Life With God (2) Random World Or Logical And Rational
Tuesday September 13, 2016
Did life as we know it today come about through a series of random collections of spontaneous acts and fate? What keeps the delicate balance of life steady in the solar system as well as around us? Just a lucky day held together by a fortunate lining up of powerful forces and unplanned knee-jerk reactions? The Bible says that God created the world and sustains it by His power.
He existed before anything else, and he holds all creation together. There is one God, the Father, by whom all things were created, and for whom we live, there is one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things were created, and through whom we live. (Colossians 1:17, 1 Corinthians 8:6 NLT)
Scientists say: We never observe orderliness occurring by accident, without an intelligent cause to direct the order. No amount of power or energy is enough to bring order out of chaos. (http://www.icr.org/ 2014) The earth's rotation, the moon cycle, and the changing seasons are just a few of the ordered processes observable in nature. Are these processes random happenings or are they divinely caused and sustained by God? The earth is located the right distance from the sun to sustain life. If it were any further away from the sun, we would all freeze. Any closer, and we would burn up. Even a fractional variance in the Earth's position to the sun would make life on Earth impossible. The Earth remains this perfect distance from the sun while it rotates around the sun at a speed of nearly 67,000 mph. It is also rotating on its axis, allowing the entire surface of the Earth to be properly warmed and cooled every day. Random or intelligent design?
What about our lives? Random happenings or lovingly and creatively designed? Are we spinning around on our own or is God holding everything in place so we can know purpose and goodness and meaning today and every day of our lives? “We come to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.” Maybe the founders of AA were on to something. Like a man in the Bible facing a crisis of how to respond to God we too can pray, “I do believe, but help me overcome my unbelief!” (Mark 9:24 NLT)
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