The Artist of Life
Should Christians be among those who believe human existence is an accident of nature?
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Imagine being an artist of a remarkably beautiful painting which, as it happens, is a self-portrait, a signed image of you that amazingly provides details of your most inward qualities. But you are dismayed, even a bit shocked, as person after person gazes upon your painting and comments, “I wonder how this happened?” Some even criticize certain supposed imperfections. Many loudly question to all who will listen how this painting could have “arisen” without any purpose from the material canvas. It seems to you that people are without excuse for not standing amazed at the creation of this painting, in which your invisible qualities—your very nature—is exposed, being understood from what has been made.
And then, grief seizes your soul when you discover that the reason many people reject your painting is that they do not like you! Worse, because they think they know you they hate you. And their hatred of you forces them to willingly entertain and loudly proclaim unreasonable ideas about the origin of your painting.
Now imagine being the Artist of Life with human creations made in your image on display throughout the Earth and meant for loving relationship. However, you find that many of your special creations neither glorify you nor give thanks to you. For some their thinking became futile, and their foolish hearts were darkened. They claimed to be wise, but they became fools, exchanging the glory of your immortal being for images made to look like mortal human beings and birds and animals and reptiles. In fact, to your great dismay you find that some even exchanged the truth about you for a lie and worshiped and served created things rather than you.
Our human tendency, it appears, is to exchange God’s truth for a lie. Exchanging God’s truth for a lie leads us to revere and serve created things, which uncannily describes materialists and naturalists, especially Darwinists. Should Bible-believers be among them?
Think about it.
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