Monday, October 5, 2009

Revelation without religion

Quotes and comments;

1. ' Julian Huxley tells us ('Religion Without Revelation') that, "it's clear that the idea of personality in God is put there by man.''

- It seems to me that Huxley has it wrong, and that it's god who has put personality into man. If the Materialists were correct there could be no personality of any kind, as matter doesn't have personality. The Materialist has to tell us where personality comes from, and he can't. All he can say is, ''well it's here.'' I can't imagine this can be intellectually satisfying to anyone.

- Without God there would be no personality. To say one doesn't like the idea of God, is to say one doesn't like personality; that one would prefer to be a rock than to be a human being. As life can only come from life, so personality can only come from Personality. At the core of Christianity is the insistence that the universe is Personal; that reality is personal.

- Contra Huxley, there is no such thing as being without revelation. Both the Materialist and the Christian live in a 'revelational' universe. There is no escaping revelation. Even if you locked yourself in a room and played computer games all your life you couldn't escape revelation, as the human heart (mind, soul, body) is a creation of god, and thus a revelation of god.

- I think we can say that true biblical faith, rather being a 'religion' is more like revelation without religion. Christians have the truth, non-Christians must content themselves with religion. (e.g. with religions like materialistic evolution.) False religions are attempts to escape Revelation.

- When a writer says about X that 'it's clear' you can be confident he's about to b.s. you. If it was clear he wouldn't have to say it's clear. Who is he talking to, himself?

Notes;
1. False religions abound, and seem to increase daily. God becomes just another word once we reject the Creator. Some theologian defined god as the common will of all living things. Maybe he ought to have told the predators and the herbivores. It apparently doesn't matter that there is no common will. (Has this guy ever opened up a history book, or taken a look out the window?)
2. If you've ever studied, even briefly, the ideas of humanist theologians (and you have my sympathies) you know they like to say things like; god is; truth, light, love, democracy, the common will, the world, the spirit of humanity, mankind, etc. God is a thousand and on different things; but never God. This is what we mean by false religion. Fallen man loves religion; it's anything and everything... with the exception of being Yahweh, creator of heaven and earth. [My favorite among these goofballs, is the guy who defined god as a symbol for the vital spark of the universe.]
- It's not theologians like this the atheists hate. They're more than happy to let clowns like the above tip toe through the tulips and cast flower petals to the wind.