Wouldn't it be better to be able to seek a greater source of wisdom than our own, for truth? We cannot rely upon ourselves for accurate data, with what we know about the brain, these days. That is why God, in His mercy, had to send His Son to show us the way, the truth and the life. Can we not admit that all our senses deceive us? Can we consider that WE choose to make hollow and empty, what in actuality is full and satisfying to our souls? What is not so often considered is that we all have faith—but what is our faith based on? Our own deluded senses, or the one whom the Author of life sent into this hell-hole, known as the world?

Dawkins has certainly given us all reason enough to drop our obsession with analyzing anything with our senses. Hallucinations, however, are not limited to people who think they hear God and commit atrocious evils. Hallucinations can be just as active in those who, by their limited study of tangible things only, utilizing their inadequate senses, see no sign of God. (Would they be "delucinating"?) If there was a God, who created us with a free will, giving us the ability to think and believe anything we want to, it would be necessary for God to send a Savior whose permanent home was OUTSIDE that system which we observe with our inadequate senses. God did just that, in the sending of His Son, who taught us not to rely on appearances and, in fact, commanded us not to even judge one another (due, no doubt, to our inadequate ability to gather all the data with our deceiving senses). Perhaps, and even quite likely, our senses are inadequate, but Dawkins seems unable to apply the information correctly. He applies it to everyone who believes in God, instead of everyone who proclaims there is no God. One of these groups is hallucinating because both groups' beliefs cannot be true.

The Bible is often used as an argument for the existence of God. And rightly so. It was written by God's Holy Spirit, through the inspired minds of 40 different authors throughout time. The Bible is not for the purely tangible-istic, for it, upon such biased scrutiny, appears to fall apart. Just as the Spirit of God is invisible, so, too, is the truth that one can get in God's Word. No one can dissect God. Nor can faithless ones critically and facetiously find God in the Bible. They don't have eyes to see, nor ears to hear. When God's Word is read by the faith-filled child of God, God's message of truth (the ONE truth) fills the heart and soothes the soul. The Old Testament stories and the parables in the New Testament do not follow any humanly devised pattern. They slide into our minds and baffle us, leaving behind that sophisticated, formal part of us, that has all of our ducks in perfect order, with nothing out of place. Since this world is not our home, we must shake loose from its entanglements—all the while recognizing our complete dependence on the Holy Spirit. Jesus says we cannot love both mammon (the things of the world and the things which draw us toward the world) and God.

The Bible emphasizes things of the spirit, more than just man's history. If it fails in the scrutiny of the atheistic secular humanist, then it does so for a reason, because God ordained it. Since the Fall of Man, as recounted in Genesis, man has been misusing his God-given senses in order to examine everything BUT the nature of God and His holiness. The Bible snips away at our insane desire to find truth and satisfaction in the things of this temporal world. It urges us to examine our hearts (what we think into), and allow our Savior to take His disciplining "whip of cords" and drive the worldly stench from the temples of our bodies. Nothing short of His loving but firm, discipline and instructive and cleansing Word will succeed, for the world has a strong grip on us. It is so easy to fall into a hopeless and futile belief system of godlessness.

The Bible says much in its assumptions. It speaks of a powerful and wrathful God, when we have slipped into apathy and sin. (Sometimes we need to learn of the seriousness of our straying from God's path). At other times, it speaks of God's ability to bend or break the rules which He set up to run the world's physical properties, through miraculous intervention. (Sometimes we need to see beyond the mere physical, hopefully embracing the truth that with God, nothing is impossible). At other times, it speaks of a gentle, loving and compassionate God—personified in Jesus Christ. (God forgives, even those who torture and kill Him. God heals our infirmities; He still does this even today. God wants us on His team. His blood, shed for our sins, atones for us, if we can believe). It even speaks of a passionate, parental God who longs for and broods over his children.

The Bible is not for those who cannot get past the study of the physical only. The Holy Spirit will work with you to shake loose the clamps and fetters which state: This world is all there is. We're born only to die. We must strive for worldly acquisitions, for only the one with the most toys, wins. We can be free from those lies.

We have a choice as to what we want to believe. Take a look around you, and search your heart. Do you believe only what can be verified physically or is there a seed of faith in God within you, that can germinate and sprout by your fertile interest in it? Are you willing to see with your heart, rather than limit your vision to the tangible things of this world only? If you desire to see beyond appearances, pick up and read and study the book that (with your humble prayer, asking for the Holy Spirit's guidance), can take you out of limiting, false belief systems and into the one, true unlimited one. It is necessary to humbly recognize that we are intellectually challenged, in order to be privy to that wisdom, which is not of this world.

God would not have sent His Son into this world unless we needed Him. Since the first Adam fell from grace, we've needed the second Adam, Jesus Christ, to deliver us from our carnal nature. How wonderful of God not to leave us in the lurch! I pray, now:

Oh, Lord God, thank You for sending Your Son, Jesus Christ, to make up for our inadequate "simulation software," known as our senses. Thank You, Jesus, for restoring us to our senses, by our faith in You. Lord, we needed Your help, and You sent that help by Your Son! We realize how impossible it is to try and determine the nature of things when we are so very challenged. We can't even accurately report an event that happened right in front of us! When we translate what our senses report, according to what we believe, there is no way to have unbiased reporting. Help us, O Lord, to step back from our own inadequate senses, long enough to recognize that our Savior, Lord Jesus, has been sent, He has come! He was not one of us, but uniquely of God. The daylight when we can still see the Son, is sinking fast, Lord. Please help the atheists to not miss His brilliant light, which shined so bright for a short time, as He dwelt in the flesh—and continues to shine, so bright, in the Holy Spirit, by our faith.

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