Albert Einstein, who is often dishonestly characterized as having been an atheist, agreed
that God-denial is foolishness. He once said of non-believers: “The
fanatical atheists are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of
their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are
creatures who – in their grudge against traditional religion as the
‘opium of the masses’ – cannot hear the music of the spheres.”
“I’m
not an atheist,” added Einstein. “The problem involved is too vast for
our limited minds. We are in the position of a little child entering a
huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows
someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not
understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly
suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn’t
know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most
intelligent human being toward God. We see the universe marvelously
arranged and obeying certain laws but only dimly understand these laws.” ~ An excerpt from article by Matt Barber, titled "Big Bang Blows Atheism Sky High..." - April 26, 2016.
In
Romans 1:20, “For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power
and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation
of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without
excuse.”
Illustrious NASA scientist (and agnostic) Dr. Robert Jastrow (1925-2008) put
it this way: “For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of
reason, the story ends like a bad dream. How? As he scaled the mountain of ignorance and was about to conquer the highest peak pulling himself over
the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting
there for centuries.”
One can see that the mountain is the same for both...a mountain of ignorance. Both meet at the top and both thinking they made it using their know-how their knowledge. What it means is exactly what Einstein said, “The problem involved is too vast for
our limited minds. We are in the position of a little child entering a
huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows
someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not
understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly
suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn’t
know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most
intelligent human being toward God. We see the universe marvelously
arranged and obeying certain laws but only dimly understand these laws.”
As Einstein also said, "there is no such thing as no thing" As the young child understands, things come from something. There is a Creator, can we understand the Creator in his entirety? No more than an ant could understand us if we picked it up and held it gently in our hand.
The Bible tells us, those that do not have the mind of a child will not enter heaven. And he said: "Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven" ~ Matthew 18:3.
*"Therefore everyone who confesses Me before men, I will also confess him
before My Father who is in heaven. "But whoever denies Me before men, I
will also deny him before My Father who is in heaven ~ Matthew
10:32-33. "If you declare with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe
in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved" ~
Romans 10:9.
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