Believing In God

This week we looked at clips of Einstein and Ben Stein.

The information on Einstein is here:

When Albert Einstein was asked if he believed in God, here was his response: "I'm not an atheist. I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books, but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God. We see the universe marvelously arranged and obeying certain laws, but only dimly understand these laws."

Einstein tried to express these feelings clearly, both for himself and all of those who wanted a simple answer from him about his faith. So in the summer of 1930, amid his sailing and ruminations in Caputh [Germany], he composed a credo, "What I Believe," that he recorded for a human-rights group and later published. It concluded with an explanation of what he meant when he called himself religious: "The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle. To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is something that our minds cannot grasp, whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly: this is religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I am a devoutly religious man."

Walter Isaacson, "Einstein and Faith," TIME (4-5-07)

The clip of Ben Stein can be found here:

Ben Stein clip on youtube

During our discussion, we realized that the Bible passages we studied did not try to "prove God exists". They declare that He exists and the human authors of the text all assume His existence.

The fool says in his heart, there is no God - Psalm 14:1

What does it mean to us today?

ACKNOWLEDGE GOD.

Note: The following outline merely seeks to reveal the Bible’s assumption of God’s existence, the overwhelming evidence for His existence in creation, and the consequence of rejecting that evidence.

1. The Bible assumes the existence of God, the Creator, (Genesis 1:1).
2. The Bible claims that nothing exists apart from God, the Creator, (John 1:1-3).
3. Creation reveals the glory of God, (Psalm 19:1).
4. Failure to acknowledge the God of creation brings judgment, (Romans 1:19-20).
5. ACKNOWLEDGE GOD.


Hopefully, you now feel challenged to identify and stand up for your beliefs in God.

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