Not In View

I looked, but I saw no God, said the fool,
Tumbling knee-deep on the porch of earth,
As if that ended eternal Yahweh's rule,
When man teetered upon space travel's birth.
You won't find God tied on a toy kite string,
So the first to blast the edge of space
Can expect to see the Maker of things,
Like a rubber-necker touring the place!
He's no kewpie doll you win at a fair,
Or a keepsake to age along with you;
His word alone made space, but He's not there;
God indwells the saved, and is not in view.
He's no idol, that must be seen to be;
The fool would have died, if God he did see!

Yuri Gargarin was the first human to orbit the earth. He was the Soviet cosmonaut who circled the earth in space on April 12, 1961. Upon his return, he announced that he looked all around up there but did not see God anywhere. I imagine God laughed at the impertinence. Yuri must not have known the Bible very well. However, his statement must have been politically inspired, because the Soviet Union was communist. That philosophy was antagonistic to Christianity. Karl Marx, the founder of communism, was reported to have said, "Religion is the opiate of the people."

A Christian cosmonaut would have known that God could not be seen in space, or by any human being.

"No one has ever seen God, but God the One and Only [Begotten], who is at the Father's side, has made him known." [Brackets added] (John 1:18)

"God the One and Only" is a phrase referring to Jesus, the Son of God Who made the Father known. He told the Apostles:

"Jesus said, 'Don't you know me, Phillip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father'. ..." (John 14:9)

This verse, combined with the one quoted above, makes the true, but astounding, statement that Jesus is God the One and Only, and is the Father as well.

God, the Holy Spirit, dwells in each believer, or each human being who has accepted Jesus as Messiah, and who is following Jesus' command to learn to love others as He has loved us.

"Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you?" (1 Corinthians 3:16)

If Yuri had been a Christian, to find God, all he had to do was to look within himself without risking his life in space! Oprah Winfrey and her Miracles guru, Marianne Williamson, seems to have perverted this reality by applying it to every human being that lives. In the verse, Paul is speaking only to the Christian believers at Corinth. Marianne Williamson, sonsored by Winfrey, has misinterpreted this verse to mean that God lives in every person. This is the foundation verse on which the world's dominant present-day philosophy, postmodernism. gets its therapeutic practice of making everyone feel good about himself. Certainly, if you hoodwink an individual into believing the lie that God lives within himself; that he can get in touch with Him by inward introspection; and then to act upon what his inner self wants him to do; he will find peace and happiness. There is no sin, is there, if God tells Him to do something, no matter how evil it may be? Without sin, there is no damaging guilt feelings; thus he himself is at peace, and it doesn't matter about the rest of the world. Read 2 Thessalonians 2:11-12, and you will see that he has fallen for a false delusion that will send him to hell.