"Yes, sir."
"So you believe in God?"
"Absolutely."
"Is God good?"
"Sure! God's good."
"Is God all-powerful? Can God do anything?"
"Yes."
"Are you good or evil?"
"The Bible says I'm a sinner."
The professor grins knowingly. "Ahh! THE BIBLE!" He considers for a moment. "Here's one for you. Let's say there's a sick person over here and you can cure him. You can do it. Would you help them? Would you try?"
"Yes sir, I would."
"So you're good...! Why not say that? You would help a sick and maimed person if you could.... in fact most of us would if we could."
[No answer.]
"God doesn't help everyone who is sick does He? My brother was a Christian who died of cancer even though he prayed to Jesus to heal him. How is this Jesus good? Hmmm? Can you answer that one?"
[No answer]
"You can't answer that question can you?" The professor takes a sip of water from a glass on his desk to give the student time to relax. "Let's start again, young fella."
"Is God good?"
"Er... Yes."
"Is Satan good?"
"No."
"Where does Satan come from?"
The student reluctantly responds... "From... God..."
"That's right. God made Satan, didn't he?" The professor runs his bony fingers through his thinning hair and turns to his class. "I think we're going to have a lot of fun this semester, ladies and gentlemen." He turns back to the Christian student. "Tell me, son. Is there evil in this world?"
"Yes, sir."
"Evil's everywhere, isn't it? Did God make everything?"
"Yes."
"Who created evil?"
[No answer]
"Is there sickness in this world? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All the terrible things - do they exist in this world?"
The student is forced to conclude... "Yes."
"Who created them?"
[No answer]
The professor suddenly shouts at the student. "WHO CREATED THEM? TELL ME, PLEASE! The professor gets right in the students face and in a quiet yet menacing voice asks... "God created all evil, didn't He, son?"
[No answer]
"Tell me," he continues, "how is it that this God is good if He created all evil throughout all time? All the hatred, the brutality, all the pain, all the torture, all the death and ugliness and all the suffering created by this good God is all over the world, isn't it, young man?"
[No answer]
"Don't you see it all over the place? Huh?"
Pause.
"Don't you?" The professor leans into the student's face again and whispers, "Is God good?"
[No answer]
"Do you believe in Jesus Christ, son?"
"Yes, professor. I do."
"Science says we have five senses we use to identify and observe the world around us. Have you seen your Jesus?"
"No, sir. I've never seen Him."
"Then tell us if you've ever heard your Jesus?"
"No, sir. I have not."
"Have you ever felt your Jesus, tasted your Jesus or smelt your Jesus... in fact, do you have any sensory perception of your God whatsoever?"
[No answer]
"Answer me, please."
"No, sir, I'm afraid I haven't."
"You're AFRAID... you haven't?"
"No, sir."
"Yet you still believe in him?"
"...yes..."
"That takes FAITH! And according to the rules of empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, science says your God doesn't exist. What do you say to that, son? Where is your God now?"
[The student doesn't answer]
"Sit down, please." The Christian sits...embarrassed and feeling like a fool.
Another Christian student raises his hand. "Professor, may I respond to your questions about God?"
The professor turns and smiles. "Ah, another Christian in the ranks! Come, come, young man. Speak some proper wisdom to the class."
The Christian looks around the room. "You have raised some interesting and complex points, sir. Now I've got a question for you. Is there such thing as heat?"
"Yes," the professor replies. "There's heat."
"Is there such a thing as cold?" "Yes, son, there's cold too."
"No, sir, there isn't."
The professor's grin begins to fade. The class suddenly gets very quiet. The student continues: "You can have lots of heat, even more heat, super-heat, mega-heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat but we don't have anything called 'cold'. We can hit 458 degrees below zero, which is no heat, but we can't go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold, otherwise we would be able to go colder than 458 - You see, sir, cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat can be measured in thermal units because heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it."
"Is there such a thing as darkness, professor?"
"That's a dumb question, son. What is night if it isn't darkness? What are you getting at...?"
"So you say there is such a thing as darkness?"
"Yes..."
"You're wrong again, sir. Darkness is not something, it is the absence of something. You can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light but if you have no light constantly you have nothing and it's called darkness! That's the meaning we use to define the word. In reality, darkness isn't; if it were, you would be able to make darkness darker and give me a jar of it. Can you...give me a jar of darker darkness, professor?"
"Would you mind telling us what your point is, young man?"
"Yes, professor. My point is, your philosophical premise is flawed and so are your conclusions...."
"Flawed...? How dare you...!"
"Sir, may I explain what I mean?"
