All humans live a
life of faith, whether it’s faith in the Judaeo/Christian God, a false god of
another “religion”, human intellect, traditions, etc... no matter what it is, we
live a faith based life.
My major faith is
that the Judaeo/Christian God of the bible is real. I’ve submitted my life to Him, making
mistakes along the way, but still making the effort to stay on that difficult
and narrow road that I’ve chosen to remain on. I’ve heard the argument that not believing in something is the absence
of faith. That would be true if you want
to stop there, but why express an incomplete thought?
Having no faith in
something is only half of the equation. If you don’t believe in one thing, then you must believe in
another. Often people who don’t believe
in God turn to science to back up their claims that God does not exist. Their faith in science is extraordinary! Science, no matter how advanced it is at the
moment, has only scratched the surface of all that is out there in the world
and in the universe, yet people bow down and worship the god of science rather
than the One who created all the laws of this universe. Science will take evidence and extrapolate
where that evidence is taking them, almost certain that they will reach a
particular conclusion. Often times the
most likely outcome must be accepted by faith because the evidence and
variables are too great to be relatively sure that they will reach the expected
outcome.
Don’t get me wrong,
I love science. Science has been used to
help billions of people and has given us some answers to how God created the
universe. The more diverse the fabric of
the universe, the more it reveals the effort God made to create such an
intricate place for us to live. It’s
when you put the idol of science and human intellect above God that science
becomes your belief system; and to have a belief system you have to have faith
in that this system of belief is correct, or else why believe in it? Why waste your time on a belief system that
you don’t have faith in, right?
So the question
is: “Can you reject the existence of God
and explain it as an absence of faith?” The answer is no. In order to
reject the existence of God, you had to have made up your mind that there is
another explanation for the existence of everything in the universe; an
explanation you need to have faith in.
Throughout history,
the majority of mankind has tried to live a life apart from God and every
single one who has managed to do so, without exception, has met with a most
horrible experience at the moment of his or her death... being ushered into
eternal suffering with the promise of eventually being thrown into the lake of
fire.
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