Faith involves the unknown

I made the argument in a previous post that everyone has faith, but that not everyone has faith in God. At the end of that post, I brought up the objection that some non-believers make about how it's hard to believe in a God that you can't sense and experience, one that you can't see, touch, hear, taste, or smell.

The problem with us as humans is that we rely too much on our five senses. Unless we can quantify something and wrap our brains around it and neatly 'put it in a box', we tend to dismiss it altogether. We call it myth, or folklore, or superstition and the like. So because God doesn't make Himself known through our five senses, because He isn't quantifiable, because what we read about Him in the Bible is so mysterious and unlike the ways of mankind, and because we can't boil Him down into a formula or simple means of understanding and put Him in a 'box', we relegate Him to being the figment of an over-active imagination. We make fun of his believers as needing a "crutch" like their imaginary God to get them through life instead of bucking up and fighting through it on their own strength.

I find it interesting how people will dismiss the existence of God for these reasons, but they'll believe in alternate theories about why we're here, even when there is minimal "evidence" to support that theory and the proponents of the theory are greatly divided in their stance.

Perhaps you know where I'm going with this, so here goes. The most popular theory that non-believers use to explain the origin of life is the Theory of Evolution. Non-believers will tend to accept what its proponents say without question because, among other things, it gives them an excuse to reject the Biblical notion that they are created beings accountable to their Creator. They can reject the Biblical teaching about how they will meet God face-to-face at the start of eternity and have to give an account of their lives. They can reject what the Bible says about how we need to be forgiven of our sins by coming to Jesus - God's only appointed mediator between God and man - and asking to be forgiven. They can reject the Biblical description of heaven and hell and instead assume that we have no soul or spirit and will eventually die out and become nothing, much like a dead flower or blade of grass.

They will grasp at anything that stands defiantly in the face of God, thinking that some body of man-made thought will somehow destroy this God or render him impotent.

To believe in the Theory of Evolution takes a great deal of faith, and the evolutionist has made Evolution their god inasmuch as the believer has made God their god. The evolutionist has made the assumption that the believer has operated strictly on blind faith, when the reality is the evolutionist is the only one who has done this.

That the meagre scraps of inconclusive evidence and non-cohesive assumptions collected over 150 years have yet to elevate this theory to the level of the "Fact" or the "Law" of Evolution are evidence that faith involves the unknown. The evolutionist simply cannot go back in time and prove that their assumptions are true; they can only have faith in them. They have to assume that this-or-that fossil represents proof that one species suddenly decided to become another even though no conclusive evidence has ever been found of a "transitional" species. But on and on they plod because the death of their belief system would mean only God will be left standing.

The creationist also cannot go back in time and prove that by simply speaking, God caused an entire universe to leap into existence. One can, however, look at the enormous body of evidence - provided mostly by non-believers like archaeologists - that give credibility to the places, names, and events of the Bible and use this to give credibility to the Bible as a whole. In fact, it is no exaggeration that the body of physical evidence to support the Bible far exceeds that used to support the Theory of Evolution.

Don't want to take my word for this? Then simply WITH AN OBJECTIVE MIND start to research this evidence for yourself. Many have done the same and concluded in God's favor, but perhaps you have that special edge that will finally - after thousands of years - conclusively disprove God, the Bible, and Jesus and the miraculous transformative power of them in peoples' lives. A power that operates worldwide regardless of race, socio-economic status, political system, or a person's background. A power that is the envy of psychologists and psychiatrists the world over.

So although you can't see, touch, hear, taste, or smell God Himself, the evidence of His handywork is all around us, according to the Bible: The complex yet perfect intricacy of ecosystems and the creatures that live therein. The structure and operation of the human eye, which no amount of human creative effort has yet to duplicate in the form of lenses and cameras. The intricacy of musculo-skeletal movements and their interaction with the brain that still leave computer programmers, engineers, and the medical profession dumbfounded. I could go on and on.

If these enormous creative attempts on the part of humans in no way duplicate what is found in nature, then who are we to think that nature has come about apart from creative forces? And who are we to think that these forces operate on random chance without a Creator behind them?

We don't need to see the Creator Himself because the evidence of His work alone should be all we need to believe in the existence of this unseen God. With evidence like this, faith in His existence isn't really too difficult after all!