KNOWING GOD BY YOUR INTELLECT

KNOWING GOD BY YOUR INTELLECT

I see many wanting to penetrate the mystery of the universe and whether there is a God by means of their intellect.  Often they claim to base their thinking on science but much of it is in fact not true science and for many this alleged ‘science’ has become yet another god.  True science examines the proven facts and comes up supporting the existence of an All Wise Creator every time, although we still do not understand.

I knew a man who had been miraculously healed by God of alcoholism but he still wanted to find God intellectually before he would believe in Him.  What a forlorn hope.

Those who want intellectual proof of God will be disappointed.  Personally I do not want it as such an idea as encompassing God intellectually denies His infinitude and our place as His creation.  It reduces everything to a level not worthy of God.

To make our intellect the benchmark for belief in God is actually gross arrogance, and requires that for us to believe in Him the roles must be reversed: God must be made small enough for us to comprehend Him by our immense intellect!  It can never be!  My God is ever so much greater than that.  So big that questions of how the earth came into being are readily satisfied by His word which tells me all I need to know and leaves me worshipping in wonderment.

Access to illegitimate knowledge was the temptatious bait that the serpent used to bring down Eve.  It is still a tactic he is using with success, especially in our enlightened yet heavily darkened, secular Western World.

“Infinitude” belongs to God and cannot be penetrated by human intellect – it is not in the divine order of things that it should be.  If this was accepted a lot of folly and eternal damnation would be avoided.

I notice that many, who by choice of their will have decided not to believe in God and boast of the fact, are actually aware of Him at some level and frustrated by their inability to control and manipulate Him.  It seems that if only He would behave the way they want Him to, then they would happily believe in Him.