Since earliest times, man has renounced and defied any power greater
than himself. Yet, in moments of greatest
calamity, stress and fear, these very men have uttered contradictory statements
affirming the existence of a Higher Power.
Whoever said it, the obnoxious Frenchman Voltaire or the notorious
atheist, Bertrand Russell, whose book “Why I Am Not A Christian” only magnified
his ignorance, what really matters are the dying words spoken by one of them,
“Oh God, if there is a God, save my soul, if I have a soul, from hell, if there
is a hell.”
Throughout time, man’s attempts to
discredit God seems endless: he has sought to make images with his hands, call
them gods, and even claim some special powers from those carvings of wood or
metal. Man has built elaborate places of instruction, packed libraries with
man’s theories and doctrines, and called upon God to bless his efforts. He has been incredibly successful, convincing
thousands of other people to join those movements. (you pick names, there are
plenty).
Man
in many ways perceives God as but one like himself. Hence we see sad evidence of such
wrong-headed thinking. Man lies to man
and gets away with it. He concludes he
can also lie to his Creator and avoid any negative consequence.
Man’s documentations of briberies to his
fellow man are legion. The common catch-phrase with such folks is “everyone has
their price.” Raise the payout high
enough and even the most “saintly” will “come on board.” But, time catches up with even the most
hardcore non-believer.
So
it is, that our goal is to search out the wise, the thoughtful, the ones who
ask questions, who think there has to be more but just haven’t yet put the
pieces together. These few will study
and rejoice with us, and they will NOT be among the ones of whom Paul wrote:
“Nay, but O man who art thou that repliest against God, shall the thing formed
say to him that formed it, why has thou made me thus?”-Rom 9:20.
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