Atheist Scientist Becomes Christian After Researching Religions For Truth

[Rick C. Hodgin]

Atheist Scientist Becomes Christian After Researching Religions For Truth

Atheist Scientist Becomes Christian After Researching Evidence
for God:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsbj7EN1Uzs

Who is Jesus? What's He like? The Gospel of John teaches us
the love of God:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mgUPt2KI08

Thank you,
Rick C. Hodgin

[Mr Flibble]

On 22/07/2017 17:16, Rick C. Hodgin wrote:
> Atheist Scientist Becomes Christian After Researching Religions For Truth
>
> Atheist Scientist Becomes Christian After Researching Evidence
> for God:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsbj7EN1Uzs

I watched the first few minutes before I became bored however in those
minutes he said "from age 16 onwards I never doubted the existence of
God" so at age 16 he was no longer an atheist making the subject line of
your post at best egregiously incorrect and at worst deliberately
misleading.

Also, fuck off.

/Flibble

[Real Troll]

On 22/07/2017 22:07, Mr Flibble wrote:
>
>
> Also, <explitives deleted>
>
>

Any reason why you keep replying to Rick C Hodgkin when JacobNavia
<ja...@jacob.remcomp.fr> is trying to report him to his News-provider?
Can you make up your mind whether you want him to peddle his religious
sermons here (on C anC++ newsgroups) or he should just stop completely.
You can stop him if you create a filter so that none of his posts ever
comes to you to tempt you to reply. I don't get any of his posts but
your posts containing explitives are still entering my inbox. Please reply so that
we can decide whether to black-list you or not.

We are getting more traffic on religious matter from people like you
than from Rick himself. It is time to stop once and for all.

Thank you for reading this post.

[Rick C. Hodgin]

On Saturday, July 22, 2017 at 5:07:27 PM UTC-4, Mr Flibble wrote:
> On 22/07/2017 17:16, Rick C. Hodgin wrote:
> > Atheist Scientist Becomes Christian After Researching Religions For Truth
> >
> > Atheist Scientist Becomes Christian After Researching Evidence
> > for God:
> >
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsbj7EN1Uzs
>

> I watched the first few minutes before I became bored...

You don't need to tell me, Leigh. It is only God Himself who will be the
one you need to give account of. And when you do, you will also be compelled
to report how many times I tried to reach you with the gospel message.

You will burn in eternal Hellfire in agony unless you let Jesus in so He
can forgive you of your sin. Six simple words: "Jesus, please forgive
me, a sinner."

How sad it will be for you to keep your pride in tact. It will cost you far
more than you'll be wanting to pay.

[Rick C. Hodgin]

Here is the more important video to watch:

-----

Who is Jesus? What's He like?
The Gospel of John teaches us the love of God:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mgUPt2KI08

[Chris M. Thomasson]

On 7/22/2017 3:17 PM, Rick C. Hodgin wrote:
> On Saturday, July 22, 2017 at 5:07:27 PM UTC-4, Mr Flibble wrote:
>> On 22/07/2017 17:16, Rick C. Hodgin wrote:
>>> Atheist Scientist Becomes Christian After Researching Religions For Truth
>>>
>>> Atheist Scientist Becomes Christian After Researching Evidence
>>> for God:
>>>
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsbj7EN1Uzs
>>
>> I watched the first few minutes before I became bored...
>
> You don't need to tell me, Leigh. It is only God Himself who will be the
> one you need to give account of. And when you do, you will also be compelled
> to report how many times I tried to reach you with the gospel message.
>
> You will burn in eternal Hellfire in agony

That's mean. Well, perhaps, just perhaps, we will all see you there in
the fire. The reason you might be there is because of all the people you
scared away from the faith. You are pretty hardcore.

;^o

[Juha Nieminen]

Rick C. Hodgin <rick.c...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You will burn in eternal Hellfire in agony

Says the person who is blatantly lying in the subject line of his post.

I have said it before, and I say it again: You are a lying hypocrite.

Go away, you lying hypocrite asshole. You are not getting any heaven
points here. The only thing you are getting is becoming even more of
a piece of shit than you already are.

[Rick C. Hodgin]

People do not earn their way into Heaven. It is the free gift of
God to all who will receive Jesus, receive His sacrifice, and ask
Him to forgive their sin.

The things we do for Him in this world provide evidence of our
salvation and conversion from flesh-only to flesh+spirit.

Romans 10:9-13 (KJV)
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus,
and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him
from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart
man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth
confession is made unto salvation. For the scripture saith,
Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. For
there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek:
for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.
For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord
shall be saved.

