Famous Atheist Now Believes in God
From ABC News.
To be more specific, Antony Flew, whose name ought to be familiar to history students everywhere as one of the West's most famous atheists, now is not so sure. He has had to admit that the universe, and life itself, had an intelligent creator. The Associated Press paraphrases him as saying that
He is 81 years old, so he might have very little time to understand fully that this Intelligent Designer is also a Judge and has never lost Interest nor been wanting in Attention toward His creation. If I may paraphrase Thomas Jefferson (whom Flew cites as a spiritual ancestor of sorts): God has warned us, from time to time, of the degree to which we have distanced ourselves from Him. He has reminded us of His love for us, but also of the great gulf between God and man that man alone can never bridge. Thus far His efforts have, sadly, been met with scorn, for the most part. A time will come when He will indeed yield to the necessity of the ages, and hold all who refuse to change their minds about their sins, as He holds His greatest enemy (called variously Enemy and Slanderer and Dragon and Serpent of Old in many languages), as His enemies in war. John the Revelator gives the clearest, but not the only, picture of how that war will play out.
But if a man will repent--that is to say, get his mind right--then God will forgive and show mercy. He can do that because His Son paid the ultimate price for our sins--in our place.
I applaud this news about Mr. Flew, not because God has gained yet another witness (which, technically, He hasn't--yet--but where there's life, there's hope!), but because one of the first steps in getting your mind right is figuring out that your mind is wrong about something. Antony Flew has taken that step. He needs to take another, more important step. Let us all pray, for his sake, that he takes that step before it's too late.
To be more specific, Antony Flew, whose name ought to be familiar to history students everywhere as one of the West's most famous atheists, now is not so sure. He has had to admit that the universe, and life itself, had an intelligent creator. The Associated Press paraphrases him as saying that
A super-intelligence is the only good explanation for the origin of life and the complexity of nature.To be sure, Mr. Flew is not ready to accept a God Who either takes a personal interest in the lives of men or Who directs the destinies of nations. In other words, he still cannot grasp the nature of the Grand Designer Who he now admits must have existed and must have created the universe and ordained the natural laws by which it works.
He is 81 years old, so he might have very little time to understand fully that this Intelligent Designer is also a Judge and has never lost Interest nor been wanting in Attention toward His creation. If I may paraphrase Thomas Jefferson (whom Flew cites as a spiritual ancestor of sorts): God has warned us, from time to time, of the degree to which we have distanced ourselves from Him. He has reminded us of His love for us, but also of the great gulf between God and man that man alone can never bridge. Thus far His efforts have, sadly, been met with scorn, for the most part. A time will come when He will indeed yield to the necessity of the ages, and hold all who refuse to change their minds about their sins, as He holds His greatest enemy (called variously Enemy and Slanderer and Dragon and Serpent of Old in many languages), as His enemies in war. John the Revelator gives the clearest, but not the only, picture of how that war will play out.
But if a man will repent--that is to say, get his mind right--then God will forgive and show mercy. He can do that because His Son paid the ultimate price for our sins--in our place.
I applaud this news about Mr. Flew, not because God has gained yet another witness (which, technically, He hasn't--yet--but where there's life, there's hope!), but because one of the first steps in getting your mind right is figuring out that your mind is wrong about something. Antony Flew has taken that step. He needs to take another, more important step. Let us all pray, for his sake, that he takes that step before it's too late.
posted by Temlakos at 6:16 PM
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