05/18/2017
Mysight
A couple of weeks ago I posed the question; Why are you a Christian, or Why do you believe. I received some heartfelt, truthful responses; but they also demonstrated a kind of disconnect that is occurring in the western, Christian, world. The responses came from a point of assumed belief and referred to what brought them to greater faith.
Historically the U.S., and most of the western world, was grounded in a near universal belief that God existed. Thus Christians focused on the theological arguments of why to believe in Jesus and the God of the Bible, but skipped over why to believe that A God existed. The enemy caught on to that little laps and has been using it to drive a wedge between older believers and younger “science savvy” skeptics. There’s a whole army out there, armed with intellectual sounding arguments, looking to destroy the belief of young people and thus make their faith irrelevant.
We need to train ourselves, and our young people, to first say; “I believe in God because He really EXISTS, and the Bible is TRUE”. Then be ready with the intellectual facts, scientific discoveries, and historical truths to back up your claim. That is what Paul did, and commanded us to do, with the Greeks. God never asked us to check our brains at the door and follow blindly. He gave us beautiful minds, the laws of math and physics, and a natural curiosity, so that we may discover Him even more fully. The lie is that science disproves God, when in fact the data points toward the absolute necessity for God to exist. Whether it’s dark matter, the gravitational constant, or any other term used to explain the unobservable, untestable force that gives “order” to the universe; it’s just another term for God.