There is no limitation as to who can be saved. The only thing
now preventing people from being saved are the choices of the
individual, the refusal to ask forgiveness, because Jesus will
forgive everyone who comes to Him of every sin they committed
for all time.

Man is now the only one who will keep himself from being
saved, Juha. Man's hard heart of rebellion and pride.

[Juha Nieminen]

Rick C. Hodgin <rick.c...@gmail.com> wrote:

> People do not earn their way into Heaven. It is the free gift of
> God to all who will receive Jesus, receive His sacrifice, and ask
> Him to forgive their sin.

You did not answer my post. Why? Because you know you are a liar and a
hypocrite.

You think that your words are magic, but they are not. They are nothing
but you being a condescending smug lying hypocrite.

[Rick C. Hodgin]

Juha, you can find all kinds of failures with me. I am just
a man. But I'm not advocating me, nor my words, but
rather Jesus and His words.

You'll be unable to find fault with Him, or His words.
I need Him to forgive me just like everybody else does.

[Öö Tiib]

Rick, why some people seem to think that they behaving kook does somehow
change anything in any direction in this world? It is just boring and aesthetically
ugly ... and that is it.

[Rick C. Hodgin]

I know. People only look at the person giving the message and,
because they are just a person like them, are able to label them
summarily with disparaging names like "kook" or "hypocrite."

They don't seem to realize the messenger is not the message, but
the one they're pointing to is the message.

That inability to receive the root message is the source of ALL
of the confusion involved. It breaks my heart because people
are willing to sacrifice hearing the true message and intent of
the message because they judge the messenger on his merits, and
the messengers unwaveringly come up short. It's such a loss.

-----
I do not advocate Rick. Or any other pastor, preacher,
evangelist, or teacher. I would not point you to them for any
salvation or true help. I would point you only to Jesus Christ.
And then, after you have found merit in Jesus Christ, I would
point you to others who can help teach you those things He first
taught us, but only then under the direct, purposeful, and focused
scrutiny of a discerning heart, one who compares anything we might
say with the true and foundational words of Jesus Christ. What we
teach must align with His teachings, or else they have no merit,
and are to be rebuked. But if they do align with His teachings,
then it is as though He is teaching you directly ... He's just
doing so through us and our conveyance of His message for you.

[Juha Nieminen]

Rick C. Hodgin <rick.c...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Juha, you can find all kinds of failures with me.

Then stop lying. Admit that you lied. Correct the problem.

You are just using your religious beliefs as an excuse to keep lying.

[Rick C. Hodgin]

FWIW, I honestly don't understand what you're talking about. However,
in the interests of full disclosure, I should tell you that every time
I see a post from you I read "Juha" and with my dyslexia brain, the
Julia programming language pops into my head.

[Öö Tiib]

On Tuesday, 1 August 2017 15:08:12 UTC+3, Rick C. Hodgin wrote:
> On Tuesday, August 1, 2017 at 1:10:48 AM UTC-4, Juha Nieminen wrote:
> > Rick C. Hodgin <rick.c...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Juha, you can find all kinds of failures with me.
> >
> > Then stop lying. Admit that you lied. Correct the problem.
> > You are just using your religious beliefs as an excuse to keep lying.
>
> FWIW, I honestly don't understand what you're talking about.

You, and honest? :D Joke of the month. Let me make it out of wood
and paint it red?

The youtube link that you posted lead to movie about honest-looking
person who told how he himself was Atheist teenager, then became
Christian as teenager and later became Scientist.

So there was no "Atheist Scientist" in that movie. So therefore you
lied to everybody that the link leads to movie how "Atheist Scientist
Becomes Christian After Researching Evidence for God".

However everybody are certain that you know it very well and just
keep lying like usual. By their fruits, exactly like Jesus allegedly taught.

[Rick C. Hodgin]

On Tuesday, August 1, 2017 at 8:22:33 AM UTC-4, Öö Tiib wrote:
> On Tuesday, 1 August 2017 15:08:12 UTC+3, Rick C. Hodgin wrote:
> > On Tuesday, August 1, 2017 at 1:10:48 AM UTC-4, Juha Nieminen wrote:
> > > Rick C. Hodgin <rick.c...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Juha, you can find all kinds of failures with me.
> > >
> > > Then stop lying. Admit that you lied. Correct the problem.
> > > You are just using your religious beliefs as an excuse to keep lying.
> >
> > FWIW, I honestly don't understand what you're talking about.
>
> You, and honest? :D Joke of the month. Let me make it out of wood
> and paint it red?

