What Every Believer Should Believe

Today on another blog of mine, I got a random, rather hostile message from someone who is apparently an atheist who found my blog.
In effect, he basically said that my life is meaningless and teaching my son about Jesus would make my son's life also meaningless. He equated teaching my son about Jesus to something similar as stomping my son into dust.

I wasn't really offended, though I could understand why some people would be.
But it just got me to thinking about something rather relevant.
Scripture teaches clearly that God has a purpose for everything and everyone. Of course, He has different purposes for different things...that's another matter for another day. But what I mean to say is that the world is God's fiction. And for every character, He has a purpose.
Therefore, it should never leave from a believer's lips that anyone's life is meaningless. That is degrading to the work of God and it is a lie.

Atheism would have men argue that either everything is already meaningless(which is a self-contradiction to their argument), or that everyone has meaning unless they are religious. Then they are just cattle or maladroital mass unless they "come to their senses" and renounce our faith.
The position of atheism is a degrading one, a demeaning stance to our place as human beings.
Therefore, the position of believers should be one that brings special relevance to human beings and with that special relevance, an equally special responsibility.
Not even the life someone completely atheistic is entirely meaningless. God has a plan for everything and everyone. We may not know what it is, but He already has it set in stone. To say that anyone is without meaning or purpose is a slam against the sovereignty of God.

What every believer should believe is that every person has a place. I recognize that not all do believe this, but they all should believe it.
In contrast, the atheist tends to hold to his religion of the elite, that unless you believe their point-of-view, your life is subsequently meaningless, you serve no purpose, you do no good, you are only a wad of walking phlegm. You become eligible for social euthanization, despite the fact that you are still a human being.

I think that even if Christianity were false(which it is not), I would still choose it over atheism. I would rather live my life with optimism and joy instead of that sort of dread and cynicism.

The hope in Christianity is the restoration of man to a place of glory and closeness to Christ.
But the hope of atheism always has to do with eliminating something...especially Christianity.
I suppose if they had their wish, they would have run out of things to live for...which is a tragedy.

What every believer should believe is that even those atheists which believe what I have just stated should be treated as though they were deliberately placed on this earth by the hand of God.

Because they were.