What in the world ever happened to God?  Everywhere you look there is more and more antagonism towards Him for one reason or another.  Scientists are moving into outrage at any thought of God doing anything in the world.  Atheists are growing in number across our country.  Believers are going to be nabbed as people with no brains or no real understanding of the world.  I am normally not an alarmist or one who believes in conspiracies.  I still think Oswald killed Kennedy without any help from outside forces.  Area 51 has more military hardware than it does UFO stuff.  But recent events even make me wonder what is taking place.

Let me add a few ideas as we move along.  Most of the wackiness going on today is only in our country.  You wonder what people with next to nothing in other nations would think of all of this.  Even sociologists recognize that man's concept of the divine is natural as people grow.  Believers in those lands where it is dangerous to even have faith would find this a huge waste of argument.  It is also true that a rise in militant atheism is something that comes and goes.  People in the early 60's leaned toward such philosophy until it was found to be empty and lacking in substance.  That is when we saw a swing back to evangelical theology in the last part of the 20th century.  We just recycle our ignorance while dressing it up in new clothes.  I have to imagine people in Russia or other socialist states know far better than we how not having a God leaves you totally without hope.  You wonder why people would want to live that way here.

Science does not really explain away God.  It does not matter how educated a person may be in their field because they tend not to understand His place.  Where did all of the laws or theories initiate?  Perhaps the scientist is only discovering God's place in the universe.  Does this mean that we believers need to lose our minds in any anti religious declaration?  Steven Hawking wrote in his first major book of how God can be behind or involved in science without constantly changing the rules.  The sad thing is later editions of the book would be scrubbed of those references.  Many academics in fields of science are indeed believers who know how to walk among the tensions.  What ultimately gives me pause about recent developments is these very smart people fail to go to the next step in asking one more question.  What do we do with the evil among people after science does its part?

I believe in a God as revealed in scripture.  But this does not mean my mind has to be a fortress against thinking.  One reason for my faith is there is no amount of education that can really change us to reach a divine purpose.  Theories about the cosmos will not deal with sin that destroys us.  Ideas of philosophy do not promise answers for real life issues.  Casting away any idea of God will not make us any more loving or caring.  We live in a desperate need of God to heal us from self inflicted wounds.  Most of this recent outbreak of trying to do without Him smells of arrogance and pride.  Humanity still wants what it wants when it wants it.  We never really moved far away from the Garden of Eden.  I can only hope we move someday to where God meets us in the power of His grace.

Bro. Trey