What's the best way to talk about the devil to an atheist?

[Kay_Cee]

I wrote an entire novel, Nearer the Dawn, in which an atheist not only witnesses a miracle but has several encounters with a demon, is tormented by the demon, but still doesn’t believe in demons (or anything supernatural, for that matter).

It takes a lot more than talking to an atheist. We can plant seeds, but it is the Holy Spirit that moves hearts.

 

[JB_Brother_4446]

But not on that exact day or moment. Metaphor.

But they still died, didn’t they?

 

[Solmyr]

But they still died, didn’t they?

Did they cease to exist? Or they are in some kind of an afterlife, some heaven or some hell, or something in between?

 

[JB_Brother_4446]

Did they cease to exist? Or they are in some kind of an afterlife, some heaven or some hell, or something in between?

It is not for you or me to know.

 

[Solmyr]

It is not for you or me to know.

If you don’t know, then why did you say that they “died”?

 

[JB_Brother_4446]

If you don’t know, then why did you say that they “died”?

We don’t know what afterlife they are in. What we do know is they died.