How can a person see the outside of prison walls when locked away on the inside, surrounded by four walls, a concrete roof, and a concrete floor?
You might be able to see all sides of an ant, as you watch it in a glass container, but even then there are constraints, because you have to move the container around to see every side of the ant, including the underside.
You might realize that you are a finite being like the ant, and recognize that you cannot see the outside of your world, for you are always on the inside looking out.
When it comes to a house, if you have cameras installed so that you can see the walls outside, the roof overhead, and even under the flooring, this does not mean you possess infinity. Your instruments merely provide you with some extra capacity, but you require faith to assure yourself that what you are seeing is really there. What if your instruments have been fiddled with and what you are looking at is not what really exists outside your premises?
You may not see the air, but you can feel its movement—called “wind”. You may believe the air exists, but how can you be sure of what it consists. Your instruments could be faulty or your assumptions could be incorrect.
The air can be measured by instruments to provide various readings as to composition, temperature and movement. With your natural senses you can sense whether the air is hot, cold, dry, damp, putrid, polluted, moving or still. But you cannot see the air with your naked eye, if there is no particulate in it. Neither can any form of technical scope see that air, for scopes are used to identify things that exist by receiving reflected light.
Neither can you see the wind, even if you can see its effects. Trees swaying and leaves rustling provide both visual and auditory experiences associated with the wind, but these are not the same as seeing the wind blow without effect.
You will feel the wind. You may even hear the wind with your ears, as it blows past; if blowing fast enough, and providing your auditory sensitivity is sensitive enough.
Jesus spoke of the wind, when speaking of the necessity of rebirth, if a person is to exit the futility of being merely born to die and actually enter into eternal life.
- Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born anew.’ The wind blows where it wills, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know whence it comes or whither it goes; so it is with every one who is born of the Spirit.” (John 3:5-8)
Just because the finite ones cannot see the Infinite One, this does not mean we cannot feel the One in Whom we live and move and have our being. Likewise, people cannot see the wind with their naked eye, but this does not mean people cannot feel it. When it comes to the movement of air, instruments do not count, unless there is an instrument that enables people to see the wind.
Claiming evidence of the wind’s existence from secondary measures is tantamount to claiming God exists because people have various rites, rituals and gatherings to acknowledge that this is so.
Either you are consistent in your methodologies for determining truth or you are just kidding yourself. In which case, to claim that a person or a thing does not exist because of secondary evidence, but another does exist, is scientific fraud.
Jesus said that those born a second time, who experience a spiritual rebirth, are like those who feel the wind. They do not see the wind, but they certainly feel it.
The Bible informs us that the reason you exist on this planet is to seek after God, in the hope that you might be serious enough in your quest to actually desire to find Him. But the Bible does not speak of seeing God before you feel Him; rather, it says that you need to feel Him, before you will ever get to see Him.
The Infinite Creator God is not the imagination of someone’s mind which can be illustrated by a work of art.
- And he made from one every nation of men to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their habitation, that they should seek God, in the hope that they might feel after him and find him. Yet he is not far from each one of us, for ‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your poets have said, ‘For we are indeed his offspring.’Being then God’s offspring, we ought not to think that the Deity is like gold, or silver, or stone, a representation by the art and imagination of man. (Acts 17:26-29)
People like to create art to depict what they imagine God might look like. The illusionary world of the virtual fascinates the minds of many, who project facades of peace and tranquility, while inside they are like a duck frantically paddling with its legs under the water, while it appears to gracefully glide on the surface, without a care in the world—except when a pickup backfires.
- Truly God is good to the upright, to those who are pure in heart. (Psalm 73:1)
- Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. (Matthew 5:8)
Only the pure in heart are able to see God. To be pure in heart, the Spirit of God needs access by invitation to wash the filth away that resides within—but do not foolishly think that this is as simple as washing away the putrid dried spew off the walls and windows that was flung high and wide the night before, during the horror of the unexpected.
- He saved us, not because of deeds done by us in righteousness, but in virtue of his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal in the Holy Spirit which he poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that we might be justified by his grace and become heirs in hope of eternal life. (Titus 3:4-7 )
The reason atheists reject God—which is their God-given right—is because they are deceived and believe they have no need of anybody to provide for them a reason for being born into futility of suffering and death.
Many who claim to be atheists embrace Buddhism, because they believe that coming from nothing and transmigrating through a series of meaningless material manifestations, to finally achieve nothing once more, possesses enormous significance.
Many of these individuals have a fetish about their IQ (Ignorance Quotient). Under the circumstances, when you know a little about how the human psyche works, this is understandable. But, really, why would you want to focus on how little you know, as a finite being, compared to the immeasurable knowledge possessed by the Infinite One.
What is the value in knowing that you have measured your IQ at 250? Compared to omniscience, all you would demonstrate is you possess nothing less than ignorance blowing in the wind. Such individuals do not realize that it is a tragedy to possess minute intelligence at a measure of 250, yet being bereft of wisdom, which is probably why they do unspeakable things in front of mirrors.
A true scientist could never be an atheist. The fact that the Moon traverses around the Earth, which spins on its tilted axis, while orbiting the Sun at 70,000 miles, and has done so more than once every 365.242 days, obliterates any misconception that this occurs by chance.
To be absolutely honest, I cannot provide proof for the Moon traveling around the Earth at the speeds claimed, or the Earth spinning on its axis on a tilt at the speeds claimed, or that these two objects orbit the sun at the speeds claimed. But if what we are told is true, this did not happen by chance, year in, year out, for millennia.
The truth is the Moon has a cycle, the seasons have a cycle, and the days are regular. The evidence is that these had to have been created by the Creator. To deny this is to deny the truth. When we reject the truth, we will believe anything—even believe that God does not exist, or aliens run the planet, or men are girls and women are boys and neither were meant to either.
You have to admit that the fact girls grow up and bleed on a regular basis, does not appear to have occurred by chance. Atheists believe that this is the case. Otherwise they might have to admit that God created Eve (not Steve) for the purpose of females conceiving and bearing children.
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