RE: My House Did not have a Builder (or did it?)
January 1, 2018 at 3:15 pm
(This post was last modified: January 1, 2018 at 3:16 pm by bennyboy.)
(January 1, 2018 at 1:11 pm)Dan Brooks Wrote:(December 30, 2017 at 7:56 pm)bennyboy Wrote: If God is to be found only in the Bible, then God is a figment of the imaginations of ancient desert dwellers. If God is a real presence in reality, then to study reality is to love God. Christians who will favor the Bible over a study of the actual evidence that God must have left writ all over the cosmos are doing nothing but ancestor worship-- they have no interest in a living God.
Don't scientists read? Scientists don't just walk outside and look up in the sky and say, "Wow, look at that." and now they're a scientist. Sure they study things in labs, and in the earth itself, etc. But they also read their scientific books. They also have to learn complicated math in certain sciences. So of course if someone is going to delve into a certain discipline, or to learn about a certain thing, part of that learning is going to include reading.
It wouldn't make sense for someone who wants to about God not to read the Bible, which tells us who He is and how He is. If you want to learn about God, and there's a book about God, it would make sense to read it. Not that's the information about God. Everything shows us something about God, but even with all the evidence in nature, it still wouldn't make sense not to read about Him in the Bible.
So no, God is not only found in the Bible, but He certainly is found in it.
Scientists don't read books based on authority: they read about what observations have already been made, what experiments have already been done, and the conclusions that other scientists have arrived at. They then decide whether their OWN observations confirm what those others have done, and if not, they will supplant old theories with new ones.
If God is alive, then you should have some experience of God. If your only source of knowledge about God is the ancient writings of desert-dwelling Hebrews, then God whether He exists or not is of so little import in our lives that for all practical purposes, he cannot be said to exist.
In short-- if God is real, demonstrate that He matters except as a word to fight about or to pass the money tray about. Show me this generation's Moses or Abraham, or explain to me why God was so active 3000 years ago but seems so suspiciously like a fairy tale today.
