many times i look at things and wonder how they were made and how they work. i wonder how a small microchip can hold so much information. i wonder how an ipod works and how such a small device can hold so many songs.
i also sit back and look at creation and wonder how, how did God create us? did he create the world literally in a week and rest on the seventh day or did he take six different days as periods of time and create us in human terms thousands or even million year apart?i wonder how scientists know the world is millions of years old and can date back a bone that far? i wonder how conservatives can prove that the world is only 6-8000 years old?
i wonder how God thinks of time. we know the bible says a thousand years are like a day and a day like a thousand years. so then i wonder how much asking of how is even relevant?i believe in intelligent design as a fact. for me this is an absolute because the word says "in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." for me this is a simple belief. if the word says it then it must be truth.
for me the question the past few days has turned from how to why. for me the how is not important because it does not really matter to me how. sure God could have used science to create but i do not know how exactly he did. i believe that he did create and that is enough for me. the question is now why?
why did God create the heavens and the earth? why was it so important that he created us?
worship?
love?
obedience?
serve?
relationship?
what is it that you believe?
2 comments:
You have asked good questions and avoided the ones nobody can answer anyway.
Here's my stab at it:
Why did God create...especially if He knew, or at leat knew the risk, that everything would go bad as it did?
My short answer to this tough question is that there must have been something good that made it worth taking the risk that all humanity would rebel and that entropy would rule. Maybe it was just the sheer beauty of it. Maybe the relationships He shares with those who do love Him are worth everything else getting trashed.
I am thankful that He did create. I thank Him for my own life, and hope to be a good steward of it. I hope to do my part of His plan to rescue a screwed up world.
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