“The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, They have done abominable works, There is none who does good” (Psalm 14:1).
Stephen Charnock: “…No instance can be given of any one people in the world that disclaimed it [the existence or acknowledgement of a deity]. It hath been owned by the wise and ignorant, by the learned and stupid, by those who had no other guide but the dimmest light of nature, as well as those whose candles were snuffed by a more polite education, and that without any solemn debate and contention. Though some philosophers have been known to change their opinions in the concerns of nature, yet none can be proved to have absolutely changed their opinions concerning the being of God. One died for asserting one God; none, in the former ages upon record, hath died for asserting no God. Go to the utmost bounds of America, you may find people without some broken pieces of the law of nature, but not without this signature and stamp upon them, though they have wanted commerce with other nations, except as savage as themselves, in whom the light of nature was as it were sunk into the socket, who are but one remove from brutes, who clothe not their bodies, cover not their shame, yet were they as soon known to own a God, as they were known to be a people. They were possessed with the notion of a Supreme Being, the author of the world; had an object of religious adoration; put up prayers to the deity they owned for the good things they wanted, and the diverting the evils they feared…”
Clay Miller: This is a continuation of a paragraph which can be read from the March 10th post. I will finish the lengthy thought next time. All people of all times have thought of a higher being, a god, a creator. This is so universal that even an atheist reading this claims to be an “atheist” (belief in no God). He cannot even name himself without reference to the idea of a God. He simply takes what is there and what has been made known to him with conscience, words, teachings, evidences, etc…and he merely denies it, and calls himself a name that presupposes the existence of the idea of a god. So then, maybe he will come up with a new word, a new title. But no matter what he comes up with, he is that name as opposed to what? The idea of a deity. He cannot escape it. That is why atheists get so angry at theists. They want so bad to break the bonds and chains they feel shackling them as creatures who are accountable to their Creator. But they will never get where they hope to get. More latere.
