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A thought about God

God is never intimidated by the size of the enemy or the complexity of a problem.

 

Answers to prayer begin when we say Amen and put feet on them.

 

...let’s example only one tiny, vital part of our existence, the eye. Let’s see how its complexity implies the involvement of an intelligent designer and defies the idea of random development. According to most people who don’t believe in God, we have achieved our present physical condition on the basis of evolution. They tell us that what started as a single-celled something-or-other a few hundred million years ago has finally worked its way to human hood. But let’s consider this small organ of the body and see if it could have logically taken that evolutionary route. If it didn’t, then could we reasonably deduce that it came from the hands of a Grand Designer?

Here’s the case. If you were to take away any part of the eye--the retina, for example--the eye does not work. Or subtract just the lens. No sight. The cornea. Blindness. For the eye to function, all parts must be present and functional. That in itself is a strong argument for design. But let’s go in another direction. Let’s take that concept back into the evolutionary chain. Somewhere along the way, a creature making its way to humanity would have had to begin having an eye. But how did it start? The eye couldn’t have evolved, because there was nothing that would have caused a creature to begin forming a sightless eye. Since the evolutionary theory says changes come about because of adaptation, what would have caused an eyeless thing to will a useless eye into its head? How would it know it would ever need an eye that could see? An eye can either see or it can’t, and there is no reason for a creature to develop a partial eye just so it could become a seeing eye later. So where did he eye begin. Randomly or by design? The mind-staggering intricacy of the eye and the interrelatedness of all necessary parts attest to a Designer and Creator who knew what He was doing.

 

A man sobering up from the night before is sitting through the Sunday sermon, finding it long and boring. Still feeling hung over and tired, he finally nods off. The priest has been watching him all along, noticing his apparent hangover and is disgusted. At the end of the sermon, the preacher decides to make an example of him. He says to his congregation, "All those wishing to have a place in Heaven, please stand." The whole room stands up, except, of course, the sleeping man. Then the preacher says even more loudly, "and he who would like to find a place in Hell, please stand up!" The weary man, catching only the last part, groggily stands up, only to find that he’s the only one standing. Confused and embarrassed he says, "I don’t know what we’re voting on here Father, but it sure seems like you and me are the only ones standing for it!"

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