Wednesday 30 December 2015

Creation

Creation
Albert Einstein said,
“Human beings vegetables  or cosmic dust. We all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player.”
                                                 Albert Einstein.
I listened to a scientist not so long ago that said that not only the solar system but the universe is so fine tuned that it allows life to exist as we know it on planet earth.
He pointed out that not only are we in the perfect position in the solar system to sustain life. But that the stars and other celestial bodies are at the perfect distance from us to allow life to exist.
I do not believe this is by chance. I believe there is a God behind it all. The Bible states.
“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.” 
                                                                                                                                  Psalm 19:1.
Einstein and other great scientist have spent their lives trying to figure out the origins of life. As I have read about some of their works, it has strengthened by belief that there is a creator behind it all.
I do not get into the argument as to how long it took God to create the universe. Sixty billion years or six days it makes no difference to my faith. God being all powerful could have done it either way.
My faith is based on the fact that after looking at the world around me and reading the Bible I can see there is a divine creator.
The Apostle Paul speaking in Athens gave a message that I believe is relevant to do day. The book of Acts records,
“Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: “Men of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious.  
For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Now what you worship as something unknown I am going to proclaim to you. 
“The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands.  
And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else.  
From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live.  
God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.  
‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’ 
“Therefore since we are God’s offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone—an image made by man’s design and skill.  
In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent.  
For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to all men by raising him from the dead.” 
When they heard about the resurrection of the dead, some of them sneered, but others said, “We want to hear you again on this subject.”  
At that, Paul left the Council.  
A few men became followers of Paul and believed. Among them was Dionysius, a member of the Areopagus, also a woman named Damaris, and a number of others”
                                                                                                   Acts 17:22-34.
Please think about it.

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