With Thanks to Mel Gibson and David Wood
In an interview with Joe Rogan, Rogan said to Gibson, “The part that requires the most faith is the resurrection,” to which Gibson replied, “Yes.” I immediately stopped the video in disagreement.
I say No.
No, it is not the part of Christianity which requires the most faith. Why? Because it is in mankind’s nature to attempt to survive. It is an innate part of Mankind’s being to continue living. People will not willingly die for a lie. Therefore, why would the surviving apostles and Paul be willing to testify even at the point of death that Christ is Lord; that he came back from the dead? Doubting Thomas, according to tradition, traveled to India on foot and there died in his stubborn resistance to preach the gospel there. Paul was beheaded. Peter was crucified upside down. Why?
Unless… unless they knew the resurrection of Jesus to be true. Unless the saw the evidence with their very eyes. Unless they experienced personally, firsthand, the resurrected Lord and savior of mankind. Unless they absolutely knew that Jesus was who he said he was.
It seems to me that being an atheist takes a much greater amount of faith. The Second Law of Thermodynamics states that in any natural process, the total entropy (chaos, disorder, randomness) of a system and its surroundings always increases. In other words, things tend to break down into simpler elements, not build up in more complexity. Human beings are incredibly complex. How could a wrist watch be formed by itself out of raw elements, materials, metals and bone? The wafer-thin springs, the delicate gears, the tiny screws, the perfectly formed sprockets… only to assemble itself together… by chance.
But DNA is much more complicated than that. Imagine a zipper with four kinds of keys that stretches from here to the moon. All the keys on each side of the zipper must match exactly in order on opposite sides all the way, all 238,000-some-odd miles to make self-replicating cells that support life. Imagine the complexity needed to even bring the smallest organisms of life into existence. That flies in the face of the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
As a former Science teacher, I think it is a good idea to have a skeptical outlook where science is concerned. However, one must have a realistic outlook. Science is severely limited, both by our limited senses and by our limited minds. There exists such things as love, as fulfilled prophecy in scripture, as the story of God’s love for man, that science attempts to explain very poorly. Just like creation in the face of ever-expanding entropy.
Some people might explain it mathematically. The smartest man in the world, with an IQ over 200 believes in God, and God’s love towards man. The existence of our Maker seems readily apparent to me.
Which brings me to the astounding, one take story of David Wood. It is violent. Provocative. It takes David’s journey to extremes. It’s also worth the watch.
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