Something
truly life-changing happened to me when I chose to believe the very first verse
in the Bible, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”
I repented from the dead work of trying to prove that, since we now have
science and the theory of evolution to explain everything, we no longer need
God. By faith I had come to “see” with the eyes of my heart that there are
things in nature, the material realm studied by science, that cannot be
explained even in principle by science operating from the visible. For example
the fact of objective morality that is true for all people everywhere cannot be
explained by scientific studies of how people do behave and the rules for living actually practiced in various cultures. Such
studies can only give us moral relativism, “true for you but not for me.” I had
come to realize the truth of Romans 1:20, “…since the creation of the world
God's invisible qualities--his eternal power and divine nature--have been
clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without
excuse.” Creation was the very first miracle. The unseen God preceded and
is superior to the visible realm because He created it. So much for my former atheism!
The Creator did give mankind the ability to do science. He
gave us the kind of sense organs and mind that can discover the basic laws of
physics, chemistry and biology that He put in place when He created all things
in the visible realm. Newton’s laws of gravity and Einstein’s laws of
relativity are examples of such basic laws. When Einstein said, “The most
incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible,” he
was expressing his awe at the fact that the mind of man can comprehend the way
the material realm works. That fact seemed incomprehensible to Einstein, but is
not so hard to understand when we realize that we were made for a purpose. God
created us in his own likeness because He was preparing us to rule over the
works of his hand, in obedience to his divine authority and lordship.
Then
came the fall. Adam and Eve disobeyed. They and their descendants started to
think they could get along just fine without God. (I was not the first to make
that mistake). But God did not abandon us. He "spoke to our
forefathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, but in
these last days he has spoken to us by his Son whom he appointed heir of all
things, and through whom he made the universe.” (Heb. 1:1-2) His
message is a call to all who would repent and receive Him, to join Him in an
adventure of truly majestic proportion … to save the world He created. To God be the Glory!
