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| Section: Walking In The Faith |
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| Category: Biblical Teaching / Lesson |
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| Nothing Is Impossible With God |
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All attempts to explain our origin and existence in the natural, in fact lead directly to the supernatural.
1. Everything that exists and that happens has a cause, or is caused by something. That is, it's dependent on something else. Nothing in the universe has ever been observed or shown (or believed) to be without cause.
Yet, there had to be a First Cause, or nothing would exist. And like a train without an engine, nothing would have started moving without a First Cause, meaning no change or progress could have
begun.
The First Cause would have to be *uncaused*, completely independent. It would have to be eternal, since something cannot come from nothing. And the Principle of Sufficient Reason
requires that because there is no other potential explanation for the First Cause, it would have to "explain itself". It would literally have to demonstrate a self explanatory reason for existence, since no outside factor existed to serve as an explanation.
So what in the natural could possess the qualities of being uncaused, being completely independent, being eternal, and having the ability to explain its own existence? Obviously, nothing in the natural. The only logical answer lies in the supernatural!
Isn't it interesting that the Bible reveals an eternal, supernatural being who in fact does explain Himself? The Book of Genesis,
though written thousands of years ago, is perfectly consistent with the Principle of Sufficient Reason!
2. The 2nd Law of Thermondynamics states that things naturally progress from order, to disorder. It says that the various sources of energy throughout the universe are on a continual progression from an available state, to an unavailable state (such as the heat from a warm bowl of soup slowly disappating).
Turning back the clock to the beginning of the universe, this law tells us that all energy was in its highest AVAILABLE form at that point... Therefore, whatever caused this state of available energy had to be operating outside the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics, and thus to our modern understanding, outside of any natural explanation.
This again leads us directly to the supernatural!
3. Organic life, even in the smallest of microscopic forms, has never been found, shown or demonstrated to have sprung from non-living matter. How the first living being sprang to life is one of secural science's greatest mysteries.
Keep in mind, in science's conceived idea of the "early universe" where random particles and gases were supposedly floating about, living matter could not have existed. No living organism on our planet today (no organic life of any kind) could have survived in such a scenario because there was no supporting environment!
Based on everything observable in nature today, life ONLY comes from other life! So how the first living being came about, once again speaks loudly of the supernatural.
4. If you were walking along in the wilderness, and ran across a watch, would you not know the watch must have had a creator? Of course you would!
A watch is a SYSTEM of integral parts, that work together and cause the watch to function. Watches do not happen by chance, even over vast periods of time. Watches are created by intelligent beings.
How then could one argue logically that SYSTEMS *infinitely* more complex than a watch, or camera, or computer could have
occurred without a creator? ...Things such as the human cell, DNA, our solar system, and the universe itself?
Did you know that DNA requires DNA to survive? That's right. DNA has repair genes that repair other DNA genes. For those that claim DNA somehow "evolved", the claim itself is not possible. DNA repair genes could not have evolved before ordinary DNA,
and of course, ordinary DNA could not have evolved or survived without the repair genes. In a word, DNA is miraculous!
Remember, a complex and lengthy argument, even reems and decades worth of theories and conjecture, don't make an argument logical or in any sense factual...
If I were to establish a theory that my child evolved from lifeless particles and gases and had no creator (versus being born of her mother) modern science could WITHOUT QUESTION develop unending theories and very scientific sounding "answers" as to how nature could make such a concept possible - despite that we know my child's true origin. The given answers could also be supported by *known* and *observable* science! Yet obviously, the answers STILL wouldn't represent the reality that my child was born of a mother.
5. Sometimes, rebutting a silly argument requires some very basic logic and language, as with our next point...
Order does not suddenly originate from chaotic explosions and big bangs. Remember, true science concerns what we can observe!
The entire notion of a systematic universe of order and life originating from "the big bang" (on a natural level) is at best, wishful thinking of the highest degree. In fact, it spits in the face of all logic and reason. In all candidness, we shouldn't even give
such theories the time of day.
What science is ultimately trying to explain is the absolutely IMPOSSIBLE - things that can *only* happen through supernatural means and occurrences beyond our finite understanding. The core of these are "something from nothing" and "something having always existed".
Clearly, our universe is NOT possible without either something having come from nothing (nothing begets nothing!), or something having always existed - without the impossible becoming possible.
Our very existence, the possible from the impossible, undeniably leads us straight to God, our Father, our First Cause!
Even the famous atheist philosopher Anthony Flew (who many regard as the most influential atheist of the 20th century), after contemplating the argument for intelligent design, renounced his life of atheism and concluded the existence of a supreme being!
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Final Thought: We have but two initial choices. We either believe in things that are literally impossible in the natural realm, or, in God. That leaves us with only ONE logical choice.
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| Date of Submission: 2007-05-30 10:05:24 |
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