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then, in the midst of thissocial chaos, people find any meaning, which indeed means find life? Life andmeaning are entirely related. I do believe life is what the very word means inits original form. Life is eternal; it is not just a bunch of years spent inself-indulgence, seeking a refugee from sufferings and a large way forpleasures. By the way, fear has its two ways; fear of losing what some have alreadygathered and fear of not being healthy enough to conquer what some have notbeen conquered yet. The idea for them goes like How much pleasure is possibleto be acquired with less pain and suffering. The problem is that these two arealso related. Without sacrifice, there is no victory. Unless you define victoryas the superficial and worthless things human being have bragged about. Life, therefore, is meaningful to the extentthat is eternal, otherwise, as Solomon well stated, under the sun (worldlyperspective) everything is meaningless.The heart of the matter is, howcan we, mere mortals, see lifes purpose and meaning, if we dont start lookingthrough the lenses of the Almighty creator, who brought life to existence? By lookingthrough Gods eye, we at the same time appreciate what is beautiful and have aprofound disgust of what is evil. The divine nature of human being does notcome from a human being himself. We are no gods. Not at all. Having a divineperspective of life, however, is only possible having a divine real substancewithin us. It is true that this was part of humanity at the very beginning.However, since the fall we have lost the contact with the divine, our sinsbuilt a wall between we and God and our soul started to suffer the lack ofdivine portion, coming therefore sickness, pain, psychological andpsychosomatic diseases, suicide and all kinds of pains and hurts of the soul. The only possibility to berestored to the original pattern is therefore through a divine intervention itself,which will never come from within us, but it needs to come from the own divineone. We cannot be deceived. There is no way to generate godliness fromourselves, either by meditation or optimistic thoughts or whatever is the case.Reaching the inmost being with mere mortal words, as beautiful as they mightbe, will never be enough. It does not produces what it requires, because havenot come from someone who could do such things. Dead words cannot produce life.The words that created the whole world are those only powerful and living enoughto bring dead to life, and therefore restore our consciousness and all theother virtues we had lost in the fall. By this point on, we start lookingthings differently. The opposite is also true. I mean, we men are not differentof a naive stubborn sheep. They haveproblems with their basic senses and are easy deceived, being, in the animalkingdom, one of the few animals who do not have any mechanism of defense. Thesame is true about our minds. We can be easily deceived and influenced by anykind of evil. Unless we have the armor mentioned for Paul, in his letter to Ephesianschapter 6, we are unable to defend ourselves
from all the different tricks andsnares the Devil has been using for long time, trying to persuade us and leadus astray from the only way that conduct us to those powerful words, mightyenough to purify our minds and give us a new heart, which means new desires. It is only by the very words ofGod that we can live a life close to what the original purpose was. There is noother way. It is true that words have lost their credits today. People playwith words. You promise something today and do not accomplish it tomorrow. Yousay something with other intention. People despise the power of a properstatement. Tough times. I do believe God has a new beginning, but until thatday, we need to be carefully walking close to the one who has the words oflife. These words will not directly fall from heaven onto us, as Jesusillustrate concerning the people of Israel. The process is simple. We need toseek them, and when we find them, we need to keep them. And I would say, runfor your life! Faith in Jesus Christ is the most reasonable way God gave tohuman being to be saved, and this come only by hearing the very words of God. Thesewords are not well comprehensible for some. In a specific passage in the Gospelof John chapter 6 (or 8?), some disciples left Jesus after his hard speechabout himself. When asked by Jesus if they would leave him as well, Peter, thedistinct leader of the disciples replied to where shall we go, if only you hasthe words of eternal life?As a matter of fact, Jesus ishimself this powerful word that came from heaven. Words bring meaning, andactions are the expression of the words. The old story comes alive here. Whowas born first, the chicken or the egg? I believe the word of God was thebeginning of creation and therefore, the expression of the words are seen inour actions. Jesus is the word who became flesh, accomplishing every littlething foretold by God. He is the living word of God who came to bring meaning,thus to bring life to everyone who is hunger and thirst. Not only is he thebread of life, but also the spring of waters. Therefore, no one who liveswithout Jesus has life in himself. Let me take this time to clearly describewhat Jesus is and how only he is able to give us life.The word of God - In the beginning was the Word, and the Wordwas with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. John 1:1The light of the word - I amthe light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, butwill have the light of life. John 8:12The Shepherd of the flock Iam the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. John10:11The folds gate I tell youthe truth, I am the gate for the sheep. I am the gate; whoever enters through mewill be saved. John 10:7;9.The bread of life I am thebread of life... I am the living bread
