Stephen Charnock: “Should the laws of a country, agreed universally to by the whole body of the people, be accounted vain, because an hundred men of those millions disapprove of them, when not their reason, but their folly and base interest, persuades them to dislike them and dispute against them? What if some men be blind, shall any conclude from thence that eyes are not natural to men ? shall we say that the notion of the existence of God is not natural to men, because a very small number have been of a contrary opinion? shall a man in a dungeon, that never saw the sun, deny that there is a sun, because one or two blind men tell him there is none, when thousands assure him there is. Why should then the exceptions of a few, not one to millions, discredit that which is voted certainly true by the joint consent of the world? Add this, too, that if those that are reported to be atheists had had any considerable reason to step aside from the common persuasion of the whole world, it is a wonder it met not with entertainment by great numbers of those, who, by reason of their notorious wickedness and inward disquiets, might reasonably be thought to wish in their hearts that there were no God. It is strange if there were any reason on their side, that in so long a space of time as hath run out from the creation of the world, there could not be engaged a considerable number to frame a society for the profession of it. It hath died with the person that started it, and vanished as soon as it appeared.”
Clay Miller: The first sentence immediately evoked thoughts of the homosexual movement in my country. Homosexuality is not natural, no matter how you slice it. We have people who try to Christianize it by revising texts in the Bible to mean the opposite of what they mean. Yet they can provide no sound exegesis. And they can find no passage on marriage (which is highly esteemed and explained in Scripture) where God gives guidelines for homosexual marriage. Not one. Marriage is for procreation. It is for a picture of Christ and the church above all. It is always defined in terms of being between a man and a woman. God did not provide a safe way for homosexual intercourse. It is dangerous and stupid to engage parts of the body in sex that were not created for sex. If God intended men to be with men, or women to be with women, He would have made it natural. It is not. On the atheistic side, evolution speaks against it as well. Evolution is about survival of the fittest…i.e. the fittest for procreation. A species that cannot reproduce will become extinct. With all the rational reasons to understand that homosexuality is deviant behavior, and condemned in Scripture, we still are being told it is good, and we must accept it. The majority knows it is wrong, yet the minority has been given a platform that was not available in Charnock’s time: Hollywood and the Media. Charnock would be appalled.
We live in a day in which people believe desires are rights. If you desire it, it is how you are and you should not be discriminated against. That is the mentality. Of course it is a hypocritical mentality. Because one sinner will condemn other sinners in this game. Homosexuals may condemn pedophiles but pedophiles have the exact same argument as the homosexual. Murderers desire to kill. Yet that is condemned by pedophiles. Men are attracted to attractive women…so they commit fornication. That is condemned by some murderers! On and on. To bring this back around, this is true because in every man there is a conscience of some kind. That conscience is from God. And most of the sins above I mentioned, are committed by people who would say there is probably a God.
So it is with the idea of God. In my country it is lopsided, the belief in God versus atheism. Yet, the small minority has the platform. And because they have the platform, many people are confused thinking that believing in God is something “weird” or “not widely accepted”. This is the atheists darling (Hollywood and Media). They think because TV and entertainment is dominated by godlessness, that this makes the case for no God. But it is they who live in a box. God will always be acknowledged. Always. Because He exists and He makes His existence known and no amount of atheistic evangelism will change that. “How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God” (John 5:44).
