Binary wrote on May 2
nd, 2016 at 12:34am:
If it made perfect logical sense by human standards to believe in God then that belief would mean nothing.
The reason atheists dismiss religion is because its impossible for them to wrap
their heads around the concept of faith.
The only thing this video highlights is the fact that believing in God necessitates
an admission of trust in him and how he has revealed himself to us.
Example: In the 1950's, people were recommended by doctors to smoke cigarettes for their health.
To the best of our limited human knowledge we considered this to be true.
Does that mean that in our ignorance, cigarettes suddenly ceased to be harmful?
Of course not!
Likewise if we consider ourselves able to understand and define God's will through our limited human capacity
we will always come to similar conclusions, that we fool ourselves into thinking are logical.
Assuming God is the creator of the universe, how can we possibly consider ourselves able to understand his will or motives?
A further example: Let's say I ask God one day to grant me a request.
"Let lightning strike infront of me then I'll believe."
Nothing happens. AHA! God must not exist then.
It's this faulty 'logic' that assumes we have power over God.
We can twist and turn that concept as the man in the above video does
saying that because God's word has come to us in a certain form
we can deduce that he is not real, because we decide so
by our own flawed standard.
God does not operate under your parameters. This is the meaning of faith.