The Logical Believer

We as human beings have been privileged to grow up in a technological age full of gadgets and devices that, for some, make our world a better place to live in. From the invent of cars that can almost drive themselves, to handheld devices that can keep you connected with the entire world and that’s just there basic features, we are almost mini gods with the amount of power we can posses at the tip of our fingers at any point in time.

To many this limitless view of the power that mankind possesses have made many throw out any thing that seems supernatural. Hollywood with much technological advances have been able to create ghost and goblins as real as possible, blowing any doubt in ones mind that stories of such were just that, stories. Science has been used in many documentaries to discredit many historical events that could not be explained in the natural.

With this boom in technology it must be noted that the church has not been left out. From the use of laptops equipped with the bible installed, to use of the multimedia to display chorus lyrics, scripture verses and announcements, to even electronic banking machines to pay tithes and offerings, the church has truly embraced the age.

Similar to the world the church has seemed in many ways to lessen the role of the supernatural and replace it with what can be logically explained. Now this logical approach to things can not be considered a problem in the world, cause it’s based on the physical but the church which takes it’s laws from their main book of study which is the Bible can have a few issues if it seeks to take that direction in it’s belief.

The Bible speaks about God as being a Spirit and that they that worship Him must do so in spirit and in truth. If we seek to put science to this, Spirit being an entity that science cannot explain, we would have encountered our first problem. Now from here on everything that the Christian believes or is suppose to believe is based upon spiritual things, things we cannot explain logically. With logical thinking our very Christian faith is not present, how can one explain a man dying and rising again of his own free will, which is the very foundation of the Christian belief.

The bible speaks about a day coming when people would have a form of godliness but deny the power of God. Has this day possibly reached with the advent of what seems to be this new logical believer?  No more waiting on the supernatural to happen. The Bible stories of miraculous healings were just that…, stories or fables. The “believer” still continues religiously attending services but the faith to believe that lives can be changed or situations can supernaturally turn around is not there.

Sadly in many of our churches today these types of “believers” are growing. As education increases our faith has lessened, limiting God to a book. Our sermons have moved from reiterations of Gods power to ineffective conference speeches, from waiting and trusting God to three step empowering plans. In all of it we must remember what our faith is based on. If God was like us, then why serve Him?

God is not a God of logic rather he defines it, let us get back to the place where we understood God as God of the impossible and leave logic for the class room.

Written by :

Adesola Stewart

 

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