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THEOLOGY ASKEW? |
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A PERSPECTIVE |
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God, Not
As A Religion
To believe in God is not necessarily
an exercise of religion. To believe
there is a God can be made self-evident by a logical and open study
of nature and the scientific evidence it contains of a creative
order and complexity that cannot be explained by chance or untold
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It does not take faith
to believe in God at this level and, therefore, can not yet be ascribed to
the level of religious practice, exercise or conviction.
In fact, atheism, in fervently adhering to a
denial of that which is evident around us, is far more a religion ...
albeit one of blind, prideful fanaticism ... more so than any fundamental
acknowledgement of a God around us could ever be.
Acknowledgement of God does
not become, in any way, an exercise of religion until belieiving in
Him means more than accepting His self-evident existence; rather,
it is the practice of trusting in Him and clinging to His seemingly intangible
truths that challenge the pride and finite nature of our humanity that
begins to define religious practice in this context.
More simply, it is when we
decide we want to know the person of God and not merely the evidence
He provides of His creation, that we enter into the spiritual realm. And
conducting such a practice on a regular basis with others of similar
ilk moves us into the definition of true religion.
What secularists are attacking
as religious, therefore, is much less so than is their own blind
fervor its own level of religiosity.
But
Ne'er Forget: In spite of it all ...
God, because He is love, first loved us and
continues to do so, despite His inability (due to his Holiness)
to regard our iniquity. And there is much of that to regard among
each and every one of us. We can choose to ignore His love, His
law, His righteousness, and even His very Being; but that does not
make Him go away. Try as they might, all atheists —militant
or otherwise—can neither wish Him away or deny Him into non-existence. |
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