I know a person who often speaks up in a study class I’m in; this person is considerably older than I am, and wiser; but the things they say make even the study teacher roll their eyes. There is no doubt this person is a Christian, but their idea of how God is and what He can do is severely warped.
As our little study group was discussing the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics, proving scientifically that evolution is false, the person stood up and began to speak out in agreement that everything is wearing down and not “evolving” to a better level of existence- “Just look at all the humans dying earlier, culture getting secularized, economy losing momentum, plants not growing as well, food making us fatter, the sun burning out, and even God’s power.”
Say whaaaa?
While I can’t agree with the logic of some of those points, and a few are matter of opinion, the final example made me turn and look at the speaker with an eyebrow raised.
This person went on to explain that they remember street preachers saving entire neighborhoods and going to the Billy Graham crusade and seeing thousands of conversions. “You just don’t see that anymore… God’s hand is leaving His people.”
While I’m not speculating if God’s hand is, indeed, “leaving His people”, I do find it odd and wrong to measure God with physical laws.
What are your thoughts on God’s power? Has it changed? Is His power diminishing? In what way? How would you explain the decline of “conversions”?




