This is what the Lord says: “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. Where is the house you will build for me? Where will my resting place be? Has not my hand made all these things, and so they came into being?” declares the Lord. These are the ones I look on with favor: those who are humble and contrite in spirit,and who tremble at my word. -Isaiah 66:1 & 2, NIV
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Also I took that sinful thing of yours, the calf you had made, and burned it in the fire. Then I crushed it and ground it to powder as fine as dust and threw the dust into a stream that flowed down the mountain. -Deuteronomy 9:21, NIV -No, mommy no! It’s too much fun! -blasted the little boy to his visibly frustrated mother. -It’s…time…to…go! You…have…band…class…in…five…mi-minutes!- grunted the mother and mumbled curse words under her breath while she strained her body, pulling the young, Tasmanian devil onto her lap. -You’re a fire-truck! I hate you! I don’t like you anymore! - he winced, all the while running to the treacherous ball pit and throwing a raspberry at his mother’s face. -Ugh…Timmy! You better get your behind here NOW! - she shrieked and threw herself, Olympic-style, into the ball pit. “If it pleases the king,” replied Esther, “let the king, together with Haman, come today to a banquet I have prepared for him.” –Esther 4:4, NIV Then the Lord God took dust from the ground and formed a man from it. He breathed the breath of life into the man’s nose, and the man became a living person. –Genesis 2:7, NCV Can life be formed from nothing? Like dry bones? Or ponds? Or even the ground we walk on?
Scientifically, that cannot happen, for abiogenesis was disproved ages ago! They would dismiss the theory as childish, naïve and inane- a myth and preconception of early Greek scientific thought. It became an entry point, they would admit, but it wouldn’t be enough to shed the living world some light. Or…can it? Admittedly, I am no scientist. Nor am I a philosopher. I can only ponder these truths for so much, and I can be exact (or at least conclusive) for so long. I don’t know if I am right, I don’t know if I am wrong. Every word of mine is certainly fallible and debatable. Words are spontaneous; they burst on their own with multiple shreds and colors and shades. They can only last so long; so long they can only last… Pardon my metaphorical digression. Even if we engage in mindless hours, there are things that are left unanswered. We know that life comes from life, and death takes away life, but can life take away life? Even worse: can death give birth to life? The dead is dead, the inorganic cannot be easily converted to organic-and that fairs beyond mere carbon. This is the unknown that our minds are never prepared to understand. Because our minds can’t render that possible. I’ve heard of Someone that gives life to the dust. I’ve heard of Someone that gives life to the dry bones. I’ve heard of Someone that Sheol couldn’t handle him from its bowels. Maybe life can spring from the dust. Maybe it will. With hooks they put him in a cage and brought him to the king of Babylon; they brought him into custody, that his voice should no more be heard on the mountains of Israel. –Ezekiel 19:9, ESV And the Lord will cause his majestic voice to be heard and the descending blow of his arm to be seen, in furious anger and a flame of devouring fire, with a cloudburst and storm and hailstones. –Isaiah 30:30, ESV I think it right, as long as I am in this body, to stir you up by way of reminder, since I know that the putting off of my body will be soon... -2 Peter 1:13 & 14a, ESV |
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