How Can I Believe?

Do I really believe all this God stuff is true that I'm posting about?

C. S. Lewis is more profound then I can ever hope of being. I found this quote of his on atheism a couple days ago and it struck me very hard.


"When I was an atheist my argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust? If the whole show was bad and senseless from A to Z, so to speak, why did I, who was supposed to be part of the show, find myself in such violent reaction against it?... Thus in the very act of trying to prove that God did not exist--in other words, that the whole of reality was senseless. I found I was forced to assume that one part of reality--namely my idea of justice--was full of sense. Consequently atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning."-C. S. Lewis


Ok so I know it was really deep. Read it a couple times. You'll understand. The biggest thing to me though was the line I put in bold. "A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line".

Basically. How can you tell something is broken? By knowing what it looks like, how it should act, and what it's purpose is when it's in correct working order. So how can you call society, yourself, or other people messed up unless you have an idea of how it can be fixed? You don't look at something you have no clue how to work and call it messed up.

So... How do you know? How do you know what you're suppose to be like in your prime? What society is suppose to be like and how far astray we actually are? If you're a christian it's your faith and trust in The Bible that puts the thoughts of perfection in you. The hopes and dreams of a perfect world. But what if you're not a christian? If you don't believe in The Bible? What do you do then?

Start Believing. What else is there to do? You could listen to the nothingness of a world without God. Maybe something will pop up for you. It's hard to explain why you should believe in The Bible because to anybody who sits down and starts to read Matthew with an open mind it's hard to believe anything else. It's so simple and it clicks that this is the way it worked. That a 'big boom' didn't occur. That yes there are hairy men but they still look nothing like monkeys. That anything else you can think of just didn't happen because you are presented with it in a whole new light.

Try it out. Why not? What have you got to lose? Ten... Fifteen minutes? Big deal. If you don't want to what's holding you back? Are you afraid of what it might cost? How your life might change? Big deal. Do it. Don't hold back because you're afraid of what might happen. You'll never know until you try right?

Once you step out, it's yours to do with what you will.