The Hokey Pokey?

What if the Hokey Pokey really IS what it’s all about?

Then this is as good as it gets. This is all there is and everything is down hill from here. You’re born, life’s a pain in the neck, then you die. All you have to look forward to is a hole in the ground. “Eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we die.”

If this is all there is, then you’re free to live out the remainder of your life without regard to morals or ethical behavior. You’re free to lie about anything and there is no such thing as love – it’s only a passing biological reflex and means nothing. Get what you can and move on. There is no such thing as good or bad because everything is pure chance – relative to nothing. You’re free to think, say, or do whatever you can get away with. There is no penalty. You won’t be held accountable. Looking out for Number One is the only thing that is important because that is what everybody else on the planet is doing. As the commercial for the little MP3 music device says: “Life is random.” If that is true, then all you’re doing is rationalizing your way through your random life so as to avoid as much pain as possible before you turn to dust. After a while, no one will remember and no one will care. Somebody else will get your toys after you’re gone.

“If there’s no resurrection, there’s no living Christ. And face it — if there’s no resurrection for Christ, everything we’ve told you is smoke and mirrors, and everything you’ve staked your life on is smoke and mirrors. Not only that, but we would be guilty of telling a string of barefaced lies about God, all these affidavits we passed on to you verifying that God raised up Christ—sheer fabrications, if there’s no resurrection. If corpses can’t be raised, then Christ wasn’t, because he was indeed dead. And if Christ was not raised, then all you’re doing is wandering about in the dark, as lost as ever. It’s even worse for those who died hoping in Christ and resurrection, because they’re already in their graves. If all we get out of Christ is a little inspiration for a few short years, we’re a pretty sorry lot.” – The Message

Where is your life headed? Are you putting your left foot in, then your right foot, then shaking it all about? Well brother and sister, if Christ did not rise from the dead, then you might as well be doing the Hokey Pokey, because it’s all smoke and mirrors and you’re headed for a hole in the ground. There is no hope. In fact “hope” has absolutely no meaning whatsoever. All is miserable, random, futility.

So is there reliable evidence of the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ?

Has it ever occurred to you there is little or no question that Julius Caesar’s Gallic wars are factual history? (Stick with me a minute) In fact, there are about ten early manuscripts supporting Caesar’s Gallic wars and the oldest was written about 1000 years after the events.

Do you “believe in” Homer’s Iliad? “Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey are a major part of ancient history” according to Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey Page (library.thinkquest.org/19300/data/homer.htm). I don’t have a problem with the “Iliad” being a part of ancient history. The evidence is about 640 manuscripts, the oldest of which was written approximately 500 years after Homer’s “work” was completed.

On the other hand, there seem to be great lengthy debates concerning the veracity of the Bible. And how many manuscripts are there? A half dozen? As many as ten? Maybe even a hundred or more? Actually, there are over 25,000 New Testament manuscripts, the earliest of which was written only 25 years after the events. Some of these are affidavits of eye witness accounts.

George Orwell said, “Whoever controls the past controls the future.” All you have to do is diddle a little with history and you can manipulate how people think. Just a tweak here and leave a couple of words out over there. Paraphrase the past just a teeny bit. Just present a portion of the evidence. Don’t teach the whole truth – just parts of it. But partial truth is a lie.

Consider this: I have no doubts whatsoever as to the authenticity of the Declaration of Independence or the eye witness accounts of the signing of the document. But there is more hard evidence, there are more documents, to support the resurrection of Christ than there is to support the notion that the signatories of the Declaration of Independence intended to absolve the United States from all allegiance to the British Crown. Do you think this is a “stretch”? Then name your own reference point as to what qualifies as historical fact and what does not. Be careful you don’t “disqualify” your own beliefs …

“For we have not made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, following cleverly imagined fables, but having been eyewitnesses of his majesty.” Second Peter 1.16 is a first-hand eye witness account. Pilate ordered the Roman equivalent of a squad of U.S. Army Rangers to guard Jesus’ tomb. The Roman soldiers were the world’s best fighting force at the time. The forensic evidence shows they obviously failed. There is no question among serious historians that Jesus’ tomb was … empty.

