I was recently reading an article on Christian music from the 1980’s and saw a link to Joey Taylor’s (of Undercover) blog. The link has a snippet of a post from his blog and the gist was that Joey is now an atheist. I visited the blog and read his reasoning for where he stands. While I cannot and will not condemn where he has ended up, I find that I am saddened by it. My reading of Joey’s posts suggests to me that he is trying to fit God onto a human framework of understanding – something that I consider to be be fundamentally impossible.

Faith is not easy. I find myself questioning God frequently. But when I look at creation and consider all that I can see, there HAS to be a greater power behind it all than I can comprehend.

It is called faith for a reason. If it were not faith, it would be a logical conclusion based on facts. But facts do not tell the whole story. There is much that has gone before that we cannot be sure of. I am sure the humanists who are smarter than I and are very sure of themselves will call me misguided and easily led by fantasy. But I have looked through telescopes and seen Saturn and it’s rings with my own eyes and marveled at its existence. Who has not seen the wide-field camera views of the Hubble telescope wherein hundreds of GALAXIES are visible. And we are to believe this is the result of random chance? How is the idea of God any less valid than an explosion of matter with no explained origin?

I know what I believe even if I sometimes wonder why.