I'm curious where I have not been honest. I think if you look very
deeply into my life, the only times I haven't been honest is when I
am doing something for humor, and it's completely obvious that my
not being honest is in the joke itself, and not in my trying to
deceive people.

> The youtube link that you posted lead to movie about honest-looking
> person who told how he himself was Atheist teenager, then became
> Christian as teenager and later became Scientist.

I watched that video. He is like a lot of us are. I professed to be
an atheist my entire adult life from age 15, but there was also always
this little part of me which knew something else existed, I just didn't
know what it was, and in all honesty wasn't prepared at all to embrace
it. I wanted to live my life the way I wanted to.

> So there was no "Atheist Scientist" in that movie. So therefore you
> lied to everybody that the link leads to movie how "Atheist Scientist
> Becomes Christian After Researching Evidence for God".

Whatever you call him, that was the title of the video. And, it is
what he identified himself as. I was conveying what he said, and I
also agree with his assessment.

When he was younger and investigating things, he was doing so with
an atheist's perspective. He wanted to examine things rationally,
in his mind, in his thinking, to see what made sense to him. It
was all flesh pursuing religion. But what he later discovered was
how Christianity changed him.

> However everybody are certain that you know it very well and just
> keep lying like usual. By their fruits, exactly like Jesus allegedly
> taught.

Have you ever studied what Jesus taught? Watch that movie on the
gospel of John and see love poured out for man, for each of us
individually and personally.

-----
I have not been lying to any of you. I have been trying to reach
out in a myriad of ways so that some of you might receive the word
in a way you wouldn't in other forms. My goals are for you to come
to realize that you are a sinner, that Jesus will forgive you, so
that you can have eternal life.

And someday, when you stand before Jesus, you can ask Him to tell
you the truth about my intents, purposes, focuses, interests, etc.,
and He will show in uncluttered detail my purpose:

I want you to be in Heaven with God forever. I'd like to be
able to spend that time with you as well. Maybe we could ask
Jesus to allow us to write the fundamental programming language
that is applicable not just to CPU ISA, but to different forms
of matter and spirit interaction. :-)

[Öö Tiib]

On Tuesday, 1 August 2017 15:40:03 UTC+3, Rick C. Hodgin wrote:
> On Tuesday, August 1, 2017 at 8:22:33 AM UTC-4, Öö Tiib wrote:

Snipping usual attempts to dodge.

> > So there was no "Atheist Scientist" in that movie. So therefore you
> > lied to everybody that the link leads to movie how "Atheist Scientist
> > Becomes Christian After Researching Evidence for God".
>
> Whatever you call him, that was the title of the video. And, it is
> what he identified himself as. I was conveying what he said, and I
> also agree with his assessment.
>
> When he was younger and investigating things, he was doing so with
> an atheist's perspective. He wanted to examine things rationally,
> in his mind, in his thinking, to see what made sense to him. It
> was all flesh pursuing religion. But what he later discovered was
> how Christianity changed him.

The "younger" of his was before age 17. And that "later" when he
converted happened in age 17 - 19. Was he then scientist when he
was age 17 - 19? Or was he student? What he was? World is certainly
full of lies. However when you take one lie from anywhere and post
it then arent you spreading a lie? Aren't it then your lie as well?

Snipping more pretending that you don't understand what is told
to you.

[Rick C. Hodgin]

On 8/1/2017 10:22 AM, Öö Tiib wrote:
> On Tuesday, 1 August 2017 15:40:03 UTC+3, Rick C. Hodgin wrote:
>> On Tuesday, August 1, 2017 at 8:22:33 AM UTC-4, Öö Tiib wrote:
>
> Snipping usual attempts to dodge.

There is no attempt to dodge. I honestly do not understand what you
and Juha are talking about. I truly believe you have misconceptions
about me which are colored by your own thinking, and not by my words,
actions, or deeds.

>>> So there was no "Atheist Scientist" in that movie. So therefore you
>>> lied to everybody that the link leads to movie how "Atheist Scientist
>>> Becomes Christian After Researching Evidence for God".
>>
>> Whatever you call him, that was the title of the video. And, it is
>> what he identified himself as. I was conveying what he said, and I
>> also agree with his assessment.
>>
>> When he was younger and investigating things, he was doing so with
>> an atheist's perspective. He wanted to examine things rationally,
>> in his mind, in his thinking, to see what made sense to him. It
>> was all flesh pursuing religion. But what he later discovered was
>> how Christianity changed him.
>
> The "younger" of his was before age 17. And that "later" when he
> converted happened in age 17 - 19. Was he then scientist when he
> was age 17 - 19? Or was he student? What he was? World is certainly
> full of lies. However when you take one lie from anywhere and post
> it then arent you spreading a lie? Aren't it then your lie as well?
>
> Snipping more pretending that you don't understand what is told
> to you.

