INTELLIGENT DESIGN

Have you ever created anything? Maybe you built a model rocket, wrote a short story, or sewed together a dress.  In all those examples, you put thought and design into your creation.  You had a starting point, a “creation” time frame and an end.  There was likely some order even if you aren’t the most organized.  You probably even made a few mistakes along the way, but then went back and tweaked it before the final product was made!  You were an intelligent designer.

 

Your creation didn’t just randomly appear.  Just because you brought material, thread and a needle to the sewing room didn’t mean that a dress would appear overnight while you slept…well, unless you’re Cinderella and have highly-trained woodland creatures at your disposal!  My point is, there was purpose to what you made.  There was a design process.  

 

My post today discusses a theory called Intelligent Design.  I hope you will appreciate what NON-CHRISTIAN scientists have put together in this movement.  To read ENTRY 3, Click HERE.

 

What is SCIENTIFIC FACT and SCIENTIFIC FAITH?

 As stated in my previous post, we live in a world where so much of the population puts all its faith in science.  Now, please do not get me wrong, I LOVE science!  My entire life has benefitted GREATLY because of science!  I have grown up able to use medicines and technologies that far surpass any other time in history.   I can have air conditioning AND microwaves because of science!  Who among you don’t love those two technological advances?

 

Thank you, science!

 

I am also a woman who had to have two cesarean sections to birth my two boys.  I feel pretty confident that had I been a pioneer woman, I would have seen an early death due to pregnancy.  Thankfully though, I was lucky enough to be born in a time where medicine and technology allowed me to give birth twice without much for pain or cause for emergency! 

 

Go Team Science ALL THE WAY!

 

I also love getting my hands on the latest research findings in many scientific spheres.  It fascinates me what we are able to discover about our world, our environment, and even outer space!  Did you know we actually know more about outer space than we do our oceans?  Isn’t that insane?  Insane, but cool?

 

We live in a truly amazing time!

 

What does concern me though, is that because we have figured a LOT of things out, we THINK we have EVERYTHING figured out….and unfortunately that just isn’t so.  Especially when it comes to our beginnings.  My next post ENTRY 2, delves into science and how there are some solid trustworthy platforms and other versions of science that are a lot more speculative than concrete.  The problem is, we tend to treat them as concrete findings when they in fact, are not.  I love to read about a new theory – no matter what the subject matter.   They are fun to consider and postulate, but if they are not observable or testable, they remain just that – theories.

 

As I stated before, it is my opinion that we either put our FAITH in man or in God.  Man screws up, God does not.  To ready ENTRY 2, CLICK HERE.

You Gotta Have Faith!

 I saw this on Facebook last week and found it both relieving and heavy.  Life really is all about faith and where we put it, isn’t it?  I’m putting faith in the chair I’m sitting in right now (and as I age and my weight fluctuates, sometimes that’s more faith than I want to admit! LOL!)  

 

All jokes aside, we put faith in SO MANY things around us…that our alarm will go off, that the car will run, that we will make it to work just fine, that the people we love will be around us another day, etc.  It’s when all those things DON’T happen that we get cranky or lose hope.

 

In our world today, because of science and technology we forget how hard life can be because we have so many conveniences making our life easy.  We have heating and air conditioning so we’re never too cold or too hot.  We have microwaves to heat up food so we don’t have to wait to eat.  We have online ordering so we don’t even have to leave the house to get things we want.  How easy have our lives become?! When life is easy we don’t think about heavy topics like FAITH…we come to EXPECT things will be good and tomorrow is just another day.

 

But what about eternity?  Where do you put your faith when it comes to THAT topic?

 

One inevitable fact is that someday we will all die.  There is no getting around it.  Despite all the smart doctors and amazing technology our world possesses, there is no eternal life here on earth, so…I ask again…where do you put your faith?

 

I’m sharing my next ENTRY (ENTRY 1) from my website today about Faith.  Where do you put YOUR faith?  I think if we are all honest, there are days we put it in God and some days we put it in man.  

 

Man will fail you.  God will not.

 

To read the next website post ENTRY 1 click HERE.  Again, my website is all about the creation story and WHY as believers we do not have to pick and choose where to put our faith!  It all can be placed in the ONE who created it.

Any Day

If you were to die today, do you know where you would go?  This might seem like a crazy thing to ask at the beginning of a blog post, but in my opinion, this is a question that should be on our minds more often than not!  Though we live in a world full of appointments, obligations and timelines, none of us get to decide when our last “appointment” will be.  It’s kinda of scary, yet it is also an inevitable truth.

 

Why do I care?  Or maybe why am I writing this?

 

Well, for a while, I have felt the Lord laying some things on my heart and this past week, even more. I am going to share some things with you for those who don’t know.  First of all, I believe in God.  I believe His son Jesus died on the cross for my sins.  I believe in heaven and hell.  I believe in the Bible and the many truths that lie within it.  I also believe that when I die I will go to heaven because I believe Jesus died for my sins.  These beliefs are not just for me which is why I am sharing them now with you!

 

I know some people reading may believe in this gospel truth and some people may believe Jesus was just a historical figure.  I am honestly not here to argue, I’m just here to share and that is my goal as I move forward – simply to share.  I want to share things that give me peace and hope in a world that isn’t so peaceful or so hopeful.

 

As a Christian, this is what I am asked to do! Mark 16:15 says “And He said to them, ‘Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation”

 

I will be sharing what I believe are biblical truths and commands such as Galatians 6:9 “And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up!”

 

Why now?

 

I recently lost a friend.  As I write this post, it’s been a week since I last saw her.  Her death was COMPLETELY unexpected.  In fact, I saw her 30 minutes before she had some sort of medical episode that led to her death two days later.  She was fine when I talked to her.  She was healthy and happy and smiling! My friend Karen wasn’t starting her day thinking “today is the day I’m going to die!”  She didn’t know it and neither did any of us around her. 

 

What about you?  Do you believe in God?  Whether you do or not, doesn’t mean He doesn’t exist.  C.S. Lewis a long-time atheist turned Christian was quoted as saying “Christianity, if false, is of no importance and if true, of INFINITE importance.  The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.”  He also said…and I always find this profound if you truly think about it….”When you argue against Him (God) you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all; it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.”

 

With this in mind, again, I’m going to share some things I believe.  I might do it a little different than most because I’m a proponent of the literal creation account in the Bible.  This may turn some people off, but I hope it actually intrigues you.  I will be sharing some posts I have recently created on a website called THE COMPASS much like this blog called THE COMPASS.  On this site, there are 14 posts detailing some information I hope you will read about the science we know and the actual “proofs” we have about our world’s origin. 

 

I hope you will stick with me.  To get started reading my website, CLICK HERE.