In 1543, while on his deathbed, Copernicus revealed his discovery that the earth was not the center of the universe. Though he made this discovery earlier, he waited to make it known for fear of the reaction it would bring. He had reason to fear.
In 1616 Galileo was summoned to the Inquisition in
Galileo gave in, lived, but did not recover his life.
The world could not receive the truth. It strikes me that the same thing is happening today. Christianity is experiencing the same sort of opposition faced by Galileo from those with a world view. The wording of the judgment above could be updated with today’s condemnation of God and His Son Jesus:
The first proposition, that God exists and that the universe does not revolve around man, is foolish, absurd, false in logic and contrary to reason… The second proposition, that man is not all there is, but was made by and for God, is absurd, false in philosophy, and from a natural point of view at least, a childish dream opposed to enlightened thinking.
Does it sound familiar? It should. This message rings out in our world, just as it has for thousands of years. Some things never change.
Truth is not a result of man’s thinking, but the transcending reality of God.
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