IMAGINE GOD CHANGING YOUR FUTURE
Will He really
be in your tomorrows?
God— the One who is, who always has been, and who always
will be, is the most important person you can meet. He is your Creator, and
what your future is like depends on your relationship with Him—because He’s the
only Source of abundant life here and for eternity.
I know more and more young people are atheists today. This
is by design by the secularists who write curriculum, teach in our schools, the
universities, and have taken over our government and media. There is active
brain washing to assure you won’t believe in God.
I’ve said many times in the past “atheism is the opiate of
the sinner.” If wicked people at least think they don’t believe in God, it
helps quiet their conscience. But their conscience won’t quit, so they blame it
on other people. Apparently they know what Christians believe is real, so they
target Christians. They think stopping the influence of Christianity will help
them feel better in their sinful state. That is why religious freedom is in
danger in the United States.
So, your future is wrapped in whether you believe in the God
of the universe. For that reason I will present the truths to you in this
chapter you might not have heard.
Besides creating you, “In the beginning God created the
heavens and the earth.”
That’s
the opening verse of the Bible—Genesis 1:1.
That sentence is where the debate begins, but it’s nothing
new. Atheists and agnostics argue extensively on this subject. Yet, they can’t
prove God is not there. Neither, however, have Christians proved without a
shadow of doubt God is the Creator and interested in humankind.
Because we can’t prove how we got here, atheism takes faith,
as much or more faith than it takes to believe in a loving God. To be an
atheist, man must believe the eyes he sees with and everything he sees and even
things he can’t see just happened, including the origin of matter, life and the
exact mixture in the air we breathe: nitrogen, oxygen, water, argon, carbon
dioxide and trace gases.
IMAGINE HOW YOU GOT HERE
Now, some Christians do believe in evolution—but with God
starting the process. But those who believe in God don’t believe the universe
or the magnificent human body happened by itself.
Most secular professors and teachers will not hesitate to
tell you what to believe and not believe about your origins, but even
scientists disagree.
One of the most interesting debates on evolution occurred in
October 1980, when 150 scientists met in Chicago and began openly bickering
among themselves, thundering forth conflicting theories.
Some scientists at this conference promulgated the “big bang
” theory.
This
theory, obviously not the TV show, contends that instead of millions of
leisurely evolutionary years, the world began all at once,
Bang!, in a
great galactic explosion of atoms and enzymes.
Darwin’s theory also came under attack from
scientists—because missing links are still missing after more than a century
since Darwin.
“Fossil hunters have not found the fossils needed to explain
the glaring differences between major species,” Associated Press newspaper
columnist Hugh A. Mulligan reported. “In the whole cycle of environmental
selection, with all the genes and embryos playing splitsville according to the
evolutionary plan, no six-legged vertebrate has yet walked forth upon the
earth.”
Science has provided few or none of the examples of one
major species shading gradually into another.
Fossil experts, not clergymen, are Darwin’s most formidable
opponents, according to Phillip E. Johnson, author of
Darwin on Trial.
Although
Darwin’s theory revolved around survival of the fittest, paleontologists often
disagree with Darwin because appearance of an improved form implies a
disadvantage of its parent form. Many supposed parent forms still survive, and
the missing links just aren’t there, even though they’ve been searched for
since 1859, when Darwin wrote
Origin of
the Species.
“There always will be missing links if we think in terms of
link between all change,” a university anthropologist argued when I interviewed
him. He said changes in Darwin’s theory have occurred, the most recent the
theory of “punctuated equilibrium,” which he explained relates to the time
taken for one species to shade into another.
“A form which had been a small variant, might have great rapid
growth,” he said.
He used the doubling of chromosomes in some species as an
example of radical change in a short period.
On the other hand, he admitted such doubling could be caused
by the environment and also that most mutations are undesirable rather than
desirable.
He used a fruit fly as an example of a species with a short
life span where such changes in chromosomes could be observed. But he admitted
the insect still was a fruit fly.
“It is very difficult for an average scientist to test
evolution,” he said. “Our lives are too short and the research too specialized.
The theory is the result of collective effort.”
IMAGINE OUTDATED TEXTBOOKS
One psychology professor openly ridiculed Christians in one
of my university classes with more than seventy students. As the instructor
made sarcastic remarks about Christians in the news and preached his atheistic
ideas, I wondered why no one challenged him. One day I raised my hand.
“You said this
textbook will be outdated in ten years,” I began. “So what you are saying today
might not be true in ten years?”
The questions flowed.
