“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: “3. Whatsoever disputes there have been in the world, this of the existence of God was never the subject of contention. All other things have been questioned. What jarrings were there among philosophers about natural things! into how many parties were they split! with what animosities did they maintain their several judgments! but we hear of no solemn controversies about the existence of a Supreme Being: this never met with any considerable contradiction: no nation, that hath put other things to question, would ever suffer this to be disparaged, so much as by a public doubt. We find among the heathen contentions about the nature of God and the number of gods, some asserted an innumerable multitude of gods, some affirmed him to be subject to birth and death, some affirmed the entire world was God; others fancied him to be a circle of a bright fire; others that he was a spirit diffused through the whole world yet they unanimously concurred in this, as the judgment of universal reason, that there was such a sovereign Being: and those that were skeptical in everything else, and asserted that the greatest certainty was that there was nothing certain, professed a certainty in this…
Clay Miller: No matter what nation we go to, there is worship of a deity in its past, present, and to be sure, its future. What we find is not the absence of religion, “cultural practices” or “thought processes”, but rather worship of various types of deities and powers. Some places are very polytheistic. Some are monotheistic. Some believe in a limited being. Some believe in an all-powerful hard Being. Some people believe the sun and the moon are deities. Some people believe all things are God. There are many ideas about the nature of a higher being. But the point is, there is an idea period. I am a simple guy really. I like to take things from the very bottom and work up. What I see in this world I live in is evidence of someone very big, very powerful, very smart and very wise. I also see that there is good and bad, evil and righteousness. And the Bible is the only book, the only religion, that explains all I see so consistently. More later…
