Thread: Is it possible for us as men to have a discussion on God

Originally Posted by Russel Baldridge

But surely you see the predicament here?!?!

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If Ben Franklin had been satisfied that lightning was God's wrath we wouldn't have the technologies that we do. If Galileo had been satisfied that the Universe revolved around us, we would never have put two men on the moon. If Watson and Crick had been satisfied with the creation stories, we would never know that DNA exists nor how interconnected life really is.

No, these men are constituents of a long line of doubters, who stood on the shoulders of the secularists and intellectual giants before them and thrust the world into the future, despite the option of just accepting God's will.

Actually, Franklin and Galileo were not strangers among the many scientists who through the centuries have believed in God's existence:

[I believe] That there is one God, who made all things.
That he governs the world by his providence.
That he ought to be worshiped by adoration, prayer, and thanksgiving.
But that the most acceptable service of God is doing good to man.
That the soul is immortal.
And that God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter.
- Benjamin Franklin

For the Bible is not chained in every expression to conditions as strict as those which govern all physical effects; nor is God any less excellently revealed in Nature's actions than in the sacred statements of the Bible. Perhaps this is what Tertullian meant by these words: “We conclude that God is known first through Nature, and then again, more particularly, by doctrine; by Nature in His works, and by doctrine in His revealed word.”
- Galileo Galilei

Where did God command that man should not explore his creation and discover its depths? Or where did God ever tell people to just keep their meddling minds out of his efforts? I don't see any predicament here