that came down from heaven. John 6:35;51The well of living water Whoeverdrinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give himwill become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.The way, the truth and the life - Jesus answered, I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comesto the Father except through me. John 14:6The true God and everlasting life - ...his son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life. 1 John 5:20The first and the last I amthe Alpha and the Omega, the Frist and the Last, the Beginning and the End.Revelation 22:13The great I AM I tell youthe truth, before Abraham was born, I am!The Savior of the world - Andwe have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior ofthe world. 1 John 4:14The example of all Now thatI, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash oneanothers feet.The all in all But Christis all in all. Colossians 3:11Everything Through him allthings were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. John 1:2Theres no words and adjectivesenough to describe how important the son of God is.In view of that, we need to keepthis truth sacred. We need to protect ourselves from every kind of distortedtruth, which is indeed a lie, that can come to our minds and hearts to polluteand destroy what has been built by him.Theres no way to advance towardsthe Throne of God without the sword of the word, the shield of faith, thehelmet of salvation, the breastplate of righteousness, the belt of truth, thefeet ready with the message. It is not a message, it is the message. The gospelof Jesus Christ, not from men, but from God, is the only message powerfulenough to bring profound and true transformation in the life of a man.Hallelujah, thanks be to God forJesus Christ our Lord.I do not know of any other waypeople can be transformed. The experiences I have had in my life are strongevidences to increase my faith and of someone else. Not that I live based on myexperiences only, but they are one of the strongest evidences of theeffectiveness of the life and death of Christ. After all, experientialrelevance is the test of truth that no other belief has to confirm the effectivenessof its core message. Only the Christian message, inasmuch as are the words ofthe living and true God, produces life, changing every single cell of a personbody, who now does not live by themselves, whose way is death, but to God,whose way is life eternal.However, how can someone believe itIf has never heard about this word? How can someone hear if there is no one topreach? That is the reason that I believe in the preaching of the gospel. Ibelieve I am doing this right now. There is no other, for more sophisticatethat may be, idea or ideal better than the simple preaching of this message. Ihave never seen any other message more contested than this one, but
no otherthat have survived for so long since its beginning. Do you know why? Because itis the message of the living God. As God is eternal, so is this message. Jesussaid will earth and heaven pass away by my words will never pass away. Gloryto God.If I were you, I would seek forthis word with the entirety of you strength. God alone can provide what youneed, and believe me, the biggest need you have in your life is the need ofyour soul, the need of meaning, the need of a Savior, the need of life, theneed of God.
Thediscussion about creationism and evolutionism is not old, but hasbecome extremely controversial. The philosophical perspective of aCreator or other ways of creation were always considered to be the most logicalexplanation about human existence by all different ethnics. Interestingly,some will point to the fact that the whole Science community brought about thetheory of evolution. As far as I am concern, Charles Darwin did not have theapproval of every single scientist, differently of any discovering onscientific laws, given the fact that the second can be easily proven throughresearches in laboratories. However, the naturalist and geologist was able toconvince most of scientists (at that time) that the theory of evolution (thefamous book the origin of species) was something possible through natural andsexual selection. Evidently, most scientists and physicists today disagree muchmore than the previous one on this theory. Nevertheless, do not think many ofthem turned to creationism. Some have recently chosen to believe in some newmodern theories, as is the case of the spaceship from which sperms werelaunched into the world. I wonder why they still challenge the faith of aTheist by affirming such thing.Anyway,inasmuch as this discussion will not come to an end for the main reason I willmention at the end of this article, we dont need to invest our whole lifediscussing it. It is expected to take some 20 minutes to read all I planned tohave here. Please, take this time as precious, especially if you have seriousconcerns about this subject. Read carefully because may differ of almosteverything you learnt or have heard so far. Thefirst think I want to make known as plainer as possible is that Science has notdisprove the existence of God. I am shocked of how many students are affirmingthis as a true statement.Letme organize the thoughts here. Firstly, I will briefly describe some inconsistencies inthe theory itself, followed by some important comments of great names in theScientific society today. Then I will quote some of the