Apathy – lack of interest in or concern for things
that others find moving or exciting
Would you say that there is a feeling of apathy toward
God in the world today? I have seen an
increasing feeling of ambivalence and apathy regarding the deep spiritual
meaning of life. “I don’t care if there
is heaven and hell.”, “I’m living for today and what’s in it for me.”, “This is
all there is, if there is something after this life, I don’t have any control
of that, so it is what it is.” These are
all statements from individuals when posed with the simple question, “Do
you believe in Heaven?”
What is happening to cause individuals to disregard
their eternal presence as the most important decision they have to make? The world view has a tendency to discredit
anything that cannot be proven within the infinitely small perspective that we
as humans have of what is really happening around us. According to an Albert Einstein quote, we
humans use less than 10% of our brain’s capacity. Hollywood made a movie last year called “Lucy”,
which expanded on this very topic. I am
not promoting this movie, nor condoning it’s message, but simply stating that
we are led to believe that we are brilliant, genius and scientifically advanced
enough to answer life’s most complex questions.
When actually, we are extremely shallow in our knowledge and wisdom of
what is really happening around us, by our inability to use the fullness of “grey
matter” provided by our Creator.
If indeed we are incapable of using the fullness of
our brain’s power, than how can we even begin to believe we can interpret the
true complexities of this world. Where does
water originate from? Who formed the
first grain of sand? What force began
the world spinning endlessly upon it’s axis and holds it perfectly in place in
the vast universe? Who taught the ant to
reproduce? These are just a few of the
questions that mankind has no intelligent, defendable answers for. Therefore we say it just happened during a
massive energy explosion billions of years ago.
By stating this, they have determined themselves that it is beyond our
limited knowledge, so it must have been a random chaotic event that started it
all.
Doesn’t it take an enormous amount of faith in the unknown
to believe this tale? Part of the world’s
apathy toward God and eternal things is their inability to know, without
complete evidence, that it is truthful. Because it takes significant faith to
trust that God is real and that He sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to die for our
sins, so we may join Him in Heaven one day; when there is no physical evidence
one can see with our eyes. Many need
that 100% confirmation before they can believe, and without it have chosen to
believe in something so extraordinary and unexplainable as the Big Bang and theory
of evolution from primordial soup.
Do you not see that it requires extreme faith to
believe the human body, muscle structure, bones, nervous system, senses, hair
follicles, brain matter, organs, etc are all by chance and evolved from organisms
in the slime following the so-called Big Bang.
Seriously. Where did that
original super-organism that could evolve into life come from? Did it evolve from something else? If so, where did that come from? And so on
and so on. There must have been an
originating intelligent life form or an explanation on how a living organism
came from nothing. Who is really
stretching the faith spectrum farther – the person who believes in a single
Creator of all things (albeit an unseen Creator); or the randomness of a living
organism coming from nothing and then evolving into an extremely complex system
of neurons, muscle, bone, tissue and emotions.
The world will say there is fact for the latter and therefore it is
believable, and will avoid the essential question of how it actually came into
being.
Much of the world has an apathetic opinion toward
God today, because they do not like being told to conform to the set of rules
and guidelines as prescribed in the scriptures.
They choose to reject the God of the Universe in the hope that the
Scriptures aren’t truth. Many people no
longer fear the God of the Bible, but try to conform God to meet their choice
of lifestyle and sinful actions. They
accept the worldly view of origin and evolution because it requires nothing from
them to live righteously. It says in
Romans 3:14-18:
14 “Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness”;
15 “Their feet are swift to shed blood,
16 Destruction and misery are in their paths,
17 And the path of peace they have not known.”
18 “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
14 “Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness”;
15 “Their feet are swift to shed blood,
16 Destruction and misery are in their paths,
17 And the path of peace they have not known.”
18 “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
The scriptures
tell us to repent from our sins and turn toward the way of Jesus Christ and be
redeemed for our unrighteousness. There
will be a judgement day and we all will stand before the Lord to defend our
actions. Please stop believing in what
the world tells you is okay, and read for yourselves the truth that is found in
His Word. I care for each of you and ask
that you take this as your number one priority in life.
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