“Don’t be misled: No one makes a fool of God. What a person plants, he will harvest. The person who plants selfishness, ignoring the needs of others—ignoring God!—harvests a crop of weeds. All he’ll have to show for his life is weeds! But the one who plants in response to God, letting God’s Spirit do the growth work in him, harvests a crop of real life, eternal life. Galatians 6.7-8 (The Message)

As for me and my household, we will serve the Lord. Whom will you serve?

“If you ever forget the LORD your God and follow other gods and worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely be destroyed. Like the nations the LORD destroyed before you, so you will be destroyed for not obeying the LORD your God.” – Deuteronomy 8:10-20

 

Truly Free

““If you are not firm in faith, you will not be firm at all.” If you do not believe, you will not last…. If we make survival the chief goal, we very often can survive, but what do we become in the process? To survive we pay the price of bondage. But if we can settle the issue of survival, we are truly free. Survival wasn’t the issue for Jesus. Jesus was willing to die, hence no one could make him do anything that would compromise his integrity or mission. …

“The battle is the Lord’s. But if we choose to make the battle ours, and choose to make survival the goal of the battle, then we start to figure the angles, make subtle accommodations, compromise here and there, demote moral conviction, and do anything to win, to survive. What we need is a fundamental shift in the center of gravity in our lives from focusing on survival of ourselves to glorifying God, even in death.”

Quoted from John Piper’s blog (by David Mathis) “Survival Isn’t Always Important.” Read the entire article, posted March 27, 2007, at Desiringgod.org: http://www.desiringgod.org/Blog/

 

Life! Life! Eternal Life!

As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place where was a den, (Bedford jail, in which the author was a prisoner for conscience’ sake.) and laid me down in that place to sleep; and as I slept, I dreamed a dream. I dreamed, and behold, I saw a man clothed with rags, standing in a certain place, with his face from his own house, a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back. (Isaiah 64:6; Luke 14:33; Psalm 38:4.) I looked and saw him open the book, and read therein; and as he read, he wept and trembled; and not being able longer to contain, he brake out with a lamentable cry, saying, “What shall I do?” (Acts 2:37; 16:30; Habakkuk 1:2,3.) …

Now I saw, upon a time, when he was walking in the fields, that he was (as he was wont) reading in his book, and greatly distressed in his mind; and as he read, he burst out, as he had done before, crying, “What shall I do to be saved?” (Acts 16:30,31.)

I saw also that he looked this way, and that way, as if he would run; yet he stood still because (as I perceived) he could not tell which way to go. I looked then, and saw a man named Evangelist coming to him, and he asked, “Wherefore dost thou cry?” He answered, “Sir, I perceive, by the book in my hand, that I am condemned to die, and after that to come to judgment, (Hebrews 9:27); and I find that I am not willing to do the first, (Job 10: 21,22), nor able to do the second.” (Ezekiel. 22:14)

Then said Evangelist, “Why not willing to die, since this life is attended with so many evils?” The man answered, “Because, I fear that this burden that is upon my back will sink me lower than the grave, and I shall fall into Tophet. (Isaiah 30:33). And Sir, if I be not fit to go to prison, I am not fit to go to judgment, and from thence to execution; and the thoughts of these things make me cry.”