“Can you prove evolution? Isn’t it true you accept it by
faith? Are you aware that many scientists have thrown out missing links because
they couldn’t find them? Did you know scientists are even putting forth the
idea that man might have fallen from outer space?
“How did creation turn out so perfectly without a Designer?
Why aren’t monkeys turning into humans now?”
He admitted that, yes, the textbooks and the theories and
knowledge in them would soon be outdated; that he didn’t have all the answers;
and, “Yes, we do accept some things by faith. But when something is universally
accepted, we treat it as fact.”
I should have asked, “Then because the God of creation and
the Resurrection of Jesus Christ are universally accepted, that should be
treated as fact?”
A few weeks later, I asked a science teacher if the first
and second laws of thermodynamics violated evolution. The teacher had opened
the class on the environment by stating everything would be based on evolution.
No more than thirty-five pages into the text, Living in the Environment, by G. Tyler
Miller Jr., the class was studying the law of energy degradation, also known as
the second law of thermodynamics. The law states that matter, if left to itself
and undergoing physical or chemical changes, will always change in the
direction of decreased order and decreased energy content. The entire
universe obeys this law, and this includes every chemical reaction.
In words plain and simple, the law means anything left to
itself will slowly fall apart. Every time you see an old barn with the roof
sagging and the walls falling in, you see demonstration of this law. Despite
galaxies thought to be expanding (are they expanding, or are we increasing our
knowledge?), scientists will tell you the entire universe is slowing down,
growing old, and, as the saying goes, is running out of steam.
The second energy law also tells us energy tends to flow or
change spontaneously from a compact and ordered form to a dispersed and random,
or disordered, form.
“No one has ever found a violation of this law,” Miller
states.
When the teacher read that, I put up my hand. “Isn’t
evolution a violation of this law?”
In order for evolution to occur, many complex chemical changes
must take place, and they must all be in the direction of increased
order and energy to move from the simple to the complex.
The teacher paused a moment, cleared his throat, and said,
“Well, evolution is the only violation.”
The theory of evolution also violates the first law of
thermodynamics, which simply says energy (or matter) neither can be created nor
destroyed.
A DISCUSSION BETWEEN GOD AND SATAN
A story goes that God and Satan were having a discussion.
“I can do anything you can,” Satan said, stretching his puny
body so he looked taller.
God smiled. “OK. Make a man.”
Satan bent over and began scraping up dirt.
God grabbed his shoulder. “Use your own dirt.”
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This s an excerpt from Ada Brownell’s book, Imagine the Future You. The chapter
continues with deception in the camp of atheism, evidence that knocks out some
“missing links;” the four ideas about creation—age-long days, revelatory days,
24-hour days of re-creation; and 24-hour days; the population J-curve;
archeological evidence that supports the Bible; fulfilled prophecies; and the
earth the way God made it; why faith in God is important to your future. In fact, faith is why Christians can't prove God exists: Faith is necessary for salvation. "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son that whoever believes in him will not perish, but have everlasting life" (John 3:16).
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Imagine the Future You should be released the week of Oct. 21-- at
least by Nov. 1. It will be available in paperback and for Kindle. Christmas is coming. Get this book for your grandchildren and other youth. Adults also will enjoy this book.
Charles
Percival,
Pueblo Chieftain, Aug. 9,
1992, page 6B.
Darwin on Trial (Downers Grove, Ill.:
InterVarsity Press, 1993), 45.
G. Tyler Miller Jr.,
Living in the Environment (Belmont, CA:
Wadsworth Publishing Co.), 34–43.
Ada Brownell bio
Ada Brownell has been writing for
Christian publications since age 15 and spent much of her life as a daily
newspaper reporter. She has a B.S. degree in Mass Communications and worked
most of her career at The Pueblo
Chieftain in Colo., where she spent the last seven years as a medical
writer. After moving to Springfield, MO in her retirement, she continues to
free lance for Christian publications and write non-fiction and fiction books. She
is critique group leader of Ozarks Chapter of American Christian Writers.
She is author of Joe the Dreamer: The Castle and the
Catapult, released Jan. 15, 2013; Swallowed by Life: Mysteries of Death,
Resurrection and the Eternal, released Dec. 6, 2011; and Confessions of a Pentecostal, published
by the Assemblies of God’s Gospel Publishing House in 1978, out- of-print but
released in 2012 for Kindle. Watch for her new book on Amazon, Imagine the Future You. All the books
are available in paper or for Kindle.
Twitter:
@adellerella
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