Jaw-dropping Jewels about Jesus
Rarely does Jesus, God the Son, do exactly what we expect of Him. It seems odd that He so frequently surprises us, given that He never changes. Hebrews 13:8 makes this absolute statement: “Jesus the same yesterday, and today, and forever.” Still, though He is blessedly consistent in His goodness, Jesus does unforeseen things. Even when He does what is expected, He does not always do it in the way that we anticipate. Let us join with Jesus on a jaw-dropping journey. (I will be using this opening paragraph for each of the brief messages in this series. The following material will change daily.)
We have been considering some reasons to believe that Jesus, God the Son, is indeed the reasonable choice. Because He is both the Creator and Sustainer of all things (Colossians 1:16-17), He has the right to make the absolute claim of John 14:6: “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life; no man cometh unto the Father but by Me.” Competing worldviews do not provide compelling reasons to reject His claim. For example, evolution is not a viable alternative to Jesus. We have briefly looked at the prevailing ideas of “infinite density” and “biochemical predestination,” and we have found them lacking in logical force. The origins of matter cannot be accounted for, nor can the supposed movement of non-living to living be explained. Furthermore, even assuming the unexplained existence of life, evolutionists cannot provide a reasonable mechanism for life to become more complex. “Mutations!” they would shout, but mutations are overwhelmingly negative, bringing about a decline in an organism’s chance of survival. For example, fruit flies have extraordinarily short life spans and are thus useful for mutational experiments. In testing that would be the equivalent of millions of years of human life, pro-evolutionist scientists have not been able to produce a single positive mutational change. Of course, mutations are extremely rare (about one in every ten million duplications of a single DNA molecule); two related mutations are far rarer (one in a hundred trillion). Remember that a sequence of positive mutations would be needed to support Darwinian evolution (whereas all known mutations are either negative or neutral); math is not on the side of evolutionists. Remember also that, with the extinction of entire species, the amount of different DNA is actually declining rather than increasing. Thus, mutations do not provide a reasonable explanation for complex life forms. Jesus, of course, does.