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The Departure From The Truth
From what I am given to
understand, Dr. Matthews, in
an earlier edition of
Darwin's “Origin of the
Species” wrote, “Evolution
and creation are both the
same, neither are
scientific, both are acts of
faith”. When there is a
rejection of the Biblical
teaching and the acceptance
of atheism, it is not
because a godless universe
is more rational but an act
of the will. It may be a
desire of the individual to
do their own thing or to
conform to their peers and
decide that life is easier
if they deny the entire
thing and declare themselves
as evolutionists, atheists
or agnostic, but the
individual decides to be
“free” from the laws of
God. For such an one (but
not for all), when the mind
is made up, no amount of
evidence will change their
minds as is clearly
presented in the narrative
concerning the rich man and
Lazarus. The rich man in
Hell asked for someone to
rise from the dead and speak
to his brethren, but Abraham
told him, “They have Moses
and the prophets” (Lk.
16:29). In other words, the
truth of God is quite
sufficient to convict a
person of their need for
salvation and no amount of
miracles, etc. would change
their mind. When rejecting
Biblical truths, the result
is the individual puts their
faith in “chance” and
“spiritual ignorance”. Let
me illustrate. Some years
ago when on one of the
islands of the Shetlands, we
met a woman who declared
that rocks were living
things. To any sane mind
such is utter foolishness
for rocks are void of life
and cannot reproduce, have
feelings or die. They are
“stone dead”. Yet this is
what evolutionists, atheists
and agnostics are forced to
accept, for they believe
rocks and humanity, animals
and grasses, the earth and
galaxies all came from dead
slime. They are forced to
accept that out of death
came life, out of disorder
came order, out of amorality
came morals, out of having
zero concern for righteous
retribution came justice.
It is complete foolishness.
This and the next “Front
Pages” will present that
which I see as evidence for
God.
What are we if not the
creation of God?
If we are not the creation
of God then all we are is
this little blimp called
life in the
universe. We exist without
purpose,
only for
personal pleasure while
alive, doing one’s thing,
but at the end all is
empty. We then die and by
and large our meaningless
life on earth is gone. We
die like an animal, no
Heaven or Hell, nothing,
absolutely nothing. All we
are is a handful of rotting
flesh and then dust. In
dying we could look back
some
70 years and sing the song of the
Rolling Stones, “I can’t get
no satisfaction”.
If God did not create man in
the beginning and if we are
not His creation, then there
is no purpose for being
here. There is no
significant meaning for
life. We are nothing more
than a combination of
accidents and happenstances
that can change at any
moment. For instance, a few
months ago
the corona virus was running
rampant across the world.
Suddenly life changed
dramatically. This is such
a small thing but since all
happens by chance, what if
gravity changed, what if an
asteroid came too close to
the earth? What is stopping
a catastrophic earthquake
shaking this world, what is
to stop multi volcanoes
erupting in very quick
succession? The answer is,
“nothing”, if there is no
God.
The rejection of God, who is
in control, results in life
being meaningless, just
work, eat, and
sleep from birth until death.
Seventy long years of
repeated sorrows, weariness
and toil without purpose.
Solomon sought to make the
best of life, trying every
aspect of what people called
life and found it all to be
empty, void of fulfilling
purpose.
When an individual brings
God into the picture and
begins with, “In the
beginning God created the
heaven and the earth” (Gen.
1:1) one is faced with the
reality that life has
purpose, we are not
accidents. Furthermore, in
the greater aspects of life
there is life after death.
Death is the transference of
dwelling place. In that
greater picture I shall
continue to live either in
fellowship with God or under
His wrath, Heaven or Hell
for the lifetime of God, and
God will never die.
Which comes first?
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Which comes first, belief in
the God who communicates and
gave the scriptures, or
belief that the scriptures
are true and therefore
belief in God? If I believe
the scriptures are true,
what do I base that on? If
the scriptures are a series
of myths, would I believe
there is a God? If on the
other hand I did not believe
there is a God, would I
accept the scriptures as
true? |
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a) |
It is the acceptance of both
being true or none of them
being true. If the
scriptures purport to be
from God but are not true,
then the representation they
make of a God, who is
perfect, is false. If God
who purports to know
everything gives prophetic
statements which in time are
proven to be false, then we
can discard the idea that
the Bible is inspired and a
holy book. |
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b) |
Therefore, the individual
must begin with either there
is no God and the scriptures
are just another book, or
the scriptures are a unique
book, true in every aspect,
and therefore believe in the
God they speak about. |
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c) |
Nowhere does the Bible set
out to prove God’s
existence. It simply begins
with an authoritative
statement of finality, “In
the beginning God created
the Heaven and the earth”
(Gen. 1:1). |
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d) |
What could one present which
bears evidence to a supreme
Being without the use of the
scriptures? |
What is proof God is?
In such a consideration the
individual must discern the
distinction between
“evidence” and “proof”.
What is proof? Proof of
anything is the final
verdict of a particular
argument. Truth is founded
on the substantiated facts
which universally remain
unchanged in time or era,
based on observation and
deduction. Those
substantiated
facts are the evidences of
the truth which, when set
before the individual,
become proof of a particular
happening. I believe that
there is a certain color
which we call “red”, another
we call “orange”. However,
how would one prove it is
red or orange? What is the
evidence? We simply believe
that particular shade is red
because that is what we have
been taught. But, we cannot
prove it is red and not
orange or pink. I am
steadfastly convinced in the
reality of God, not based on
what I was taught, but
because when the evidences
are gathered together they
present the unshakable truth
that God is.
Is God just a fairy tale?
Why do I believe God is?
The question is meant to be
much more than an
intellectual agreement on
the existence of God, but
rather do I have an
unshakable conviction that
there is one supreme Being
to be acknowledged as God?
There are thousands who
live, debate, and argue that
there is no such a Person.
This
begs the question, “Why live
to deny that God exists if
He is just a mythical figure
like Santa Clause”? “Why
would people deny the
existence of God”? The
answer is
simply because they are afraid of
having to face the Supreme
Being to whom they are
accountable.
Some very simple questions: |
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a) |
Which group of people
have raised the quality of
humanities life, those who
believe in God or atheists
etc? |
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b) |
Which has sought to care for
humanity more by hospitals
etc., those who believe in
God or atheists? |
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c) |
If believing in God is a
crutch to some people and
resulted in being a blessing
to humanity having done no
personal, moral,
intellectual or emotional
harm to an individual, why
take away that crutch? |
. . . .To be continued
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