Don’s Delivery: WHY SO MANY CANNOT DISCOVER GOD.
An old story is told of a soap manufacture in a small town who was an
unbeliever and how he constantly chastised the believers in his town.
One day while he and the local minister were on the sidewalk having a
conversation about his criticisms a boy came running up to them and he
was filthy. As they spoke the preacher pointed to the child and said,
“Look at this dirty lad! This is certainly evidence that your soap is
not as beneficial as you claim.” Quickly the unbelieving soap
manufacture responded, “The problem does not lie with my soap but the
lack of its use.” The evangelist politely replied, “Yes, and so it is
with God and His wonderful word of truth. The problem with the world
is that people do not accept God and follow His divine will.”
Why do presumptuous individuals dispute God and make claims against
His word? Think of the theories that they offer. “Big Bang!”
“Evolution!” “Natural Selection!” “Spontaneous Generation!” A lot of
fancy words that advocate that everything came into existence by
accident and chance. We would have more luck throwing a deck of cards
into the air and having all the clubs, diamonds, hearts, and spades
fall in perfect order. It doesn’t make any rational sense why anyone
would accept, much less believe the fairy tales told about the
suspicions offered that something happened, “Once Upon A Time, perhaps
billions of years ago.” Isaac Asimov ask, “Why would anyone fall for
the concept that under a deadly sun, in an ammoniated ocean topped by
poisonous atmosphere, in the midst of a soup of organic molecules, a
nucleic acid molecule came accidently into being that could somehow
bring about the existence of another like itself.”
Sir John Eccles, Nobel laureate in neurophysiology estimated the odds
against the right combination of circumstances occurring to evolve
intelligent life on earth would be some 400,000 trillion to one. It
requires more faith to believe in this chance happening than for one
to believe in God.
Back to our original query. WHY SO MANY CANNOT DISCOVER GOD. The
apostle Paul gives us the answer and it is a very sad reality.
“By their unrighteousness (They) suppress the truth.”
Romans 1:18-23
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