Is God real?
God is not glorified by the naivety of man. He is glorified by their faith despite His invisibility. Naive head nodding may produce the appearance of obedience but to truly “lose one’s life” to find it comes from faith that trumps all natural laws…not naivety. If God trumps natural laws than He himself is outside of those laws and those laws will never disprove Him. They certainly would not prove Him either because they simply become irrelevant.
When Jesus mentions casting a mountain into the sea he was explaining that a little faith trumps natural law. Not that we should expect to see mountains jumping into the sea. Obviously such a thing would undermine faith, because once it has been seen it would no longer require faith to accept. Therefore such a thing would not happen since faith is what really glorifies God, not moving a few atoms from one place to another. There is plenty of that happening every day all around us that most folks just ignore anyway. So what if Everest flips upside down? Did you see that giant fireball burning in the sky this morning? That was amazing!
The big bang theory is a very popular theory but it does nothing AT ALL to satisfy origin. Even if all the matter in the universe is squeezed into a space the size of a pencil point, or atom, or even if it was in a bread box, it still exists and its moment of origin, that moment when it went from nothing to something, is completely unexplained. In fact, the theory does nothing at all but change the universe’s location. Yes, atheistic scientists have to make the same leap of faith as a theistic scientist (and we are all scientists). They just leap in the opposite direction.
I see a spiritual law at work. If, as the Bible claims, we are spiritual beings our final decision to this question would ultimately be based on the condition of our spirit. Despite all the thinking and debating this is not a decision for our gray matter, it’s a decision of our spirit. In fact I believe that at any given moment whether a person claims with their mouth to believe God or not it means very little to what they will ultimately settle on as the condition of their spirit is revealed. If faith without deeds is dead, then the opposite is probably true, from true faith comes true deeds. The kind of deeds that are rooted in the will of God and endorsed by Him. The kind of deeds that may even look like miserable failures from a logical perspective, maybe even resulting in the death of the one involved. Maybe even death on a cross…. Those kinds of deeds change the world in supernatural ways. Supernatural because they do even more for the condition of our spirit than they do for our flesh. To God, it is the human spirit that matters. To gray matter, it is always about the flesh.
How many atheistic scientists would change their tune if I were to command Everest to flip upside down and it happened the moment I proclaimed it? Would that change of tune really mean any change has occurred in their spirit? I believe no. Therefore there is no more point in flipping Everest upside down than there would have been for the rich man from Jesus’ parable to return from the dead. Jesus’ miracles prepared the world to witness (and know) the ultimate miracle. His suffering, death, and resurrection so that tax collectors, prostitutes, and the rest of us who are unholy sinners would be free from the wages of sin which is death. The condition of our spirit is changed (because the sins of the flesh can no longer condemn our spirit) and ultimately everything we do after the moment that Jesus’ blood redeems us. Faith bears fruit, fruit that lasts, whether we get to see it in our lifetime or not bears little relevance other than experimental testability which again only undermines faith.
The Gospel is the most important truth science will ever discover