Showing posts with label fail. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fail. Show all posts

Friday, March 6, 2009

God is not logical, whether you like it or not

As I was reading a post about atheist beliefs and a battle of comments that followed, I realised that people were trying to disqualify God with human logic.

If God really does exist, who are we to bring him down with our logic? God and humans are fundamentally different, and the way God thinks and the way humans think are also different. "God failed because he sent the flood to wipe out evil, but there's still evil in the world. Therefore God failed." "God made humans, but humans continue to fail God, so God is a failure." Yes, from our point of view, God may be a failure. Humans think that they are so smart which makes them think that they can judge God. Who gives them the right to do this? Are we much more perfect then God to criticise him and bring him down?

I think that being a Christian is about giving up our pride and approaching God with humbleness. Atheists are atheists because they have such high opinion of themselves and can't think of humbling themselves before an "imaginary" figure. This may explain the growing number of atheists in the modern world, where more people are educated, and try to base faith on knowledge rather than belief.

As Christians, we shouldn't follow the ways of the world by trying to explain God to atheist with logic. Obviously atheists are better in logic than Christians(God is not so logical), so by trying to challenge them with logic, they will end up thinking that their logic is superior and therefore think that they are right. Rather, we should keep praying for them, and believing that God will do what is appropriate.