Season 5 Podcast 29, A New Voice of Freedom, Argument for the Existence of God, Episode 30, “Principle of Opposition A.”
Season 5 Podcast 29, A New Voice of Freedom, Argument for the Existence of God, Episode 30, “Principle of Opposition A.”
A dilemma of Science is that they use existence itself as the cause of existence. They turn to the genetic code, evolution, and the big bang. The problem is that all three are evidence of intelligent design and science categorically rejects intelligent design. They insist on clinging to a God of chance. To science life is a lottery. We are here by happy accident only to be consumed by a giant heat death. We are insects flying into the flame.
Fortunately for man science collectively has one very important virtue. They believe inherently in law and they are constantly, often ingeniously looking for answers, and their discoveries are often mind boggling. Their contribution to medicine, to technology, to communication, to the origins of things, and so on is magnificent. Where would we be without practical science? Regardless of personal philosophy, their inherent acceptance of order guarantees their ongoing integrity and their ongoing contribution to our survival.
But on religious matters we cannot look to science. If they can look through the Hubble telescope and see the endless creations of God and yet not see the hand of God, then we may assume that if God were standing before them, they would examine the light of his countenance, but they would deny his presence and his power.
However, we cannot understand God without understanding the principle of opposition. If there is God, there must be Satan, if there is good, there must be evil, if there is light, there must be darkness, if there is law, there must be lawlessness, if there is heaven, there must be hell, if there is joy, there must be misery.
The first thing we must understand is who God is and who Satan is. They are opposites. If they didn’t exist, everything would be meaningless. We have freewill only because we have a spirit endowed with an immortal intelligence. We have agency only because we are enticed by both God and Satan. We have freedom only because we have both a spirit body and a physical body faced with a multiplicity of choices. We have liberty only because we have the Ten Commandments. We have a democratic republic only because we have a strong Constitution and an inspired Bill of Rights. None of those can survive in a world of relativity. We must have absolutes and law provides absolutes. All laws of God increase freedom. Disobedience to the laws of God, whether temporal or spiritual, reduces freedom. If you seek freedom elsewhere, you will find captivity camouflaged as freedom.
We need to understand the nature of God so that we can understand who we worship or what we worship. We need to understand the nature of Satan so that we can understand who the enemy is. We often love that which we should fear.
In Christian terms, the two most important attributes of God are omniscience, all knowing, and omnipotence, all powerful. If God did not possess those attributes, then he could not be trusted. He would be constantly experimenting. We would be guinea pigs. Everything we see would be a giant experiment. To God there can be no surprises and no uncertainties.
Another significant attribute of God is that he is a God of perfect order. He is unchangeable. If he were a changeable God, then we would be constantly unsettled, uncertain.
Agency depends upon us being able to serve one or the other, to become like one or the other, to imitate one or the other, God or Satan. Opposition brings choices and choices coupled with knowledge brings agency.
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