I have been thinking over the entire aspect of God from an Atheist view. How much they would just have to trust in the idea of God and what he did and I can totally see how hard it would be for them to officially recognize God and believe in him.
That's when I was thinking "What if I stopped believing in God?" What would I do. And it really hit me. I would be on an island by myself. In respect to origins of life and the universe, I could never possibly accept the naturalistic approach no matter how hard I try. I have seen an unskewed presentation of evidence for creationism and the points are to large and critical for me to ignore.
What I am saying is that even if I wanted to stop believing in God and never hear of him again, no matter how hard I would try, and could not ignore the facts staring me down in every facet of nature not only because I "use" to believe in creationism, but because I know the true facts of the Creationism argument and not some mere straw-men.
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Saturday, May 9, 2009
The Tools Required
We know atoms exist. Can we see them? Of course not. But we KNOW they are there, creating the reactions we need to survive. Even back in 400 B.C. Democritus knew there had to be something smaller than the smallest thing he could see. How else could the piece of cheese stay together then?
This would seem like blind faith to many. Why on earth would you be so sure there are atoms present when you haven't even seen them yourself! I am sure many, many people in the world today have never seen actual atoms. But they don't believe simply because they just "know" there are atoms, they believe because they see the effects of them.
Not until the 1930's did humans ever see these atoms. They knew they were there simply by the effects atoms had. They understood the properties and reactive abilities of atoms, could give rough estimates of how one looked, but never saw one. Only though an electron microscope, a tool, could humans finally see the atom itself.
God is all around us. We have never seen God, yet we believe in him. Why? Because we can see the effects of God all around us. From the acute tuning of all life one Earth to interact so precisely with one another to the benevolent care he provides and the blessings he pours out. We know he is there. But in order to truly see God, you need to use a certain tool just like the electron microscope is needed to see atoms. The Bible is the most important tool to all of man. Without it we can't see God's nature at all. We can see his characteristics through general observation (such as he was a master engineer, physicist, mathematician etc.), but never get a real reading on how to come to know him and what he requires us to do until we look into our 'microscope' and actually study him.
This would seem like blind faith to many. Why on earth would you be so sure there are atoms present when you haven't even seen them yourself! I am sure many, many people in the world today have never seen actual atoms. But they don't believe simply because they just "know" there are atoms, they believe because they see the effects of them.
Not until the 1930's did humans ever see these atoms. They knew they were there simply by the effects atoms had. They understood the properties and reactive abilities of atoms, could give rough estimates of how one looked, but never saw one. Only though an electron microscope, a tool, could humans finally see the atom itself.
God is all around us. We have never seen God, yet we believe in him. Why? Because we can see the effects of God all around us. From the acute tuning of all life one Earth to interact so precisely with one another to the benevolent care he provides and the blessings he pours out. We know he is there. But in order to truly see God, you need to use a certain tool just like the electron microscope is needed to see atoms. The Bible is the most important tool to all of man. Without it we can't see God's nature at all. We can see his characteristics through general observation (such as he was a master engineer, physicist, mathematician etc.), but never get a real reading on how to come to know him and what he requires us to do until we look into our 'microscope' and actually study him.
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