"Creator Links"
by Paul M. League
Paul believes that life has
meaning and purpose, and that a life lived without acknowledgement and reverence
of the Creator is a life volitionally devoid of true meaning, purpose and real
joy.
Many contend that there is no proof of a Creator
(better known as God), but we see evidences
of a Creator existing everywhere; hence, the title to this paper "Creator
Links".
We contend that the root
problem of things in this world and between mankind, from the simple to the most serious,
lies in mankind's failure and/or
unwillingness to recognize, acknowledge and to live a life in accord with the
plans of its' Creator.
One has only to look at
history to see the many devastating results to mankind as it has failed to
acknowledge a life lived in recognition and the honoring of its Creator.
Hitler’s distorted Arian superiority race beliefs and the resulting Holocaust,
which were all rooted in the unscientific and world-without-God speculations of
Charles Darwin, is but one example, although it has its' referents throughout
history all the way back to before the Babylonians. The facts are that Darwin’s
evolutionary links remain absent in the fossil records, thereby entirely
invalidating his theories of a world devoid of a Creator, while evidences of a magnificent Creator God abound.
The Cambrian explosion shows the
complex life forms literally "exploded" into existence...they did not "evolve",
and they certainly did not directionally evolve (an ape did not "evolve" into a
man, and no evolutionary links between differing species have ever been found).
Species certainly have adapted to their environment but they have never evolved
into new species as fossil records clearly affirm.
Leading modern scientists
and an abundance of scientific evidence shows that life has been intelligently
created, and that there must be, by logic, a Creator. Science now permits
mankind to see what could heretofore not be seen, and these newly seen evidences
support the existence of that Creator. For example, we are now able to see into
the complex molecular code structures of the DNA building blocks of life, as
well as being able to look out into the farthest expanses of the universe, and
the evidence is in -- massive Creator Links (irreducibly complex in design,
right down to the simplest cell) affirm, with a preponderance of scientific
evidences, that a other-worldly, highly intelligent, Creator is responsible for
such intricacy. Further, the evidence shows that creation was
not only magnificently done but that it was also purposeful, with mankind centrally in mind (see William Dembski -
expert on Intelligent Design).
The materialistic,
purposeless world view, and its reliance on the Copernican Principle (if some
life exists here it "must" have also happened countless other times and places
in the universe...and is therefore haphazardly, not purposefully created) has
been dealt ever increasing death blows as more and more empirical answers are uncovered
through such scientific discoveries as the DNA Codes and by equipment advances, like
the newer and stronger galactic piercing telescopes, that allow scientists to
peer back into the very origins of our universe. Science reveals that the universe
literally exploded into existence billions of years ago (the "Big Bang"
hypothesis) and, that around the time of the previously mentioned Cambrian Explosion,
it was filled with multitudes of creatures fully developed and able to sustain
life.
Engineers vs.
theoretical scientists very clearly recognize and appreciate the competing goals
when undertaking the designing of anything - constrained optimization, not
perfection, is the target - and the world made by our Creator was and is exactly
that; namely, as stated in the Book of Genesis in the Old Testament Bible, "very
good". Our Creator chose to make an imperfect-ed time space world that He will
eventually make perfect in a future new world also of His making. Why He did
this is still a mystery, but that He did it is not.
The purposelessness
theories of certain scientists are supposedly based on scientific method and
discovery; however, the so called evidence of science is fast fading in the face
of the real evidences of irreducibly complex, purposeful, intelligent designs
that could not have come into existence by evolution, or long periods of time, but only by an
intelligent and purposeful Creator. Time, even billions of years, and chance, do
not produce complexity and masterful design...only intelligence does. Therefore,
it is obvious that this complex thing we call life, as well as our universe, was
purposefully designed and created, without chance having anything whatsoever to do
with creation. Life is, therefore, not an accident. We are not descendants of
animals or spawned out of some cosmic chemical soup, but we are divinely created
beings in the image and likeness of our Creator God.
Acknowledgment of these
many Creator Links sounds a very clear message that continues, for those who
embrace it, to positively transform lives, and for those who do not, or will
not, to an aimless embrace of the meaningless, non-existent transitional links
of Darwinian-like misguided theories and speculations.