He waves his hand to silence the class and for the student to continue.
"You are working on the premise of duality," the Christian explains. "That for example there is life and then there's death; a good God and a bad God. You are viewing the concept of God as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, science cannot even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism but has never seen, much less fully understood them. To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing. Death is not the opposite of life, merely the absence of it." The young man holds up a newspaper he takes from the desk of a fellow student. Professor, "Is there such a thing as immorality?"
"Of course there is..."
"Wrong again, sir. You see, immorality is merely the absence of morality. Is there such thing as injustice? No. Injustice is the absence of justice. Is there such a thing as evil?" The Christian pauses, "Isn't evil the absence of good?" The Christian continues: "If there is evil in the world, professor, and we all agree there is, then God, if He exists, must be accomplishing a work through the agency of evil. What is that work God is accomplishing? The Bible tells us it is to see if each one of us will, of our own free will, choose good over evil."
The professor responds: "As a philosophical scientist, I don't view this matter as having anything to do with any choice; as a realist, I absolutely do not recognize the concept of God or any other theological factor as being part of the world equation because God is not observable."
"I would have thought that the violation of God's moral code in this world is probably one of the most observable phenomena going," the Christian replies. "Newspapers make billions of dollars reporting it every day! Tell me, professor. Do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?"
"If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, young man, yes, of course I do."
"Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?" The professor makes a sucking sound with his teeth and gives his student a silent, stony stare. "Professor. Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor, are you not teaching your beliefs, sir? Aren't you exercising faith, sir? You are not a scientist but a preacher?"
"I believe in what is - that's science!" exclaims the professor.
"Ahh! SCIENCE! Sir, you are correct in stating that science is the study of observed phenomena. However, science has to be corrected regularly. What one generation believes as scientifically true has to be corrected by the next generation. Ever heard of the flat earth society, professor?"
"To continue the point you were making earlier to the other student, may I give you an example of what I mean?" The professor wisely keeps silent. The Christian looks around the room. "Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the professor's brain?"
The class breaks out in laughter. The Christian points towards his elderly professor. "Is there anyone here who has ever heard the professor's brain... felt the professor's brain, touched or smelt the professor's brain?"
No one appears to have done so. The Christian shakes his head sadly. "It appears no one here has had any sensory perception of the professor's brain whatsoever. Well, according to the rules of empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, SCIENTIFICALLY SPEAKING, the professor has no brain."
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Martin Luther said, "I'm afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of youth." America's government-run education system has proven Luther right.
The above referenced story illustrates why Christians do not have to be intimidated by what has been parading around in American public schools for the last forty years as science. It is not science. It is the religion of secular humanism. Secular Humanism is a religion in the same way that Hinduism and Buddhism are religions. The United States Supreme Court has identified Secualr Humanism as a religion. It ruled that the First Amendment grants the same protection and imposes the same limitations on the "religion of Secular Humanism" as are applicable to other religions. (See Torcaso v. Watkins, 367 US 488 (1961). Charles Potter was a signer of the Humanist Manifesto I. He was also an honorary president of the National Education Association. He said in 1930 that "education is thus a most powerful ally of Humanism, and every American public school is a school of Humanism." The evangelists and adherents of secular humanism occupy critical places of leadership in America today. They are fairly easy to identify because they share a common attitude---they are "control freaks". Their mantra goes something like this --- give us your children, pay your taxes, increase our salaries and funding, never question our decisions, ignore the results of our work and above all---just shut up. Now please don't tell me you are a Christian teacher in a public school or have a relative or friend who is a public school teacher and you express your Christian faith freely in the classroom. If you truly believe that, you are either out of touch with reality or the administrators at your school are so inept they are not aware of what you are doing in the classroom. Both are distinct possibilities. I am not suggesting that all Christians teachers should abandon the public school system. I would be happy if every public school teacher was a devout Christian. But more than that, a Christian teacher who is free to express their faith without fear of consequences. Defend public education if you must, but keep your hands out of my pocket to pay for it please. Your mandatory religious indoctrination has miserably failed and have made public school classrooms minimum security prisons, complete with police officers, security cameras and metal detectors. Please don't insult my intelligence by sending me anecdotal stories justifying public education. Let's start with you picking up the tab for a system that you believe in and then we can have a serious discussion about the merits of public education.
Paul warned us 2,000 years ago that we would face "oppositions of science falsely so called" (I Timothy 6:20). The Bible does not claim to be a science book; however, when it does speak to science at no place has it been demonstrated to be inaccurate. Please refer to a study entitled, "Science and the Bible" available above.
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