Killing God

I once dated a girl. She was really nice. She was wise, honest, kind, funny……..I could go on. The only trouble was that she was a serious, committed Christian………..and I wasn’t.

One day she asked me, “What are you afraid of……… that God will ask you to do something that you don’t want to do? ”

She hit the nail on the head. I was terrified, because I had plans for my life……and I realized that God had plans too. I knew that God’s plans trumped mine. I knew that getting tangled up with God might interfere with my plans. (What if he sent me to Africa?) I realized that if I was going to be the center of my universe……..if I was going to get what I wanted……….then there was no room for God. In a word, I knew that God is disruptive…..and I needed to get him out of my way.

I was, at my core, a secular humanist/Darwinist.

I finally broke it off……..because I could see that her Christianity might interfere with my plans for my life.  At the time my response to her made perfect sense. It still would……if I could just get rid of this disruptive God.

Enter Darwinism………if the universe is a giant biochemical accident, then there is no need for a creator……..no need for God. I can shove him aside and take over. In effect,  I can use Darwinism to kill God and then I can take over. This is the heart of secular humanism.

There it is. We can’t tolerate anybody else being in charge. So we use Darwinism and evolution to kill the creator. With no creator, we are the highest life form in the universe. We get to run things…….we are in charge. I think that this is the crux of the problem for the unchurched…… for the secular humanist/Darwinist. We are smart……. the smartest creatures to ever exist. We believe that we should be in charge. We make plans to further our goals. Our plans must be the best, because we are the smartest creatures alive.

This is great………. as long as Darwin was correct.

But, not so great…………. if Darwin was wrong…….if there is a more intelligent being out there……..if there is a creator.

The problem is that God is smarter, not to mention kinder and more generous than we are……. the problem is that God has a plan for us that is better than our own. We just can’t see all of the outcomes.

What I know now, is that God’s plan is a plan for my well being…….. and the well being of those around me. In order to profit from God’s plan, I have to step a way from the center. I have to put God……. and his plan……… in the center. My ego, my hubris must take a back seat.

In a way, this is the most important decision of your life……Darwin’s accident………..or God’s intelligent design.