This week, we covered basic apologetics. Our intent in looking at this material was not to gain all of the answers in order to win someone over in an argument. Rather, we studied this for ourselves, so that we may be confident in what we believe and why we believe it. God does not ask us to blindly step out in faith. We have been provided with overwhelming evidence of the truth.
A mother's son is missing. A scream pierces the air. A woman collapses, her starving bones unable to support the bloody skin clinging to it; she prays for death. Disease consumes its victims. A gun fires. A child cries. A man is tricked into willingly walking into a gas chamber. Fear destroys each and every soul. The year is 1942 and Adolf Hitler is in control of Nazi Germany. Eleven million dead. Breaks your heart, doesn't it? Something in you stirs when you picture the scenes. Something in you gets angry and sad that someone could be that cruel. And enjoy it. Something in you says that that is wrong.
Our generation is growing up in a Postmodern world. Postmodernism is the belief that there is no absolute truth, that truth is made rather than found. Just because something is right for you does not mean that it is right for me. You don't judge me and I won't judge you. This is the way many of us think and live. Our society values open-mindedness and tolerance for one another which isn't necessarily a bad thing. But if Postmodernism is what we really believe, then we have no right to judge Hitler for the Holocaust. After all, he was only doing what was right for him.
But let's get a little more personal. The girlfriend who cheated on you. The alcoholic father who abandoned you. The friend who never showed up. They were only believing in their own truth.
Postmodernism crumbles under its own principles. To say there is no absolute truth... is an absolute truth. To say, "It is true that nothing is true" is meaningless.
Nothing produced everything. Chaos produced order and information. Randomness produced complexity. Non-living chemicals self-assembled into living cells. Non-life produced life. To believe in Darwinism, this is what one has to believe.
And then there is the case for creation, an Intelligent Designer. When we look at how complex our world is, "the impression of design is overwhelming." There are six feet of DNA coiled inside every one of our body's one hundred trillion cells. The earth is positioned a perfect distance from the sun so that we neither burn nor freeze. Robin Collins, PhD, earning degrees in physics, mathematics, and philosophy, stated, "The fine-tuning [of the universe] has conservatively been estimated to be at least one part in a hundred million, billion, billion, billion, billion, billion. That would be a ten followed by 153 zeroes. That's inconceivably precise." Stephanie Meyer of Cambridge University said, "... purely from the evidence of genetics and biology, we can infer the existence of a mind that's far greater than our own--a conscious, purposeful, rational, intelligent designer who's amazingly creative."
Picture the most beautiful sunset or the majesty of the Rocky Mountains. Imagine the most powerful thunderstorm. Listen to the wind. Think of how detailed a single blade of grass is. Or of every function your body performs simultaneously without you even thinking about it: breathing, pumping blood; chemicals and receptors reporting to the brain. The purpose of something as simple as eyelashes, not only keeping dirt out of your eye, but adding to your beauty. So simple. And it has purpose. How can the world be an accident, if there is purpose? How can the world be an accident... if our hearts yearn for something more, for purpose.
It is logical that something is either true. Or it is false.
Jesus said, " I AM the way, the truth, and the life."
What if it's true?
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