Tuesday, October 16, 2012

ATHEISM-AGNOSTICISM-NO RELIGION

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(Continuation of Sermon on Atheism)

And what of love and brotherhood…these powerful emotions that rule our lives?  Is it really

    believable that they could have risen out of nothingness?

And the little seemingly inconsequential things of creation…could some mindless mechanical

    chemical eruption have developed chocolate and peppermint…a cockle-doodle-dooing rooster…a

    quacking duck…the sublime and the slaphappy…proving God does have a sense of humor. 

       Or His adding such beauty to what otherwise would be common place...his consideration to have leaves in Fall not just drop unceremoniously from the tress but rather become rainbows of color, red and gold all scattering their patterns along the ground.

       And what about a simple thing such as a smile?  That wonderful facial expression which

    actually means the same thing no matter what language you speak.

And this oblate spheroid called earth we live on that is 93 million miles from the surface of the sun;  why doesn’t it burn it to a crisp?  It doesn’t because it is tilted at a perfect 23 degree  angle.  Not 22 degrees.  Not 24.  And our protective ozone layer that makes it possible for earth to sustain  life in the first place?  All that just happened by chance, rather than an orderly mind of God?  Come-on.

And this equal global distribution of the rays of the sun that make it possible for the food chain to

    exist.  And the combination of nitrogen and oxygen in the atmosphere we breathe every day just happens

    to be an exact mix that life needs to exist. 

Really?  All this just happened?  Mindless nothingness out there throwing nothingness into the air

    and out of this simple non directed act…came our Universe?

 It defies logic.  It certainly does not deify a human mind that argues otherwise.

I think not!

Pure and simple, it is a stretch to say that nothing created something - but that is the basic premise

    of atheism. A firm belief in unbelief.

The world famous Astronomer, Johannes Kepler, was troubled by one of his friends who continually

    denied the existence of God.  Time and time again he heard him say that the universe came into being

    purely by mechanical means.

So one day, Johannes set about constructing a beautiful model of our galaxy with the sun in the

    center and all the planets and their moons revolving around it. 

The next time his friend came into the Observatory and saw the beautiful model, he exclaimed with

    delight, “How beautiful it is.  Who made it?”

And Kepler casually answered.  “No one, it made itself. 

His friend persisted, “Come on now, tell me, who made it?”

To which Kepler finally answered, “Friend, you insist that this mere toy, a weak imitation of the real

    thing, could not make itself, yet I understand you believe that the great universe did make

    itself.”

Did a mindless universe create my own memory?  My own brain?  The thought processes that allow

    me to share with you at this moment and for you to understand?

Did the useful arise out of the useless with no direction but rather by some non-directional

    directions?

An American cutlery manufacturer wrote: “It takes a girl in our factory two days to learn how to put

    the 17 parts of a meat chopper together.”

       And then the cutlery manufacturer continued,  “It may be that these millions of worlds, all balanced

    so wonderfully in space—it may be they just happened: it may be, by millions of years of tumbling about,

    they finally arranged themselves. 

I don't know.  I am merely a plain manufacturer of cutlery.  But this I do know - that you can shake

    the 17 parts of a meat chopper around in a washtub for the next 17 millions of years, and you’ll never

    make a meat chopper.

Alister McGrath, a former atheist and now a Christian, writes, “I believe in Christianity as I believe

    the sun has risen… not simply because I see it… but because by it I see everything else.”

To put a scalpel to the soul and cut away the presence of God is a sad debilitating thing.  It is like

    turning ones back on a feast and then wondering with what to fill the emptiness that now exists. 

And in closing, remember these words of truth from Psalm 19:1.

“The Heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.

    Not…”The Heavens declare the glory of nothingness and the sky above proclaims the handiwork of 

    nothingness. “

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