A World Without Pain?

I read an article not too long ago on CNN that was referenced from a book I read a few months ago. However, it didn’t necessarily come into contact with any sympathy on my part and the feeling to spread the word and make it a learning process for others; so I reread the book again and it just clicked better the second time around. What this is balanced around is the thought of removing ‘evil’ from the world. An issue like this is often found in the argument against God.

Now listen, I completely understand that this world isn’t always nice, and life definitely is not fair. But us faith believers often remind ourselves in comfort that “it rains on the just and the unjust alike”. Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens have all made the arguments that this world would be far better if it had no idea or concept of God; I disagree, not only because of my emotional attachment to God, but because I find more reason in faith and belief in God than I do in no God at all. Anyways...

Let’s get back to the topic at hand.

Without pain in this world, we ultimately lose the experience of feeling of reality in this world. It’s the felt reality that we can all relate to, whether we believe in God or not... All of us can relate; or can we?

There are about 100 people in the world we live in today that do NOT suffer at the expense of pain, but they do in fact suffer with the rare malady that involves insensitivity to pain. It’s called CIPA - Congenital Insensitivity to Pain with Anhidrosis. People with this disease feel no pain, nor do they shed tears. What a way to live, right?

One case in particular is the story of little Gabby Gingras, who has to be watched over constantly. At four months of age, her parents noticed she would bite her fingers till they would bleed, with no expression of discomfort or pain. At two

years of age she had to have her teeth removed to prevent her from biting herself and causing serious injury. She always has to wear safety glasses because in one instance she literally scratched her eye till she begin to damage her cornea very badly.

She plays sports with absolute fearlessness, never hesitant about banging into anything. She says she sometimes feels like crying, but can’t. The average life span for a child with this malady is twenty-five years. The parents of children who suffer from CIPA have but one prayer - that their child would or could feel pain.

It’s sad that these atheists fear pain so much, that they’d be willing to try and attempt at removing the center piece of our creation, the author of this earths origin, its meaning, its morality, and all of its destiny just so that they could crawl further away from the idea and the very experience of pain.

Wow, amazing. At least I believe so.

God. More than Imagination?

So I was listening to a lecture a few days ago by Dr. Francis Collins. After hearing what he had to say I was very interested in wanting know more about the man, so I went to Information's greatest source, Google. 

Not only did I find that he is the co mapper of the human DNA but I also found this column which was on based on the topic of Life and they introduced him with this: “Dr. Collins’s credentials are impeccable: he is a physical chemist, a medical geneticist and the former head of the Human Genome Project. He is also, by his own account, living proof that there is no conflict between science and religion.”

Also, he just happens to be beloved by President Obama, and was nominated by the President to be the Director of the National Institutes of Health.

Before I go on, please understand, knowledge is knowledge. I do my best to not 

be biased based on one's belief system but naturally it kind of happens, right? I went to see a "Does God Exist?" debate In April held by Biola University. I listened to both sides openly, but I couldn't argue that at the end of the night it just made more sense for me to believe in God based on more information than just my personal feeling and outlook on Life. 

So this lecture by Dr. Collins was very gratifying and rich with information. A man who studied and mapped the human DNA could confess that there was a God. 

During one of his lectures he showed the audience a slide of the "Rose Window" from York Minster. Without having to

hear anything else, you could simply look at the stain glass window and see its beauty, the time, and creation of a great mind simply coming into works. 

He than revealed another slide of the " View along the Axis of the ß DNA double Helix", which revealed true workmanship, a great(er) mind, and just beauty in the creation of the Human Body. Just in the Image of the DNA alone, you're seeing the majesty, the geometry, and you're looking at the chemical imprint  within our own Life. 3.1 Billion bits of information just in that strand within a small section of our DNA. Amazing!!!

If you were to look at the Rose Window alone; all those thousands of pieces of color, shapes, and sizes and confess to yourself that by some chance they just happened to come together without workmanship, intelligence, and an articulate mind, one could admit that you know nothing of art. 

So, friends, how much more the strand of DNA? I cannot convince myself that by some chance, matter, and time we all came to be. 

When we try to find reason coming from non reason than that's where somebody has to cry halt. 

Atheism, and Evolution could never answer the four questions of Life, which are "Origin, Meaning, Destiny, and Morality" - I'm sorry. It just can't be done from the view points of men who don't truly appreciate what we are, and why we're here on Earth.

When you think of Life, think of its greatest emotion... Love.

Remember this: God Is Love, and Love is Real, Because God is Real.

And So I Cry Halt!

I recently read a book which I bought not too long ago called "The End Of Reason" by Dr. Ravi Zacharias. If I had to choose one word to describe what I found in this book I would state the common, Amazing! The book is a rebuttal on "Letter To A Christian Nation" by acclaimed atheist, Sam Harris. Harris' attack on world religion but more overly on the Christian Faith, which I might add, was an attack on the very depth of my core. So I invested into finding out "Why?"- In this, I believe I made an absolutely wonderful choice.

If you've ever found yourself question your being, reason, or common feelings than I assure you that we all have at once. Dr. Zacharias covers four specific topics: Origin, Meaning, Morality, and Destiny. Mainly because they have no foundation within their Reason. Philosophers believe that reason always leads to reason, which I might say is in fact true. The late writer C.S. Lewis takes this kind of thinking to task when he stated: "Reason might conceivably be found to depend on [another reason] and so on; it would not matter how far this process was carried provided you found Reason coming from Reason at each stage. It is only when you are asked to believe in Reason coming from non-reason that you must cry Halt!"

With this said, invest a little. I choose not to be a brainwashed Christian, but rather an educated one who contends on the grounds of truth. So I'm truly a nerd, big deal, right?