In our previous Evidence for God devotional, we shared quotations from famed philosopher Antony Flew's interview with author and apologist Lee Strobel. Antony Flew was considered one of the world's great intellectuals for decades, but he created a great amount of controversy in 2004 when he had a conversion of sorts from atheism to theism. He then published a book a few years later titled There Is a God. how the world's most notorious atheist changed his mind. A lot of Christians made a big deal about this and celebrated it, and I was very glad to hear about it too, but as time went on, I was concerned over the fact that I couldn't find any evidence that he had been saved by faith in Jesus Christ. And what troubled me about that was that some Christians acted like that fact wasn't important, as though the fact that a person says, I believe in God, that means you're saved. The idea is ludicrous and yet that was the way this situation with Antony Flew was being treated. Everyone else must be born again. That someone famous like Antony Flew or a best friend or a parent or a beloved grandparent or fill in the blank with whoever you think is somehow so important and special, they get a free pass because they said, I believe in God. And I'm not generalizing. When Flew's death was discussed on social media, one professing Christian posted underneath the story, hey, at least he believes in God. That should be enough. I was shocked at how many seemed to be sharing that ridiculous, unbiblical idea about Anthony Flew's profession of faith in God, but no faith in Jesus Christ, and somehow he saved. I've seen this over and over, like when Michael Jackson died, or you name the famous person who was maybe a really nice guy. Now don't get me wrong, I'd really like to see Anthony flew in heaven. I hope he called on the name of the Lord Jesus with faith in the gospel, even if it were at his last breath and got saved. That's the only reason I'll be there, but that's the only reason anybody will be there. It's possible that he did that, but that's not the point. The closest he ever came in any statement that could be proven to have come from his own mouth or his own pen, so to speak, was in Appendix B of his book, There is a God, How the World's Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind. He said this, quote, I think the claim that God was incarnate in Jesus Christ is unique. It is difficult, I think, to realize how you are going to judge this other than by believing or not believing. I cannot quite see that there are general principles to guide you in this. In the context of my new perspective, I have engaged in a dialogue on Jesus with a well-known contemporary expounder of historical Christianity, Bishop N.T. Wright of Durham, an Oxford New Testament scholar." Now listen to that and read it closely. He doesn't say anything about him believing in Jesus or believing the gospel. Earlier in the book, he said, quote, as I have said more than once, no other religion enjoys anything like the combination of a charismatic figure like Jesus and a first class intellectual like St. Paul, end quote. That doesn't mean anything as far as his salvation is concerned. At no point Does he make a confession of Romans 10, 9 and 10, confessing with his mouth the Lord Jesus and believing in his heart that God hath raised him from the dead? It's a nice quote, but it doesn't express faith in the sufficiency of the shed blood of Christ on the cross for salvation, and at no point does Antony Flew say that he believes in the bodily resurrection of Jesus. At no point did Mr. Flew profess his faith in the gospel of Jesus Christ for his own personal salvation, and there's no other way to be saved but to do so. I'm saddened by Mr. Flew's lack of profession, but we can't pretend that deism or theism is sufficient for the forgiveness of sins. Jesus said in John 3, 7, he must be born again. The evidence for God points us to the gospel of Jesus Christ. We will continue to insist that apart from the gospel, there is no salvation for sinners. That's what Romans 116 says and means. For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. And that includes Antony Flew.