Psalm 14:1: “The fool has said in his heart, / ‘There is no God.’ / They are corrupt, / They have done abominable works, / There is none who does good.”

January 20th, 2024 by Pastor Ed in devotional

Psalm 14 states that a person who says there is no God is a fool. Scripturally this term fool means moral and ethical foolishness, including a lack of common sense, rather than intellectual stupidity. Humanity has not changed much since King David penned these words almost 3000 years ago. The Creator has given humanity the freedom to deny the reality of God. G.K. Chesterton said:

. . . it is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing, and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.¹

The atheist’s biggest problem with believing in God is not evidence, but rather the threat God poses to their lifestyle. If there is no God, then there is no judgment, no punishment, and no standard of right or wrong. This makes the atheist’s position especially attractive to those who want to live a life where they are never held accountable for their actions. William Leonard Rowe, professor emeritus of philosophy at Purdue University recently admitted that:

Even as the Evangelical Christian accepts God by faith, I reject the idea of God by faith. I cannot reject God by reason alone, for there is too much evidence of His existence. It is by faith I am an atheist.

On the other end of the discussion is Dr. Tamara Jernigan, astrophysicist and payload commander on the space shuttle Endeavor. She said that looking at the universe from miles above the earth strengthened her belief in God. In her live C-SPAN interview from space, she stated, “I certainly believe that God created the earth and put the universe in motion” and that her studies and job gave her the opportunity to investigate and try to “understand all the fascinating objects inside the universe He created.”

“LORD, we agree and worship You, the God who is God.”

¹G. K. Chesterton, St. Thomas Aquinas (Mineola: Dover Publications, Inc., 2009), p. 174.