叶医生的见证

叶医生的见证（选）

叶陈淑淑 当我从图书馆流着泪开车回家时，撞上了一辆停在路边的车．那时，我很清楚听到一句话：＂你能控制一切事情吗？＂这句话有如当头棒喝，敲醒了我．我曾以为这世界上，没有我办不到的事，但是现在我儿子患了病，我竟连病名都不知道．那我算什么？圣经上说：＂人算什么？神啊！您竟顾念他？＂当我以前看到这句话时，心想，我有两个博士学位，怎么还说人算什么？但是如今，事实摆在眼前，我在神面前算什么？那时，在中学读过的圣经章节，和这几年来求证神的经过，都一一浮现在心里．我问自己：＂如果耶稣基督是真神，为什么我还不跪在他面前，将我的一生交在他手里？＂ 我又问自己，谁能来帮我？我知道钱不能解决问题，心理学家也帮不了我，他们会发现问题，但他们不能解决这样的问题．最后神解决了我的问题．他说：＂凡劳苦担重担的人到我这里来，我必使你们得安息．＂那晚，我在神面前认罪．当我凭信心接受了耶稣基督以后，我的生命再次与神连结，他就带领我走过这一段十分难走的路．我知道靠着自己没有办法养大这个儿子．那晚，神破碎了我的自我． 在我知道儿子所患的病名时，就带他到处去找医生看病，但是没有医生肯收他．他们叫我不要浪费钱，因为这病是没得医的．那时我开始学习做一个主的门徒，凡事祷告，希望能替儿子找到肯医他的医生．我先生那时还未信主，他说：＂那是你的神，我又没信他，怎么跟你一起祷告？＂我说：＂难道你不希望我们的儿子好起来？你只要以他为神，他一定会听祷告．＂因此，我们两人就天天为此事祷告．三个月以后，找到了一个基督徒心理医生，愿意祷告三天，看看神有什么指示．三天以后，那个心理医生打电话来，决定诊治我的儿子．因他发现我的儿子智商超过一百四十五，个性非常好胜，并且还未满六岁，性情尚未定型，所以决定收他． 接着他向我提出三个条件：１．一星期带他来两次，一次美金一百四十五元，这个?病可能要拖上二十年而毫无进展，那时你不能说是我骗了你的钱．２．你现在马上要辞职不做医生．因为你儿子三分钟就做完人家一天的功课，做完就去搞别人．在这种情况下，没有学校肯收他，所以你要在家里找老师教他．３．替儿子做讲话治疗，因他一直不肯开口．医生说你每晚只要教你儿子说＂妈妈＂就好了．为这些条件，我请医生给我一个晚上的时间祷告． 那时我心里并不真的想祷告，我那时想和神吵架．我想问他，我可不可以两样都要？又要我的儿子，也要我的事业？我心乱如麻，无从祷告起，也不知道自己在讲什么，所以我就去看圣经．一翻开是创世纪，看到了神造了亚当和夏娃之后的一段：神就赐福给他们，又对他们说：＂要生养众多，遍满地面，治理这地．．．＂我的眼就盯在这十二个字上，不能再看下去了．我向神说：＂现在哪里还有人要生养众多啊？＂ 当我再次祷告时，我的心中有个很深的感动，原来这就是神所设的优先秩序．神让我知道，因为我的生命是从他来的，所以不管什么时候，他都应该在我的生命中占第一位，第二位是家庭，第三才是自己的事业．经过了整晚的挣扎，我终于顺服下来，第二天就辞掉了工作．但是儿子的医疗，学习样样需要钱，因而我申请了一个研究工作，可以在儿子入睡以后做，如此我养成了一天只睡四小时的习惯． 开始做以后并不是很容易的事．每次带儿子去看心理医生，感觉上好像是为了送钱去似的，因为儿子日日如是．我又是性急之人，神藉此事让我培养耐性，每日晚饭后，我要抓住儿子的下巴，使他眼睛能看着我的嘴型，然后教他叫＂妈＂．我常常想要半途而废，但是神藉着圣经的话来鼓励我：人会失信，但神绝不会失信．就这样过了四年，有一天我带他去看心理医生时，突然那个医生发狂似的走出来，说：他说＂ＮＯ＂了．那天带儿子回去的途中，我向神说：＂神啊！说ＮＯ要用到九条神经肌肉的，这么难的字，你都让他说了，请你今晚也让他叫我一声妈．＂ 那天整晚我都很紧张，但是到了十点半，他的眼泪掉下来时，我硬着心不肯停，我求神给我能力，并成就他的应许，过了十点五十几分，他用尽了吃奶的力量，突然叫了一声：＂妈＂，每次说到这个见证，我仍然无法不流泪，因为我等这一声妈等了十年． 今天，我的儿子已经念完了大三，已经信主，会自己读经，还会写电脑软件．这不是人的作为．那十三个医学家没有医到他，但他们看到我痊愈的儿子，便全部相信了主．除了神，没有人能医治我的儿子．那晚，当他开口叫＂爸爸＂时，我先生那种喜乐真是难以形容．他平时非常刚硬，不肯信主，但是那晚他相信并接受了主．在他受洗时，他做了一个见证：＂原来这个神不只存在于牧师的讲章里，也不只活在圣经里，这个神就住在我们一家三口当中，我每天在经历他的信实，我怎能不相信他？＂神拯救了我们全家，他给我们的恩典实在是数说不尽．亲爱的朋友们，但愿你也认识这位真神，接受他做你的救主．