Then said Evangelist, “If this be thy condition, why standest thou still?” He answered, “Because I know not whither to go.” Then he gave him a parchment roll, and there was written within, “Fly from the wrath to come.” (Matthew 3:7)

The man therefore read it, and looking upon Evangelist very carefully, said, “Whither must I fly?” Then said Evangelist, (pointing with his finger over a very wide field,) “Do you see yonder wicket-gate?” (Matthew 7:13,14). The man said, “No.” Then said the other, “Do you see yonder shining light?” (Psalm 119:105; 2 Peter 1:19.) He said, “I think I do.” Then said Evangelist, “Keep that light in your eye, and go up directly thereto, so shalt thou see the gate; at which, when thou knockest, it shall be told thee what thou shalt do.” So I saw in my dream that the man began to run. Now he had not run far from his own door when his wife and children, perceiving it, began to cry after him to return; but the man put his fingers in his ears, and ran on crying, Life! life! Eternal life! (Luke 14:26.) So he looked not behind him, (Genesis 19:17), but fled towards the middle of the plain.

The neighbors also came out to see him run, (Jeremiah 20:10); and as he ran, some mocked, others threatened, and some cried after him to return; and among those that did so, there were two that were resolved to fetch him back by force. The name of the one was Obstinate and the name of the other Pliable. Now by this time the man was got a good distance from them; but, however, they were resolved to pursue him, which they did, and in a little time they overtook him. Then said the man, “Neighbors, wherefore are you come?” They said, “To persuade you to go back with us.” But he said, “That can by no means be: you dwell,” said he, “in the city of Destruction, the place also where I was born: I see it to be so; and dying there, sooner or later, you will sink lower than the grave, into a place that burns with fire and brimstone: be content, good neighbors, and go along with me.”

[Bunyan, J. (1995). The Pilgrim's Progress, The First Stage : From this world to that which is to come. Oak Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc.]

 

Abiding In Christ

Abide means to live, dwell, or to stay at home. In the New Testament Greek it has the idea of “holding and maintaining unbroken communion and fellowship with another.” It also is a military term meaning to stand fast or stand firm.

Jesus said, “He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him.” (John 6.56) “Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on My own initiative, but the Father abiding in Me does His works.” (John 14.10) “Abide in Me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing” (John 15.4-5).

In Psalm 91.1 it means live (dwell) and rest with the connotation of protection, “He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.”

In 2 John 1.1-2, abide means literally to live within: “The elder to the elect lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not only I, but also all who know the Truth, for the sake of the Truth which abides in us and will be with us forever ….” John is saying “Those of us who love in the truth, also love on account of the Truth” (JFB Commentary). “I am the Way and the Truth and the Life” (John 14.6). “I have come into the world to bear witness to the Truth” (John 18.37).

“If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.” (John 15.10) “The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me” (John 17.22-23). “If you love Me you will keep My commandments” (John 14.15).

When Jesus says “Abide in Me and I in you” He means literally “I will live IN you and I will reign through you.” In Galatians 2.20 (KJV) Paul says “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.” In Romans 8.10, 2 Corinthians 13.5, and Colossians 1.27 Paul specifically refers to “Christ IN you”. In Galatians 4.19 Paul refers to Christ being “formed in you.”

In Matthew 22.37-40 Jesus said, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the great and foremost commandment. The second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets.”

So then, there are these three: Obey, love, and abide – “Keep My commandments”, “Love the Lord”, “Abide in My love.” One must love the Lord to know the Truth and love his or her neighbor in the Truth – because of the Truth. Jesus will love others through us as we rest in Him – as we abide in Him – and Him in us. We become vessels to contain Him. “But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us” (2 Cor. 4.7). Without submission to the Lordship of Jesus Christ there is no obedience. Without obedience there is no love, only self-exaltation. Without love we cannot abide. “And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing” (1 Cor. 13.3).

“The person who abides in the Lord lives not for himself but for Jesus Christ. As I meditated on these verses (John 15.4-5), I discovered that it was not my responsibility to strive for anything. My part was to submit my life to God and allow Him to live His life through me. At my discovery, an enormous weight was lifted and removed from my life. Peace like anything I’d ever known filled my life. The energy and strength that ran through the life of Jesus Christ became mine.” (Charles Stanley in Living the Extraordinary Life, Nelson Books, Nashville, Tennessee, 2005)

Do you believe God? In John 5.24 Jesus says “Truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes Him who sent me has eternal life.” Jesus does not say “whoever believes IN Him” but rather “whoever believes Him“. The difference is profound. There are many who believe IN God – but do not believe God.

