Addressing Objections To the Fact Of The Knowledge Is Universal

Look, I go foreard,

but He is not there,

and backwards, but I cannot '

perceive Him;...

But He knows the way

that I take;

When He has tested me,

I shall come forth as gold...

but He is unique, 

and who can make Him change? 

And whatever His soul desires,

that He does.

Job 23:8,10,13

     There are those who would stop as say, "I go forward but He is not there." There are those who cajole themselves with the thought that they are unique and there is no room for God. It is there belief that their constitution does not include the knowledge of God. Further, they will not admit that the knowledge of God is universal. Job did not agree that God could not be known, only that he is not always seen by the mind and He seems far off, yet inside himself in the very recesses of his intuitive knowledge lies the truth; God is there and God is active, God is changing people enabling His purpose to be fulfilled. Our view is to to see the future, so end that is yet to occur and due to the timeline that the end is yet afar and has not occurred men object, but God's end is determined and it is not where we place our sights, we are to live in the "now" for God works with men in the "now." If we, as many men do, see only, and look for only, the end, then they are foolish and easily become dismayed. Objections come from those who are missing the present and seeing the present as the final end. In fact, when people traveled into other parts of the world, such as missionaries have done they report that there are tribes existing that are so degraded in their evil ways that the knowledge of God could not be found in them. In answer to that objection is that for a tribe(s) to have no appearance of the knowledge of God is far from being conclusive, conclusive for the whole of man. An example would be that if a person were to come across a tribe of idiots there can be no reasonable  ground to prove that this was not their nature. In the world today there is much abortion and desire for one to live as they please giving some credence that there is missing in those persons parental love, but this alone does not prove that parental love in not one of the instincts of humanity. A problem that occurs is that the reporter has not had sufficient time to become acquainted with the people so as to be aware of their internal  and intellectual and moral condition. Another problem is that Christians have given to the word "God" such an exalted meaning(s) and to the Word of God, that when they see no evidence of the presence of God and no presence of the their exalted conception of God and His Word that they come to the conclusion, wrongly so, that there is no knowledge of God. This would be a forgone conclusion in error for if the people do show a sense of right and wrong, have responsibility for character and conduct, then it cannot be said that they do not have a knowledge of God, and His Being. 

      How many times have you come across people who seem to have no knowledge of God? They live as they please without reference to God. Even drug addicts who seem to have abandon all knowledge of God do things that have morality and some character responsibility. In fact those who say that there is no God live by the very Law that they propose does not exist. So they murder? Some do, but not all. Do they steal? Some do, but not all.So they show caring and love, at least to some? Yes, but not all do. Yet it must be said that all men do live under the Law as established in the Bible. So they are without excuse for they intuitively have the knowledge of God even if they do not desire to admit such to be the case. 


     An objection that has been raised by some is that of those who are deaf and dumb. Their objection is that those who are so afflicted have not received instruction as to the idea of God therefore they do not have the knowledge of God. Do they have a sense of responsibility? Yes, some do, some have limited ability to act with responsibility but to conclude that this is evidence that there is are people without the knowledge of God is fallacious because there is no evidence to the fact that they do not have this knowledge of God, only that they are not acting in accordance with this knowledge as do sinners who will not recognize within themselves that God does exist and is known by them intuitively. All men have the idea of God. All responsibility however displayed is to be outside of self, even against one's wishes, because this idea, this responsibility is due to the invisible God, this Higher Being that is higher than man and has so constituted man so that they are without excuse to know Him. 


     The next question that must be addressed then, is whether or not a belief in God is necessary. This is the next blog.


Blessed is the Lord God of
     Israel,
For He has visited and
     redeemed His people,
and raised up a horn of
     salvation for us
In the house of His servant
     David,....
That we should be saved from
     our enemies
and from the hand of all
    who hate us,
                       Luke 1:68-69,71
May God Guide Your Feet


Richard L. Crumb