'The God Idea by the Rambling Bricklayer': Atheism or God? The question has been answered Amen

SOUTHEND, U.K. - March 29, 2014 - PRLog -- Recently I listened to the Atheist godfather Richard Dawkins while he clarified his good friends morality and how that alone is sufficient to bring about good character and wellbeing, which I suppose suggests if we all behave like his friend then all would be well with the world. This was stated in a discussion where Dawkins opposed the Christian Oxford Professor John Lennox. What caught me most was Richard Dawkins actually believes that noticing morality in another person means that that person is sound and stable within our polite society, which many, if not all atheists, believe is enough to venture science and humanity forward. My hope is that you, at the very least, see that concept as doubtful and ultimately not true. After hearing this I had hoped that John Lennox would jump at the chance to express, and he did briefly, that witnessing moral soundness in another person is far from enough to lead humanity the way Jesus has. We all have friends who we believe are morally good but do we really spend time with them so they can discuss their inner most thoughts that can at times be quite wrong, disturbing, lustful, selfish, greedy and so on. Had Dawkins ever offered his moral friend an opportunity to discuss his inner most self as a process of healing through some psychological process, then I still doubt that the power present would be sufficient to bring about the truth for his friend. To be sure, in recent years I have focused much attention and pondered over moral humanity or Christian Spirituality, and Christ won. Since my baptism those harsh hidden truths that have been locked inside me for so long have been pulled from me like bad teeth, and relieved me from the stress such things caused. Having no choice in the matter, my pass deeds came out of me in the shape of tears and words, and after confession and prayer I almost floated home after each occassion. It was only the good strong Christian faith that was evident in my friends that allowed me to keep my feet on the ground. I’m not suggesting that Richard Dawkins friend has no morals, or some truth, just that we often fail to see the wrong in morally grounded people because many of us can hide our inner most thoughts behind boastful morals that are merely used as evidence to show others how good we can be? Having noted this, I also believe that Dawkins moral friend falls short the way the rest of us do and beholds thoughts that are no good to anyone, which is where the devil thrives in a mind that tells people of the good, and that hides the bad things that eventually find isolation and a way out from inner thoughts to actions through the seven deadly sins. I read an atheist view point somewhere that stated a person cannot “justify his belief in a God in the name of reason and moral necessity”, which is absolutely true. To gain faith reason was replaced with trust and moral necessity was washed out of my thinking totally and replaced, as much as possible on any given day, with the Holy Spirit. Saint Paul tells us in his letter to the Romans.

“For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. ¹⁹ For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. ²⁰ Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.

²¹ So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me”.  (Romans 7: 18-21)

I try to be morally sound, simply because immorality lurks within me, which is why many of us have to shout out loud how moral we are, which hides our defects. If we stay quiet long enough our sins will reveal themselves and we know it. It is therefore essential that Christians reveal their sins first through confession before they are acted out.

Christianity, I would argue, certainly has the monopoly of the supernatural power that gives off the necessary strength to relinquish any damaging inner mental burdens to a loving God through Jesus. This is achieved by admitting (confession) that we have immoral thoughts that flourish within us, rather than suggesting that we are morally sound, which is the opposite to much of our human nature. Many of us begin our day assuming that we will do good to whoever we meet, and yet we can rage at the guy who stole our parking space, yell at the cost of this or that to whoever serves us and allow lust to burn us up. We set out to do good, and yet we do or think bad. We mean to do good but we fail to uphold a moral stance in our actions for a single day, and yet many boast the moral high ground perhaps to counteract the sin that we have lurking within.

Another area where Dawkins gets it all so badly wrong is in his endeavor to pronounce Jesus and the Bible as medieval and the early biblical pioneers as barbaric. It is clear that the most influential writer in history is Saint Paul, and he wrote almost half of the New Testament and has influenced an array of writers we know today. Humanity could not grow into Big Society due to greed, vulgarity, slavery and other human upon human manipulations, until the New Testament released its Godly essence. Look at it this way, when my two year old son was too scared to enter a darkened room, I gently ushered him to one side, turned on the light and entered the room on his behalf to show him the path he needed to walk. This is what Jesus did, and still does to millions who ask or who are invited to His realm. Jesus turned on the light that allows us to walk on aided by His word. I can walk the path Jesus has set without having to endure anymore dark depression. Whatever happens in my life can happen under the gaze of Christ and all will be well regardless, as long as I maintain my spiritual balance.

The most amazing thing of all about Jesus is how he challenged those worldly powers in their own back yard, in the most darkest corner of the world, and all that with a full knowledge of what was about to happen to Him.

All humanity needs stories that make clear what humanity is all about, and what harm we are capable of inflicting upon each other. Humanity was given this Biblical narrative so we could love each other as Jesus loved us, and that we could use the Holy Spirit to guide us in this process. When certain cultures fail to leave behind sufficient dialogue then future generations can only guess at how they lived, worked, played and built, say, the pyramids for example. Having no plans or specifications to look over then we can only hazard a guess at how these huge projects were put together. Narrative is the key stone by which we live and learn and Jesus delivered the narrative that I certainly attempt to live my life by. Jesus delivered this loving discourse with such force the human mental condition changed shape overnight. Amen.

I discuss this further in my book 'The God Idea by the Rambling Bricklayer', by Graham T Harvey