Abide in Christ and be free. “It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery” (Galatians 5.1). “For you were called to freedom, brethren; only do not turn your freedom into an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another” (Galatians 5.13).

 

Dance With God

I met a man the other day that had a conversation with God. It went something like this:
“Okay, son, I am ready to answer your prayer. You know … that one about seeing my glory fall.”

Yes, LORD, I remember. I want to see Your glory. I want to dance with you.”
“Are you committed to the full work? Are you willing to go through tribulation?“
“With You, LORD, all things are possible. I will go, if You are with me.”
“There may be times when it does not feel or look like I am there.”
“Then with Christ’s faith, I will follow. You must give me the faith.”

It was one of those times when you don’t know whether to congratulate or sympathize. “Wow!” was all I could say. Talk about calling someone’s bluff … but I could tell it was no bluff with this man. He had a determination in his eye. He meant to see it through – whatever the cost.

He went on to tell me that further inquiry of the LORD revealed that his motivation for seeing this adventure through could only be his love for the LORD. It could not be the excitement of it – it may get mundane. It could not be for the provision – it may not come in abundance. It could not be for the joy – it may get difficult and discouraging. “Trust and obey”, because He first loved us, was the only way for this man.

I was astounded. How could anyone commit to such a call? How could anyone expect to see such a dangerous adventure through to the end? My friend had the answer. He explained how the LORD had patiently prepared him for this season in his life. Then, he directed me to Psalm 18:

1 I will love You, O LORD, my strength.
2 The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer;
My God, my strength, in whom I will trust;
My shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
3 I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised;
So shall I be saved from my enemies.

This was his battle cry; the LORD’s invitation to the “dance”. In closing, he showed me Isaiah 41:

10 ‘Fear not, for I am with you;
Be not dismayed, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you,
Yes, I will help you,
I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.’

This is the promise he will lean on when the going gets tough. “Wow” was all I could say (again). I walked away knowing I had met one that would be used to bless; and to take ground for the Kingdom. And I went away with a question: What did this man have that I didn’t?

That night, I got down on my knees:
“LORD, will You dance with me?”
“Yes, my son. Will you let Me lead?”

- Anonymous

 

Cake and Television

JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH

“God did his most deadly work to destroy hopelessness and futility and provincial cowardice. He gave up his Son to torture and death. A perfect life, a perfect death, and the decisive work was done.

“But there are millions who are numb to hope because of the God-belittling things they have done and how ugly they have become. They don’t lift lofty arguments against God’s Truth; they shrug and feel irretrievably outside. They don’t defy God consciously; they default to cake and television. Except for the periodic rush of sex and sport and cinema, life yawns. There is no passion for significance. For many, no passion at all.

“There is a Christian version of this paralysis. The decision has been made to trust Christ. The shoot of hope and joy has sprung up. The long battle against sin has begun. But the defeats are many, and the plant begins to wither. One sees only clouds and gathering darkness. The problem is not perplexing doctrine or evolutionary assaults or threats of persecution. The problem is falling down too many times. Gradually the fatal feeling creeps in: the fight is futile; it isn’t worth it.

“Along with this hopelessness and futility, especially since 9/11, provincial cowardice captures many Christian minds. They fear that it may sound conceited to call every people group in the world to trust Christ or perish. It seems too global. Too sweeping. Too universal. To say it takes their breath away. And, worse, it brings down the wrath of the tolerant. What could be more arrogant than to think that the infinite variety of need in all the cultural groups of the world could be met by a single Savior!

