You May Have a Problem With This... –Ray Comfort<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

Have you ever noticed that everyday life is filled with problems? Problems at work, problems with the car, the cat, the house, the lawnmower; you name it, it needs fixing (including the cat). Then there's a problem with health. It has been said that one in four people approached on the street, said that they had a health problem that was serious enough for a doctor's visit (my own doctor has health problems). Then there's the real serious problems, like problems such as a relative or a friend having a terminal disease, or big financial problems, serious addictions, sleep problems, etc., etc. That's the personal problems. There's the problem of national debt, massive unemployment, war, suicide, rape and murder, etc. This all seems insurmountable. Oh, and be careful if you are tempted to say that you don't have problems. There's always tomorrow.Shouldn't I be trying to console you, rather than add to the daily weight which you have to deal with? Yes and no. I want to bring your attention to the cause of all human problems. It's our rebellion to God. That's the big problem. Throw out the pilot and the flight will have multiple and big problems. You need to give him the controls, and even then, it's not going to stop the problems until the landing. If you are not born again, this life won't get any better. This is all you have. Sure, you can find little puddles of temporal happiness, but this life is a dry and barren desert. Millions of Christians throughout this earth (with as many problems as you have) are waiting patiently for a new heavens and a new earth. And it's not just the earth that will be renewed. God promises to give new bodies to all those who trust in His mercy. It sounds too good to be true, but it's axiomatic. Call upon His name. Repent of your sins--lust (adultery of the heart), hatred (murder of the heart), ingratitude, rebellion, lying, stealing, blasphemy, etc., and trust alone in Jesus, and you will come to know Him "whom to know is life eternal."
When that happens, you will know that all His "exceedingly great and precious promises" are immutable.

It's "in My face."

The First of the Ten Commandments says, "You shall have no other gods before Me." However, this is not a passive Commandment. It doesn't just mean that God--as the Giver of life, should be first in our affections. It means more than that. The "before Me," literally means "before my face." In other words, the false gods--those that are made of wood and stone (as well as the image of God that is nurtured in the imagination of this sinful world), is not something that is impersonal to Him. Idolatry is in His face. It's an offense to God. It angers Him, and for good reason. Inordinate affection tends to do that even in human beings. No parent wants his child to love gifts given to him more than the one who gave the gifts. But idolatry carries with it even more than inordinate affection. Making up a false god opens the door to violation of the other nine Commandments. For example, a man will not give himself to adultery or murder, if he has a correct understanding of the nature and power of God. Knowledge tends to help us govern our decisions. A wide-eyed imbecile may stare at and hold onto a lighted stick of dynamite; but a man who understands what he holds in his hand will make sure he is a good distance from the little sparkler, as quickly as he can. And so a man who has the knowledge that the eye of the Lord is in every place beholding the evil and the good, will separate himself quickly from the sin of adultery. He knows that he is accountable to God for every word, every thought, and every deed, and therefore a healthy fear of God keeps him from sin, and will keep him out of Hell. But the idolater's image of God doesn't produce the fear of God. To him, God is a friend, a buddy, or divine butler who doesn't mind adultery or murder. Some slow-wits will even pretend that God doesn't exist, and believe that such a delusion gives them license to sin, such is the sin of idolatry. So the idolater doesn't depart from sin, because he doesn't fear God, and therefore his sin will take him to Hell. Idolatry is not just an offense in the face of God, but it brings in its train terrible and eternal consequences.

Back to the Monkeys

"I suggest the following experiment: let's have a million PEOPLE sitting at a million keyboards typing to see if they would type ANYTHING intelligent. Oh wait that one's already been done. It's called the Blogosphere." Alan Trimble I'm sure that if enough time was given, a million monkeys could write a few words that were intelligent. Maybe there is a possibility that two or three words would be spelled correctly and actually sit together. However, the chances that chance (and time--no matter how long) would produce an actual sentence, beginning with a capital, ending with a period, containing a predicate and a subject, along with an adjective, a pronoun and a conjunction, is astronomical. But it could happen in principle. The possibility is there, somewhere. However, an atheist doesn't believe any such thing when it comes to how actual life was produced in the beginning. He moves into the realm of the absolute impossible. He believes that there were no computers and no monkeys to begin with, and what was then left didn't just produce a word or a sentence. He believes that this absence of anything produced everything. Those who are familiar with the structure of a human cell will tell you that there is nothing basic or simple about it. Life in its "simplest" form is incredibly complex. It's not just a sentence or book that had to happen by chance, it is a mass of bound, proofed, titled and printed encyclopedia's. Still, such is the belief of those who deem themselves intelligent, then cloke themselves in science, and mock those who believe otherwise. But I have no choice. It's not intelligence that stops me having the faith of an atheist. It's simple common sense.
 
 
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