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Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness” (Genesis 1:26a, ESV).
In any viewpoint, there are weaknesses, and some of those viewpoints are insurmountable.
With atheism or agnosticism, the question — How can we think? — ruins disbelief in God. It’s insurmountable. Can a stone (or any other combination of molecules), after billions and billions of years, say, “Let me think about this?”
The answer’s easy (unless you are an atheist) as we are made in the image of God. And the God of the Bible can think, speak, act, and love. We can also ask, “Can this miraculous rock not only think but develop speech, develop plans, and love?”
Without a God, it’s difficult to explain those volitional attributes that make us human. In fact, “How does a simple rock come from nothing?” I have an answer, but do agnostics?
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth (Genesis 1:1).
Let’s throw more rocks at the foolishness of unbelief. Our mere thinking about God defies logic. C.S. Lewis wrote that we can only think about our experiences. If there is no God, then God must be outside our experiences, so where did we get the idea of God?
As John Calvin wrote. . .
No man can survey himself without forthwith turning his thoughts towards the God in whom he lives and moves; because it is perfectly obvious, that the endowments which we possess cannot possibly be from ourselves.
Another philosopher asks. . .
How do we fit in? How can we square this self-conception of ourselves as mindful, meaningless-creating, free, rational, etc., agents with a universe that consists entirely of mindless, meaningless, unfree, nonrational, brute physical particles?”
Well for the atheist, not very well. But let’s keep throwing rocks as a believing scientist writes. . .
Rationality that we unmistakably experience cannot be explained if it does not have an ultimate ground, which can be nothing less than an infinite mind.
Ouch, so many rocks, so much intellectual pain, and yet unbelievers continue to doubt and often accuse Christians of irrational thinking. Another story of creation in the Bible illustrates the Word of God. . .
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God (John 1:1).
The “Let Us” creates us in “Our image” by the Word (ultimate rationality speaks everything into existence). Thus, we exist with a rational mind that can think, speak, love, determine, and grasp the idea of God.
I hope all come to faith in God. Atheism and agnosticism are foolish and aberrant explanations of our experiences. And speaking of rocks, in the end, do we know where those without faith, upon seeing God, will try to hide?
Calling to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb” (Revelation 6:16).
Let’s believe in God and not rocks!