Who defines reality

While browsing the New Book table at Borders recently, I flipped through several pages of "God: The Failed Hypothesis. How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist ". The absurdity of the idea made it fairly compelling reading.

Using science to disprove God is like using a ruler to prove that the ocean is not wet. That water is wet should be self evident, but those who will not believe in wetness are insisting on proof using methodology that is totally irrelevant to the properties of water. God, simply by definition, is completely Other, wholly and forever beyond any capacity we mortals will ever have for measuring and testing. If we cannot accept that our mere existence is sufficient enough proof of God's existence, then there is nothing more that the laboratory can produce that will be any more convincing.

Prevailing Western culture believes we became enlightened when we enshrined human rationality and eliminated from our definition of reality everything that could not be seen, touched, measured, observed or tested. Such enlightened people now relegate things of the spirit to the annals of mythology as relics of primitive, ignorant savages.

And therein lies the problem, of course, because (to paraphrase Tozer) it is the spirit that apprehends God. It is the soul that has the ears and eyes that hear and see God.

Science is far too limited in what it can know for me to let it define my reality.

"I, the Lord, am the maker of all things, stretching out the heavens by Myself and spreading out the earth all alone, causing the omens of boasters to fail, making fools out of diviners, causing wise men to draw back and turning their knowledge into foolishness..." Is 44:24,25

Your wisdom and your knowledge, they have deluded you; for you have said in your heart, 'I am, and there is no one besides me.'" Is 47:10b

But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised. 1 Cor. 2:14

We sing about God because we believe in Him. We are not trying to offend anybody, but the evidence that we have seen of Him in our small little lives trumps your opinion about whether or not He exists. ~ Jeff Foxworthy