God's Not Dead Page #3
At the end of it all,
I'm gonna have to
work like a dog
just to catch up
on my other classes.
You have described
your difficulties,
I don't know.
I just--I think of Jesus
as my friend.
I don't want
to disappoint him,
even if everyone
thinks I should.
See, to me,
he's not dead.
He's alive.
Bye.
Hiya, Tom Blanchard,
Metro City Auto.
Here's your keys.
Absolutely.
I'm giving you a car.
Sign here,
Thank you.
We'll come pick you up.
Thanks.
You're kidding.
What did you do?
Did you break it?
What?
Check and see
if it's still in gear.
No, it's in park.
Alright,
well, now it's not.
How soon can you
get us another car?
Well, not tonight.
It's already after 5:30.
Everyone's gone home
An audition?
And it's kind of
a dinner theatre thing.
Perhaps it's
gonna rain anyway.
Sometimes you
don't make any sense.
All the time.
And all the time?
God is good.
You're on with Marc.
It's me, dork,
your sister.
Oh, and this is about?
You really
should go see Mom.
She's not doing well.
She hasn't been
doing well for years.
That's why they
call it dementia.
Still, you
should go see her.
Claire said you haven't
been there in awhile.
Like it matters?
Besides, I just
bought her a new TV.
If she gives you the
right answer, I'll visit.
That's not fair.
Life's not fair.
I gotta go.
Say hi to Amy.
No, that's over.
What'd you do?
I'm sorry to hear that.
Well, that's
the way it goes.
Okay, ready to
get this started?
Seriously, you
have got to get a life.
Yeah, tell me about it.
Hey honey.
Oh, sorry,
the door was open.
I just let myself in.
- Hi.
- Hi.
I did.
I left it in the car.
It's in the car.
Don't worry about it.
You have a lot
on your plate.
So, you know, just--
thank you for helping
set up our dinner party.
Well, unless I'm wrong,
That's not true.
Vivian's a sociologist.
Look, I can't help it.
The instant
I get around you.
Really?
The first time I walked
into your classroom,
you were all
blood and thunder.
Why?
It was an A-minus.
Close enough.
Huh?
Who?
That carefree,
free-spirited girl
'Cause I miss her.
She has got a mom
who's failing,
she's sensing
time is passing by,
Reading, listening,
thinking.
You can hardly
call this thinking.
Yes, and you know
that I'm not.
Yeah, I know,
and I know
there's a lot of things
you don't want
to talk about,
so we don't
talk about them.
And louder, and soon
it will be deafening,
and I don't know
if I can put up with that.
- I know.
- Do you?
- Yeah.
Because we need
to be clear on this.
Which means
I don't get a mistress
turned itinerant rabbi
into our lives.
Look, I'm gonna
go freshen up.
Is this the same car?
Oh, no sir.
No, sir.
Same model,
different color.
The other one
was a Cabernet.
This is more
of a merlot.
You
know, lying's not good.
You know that, right?
Sir, I assure you this
is a different automobile.
Here, try it out.
Oh, Pretty good.
I'm up for review
mid-semester.
Well,
congratulations Jeffrey.
Anything else
on your plate?
Not really.
Feel like sharing?
Who's--well,
he's taken a challenge
to prove
the existence of God.
In your classroom?
- Yes.
- Silly boy.
- Freshman?
- Oh yeah.
Doesn't seem
quite fair to me.
Well, how's that?
He's inexperienced
in front of a room,
in your own field
of expertise.
Come on, Mina.
This is fun for me.
I gave him an out,
but no,no,no,
he wants to prove
that God isn't dead.
Look, I know I am
in the minority here,
but I actually
believe in God.
But I'm just saying--
Mina, I've asked
politely, okay?
Okay-
The coq au vin
is almost done.
Excellent.
To the dining room.
Cheers, everyone.
Mina, this wine is awful.
It's been cooked.
Talk about your
"Grapes of Wrath."
I locked it in the trunk
and when I got home
I forgot about it.
As Socrates put it
over 2,000 years ago,
"Gnothi seauton."
Looks like
it's Greek to her.
Oh, it's "Know
thyself," darling, know thyself.
You know,
if you'll all excuse me,
it's time for
the help to depart.
Sweetheart--
No pacemaker?
No.
I know it
sounds crazy, but I have to ask.
In our last class,
I was asked a question
that I couldn't answer.
As Professor Radisson
pointed out,
in which he says
the following:
"Because there is a law
such as gravity,
but three errors
of logic contained
and it all boils down
to circular reasoning.
Because the universe
needed to exist,
It's like this.
If I say to you
that I can prove
you'd probably
look at me strange
and say I haven't
proven anything.
And you'd be right,
because it needed
to create itself,
and then offers that
as an explanation
as to how
and why it was created,
"even when spoken
by famous scientists
"even though
the general public
assumes they are
statements of science."
Are you telling me
that you, a freshman,
No, what I'm saying
is that John Lennox,
But if you
can't bear to disagree
where he insists
philosophy is dead.
And if you're so sure
of Professor Hawking's
infallibility,
and philosophy
really is dead,
then well, there's really
no need for this class.
Except for when
my faith comes up,
then he becomes
verbally abusive.
Brilliant.
Handsome.
Yes.
And his attention
makes you feel special,
gives you a sense
of completeness.
Have you been
reading my diary?
Psychologists call it
the Cinderella complex.
Guys are capable
of the same thing.
It's just they don't
have a name for it.
To give you
a sense of self-worth
instead of
generating it internally.
Yeah, a lot
of people do, sure.
But, using romance
to shore up self-image
No.
So, if he's incapable
of mistakes,
then it follows that he
cares about you, right?
Right.
To the point
where God's only Son
if that's what
was necessary.
Well, if he
loves you that much,
who cares what
your boyfriend thinks?
But to the right person,
you'll mean everything.
Ladies and
gentlemen of the jury,
and that evolution
replaces God,
but evolution only
tells you what happens
once you have life.
Full of the right kind
of chemicals
and bingo,
a living something.
Came from that one
single, simple organism
Darwin uttered
his famous statement,
that scientists say
life has been around
as one 24-hour day,
in the space of
just about 9 seconds,
in the forms in which
they currently hold.
Not slowly and steadily
as Darwin predicted,
So, "nature does
not jump" becomes
"nature makes
a giant leap."
"'and let birds
fly above the earth
across the expanse
of the sky.'
"and every living
and moving thing
"with which
the water teems,
"according to its kind.
In other words,
creation happened
because God said
it should happen.
And even what looks,
to our eyes,
to be a blind,
unguided process
No, there's nobody.
Or what you don't
want to understand.
"If only you would open
the Scripture and read,
So says the
brave young freshman.
Job 12, verse 2.
"And full of trouble.
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