Tonight
we start a new series at Oneighty titled “The Biggies”. In this series we are going to tackle the
big questions that “un-churched” teenagers have in a way that gives the “churched”
teenagers the WHY’s of WHAT they believe.
In
week one we are going to tackled the question “Is there a God?”
This
question is at the very foundation of truth; faith, Christianity, morality,
eternity and all other big questions teenagers struggle with.
Here are a few of my notes for this
message.
People
who don’t believe in any form of “Creator / God” typically subscribe to these
three beliefs.
The
Big Bang started it all.
Around
13.7 Billion years ago, before the universe, and even before space itself -
tiny particles packed into an area smaller than a pore on your skin, exploded
and began to unfold space and the universe itself. Rocks, stars, planets and particles flew through space
forming what we now know as the Universe.
Our
planet and everything in happened because of a giant Cosmic Accident.
As
these particles and planets were flying through space, an unbelievable cosmic
accident took place, the star known as our sun, the moon, and the giant rock we
call earth as well as the surrounding planets in our Galaxy all stopped at just
the right location, supporting not only life, but also human life on planet
earth.
When
you study the sun you will see that, the Sun’s size, shape, heat and the rays
that permeate from it, are all perfectly set. If any of these things were off just a fraction, the sun
would scorch the earth.
The
moon, with its location, shape, and size are all perfectly coordinated so that
it orbits around the planet earth and controls the tides so life will be able
to exist.
The
Earths tectonic plates, mass, rotation and more allow it to have an atmosphere,
gravitational pull, and orbit around the sun in such a way that life is able to
exist on our planet.
After
the Big Bang, life started to Evolve.
Inside
the water in the earth macro and microevolution began to take place. And from this, single cell life forms,
began to morph, change and evolve into more complex life forms, then eventually
into early forms of fish, reptiles, and mammals. After millions of years our early ancestors eventually
evolved into the human race.
In
a very simplistic way, this is the theory most people that do not believe in a
God subscribe too. However, when
looking at these theories logically there are some questions that naturally
arise.
For
those that believe the Big Bang theory, the question that naturally comes to my mind is,
before the Big Bang took place, where did the particles, the rocks, and the
materials that were all jammed into a ball smaller than a human pore actually
come from? They had to come from
something, right? After all, we
know from observing the physical laws on planet earth that it is impossible for
“nothing” to produce “something”.
Because of this, those particles and materials that caused the unfolding
of the universe must have come from something, somewhere, or perhaps
someone.
When
it comes to the Cosmic Accident, the question I have is, is there anything on our
planet that shows us an example of something that is complex forming completely
by accident? If I had all the
ingredients of a cake, the flour, the sugar, the eggs, the milk, the vanilla,
and a bowl, then threw those ingredients up into the air, what are the chances
that those ingredients would form perfectly into a cake batter, land in the
cake pan, and be ready to bake?
There
is no chance that would ever happen, right. Well if that is the case, how can an entire planet along
with a sun and moon, all stop at just the right place, perfectly mixed together
so human life as we know it could exist?
And
lastly, where are all the fossils that should prove the millions of years of
evolution?
Many
of the “proofs” found in fossilized records that have been used to try and
prove the theory of Evolution have been found to be hoaxes. “Piltdown Man” had an Orangutans jaw.
The “Nebraska Man” was actually found to be an extinct pig. “Java Man’s”
cranium was found to be from a human being and “Dina bird” a half bird half
dinosaur fossil was found to be a complete fraud.
Final
Thought.
In
a nutshell people that don’t believe there is a God believe that, there was
nothing, then somehow something appeared. This small something about the size
of a human pore, suddenly exploded and began to unroll like a rug. As it unrolled, tiny particles, large
particles, planets, and more all exploded out from this small pore, to create
the entire universe, as we know it.
As
these rocks were being hurled through time and space three of them (Sun, Moon,
Earth) stopped perfectly to allow life to slowly form. The building blocks of
life lived in the water and slowly began to evolve from simple creatures to
extremely complex creatures all on their own. And that is how you and I are here today.
As
I look at this theory, I have to say that I think it takes more faith to
believe all of that, than it does to believe at some point in the distant past
there was someone (a creator) that wanted a world with humans on it. So he
created it, formed it, and made it just the way he wanted it to be. It makes much more sense to
believe that we are HIS creation rather than a cosmic accident.
So
in trying to answer the age old question “Is there a God?” I believe the only logical answer is
“yes”, yes there is a creator that created the universe, the planet, and human
life itself.
Now,
if there is a creator, a God, then that leads us to another set of questions
altogether, and we will be answering more of those questions starting next
Wednesday night.
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