But Why?

Make 2014 a year of Sharing

“But they deliberately forget that long ago by God’s word the heavens came into being and the earth was formed out of water and by water.” – 2 Peter 3:5

As a parent of 5 children I have heard this single phrase more than any other in my lifetime: “But why?”  We are creatures of intelligence and curiosity.  We want to know the answers, even though in most cases we do not even know the questions.  We are taught in Philosophy 101 to always question life and it is a skill to learn to be a “critical thinker”.  Throw logic out the window and drive every conversation to a definitive state of fact or fiction.  We are taught of the fallacies of conversation, and that if a statement contains a fallacy then it must therein be false and dismissed.  An example: “Unless you can prove that this glass breakage occurred by human or natural means, then you must admit that my idea, that ghosts are responsible, is correct. You've already admitted that you can't disprove my idea.” 

Eventually though, we run out of answers before we run out of questions.  You only need to ask “How”  or “Why” a few times before you have exceeded the knowledge of legitimate answers to any puzzling debate.  David, my 8 year old son, and I were walking together the other day and we started down this game of “But why?”  It quickly went from the original statement about a cool motorcycle we saw in a parking lot, to a grandmother that had 3 kids and couldn’t afford to buy them bicycles for school.  It took about 6 questions of “But Why?” and a whole lot of imagination to craft an elaborate story (none of which was known to be true) about a man’s dreams, his life and work, his upbringing, his siblings, his parents and their inability to give him things that other kids had.  The truth of the matter was that we had no idea whose motorcycle it was, yet alone if he had a bicycle as a child.

Asking questions is not a bad thing, but it often times leads someone to answer based on a limited amount of fact, simply because we don’t have proof.  I hold the scriptures up as fact and fully without any reservation believe the truths written within.  I do not claim to fully grasp the meaning with any depth or understanding, but I do embrace the reality that God is our creator and that thousands of years ago He created this world around us from the waters.  Others will argue that our existence was a random event spun into motion through a massive “Big Bang” in the cosmos billions of years ago.  Likewise, their hypothesis has no provable beginning, other than existence of life, matter and the solar system.  But, if indeed there were a Big Bang which spun our existence into motion and began our evolution, than a few simple but why’s go unanswered. 

“Why did randomness suddenly become perfect order?”  If indeed there was a random Big Bang, than why are the planets so perfectly aligned around the sun, and have remained there for all of time without follow on randomness.

“Why did a random event create a perfect balance of nature and man?”  Trees create oxygen which man requires.  Man exhales carbon-dioxide which trees require.  Where is the randomness in that creative process?

 The list goes on.  With an accepted existence of a Supreme Authority, God Almighty, these random events become perfectly planned.  From a book written thousands of years ago, His creative process is clearly explained in detail after detail.  For some reason though, some choose to think of these scriptures as fantasy and would rather put their faith and trust in a illogical fallacy riddled with but why questions.  For the individual looking for the truth, Genesis 1 & 2 are as clear as day, but it requires that we accept the existence of God.  This is the real problem for many of the Big Bang and Evolution advocates.  Accepting that there is something unseen, unheard and unfelt is too large of a stretch for their controlling mindset.  They would rather leave the question unanswered and remain in control of their life with no accountability to a greater authority.

As for me, just as the oxygen comes in through my nose, I believe with all of my heart and soul that my body was perfectly created by the hand of God Almighty in such intricate that there is not one other soul in this entire planet like me.  I am not a random act evolved over billions of years from a mud crawling organism into a species of living being just like every other, I am uniquely created for the purpose of serving my Father in all of His glory.

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