Do we claim God used evolution as the chosen, best possible alternative?
Friday, May 25, 2012
The problem with believing in evolution is ...that evolution does not have to exclude God, it advances its purpose of minimizing God.
To believe in God and evolution at the same time, would be to significantly reduce God's role in our lives.
Evolution promotes a heartless "survival of the fittest" attitude, while Creation speaks for relationship, and often insists upon it. At times we may fear being frowned upon, but God inspires boldness with love ...and a desire to stand up for the values He has impressed upon us.
These other religions, or spin-offs from faith ideas ...often form ideologies that may not even be the belief of the person it's named after. And they promote a very limited, cold perspective of our purpose here on earth.
There is no humility in thinking that our cumulative thoughts can exceed God's wisdom.
We need to be directed, by God, for our own good.
During the telling of Creation, the Bible repeatedly says, "And God saw that it was good."
It is certainly not good to move away from God. But we do seem to have a tendency to not seek out the best.
Our children were playing the board game Life, and many parallels came to mind.
Each gets life insurance, and each can take stock in their lives ...to the degree each of us want to invest in various aspects of life.
I looked at the money as time, as the saying goes, "Time is money".
And time is actually how we decide to divide up a finite day, dispensing our priorities, and our love.
Along with our investments in each other, we all have our accounts and accountability. We deposit love, and we withdraw it at times. There are mutual funds, and mutual fun. Often we take time to invest in other things, yet expect others to maintain that which we left little time for.
We often wonder why we are not collecting as much interest ...and we tend to blame others, stating they should have invested more to keep it growing.
Each gets life insurance, and each can take stock in their lives ...to the degree each of us want to invest in various aspects of life.
I looked at the money as time, as the saying goes, "Time is money".
And time is actually how we decide to divide up a finite day, dispensing our priorities, and our love.
Along with our investments in each other, we all have our accounts and accountability. We deposit love, and we withdraw it at times. There are mutual funds, and mutual fun. Often we take time to invest in other things, yet expect others to maintain that which we left little time for.
We often wonder why we are not collecting as much interest ...and we tend to blame others, stating they should have invested more to keep it growing.
An old TV show, I think it was the Waltons ...my memory is not always that good, and what I remember seeing is not what you may remember. But let's not pretend we have to exactly see, as we know God sees ...as we never exactly do.
The couple who owned the store were Mr. & Mrs. Godsey ...however you see it. Some friends of theirs had a visitor named Octavia, but let's just call her Via.
Mr. Godsey tells Mrs. Godsey, "I think Via is stealing from our store."
They watch, and sure enough, Via steals a music box. Mr. Godsey wants Via to face the music, "I'm calling the authorities, she is nothing but a common thief."
Via admits it, and admits to stealing other things. Mrs. Godsey contends that Via is not a thief, she suffers from cleptomania.
Via agrees that the hospital will vouch for her, that she indeed does have a condition called cleptomania ...and she is enrolled in treatment, and is allowed to steal anything she wants.
Via smiles at Mrs. Godsey, "You must really have a terrible life, living with that husband of yours. Men like him, you can never please them, and they think you're never good enough. Always looking for faults."
Mr. Godsey tells Mrs. Godsey, "I think Via is stealing from our store."
They watch, and sure enough, Via steals a music box. Mr. Godsey wants Via to face the music, "I'm calling the authorities, she is nothing but a common thief."
Via admits it, and admits to stealing other things. Mrs. Godsey contends that Via is not a thief, she suffers from cleptomania.
Via agrees that the hospital will vouch for her, that she indeed does have a condition called cleptomania ...and she is enrolled in treatment, and is allowed to steal anything she wants.
Via smiles at Mrs. Godsey, "You must really have a terrible life, living with that husband of yours. Men like him, you can never please them, and they think you're never good enough. Always looking for faults."
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