"The Fool Hath Said"
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· 174 viewsWhat makes the statement, "There is no God," a foolish statement? This lesson talks about 4 things atheism ignores.
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“The Fool Hath Said”
“The Fool Hath Said”
Psalm 14:1
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, There is none that doeth good.
What makes this statement foolish?
It Ignores Cause and Effect
It Ignores Cause and Effect
If the universe is the effect, what was the cause?
There are only 3 possibilities for the existence of the universe:
Eternal - Denied by science
Came from Nothing - Illogical
Created - Possible
Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
It Ignores Design
It Ignores Design
A carefully crafted machine designed for a purpose is thought of as being produced by a skilled craftsman, however, the machine that is the human body is labeled a product of random accidents and mutations.
A series of dots and dashes that stand in the place of words and ideas is considered a code that must have been created by man, however, the information code contained in DNA is considered the product of happenstance.
In like manner an intelligible communication via radio signal from some distant galaxy would be widely hailed as evidence of an intelligent source. Why then doesn’t the message sequence on the DNA molecule also constitute prima facie evidence for an intelligent source? After all, DNA information is not just analogous to a message sequence such as Morse code, it is such a message sequence...
We believe that if this question is considered, it will be seen that most often it is answered in the negative simply because it is thought to be inappropriate to bring a Creator into science.”
- Thaxton, Charles B., Walter L. Bradley, and Roger L. Olsen (1984), The Mystery of Life’s Origin (New York: Philosophical Library). pp. 211-212.
If transcribed into English, the DNA in a single human cell would fill a 1,000 volume set of encyclopedias approximately 600 pages each
- Gore, Rick (1976), “The Awesome Worlds Within a Cell,” National Geographic, 150:355-395, September.
Sir Fred Hoyle concluded that the notion that such complexity of the genetic code in DNA could be arrived at by chance is “nonsense of a high order”
- Hoyle, Fred (evolutionist) (1981b), “Hoyle on Evolution,” Nature, 294:105,148, November 12, p. 527.
If there is design, you must acknowledge a designer.
It Ignores Morality
It Ignores Morality
Morals are either:
Theocentric
Anthropocentric
“Discovery that the universe apart from man or before his coming lacks and lacked any purpose or plan has the inevitable corollary that the workings of the universe cannot provide any automatic, universal, eternal, or absolute ethical criteria of right and wrong.”
- Simpson, George Gaylord (1951), The Meaning of Evolution (New York: Mentor Books), p. 180.
Only the theocentric approach can give a purpose and motivation to follow an ethical code.
Biblical morality has several thrusts: 1.It is designed to develop within man right attitudes, or to state it another way, to instill a divine level of thinking; 2.It is intended to help humanity translate spiritual attitudes into actions that will be helpful to all others; 3.Finally, the desired result is to guide man back into accord with the divine ideal, ensuring both his present and eternal happiness—to the glory of God.
- Thompson, Bert, Ph.D., and Jackson, Wayne, M.A. (1996), The Case for the Existence of God (Montgomery, AL: Apologetics Press, Inc.), p. 65.
1 John 4:10
1 John 4:19
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
We love him, because he first loved us.
God is good and therefore, what He does, commands, and approves is also good.
Psalm 119:39
Psalm 119:68
Turn away my reproach which I fear: For thy judgments are good.
Thou art good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes.
“This means that the only locus of the moral law is a superhuman mind. That it must be a mind is clear when we realize that law has no meaning except for minds, and that it must be superhuman is clear when we realize that it cannot be ours. Therefore, the recognition of an objective moral law drives us to the belief in God, without whom that law would have no significant being. If we believe the law, we must also believe in the conditions which make the law possible.”
- Trueblood, David Elton. Philosophy of Religion. New York: Harper and Row, 1957, p. 115.
The dictates of a Christian moral code are deemed unjustifiable due to the absence of a Creator, but are substituted with humanistic morality with no justification other than personal preference.
It Ignores Logic
It Ignores Logic
Let’s analyze the illogical statement “There is no God,” with the following syllogism:
“There is no God,” declares the complete absence of an omniscient, eternal being on any plane of existence.
In order to declare this knowledge, one must have omniscient knowledge and eternality to claim that God does not and never has existed on any plane, whether physical, spiritual, or otherwise.
By claiming omniscience and eternality, an individual has proclaimed themselves “God.”
By proclaiming themselves God, the declarative premise “There is no God,” in the first point is negated.
Atheism is a self-defeating argument.
Psalm 14:1
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, There is none that doeth good.