greatest names ofPhysics and Science on the subject of creation and God, and finally give themain reason why this discussion will never end, which is indeed the core of thematter.Iwould like to make very clear that Science is of all importance for humans.Science, the term itself, its by no means dispensable. We need it, and we areusing it in greater or minor proportion every single day. The search for answersimply science. I am not ignorant or unaware of that. Having said this, it ismore than fair that findings of science can be applied to explain theories ofvarious matters, including the theory of evolution. I have to say that Scienceis ultimately not enough to explain the reason by which this discussion neverend, what I will bring up in the final statements of this article.It ismore than known that the theory of evolution goes against the laws of science.What is not known is why this is never said in our Universities.Firstof all, I also remind you that the Big Bang theory is something unproven. It isnot observable; has always been only a speculation. The theory of gravity forexample, we can conclude using inductions,
act of reason but from anact of faith in the One who made the world. Galileo wrote that hesought the logic of the author of the world in stones and not in the starsbecause one couldn't do experiments with the stars. With stones, onecould do such experiments.In1929 Einstein was personally check the telescope of Edwin Hubble (who gave nameto the famous Hubble telescope) and found that the theory of relativity hadbeen confirmed. Thus he describes: "I'm not interested in this orthat phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know God'sthoughts; the rest are details. "Thefather of the experimental science, Galileo Galilei, said: The humanscience in any way deny the existence of God. When I consider how many and howgreat things the man understands, research and can perform, then clearlyrecognize that the human spirit is God's work, and the most notable.Mathematics is the alphabet with which God has written the Universe.James Tour, who won theACS Nano Lectureship Award from the American Chemical Society in 2012, rankedas one of the top 10 chemists in the world over the past decade by ThomsonReuters in 2009 said: Only a beginner who knows nothing about sciencewould say that science dismisses the faith. If you really study the science itcertainly will bring you closer to God.Intuitively,there is no way to say God does not exist, unless you are interest inthat.IfGod exist, there is certain rules. If not, I can be and do whatever I want withno problem in my conscience. And herein lies the problem.Humanexperience and history itself points to moral and social issues, which demandsexplanation of a moral reality. By accepting the theory of random, one haveto accept no morality exist. This is simply hard to affirm, and for this veryreason is still the biggest hurdle never overcame by atheistics world views.Randomlife does not explain anything about morality, but morality is undeniablypresent in our lives.Therefore,it is clearly not a question of evidence, reason or logic. It is a question ofpreference. People are not willing to accept the idea of God because they arenot comfortable with the idea of having someone greater than them, who demandsa moral comportment that may significantly differ from theirs. Consequently, ifone is an atheist, he is not for intellectual reasons, but for moral ones.Letme put some questions here. How do science define love? How do science definemorality? There is simple no answers. Moreover, if there is no morality, whatscientific imperative told you that you must be honest on your findings? Somecan just make up everything and present as the truth. We have, therefore, thesethree evident aspects of our lives. Meaning, purpose and love. You can beconfident that Science will never answer them, for have no capacity of doingso.Lookwhat Aldous Huxley, the English writer, novelist and atheist philosopher said."Science does not have the right to give to me my reason for being. But Iam going to take sciences view because I want this world not to have meaning.A meaningless world frees me to pursue my own erotic and political desires. Itbecomes clear the philosophical background of people who, like
Huxley, deniesthe existence of God.Manypeople are willing to found senseless as something true at any cost, spreadingwhatever theory or even something not even close to a theory all around theworld, in an attempt to appease their own conscience. By doing this, they canhave a justification for their moral comportment without feeling guilt.I lethere some questions someone else made for the scientists to answer.How can nothing make everything?How can random chaos make an orderly universe?How can no designer create something that was designed?How can impersonal matter create personal humanity?How can the unintelligent make the intelligent?How can a transition of species happen over a long period of time but no fossil record exist that such a transition actually happened?How come weve been unable to replicate evolution despite trying desperately to do so?How can some people say the earth is eternal when even evolutionary theorists hold to Big Bang - cosmology which assumes there was a beginning?Why should anyone try to make a meaningful life for themselves if the secularists are right and all of life is full of hopelessness and despair?In spiteof everything, I honestly thank God for the true knowledge and wisdom, whohidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to littlechildren. Yes, Father, for this is what you were pleased to do. Matthew 11:25.
