Credence

If some of the best educated minds argue that there is no intelligent cause for the universe, then, I think, most likely, the human mind is not capable of comprehending what really lies behind the observable universe. I’m sure I wouldn’t be able to comprehend it myself, but there is another source of knowledge. I don’t have to discover it for myself. I can accept the testimony of others. If God really made a revelation, I would be rash to reject it because, among other things, I would fall back on my own inability to perceive these things and I would never have knowledge of them.

I think God did make a revelation through his prophets and especially through Jesus Christ. The only avenue for me to enter into that realm of knowledge is simply to believe what has been revealed. There is a question of accuracy of the historical record of what had been revealed. However, I think, because of the controversy between those who are willing to accept that revelation and those who reject it, I can discover a pretty well-researched and well-documented appreciation of what the revelation originally was when it came from the mouths of the prophets and of Christ.

If I don’t accept that revelation as coming from God and, therefore, worthy of belief, I will never enter this hidden field of knowledge, not in this life anyway. After I die, when it is too late for me to make an impression on anybody, I expect then to be able to perceive God directly and to be aware of what God has revealed and what God had expected of me when I was still in the flesh. But it will be too late for me then to impress God because, when I had been given the opportunity, I refused to take his word for it.

Maurice A. Williams