C S Lewis once remarked that either Christianity is false, in which case it is of no importance, or else it is true, in which case it is of infinite importance. The one thing it cannot be is moderately important.
You will sometimes hear atheists say that, although it seems very unlikely, they cannot absolutely rule out the possibility of God’s existence, and would change their minds if there was enough evidence. In other words, they are prepared to allow God the privilege of being moderately important. If at the end of some long and convolutehed chain of reasoning they could come to the conclusion that God exists, they would try to treat his existence as if it were an academic truth to be set along side other academic truths, such as the existence of the solar system, and the atomic weight of hydrogen.
It is hardly possible to read the Bible without being aware that the God whose sovereignty is absolute has a somewhat higher estimate of his own importance than that.
Those same atheists sometimes become annoyed when they are told that they do not understand what faith is. But, insofar as they try to talk about God as if his possible existence was an interesting little exercise in academic philosophy, they betray the truth of that staement with their almost every utterance.
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