So close, yet so Far!











*Antony Flew, an academic philosopher who expounded atheism for most of his life but made a late conversion to belief in a creator, has died at age 87, his family said in a notice published Wednesday.

Flew died on April 8 2010 following a long illness, according to the notice in The Times (London) newspaper.

The son of a Methodist minister, Flew abandoned belief as a teenager because of the problem of evil.

"It just seemed flatly inconsistent to say that the universe was created by an omnipotent and perfectly good being. Yet there were evils in abundance which could not be put down to a consequence of human sin," he was quoted as saying in a 2004 interview with The Sunday Times.

In the last decade of his life, scientific discoveries about the complexity of DNA led him to believe there was an intelligent creator.

Flew's belief was in deism, in a remote creator who takes no interest in human affairs, unlike the Christian concept.

He is survived by his wife and two daughters. A private funeral was planned.

"I don't want a future life," Flew told The Sunday Times.

"I want to be dead when I'm dead and that's an end to it. I don't want an unending life. I don't want anything without end." *2010 The Associated Press

In pondering Dr. Flews death, I on one hand am thankful that at last, he made room in his mind for God, but I am saddened that, such wonderful knowledge never reached his heart.

He did not want a future life, no unending life for him...

His desire for life to at some point finally end, is in actuality a beginning!

Whoever believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. Whoever does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne concerning his Son. And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.(1 John 5:10-13)

I am reminded of something C.S. Lewis once wrote:
"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell."

Life eternal, life with the Son Of God, reunion with family and friends who love the Lord, that's something I anticipate with the close of each day!

Will I see you there?

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