Thursday, October 04, 2007

Brain Game

Last night I listened to John Lennox and Richard Dawkins debate Darwinism and Christianity. The debate was a congenial conversation between two Oxford professors, a mathemetician and a biologist. While I couldn't understand all they were discussing, it was refreshing to hear something more intelligent, polite and rational.

I tried to keep an open mind, but that's not really possible. Dawkins said he is tempted to worship when he sees nature, but that feeling should be dismissed because it has no rational basis. He also accredited that kind of worship to unthinking people. Poor Mr. Dawkins. Little does he know that God inspires everyone to have the same response.

Lennox made a passiononate argument about atheism needing faith in order to follow it.

We as Christians have become lazy in our thinking and we focus too much on our feelings. True Christianity engages the mind and the heart. In fact, true faith is only possible when the mind explores every avenue of faith. True faith asks the hard questions and doesn't accept so called truth just because the church teaches it or everyone else believes it.

Christians today have flabby brains anesthetized by too much television, the pursuit of wealth and shallow worship.

"And this is eternal life, that they KNOW you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent." John 17:3, ESV

Engage your brain and get to know the creator of the cosmos and all else that is out there!

"When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
what is man that you are mindful of him,
and the son of man that you care for him? ...

O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!" Psalm 8:3,4,9 ESV