“It is astonishing that the Biblical gospel of justification by faith alone answers these three human failures: the hopelessness of unbelievers, the feeling of futility from falling down, and the fear of making global claims for Christ.

“To the numb and listless sinner, feeling beyond all hope of godliness, the Bible says, “To the one who does not work but trusts him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness” (Romans 4:5). God justifies the “ungodly.” This truth is meant to break the back of hopelessness.

“The connection between the sinner and the Savior is trust, not improvement of behavior. That comes later. It’s this order that gives hope. “For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law” (Romans 3:28). The basis of this wild and wonderful hope (the ungodly justified) is “Christ for righteousness to everyone who believes” (Romans 10:4, literal translation). Through faith alone God counts the ungodly as righteous because of Christ. “For our sake [God] made [Christ] to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God” (2 Corinthians 5:21). Let all who are paralyzed by the weight of sin and the powerlessness to change turn in here.

“To the fallen saint, who knows the darkness is self-inflicted and feels the futility of looking for hope from a frowning Judge, the Bible gives a shocking example of gutsy guilt. It pictures God’s failed prophet beneath a righteous frown, bearing his chastisement with broken-hearted boldness. “Rejoice not over me, O my enemy; when I fall, I shall rise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord will be a light to me. I will bear the indignation of the Lord because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my cause and executes judgment for me. He will bring me out to the light” (Micah 7:8-9). This is courageous contrition. Gutsy guilt. The saint has fallen. The darkness of God’s indignation is on him. He does not blow it off, but waits. And he throws in the face of his accuser the confidence that his indignant Judge will plead his cause and execute justice for (not against) him. This is the application of justification to the fallen saint. Broken-hearted, gutsy guilt.

“For the squeamish fellow afraid of making global claims for Christ, the biblical teaching on justification explodes his little world. It says: the deepest problem to be solved is the same for every human being, because every human is a descendant of Adam. And the problem to be solved is that “by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners.” “One trespass led to condemnation for all men.” The only solution to this universal condemnation is a “second Adam” who provides “the free gift of righteousness” to all who hear the gospel and believe (Romans 5:17-19). Therefore Christ, the second Adam, the giver of righteousness, is the only global Savior.

“Embrace as your treasure the gift of justification. There is no part of your life where it is not immeasurably precious.”

From “The Remedy for Paralyzed Sinners, Fallen Saints, and Provincial Christians , by John Piper.” http://www.desiringgod.org/ResourceLibrary/TasteAndSee/ByDate/2002/1209_Justification_by_Faith/

 

No “Simple” Faith

It is no good asking for a simple religion. After all, real things aren’t simple. They look simple, but they’re not. The table I’m sitting at looks simple: but ask a scientist to tell you what it’s really made of—all about the atoms and how the light waves rebound from them and hit my eye and what they do to the optic nerve and what it does to my brain—and, of course, you will find what we call “seeing a table” lands you in mysteries and complications which you can hardly get to the end of. …

Reality, in fact, is always something you couldn’t have guessed. That’s one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It’s a religion you couldn’t have guessed. If it offered us just the kind of universe we’d always expected, I’d feel we were making it up. But, in fact, it’s not the sort of thing anyone would have made up. It has just that queer twist about it that real things have. So let’s leave behind all these boys’ philosophies—these over-simple answers.

Citation: C.S. Lewis in The Case for Christianity. Christianity Today, Vol. 34, no. 4.

(Emphasis added by Truth Seeker)

 

What is an “Idol”?

Anything you love more than you love God is an idol. ANYTHING. Your wife, husband, brother, son, golf, TV, your hobby, gardening, singing in the choir. ANYTHING.

“If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.” Luke 14.26.

Jesus gives us no other option but to be disciples!

“So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.” Luke 14.33

What does “renounce mean? It means “give up”, “say goodbye”. You still “have” it, but it belongs to God and always has. You’re the steward. And you have it until He tells you to give it away or sell it – or He takes it because of your lack of stewardship. Everything comes from Him. You cannot give away anything that was not already given to you.

