“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: “A general consent of all nations is to be esteemed as a law of nature. Nature cannot plant in the minds of all men an assent to a falsity, for then the laws of nature would be destructive to the reason and minds of men.”
Clay Miller: This is how reason works. It reasons. No matter who you are, you make decisions and determinations by what you reason. For some “reason”, all rules are dropped when it comes to reasoning the existence of God. Actually, it is not an intellectual problem…it is a moral irresponsibility and a moral problem for an “atheist”.
Stephen Charnock: “How is it possible, that a falsity should be a persuasion spread through all nations, engraven upon the minds of all men, men of the most towering, and men of the most creeping understanding; that they should consent to it in all places, and in those places where the nations have not had any known commerce with the rest of the known world? A consent not settled by any law of man to constrain people to a belief of it: and indeed it is impossible that any law of man can constrain the belief of the mind.”
Clay Miller: To answer Charnock: It is not possible. It is like saying that gravity does not exist, though that very force holds down every human being and object on this planet from floating off into space.
Stephen Charnock: “Would not he deservedly be accounted a fool, that should deny that to be gold which hath been tried and examined by a great number of knowing goldsmiths, and hath passed the test of all their touch-stones? What excess of folly would it be for him to deny it to be true gold, if it had been tried by all that had skill in that metal in all nations in the world!”
Clay Miller: The problem I see today is not with intellect, but with suppression. Some of the most intellectual people in the world will drop all reason in order to deny the existence of an intelligent Designer. They will not even allow themselves to consider it! That is suppression. They are cheating themselves and they do not care! This area alone is the one area where they will not allow reason an entrance. It is not intellect that is the problem…it is their corrupt desire to suppress the reality of God at whatever expense, even at the expense of intellectual integrity. Amazing!
