Aristotle and God.

We have no record of Aristotle writing anything. All we have is the lecture notes of his students. We have recovered nothing, whatsoever, that he wrote himself, yet we still believe he exists, without question. Philosophers do not dare to question the existence of Aristotle. We have the writings of his pupils, his students, and that's all that is needed to know that Aristotle did in fact exist and he did in fact establish the foundation of logic and reason and that he was, in fact, a man that lived long ago.

Do we not also have writings from Jesus Christ's pupils, his students? If I'm not mistaken we have 4 accounts of men that documented the ministry of Jesus and the most important times of his life. Do we not also have records, and much more numerous in number and stronger in validity and reliability, of what the God of the Hebrew Bible did in relation to all of humanity over a period of thousands of years and with various authors that do not contradict one another? And yet, the most brilliant philosophers would never dare acknowledge the existence of such a God based on this evidence, even though it is even stronger than that of Aristotle, because the documents that we have talk about a man who claimed divinity and the documents that we have tell of a God who brings both justice and mercy. Could it be His judgement that men fear, and that's why the idea or mere concept of such a God must be eliminated and wiped away from all of true history? The claim often made is that there is no evidence whatsoever for His existence, and if there were any, then there is not enough to draw such an absurd conclusion. Yet, we did so with a man...why can't we do so with a man who was God?

That amazes me. It simply amazes me...but at the same time it doesn't surprise me...

Unbelief doesn't surprise me, it doesn't shock me. Men will always find every reason to doubt, and men will ignore all of the reasons to believe.

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Lord, help this unbelief. This society is treacherous. It hates you and it despises you. It tries to do everything it can to undermine you, to question you, to ignore you, but God, show them mercy. Open up the eyes of men and women who have the ability to make history and bring truth back into this godless culture.
Amen.

-burton 261e