One and Counting - Is anyone out there?

 

It is said that when Yuri Gagarin, the first human to leave planet earth, surveyed the dark expanse of space he said "I see no god."  It is also said that he never said this and that his deep faith in God never left him across his whole life.  

The Psalmist rather presumptuously says "The fool says there is no God.  They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds, there is none who does good." (Psalm 14, repeated in Psalm 53.)

Proverbs 9 says the "The core of your wisdom, is to know your creator." Now this does make sense as the definition of the creator is the one who is the source of everything.

I know that I have a 'father'.  He is no longer alive and I cannot talk with him.  But I would be a fool to deny his existence now.  It is possible to construct a story to say that 'perhaps I was never related to him', and that he was never really in my life.  This feet of mental contortion would be exhausting and distressing.  And everyone would ask... "why"?

So I ask, why deny the creator?  What is the point?  What do we achieve?  What do we lose?

But there are good people who do not acknowledge a Creator.  I see the similarity in English between the spelling of  'Good' and 'God' as no coincidence.  Good things come from God, and so do good people.  Their goodness is a sign that they do have contact with their creator.  In a similar way I can deny my paternity, but just looking in the mirror I am challenged.  The psalmist perhaps should show these people some lenience.  

However there is a paradox. None of us are good- and we all need redemption.  

That's for tomorrow.