Reasons for Belief

God’s Handiwork

Psalm 19 points to the handiwork of God and makes a strong case for belief. Simply stated, it says, “Look around, just consider …” The handiworks of God are many, but let’s look at just a few:

Our relatively new understanding of DNA — How can one explain this sophisticated message coding that resides in our cells?

On June 26, 2000, President Clinton congratulated those who completed the human genome sequencing, saying, "Today we are learning the language in which God created life. We are gaining ever more awe for the complexity, the beauty, the wonder of God's most divine and sacred gift."

Dr. Francis Collins, director of the Human Genome Project, followed President Clinton to the podium stating, "It is humbling for me and awe inspiring to realize that we have caught the first glimpse of our own instruction book, previously known only to God." Everystudent.com

Evidences surround us for belief in God:

-- The timely precision of days, nights, months, seasons and years.

-- Constellations - The order and the predictability of stars have provided sailors accurate navigation for years.

-- Certain seals have whiskers that are designed for detection and identification of their surroundings. Scientists study the amazing whiskers hoping to understand how those traits can be incorporated into high-tech surveillance.

-- Honeybees’astonishing abilities to use the sun as a compass to guage their flight direction as well as their capacity to communicate among other bees in their hives.

-- Humans reproduce only humans. Likewise, animals, birds and fish reproduce after their kind.

When one’s belief in an all-powerful (omnipotent) God - the Creator -

is established, the result is reverence.

Let's review the account of God’s creation and the fall of man. God could have used His power to dictate the behavior of humans. That would mean that you and I would live robotic lives in which each of us would be incapable of making our own choices. Perhaps, in such a life, there would have been no evil, no devil to avoid. We’d just be robots: dull humans. However, God created us, His children, to have hearts of praise for Him and to freely develop strong character and unique talents.

God is not only all-powerful, but His marvelous intelligence is known as all-knowing, or omniscient. He knew the new man Adam, who lived in the Garden of Eden, would very soon exercise his freedom of choice. God knew His earthly children would need to be rescued from their own heartbreaking decisions. After Adam and Eve sinned in the Garden, God stated His eternal plan of deliverance. He worked that mission as a thread throughout the tapestry of man’s history as He selected first one individual and then another to be links in a chain spanning thousands of years, or 77 generations, from Adam’s sin to Jesus’ gift of redemption. We can follow that thread in the Bible from Genesis to Revelation.

Romans 1:18-32 tells of God's wrath toward the ungodliness and unrighteousness of those who shun the evidence of God. He said such individuals are without excuse.

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Brunfelsia pauciflora

This plant's flowers, which bloom in our Florida garden, transition colors as the week progresses