Matthew 6:22-23 NLT
"Your eye is like a lamp that provides light for your body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is filled with light. [23] But when your eye is unhealthy, your whole body is filled with darkness. And if the light you think you have is actually darkness, how deep that darkness is!
Yesterday I listened to a debate between the atheist Richard Dawkins and the Christian John Lennox. Both are eminent scientists and intellectual men.
One wrote a book "The God Delusion" - a critique of religious belief and, in effect, a dismissal of God as a "fairy story"!
It was fascinating to listen to both men. Quite clearly both had a deep faith - one in Charles Darwin, the other in Jesus.
As Richard Dawkins shuffled around trying to dismiss the idea of a Creator God, placing Jesus alongside mythical beings such as Zeus - John Lennox exuded confidence in the Resurrected Lord Jesus (an historically proven Person) and His transcendent power in creation.
Long ago Richard Dawkins had chosen to walk away from the Christian faith and had selected the darkness of man's independence from God.
The further he walks along that path, the "light" of his so called intelligence becomes ever more darkened.
He talks of morality coming by chance from a randomly complex evolutionary process - an intricate design without a designer! Truly he has a bigger faith in evolution than I have in Biblical Truth.
It is a massive wake up call to guard the eyes of our understanding and keep walking in the Light.
1 John 1:5-7 NLT
This is the message we heard from Jesus and now declare to you: God is Light, and there is no darkness in Him at all. [6] So we are lying if we say we have fellowship with God but go on living in spiritual darkness; we are not practicing the Truth. [7] But if we are living in the Light, as God is in the Light, then we have fellowship with each other, and the Blood of Jesus, His Son, cleanses us from all sin.
In the end the essence of true understanding leads us on a path to the Cross where our whole being, including our intellect, becomes redeemed and flooded with Light!
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