Mr. D’Souza presented facts and evidence, not opinions, as he debated Mr. Hitchens. Phillips, Brown & Stonestreet (2008) wrote when teaching on putting worldviews to the test, “What is …show more content…
I was formulating conclusions in my mind, trying to make sense of it all. A question came to mind. Did Mr. Hitchens ever get any kind of revelation from God? I thought about this some more and then started flipping pages as fast as I could because I thought I read somewhere in our books that God reveals things to us and it is one of the first things He does. Sire (2015) wrote, “…as Christians, we get our knowledge about what first things are supposed to be not from human self-reflection but from revelation. As human beings we are finite. We can know nothing about God unless he tells us. This he has done in small part in the natural order but mainly in Scripture revelation – the gift of knowledge about what we would scarce have any knowledge at all – must necessarily precede what we understand God to be. So it must come first” (p. 88). He also wrote, “We receive what is put before us through the general revelation of God in the world and the special revelation of God in Scripture” (p. 88).
I am sure Mr. Hitchens has read the Bible. Wouldn’t have God revealed something to him? Mr. Hitchens has since passed away. I wonder if he reached out to God prior to dying.
One last question, do you feel that you can have as a friend someone who is totally against your worldview and your God?
If I could give Mr. Hitchens one thought from one of our texts, it would be this, Sire (2015) “The world without God is cold. With him, we know why there is warmth in the winter” (p.