The Journey Begins
It’s hard to understand why a businessman would write a book on Theology. Why not write about, well, business? Or if not business, why not write something more fun, like fiction?
I guess the answer is because as a boy I wanted to understand who God is. The book documents a small part of that journey. In fact, it starts at the very beginning. How can we know God? Perhaps it is the height of arrogance to believe that the creator of the universe would want to have a relationship of just one of his billions of creatures. Why would I be special? Why would you?
We can look at creation and assume God. Yes, many scientists assert that neo-Darwinian evolution precludes the necessity of belief in God, but modern scientific theories really do nothing of the sort. The argument that science allows for the non-existence of God is a circular argument. Modern science excludes God a priori. But nature gives us a sense that there is a transcendent being of some sort, and that this being taps into some kind of eternal power source – or is an eternal power source.
If only he had left us a message in a bottle. Some scrap of information beyond DNA code that we could read and understand. I would kneel before that kind of greatness. Is it too much to believe that we could do so? Is it too much to dream of reconnecting with our Creator? Can I dare even to hope that my Creator loves me?
The book is titled, God’s Choice: A Layman’s Perspective on Election and Predestination. In it, I assume that the Bible is our Creator’s “message in a bottle,” and I use it to try and understand who I am, who God is, and what our relationship can be as a result.
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