My Road from Unbelief to Belief
My testimony. . . How God revealed Himself to me, and dispelled my atheism.
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The Completeness of God. . .
Twenty-five years ago or so I read a book: Gödel, Escher, Bach An Eternal Golden Braid . Gödel was a mathematician, Escher an artist, and Bach a composer. The book has to do with artificial intelligence and thought and systems of logic. . . Maybe this wasn't the author's intent, but it also has much to do with systems of religious belief. The topics are heavy and require some work to comprehend, but these complex issues are presented in such a way as to be relatively understandable (with effort). The author uses the art of Escher, the music of Bach and a mathematical proof written by Kurt Gödel to explore the ability of machines to think. In 1931 Kurt Gödel discovered a mathematical theorem that if I might paraphrase says: Any system, sufficiently powerful, contains elements within it that are unprovable within that system. Here is a page which gives more complete restatements of Gödel's proof. Gödel, Escher, Ba...
The Advantages of being a Christian. . .
I spent the first 45 years of my life mostly not believing in God. I knew there was no God. There was no chance I was wrong. . .All that has changed. . . my eyes have been opened. . . I once was blind, but now I see. . . I smile when I read the news stories about the latest atheistic best selling book on the New York Times book list. I was so intelligent. I knew so much. My logic was so certain. The one thing that I never stopped to consider was that the foundation my philosophical structure was built upon was sand. . . Jesus talks as recorded in Matthew 7:27 about the foolish man who built his house upon sand: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it. All atheism is built upon an unknown. That is not a solid foundation. An atheist does not believe in God therefore he says there is no God. In a manner of speaking the atheist places himself in the center of the universe. I am not casting s...