"Frankly, there are many things about Christianity I wouldn’t wish up, nor would you. It’s counter to what natural man would come up with. If we were just going on our own devices we wouldn’t want a God who watches everything, keeping account of our sin. More likely, we’d dream up a God who grades on a curve. But our intuitions are such that we believe in justice and that no crime should go unpunished. There is also mercy in the midst of this far-reaching and thorough-going justice and that’s part of the message of Christianity, too. My conviction is that the foundational principles of Christianity resonate with our deepest intuitions. That’s why I can go into a philosophy class and say, “Let me give you five or six foundational elements of a Christian worldview and I think you’ll have a hard time arguing against these ideas taken individually. These are the things that make up the foundation and the basic superstructure of the view we call Christianity.” Some people might want to fuss about the window-dressing. Okay, fine. But they’re not going to be able to find too many things wrong with the foundation. Take this simple example. One of the foundational, cosmological questions is why something exists, rather than nothing. Why is anything here at all? We know through science that the universe wasn’t always here. We’ve got the Second Law of Thermodynamics saying that things are running down. That means they must have been run up at some time. If they’d been running down forever, they’d be dead right now. The universe would have stopped long ago. No, the universe is not infinite. This is the view of secular science, not my religious wishful thinking. That means the whole physical universe came into being at some point, before which nothing existed." str.org/articles/christianity-bolted-to-reality#.UjozG8ZhCVp
Posted on: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 23:31:44 +0000
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