Have you ever seen sci-fi movies that dealt with time travel? It is the type of movie where the main characters have the ability to travel from the present to the past and future. Interesting concept, isn't it?
Just imagine if you were given that ability within the context of the current topic of whether god exists or not. Just imagine that you can travel to the past - across geographical, social, cultural, religious and language boundaries - moving thru time, across different eras......observing....inquiring....asking, "Do you believe in God?"
History tells us that you would witness a common belief in God be it defined as a man made object, a force or object in nature, a mystical concept or spirit being. Why? Is it because human beings need an explanation for what they don't understand? Or is there another reason - something more profound? Something, though immeasurable, testifies of the very existence of God?
Could it be that across eras, geographical, social, cultural, religious and language boundaries the human spirit is the same? Could it be that human beings throughout time have witnessed the creative intelligence in nature all around them? Could it be that they witnessed the creative intelligence each time they saw life came forth in the birth of an offspring? Could it be that they witnessed the creative intelligence in the order found in the rising and setting of the sun, the moon and stars at night, the changes in seasons and maturation process in both plants and animals? Could it be that each time they felt love and other powerful emotions and experienced the intelligence within themselves they subconsciously knew that there had to be underlying cause? Could it be that they subconsciously knew that there had to be "someone" or "something" behind it all? Something or someone that had great intelligence? Wisdom?
Could it be that the Holy Bible is true when it states:
"He is the God who made the world and everything in it. Since He is Lord of Heaven and Earth, He doesn't live in man-made temples, and human hands can't serve His needs – for He has no needs. He himself gives life and breath to everything, and He satisfies every need there is. From one man He created all the nations throughout the whole Earth. He decided beforehand which should rise and fall, and He determined their boundaries.
His purpose in all of this was that the nations should seek after God and perhaps feel their way toward Him and find Him – though He is not far from any one of us. For in Him we live and move and exist."
Monday, April 7, 2008
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