Is. 45:18 For thus says the LORD, who created the heavens (He is the God who formed the earth and made it, He established it and did not create it a waste place, but formed it to be inhabited), “I am the LORD, and there is none else..."
There is a God. He is eternal and infinite and perfect. And He wants us to know Him, to enjoy His love and goodness today and forever and reflect that back to Him and to all the families of the earth. And in sending His Son to die and pay the penalty for everything we’ve ever done wrong, He has accomplished everything necessary in order for us to know Him. But the FIRST thing He accomplished is creation. This infinitely good God is the almighty Creator and Sustainer of all things. The very atoms and elements themselves, everything in the universe, all things owe their origin and their continued existence to Him. Nehemiah 9:6 “You alone are the LORD. You have made the heavens, the heaven of heavens with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You give life to all of them. Colossians 1:17 He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.
God’s Word is abundantly clear: God created all things. Every-thing, out of no-thing. Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Revelation 4:11 “Worthy are You, our Lord and our God, to receive glory and honor and power; for You created all things, and because of Your will they existed, and were created.” John 1:3 All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being. Isaiah 66:2 “For My hand made all these things, Thus all these things came into being,” declares the LORD. Romans 4:17 God… gives life to the dead and calls into being that which does not exist.
For centuries, there have been two schools of thought. Either there is a Creator, this God Who created everything, or there is not, in which case it’s all random chance. All this is the outcome of a long series of accidents. But [accidents] generally do NOT produce something better, they usually make things worse. Random chance does not produce order. It does not result in beauty [bedhead]. Random chance typically results in disorder. Chaos. It's a defining characteristic of our present universe. Newton’s Law. Randomness increases. Things break down - unless something or [someone intervenes]. And the more time you give it, the more brokennesss you can expect. Everything breaks down. They do NOT get better with time. And yet - when we look around, whether through a telescope, or a microscope, or a zoom lens, what do we see? In the midst of this encroaching chaos and brokenness, we see beauty to a breathtaking degree. We see highly complex structures. We see order of such a magnitude as to render the odds of all these things arising by chance to be so close to zero that it really takes way more faith to believe in The Accident than in the Creator. Romans 1:19-20 That which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.
The LIE says there is no Creator. So many people believe in the IMprobable accident because they’re so desperate to remove God from their equation. Because the reality of a Creator means I'm dependent AND accountable. No matter how smart or tall or strong or good looking or magnificent I think I am, I do not exist or take another breath apart from His provision. My life is in the hands of this one true God. And there IS a part of every person that is fully aware of this truth. It’s evident. It’s obvious. We all know it, deep down. It’s just that some of us are determined to attempt to suppress the truth [like our stubborn puppy Selah, who often is determined not to do what we ask]. This is the fundamental problem of man: Romans 1:18b People suppress the truth in unrighteousness… No excuse.
The best known attempt today of course is Darwin’s Theory of Evolution. And we need to be clear about one thing - this is still just a theory, (which Webster’s defines as) an idea that is suggested as possibly true but that is not proven to be true. Darwin’s idea is about the origin of species (life?). He observed that some species of birds can mutate, come out with a different color or a different shape of beak. Fruit flies can and do develop different colors of eyes. This is micro-evolution. But macroevolution? Nobody has ever seen plankton mutate into a perch, or a lizard mutate into a monkey, much less a tiny protein spring to life. It’s STILL just a theory. It assumes that if you have enough time, random accidents eventually will result not only in something completely different, but something viable, AND better. But it’s only a theory. And no one can prove Darwin’s Theory true, not scientifically. We can’t stick it in a lab and make it happen. Yet, in many places today, this theory is presented as indisputable fact. And IF you dispute this idea, if you don’t bow down to it, you are disrespected, dismissed. Literally. There IS this kind of religious devotion to this idea, whose end goal is to explain away the existence of a Creator. And that’s what it really is: an idea (one of many) that has been seized upon as part of the concerted attempt to suppress the truth about God. It’s the religion of rebellion, the age-old rebellion against God, and Darwin’s Theory is today’s standard bearer. Many have dressed it up in all kinds of flowery robes and tassels, but underneath, it’s all about a [roll of the dice]. An accident. The LIE says, WE are an accident. But rebellion is no accident.
Growing up in a family that never went to church or gave much thought to God or religion, I was only ever presented with Darwinism. The Accident. On TV. In public school. In fact, the notion that there might be a credible alternative to “The Accident” wasn’t even allowed into the classroom. And I was fully bought-in to The Accident. But let me share two reasons why I no longer believe in The Accident. The first is what I call the [spark of life]. Life is a miracle. The longer I live, and the closer I get to death, the more I realize how life on this [beautiful blue ball] is truly a miracle. A wonderful impossible. And once the spark of life is extinguished, there is no power on earth that can bring it back. Squish a bug. It ain’t ever coming back. For all its posturing and theorizing, science has no ability to bring anything back to life once it’s dead. MUCH LESS produce that initial spark of life. Life from non-life is the stuff of science fiction. Just because someone has an idea about how something could have happened doesn’t make it possible, much less probable. That primordial soup they concoct in the lab trying to recreate the conditions where they so desperately want to believe that the first single-cell creature came to life (by accident)? They can produce amino acids, building blocks of life, but the precious spark of life that would somehow give rise to even the tiniest, most primitive form of amoeba, they can’t do it. And they never will. Highly improbable. That power/knowhow resides in no finite being.
Which leads to the second reason why I reject the accident, which is again, this whole idea of chance and complexity. Whenever we see even the lowest degree of complexity, our brains intuitively tell us that there is intelligence behind that. Somebody did that. Somebody made that. [Like when you see a forest full of trees which look random UNTIL you see the trees are all planted in long lines? Long straight lines of trees are never random - there is intelligence behind the existence of that grove or forest][And how about the amazing complexity of the eye - it takes WAY too much faith to believe that such a level of complexity happened by any series of random mutations]. This truth is as plain as the nose on your face (or the eyes). All God’s people see it - except those in denial, suppressing the truth in their heart. And that’s the rub. Once we allow for a Creator, you and I become contingent. Entirely dependent. We become accountable to Someone with all the authority and power in the universe. We don’t even exist apart from Him. Acts 17:28 In Him we live and move and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we also are His children.’ And some of us, we don’t want that. We are seduced by The Accident, The LIE, the prospect of happiness APART from our Creator.
But here's a truth - just as rebellion is not an accident, lasting love is no accident. That’s what we really want, and true lasting love only found in a relationship with the God Who made us and loves us…
There is one God, existing eternally in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. He is breathtakingly good, wholly perfect, and He is the all-powerful Creator and Sustainer of all things.
1Cor. 8:6 For us there is but one God, the Father, from whom are all things and we exist for Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we exist through Him.
Isaiah 48:13 “Surely My hand founded the earth, and My right hand spread out the heavens; when I call to them, they stand together.”
