God Gives Purpose

The debate over the existence of God was disappointing. Which one? All of them. While I am grateful that men are willing to stand up for the fact of Genesis 1:1, that “[i]n the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth,” I’m disappointed that this truth must be debated. I cannot understand why anyone wouldn’t want to believe in God.

Atheism and Darwin’s theory of evolution often go hand in hand. The theory describes processes of origins that make no sense if the God of the Bible is behind them. Theistic evolution is, at its core, self-contradictory. God created the world in six literal days as described by the ancient Hebrew text. Most supporters of Darwin’s theory have reached the logical, though foolish (Psalm 14:1), end of their doctrine: that there is no God.

This is where we meet the disappointing nature of the atheists’ position. Without God there is no purpose for life. Solomon purposed to build God’s temple (I Kings 5:5). He wanted to do this because he knew that God exists and deserves to be praised (Psalm 52:9). Saul of Tarsus was called to be an apostle and witness of Christ (Acts 26:16). He was given a purpose and it changed his life. God gives all men a purpose: to “fear God and keep His commandments” (Ecclesiastes 12:13). Without God what is man’s purpose? To live and die? To eat, drink, and be merry? A civilization founded on such philosophies will be ruled by evil and chaos. Why would I ever help my fellow man? Why would I sacrifice? Why would I invent? Why would I endure and overcome? There is no progress, peace, or joy in atheism because there is no God in it.

Today we are witnessing the effects of this theory having been taught in our public schools for over half a century. While the Bible emphasizes treasures in heaven, the modern materialistic world looks for treasure on the earth (Matthew 6:20). We would do well to remember the warning of Amos: “Woe to them that are in ease in Zion,” because we are like them that “lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches” (Amos 6:1, 4). Things should not be our god for they are temporary and we are eternal. At the last day the earth will be burned up while the saved will meet Christ in the air (II Peter 3:10-11; I Thessalonians 4:17).

The materialism of our nation is worrisome, but not as tragic as the change in our way of thinking about the value of a life. If all life that we see is evolved from a common ancestor then there should be no distinction made between the life of a plant, insect, fish, mammal, or human. How has this idea been promoted? By exaggerating the value of plants and animals and attacking the value of man. I suppose the Darwinists believe that by addressing both sides of the issue we’ll come to realize the truth that they imagine: that all life was created equal. If this is true, then abortion and euthanasia are as inconsequential as swatting a fly. Let it be known that man is the pinnacle of creation because he is created in the image of God (Genesis 1:26). Humanity was given authority over all other creation when God said, “Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth” (Genesis 1:26).

I am disappointed that the atheist continues to fight for such a depressing doctrine. He lives a life with no purpose other than to destroy He who gives purpose. God says that the true worshippers “shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh” (Isaiah 66:24).

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