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Our physical world and we, ourselves are not eternal; death, decay, and depletion remind us that the material universe is temporary. This important fact implies another: if we and our world are not eternal, then we have not always existed, and we must have had a beginning point. There are three hypotheses concerning how we began:
- Self-creation. On the surface this is utterly impossible. How can any object or creature create itself? Only fools contend for this view.
- Accidental circumstance. Man, and his complex universe “just happened,” the result of unnatural, freakish, impossible chance. The evolutionist admits that life cannot come from non-life and that his “explanation” of our beginnings is incredible, but he still insists that it so happened.
- We and our world were designed and created by a cause adequate to explain the intricacies and complexities of our universe. Objective, observant, and rational people can’t conclude otherwise.
What sort of being would constitute an adequate and sufficient cause of man and his universe?
- He would have to possess all wisdom and knowledge about everything. The marvelous order, the glorious beauty, the precision of operation, the harmony and dependability of natural laws seen in our universe require consummate wisdom, knowledge, and skill to apply them.
- He must be all-powerful to use His wisdom, knowledge, and skill. The lofty mountains, the fathomless oceans, the multiplicity of life-forms, the power of life in the seed, the intricacies of the human brain or eye all attest to unlimited power capable of the most delicate control. And all these suddenly began without prior existence, requiring absolute power.
- He must Himself be He could no more make Himself than man could. Neither could He have begun by chance. The Bible reveals this very Being to us, calls Him Jehovah God and describes the beginning of all things.
[Note: I wrote this article for, and it was published in the “Bible Thoughts” Column for the Hood County News, Granbury, Texas, March 30, 1977.]
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