We live in times when materialism and atheism continue to seize power. And this school of thought has brought indisputable benefits, for example popular and applicable technology created through natural science.
Nevertheless, it must be said that if we do not include the Lord our God in our attempts to understand and find our bearings in the world and in life, there are significant aspects and angles we will not and cannot grasp.
For example, in terms of understanding the living consciousness. If we exclusively profess to teachings of matter without spirit, we cannot explain the gap between dead matter and living consciousness (see the article Consciousness, in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy; especially section 5.1 Diversity of explanatory projectsand section 5.2 The explanatory gap).
This is easy to explain if we include God in the equation: The spiritual and living and eternal consciousness is created by God, as stated in the Revelation of God, Toward the Light.
The gap between dead matter and the living cell, i.e. the origin of life on Earth, cannot be explained exclusively on a materialistic basis either.
Also this is easily explained through God and Toward the Light: The cell came into existence when Darkness destroyed the germs of life, given by God, in connection with the fall of the Eldest (called ‘the Fall’ by Christians).
Now, these fundamental conditions, along with other important matters and knowledge, are buried in the darkness of atheism and materialism. As long as we cannot – on a purely materialistic basis – explain such things, we should prefer a world view which can.
In Toward the Light, these conditions are clearly explained. As the supreme leader of this work, the Lord our God has Himself given us the light to see these.
Thus, God is the difference between light and darkness, the difference between sight and blindness, between knowledge and ignorance. You merely need to look up to see it!