Sir Isaac Newton On Atheism
Belief is the only thing that makes sense to me
A few weeks ago, I attended an event with the candidates for Secretary of State at the East Jefferson Public Library and afterwards had the pleasure to sit with five other attendees at a bar down the street. During our conversation, one in the group asked what we each thought is the cause of our current societal decay.
“Atheism,” I answered immediately.
Indeed, I have no doubt whatsoever that atheism is the central cause of the bedlam we’re living with, from transgenderism to the presumption that we can control the covid virus by simply wearing a mask to the glorification of government to a god-like status.
A dear Friend of The BEC passed along to me this quote from Sir Isaac Newton. I offer it to you for ponder and prayer:
Atheism is so senseless & odious to mankind that it never had many professors. Can it be by accident that all birds beasts & men have their right side & left side alike shaped (except in their bowels) & just two eyes & no more on either side the face & just two ears on either side the head & a nose with two holes & no more between the eyes & one mouth under the nose & either two fore leggs or two wings or two arms on the sholders & two leggs on the hipps one on either side & no more? Whence arises this uniformity in all their outward shapes but from the counsel & contrivance of an Author? Whence is it that the eyes of all sorts of living creatures are transparent to the very bottom & the only transparent members in the body, having on the outside an hard transparent skin, & within transparent juyces with a crystalline Lens in the middle & a pupil before the Lens all of them so truly shaped & fitted for vision, that no Artist can mend them? Did blind chance know that there was light & what was its refraction & fit the eys of all creatures after the most curious manner to make use of it? These & such like considerations always have & ever will prevail with man kind to believe that there is a being who made all things & has all things in his power & who is therfore to be feared.
-- as mentioned in 'A short Schem of the true Religion'
Of each of these, the phrase that hits me hardest…
Did blind chance know that there was light & what was its refraction & fit the eys of all creatures after the most curious manner to make use of it?
If by chance you grew up attending church and have fallen away from the practice, may I humbly ask you to return?
If by chance the distractions of post-modernism have caused you to question your faith, may I humbly ask you to reconsider?
If by chance you no longer believe in God, may I humbly invite you back into belief?
Nothing can make sense without belief in God as Creator.
Everything works to the glorification of God as Creator.
Please pray for one another, work to build the Kingdom, humble yourself before God, grow the faith among those you know and love, invite others into prayer with you, and be one with the Body of Christ.
the bec