. I could sit here all day long convincing you about the transcendental arguments for God. The discussion can turn to the fine tuning of the universe or We could spend hours discussing the irreducibly complex nature of vital functions within a living organism that could not arise by chance. I could argue about morality and its grounding. Show how information never arises from non information. We could discuss how things always entropy from complex to less complex over time.

While all these arguments provide hours of entertainment for both sides involved, I have come to the simple realization… that’s not how you convince someone to come to faith, that’s not how God in the bible tells us how to do it. It’s our own arrogance and pride that blind us to thinking we can use our intellects as means to bring people to faith and yes God can indeed use it as a means if He so wills it.

What’s important here is the method we are supposed to use. So what does God, Himself, tell us on how to bring people to faith? It’s simple, faith comes by hearing, hearing the Word of God. That is Romans 10:17. We are told to have answers and to be wise, but if all that intellect and smarts only bring us to academic discussions and not to the Gospel backed by the Word of God, then we are nothing more than clanging cymbals for there is no love in the interaction, no light to shine the way, no hope offered in the argument.

As for other religions, I would simply like to refer to how Greg Bahnsen referenced them, they fall into one of two groups: the random arbitrary ones such as Confucianism and Buddhism that refute themselves as providing no rational basis for science or logic which the Christian view does, and the other group is religions who are committed to the Bible as an authority and thus easily argued against based on scripture.

So here is my plea to you: Everyone will die, you will be judged and no amount of good works will save you for all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. We cannot stand before the almighty God clothed in our own righteousness, they are filthy rags before Him. So what is the answer?

God has provided it for us in the person of Jesus Christ, son of God, who died on a cross for our sins, was buried and three days later rose from that grave and sits alive today at the side of the Father making intercessions for us. We come to faith by believing the Gospel of Jesus knowing that all who call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. That way when we stand before God, we will be clothed in Christ’s righteousness and not our own. He is a God that saves, follow Him… no other will do. Be of good cheer for He has overcome the world! Rest assured in the completed works of Christ.

-Vincent Lancon 2/25/26