Paul is of the
Judeo-Christian heritage and is a believer in the Creator and the historical
Messiah - The Christ - who lovingly incarnated in a purposeful plan to offer
mankind salvation. Christ laid down His life as the perfect (only God could live
a human existence free of sin and unrighteousness) sacrifice to fully atone for
(pay for)
the sins of mankind (God is a just and holy God and therefore must Judge the
sinful, with the penalty payment of sin being death). Holy sacrifice was the
system that God first established for mankind to be able to atone for its sins.
Christ then demonstrated his divinity by performing miracles and, in the end, by
conquering over death through His sacrificial death and subsequent Resurrection
(3-days later) - a feat witnessed by over 500
persons of his time. His feat resulted in the birthing of the Christian Church,
which over the past 2000 years has resulted in billions of "know-ers" (believers)
worldwide.
Most of the original Apostles,
the teachers of the early Church, were
martyred, giving up life’s comforts and life itself to teach others the truth of
God’s redemptive plan for mankind, not for a lie or deception of Christ’s
divinity, but because of their total firsthand knowledge and informed belief that Christ
was God incarnate. Ask yourself this important question: Have you ever known of
anyone willingly giving up his life for another based on a lie? These Apostles,
the initial recipients of the truth, knew Christ firsthand, they witnessed his
many miracles, his ultimate sacrifice and his glorious resurrection. They knew
Christ and his plan of salvation as a personal reality, and were called upon to
share it with the world regardless of personal cost. These original twelve
Apostles came from many walks of life, and they were capable, intelligent and
practical persons who would not have sacrificed all they had, and certainly not
their lives, for a lie, dream, or a baseless blind faith.
Christ’s redemptive plan
continues to live, expand and save as the numbers of believers continues ever
expanding throughout the world. Believers are thereby saved with and for a
purpose - to turn, which means to repent and change one’s ways, to the Lord and to
recognize and glorify Him, and to serve Him, by witnessing to others as it was
from the beginning when the Messiah proved his divinity by conquering over death
through his glorious resurrection into life eternal. The Messiah lives and calls
each of us to join Him in a fully perfected, eternally loving relationship with Him. We find
out from Scripture that God is love, and Christ instructed all mankind to love
one another as He loved, and continues to love, all mankind.
Our responsibility is to
believe in Him, to live a life in recognition of God’s sovereignty, to change our
unrighteous ways and to instead walk in this "good news" of a risen, loving God,
who merely asks us to exercise our free choice and will for belief in Him and
His plans for us, and to walk with Him in righteousness instead of sin (non-recognition and non-adherence to God’s just and holy Will).
As the Bible’s John 3:16 (NKJV)
explains:
"For
God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,
that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life"
The operative words here
are that God lovingly gave, he did not take, and so teaches us perhaps the most
important "Golden Rule" about life; namely, to learn what pure, moral and just
love is all about, and then to love one another as God proves he too loves
us. Much pain and suffering in the world is avoidable were this one
principle more sufficiently understood and applied. Thankfully for us, God the
Creator of all life as we know it, is a benevolent, loving, forgiving, patient and wholly righteous
and purposeful Creator...and so, He affords us
the opportunity to change.
God’s standards are
communicated to us all through a combination of His written Word (the Bible),
personal prayer and by His Holy Spirit. The primary and most audible conduit
used by God to communicate with us is via our conscience, and the Holy Spirit
within each of us is the source of that communication. However, one must receive
Christ into his life and begin living according to His will in order for such
indwelling of the Holy Spirit, and communication thereby, to fruitfully occur.
Paul routinely studies the
Holy Bible and theological commentaries (see resources below), serves in his
local and extended Church, and is one who daily strives, in both his personal
and professional life, to be guided and directed by the Lord. Paul uses all of
these resourceful gifts of God to guide him in both his personal and
professional life, and are the basis on which he lives life, encouraged by one
of many of God’s promises that:
"...whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away"
2 Corinthians 3:16 (NIV)
The word "veil" literally refers
to the physical veil that separated mankind from God in the Holy Temple. Veil,
taken as a metaphor can also represent all that blocks us from having access to,
communicating directly with, understanding and personally knowing the Lord. This
verse reveals the absolute assurance, hope, love and personal access that God,
through the sacrifice of Christ, affords each of us if only we would turn to Him
(see Hank Hanegraaff - "Bible Answer Man" and his book - The Apocalypse Code, at
www.equip.org).
