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God: Fact or Myth?

   Written by on November 27, 2013 at 1:35 pm

Is there a God behind the curtain? If He exists, what is He like? Or, are we alone?

logo-Stephen CrottsThe secular humanists of academia answer the question with evolutionary theory. They posit that there was nothing. Then something came from nothing. And from that something came creation—water, dirt, rocks, bacteria—the entire scope of life. Then in the course of billions and billions of years, creation spawned man—apelike at first, but upon acquiring fire, humanoids became more and more sophisticated until one enjoys the present state of development we now see.

God? He does not exist except as wishful thinking, a mere fabrication of fearful humans.

This story says what you see is all there is.  You’re on your own. Survival of the fittest. No meaning. No rules. No heaven. No hell. Nothing but you against the elements. Life is but a series of unanswerable questions. One must enjoy the noise and confusion.

This story fails to satisfy such questions as what it was that first created something out of nothing. It gives slight answers to evolution’s problems like the explosive appearance of species, the lack of fossil evidence, irreducible complexity, and where hope and our sense of right and wrong come from.

One of life’s finest peeks at God behind the curtain comes in the Gospel of John, chapter one—the New Testament creation story. There we are told God is Logos—the Greek notion of life force that has always existed. Or as a wise old lady once expressed, “Nobody made God. He just be.”

This self-existent  God created matter. From it He made the universe and all its creatures, including people. He gave us laws of gravity, physics, math, marriage, and society, worship, meaning. Right and wrong. And accountability.

And when creation went terribly wrong in sin, God was gracious. He stepped into creation Himself to model better life, to forgive us, to enable us to live again.

This is the meaning of Jesus Christ.

Take a moment to read John 1. Then ask yourself—which story best fits the facts as we know them so far? Which story satisfies? Which ennobles life? And which one do you believe? Evolution or God?

Ah, but isn’t this the conundrum? It’s up to each person to consider the evidence and decide what to believe. God or no God? Meaning or no meaning? Absurdity or judgment? Redemption or nothing? Law or anarchy?

The Reverend Stephen Crotts is pastor of Village Presbyterian Church in Charlotte Court House, VA. He is also the director of the Carolina Study Center, Inc., a campus ministry, located in Chapel Hill, NC. Pastor Crotts may be reached at carolinastudycenter@msn.com.

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