Poet Thomas Hardy said that prayer is useless because there’s no one to pray to except “that dreaming, dark, dumb thing that turns the handle of this idle show.” Voltaire described life as a bad joke. He added, “Bring down the curtain; the farce is done.” Such is the blasphemy and despair of all who insist that God is uninvolved in human affairs. The fatherhood of God was rejected by Greek and Roman intellectuals of Jesus’ day because it violated their philosophical theories. According to the Stoic thinkers, all gods were apathetic and had no emotions. According to Epicurean philosophy, the greatest characteristic of the gods was full calm, or perfect tranquility. To retain their peace, they needed to be completely removed from the human condition. All such errors are refuted by Scripture, which declares God to be an intimate, […]