I’ve been diving into this atheism vs. theism debate again as of late. This time I’ve had some real personal success. It bears mentioning that you hardly ever enter into this debate and change another person’s mind. That doesn’t happen over night. And this definitely was not the case in my endeavors.
But you know, it’s really pushed me into further introspection and study of the world, the way it works, and my Almighty God.
One thing really struck me, though. There are people out there who have the pure audacity to say, “There is no God.”
This baffles me… and not because I can’t see it any other way. I’m very familiar with the atheistic worldview. I have several friends who have taken that route, and I’ve debated with them these issues time and time again. I’ve entered the mindset and tried to see the logic.
There is some. Sure there is. As a matter of fact, that’s all atheism is – a pure reliance on logic, and logic alone. If it is not logical, then it is not possible. It is delusional. (that’s the viewpoint)
But there are problems here. Logic is ever evolving. Logic in and of itself really has to precede human perception, because as humans observe the universe and it’s laws, it is only when we discover the cause of what we do not understand that we can claim it is a logical development.
In other words, discovery brings understanding to what was before a mystery (no kidding, right?). Discovery allows our logic to expand.
But the question is, will it ever end? Do we truly think we are ever going to fully grasp or understand the erratic behavior of so many subatomic particles? Is there any way to know how some can “bleed” from one dimension into the next, or go from point A to point B without traveling the distance in between?
This is all micro-level stuff. What about macro-level? Our universe is currently expanding, and at a blinding speed.
Question: expanding into what? What “space” or other dimensional construct exists that can contain such an expansion? From a scientific viewpoint, there are theories.
But there will always and forever be theories. Postulations, efforts to understand what is currently a mystery. There is a wall out there, the likes of which we cannot scale. Whether that wall is our current state of rationale and research, or whether it is literally the outer wall of a cosmic container in the hands of God – that is the question modern science has to ask.
We are free to draw our own conclusions. Atheists will say the former, and theists most likely the latter.
The audacity comes when an individual who knows naught of what lies beyond (as none of us do) claims, “there is no God.” That is folly – stating as fact what can only now be called a theory.
This is when I ask, “Really?”
We, the theists? If we have truly reviewed the evidence, we can honestly say that our review has led us to a belief in God. We believe that before everything, outside and inside of everything, and after everything-
Is God.
Is this such a bad thing?
http://www.cosmicfingerprints.com/ifyoucanreadthis.htm
Grace and Peace. -jc
