Michael Ramel Poet Free verse

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There was a debate called "The Debate that Never Was" It involved Dr. Greg Bahnsen and Dr. Michael Lou Martin. Dr. Martin never showed, and from that moment forward Dr. Bahnsen was dubbed "The Man Ahteists Fear Most". Dr. Bahnsen passed away in 1995 and Dr. Martin in 2015.

God's Air

Imagine that someone wants to argue against the existence of air
All the while breathing in air
The Catholics have the Mitered Buffoon
They say Protestants have the “Paper Pope” too
Immanuel Kant said you can’t bring the noumenal and phenomenal together
And it was for duty’s sake that we honor God, or whether
Rene Descartes says I doubt therefore I must exist to do the doubting
Akin to intellectual touting
Friedrich Nietzsche said we can’t give up God because we believe in          
        laws of grammar
God’s anvil has exhausted many a hammer
David Hume came to skepticism over the induction principle
Bertrand Russell said the same thing 
Only Cornelius Van Til could say that the unbeliever is like a child           
        sitting on his father’s lap
Can reach up and slap his father’s face
It is by God’s common grace that the unbeliever 
can sit on God’s lap reach up and infantilely slap His face
The intellectual picture and metaphor
Is in Christ who died for a Whore
Heraclitus and Zeno can consider points in a stream not the same in time 
Or arrows that have antecedent range each and every time 
Copernicus and Kepler (even Aristarchus) are skewing heliocentricity
Why wasn’t Ptolemy or Lucretius given verticity 
All today’s G.O.A.T.’s can buy their fame
They won’t walk with the sheep on the last day
John Lennon said it out loud imagine there’s no heaven
We can equally posit imagine there is no Lennon
The Auburn Affirmation could only deny Christ’s deity
Jean Paul Sartre could only collar the Holy Spirit and throw Him out
Wittgenstein could only show disgust in the ubiquity of God’s judgment      
       on him
Unless they were breathing God’s air
And it’s the battling against the Holy Spirit’s work that is the unforgivable sin
Matthew asked this author 
“How can you hate someone you don’t believe in?”

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Joe Maverick October 14, 2024 at 9:30 PM Hello Michael..' You have touched on a point Ì Have used in the past..? Greg and I had to be Guided by the Holy Spirit..My course was this I will say to the other person..Shall we have a Contest? Once they enquire what type I say just To see who can hold a breath of air the longest Once this is done..I note that air is invisible and Scentless and weightless yet we need it to live.' Once we have regained our breaths of course.' Michael Ramel October 15, 2024 at 9:24 AM So who held their breath the longest? The debate I mentioned is worth a listen....if you are interested. Here is a link to listen for free (this is part 1 there is a part two)......https://www.sermonaudio.com/sermons/1110202132597001/a?autoplay=1