Tonight Dad, Mom, Trissy, and I went into town and got frozen yogurt at a new shop that opened up recently. We took it to eat at a rather unconventional hang-out (the rest stop on the highway going through town), but that's just how we roll. We strolled along the walking paths and sang silly old cowboy songs. As we got ready to leave, Trissy stopped to give someone a Gospel paper, and invite him to Victory Rd. A dear man, he is eighty-five and works as a security guard at the rest stop. And he is an atheist.
Trissy said he was very kind and polite, and very sad. His wife died more than thirty-five years ago and now he lives his own life waiting to die. He has chosen to believe that there is no God.
But denying something exists does not make it go away - sooner or later it must be faced. One can, for convenience' sake, deny that the "check oil" light is on in their car. But that does not negate the fact that they must eventually deal with the issue, or risk ruining their motor.
Oh that the Lord would open his eyes! If God were not real, and our human souls were not destined to live on, but our bodies to simply return to dust when we die, yet those who believe on Him still have lost nothing. But if God is real, and our human souls are destined to live on forever - in either a state of incomprehensible joy with Him, or ghastly terror without Him - then those who refuse His mercy stand to lose everything.
For me personally, I simply cannot understand how it is possible for a person to live without God, without Christ.
For starters, if there is no God, then there is no purpose to life - an idea that the human spirit's very core rebels against.
And if there is no God, then where did everything come from? Where did we come from? Some say that everything evolved to the state it's in through a sequence of long, slow events and processes, taking millions, or even billions, of years to accomplish.
Ok, so how exactly did this supposedly happen? How did humans get here?
Well, they say, we are evolved from the monkeys.
Ok, where did the monkeys come from?
Well, they evolved up from a lower life form.
Where did the 'lower life form' come from?
Well, a wet and sort of 'soupy' environment provided the conditions for the cells of that lower life form to emerge from.
Where did the 'soup' come from?
Well, after millions of years of acidic rain on the prehistoric rocks, this 'soup' was produced.
Ok, so, where did the prehistoric rocks come from?
They were already part of the Earth.
Where did the earth come from?
Well, billions of years before, all the matter in the universe was condensed into a very small area that spun faster and faster until a huge explosion scattered it all back out into the forms of the stars and planets there are today, including the Earth.
Where did all the matter come from?
Now, I do realize that above I am - for demonstration's sake - greatly simplifying the evolutionary theory. But they still can't answer that last question. They don't have an answer. They can't tell you where all that dust that supposedly got together, and supposedly got squished, and supposedly exploded into us originated.
Science proves that 'matter can neither be created, nor destroyed'. So, the obvious answer to, "Where did the dust/dirt/matter come from?" is that someone who transcends the laws of science put it there. Well, then, why don't they just say that and answer the question?
Because if they answer the question by saying, "Someone made it and put it there," they are recognizing the fact that there is a 'higher power' that made everything. That made the world, and everything that is in it. That made them. And if there is someone that powerful, he must be God.
They also don't mention a few other little scientific details when relating the way they believe everything came about. They don't tell you that the 'geologic column' has not been found anywhere on the earth. They don't tell you that, when layers with fossils in them are found, many times the fossilized animals are out of the order in which they were supposed to have evolved. They don't tell you that if the big squish and the big explosion happened at the beginning of time, then all the planets would be spinning in one direction, and that actually many of the planets and moons are spinning in the opposite direction.
In their defense, if they did tell things like this, it would totally undermine their theory, and they need an alternative theory to that of Creation. Because, if Creation is true, then there really is a God who made them. And if there really is a God who made them, He has the right to an answer from them on how they have spent the lives and resources He's given them. And they do not want to have to answer for that.
It may be convenient to believe that there is no God, but it isn't safe.
P.S. Pray for Mr. G. to find what is truth.
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