The Ohio State

It has been a great week on OH State campus!!! Anyone interested in hearing more details about it can email me, but here is just a little bit of a sneak peak: 

It was a tremendously beautiful fall day on Monday, October 14. With temps in the mid 70's, the sun bright and shining, and the oval freshly mowed, the green grass and blue sky blended creatively with the trees changing color. 

We were set up by 11:30am, and a steady crowd of about 40 stuck around for most of the nearly 7 hours we had the banners on display. Tom didn't start preaching for a while, as he instead talked to students who were reading the banners. It was early in the afternoon that I started talking to Tim, a student who approached the table where Megan and I were standing. As we started chatting a bit, Tim shared how he was an agnostic and had been raised by parents who were atheists.

Our conversation lasted for nearly the next two hours, and I enjoyed it immensely. 

One part of our talk included Tim asking me to be 99% sure of God's existence- couldn't I leave a 1% chance that God does not exist, since he was leaving a 1% chance that God does exist? My response to that, was that even the demons believe-and they are certainly not in agreement with God; so, one way to put it would be to say that I was 99% sure that God existed BEFORE I prayed to accept Jesus; my 100% came when I placed my faith in Him for salvation. the 100% also came about and was birthed by my actions that were produced as a result of my faith. 

True faith without actions is not true faith. I want it to be clear that the existence of God does not change based off of the percentage of belief I place in His existence; He is real even if tomorrow I decide not to believe in Him anymore. Tim compared the concept of God's existence being related to a campaign manager being confident that his candidate will win, while at the same time there being just as much of a chance as the other candidate winning. While I understood what Tim was implying by this, I had to say that I considered it to be a poor analogy because God's existence isn't based on whether we choose He exists or not. God has already "won." His existence isn't going to suddenly not be true anymore by the atheist winning the majority vote. Let's not vote on whether God exists or not. 

As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth; it will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it. Isaiah 55:9-11 NIV