Yes, I know that probably stings a bit – but that’s what the scriptures tell us. Don’t take my word for it, please – you read it and ask God to tell you what it means.

 

Evolution versus Thermodynamics

Evolution and Thermodynamics will not be debated here. I quit. That’s not the issue.

There are multiple Internet sites continually arguing evolution and the second law of thermodynamics. Here is one if you want to debate it: http://www.trueorigin.org/steiger.asp

Or ask Stan Guthrie. “If evolution, messy and circuitous as it appears, is true, then God is more mysterious than I imagined – but no less God.” (Stan Guthrie, Senior Associate Editor of Christianity Today, March, 2007.)

Maybe call Duane Gish. “Of all the statements that have been made with respect to theories on the origin of life, the statement that the Second Law of Thermodynamics poses no problem for an evolutionary origin of life is the most absurd… The operation of natural processes on which the Second Law of Thermodynamics is based is alone sufficient, therefore, to preclude the spontaneous evolutionary origin of the immense biological order required for the origin of life.” (Duane Gish, Ph.D. in biochemistry from University of California at Berkeley)

Or read Lincoln Barnett: “The universe is thus progressing toward an ultimate ‘heat death’* or, as it is technically defined, a condition of ‘maximum entropy’ . . And there is no way of avoiding this destiny. For the fateful principle known as the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which stands today as the principal pillar of classical physics left intact by the march of science, proclaims that the fundamental processes of nature are irreversible. Nature moves only one way.” (Lincoln Barnett, The Universe and Dr. Einstein (1957), pp. 102-103.)

“Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness, waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and *the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn! But according to his promise we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.” 2 Peter 3:11-13

The Truth issue is about love, morality, ethical behavior and personal accountability. It is not about “religion”, and it is not about endless arguments over subatomic particles and their inherent “force”, the fossil record, the age of the earth, or the second law of thermodynamics. The truth is about the revelation of Jesus Christ. When research for the source of the mysterious “force” of electricity in the nuclei of atoms, of which all matter is made, leads to a Creator – they won’t go there. When the amazing complexity of the design of a single cell points to God – they refuse to acknowledge it. Man wants to be in charge and not accountable for following his own selfish inner desires.

“For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.” 2 Tim. 4:3-4

Let’s cut to the chase: God is real. He means what He says and says what He means. There is a hell and there is a Heaven and each of us will be accountable**. On the other hand you could place your bet on a “100 quintillionth of a 1% chance” (Richard Dawkins) there is no God.

[1]The heavens declare the glory of God,
and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.
[2] Day to day pours out speech,
and night to night reveals knowledge.
[3] There is no speech, nor are there words,
whose voice is not heard.
[4] Their measuring line goes out through all the earth,
and their words to the end of the world.
In them he has set a tent for the sun. Psalm 19

You can bet your soul that God did not say “It would be better for him if a great millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea. And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than with two hands to go to hell, to the unquenchable fire. And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame than with two feet to be thrown into hell.” Mark 9:42-44

“So then each of us **will give an account of himself to God.” Romans 14.12

I pray you won’t take the chance. There is a way back from the edge of destruction.

“I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life” John 14:6

Ask me about the Life.

 

We See But We Are Blind!

“They see without seeing.” Matthew 13:13

“We prefer mindless, moral-less, loveless theories of naturalistic evolution to the glory of God. Oh, how deep is our corruption! This is absolutely tragic.” -John Piper in When I Don’t Desire God.

To use the phrase coined by G.K. Chesterton, in his book Orthodoxy, we have engaged in “elephantine adventures in the pursuit of the obvious”, staking our souls on a 100 quintillionth of 1% chance there is no God – to use atheist Richard Dawkins’ odds.

How logical is that?

“What can be known about God is plain to them, for God himself made it plain.” Romans 1:19