Quote for the Day

“…the universe was formed at God’s command…”

Today's Prayer

This week ask God to show you His presence as you look in wonder around this glorious universe He created for our enjoyment.

Hebrews 11:3

Hebrews 11:3 (NIV)3 By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.

Message

Theology, science, faith – the crossroads for many is this small verse: “By FAITH we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.” I find it very interesting that those who argue for a non-God-formed universe stake their claim on science and say we must throw faith out the window. The science crowd claims we can only believe what we can see or what we can prove. Yet at the same time science is focused on finding the proof, and can only discuss theory, theory that has yet to be proven.Did God create a world devoid of science? Of course not. He simply created a world and asked us to acknowledge HIS creation of it and of ourselves. This is a very simple “theory” that seems to have a much better probability of actually happening than many of the scientific theories of how we might have ended up here. Has our great knowledge deluded us into becoming dull thinkers? So the choice becomes (a) faith in God who has come and told us how He did it and how He loves us, or (b) faith in a theory that is still hotly debated among even those who do believe it is exactly what has happened and how it happened and when it happened. The question then is what is the difference between faith in an almighty creator God and faith in an unproven and critically debated scientific theory? I guess if nothing was riding on this question, then it matters not who has the right answer.