Post date: Dec 12, 2013 3:52:43 PM
You gotta love it when fools act out their role and end up confirming everything you’ve written about them, doing so by their own actions. In their efforts to discredit you they confirm your every word.
The most ironic thing about fools, these days, at least, is that, for the most part they sport acronyms trailing behind their names like the chains of Scrooge’s late partner. Too late they see their folly. Too late they recognize their sin for what it is. Too late they cry out for deliverance, when the flames already lick about them. Like Lazarus’ rich fool, they cry out to God after their condemnation, richly earned and already executed upon them, rises up to engulf and consume them, the fires of Gehenna that never go out.
Pride is a wickedly dangerous and foolish thing to play at. It will convince you of monstrous things, and convict you of them as well. It will have you sincerely believing idiotic things that even the simplest kindergarten child knows to be lies. It will have you, believing yourself wise, proving yourself to be a fool.
It is rampant in today’s world of science. Many are the issues about which they will preach and pontificate, claiming that they speak from a foundation of evidence when, in fact, what they call evidence is, more often than not, ultimately based upon a profound, wide-ranging assumption that is spawned within the heart of pride of the foolish unbeliever who is proceeding from the assumption that there is and can be no God and that all Scripture must be proven wrong. It is their self-appointed and self-adopted reason to be.
I have lost count of the times when they have accused me of pretending not to hear arguments that they make—arguments that I long ago ceased to bother even reading because those arguments refuse to face and deal with the facts that I have shared—facts that are inconvenient for their master assumption because that master assumption cannot account for those facts, and those facts therefore point where they do not want to go, and in fact in a direction that they absolutely abhor, pointing to God.
For example, I have been known to state that the very existence of blood clotting is a proof that evolution simply cannot happen as defined by the theory known as Neo-Darwinism. In my thoughts, ponderings, and dealings, I equate the theory of evolution with Neo-Darwinism, so when I make a statement regarding evolution, that is the type of which I speak. You see, that theory requires that evolution only take place randomly by chance mutations that are not guided in any sense at all, and only by that method and no other. It also holds forth that any variation that succeeds, does so because that variation has an advantage that has allowed it to proliferate more efficiently than its rivals.
Ponder that.
That means that for any variation to succeed, it must hold an immediate advantage in proliferation efficiency. In order for it to proliferate it must first survive. In order for it to survive, it must first withstand stressful events. In order for it to withstand stressful events it must first be well made. In order for it to be well made the parts of which it consists must work well with each other. In order for those parts to work well with each other it must have a reliable method of distributing nutrients throughout its body and to those various parts. In order for that method to be reliable it must include a method of quickly, efficiently, and reliably plugging leaks.
Without that biological “fix-a-flat” already in place, the poor unfortunate creature that lacks it is more likely to bleed to death than it is to hold any proliferation efficiency at all. There is no waiting for it to evolve—it must be there from the start, or the distribution system lacking it will fail. This “fix-a-flat” is more widely known as blood clotting.
This is a simple line of reasoning that is only ever rejected by those with a prior commitment to a worldview that will not even consider anything that might point to the existence of God.
Oh sure, many of them claim to believe in God, but the god that they truly believe in is not a god who is Lord and Master over every fiber of their being and every scintilla of their life. It is not a god who holds their nose to the grindstone of reality. It is not a god who demands righteousness in all matters. It is not a god who demands self-sacrificing love from them even for their most hated and hateful enemies. In fact, it is not a god who demands anything of them at all. It is not a god to whom they are willing, loving, and committed slave. No. The god that they believe in is a slave to them. In short the god they believe in is a god who is not real—because that is the only god with which they are comfortable. The only god with which you can be comfortable is a god that does not exist. To quote Mr. and Mrs. Beaver, regarding the allegorical Lion of Narnia, “Safe!?! Who said anything about safe? He’s a lion! Of course He isn’t safe! But He is good.”
Truly, I must be a special case. Bring on the short bus jokes if you must; there are some ways in which I certainly deserve it. For all of my young adult life I went around demanding of God that He prove Himself to me or I would not believe, and I would state these nuggets of wisdom with such ferocity that there would not be enough exclamation points in all of existence to accurately express my seriousness. I would demand—of God—that He prove His existence or I—with all the authority of a woefully leaky tea kettle—would declare God non-existent.
Such a threat I was!
What a complete and utter fool!
Matters of logic would not dissuade me, but then, those dealing in such a manner are not dealing in logic. Idiocy is idiocy no matter the acronyms that chase the name.
There can be no greater irony than to be falsely accused of being a liar. If you are a regular reader of this newsletter, then you know the masthead statement that accompanies every issue: “When a person has—whether they knew it or not—already rejected the Truth, by what means do they discern a lie?” If a person rejects your true testimony, will they not falsely accuse you of lying, failing to see their own lie?
The person who can deceive themselves is a person who thinks that the truth is a lie, and, consequently, that lies are truth. You have certainly heard the old adage that a person who stands for nothing will fall for anything. Well, I tell you that the person who rejects the Truth will fall for any lie. Whatever they want to believe they will believe. The person who wants to believe there is no God (and therefore no good, for “there is no one good, save God alone”) will fall for whatever wickedness comes their way. They will even declare as evidence that which is merely the product of their own assumptions. They want the Bible to be false, so they base all of their endeavors upon the assumption that it is what they want it to be, and then claim that their conclusions prove it to be so when all along their conclusions have been based upon the assumption that it is so.
They will even lay claim to science as backing them up when science does no such thing. They will claim that science proves that God does not exist. All of science, though, when used rightly, points directly and unerringly to an originator, and that originator, as we know, is God. Ask any cosmologist about the implications of the Big Bang and why so many of their number fight so desperately against it, even to this day, and the honest ones will tell you: because it points to God. Ask any scientist why they fight so strenuously to keep anyone from learning about the Intelligent Design hypothesis and the honest ones will tell you: because it points to God. Ask any microbiologist why so many of their number fight so hard to keep the truths about recent discoveries in their field from being rightly taught to students in schools and the honest ones will tell you: because it points to God.
They are the slanderer accusing the Truth of being a liar. We, though, know the Truth: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All, because of Him, came to be, and without Him not one thing came to be which came to be.” “Grace and Truth came to be through Jesus Christ.”
By Jesus Christ creation reigns; By Jesus Christ it is sustained. When faced with all the vitriol of atheistic ridicule, intimidation, and threat, do not fear, do not worry, do not sweat. Their anchor chain is broken and adrift, but we consist in Jesus Christ. This I know: His anchor holds!