There are no atheists...
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There are no atheists. Martin Luther made clear that everyone has a god: "A god is that to which we look for all good and in which we find refuge in every time of need. To have a god is nothing else than to trust and believe him with our whole heart... For those two belong together, faith and God. That to which your heart clings and entrusts itself is, I say, really your God" (Book of Concord [2000 ed.], p. 386).
What you care about most (Jesus, money, family, fame) is your god. But our text testifies that amidst all the gods, the one true God makes himself known to us, even in our experience. Augustine nicely explains why we can't miss the God who is Jesus Christ: "For such is the energy of the true godhead that it cannot be altogether and utterly hidden from any rational creature, so long as it makes use of reason" (Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 7, p. 400).
The energy emanating from the source of life and being cannot be missed reasonable people. This leads to the conclusion of John Calvin: "For God hath not darkly shadowed his glory in the creation of the world, but he had everywhere engraven such manifest marks, that even blind mean know them by groping" (Calvin's Commentaries, Vol. XIX/1, p. 166).
What you care about most (Jesus, money, family, fame) is your god. But our text testifies that amidst all the gods, the one true God makes himself known to us, even in our experience. Augustine nicely explains why we can't miss the God who is Jesus Christ: "For such is the energy of the true godhead that it cannot be altogether and utterly hidden from any rational creature, so long as it makes use of reason" (Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 7, p. 400).
The energy emanating from the source of life and being cannot be missed reasonable people. This leads to the conclusion of John Calvin: "For God hath not darkly shadowed his glory in the creation of the world, but he had everywhere engraven such manifest marks, that even blind mean know them by groping" (Calvin's Commentaries, Vol. XIX/1, p. 166).
