Season 3 Podcast 210 Recognizing the Hand of God Pt IV Power

Excerpt Recognizing the Hand of God Pt IV: PowerFor continuity we recommend that you first download 204, 205, 206, 207 & 209. However, each podcast may be listened to independently. People commonly recognize the laws of nature, but we do not always recognize the hand of God. In God’s kingdom everything is governed by law, whether it is temporal law such as earth or spiritual law such as the teachings of Christ.The hand of God, by design, is invisible that faith may grow. The temporal world is detected by the temporal senses; the spiritual world is detected by the spiritual senses, but both worlds are governed by the laws of God.  All miracles are brought about by faith. A miracle is governed by a law of God that we do not yet understand.  God never works by accident or chance, or coincidence, or serendipity of circumstances. He does not deal with guess work. Science, though brilliant at discovering the principle of causality, is clueless about the origin of things; therefore, they claim that man is an accidental collocation of atoms and that we live in an accidental universe. Bertrand Russell, English mathematician, and philosopher, sums up the views of science: “That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man’s achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the débris of a universe in ruins—all these things, if not quite beyond dispute, are yet so nearly certain, that no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand. Only within the scaffolding of these truths, only on the firm foundation of unyielding despair, can the soul’s habitation henceforth be safely built.”Whereas I have no doubt that Mr. Russell is a devout atheist, I would like to point out a danger that writers of his caliber face. Sometimes language has a life of its own so that it is not always possible to discern if the thought controls the language or the language controls the thought. The elegance of Mr. Russel’s argument suggests the latter. For example, for a philosopher supposedly searching for truth, his claim in the last two sentences seems a little disingenuous. To assert, “I am right and no philosophy that contradicts me can hope to stand” is foolhardy. He assumes that science has nothing else to learn. In addition, the very last assertion can be dismissed as hysterical. When he says, “Only within the scaffolding of these truths”—what truths is he referring to? The incomplete science regarding the expanding universe? or Mr. Russell’s opinion? And to claim that “only on the firm foundation of unyielding despair, can the soul’s habitation henceforth be safely built” is indefensible and doesn’t really merit reply. The majority do not share his “unyielding despair” and his conclusion that only on unyielding despair can the soul’s habitation henceforth be safely built is utter nonsense. First of all, it can hardly be called safe. I think the great Bertrand Russell indulged himself too much in the declaration above, setting his rhetoric on fire to illuminate scientific prejudice rather than to reveal truth. It is a common fault of scientific evangelists who are unaccustomed to being opposed.