| In the beginning, God created the heavens &the earth.
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| There is no question in scientists' minds that there was a beginning,
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| but what they can’t answer is how it began, or more importantly, why?
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| Why is there something rather than nothing?
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| Is the universe merely a product of random chance?
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| Or does it reflect the order in information that speaks of an intelligent mind
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| behind it all.
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| Some have suggested that the universe could pop into existence out of nothing,
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| but what they fail to tell you is that, in quantum terms, nothing isn’t really
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| nothing; |
| it includes the laws of physics.
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| For ex&le, the notes that you hear from this keyboard tonight could not be made
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| without it first existing.
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| So either you believe in an eternal set of laws, or an eternal law-giver.
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| Then there’s the question of life and how did it begin.
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| Some scientists and philosophers say evolution can explain it all.
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| Unfortunately, evolution is a theory that only tells you what happens once you
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| have life; |
| it can’t tell you how it began.
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| And the chances that it could have happened by chance are staggering.
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| Have you ever pocket-texted someone by accident?
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| You might get a few letters that are strung together that make no sense.
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| If someone texted you and said, «Don't tell anyone but I cheated on the test.» |
| The chances you could claim you
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| pocket-texted that would be extremely high.
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| But what if it was an ordered sentence of 3 billion letters?
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| That’s the intelligent information in our human genome, in our DNA.
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| The most accurate statement about us, as humans, is that we are fearfully and
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| wonderfully made.
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| But for the question of why we are here: we were created for relationship;
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| relationship with God and relationship with each other.
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| But something happened to this wonderful creation.
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| A virus was introduced into this system called «evil.» |
| Evil is the opposite of
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| good, and evil is a choice, it’s a wrong choice.
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| And the evidence of morality itself again points to the God that made us.
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| Because without God there would be no basis for morality.
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| As the Russian writer Dostoyevsky said, «If there is no God, than all things are permissible.» |
| But why would a loving
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| God allow evil?
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| It was the risk he took to give mankind a real freedom to choose.
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| And evil would not have the last word.
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| God entered His own creation, as a man, Jesus Christ.
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| He lived the life that we should have lived by choosing to do good and not evil.
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| He died the death we should have died in our place.
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| He took the punishment for our evil upon Himself on the cross.
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| And three days later, He rose again from the dead, proving He was the Son of
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| God and He ultimately broke the power of evil over us.
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| As Jesus said, «I was dead, but I’m alive forevermore.
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| I have the keys of death and hell.» |
| But it’s when Christ comes to live inside
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| of us that we give the ultimate proof that He indeed exists.
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| The God that created the galaxies lives on the inside of every heart that
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| believes the gospel.
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| And He is ready to roar like a lion.
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| GOD IS NOT DEAD. |