Which God is so horrendously murderous and lacking values?
I have a pen here on my desk that tells me (like everything else) that God exists (just as certainly as a simple non-living pen could in no possible way exist without a designer, maker. Why do we venture to take a leap from common sense and suggest that God may not exist, and that he may have no value system.) Everything around us, from atoms to photosynthesis, to the expanding universe... Declare incredible brilliance, mathematical genius, incredible and vast taste, creativity, scientific incomparability, economic masterminding... Nothing made in anyway detracts from the incredible incredible character of God.
Including the freedom he has given man to do what is right or wrong. To love him (and others) or to hate him (and others). But we should never forget that God also made the rules (laws)like gravity and cause and effect. Because we can see the results of ignoring or not understanding God's law of gravity, can / does lead to broken bones or death, we can understand that ignoring his moral laws also should have the same result. At the same time understanding his laws of nature has allowed us to fly jet planes high above the earth, so also does understanding his moral laws (and doing them) produce life in us instead of death. But this we choose by the freedom he has given us.
As for me, I came from the dust, I'm going back to the dust. Therefore for every moment that this dust has the given ability to breath, talk, or choose. I choose to honor and adore the one who made it possible for this clay to do anything. Wouldn't you agree? |
