Is There a God? 31 But against this pantheistical assumption must ever lie the diffi- culty of explaining how or why the God that was latent in matter or force was so long in arriving at consciousness in m a n , and how before man appeared, the latent God being uncon- scious could have directed the evolutionary process which fashioned the cosmos. Till these inquiries are satisfactorily answered, it will not be possible to accept the materialistic solution of the universe. IV. THE DESIRE OF TH E (BIBLE) FOOL “ l WISH THERE WAS NO GOD” Only a few words need be given to this rejoinder, as the fool does not say in his intellect, but only in his heart, there is no God. In his case the wish is father to the thought. Secretly persuaded in his mind that there is a God, he would much rather there had been none. I t would suit him better. But the fact that he cannot advance to a categorical denial of the Divine Existence is an indirect witness to the innate con- viction which the human heart possesses, that there is a God in whom man lives and moves and has his being. V. TH E DECLARATION OF TH E CHRISTIAN " i . CANNOT DO WITHOUT A GOD, WITHOUT A GOD I CAN NEITHER ACCOUNT FOR THE UNIVERSE AROUND ME, NOR EXPLAIN JESUS CHRIST ABOVE ME, NOR UNDERSTAND THE SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCES WITHIN ME” 1. Without a God the material universe around the Chris tian is and remains a perplexing enigma. When he surveys that portion-of the universe which lies open to his gaze, he sees marks of wisdom, power and good- ness that irresistibly suggest the idea of a God. When he looks upon the stellar firmament with its innumerable orbs, and considers their disposition and order, their balancing and circling, he instinctively argues that these shining suns and
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