When did you find yourself asking those big questions, ‘where am I going? What am I doing? What is my purpose?’ If you are reading this blog, then I am presuming that you have, at some point in your life. If you haven’t, then I wonder if you will?
I’m posing these questions because the cogs in my mind started turning after watching a debate the other day. It was between Richard Dawkins and John Lennox. Dawkins, a well renowned Atheist and Lennox, a Professor in pure mathematics and a Christian Apologist. As the debate progressed, it was interesting to listen to arguments put forth about science, religion and theology. However, amidst the many interesting points of dialogue between the two, I was startled by the claim made by Dawkins, that those big questions that I stated earlier - where am I going? What am I doing? What is my purpose- are not important? It led me to look into other debates between people of theistic worldviews versus others, who held non-theistic worldviews. And the line of thread had similarities between the non-theistic worldview arguments, that belief in God for being the Creator in the beginning was seen as lazy or for unthinking people.
To an extent, I can see the angle that they are coming from - as Christians, we believe that God created something from nothing. And this can be hard to understand or digest, however, God in Himself, cannot be measured or described fully in our human comprehension for the very fact that He is God - everlasting, omnipotent, omniscient and beyond time or space. How can one fully fathom this? There are times that I marvel at the work of another person’s art or a product of their creation - if I cannot begin to understand their genius, then surely the one who designed the grandeur of the universe would be far more worthy of my awe, wonder and praises?
I can see God’s presence woven throughout history, that all that is good in this world points to His creative nature, that God has the power to speak, and bring something into existence.
In the beginning God created heaven and earth. Now the earth was a formless void, there was darkness over the deep, with a divine wind sweeping over the waters. God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light.
Genesis 1-1:3
Perhaps I am not qualified to rebut all claims against God held by an atheist, but I can be assured that it has helped me to hold onto my beliefs even tighter, because I cannot believe that my life is without purpose. I cannot believe that I am ‘just’ an organism and all that I do has no real meaning and can be brushed off as irrelevant.
If the very chance of my existence or the universe’s existence has come about from the smallest chance of the nth degree, or the fact that the conditions of the universe, particularly earth are perfectly fine-tuned so that life can exist - well, that’s more than enough evidence for me to believe in God. In fact, it humbles me to think that I have been given a life to live by the One who created all of life.
maya.
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