Those who ridicule Christianity

“For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.” 1 Corinthians 1:18
Every day we will come across people who ridicule Christianity. Lately I’ve encountered this because the Rapture didn’t happen last Friday as so many were hoping. Anyone who knows anything about Christianity knows that we believe Jesus will indeed return, but no one knows the day nor the hour (Matt. 24:36). The Rapture didn’t happen last Friday, but in no way does that mean that it won’t happen at all.
If someone is ridiculing Christianity, it is a sure sign that they are among those who are perishing. People will ridicule the virgin birth. They will try to explain away the miracles through natural causes, or say that Jesus deluded His followers into a trance. They will say that He didn’t really die on the cross (despite the sword piercing His side, and the Roman soldiers knowing a dead body when they saw one) but that He simply fainted and was revived in the tomb (but then how did He leave it empty?). Yet to us who are being saved, all these things show God’s power and love towards us, that He would send His own Son to earth, for the express purpose of dying on the cross to bear the punishment that was due for our sin. There is no middle ground here. A person is either being saved, or they are perishing.