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Have you ever laughed with God? I do on a regular basis. Many times we laugh together at my random antics (like when I am looking everywhere for my cell phone while I am talking on it to someone...oh yeah!) or the words of my children ("Mommy, that baseball game is going to be hysterical. What does hysterical mean?"). My favorite though is laughter that flows from His blessings poured upon me; Not material blessings, necessarily, but blessings more weighty, blessings in the spirit. This is the laughter that sparks both unspeakable joy coupled with utter amazement.God is just so cool. He is both intimately acquainted with every aspect of me, every aspect of you, while at the same time being completely other-than, so infinitely beyond our human mind's conception. He is both Daddy and Holy Father; Lover of my soul and Creator Most-High; Lamb and Lion. He designed you and me with great precision, great purpose, and desires that you and I walk in victory and abundance. He is able to loose chains of bondage when at every angle there appears to be hopelessness. He is God. He is good.......He is even fun. Get to know Him from His love letter to you (a.k.a. the Bible).You are amazing, God! I Praise You!
Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion, is a scientist, atheist, Darwinist featured in the movie Expelled (see previous post). One of his most famous quotes regarding faith states, "Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence." (An interesting side note is that to believe Darwinism there are great leaps of faith where evidence is lacking.)If you believe the Bible to be true (which I do and also see a great amount of evidence to support the authenticity and reliability of the Bible...a whole other discussion), then you have to take the words from the book of Hebrews to heart. Hebrews 11 has been termed the "Faith Walk." It begins by saying: "Now faith is the substance (the make-up) of things hoped for, the evidence (or proof) of things not seen. By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible." (And not made from a pile of mud, as proposed by Darwinists.)Then further down in the chapter, "without faith it is impossible to please (God), for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him."Faith is not a cop-out, as Dawkins declares, or an evasion of evidence. If you have faith in God it is not because of lack of evidence, or worse, in light of opposing evidence. Faith is the proof of what we don't see. When we can't progress any further with the question "why" or "how" but we see evidences at every corner pointing in the direction of Divine intervention, then faith.Faith is evidence because as God's word purports, He rewards those who believe and then diligently seek Him. God has revealed Himself to me so clearly, so personally, on a level that Dawkins will never experience with reason and science. God is real. He is active. He is all-powerful. He is love. And He does reward those who seek Him in faith.Why faith? Because faith takes us beyond ourselves, beyond the physical, to a place of falling into the arms of the Almighty. Taste and see that He is good.
Last night I watched Ben Stein's movie Expelled. It would not be described as the light-hearted, feel-good movie of the year; but a definite must-see. In this movie Stein travels the globe on a search for truth regarding freedom, specifically freedom in education. His discoveries may astound you. He found that there are present-day educators and scientists being fired or denied tenure simply for suggesting that there may be the possibility of Intelligent Design (ID). Can you grasp that? In America, the land of the free, there is an underlying assumption and almost requirement amongst academia that Darwinism be held as truth. If one questions that "truth" you may very well be expelled, or at the very least be considered an idiot. The implications of this should make us stop for a moment.I don't have enough space, time, or intellect to make a strong argument against Darwinism. But I do know that if you take Darwinism to its extreme, as pointed out in the film, you have to eventually believe that human life has no intrinsic value, and in turn there is no morality. Is this truly the society we have become? What should shock our systems even more is that Darwinism is at the core of Nazism. Believe me, this movie has stirred the waters and is being opposed. But the bottom line is that we must have freedom in our schools; Freedom to present various theories, along with their strengths and weaknesses, without the fear of being harassed or even excommunicated. Without freedom then we have strayed from the very basics of our country's Declaration of Independence:"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."Ben Stein encourages Americans to sign the Academic Freedom Petition. You can find out more and sign this petition by going to http://www.AcademicFreedomPetition.com.
