Comic Genius!
29 Jun '06 03:54I have next to me a book entitle "The Young Man's Guide". This book is a very old "guide" to how a young Christian man should act. I happened to read the first few pages, and I would like to read an excerpt for everybody (believers and non-believers alike).
pg. 4 paragraph 2
""Is there a God?" What an unnecesary question you are saying to yourself. And you are quite right.In regard to this point David says in one of the Psalms: "The fool hath said in his heart: There is no God." And truly; only a man destitute of reaso, a man who is mad, could make such an assertion, could question the existence of God."
The next couple of paragraphs compares a watch to the Universe. Giving an example very similar to as follows, one person shows a watch to his friend, asks if he thinks that it would take somebody with much skill to make. Your friend would not reply, no it made itself, because you would call him crazy. This book states, scientists who state that the Universe came into being by itself are making absurd claims for this same reason! However, the authors of this book are actually kind enough to give these scientists the benefit of the doubt and say for instance that they are right. However, they owe us an explanation of the most important point, that being "whence came this primeval matter?" To which it states
"The good gentlemen will thus find themselves driven into a very tight corner, and in order to get out of the dilemma they will be compelled to retreat to a certain extent from the position in which they have entrenched themselves, and say: "If you persist in having a God, you may give the name of God to this primary matter." But this will not help to settle the question, for to have such a God as this is tantamount to having no God at all."
The book then talks about how through the use of common sense we can see once and for all that "God" exists. I want to see what comments believers and non-believers have about all of this before I comment.
pg. 4 paragraph 2
""Is there a God?" What an unnecesary question you are saying to yourself. And you are quite right.In regard to this point David says in one of the Psalms: "The fool hath said in his heart: There is no God." And truly; only a man destitute of reaso, a man who is mad, could make such an assertion, could question the existence of God."
The next couple of paragraphs compares a watch to the Universe. Giving an example very similar to as follows, one person shows a watch to his friend, asks if he thinks that it would take somebody with much skill to make. Your friend would not reply, no it made itself, because you would call him crazy. This book states, scientists who state that the Universe came into being by itself are making absurd claims for this same reason! However, the authors of this book are actually kind enough to give these scientists the benefit of the doubt and say for instance that they are right. However, they owe us an explanation of the most important point, that being "whence came this primeval matter?" To which it states
"The good gentlemen will thus find themselves driven into a very tight corner, and in order to get out of the dilemma they will be compelled to retreat to a certain extent from the position in which they have entrenched themselves, and say: "If you persist in having a God, you may give the name of God to this primary matter." But this will not help to settle the question, for to have such a God as this is tantamount to having no God at all."
The book then talks about how through the use of common sense we can see once and for all that "God" exists. I want to see what comments believers and non-believers have about all of this before I comment.
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