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SERMON
| THE LORD'S MESSAGE TO OUR NATION AS REVEALED TO Herbert Rwazireni |
| INTERESTING CONVERSATION Author unknown >An atheist professor of philosophy speaks to his class on the problem >science has with God, The Almighty. > >He asks one of his new Christian students to stand and..... > >Professor: You are a Christian, aren't you, son? > >Student : Yes, sir. > >Prof: So you believe in God? > >Student : Absolutely, sir. > >Prof: Is God good? > >Student : Sure. > >Prof: Is God all-powerful? > >Student : Yes. > >Prof: My brother died of cancer even though he prayed >to God to heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But >God didn't. How is this God good then? Hmm? > >(Student is silent.) > >Prof: You can't answer, can you? Let's start again, young fella. Is God good? > >Student :Yes. > >Prof: Is Satan good? > >Student : No. > >Prof: Where does Satan come from? > >Student : From...God... > >Prof: That's right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world? > >Student : Yes. > >Prof: Evil is everywhere, isn't it? And God did make everything. Correct? > >Student : Yes. > >Prof: So who created evil? > >(Student does not answer.) > >Prof: Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible >things exist in the world, don't they? > >Student :Yes, sir. > >Prof: So, who created them? > >(Student has no answer.) > >Prof: Science says you have 5 senses you use to identify and observe the >world around you. Tell me, son...Have you ever seen God? > >Student: No, sir. > >Prof: Tell us if you have ever heard your God? > >Student : No , sir. > >Prof: Have you ever felt your God, tasted your God, smelt your God? Have you >ever had any sensory perception of God for that matter? > >Student : No, sir. I'm afraid I haven't. > >Prof: Yet you still believe in Him? > >Student : Yes. > >Prof: According to empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, science says >your GOD doesn't exist. What do you say to that, son? > >Student : Nothing. I only have my faith. > >Prof: Yes. Faith. And that is the problem science has. > >Student : Professor, is there such a thing as heat? > >Prof: Yes. > >Student : And is there such a thing as cold? > >Prof: Yes. > >Student : No sir. There isn't. > >(The lecture theatre becomes very quiet with this turn of events.) > >Student : Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega >heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat. But we don't have anything >called cold. We can hit 458 degrees below zero which is >no heat, but we can't go any further after that. There is no such thing as >cold. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot >measure cold. Heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just >the absence of it. > >(There is pin-drop silence in the lecture theatre.) > >Student : What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness? > >Prof: Yes. What is night if there isn't darkness? > >Student : You're wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something. You >can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light....But if you >have no light constantly, you have nothing and it's called darkness, isn't >it? In reality, darkness isn't. If it were you would be able to make >darkness darker, wouldn't you? > >Prof: So what is the point you are making, young man? > >Student : Sir, my point is your philosophical premise is flawed. > >Prof: Flawed? Can you explain how? > >Student : Sir, you are working on the premise of duality. You argue there is >life and then there is death, a good God and a bad God. You are viewing the >concept of God as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, science >can't even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has >never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view death as the >opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a >substantive thing. Death is not the opposite of life: just the absence of >it. Now tell me, Professor. Do you teach your students that they evolved >from a monkey? > >Prof: If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, yes, of course, I do. > >Student : Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir? > >(The Professor shakes his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the >argument is going.) > >Student : Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work >and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavour, are you >not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a scientist but a preacher? > >(The class is in uproar.) > >Student : Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the professor's brain? > >(The class breaks out into laughter.) > >Student : Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor's brain, >felt it, touched or smelt it? .....No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established rules of empirical, stable, >demonstrable protocol, science says that you have no brain, sir. With all >due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures, sir? > >(The room is silent. The professor stares at the student, his face unfathomable.) > >Prof: I guess you'll have to take them on faith, son. > >Student: That is it sir.. The link between man & God is FAITH. That is all >that keeps things moving & alive. > > >Have a nice day.... |