Using Your Mind
I'm writing this Monday evening, 3/01/10 and first of all I want to thank God for being with us in such a real way this past Sunday morning. We were blessed with His presence while enjoying a gospel concert with 4 4 1. Those guys came in the Spirit of the Lord and shared with us under the anointing of His Spirit. I truly recommend that if you have a chance to be in service with them, don't past it up!!! This evening, I want to comment just a few lines about the fact that so often Christians are accused of not being able to think, so we have to operate by blind faith. First, I have always stressed that God never asked anyone for blind faith, that's the devil's thing. God promises that if you will reason with Him, your sins will all be forgiven because you will come to the realization that He is the ultimate reality. An intelligent faith is what God desires. I can remember when I was in high school and different ideas were offered as proof of the reality of evolution. One of these "proof's" was the experiment of Stanley Miller which took place in 1953. Mr. Miller shot electric sparks through what he claimed to be the same atmosphere of primitive earth and produced a red goo containing amino acids, thus proving that life could originate without intelligent design. I am almost tempted to say that since Mr. Miller was the designer of the experiment, it was proof of unintelligent design, but I won't. Use your mind and reason this out. First of all, the atmosphere used was a "supposed" atmosphere as no one really knows what the atmosphere would have been composed of at that time. Secondly, since this result came about because of the intelligent design of the men involved, it was by definition, intelligent design. Also, it is a long ways from having amino acids to having life. Don't let the fact that someone has some letters after their name prevent you from using the tools God placed between your ears. The nice thing about knowing the truth of creation is that we can answer the question, "which came first, the chicken or the egg?" The chicken by way of creation. I am glad that I am not a Christian because of ignorance but rather I am a Christian because I examined the evidence. Whenever some one tells you that God's Word isn't true, he is depending on one thing only, your ignorance being greater than his. I pray that God is giving you a great week. Pastor Bill
