Saturday 3 April 2021

by bobsanders49

Easter week and General Conference.

I’m thinking about the debates with my Agnostic/Atheistic son-in-law. He starts from the position that there is no God, then begins his logic from that point. To me,that is not logical.

If there were no God, one would have to believe that matter and energy could:
Spontaneously combust into a perfectly aligned set of laws of Physics so life could exist.

Spontaneously combine to form a single, viable living, self reproducing cell. If you took the parts of a 1949 Packard, separated every part, nut and bolt and battery cell, randomly scattered them all over the globe, and expected them to combine themselves, before the parts in the seabed, lakes or rivers, rusted beyond use, without any intelligent help, you would have a far more likely expectation than a living cell from inherit minerals.

Expect any living cell to reprogram it’s own DNA with increasingly complex algorithms to form plant and animal life as we know it today. Ask any programmer about the likelihood of random 0’s and 1’s creating new information.

Having been randomly become primate animals, evolve the capacity to overcome milenia of programming and exert the capacity to choose thoughts and actions far beyond nature or nurture. The codes of Hammurabi, the laws of Moses, the philosophy of Socrates and Aristotle, the works of Shakespeare, the music of Bach and the mind of Einstein.

Things we do not understand are called Magic. Yet science has explained more and more phenomena formerly thought magical.
Science Fiction predicts a time when humans may live indefinitely, manipulate matter into any conceivable form and eventually, create galaxies and universes as well as the smallest subatomic particles.
That begs the question, will our future be utopian or dystopian?
Will everyone be given this power? How could it be withheld? By what criterion could worthiness be judged, and by whom?

If God does not now exist, He someday will. What kind of God will he be? Eventually, There will be a being bound and directed by infinite love. A selfish God can only produce chaos. Chaos can only produce fear. Love or Fear. Pick one.

So, how does a human best pick love? How does a human improve, evolve? What part might example and association play?
Let me quote Joshua of the Bible:
Chapter 24:15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

If you can’t choose Jesus Christ for your mentor or associate with others who have, then pick another mentor. Remember, if you don’t choose Love and the best possible example, you’re choosing something else. Love or Fear. Pick one.