JANUARY 20
Psalm 14:1, “The fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God.”
To say that there is no god is to deny all the plain evidence to the contrary. God’s creation testifies to his existence (Romans 1:19-20). Man’s conscience, and the moral law it bears (no matter how diminished) likewise evidences his reality. It is with a prideful naivete that a person would sin in making such a claim. As Charles Spurgeon put it, “Sin is always folly, and as it is the height of sin to attack the very existence of the Most High, so is it the greatest imaginable folly. To say there is no God is to belie the plainest evidence, which is obstinacy.”
C. S. Lewis was a brilliant man and among the most influential Christian writers of the twentieth century. What might surprise you is Lewis, though raised in a traditional Christian home, became an avowed atheist in his early teens. It would be years later, well into his Oxford education, before he began to search for a better understanding of God’s existence.
There were two events that helped to lead Lewis to God. The first began when he read G. K. Chesterton’s book, Everlasting Man. The second had a shattering impact. One of the more militant faculty on the Oxford Staff confided that he believed that the historical authenticity of the gospels appeared to be surprisingly sound. The conversation disturbed Lewis, but it led him to investigate the matter for himself by carefully reading through the entire New Testament in the original Greek. That ultimately worked to bring Lewis to faith.
By God’s grace, Lewis experienced salvation. God transformed the foolish skeptic into one of the church’s greatest apologists. His book, “Mere Christianity,” is one of the all-time best-selling Christian books. No doubt it has worked to save many fools from their denial of God to devotion to Him.
It is both foolhardy and hazardous for a creature to deny the existence of its creator.
Application Questions: Why is it arrogant and foolish to disavow the existence of God? What means did God use to open your eyes to the truth? What argument would you use to convince an unbeliever of God’s existence?
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