Thoughts from Mark "Hat" Rackley

For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.

• Romans 1:20-23

 The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.

• Colossians 1:15-20

“…the human soul was made to enjoy some object that is never fully given — nay, cannot even be imagined as given — in our present mode of spatiotemporal experience. This desire was, in the soul, as the Seige Perilous in Aruthur’s castle, the chair in which only one could sit. And if nature makes nothing in vain, the One who sits in the chair must exist.”

• C. S. Lewis, The Pilgrim’s Regress

In a weird way, C. S. Lewis makes the same argument as does the Apostle Paul.  If the chair exists that only one can sit in, then that one must exist.  Nature does not make anything in vain.  Nature indeed shouts the existence of God.  The more and more we know about DNA, makes it either highly improbable or totally impossible for evolution to stand up at all.  Yet, the world is blind to the new evidence and insists on pushing ideas that do not work, just to ignore the elephant in the room.  God must exist, for life exists on this planet.

God gives us the evidence and the more true science that is performed, the more obvious it becomes.

Now the Scripture from Colossians is also from Paul.  That must be taken from faith, but Paul was speaking from fact.  He had seen Jesus Christ.  Many of us forget that much of the New Testament, maybe all was written by people who saw Jesus in the flesh.  While Paul saw Jesus on the road to Damascus, he could have easily seen Jesus during His ministry.  Could he have been a Pharisee in the crowd that Jesus challenged?  We may never know.

But as so much scientific evidence points to the biblical account being plausible, nature itself says God exists.  I find it hard to believe that all this order in the universe could occur without God designing everything.

As the creator of all things, who else could we ever worship?  No one hung the stars in place except for God Himself.

It is absolutely proper that the early scientists that we study, like Isaac Newton and Blaise Pascal, were trying to find out how God had done what He did.

But to me, God revealed Himself to me through His Word and everything around me, including friends that I had at the time.  And one you surrender to Jesus, He will give you Peace beyond understanding.  He will give you Joy that overflows.  He will give you understanding itself.  But God is mute to those who think it all foolishness.

Ah!  They know too much to see the Truth.

Soli Deo Gloria.  Only to God be the Glory.