I think in these times many people pride themselves on being irreligious. You know what I mean. I can’t see the hand of God in the world around me. It always has been as it always is. It always was as it always will be and so forth. Evolution and millions of years. It all started from nothing and everything we see is the result of millions of years of development.
Even though we can see in human endeavor that it takes tens of thousands of years just to get to where we are today. The ceaseless determination of thought and striving with unending experimentation to arrive where we are in the world of today. This informs us that nothing comes from nothing, and development is driven by intelligence whatever the source of that intelligence may be?
Of course, all of mankind is inherently religious and even the most ardent atheist believes in that atheism and usually is a proponent of the Man is God theory as well. They won’t believe in the Creator. In their selfish tiny selves, they look, hopefully, to the future of mankind where man is immortal, and humanity have conquered the stars and wield the science of avarice.
Issac Asimov envisaged in his Foundation Trilogy a future where science became the religion. The Council of Science become the Vatican of the future in its endeavor to guide humanity into its successful conquest of space and the galaxy. Scientists are foreseen as being like priests. Ultimately, he foresaw the rise and fall of civilization and the establishment of a Science Foundation that would use science and probability to calculate and model the future. Asimov theorized that scientists would even be able to predict the rise of certain individuals and what to do to mitigate their impact on the rise of the next civilization.
As the apostle Paul wrote in Romans chapter one verses 18 though 23: “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of people who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, that is, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, being understood by what has been made, so that they are without excuse. For even though they knew God, they did not honour Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their reasonings, and their senseless hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and they exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible mankind, of birds, four-footed animals, and crawling creatures.
So, it has been with the scientists. Regardless of whom we think of, from Darwin to Asimov or from Attenborough to Dawkins. Paul’s description in Romans casts their thinking in sharp contrast to the truth of God’s word and the futile and vain speculation that have taken them and a large portion of humanity captive to Satan’s carefully wrought falsehoods. As he did in the beginning with Adam and Eve, he has done to greater humanity on many occasions throughout the aeons. Deceiving mankind with clever speech and a ready turn of phrase. The foremost being “Be Ye as God’s!”
Thus, claiming to be wise they became fools worshiping man instead of God even they knew in their hearts that what they were doing was wrong. The worst of this is that we as Christians are tasked with trying to share the truth with these misguided people who really do think they know it all and refuse to listen. Yet in the end God has a purpose and His will is going to be enacted on Earth as it is in Heaven. These men are wrong and vain in their speculations. Their hope for a future where man is God will never come to pass and the Kingdom of God is only a matter of years away.
So If you haven’t heard the gospel, it is based around John 3:16 “For God so loved the World, that He gave His only Son, Jesus Christ, that whoever believes on Him shall not perish but inherit eternal life.” This is God’s Grace and is an appeal to all men that you might believe that Christ Jesus bore your sins on the Cross and paid your sin debt, that you might seek His forgiveness and have everlasting life and a place in the Kingdom of God.
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