Posted by
ValiantForTruth on Monday, July 14, 2008 12:31:22 AM
‘If "God" is indeed real, I wish he'd make himself known…Man is the only power that can save and redeem.’ –TH classic
This is the view of autonomous man. Blinded to the revelations of God and full of pride, his depravity has come to full bloom.
God is revealed in the creation of all things that exists, but this man has suppressed the truth and exchanged it for radical naturalism. All that exists is not created because that would require a Creator.
God has revealed Himself in the person and work of Jesus Christ, but He was crucified by men who were unable to recognize Him. It is no different today. He is rejected by men because they are blinded by the prince of darkness to do his will.
Now this blindness is deceitful for the blind man boasts as if he could see what is unseen. It escapes his notice that his life is but a vapor. All he has and treasures will soon be gone including his body. The memory of him will perish. The unseen reality of the eternal will soon overwhelm him.
Men like Tony Snow, who are given to see the unseen as through a glass dimly, now realize the reality that they lived by faith…
‘…though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, works for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal’ [2 Corinthians 4:16-18].