Adumbrations of Our Lord’s Return: Atheistic Dynamism -- By: Raymond E. Gingrich

Journal: Grace Journal
Volume: GJ 09:1 (Winter 1968)
Article: Adumbrations of Our Lord’s Return: Atheistic Dynamism
Author: Raymond E. Gingrich


Adumbrations of Our Lord’s Return: Atheistic Dynamism

Raymond E. Gingrich

Professor of Bible
LeTourneau College

We are living, we are dwelling,
In a grand and awful time,
In an age on ages telling
To be living is sublime.1

In June, 1963, Lyndon Baines Johnson, then Vice President of the United States, in a speech at Chicago, Illinois, declared,

90 per cent of all scientists who ever lived are living today. More mathematics has been created since the beginning of the 20th century than in all the remainder of history combined. 90 per cent of all the drugs being prescribed by physicians today were not even known 10 years ago. 3/4 of all the people who will work in industry in 1975 will be producing products that have not yet been invented or discovered.2

We look under water and we see an atomic submarine threading its torturous way under the polar icecap. We look on the surface of the water and we see an aircraft carrier knifing its way through the ocean waves by means of atomic power. We look above the earth and we see space ships orbiting the earth at a speed of 18,000 miles per hour, propelled into space from their launching pads by millions of pounds of power thrust. We look farther out and we see other satellites orbiting the moon as man probes for a favorable landing site. We look at the communication media and we see pictures and hear messages transmitted from far away places through a Telstar placed in the heavens by means of rocket propellant. We look at the transportation media and we see jet planes flying at twice the speed of sound, with, government and industry planning even greater developments as scientists expand the principle of force. We peer into an operating room in a modern hospital and we see delicate retinal detachment surgery without anesthesia by means of a laser beam. That same beam, under different circumstances may become the medium for the simultaneous transmission of a billion telephone conversations on a single thread of light. We glance heavenward again and we behold a “ship” sailing along in space propelled by power from the sun!

Fanciful! No! Imaginative! Yes, but only in the development of these 20th century “brain children” of human knowledge and ingenuity!

In presenting this lecture on “Atheistic Dynamism,” our plan is to take a look at the phenomenal developments in man’s working with force: raw, impersonal force; then to evaluate these developments through the revelation of God’s Word.

In the first division of this study, we are greatly in...

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