The Philosopher and God (the conclusion)

Two days ago, I started blogging about the relationship between philosophers and God. I have explored some of the accusations made against God, and I have attempted to answer those accusations with scripture. This is the conclusion of that discussion.

Of course, these philosophers never seem to feel that they need to change, and especially not that they need to improve. It’s everyone else that needs improvement. Evidently the philosopher doesn’t believe that God created all men equal. I can imagine him screaming now, “Look around you, do you think everyone is equal?” What I really don’t understand is why they think that they are such fine examples of humanity, and everyone else should be more like them.

Another thing is that people seem to want to take the credit when something good happens, but give God the blame whenever anything bad happens. Job said, shall we receive good at the hand of God, and not evil?

Some of these philosophers remind me of Jim Carey’s character in Bruce Almighty. At the beginning of the movie, Bruce spends a lot of time whining and complaining about how he never gets what he wants, that life is so unfair, that God is so unfair. After some time, God shows up and says, “Hey look, you think you can do better? Here’s the keys.” Okay, not quite those words, but you get the point. Bruce, with God’s powers, becomes even more self-centered, but finds that even with God’s powers he still can’t get what is really most important to him. At one point, he is driving down the road praying to God to give him a sign, while following a truck carrying signs that say “Danger!” and “Turn back!” After he gets hit by another truck, then he finally starts to listen to God. Of course, then he starts to realize that the things that he wanted, but didn’t get before, weren’t really important after all, and, well, if you’ve seen the movie, then you understand, and if you haven’t, then maybe you should. Some of it does get a little adult, but overall, it’s a good movie. I just wish that Hollywood would go back to making serious movies with religious messages. Lately it seems like religion is only an acceptable subject if the movie is a comedy, or the religious characters are the bad guys.

On another point, the number of different religions speaks to man’s lack of understanding as far as what he should believe. It also speaks to man’s innate belief that there is some form of Higher Power. If we are confused about what that higher power is, or how we should worship it, maybe that is only because we allow ourselves to be. He has always been there, ready to give us answers. He will never leave us nor forsake us. He does want us to trust Him. He has always taken care of those that serve Him, why would He change now?