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You are the creation of a God who probably defies your brain's ability of understanding. You have been made remarkable. The information contained in your genome is so detailed that it contains three billion DNA base pairs, and any error in copying a single one could result in your decay. God made us as we are. You are not an accident resultant of unthinking, random and accidental formations of elements. You share a common ancestry with every human being who has ever lived. You feel the need for purpose because there is purpose and you are restless until you find it. That purpose is God. All the pleasures in the world provide only temporary satisfaction, but the joy given by God is lasting. You may want to believe you are among the smartest humans to have ever lived and have every solution, but billions have before you have thought the same thing. Many have fallen victim to the deceptions of the world. Satan puts empty packages before you, tempting you to take them. God gave you the ability to resist and learn using his Word. He made you special from the beginning, he made you an heir to his heavenly kingdom. If we believe in him and his sacrifice on the cross we will be set free.
Why do we marry and carry on? God made marriage to illustrate the love he has for us--he loves us as a husband adores his bride. And by teaching the next generation we ourselves learn valuable lessons. If God took away free will we would not love him truthfully. The world suffers because of the sin it had an option to do. Any intervention would have been a freedom snatched from us. God gave us the ultimate free world. We can recognize its creator or we can make ourselves out to be gods... we who bear no credit for our lives.
We are biology. But we are also so much more. God made us with minds like his that could think and feel and consider. An animal functions on instinct, but we are able to examine our own body and motives as well as others' forms and decisions. We know right and wrong. A few basic particles assembled for the purpose of continuing to exist could not reason, nor should it ever want to. Our brain is so complex that 99.9% remains undiscovered, and scientists have yet to find the area for the soul or morality, or why we are driven toward anything at all.
People of every nation and background have for years tried to develop their own answers, postulating theories for what they do not understand. They do not want a higher being to be accountable to, so they devise ways our world could have arisen without him. Nothingness is a sort of freedom. It means you can do whatever you want without repercussion. Rather than fight the weight nothingness gives you, I challenge you to listen to your misgivings. Stop avoiding God. Live for him and you will find more life in yourself than you ever thought attainable. Living for others gives us satisfaction. How much more would we be rewarded if we lived as a tribute to our heavenly Father!
Wow. Way to miss the point, dude.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
