The Universe Next Door

So, how many of you have ever heard of the following terms: Theism, Deism, Naturalism, Nihilism, Existentialism, Eastern Pantheistic Monism, and The New Age? Now, if that question wasn't enough to boggle your brain, trying reading and walking away with somewhat of an understanding of each of those in the last 6 weeks, with only two more weeks of school left. (Yes, my brain hurts too!!! No, Seriously, it does!)

This is what I have been reading for my class, Worldviews, at Regent. Talk about learning a lot. But I have to admit that without having taken this course, I would not be able to intelligently (or with some understanding) speak against the ones that aren't Christian Theism...Christianity. As, I mentioned in one of my debate posts, it is really intriguing the concepts humans have come up with over the last 2000 yrs or so just to dis-prove the existence of an "all knowing, personal, ever-present, Creator" and our Savior, Jesus Christ.

Well, my brain can't handle much more tonight. But I'll leave you with this last thought:

"God does not present us with confusion but with clarity." (Sire, p,30)

Isaiah 45:18-19 clarifies some basic questions about creation for us:

For this is what the Lord says -

he who created the heavens, he is God.

he who fashioned and made the earth,

he founded it;

he did not create it to be empty,

but formed it to be inhabited -

he says:

"I am the Lord,

and there is no other.

I have not spoken in secret,

from somewhere in a land of darkness;

I have not said to Jacob's descendants,

'Seek me in vain.'

I, the LORD, speak the truth;

I declare what is right."