Friday, August 27, 2010

in God's image...

I am reading a book by Dick Staub named "About You"...In it he explains that despite what some scientists would have us believe about humans and our "accidental" creation, we are in fact created by God, in His image...just like the Bible tells us.

"The discovery and mapping of DNA has revealed a complexity that many say dismisses random chance as a plausible explanation for DNA. They argue that it is statistically and mathematically impossible. What are the odds that a free-living, single-celled organism, such as a bacterium, might result by the chance combining of pre-existent building blocks? Atheistic physicist Harold Morowitz calculated the odds as one chance in 10 to the one hundred billionth power. Sir Fred Hoyle calculated the odds of just the proteins of an amoeba arising by chance as one in 10 to the forty thousandth power...The odds led Fred Hoyle to state that the probability of spontaneous generation 'is about the same as the probability that a tornado sweeping through a junkyard could assemble a Boeing 747 from the contents therein.' Mathematicians tell us that any event with an improbability greater than one chance in 10 to the fiftieth power is in the realm of metaphysics--i.e. a miracle."

"Even if you don't believe in God or are irreligious, what the Bible teaches is true: God's imprint on your life never leaves you. There are those who have ceased to believe in God, yet are haunted by the realization that though they wander far from God, God's image goes with them. Even the atheist bears God's image. God's imprint is on your life even when it is no longer outwardly evident. In the New Testament story of the prodigal son a young man squanders his potential and hits bottom, bereft of the beauty and promise he once possessed. Yet the point of the story is that the father still sees and appreciates the worth of his wayward son."


Do you ever really stop to consider what it means to be created "of God" or "in His image". Do you live your life in such a way that God would be or is pleased? If you truly took time to consider the implications and believe...what would you change about yourself in light of these statements?

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