Faith and Truth

It was not by chance that Thomas was chosen as one of the Apostles. There were some of the Apostles that have not one of their acts and words recorded. But Thomas was recorded for all seekers of Truth, several famous incidents. He is was who said, "Unless I see the wounds in His hands and press my fingers into His side, I cannot believe." Jesus had love and respect for an honest doubter when He said, "Thomas, come. Press your fingers into My side and believe."

Thomas did not actually need to do that. He saw the wounds in His hands and knew the voice and fell onto His knees in real worship, which is made up of both blind faith and solid evidence.

It was a great part of the ministry of Jesus to demonstrate the reality and power of God to those WHO WANTED TO BELIEVE. Yet, also miraculously, those who did not want to accept all the evidence before their very eyes, because of the hardness of their hearts and their deeds being evil, could not believe.

A well known skeptic editor and columnist confessed in his aging years that he wished he had faith in God now, which he had lost. A believer said he would like to bring in some Bible friends who had had some remarkable answers to prayer. The writer answered and put the exchange in his column, "You don't need to bring them in. God is real to them, but God is dead to me."

His problem was not , that there was no God. He feared God was all too real, but the God's day of salvation for him had passed, lost to him forever. Repeated rejections of both evidence and the drawings of the Spirit was resulting in the Unpardonable Sin, and the lost man recognized.

Old time preachers used to meet frequently with a;d time hardened sinners on their death beds, confessing they wished they could repent but felt they had rejected too many opportunities and altar invitations, so that now there remained no more divine pardon or mercy. And they died in that state.

An honest seeker, a student or a scientist has the love and respect of the Lord. Can one prove to them that God is real? There are evidences everywhere of God, not only a distant Creator, but also a personal Being who sees our every deed and numbers every hair of our head. Ahh, ah, there is the rub, the fine edge of the balance. Sinful man cannot stand the thought of a just God observing his every evil act and plan. So that old crazy weird twisted calculator, the human mind, blocks out unwanted pieces of evidence and blows up little superficialities, in order to pronounce as a worm on oratorical soap box, that there is no God. Or a puny fish in the sea pontificating there is no water.

There is nothing more difficult to prove than a Truth to him who will not see. This is a fundamental of psychology recognized by every writer, scientist and historian. They recognize it about everyone, except themselves and the reality of a Biblical personal God.

A Scientist was asked if he could prove his political philosophy in brief simple terms. He replied that he could prove it about as simply as proving any fundamental of physics to a layman. That is to say, it is nearly impossible. The atoms and molecules are invisible even to the most powerful microscopes, and even smaller are all the sub-atomic particles that make up the various atoms. The whole field of knowledge is made up of tiny bits of evidences with the great sealing conclusion based on the mathematical laws of probability. Even the concept that the earth is round is difficult to prove to an unlettered field worker. It flies against what is plain and evident to his eyes and everyday experience. "Ridiculous," he might answer, "up is up and upside down is upside down." The world passed through many thousands of years of history before seamen could actually believe what in truth, was very solid fact, with the solid evidence just everywhere around them.

A mugger snatched a handbag, knocking his victim to the ground and disappearing around a nearby corner. Within a guard asked the others nearby what the assailant looked like and they quickly agreed that they had not seen his face distinctly but he was wearing a green plaid jacket. The guard ran off, soon returning with the culprit.

The defense lawyer said to the judge that the case should be thrown out of court on insufficient evidence and the young client set at liberty. e thought that sufficient argument. His point was pressed that there were very probably many others with identical green plaid jackets in that very city. Therefore guilt could not be ascribed with certainty.

Such trivial defenses and legal technicalities have just about ruined all hope for real honest justice in this age of liberal mercenary lawyers and liberal judges. The American Civil Liberties Union is made up of lawyers who are philosophical communists, humanists, liberals, atheists. The irony of the liberal movement is that the more they attain their class of liberty the nearer Russia we are dragged with all its infernal tyrannical loss of liberty.

Fortunately there is a CONSERVATIVE SWING IN American philosophy of politics and the Supreme Court, these days. And fortunately the judge in the above case, allowed the District Attorney to bring an expert of scientific probabilities, who pointed out that the probability of the culprit in a distinctive jacket not being the guilty hoodlum, but only an innocent passerby who just "happened" to have an identical jacket, was so small and remote as to be considered a practical impossibility. The hoodlum was convicted, without any reasonable doubt.

A young college student must be helped, to honestly seek out the unassailable evidences of the reality of God, seeking, asking and investigating, from believers, pastors and honest scientists, rather than hastily blindly accepting the biases of a few pinko professors.

While one cannot prove to a willfully blind atheist there is a personal Biblical God in one simple sentence, the total evidence all around to any honest seeker is overwhelming

The student may thank you some day, having had a vision of the loving Lord and kneeling before him like Thomas, saying,"My Lord and my God!"