In our previous Evidence for God devotional, we discussed Dick Van Dyke's dangerous pseudo-faith in a nameless higher power and his words, whatever that means. Dick's rejection of the Bible as God's infallible inspired word and his rejection of the gospel of Jesus Christ resulted in his promotion of liberal Marxist politics, including abortion and sodomite marriage and every other liberal cause and candidate. How did Dick come to the point that he could be such a talented, nice guy who promotes such vile wickedness in the name of politics? It begins with Dick's rejection of the light of the biblical Jesus and of God's words. Jesus tells us this in John 3.19, And this is the condemnation, that light is coming to the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. Once light is rejected, a man is walking toward darkness. Things will happen that will give him what he pretends to be good excuses to continue to walk away from God. In Dick's case, he was made an elder of a Presbyterian church back in the mid-60s. And there's no evidence Dick had even made a profession of faith in the gospel of Jesus Christ, which is the absolute prerequisite for being an elder in any legitimate Christian church. But beyond that, obviously, there was no spiritual maturity or qualification to be an elder. A child can't mature if it's aborted, and Dick's faith was aborted, and he was never born again by his own admission. And then, in his state of spiritual darkness, he tells of an incident on page 69 of his book titled Keep Moving, where a meeting of the church elders, several objected to the idea of a black Baptist church choir singing at Dick's Presbyterian Church. Dick says, quote, they did not want any black people in the church. I was disgusted. I left that meeting and that was my last Sunday in any church, end quote. Well, Dick was right to be disgusted, but using that as an excuse to reject Christianity as a whole, and Christ in particular, is just ridiculous and wicked. So Dick then says, quote, I wasn't quite done with religion, though. I began attending Jewish services with the congregation Beth Orr, whose members met in a Unitarian church in Studio City, end quote. And the rest is history. But as you might expect, there's a lot of back history behind this event and Dick's rejection of biblical Christianity. He tells of an experience at age 11 at a Bible camp. Nothing about Jesus, just about a religious experience, I guess. But he says, quote, for the next three years, I carried around a Bible, which I read from cover to cover, end quote. He even says, quote, I decided I would become a minister. That is, until I joined the high school drama club. Suddenly, my plans changed. My Bible ended up on the shelf, and I started down the road that eventually landed me in Hollywood, end quote. In other words, the Bible was trashed, and he says he started reading apostates like Soren Kierkegaard, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Paul Tournier. As a result, Van Dyck says that, quote, I've come to see that there are no sure answers, end quote. Except, Van Dyke is sure that the Bible isn't literally true, and he's sure evolution is true, and creationism is false. On page 158 of his book, he laments attempts to teach opposing views of evolution in the schools, giving a letter grade to it, saying, quote, the country's malingering failure to separate fact from fiction in the classroom 90 years later, F. Dick Van Dyke is a sad example of what happens when a person is ignorant of or choosing to ignore the evidence for God and then goes on to make up a God in his own image to his own liking. Dick likes to present himself as a knowledgeable man, and in many ways he is, but it's clear that he's guarded his mind from learning truth about God in his word, and his heart is darkened by ignorance. If he would have learned the truth, his conclusions would have been different. Proverbs 2, 3, and 5 says, yea, if thou cryest after knowledge and liftest up thy voice for understanding, if thou seekest her as silver and searchest for her as for hid treasures, Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God. That's true about Dick Van Dyke and everyone else.