Know God

Psalm 14:1a The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they have committed abominable deeds.

Psalm 53:1 The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity.

I was listening to an old teaching by Indian born, Canadian-American evangelical Christian apologist Ravi Zacharias over the weekend, where he spoke to this Bible verse. On the list of world religions, Secular/Nonreligious/Agnostic/Atheist @ 1.1 billion ranks as the number three faith on earth. You have to have faith to believe that “no God exists”, thus by definition "a religion". Atheism broke down is: “a” = “no”, “theos” = “God”, “ism” = “belief” (belief in no God). The Hebrew word for “fool” is “nabal”, which translates to “stupid”, “wicked”, “vile” and “insane”. Limited & “Finite” man, in darkness of unbelief, attempts to disprove and suppress the “Infinite” Lord, Creator God. Why? Accountability for sin in the eyes of the Lord.

Romans 1:18-23 says, “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse, because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man.

Albert Einstein wrote: “I’m not an atheist and I don’t think I can call myself a pantheist (belief that God is in all things). 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 dos not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangements 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 towards God.” 1 Corinthians 13:12-13 “For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known. But now faith, hope, love, abide these three.

Isaiah 55:8-9 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts.

C.S. Lewis wrote: “Now faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding onto things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods. For moods will change, whatever view your reason takes. I know that by experience. Now that I am a Christian, I do have moods in which the whole thing looks very improbable; but when I was an atheist, I had moods in which Christianity looked terribly probable. This rebellion of your moods against your real self is going to come anyway. That is why faith is such a necessary virtue. Galatians 5:17 “For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish.”

Hebrews 11:1-3 “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good testimony. 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.

In Christ, Brian