Lions eat people... and there is a God.
Believe it or not, an article reports that a man sought to prove or demonstrate the existence of God by walking up to a wild lion at a zoo in Kiev. The results were predictable.
I guess he know has his answer. He now knows for sure that there is a God. As for the rest of us, we now know that lions still eat people... and that there is still a god.
You see, this troubled man's test of God’s existence was relatively flawed (to put it mildly):
1) You would need to know that this particular test (walking up to a man-eating lion and not get eaten) would accurately reveal the information you're looking for (God exists). Any conclusions reached from this experiment would only be as credible as if I tested for spontaneous generation by leaving meat laying around to see if anything living comes out of it. What? It does!
2) If by “god” he is referring to the Judeo/ Christian/ Muslim concept of god, then he would need to take note of the verse that says, “do not put the Lord your God to the test” which is the Scripture Jesus invoked when Satan wanted him to jump off the temple and yet be protected from harm by angels (Deut. 6:16 and Matt. 4:5-7). The similarities between this situation the one reported in the article are uncanny.
3) The Bible makes it clear that ever since the fall (sin entering the world), there is hostility between man and the natural world (Gen. 3:17-18). Therefore, lions are used throughout Scripture to rip and tear people to pieces (eg. Dan. 6:24, Psalm 7:2).
4) God tells of a future day when peace will be restored among all of creation, including lions (Isaiah 11:6-9). And guess what? That day is not now.
Sigh… blind faith was never what God called us to. He gave us a mind for a reason. To do just that, reason (Isaiah 1:18)… couple that with faith and your golden.
P.S. Ironically enough, this guy deserves a Darwin award.
Comments
wow...
very solid points tim. i would have stuck with the tried and true "dude, don't be stupid".
Posted by: nate at June 5, 2006 03:41 PMThat kind of reminds me of Jesus speaking in parables. If their hearts weren't so hard, they would have understood him. As it was, the apostles continually saw God working and yet acted as if the miracles were flukes.
Even if this guy had "succeeded", people would only say that the lions weren't hungry and come to the same conclussion that he was a fool. Lets just be Thankful the guy didn't try killing someone so that he could resurrect him. May God have mercy on him.
Posted by: Steve O at June 5, 2006 08:34 PM