FAITH IN GOD. Is it really such a stretch?
A lot of people equate christians’ believing in God and the Bible with fairytales and folklore. But is it really such a stretch, even for our secularised, materialistic society?
We live in a magical world, a world made for romance. We’ve just become so overly familiar with it, and therefore blinded to the breathless wonder of it all. But come on…butterflies and bumble bees, peacocks and porcupines, starfish, rainbows, snowflakes, weeping willows, mangoes, pumpkins, stallions, giraffes, gazelles, hummingbirds, the moon, white sand beaches and blue lagoons, mountains and deserts and waterfalls, the wind in the poplars, music, a kiss…are you getting the picture?
That’s just a smattering, a tiny sliver of the magic and beauty of the world we live in everyday. All by chance? All an accident? A big explosion? Now that’s a stretch. And that would have to be one pretty big explosion. I experienced a 7.2 earthquake in New Zealand in 2012 (from a safe enough distance thankfully) and the scope and power of that was way beyond me…a shaking of land and sea and everything and everyone on them for almost 2/3 of the country (that’s a ‘whole lot a shaking going on’). Try an explosion that spits out our univserse…in perfect balance and with such staggering beauty yet. Unthinkable! And some would consider us idiots and naive, who believe in a God who designed and created it. I’d say it’s a far bigger stretch and completely illogical to believe the alternative.
Besides, any explosion you or I have ever witnessed or seen the effects of, big or small, have resulted in demolition and destruction, not the opposite. Adding to that, even for an explosion, you got to start with something…something from nothing is impossible and unscientific. And if you’ll notice there’s a whole lot of something here, and most of it, even after mankind’s repeated attempts to ruin it, is still pretty damntastic. Now I’m no scientist or theologian for that matter, but I am gifted with a pretty fair amount of common sense, and that leads me to no other conclusion, than that there is an amazing personality called God who’s responsible for all the world of wonder around us. Let’s face it, isn’t the main reason that many of us dismiss the God explanation is that we don’t want to be accountable, or deal with the ramifications of that? Because it’s really not that much of a stretch.
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