I honestly don't understand what you and Juha are talking about when
you say I'm lying.

[Öö Tiib]

On Tuesday, 1 August 2017 17:37:00 UTC+3, Rick C. Hodgin wrote:
> On 8/1/2017 10:22 AM, Öö Tiib wrote:
> > On Tuesday, 1 August 2017 15:40:03 UTC+3, Rick C. Hodgin wrote:
> >> On Tuesday, August 1, 2017 at 8:22:33 AM UTC-4, Öö Tiib wrote:
> >
> > Snipping usual attempts to dodge.
>
> There is no attempt to dodge. I honestly do not understand what you
> and Juha are talking about. I truly believe you have misconceptions
> about me which are colored by your own thinking, and not by my words,
> actions, or deeds.
>
> >>> So there was no "Atheist Scientist" in that movie. So therefore you
> >>> lied to everybody that the link leads to movie how "Atheist Scientist
> >>> Becomes Christian After Researching Evidence for God".
> >>
> >> Whatever you call him, that was the title of the video. And, it is
> >> what he identified himself as. I was conveying what he said, and I
> >> also agree with his assessment.
> >>
> >> When he was younger and investigating things, he was doing so with
> >> an atheist's perspective. He wanted to examine things rationally,
> >> in his mind, in his thinking, to see what made sense to him. It
> >> was all flesh pursuing religion. But what he later discovered was
> >> how Christianity changed him.
> >
> > The "younger" of his was before age 17. And that "later" when he
> > converted happened in age 17 - 19. Was he then scientist when he
> > was age 17 - 19? Or was he student? What he was?

So? No answers?

> > World is certainly full of lies. However when you take one lie from
> > anywhere and post it then arent you spreading a lie? Aren't it then
> > your lie as well?

So? Just crickets chirping?

> > Snipping more pretending that you don't understand what is told
> > to you.
>
> I honestly don't understand what you and Juha are talking about when
> you say I'm lying.

Nah, ok, I got trolled. Everybody see that you are just playing dumb
again. Have your lulz or whatever you do it for.

[Rick C. Hodgin]

On 8/1/2017 11:40 AM, Öö Tiib wrote:
>> On 8/1/2017 10:22 AM, Öö Tiib wrote:
>>> The "younger" of his was before age 17. And that "later" when he
>>> converted happened in age 17 - 19. Was he then scientist when he
>>> was age 17 - 19? Or was he student? What he was?
>
> So? No answers?

I didn't see this content previously. I apologize. I'll reply on
that post.

>>> World is certainly full of lies. However when you take one lie from
>>> anywhere and post it then arent you spreading a lie? Aren't it then
>>> your lie as well?
>
> So? Just crickets chirping?
>
>>> Snipping more pretending that you don't understand what is told
>>> to you.
>>
>> I honestly don't understand what you and Juha are talking about when
>> you say I'm lying.
>
> Nah, ok, I got trolled. Everybody see that you are just playing dumb
> again. Have your lulz or whatever you do it for.

You already have your mind made up. Nobody will be able to convince
you of anything. It will require God changing you on the inside
before you will be able to hear any of the things of Jesus or the
Bible.

The message of the cross and salvation is only for those who are
being saved. It is not for other people.

[Rick C. Hodgin]

On 8/1/2017 10:22 AM, Öö Tiib wrote:

> On Tuesday, 1 August 2017 15:40:03 UTC+3, Rick C. Hodgin wrote:
>> On Tuesday, August 1, 2017 at 8:22:33 AM UTC-4, Öö Tiib wrote:
>
> Snipping usual attempts to dodge.
>
>>> So there was no "Atheist Scientist" in that movie. So therefore you
>>> lied to everybody that the link leads to movie how "Atheist Scientist
>>> Becomes Christian After Researching Evidence for God".
>>
>> Whatever you call him, that was the title of the video. And, it is
>> what he identified himself as. I was conveying what he said, and I
>> also agree with his assessment.
>>
>> When he was younger and investigating things, he was doing so with
>> an atheist's perspective. He wanted to examine things rationally,
>> in his mind, in his thinking, to see what made sense to him. It
>> was all flesh pursuing religion. But what he later discovered was
>> how Christianity changed him.
>
> The "younger" of his was before age 17. And that "later" when he
> converted happened in age 17 - 19. Was he then scientist when he
> was age 17 - 19? Or was he student? What he was?

