I was perusing some writings about those common arguments against the Christian faith. You know, why God allows evil and suffering in the world, belief in miracles, evolution, church history of violence, God's faults. There are others including that great problem of the only way to God is through Jesus.
Now, these make for great debate and discussion, but all these topics have been dealt with over the years. There are thousands of books and papers by the world's greatest scholars on these subjects. In our modern world, we can tune in to great debates and college lectures on our computers.
So why do we work so hard at rejecting God? Even the children of Israel had signs and miracles performed before their eyes, and immediately were trying to explain them away.
Ravi Zacharias says "A man rejects God neither because of intellectual demands nor because of the scarcity of evidence. A man rejects God because of a moral resistance that refuses to admit his need for God."
So why don't we want to believe in Christ?
We like our present lifestyle. He challenges us in areas of morality. He wants commitment. He wants us to be humble. He wants us to surrender our will. Most of all He wants us to die to ourselves. It's against our nature to like this.
Proverbs 2:3-5 "If you scream for insight and call loudly for understanding, if you pursue it like money and search it out as you would hidden treasure, then the Lord will be awesome to you and you will come into possession of the knowledge of God."
Doug Leach
Now, these make for great debate and discussion, but all these topics have been dealt with over the years. There are thousands of books and papers by the world's greatest scholars on these subjects. In our modern world, we can tune in to great debates and college lectures on our computers.
So why do we work so hard at rejecting God? Even the children of Israel had signs and miracles performed before their eyes, and immediately were trying to explain them away.
Ravi Zacharias says "A man rejects God neither because of intellectual demands nor because of the scarcity of evidence. A man rejects God because of a moral resistance that refuses to admit his need for God."
So why don't we want to believe in Christ?
We like our present lifestyle. He challenges us in areas of morality. He wants commitment. He wants us to be humble. He wants us to surrender our will. Most of all He wants us to die to ourselves. It's against our nature to like this.
Proverbs 2:3-5 "If you scream for insight and call loudly for understanding, if you pursue it like money and search it out as you would hidden treasure, then the Lord will be awesome to you and you will come into possession of the knowledge of God."
Doug Leach