How do men arrive at their conceptions of God? We who know Him tend to feel that others are ignorant if they do not see Him as we do. Perhaps they think the same way about us. Atheists certainly think we are less than honest with the facts. They do not know that they have ignored the facts -- those in the Bible -- and they assume that they have checked the fossils, history, science of every kind, and even the heavens as some Cosmonauts did and said upon their return that they looked for God while in orbit but did not see him. You and I know that blind men cannot see with the evidence in front of them. Men are blind because the 'god of this world' has blinded their minds lest the light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ, the image of God, should shine unto them (2 Corinthians 4:4). Men even substitute their philosophy for God's Truth (Colossians 2:8).

THE GREAT ASSUMPTION
Man, in his vain imagination, professes himself to be wise (Romans 1:21, 22). Why? Is it not the pride of his heart. He imagines something. The Psalmist tells us what it is:

"These things thou hast done and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes. Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver." Psalm 51:21, 22

Man imagines any God would have to be and act as man himself is and acts. Following this line he concludes that there is no other god than man himself. He is the master of his own fate, the captain of his own soul. When we stop and consider just how much man has learned -- conquering space (a little), healing diseases (sometimes), producing artificial intelligence (to a small degree), etc. It is certainly logical that in time man should find out anything else he needs to know. So does the human mind work. But that mind does not know its own limitations. Worse still, it is not aware of its depravity. Man cannot see that he is largely blind. He has accepted his lot but believes he can improve it gradually. He knows it may not happen in this generation but he feels it may happen in the next.

If only one could be brought to trust God, accept the Revelation of Himself, he would not have to go on in this blindness. These marvelous abilities which man has are but dim reflections of that image of God which the Creator put in man when He made him. But how distorted has that image become by virtue of man's sin and rebellion!

A lot of things about God are logical and understandable, but many more are not, simply because they are supernatural. Man loves the "super" but is not willing to grant it to God; he wants to claim it for himself.

The truth of the matter is that God is not as we are. He does not think or act as we do. He has standards which are holy and high above us, because we are fallen creatures. So His thoughts are not as our thoughts and His ways are not as our ways (Isaiah 55:8, 9). The contest which man has engaged with God turns on whether or not the man can ever admit that God is, indeed, God. If He is, then our imaginations are vain; our hearts are foolish.