There are several kinds
March 3, 2011 (Thursday)
How much money do you have in the bank? Are you sure? Have you seen it lately? Have you ever seen it? How do you know it’s there? In fact, how do you know it exists?
Every month I receive checks that are deposited electronically, so I have never seen them. In fact, they have never existed. A computer generates a deposit which it sends to another computer. Everything about the transaction is invisible, made up of electronic pulses hidden away inside machines.
Even when I get a real check, it’s just a piece of paper on which someone has written names and numbers. It’s neither silver nor gold nor even paper cash.
Hey, do you suppose atheists believe in such an invisible system? It’s all based on faith, you know. You and I believe the money is in the bank and we can get it any time we want it. Yet not one dollar bill or silver coin may have passed through our hands. We just believe it’s there. We have decided to trust whomever told us so. Now that’s real faith.
This morning I drank some water and made coffee. I drank the coffee, too. Isn’t that an act of faith? I really don’t know where it all came from and what’s really in it, but I drink it every day. I’d say that’s faith in action.
So please don’t say that my belief in God is irrational. I believe in the Lord. Everybody believes in things they have never seen–the money in your bank account, for example. Is it just a collection of stored electro-magnetic energy or do you have money in the bank? You believe it’s there because it makes sense to believe that. I believe in God for the same reason–it makes sense to me.