When the Clay Questions the Potter
. . . Who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed say to him who formed it, “Why have you made me like this?” Romans 9:20
Why does modern man consider himself in a position to judge God? Let me explain what I mean…when I attempt to dialogue with unbelievers, they will often point to something about the Christian Faith, that seems unfair or illogical to them (such as God sending anyone other than Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and George W. Bush to hell) and then they will say something to the effect of . . . Aha! This does not make sense, therefore God doesn’t exist, and you are a fool! They suppose that because something seems unfair or illogical to them, it cannot be true. This is a giant leap indeed, very little in the world is fair, or logical. Some men grow tall, others stay short, is that fair? Some women are born beautiful; others are not, is this fair? Some children in Africa, born to mothers with AIDS become orphans shortly after birth, others are born to rich Americans, and are doted upon and spoiled from birth, is this fair? No! None of these things are fair, but they are all true. Fairness and truth have no necessary relationship. In other words just because it isn’t fair doesn’t mean it isn’t so.
There are many things modern science has no explanation for, last I checked there is still no reasonable explanation for how bumblebees take flight. The wings are too small to create enough thrust to get off the ground, yet it flies nonetheless. In an atom the nucleus is composed of tightly packed positively charged protons squeezed together with some neutrons, while negative electrons spin around it. The electrons are not attracted to the protons, and the protons do not repel each other. Why does the atom appear to violate understood scientific law? Could it be obeying some sort of higher law that we have yet to discover? Science’s lack of explanation for these phenomena does not mean they do not occur, it only means the explanation is beyond us. If we cannot explain these mysteries on earth, how can we presume ourselves qualified to judge God? How can we with finite brains, containing limited knowledge confidently declare God nonexistent, or the Bible untrue?
“Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? -Job 38:4
