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Did we actually evolve from a lower life form? Or were we created by an all powerful God? Science has been pursuing this question ever since Darwin published his theory on the origin of life.
At the time of Darwin very little was known about genetics or the inner working of the cell. There was some knowledge of the function of major organs, but the inner working of the cell was a mystery.
With the recent advances in fields like genetics and biochemistry, the inner working of the cell has been revealed. What has this new knowledge revealed about our origins?
Information from genetics and the fossil record have clearly shown that slow and gradual change from one species to another did not happen. If evolution is how we came to be here, then it wasn’t by a slow and gradual method.
Some evolutionists have suggested that evolution is still true but that it happened in huge jumps. The theory they propose would say that one day a lizard laid an egg. When the egg hatched instead of another lizard being born it produced a bird. Sounds pretty far fetched, doesn’t it?
What about what science has learned about the inner workings of the cell? In
order for evolution to work, it must be possible for the very first living cell to come into existence purely by chance. Thanks to advances in biochemistry and molecular biology it is now known that the very simplest living cell has over 2000 enzymes that have to be there for it to function properly.
Each enzyme is made up of a long chain of several hundred to several thousand amino-acids. The probability of forming just one of these enzymes by chance is less than the chance of picking up a winning lottery ticket off the sidewalk.
Clearly evolution is not how we got here. How did we get here then? Michael Behe in his book, Darwin’s Black Box, states that life is clearly the result of design. Just as all complicated machinery has a designer, so also does all life. This Designer of life is God.
In Genesis, the first book of the Holy Bible, God says He created mankind out of the dust of the ground and breathed in him the breath of life. God created mankind to have fellowship with Him. Mankind, Adam and Eve, chose to disobey God and in doing so brought sin on all mankind. In Romans chapter 5 and verse 12 of God’s Holy Word it says, “Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.” And in Romans3:23 it says, “For all have come sinned, and short of the glory of God.”
Sin separates us from God and if it is not cleansed will separate us from God forever.
This eternal separation from God is described in Revelation 20:14-15 where it says, “And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.”
Surely no-one wants to spend eternity in a lake of fire. How then do we get our name in
the book of life? There needs to be payment for our sin. How can we pay for our sin? God is not interested in our money, nor is there anything we can do to earn our name being placed in the book of life. Romans 3:10-12 reads, “As it is written, There is none righteous, no not one: there is none that understandeth, there is none the seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.”
But God has provided a substitute for us. His Son Jesus has provided payment for our sin. Romans 5:8, “But God commendeth (sent) his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” Jesus Christ, God’s Son and God the Son, became man, lived a perfect life, died on the cross shedding His precious blood, and arose from the grave on the third day to pay for our sins and provide a way for us to get our name in the book of life. Paul in writing to the church at Corinth wrote in I Corinthians 15:3-6, “For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: and that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve: after that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once.”
Jesus said in John 14:6, “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” To get our name written in the book of life and have all our sins forgiven and washed away, we must first believe that: God created the universe and all
life, mankind sinned and became separated from God, Jesus is God and God’s Son, Jesus died on the cross and arose again the third day from the grave, and that Jesus did so to pay for our sin and provide a way for us to get our name written in the book of life.
If you believe these things you can receive God’s gift of eternal life and have your name written in the book of life by simply turning away from your own efforts to get to heaven and asking God to forgive you and write your name in the book of life. God says in Romans 10:9, “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.” And in Romans 10:13, “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” You can receive this right now. First turn from your own self efforts to earn your way to heaven and then pray to God asking for forgiveness and to have your name written in the book of life. Simply pray the following prayer, talking to God just as you would to someone in the room.
“Dear God, I believe that You created all life and the universe. I believe that I am a sinner an deserve to spend eternity separated from you in hell. I believe that Jesus died for my sins and rose again the third day. I turn away from my own efforts to earn my way to heaven and put my trust in what Jesus did for me to pay for my sins. Please forgive me of my sin and come into my heart. Thank you. Amen.
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