The God factor
Do you ever have moments when you consider such topics as spiritual values, eternity, death, and God? Let your mind marinate in such profound topics.
As a starting point consider there being a God component to life.
The first challenge regards what is He like. The Bible teaches we are created in His image. Don’t make the mistake of trying to return the favor and make Him in your image.
In a pluralistic society, there are many concepts of a god. There is only one God who is all loving. All but one require individuals to work in order to garner his favor. Of the 17 great religion of the world, 16 are based on a system of works. They depend on what we do. One depends on what God has done to provide a means of justification and receiving His favor.
The idea we can gain God’s favor by our good works makes God and man look bad.
It makes God look bad in that it appears He can be bribed, bought off, appeased.
It makes man look bad in that it appears every thing he does is to get something rather than an act of responsive gratitude for what has been given.
Once your basic concept of God is determined, venture into other arenas of spiritual thought. What if there is a state called eternity and places known as heaven and hell? Where would you like to spend eternity? If you believe human beings are free moral agents, that means the choice is yours.
Persons who rarely give thought to spiritual matters having read this far have a starting point for contemplation. Don’t stop now.
The laws of probability make it clear that a timeline to achieve evolution runs out before it could have occurred. That leaves a Creator having created it plausible. Consider.
The human eye has an oval pupil that emits light which focuses on the retina, which contains 100 million rod cells and 6 million cone cells. The cone cells register three primary colors: red, blue and green, which, depending on how they overlap and how the brain integrates the signals, allow you to see millions of colors.
That is a lot to have evolved. Combine it with the possible evolution of the human epidermis. The approximate 20 square feet of surface flesh of the human skin consists of different types of epidermis, such as facial, scalp, armpit, hands, the skin on the back of hands and feet are all different. For each to have evolved at the same rate and time is beyond belief.
Now consider the evolution of the complex four-lobe human brain. It is control central related to the heart rate, breathing, digesting food, and sleeping. Its complex cognitive capacity is priceless.
It consists of 400 miles of capillaries, 86 billion microscopic neurons in constant synapsis communication, making 10 quadrillion calculations every second. Each neuron makes between 5,000 and 10,000 connections with other neurons, that is more than 500 trillion connections. That is a lot to evolve. Now consider the evolutionary process of each of these three evolving at the same rate and time along with all other body parts.
The law of probability precludes such evolution. It is this current thinking that is turning many scientist against evolution.
The alternative is the God factor. Now think about Him and His love for you and how you are relating to Him.