The not so new fight to remove God from our lives continues, with the evolutionists. This article in the NYTimes tries to lay out an argument that our need to believe in God evolved from a need to believe in the supernatural or something greater than ourselves.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/04/magazine/04evolution.t.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin
The fundamental question in the article is this:
Which is the better biological explanation for a belief in God — evolutionary adaptation or neurological accident? Is there something about the cognitive functioning of humans that makes us receptive to belief in a supernatural deity?
My answer: God created us to love him, and gave us the ability to have faith in him because of the love he shows us. I do not believe it to be an accident, nor did we adapt to need it.
Yes it is a simple answerer... But Faith as simple as a child is what Christ taught.
Mark 10:15
15I tell you the truth, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it."
And also in the article is this…
And one prominent member of the byproduct camp, Justin Barrett, is an observant Christian who believes in “an all-knowing, all-powerful, perfectly good God who brought the universe into being,” as he wrote in an e-mail message. “I believe that the purpose for people is to love God and love each other.”
At first blush, Barrett’s faith might seem confusing. How does his view of God as a byproduct of our mental architecture coexist with his Christianity? Why doesn’t the byproduct theory turn him into a skeptic?
“Christian theology teaches that people were crafted by God to be in a loving relationship with him and other people,” Barrett wrote in his e-mail message. “Why wouldn’t God, then, design us in such a way as to find belief in divinity quite natural?” Having a scientific explanation for mental phenomena does not mean we should stop believing in them, he wrote. “Suppose science produces a convincing account for why I think my wife loves me — should I then stop believing that she does?”
Whether proven by science or not, God made this earth based on his own design and plan. We are made to seek him, and build a relationship with him; Jeremiah 29:13 You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.
The more I listen to what is going on in the world the more I realize it is not God’s plan. Evolution is a product of the world view that does not want to give God the credit for this beautiful world we live in, and wants to remove God and therefore morality from our lives. It is the ways of the world that are leading us further and further from the will of God. Paul when writing to the believers of Rome said:
Romans 12: 1-2 1 Therefore, I urge you brothers, in view of God's mercy to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God...This is your spiritual act of worship. 2 Do not conform any longer to the plans of this world, instead be transformed through the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve God's will, his good, pleasing, and perfect will.
God wants us to live our lives through him, and what better way to live in this world than through the God who made it and us.....
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