One of the questions I often ask people is, "What is the difference between man and animals?" I have heard many answers to this question, but none that were satisfactory. Some people say that animals do not have the ability to think, but they do actually have this ability. There are also some people who say the difference is that animals do not
wear clothes.

When we consider this matter from various angles, we find the greatest difference between men and animals lies in the existence or nonexistence of religious tendencies. Even the monkey, perhaps the animal that is most similar to man, does not worship any kind of god or idol. Man alone has a religious nature. This is because man is a being that is proceeding from the finite to the infinite.

This religious nature has led man to grope around searching for God in his own way. In the past, some people would climb up to a rock, high up at the top of a mountain, thinking things would go well in their lives if they offered sacrifices there. Some people would set out a food offering on a table in front of an old tree. Others would light a candle beside a well and pray for blessings there. Followers of slightly more sophisticated religions would construct a tall building or a high tower and make an idol of that. Some people bow down and pray to the invisible god Allah and others to gods that have no names. But none of these gods have any answers.

There are people today who advocate the twentieth-century idea that "God is dead." Did God die a long time ago? One Russian astronaut who went up into space came back and said that he had not found God up there. He is said to have concluded that man had now conquered religion, and that man had also conquered God.

It was not such an amazing feat, however, for man to go to the moon and back. All we did was pay a brief visit to the moon, the heavenly body closer to the earth than any other body in the entire universe. We did not colonize the whole universe. Man has many criticisms of God, but the concept of God to be found in the Bible is different from man's concept of God. Most man-made gods or idols made from stone, iron, or wood, cannot utter a word. The God of which the Bible speaks, however, is not like that.