We are told in the New
Testament Bible, Hebrews 11:6, that in order to please God we must "believe that
He is and that He rewards those who seek Him" (i.e. trusting that God
is indeed right in what He says and what He expects of us). Belief or faith, to
be rational and also valid, does not have to be a 100% verifiable proof of God’s
existence. What is necessary to stir up and cultivate one’s faith and validate
truth is, instead, a preponderance of the facts and evidences in support of that
supposition. We hope that you too see that the Creator Links are so very high in
support of God’s existence and God’s hand in creation, that it will also bring
you to the point where you are at least willing and ready to stop rejecting or
otherwise ignoring God, and that you will then move to love and worship Him our
of a reasonable faith. Another way to state this is as
does the well known defender of the faith (Apologetics) Dr. Norman Geisler when
he states in the title to his and Frank Turek’s ground breaking book: "I
don’t have enough Faith to be an Atheist"...nor do any of us! Geisler &
Turek, in this book, further state the following, which needs to be very
carefully considered as one decides either to believe or not to believe in a
Creator, and one’s relationship with Him, and the free will (choice) God imbued
in each of us to either accept Him or reject Him:
"This
freedom to make choices - even the freedom to reject truth - is what makes us
moral creatures and enables each of us to choose our ultimate destiny....And
in order to ensure that our choice is truly free, he puts us in an environment
that is filled with evidence of his existence, but without his direct presence
- a presence so powerful that it could overwhelm our freedom and thus negate
our ability to reject him. In other words, God has
provided enough evidence in this life to convince anyone so as to not compel
the unwilling. In this way, God gives us the opportunity either
to love him or to reject him without violating our freedom. In fact,
the purpose of this life is to make that choice freely and without
coercion....for love, by definition, must be freely given. It cannot be
coerced. (p.31, Introduction. Bolding and underline added for
emphasis)."
From what we have discussed
herein, along with the following resources, there is ample reason to believe in
the Creator God. Will the reader agree to live the kind of life God intended for
our sustenance, protection as well as our happiness? If the answer is yes,
understand that this is only possible by the grace of our Lord and not by our
own determination or works. Why? Because all mankind is in a fallen state where
sin, rather than righteousness, comes more naturally to us and most often rules
the day; therefore, as we repent and willfully agree to walk in Christ’s ways,
we must also daily pray for His guidance and forgiveness, knowing that it is
through His sacrifice on the cross of Calvary, and His Righteousness alone, that
is sufficient to save us. We cannot do it independent of God’s grace and the
indwelling help of His Holy Spirit...and none of that can happen until we first
believe in Him. We cannot do it without Him. Our hope and
prayer is that the reader will agree to walk according to God’s plan, lovingly
interacting and living together as family, friends, societies, businesses,
governments and countries as the Creator intended for our utmost eternal well
being, happiness and joy.
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Paul offers the following online
daily message and
www.BibleGateway.com
searchable web link to Scripture (with over 20 Bible translations available
therein) as a helpful resource to assist in observing the Life Principles
enumerated in the Holy Bible:
Resources About the Creator:
Archived Broadcasts of Leading
Biblical Teachers:
Oneplace Ministries
Astrophysicist in Support of
Intelligent Design -
Guillermo Gonzalez
Eternality:
What is Eternal Life and How to Know
If You Have It or Can?
Faith & Guidance:
Faith & Guidance
Hank Hanegraaff -
Defender of
the Faith -"The Bible Answer Man" - CRI
Lee Strobel -
Award
Winning Author, Journalist and Former Atheist
Dr. Norman Geisler - "I
Don’t Have Enough FAITH to be an ATHEIST"
Origins of Life - Creation vs. Evolution -
Journey Thru Creation
- Sean Meek
Reasons from Science to Believe in the One and Only God -
Dr. Hugh Ross
Scholar Dr. William Lane Craig:
Reasonable Faith
Way of the Master -
Ray Comfort & Actor Kirk Cameron (Intelligent Design vs. Evolution)
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