Modern scientists tend to gravitate toward atheism, trusting only that which they can prove via science. Others follow a similar path to C.S. Lewis, abandoning a childhood faith, encouraged by higher education professors who do not believe that God exists. A more recent example is Lee Strobel, a former reporter for the Chicago Tribune and Daily Herald, eager to prove that Christianity is a fraud. Strobel’s testimony can be found in the book and now movie The Case for Christ. Regardless of what so called experts, the media and scholars proclaim, the answer to the meaning of life is within the grasp of the human mind.
“Those laws (of nature) are within the grasp of the human mind; God wanted us to recognize them by creating us after his own image so that we could share in his own thoughts,” Johannes Kepler in 1599.
During a trip to the new Museum of the Bible in Washington DC, I found this to be true. On the second floor, Level 2, this exhibit is entitled the Impact of the Bible. Like a living history book, there are hundreds of quotes from Colonists, Pilgrims, founding fathers, former presidents and past leaders of the United States. Yet, other displays extend beyond our borders, documenting famous individuals in their fields throughout the world. Two of the most intriguing comments come from a former astronomer and mathematician listed above and below. Without mentioning scripture, each man appears to be referencing the invisible qualities of God, Romans 1:20.
“If the sacred scribes had had any intention of teaching people certain arrangements and motions of the heavenly bodies… then in my opinion they would not have spoken of these matters so sparingly, Galileo Galilei in a 1615 letter to the Grand Duchess of Christiana.
During his own letter to the church of Rome, the apostle Paul suggests that no should claim, “I didn’t know?” Rather, the creation of the world reveals God’s invisible attributes. A sunrise, the sun setting over an ocean and a rainbow following a storm are clear signs of a mastermind. C.S. Lewis devotes the first section of Mere Christianity eluding to the Law of Human Nature. While Lewis does highlight objections to this law, his words support what Galileo and Kepler have written. If only human beings slowed down this Christmas season and stopped what they are doing for a moment, Psalm 46:10, the answers to the meaning of life are within the grasp of the human mind. This revelation is just a prayer away.
by Jay Mankus