Romans 1: 18 – 25 (NIV): The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities--his eternal power and divine nature--have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse. For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator--who is forever praised. Amen.
No one who has a brain has any excuse not to believe in God. All we have to do is look at creation to realize there must be a God. We can see the incredible diversity of life and the fine tuning of the cosmos; we can taste the fruits of the land; we can hear the sound of birds singing or the ocean beating against the shore; we can feel the breeze on our skin. Our senses tell us there is a God. Even Helen Keller, who was born blind and deaf, knew there was a God. She said she just didn't know his name until someone spelled it out on her hand.
Believing that all of creation is an accident, like secular evolutionists do, is like walking through the forest and seeing “help” spelled out with logs in a clearing and saying to yourself, “Oh look, the wind must have placed these logs like this. Isn't that amazing?!” Only it's really more like walking through the woods and finding the complete works of Shakespeare spelled out with logs.
Every creature is designed with a complex DNA code that tells the cells what to become, what to look like, and how to function. To say that the DNA code came about by chance is like saying that lines of computer code simply write themselves. That is absolutely impossible. Not one line of computer code has ever written itself. I'm not smart enough to write computer programs, and the intelligence it took to write the codes of creation boggles the mind. But it really boggles my mind to think that people choose to believe the DNA code is some sort of accident.
Paul didn't even know about the DNA code when he wrote this, but he knew that God had “invisible qualities” – behind-the-scenes power. He knew the origin of life itself was a mystery – and it still is, except for those who believe. We will worship something, either something created or the creator himself. Paul urges us to escape God's wrath by believing in the true God and worshiping him alone.
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