1 Kings 19:11 The LORD said, "Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the LORD, for the LORD is about to pass by."
Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake. 12 After the earthquake came a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper. 13 When Elijah heard it, he pulled his cloak over his face and went out and stood at the mouth of the cave.
I think lately I've been looking for the Lord in the fire and the earthquake and the wind. But I need to stop and listen for the gentle whisper.
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Hi Kelly,
Yes, the "Expelled" movie sounds interesting and fun! (if a little biased..:)
Thanks for your thoughts and the Time link! I find the naturalists' position somewhat amusing, because it seems self-defeating (as Plantinga shows, e.g. http://www.veritas-ucsb.org/library/plantinga/Dennett.html). When a naturalist says "Look! I've shown that thoughts or beliefs (whether about God or about anything else) have a neural correlate (I agree) and thus are completely deterministic (I disagree, as per my car-and-driver analogy)," they have effectively stated that all thoughts (including their own) don't have any relevance at all to what the real world is actually like. Thus they don't have any reason to believe their own thoughts. (Plantinga explains it better.)
For us Christians though, we believe that God gave us the mental facilities to comprehend (to an "asymptotically" / arbitrarily-close level of accuracy, as we keep learning throughout our lives) the world we live in, and that He also gave us the mental facilities to interact with Him (in prayer, in worship, and some day face to face). This view solves so many difficulties. It explains moral responsibility, our own perception of ourselves (what some atheists call the "illusion of free will"), the existence of other minds/souls like our own, etc....
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