‘Tis the Season for
Fools
Have you seen or heard
of the billboard in New York and other places, put up by American Atheists? It
has wise men traveling toward a star. It reads: “You KNOW it’s a MYTH. This
season, celebrate reason.” The American Atheists have been “celebrating reason”
since 1963. Apparently before that, they were fools too…?
Christmas and Easter
are the seasons for the fools to come out of the proverbial wood-works. Not the
ones who are celebrating Christ’s birthday – although it’s safe to say that
God’s not concerned that we celebrate the birth of Christ. If He was, He
would have told us to celebrate it. We ought not to do God’s thinking for
Him nor think that we can “out-spiritual” God by creating celebrations, for His
sake, that He did not command.
Having said that, the
incarnation is at the heart of Christianity. Contrary to the beliefs of certain
religious groups like the Muslims and Jehovah’s Witnesses, if God did not
become flesh, there could be no salvation. It’s only because of the
incarnation that we have a perfect sacrifice for our sins.
No, the fools to which
I refer are those who incessantly attack Christians for believing that this
world didn’t happen by accident or for believing that – yes – Jesus was born
without a physical/human father and yes – He did rise from the
dead.
I’m referring to fools
like Dr. Stephen J. Hawking – professor of physics at Cambridge University and
best-selling author. His most recent work, The Grand Design, purports to
show that the universe could have come into existence by itself. What?
That is a totally stupid idea. How could anything produce itself?
Where did the energy come from that produced the thing in the first
place?
Perhaps you’ve heard
about the billboard above – Celebrate reason this season. Yes –
please! It is reasonable to believe that either mind is eternal
or matter is eternal. Hawking does not believe the latter; why can’t he
see the former?
“The fool has said in
his heart, ‘There is no God’” (Psa. 14:1).
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