The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God

by Dallas Willard

To understand why the negative prejudice is so strong now, just reflect on how the entire system of human expertise, as represented by our many-tiered structure of certification and accreditation, has a tremendous vested interest in ruling God out of consideration. For, if it cannot do that, it is simply wrong about what it presents as knowledge and reality—of which God is no part. As we noted earlier, God currently forms no part of recognized human competence in any field of knowledge or practice. But if this actually is God’s universe, the current lords of knowledge have made what is surely the greatest mistake in human history. Believing the world is flat or the moon is cheese would be nothing in comparison to their mistake. To believe that the current lords of “knowledge” are right, on the other hand, is to omit the spiritual God and the spiritual life from the literally real. It is to take them to be illusions; and two or more centuries of “advanced thinking” have now been devoted to showing that they are illusions. So the battle to identify our universe as God’s and our existence as part of his creation simply has to go on. We cannot stand aside. And in training people to “hear and do,” we must take an open, loving, and intelligent stand on these fundamental matters.