The Psalmist says..."a fool says there is no God." This verse gives me a jumping off point for something I have always thought. Why is the question of atheist worded..."prove to me there is a God?" How about flipping the question..."prove there is not a God." Is there not abundant proof of order, love, creation, faith, transformation, redemption, the soul, and the spectacular universe?
Is the main point of an atheist I cannot understand God therefore there must not be a god. Or I cannot understand the inconsistencies of the life...therefore there must not be a God. How arrogant to limit the God of creation to finite human understanding. Is this not absurd? Is God transcendence, omnipotence, omnipresence, and omniscient. Is God not mysterious? The Psalmist says foolish.
The Psalm says it like this..."The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, and their ways are vile; there is no one who does good. God looks down from heaven on the sons of men to see if there are any who understand, any who seek God."
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A few years ago I ran into a man who "claimed" to be an atheist. He never asked me to prove to him that there was a God. He simply asked that I respect his view and he would respect mine. He based his feelings on the condition of this world and wondered why IF there was a God it was in the shape it was in. He even considered that at one time there was a God who created this world, but that He had given up on mankind and simply turned His attention to another more perfect world and abandoned this one. Reading your comment today caused me to think of him and wonder what might have happened to him. I can only hope that God found him before it was to late.
ReplyDeleteAfter working in a crisis pregnancy center, I saw many ladies come into our ministry claiming to be atheist. After talking with them I made a huge discovery that, it wasn't really that they didn't believe in God, most of them believed there was a higher power. It was more the fact that because things weren't going right in their lives, that God must not be real. My explanation about God and His presence in our lives is a little different but it's how it makes sense to me. I believe that God Created the Heavens and the Earth. I think that after He made us that He chose to gave us free will. Everything that happens in our lives is a direct consequence of the decisions we have made, as individuals, as a community, and as a nation, even as the world. For example, take Hurricane Katrina. A lot of people blamed God, and (the president) for letting such devastation occur in our nation. When really as history has proven our Earth is on a revolving schedule with El Nina or El Nino type weather pattern. Depending on which cycle we are in determines the conditions that are favorable for severe weather. Yes I do believe that God could have intervened, but why would He. God created the weather as a natural cleanser to our world. To upset the natural balance of nature, would have changed the direct course of our world. God is a loving Teaching God. Look at everything we have learned from that terrible natural disaster. That is just my opinion and the way the world makes sense to me. It's not scripture, just my unique perspective on God and why the world isn't perfect and why He doesn't stop all sickness and all sadness. It's also why I know that Newton Laws are real. I was able to use this opinion to show God's love for the world, and Share His word with the ladies I met at the center.
ReplyDeleteTanya's comment about tragedy and pain causing people not to believe in God is well taken.
ReplyDeleteRonnie has a compassionate heart for his friend.
One other thought is I believe many atheist really in the "heart of hearts" want to be wrong! Is atheism in some cases not a masked plea to know God?