In 1961 the Russians put a man in orbit, and afterward Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev said something bold. I remember it very well; I was eleven years old when it happened. He said, “We have sent a man into space and we didn’t see God, so we have proved there is no God.” Not very solid logic or philosophy, but nonetheless, he meant it, and millions of people believe something to that effect. They think empirical observation has proven there is no God. C. S. Lewis wrote an essay about this idea called “The Seeing Eye,” and in it he argued that if there were a God we would not relate to him the way a person on the first story of a house relates to a person on the second story. The ground-floor resident can go up the steps to find the second-floor resident. But God is not someone who merely lives in the sky— he is the creator of the whole universe, earth and sky and time and space, and of us. Our relationship to God, then, is more like Shakespeare’s relationship to Hamlet. How much will Hamlet know about Shakespeare ? Only what Shakespeare writes about himself into the play. Hamlet will never be able to find out anything about his author any other way . In the same way, Lewis concludes we can’t find God just by going to higher altitudes. We’ll only know about God if God has written something about himself into our life, into our world. And he has. - Timothy Keller (Unexpected Answers to Lifes Biggest Questions) Found this in my reading today.. Lot of chatter about comet landing and Interstellar.. Felt it was relevant
Posted on: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 00:27:18 +0000
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