>”Say if you like that you do not believe in God, you nevertheless have a sense of God, and you have to argue with yourself. And all your intellectual arguments are really brought forward to boost your own assertion. While you are asserting that you do not believe and that you can prove scientifically that there is no God, something within you is pronouncing against your disbelief and assuring you that there is a God. You are speaking with eloquence in order to drown the voice within you that speaks for God. This is in us all. There is a universal sense of God. Even the most primitive tribes and races have a sense of God and a sense of judgment.
Yes, and coupled with that-I am being brutally frank, am I not?-there is our fear of death.
“Ah,” you say, “but modern people aren’t afraid of death.”
Are they not? Then why do they take so much trouble to avoid speaking about it? Why do they regard it as morbid to be reminded of it? The fact of the matter is that this present age has a horror of death. It is controlled, in a sense, by the fear of death. The Scripture says we are those “who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage” (Heb 2:15) ~Martyn Lloyd Jones