18:15 ¶ And they brought
unto him also infants, that he would touch them: but when his disciples
saw it, they rebuked them. 16 But
Jesus called them unto him, and said, Suffer little children to come
unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God. 17 Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not
receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein.
Literally, this is a
pretty clear statement. Children want to believe and trust those in authority
in their lives and they often do unless and until something happens that breaks
that trust. I can remember a time as a little child that my parents were like
gods. Every word that proceeded out of their mouths was truth and power to me.
One day, though, during one of their many, awful arguments with shouting and
throwing things I came to a sudden realization that they were simply people,
weak and uncertain in many ways. But, to this day I can remember a time when,
even if I disobeyed, I still did not doubt them.
Jesus tells us here
that the faith and trust of a child is what is required to enter the kingdom of
God. It is not entered into by skeptics who want to argue and debate with God.
I just read an article on how the science of Physics seems to be stalled in its
attempt to uncover a unifying ‘theory of everything’. Each time they come to a
spot where they see that the universe looks like it is deliberately fine-tuned
to very narrow parameters they proceed in a different direction attempting to
discount that notion. It seems that they will go to the greatest lengths and
the greatest expense to invent any reason to not believe in God. God, who is
right in front of them staring them in the face in the evidence at hand, cannot
be even considered as a possibility.
These scientists think
they have found that the Higgs-Boson particle they believe they have seen in
action, allows things to have mass. But it cancels out all other of what they
call quantum fluctuations and is
calibrated so precisely, as they put it, to an accuracy of one in 10 to the 16th
power, a phenomenal result. That is the conclusion they’ve come to, but since
they cannot accept such a monstrous thing in their imaginations they then go on
to presume that there must be other more certainly atheistic explanations,
although even under their breaths these neo-pagans know they dare not mention
God. (5)
These people are like
someone looking at a flashlight beam and since they cannot allow themselves to
believe there is a flashlight they imagine the ways the beam could create
itself.
I have an Astronomy
textbook from the 1970s put out by the respected scientist, and atheist, Fred
Hoyle. In it, he writes;
However,
[refers to a diagram of the universe] would demand a special relation of our
own galaxy to the universe, since in this figure we have taken our galaxy to be
located in the center of a nonuniform distribution of galaxies. It hardly seems
plausible that our galaxy would be in any such privileged position. So we
answer the above question [would anywhere appear to be the center making the
universe acentric?] affirmatively on intellectual grounds rather than because
such an answer is determined by observation. (6)
Do you see what is
going on here? This isn’t about critical thinking or any such noble intellectual
attempt to get at the truth behind our reality. This is about denying the
evidence if the evidence points to a Biblical proof, most notably God. As Hoyle
said, they draw many of their conclusions, “on intellectual grounds rather than
because such an answer is determined by observation.”
This mentality will
not, cannot, come to Christ because the conscience and reasoning ability is so
seared. But, God asks through Isaiah;
Isaiah 1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they
shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as
wool.
And tells us through
David;
Psalm 19:1 « To the
chief Musician, A Psalm of David. » The heavens declare the
glory of God; and the firmament (outer space, the universe, as
the heavens described in Genesis 1 and here by the words heavens and firmament
contrasted and united by and) sheweth his handywork.
David also noted;
Psalm 14:1 « To the
chief Musician, A Psalm of
David. » The fool hath said
in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done
abominable works, there is none
that doeth good.
A Christian must seek
to trust and to believe in God, the essence of saving faith.
Hebrews 11:6 But without faith it is
impossible to please him: for
he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
Of course, there are
some who say we will be children in Heaven. Those who remember their childhoods
as joyful will like that notion but those who had painful childhoods of want
and abuse and neglect will regard that idea as hideous.
If we do not come to
Christ as a little child, trusting and seeking His will in simple trust, we
will not enter in. Salvation is predicated upon belief and faith, a faith the
skeptic cannot muster in anything or anyone but himself or blind chance. We are
called to reach up to take God’s hand and let Him lead us through this
wilderness called life.
(5) Ben Allanach,
“Going Nowhere Fast: After the success of the Standard Model experiments have
stopped answering to grand theories. Is particle physics in crisis?” Sally
Davies, ed. Aeon Magazine, 30 Mar
2019. https://aeon.co/essays/has-the-quest-for-top-down-unification-of-physics-stalled?fbclid=IwAR3RXFRWdUUn5oZ_0U0VDv9KibPJalurJnE2hP6fp-SIWJIgjtZK77Q7BuU.
(6) Fred Hoyle, Astronomy and Cosmology: A Modern Course (San
Francisco: W.H. Freeman & Co., 1975), 87.
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