Then for billions of years, with no creator, no intelligence, no design, no purpose, no plan, there emerges from mindless, lifeless, random matter and energy not only the irreducible complexities of interdependent biological structures, but also this glorious thing called living personhood. They say that impersonal matter and impersonal energy are original.

But atheists choose to believe that in the beginning was matter and energy. Since there was nothing there before to make it what it is, it could have been anything. Here is the great division between the atheistic worldview and the Christian worldview: For the atheists, everything begins with inanimate matter and energy.

Then that personal life created matter, and there was both life and matter. The another implication is that physical matter did not give rise to life. Ultimate reality, absolute reality, original reality is alive. As far back as you can go in eternity, forever and ever and ever and ever, there is one changeless reality-life. Alive-doing something like thinking and feeling for all eternity. That’s what it means to be God.”Īnd one of the things God is is Life. He has been what he is forever and ever and ever and ever. Then your child will ask, “But how did he get to be the way he is?” And you will say, “He just is the way he is. He was there before anything else was there. If your child-say, four or five years old-asks, “Where did God come from?” you will answer, perhaps, “God didn’t come from anywhere. How can I help you see and feel the wonder of this? Original reality, ultimate reality, absolute reality is a living person. Ultimate Reality Is Personalįirst, ultimate reality is living. Therefore, in the beginning, before there was anything else but God, there was life. John 1:4 reads, “In him was life.” In him was life.

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