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发帖数: 152 | 1 B. The first five days of creation.
1. The philosophical importance of knowing God as creator.
a. The philosopher Jean-Paul Sarte stated the essential problem of
philosophy: there is something, instead of nothing. Why? Everything else in
our life flows from the answer to this question.
i. If everything around us, including ourselves, is the result of
random, meaningless occurrences apart from the work of a creating God, then
it says something about who I am, and where I, and the whole universe, are
going. Then the only dignity or honor we bestow upon men is pure
sentimentality, because I don’t have any more significance than an amoebae;
then there is no greater law in the universe than survival of the fittest.
b. Some 100 years ago, there was a great German philosopher named Arthur
Schopenhauer. By habit, he usually dressed like a vagrant, and one day he
sat on a park bench in Berlin, deep in thought. His appearance made a
policeman suspicious, so the policeman asked the philosopher “Who are you?
” Schopenhauer answered, “I would to God I knew.”
i. And the only way we can ever really find out who we are is from
God. The best place to find out begins in Genesis.
c. There are many possible answers to the question of how everything
came into being. Some say, once there was absolutely nothing, and now there
is something. Others (including the Bible) say before there was anything
created, there was a Personal Being.
d. One day, students in one of Albert Einstein’s classes were saying
they had decided there was no God. Einstein asked them how much of all the
knowledge in the world they had among themselves collectively, as a class.
The students discussed it for a while and decided they had 5% of all human
knowledge among themselves. Einstein thought their estimate was a little
generous, but he replied: “Is it possible God exists in the 95% you don’t
know?” |
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