It is one thing to be wrong but to express it for all who read the Voices column is another. The writer of 11-05-2007 used faulty logic and reasoning, making statements that show an astounding lack of knowledge of simple things.

The writer acknowledged that a high percentage of the people in this nation believe in a higher power (presumably he means God) for which he has no problem, then he turns around and writes: What I have a problem with is the use of biblical morality to justify law-making. Does the man not understand that our laws are based on the Judeo-Christian principles set forth by God and which were used by the founders?  Should law makers who understand moral principles and who follow them deny their beliefs? To insist on such would mean that only heretics and vile men would be eligible to make laws. In fact, aren’t we seeing the bitter fruits of having those very types in office now?

He says it is absurd to claim belief in a great flood without evidence. Has he ever heard of the sedimentary layers that testify to the earth being covered with water? Additionally, he says that the earth being 6,000 is nothing but a claim with no evidence. It’s easier to believe that to believe that mud and rocks created taking millions of years at that.

In spite of the dictionary definition that has stood the test of truth over time, he says that “An atheist is not a person who believes that there is no God; an atheist is a person who rejects the idea of a God because there is no evidence to suggest one existing.” In order to support his thesis of demanding evidence before he can believe, he twists the meaning of atheist to justify his stand.

He wrote that it wasn’t the place of those who don’t believe God exists to prove his non-existence. In one way he is right, but he is wrong in his reasoning. He must prove that the Bible is wrong in declaring the existence of God. The Bible says in Pslams 19:1: To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth his handiwork. It is now up to the writer to prove that isn’t truthful.  I believe that verse, among the many, prove the existence of God.

Faith isn’t based on some nebulous idea with no foundation for the faith. It is based on fact. That the people who wrote the Bible were real men; that evidence in the found artifacts testify to the truthfulness of what they wrote; that honorable men wrote they saw Jesus and no one in that time disputed them; and that is an indisputable fact that thousands of men and women have given their lives for the testimony of Christ.

Facts have been furnished and history records that those are the undeniable facts. Doubt is for those who refuse to name the name of Jesus. And that is a fact. The writer is pitifully wrong.

© 11-11-2007 DEC