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Surely it is reasonable to believe that God has
given us a Book. We are His creatures and He has a plan for us. What better way
could be found for God to communicate His will to us than in a book?
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Let us start with God. We say He exists but how
do we know? Simply because we see his handiwork all around us, under us, above
us. Romans 1:19-20; Acts 14:17. We are living in God’s great unlimited
universe, which is so vast and yet so infinitesimal, that even with our most
powerful telescopes and microscopes fathom its heights and depths. Job 11:7-9.
[In my nearly 85 years academics have discovered much that they don’t know or
yet understand.]
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We know that things don’t come by chance. Every
effect demands a cause. Consider, for example, a wristwatch, a very useful
article. Without it or other timekeeping our life would be not all what it is.
Do these instruments and other such grow on trees? They do not! Everyone knows
this as it takes a series of people and steps to manufacture them. Miners,
designers, engineers, skilled workman, salesmen, shippers, et al.
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Our world is literally packed with effects. Take
our world itself as a large example. The planet Earth revolving around yon Sun,
absorbing light, heat, and beneficial rays. Then there’s the Moon performing
necessary duties. Earth, we know, is
stocked bountifully with oil, minerals, et al. On its surface grows a abundance
of plant life. The seas swarm with multitudes of fish. The atmosphere is filled
with birds that entertain and feed us. Everything is governed by laws that
operate silently, but faultlessly atmosphere, precise for life’s survival, then
He fashioned us uniquely in His image. Genesis chapter 2.
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And what of the intricate design of our bodies
with a multitude of interacting systems. Consider our astounding interacting senses
alone.
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And then there’s the fact that God designed us
as the highest in His creation with purpose. That purpose revealed to us in His
Message to us. His Book of all books by faith easily understood by people of
many levels in society. Gen.1:26-27; 1Sam.12:24; Eccl.12:112-14; Jn.17:4;
Rom.12:1-3
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. Does not this great planet cry out for
recognition of the Creator, God, omniscient and omnipotent enough to bring all
of this into being? Or are we foolish enough to think it all just happened
without the Designing Manufacturer?
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Consider further matter of design, this PC in
particular. The various parts I see did not materialize from thin air without
much thought, workers, material. Then there’s the part that baffles me, the
software.
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Consider flying birds. They do not molt all
feathers at once lest the be grounded and vulnerable. Did their design just
happen?
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Look around you. Nothing we see just happened.
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God is! He alone is responsible for our
incalculably vast and intricate universe. Colossians 1:17 without exaggeration
there are countless proofs of God being, His ability, His power.
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We, too, are creatures of God’s will. God alone
is responsible for mankind’s existence. First He fashioned our environment,
water, soil,