Why should we ask why? Logically and simply speaking, why comes prior than what. At least, this used to be the logical way of thinking.Basically, what is the thing itself. It is usually material and requires, even if there is a vast range of possibilities, a closed answer. For instance, think of the question what will I do for a living? Different answers can be provided. A Police officer, a dentist, an auditor, a soccer player, etc. Options are many; nevertheless, the answer is closed. However, intrinsically, no one is [or should not be] worried about what as much as with why. Why will I do this or that for a living? Why is defined by the Oxford Dictionary as the For what reason or purpose. It is the philosophical question that brings meaning to what. Without "why" there is no reason.Why is also prior to whom. To whom will I get married? is logically different from why will I get married? A series of other questions should be answered to correctly answer this simple why. What is marriage all about? What is the purpose of marriage? What is the meaning of it? Why, therefore, always raises the questions of meaning and purpose. By asking one simple why, our minds need to expand and connect the reality out there to the reality within us. We never change and reality never changes, but it becomes real and meaningful to our decisions and whatever we may be doing on this earth.The question what is this house made of? suggests a simple answer of factual reality. It is made of wood. The question why is this house made of wood? enlarges the discussion and automatically demands philosophical issues. From necessity to simple taste, the why forces someone to give the reasons for what and make the world as it should be, meaningful and purposeful. Questions of why am I here? or, what is life all about? are questions on meaning. They are not silly questions. They are, indeed, the most basic and important questions one should answer.Get rid of why and you get rid of life One of the greatest atheists in a University in England mentioned that why should never be asked in an atheistic framework, but only the question how, since there is no meaning whatsoever. This could sound as irrelevant if was not that fact that most of the world is living based on atheism and its ramifications. The fact of the matter is, when the world gave all authority to science to respond humanitys questions, the why was entirely lost. The reason is simple; science alone cannot deal with philosophical matters. Given the fact that we have a mind and we obviously think, philosophy has to play its role. Stephen Hawking, one of the leaders in the scientific sphere, however, has an attitude to philosophy that denounces his role (and of the whole scientific community) in giving meaningful answers to humankind. He writes that, Philosophy is dead. It has not kept up with modern developments in science, particularly in physics. As
a result, scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.[1] Given the fact that Hawkings statement is itself a philosophical statement, a philosophical statement about science, he clearly contradicts itself. In fact, thinking comes always before acting. For this reason, why should always come prior to what. Before we can see and experientially test something, we need to be able to think about it. We synthesize material information through our eyes and decide about what we are seeing. Intangibility is indeed more important than what is tangible. Nevertheless, in a materialistic worldview, the way found to banish a possible intangible authority was by banishing why. When people are forced not to ask questions, life inevitably becomes meaningless and two things arise. Madness and violence. The consequences, history shows, has been dramatically bad.When why is lost Without why there is no reason whatsoever. Science has provided the what explanation for human life, but has never touched into philosophical questions. Evolution, as taught in naturalistic or materialistic worldviews has no room for why questions. Random events. We just happened to exist. It is true that scientific theories have become a closed system where why is not encouraged.There is, in fact, a confusion with terminologies to make up the whole thing, bringing confusion to peoples mind. The definition of evolution, for instance, as a fact instead of a theory, which is clearly wrong, and the definition of creation as purely religious, which is also wrong, have collaborated to compromise the whys people ought to ask. Truly, evolution has become a religion a long time ago, since the lack of evidence and the existent gaps need to be filled with a good dose of faith. On the other hand, Creation, or Intelligent Design, is the only explanation that does not go against any scientific laws and can be proved to be much more scientific than any other scientific theory. However, the biased view that comprehensively spread in the academic sphere does not allow authorities to recognize this fact. After all, facts themselves are no more valuable information. The why is, therefore, not taught at all. Even if there are no evidences nor facts to prove the what suggested by science, it has been forced to be believed as the absolute truth. Postmodernism sets the rule again, where something is considered to be true even without evidence. Everything is relative, they say, except for what they want to be absolute, such is the case of evolution and its ramifications. Without reason and logic, blind faith is the only option, not adopted by serious Christians, but by a science. What modern secular scientists believe is far more incredible than any biblical miracle accepted by the simple Christian believer.[2] In the United States, the discussion between reason and supposed facts, between the why and the what went to the courts. The scenario was essentially the following: 1925 - The Scopes Trial in Tennessee - Evolution was prohibited by law for being considered a threat to the beliefs of American people; the discussion