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Once I moderated a debate between the late Christopher Hitchens, a take-no-prisoners atheist, and several Christian apologists. They argued the topic, “Does the God of Christianity Exist, and What Difference Does It Make?” I found the response of Hitch, as his friends called him, to be eye-opening. This intelligent atheist considered God (as understood by Christians) to be a celestial despot who is always waiting for an infraction from the people He made in order to throw them into hell. All Hitchens wanted from the universe was to be left alone, and too bad for the weak and helpless among us. Sick indeed.

Hitchens was one atheist who hoped he was right. Such an attitude has been with humanity ever since Adam and Eve sinned and hid from God in the Garden. Many of us want God to leave us alone so that we can pursue our own agendas without divine interference. Some atheists have been honest enough to admit this.

This completely aligns with what the bible says about the fate of the lost. If you want to “go it alone”, God will allow it. You can eat and drink and enjoy the fruits of your labor until you die. Then, at the Great White Throne Judgement, when you are found not written in the Book of Life, you are utterly destroyed. You have come to your end.

If, on the other hand, you WANT God in your life and you accept your free gift, you will eat and drink and enjoy the fruits of your labor, and you will die. Then, at the Great White Throne Judgement, you will be found in the book of life. You will go on to eternity with Christ in your new body that has as much in common with this body as a mustard seed has with a mustard plant.