Why Believe in God’s Existence, When It Can’t Be Proven Scientifically?

By Dan Vander Lugt

Why believe in God’s existence, when it can’t be proven scientifically?

Something that can be demonstrated by the scientific method is a scientific fact. But it doesn’t follow that just because something can’t be demonstrated scientifically it is less “real” or important than “scientific fact.”

For example, the survival of human civilization depends on the distinction that most people make between good and evil. Yet moral values like good and evil can’t be scientifically proven. Does the fact that moral values can’t be proven imply that they are less real—less “factual” in an ultimate sense—than the things that science can prove?

Most people would consider it morally evil for a man/woman to abandon his/her wife/husband and young children to begin a new life with another woman/man. Most people would consider this a serious moral failure, one of the “worst” things a person could do. But is there any compelling “scientific evidence” that could be brought to bear on such behavior to “prove” that it is wrong?

What “scientific evidence” could prove that murder, rape, and robbery are wrong? What would become of our system of justice if the prosecution had to scientifically prove that it is wrong for one person to kill, rape, or rob another person!

The existence of love, evil, and good are not “falsifiable hypotheses.” Yet most people—including atheists—admit that values like “love,” “goodness,” “friendship,” and “loyalty” are moral/spiritual realities that truly exist. Theists, whether Christian or non-Christian, have long considered the mind-boggling complexity of the material universe as evidence of a Creator. Although the scientific “spirit of the age” of the 20th century once insisted that the material world was nothing more than the product of impersonal, random evolution, today’s scientific consensus is shifting towards the conclusion that the universe was consciously designed (with incredible exactitude) for the development of life.1

Just as it is reasonable to assume that everything in physical reality has a cause, it is reasonable to assume that everything in spiritual reality has a cause. Immaterial spiritual values like love and goodness are even more amazing than the material wonders of the universe.

God’s existence cannot be proven scientifically. But although God’s existence can’t be proven, reasonable people acknowledge that the small number of alternative explanations for the wonders of material and spiritual reality can’t be proven either. Although faith is as much a matter of the heart as the mind, and belief in God is a moral as well as a rational decision, the rational case for the existence of God as the source of all reality is stronger than any other explanation.

Anthony Flew, an eminent British philosopher who has been widely published as one of the world’s most intellectually capable and well-known atheists, has recently become a theist on the basis of scientific evidence for design:

Darwin himself, in the fourteenth chapter of The Origin of Species, pointed out that his whole argument began with a being which already possessed reproductive powers. This is the creature the evolution of which a truly comprehensive theory of evolution must give some account. Darwin himself was well aware that he had not produced such an account. It now seems to me that the findings of more than fifty years of DNA research have provided materials for a new and enormously powerful argument to design.