I'll have to watch the video again. As I recall, he stated that he
began researching religions in his teens, and he also considered
himself a scientist at that point. He later went on to pursue that
young interest, but at what age was his conversion? He didn't talk
in depth to a Christian until his late 20s, so by that time he was
already a scientist.

I think you are confusing his interest in religions, and the internal
recognition that there is something there, without yet accepting the
forgiveness of sin from Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord.

My son and I were watching an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation
yesterday entitled, "Where Silence Has Lease." It has a character in
there named Negeelum??sp??, and at one point Nageelum said he would
destroy half the crew of the Enterprise to understand death. In
reply, Counselor Troi and Cmd. Data came in to discuss things with
Capt. Picard. Data ask him what death is, and he explains two of
the belief systems. Data asks Capt. Picard what he believes.

The captain replies that he believes that we go on beyond the
confines of this world, and that what we understand today as
reality is transformed into something more than what we are able
to understand today, and that we then live in that new reality.

-----
The point is: many people believe there is something else there,
but they don't yet know what it is or what it means to them
personally.

For this scientist, he began as an atheist, and remained either
atheist or possibly agnostic, until he later became a full-
fledged Christian at some point after his 20s.

> World is certainly
> full of lies. However when you take one lie from anywhere and post
> it then arent you spreading a lie? Aren't it then your lie as well?
>
> Snipping more pretending that you don't understand what is told
> to you.

I believe you are focused on trying to prove me wrong, rather than
looking at the underlying message I'm conveying:

1) We are all sinners.
2) Without forgiveness by Jesus we will all be judged,
found guilty, and condemned to an eternity in Hellfire.
3) Jesus offers salvation to everyone who will ask for it
for free.

My guidance to you is: Please, go to Jesus and ask forgiveness
for your sin so you can live on in eternity.

[Öö Tiib]

What? Of course whatever "truths" can hold that way when moving
definitions between scientist and student. Dr. Hugh Ross has said
that he "turned his whole self to God" even before he went to study
to University of British Columbia (where he got bachelor degree).
See here
https://www.cru.org/how-to-know-god/my-story-a-life-changed/hugh-ross.html
Was it "late 20s"?

My guidance to you is to not wiggle there and to not dig it deeper.
You have already left bad impression. Accept that you were
mistaken and so then there will be at least chance that it looks
like not deliberate lie but may be some misremembering or
misinterpretation of facts.

I do not want to prove you wrong. Everybody are fully convinced
already that you were wrong. I am just trying to explain it to you (and
at same time feeling that you are simply trolling me there).

[Mr Flibble]

On 01/08/2017 16:51, Rick C. Hodgin wrote:
>>
>> The "younger" of his was before age 17. And that "later" when he
>> converted happened in age 17 - 19. Was he then scientist when he
>> was age 17 - 19? Or was he student? What he was?
>
> I'll have to watch the video again. As I recall, he stated that he

In my original reply to your post you decided to ignore what I said in
favour of more preaching so again for avoidance of doubt:

In the video he said "from age 16 onwards I never doubted the existence
of God"

So from age 16 onwards he was NO LONGER AN ATHEIST. He was not an
atheist scientist at all.

I don't believe you made a mistake, I believe you are simply a bare
faced liar (not uncommon among Christians on the back foot).

/Flibble

[Rick C. Hodgin]

Well, FWIW, the title of the video is what I posted:

"Atheist Scientist Becomes Christian After Researching Evidence
for God"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsbj7EN1Uzs

I'm sorry you conclude that I'm lying by posting this video.

> I do not want to prove you wrong. Everybody are fully convinced
> already that you were wrong. I am just trying to explain it to you (and
> at same time feeling that you are simply trolling me there).

There's nothing I can say to teach you that you need Jesus to forgive
your sin, Öö Tiib. From this day forward I will relegate myself to
prayer for you and not reply to your posts. I know you already do
not believe in Jesus or that you need to be forgiven for your sin,
and it's not my job to convince you. I am simply putting the truth
before you. It is the job of God Himself to convince you. Not me.

I wish you well in your life, Öö Tiib. FWIW, I enjoy your posts.