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 seen that the facts support our faith, that Jesus, God the Son, is the reasonable choice. As Creator and Sustainer (Colossians 1:16-17), He is right to make the absolute claim of John 14:6: “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life, no man can come unto the Father but by Me.” Competing worldviews, including evolution, simply are unsatisfactory in providing a viable alternative. As we have seen, “infinite density” means nothing and does nothing to explain the existence of matter. Furthermore, “biochemical predestination” cannot surmount the insuperable barrier that separates non-living and living. Moreover, mutations, although real, are negative or neutral and cannot be a source of supposed evolutionary development from simple to complex. At the end of the day – or at the end of the eon – Darwin’s finches are still finches. To combat this mutational dead end, evolutionists now speak about “co-option.” They speculate that changes in organisms occur as they borrow (or co-opt) components from other organisms. Unwittingly, they just make evolution that much harder to defend, for now they must have multiple organisms, fully formed and functioning, somehow interacting instead of a single organism developing on its own. Of course, if such a process were feasible, the assembly sequence would introduce even another level of complexity. As we have studied at other times, the concept of irreducible complexity cannot be countered logically by evolutionists. For any organism to live, to function, to simply just exist for a nanosecond, its complete structures, including its intricate information system, must simultaneously be intact. DNA is the death knell of evolution. The Christian knows that he is “fearfully and wonderfully made” (Psalm 139:14) and that his entire genetic-chromosomal pattern is created at the very moment of conception. Evolution cannot account for creation and it also cannot account for procreation! Our faith explains both – and more, including the availability of eternal life through faith in Jesus.