6 Jul, 2009
Atheist Game Show
Producers in Instanbul want to make a reality tv show out of belief in God. The show wants to take religious leaders from the Muslim, Christian, and Buddhist faiths and hopefully convert non-believers to a belief in God.
The prize for converts will be a pilgrimage to a holy site of their chosen religion -- Mecca for Muslims, the Vatican for Christians, Jerusalem for Jews and Tibet for Buddhists.
"We are giving the biggest prize in the world, the gift of belief in God," Kanal T chief executive Seyhan Soylu told Reuters.
A team of theologians supposedly will ensure that the athiests and really non-believers and not just trying to get a vacation from the gameshow.
Many religious leaders oppose the show stating that personal faith should not be made into entertainment.
200 people have applied so far and 10 contestants will be chosen next month.
Acts 17:27,28 (NIV)
God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. 'For in him we live and move and have our being.'
Luke 8:8 (NIV)
Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up and yielded a crop, a hundred times more than was sown." When he said this, he called out, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear."
What does God say about belief?
God desires for people to seek Him and come to have belief in Him.As Paul stated, "it is through Christ that we move and have our being."
It didn't take long for the entertainment world to try and capitalize on someone's belief or non-belief in God. Regardless of what we think about a game show of this nature, believing in God is not a joke.
Christ preached for 3 years that He was God and some had ears to ear while His words often fell on deaf ears.
Paul preached Christ crucified and raised from the dead to many brilliant minds in the ancient world. Some believed and some did not.
I'm not sure what a gameshow will do to help others have belief in God. I'm sure the results will be similar to that of Jesus and Paul. What I am sure of is that God wants us to live before Him in such a way that others see Christ in us, and that we testify to others our belief in Him.
- Read Acts chapter 17 and take note of how Paul was moved by the culture around him.
- How did Paul respond to those who didn't believe in God?
- Pray for those around you who seem to have "no belief" in a supernatural God.
- Use Paul as an example to how you might interact and respond to their unbelief. Take one thing you have learned from Paul and do it today.
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