Cause and effect. A well established scientific law meaning that where something exists, or where something happened, there must have been a previous generating action, mind or being to have caused it. Following is an imagined conversation that makes sense unless you are someone determined to explain all things without a Creator:
Said a young skeptic to an elderly lady, “I once believed in God, but now, since studying philosophy and mathematics, I am convinced that God is but an empty word.”
“Well,” said the lady, “It is true that I have not learned these things, but since you have, can you tell me from where this egg comes?”
“Why, of course, from a hen,” was the reply.
“And where does the hen come from?”
“Why, from an egg.”
Then the lady inquired, “May I ask which existed first, the hen or the egg.”
“The hen, of course,” rejoined the young man.
“Oh, then, a hen must have existed without having come from an egg?”
“Oh, no, I should have said the egg was first.”
“Then I suppose you mean that one egg existed without having come from a hen?”
The young man hesitated: “Well, you see—that is— of course, well, the hen was first!”
“Very well,” she said. “Who made the first hen from which all succeeding eggs and hens have come?”
“What do you mean by all this?” he asked.
“Simply this,” she replied. “I say that He who created the first egg or hen is the One who created the world. You can’t explain the existence even of a hen or an egg without God, and yet you wish me to believe that you can explain the existence of the whole world without Him!”1
Yes, God our Creator is the Uncaused Cause. In Colossians 1:17 the Apostle Paul writes,
“And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist [or are held together].”
Something we see in our daily lives and don’t give much thought to is trees. These staples of our world have very interesting ways of pointing back to our Creator. Let’s examine how just two species of trees give evidence of design.
Giant Flood, Giant Rocks, Giant Wonder On a recent trip to Northern Ireland, my family had the opportunity to visit one of her greatest natural wonders: Giant’s
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Everyone has a worldview, and every worldview has questions that it must answer. The truth will naturally produce the best and most sensible answers, and the Bible does just that.
