When I use the word “World” in this context, it is in
reference to the world of the flesh, non-believers. I like to watch and read
views opposed to mine so that I can get an idea of the opposition I am up
against; theology, science, history, and so on. Most recently I've been looking
at Evolution and Atheism. I've looked at the arguments made by some of the
celebrity faces of Atheism in particular. Namely Penn, from Penn and Teller,
and Bill Maher who made a mockumentary titled “Religulous”. And I have to admit,
from a purely rational, materialistic (as in the real world is all there is,
not gaining of material wealth) worldview, they make absolute sense. They got
it right. All religions are myth given to the masses to control them. There is
no God, and if there is, He just doesn't care enough to get involved. Religious
scriptures were written by backwards people in a backwards time. Science has
proven the supernatural to be false, to not exist (think about that for a
second). I hear and read these things and my mind screams, “Yes! That makes
perfect sense.”
But then I hear this voice struggling to be heard over the
tumult, “No, you know that to false. You know the Truth.” In my worldview, that
is the Holy Spirit gently guiding me in Truth. In my worldview, the natural
world is not the end all, be all, the world of the flesh is in direct
opposition to the Creator. That part of me that still struggles with the flesh
sees the rationale. Thankfully I have a Guide, directing my spirit to overwhelm
the flesh.
If that Guide were to go silent, I would honestly have to
agree with the atheists. If the Christian God isn't real, then no God is real.
We are all a simple product of natural, biological processes. There is no
overarching morality. There is no true right or wrong, only that which society
and self-preservation impose upon us. I would have to be a pragmatic hedonist.
Oddly enough, my Scripture says exactly this. The world of
the flesh (i.e. natural man) will see the world of the spirit as foolishness.
They will mock the believers of God and worship the creature over the Creator.
And this Scripture was written long, long before we had the great god of
Science.
“The
natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for
they
are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they
are
spiritually discerned.” 1 Corinthians 2:14
It is often amusing for me to
see how often that Scripture proves itself to be true in reference to the
activities of human nature.
