Thursday, November 15, 2007
A journey into my mind.....enter if you dare,lol
Well, I figured it was about time to write another note. I'd had a lot of things going through my mind lately and I've been struggling with some things as well. Ah, where to begin.... School sounds like a good place to start. I had three tests this past week and I have another coming up on Tuesday. Basically, I've been studying almost nonstop and it has worn me out. I also had a situation going on this weekend that I can't really go into detail of because I don't think the people involved would appreciate me telling anyone about it. What I can say though is please pray for them. I am praying for them fervently. They are doing things that are not honoring God, and my heart has been crying and continues to cry out that they would seek Him. Pray that He will give them grace and mercy and above all, His unfailing love because only He can fully satisfy. If the people involved in this situation are reading this, I want you to know that I do not look down on you or think any less of you. I want you to know that I love you deeply with all my heart.:) I could never judge you nor do I even have the jurisdiction to or the right. I am just as much human as any of you. But just as Nathan pointed out what David was doing because he loved him like a brother and he didn't want to see his brother fall into any more sin, so I am doing to you. I am not mad, but I am grieving in my heart. I know that God has so much planned for your lives, and that what you are doing is ultimately going to hurt you in the long run and I do not want that for you. I long to see your relationship with Christ grow and for his love to cover you. I have seen friends go down the road you are following, and it has never ended up good. Sorry for getting off on that tangent for those of you that were expecting a nonpersonal Facebook note but I just felt like I had to say something. Anyway, I'm in an anthropology class this semester and its a very interesting class, but I also know that God has put me there for a reason. Of course, I believe everything happens for a reason. Anyway, the class is helping me realize just how fallen and unjust this world has become. I think so many times we try to stay within our own bubbles where everything is comfortable and we do not think of the hurting world around us. I have done this countless times, and still continue to do this! I complain about my classes and tests when I have a home, good food, loving parents, an awesome sister, and countless friends. Most people have very few if any of these things! Either that or we think that the world is too vile or perverted for us too get involved. Anthropology calls it ethnocentrism or the belive that another's culture is sick or disgusting based on what your culture practices. Because the American culture doesn't eat bugs, most people see it as nasty that it is a delicacy in some Asian countries. If we had grown up eating bugs in Japan, we wouldn't see it as nasty at all, simply a part of life. There are some cultures that do female circumcision, or pierce interesting parts of their body. So because we don't want to have to deal with that, we decide not to minister to the world because we are much safer here. How then will these people ever experience the love of God? How can they find Christ when there is no one to speak to them? How awesome would it be if every Christian surrendered their heart to God and went and ministered and loved those cultures, despite their distaste for the culture or their fears of living outside the U.S.? Even in our own community there are people who need God's love shared with them by feeding them or clothing them or giving them a home. They are hurting and we just sit on our butts and complain about our own lives instead of reaching out to them. God's love was not meant to be cooped up within our hearts like an animal in a cage. God calls for us to radiate his love to others. Who are we to decide who is entitled to his love or not? Did we form the Earth with our hands? Did we create ourselves? Of course not! Therefore we have no right to decide who gets love and who doesn't! We are called to love EVERYONE whether we know them or not, whether we agree with their practices or rituals or style of clothing or lack of hygiene. Which is truly worse? People living in sin and not realizing it or never knowing of God's grace? Or us simply not doing anything to help remedy that as God has called us to do? If we are the body, why aren't his arms reaching, why aren't his hands healing, why aren't his words teaching? And if we are the body, why aren't his feet going, why is his love not showing them there is a way? No one will ever see Christ's love if we do not show it to them or minister to them. Also, we talked about biologocal anthropology and some of thr evolutionary timeline. Now God might or might not have created the world through evolution, I wasn't there so I cannot 100% know how God did it. However, I do not personally believe that God did it that way. I do not care what the science of this world says, nor how much evidence they have come up with. There is just as much evidence for the young earth creationists, they just don't get government money to fund their research or any media coverage so it takes much longer to finish a project and even longer to spread the word because the media is not behind them. The media is a very powerful tool for getting your voice heard in this day and age as well as the govt. Anyway, based on what I have seen in the Bible and what I have learned about the character of God, I simply cannot comprehend evolution as his method of creation. Here is why. First of all, our God is a personal God and an all loving God. He cares about each and every part of his creation individually. I do not see how evolution would show his love or his personal character. God is good. He states his creation as good. How then can death be a part of this perfect world? That is what evolution causes. Many things must mutate and pass on favored characteristics, while the ones who weren't so lucky to get the mutation that will help them survive just die off. What of the transistional forms? How does this show God's love for individuality when we are constantly evolving? God could have created it all in one day but he didn't. Why? I think it is because he wanted to demonstrate that he loved his creation so much that he split it up into more days to show that he wanted to give more time into shaping each kind of lifeform individually instead of doing it all at once. If someone puts a lot of time into something, then you can tell that they care very much about what they are doing vs someone who doesn't put much effort or time into something and you can tell that they really must not care much about that subject. But 6 billion years is a lot of time! How come he didn't take that long? Because evolution is not beautiful. Mutations can cause serious illnesses and complications. They can cause a weaker species to die out altogether. I do not think evolution was an original plan of this world. First of all, there was no death and no faults in any bodily processes. No predators and no prey. No infectious diseases. The world was perfect or good in God's eyes. There could be no room for anything that even had the potential to cause suffering or death. All the creatures were herbivores, and there was no danger of anything bad ever happening in the original world. For evolution to occur, usually the death of other species is involved. I don't think anything had to compete for food or fight each other for resources. I believe the ecosystem had all it needed and every living thing was content and well fed. That is beautiful. That is love. Also God is unchanging so wouldn't it be logical to assume that his creation would originally want to be like him? We had the choice to stay in paradise forever on the earth and never change that, or to rebel against him and face the consequences. If we are created in his image, I do not believe evolution is a part of that because an image is a reflection of the character and his traits. Because he is good, we were created good as well as all other creatures. Humans were in fact VERY good so we were above even the standard of good that God made the animals with. Also, God spent an entire day on us(humans). Thats a long time when all you have to do is speak and it comes into being. I find it much more probable that God picked up dust of the earth and formed us with his own two hands as a potter sculpts clay or a sculpter makes a statue. He wanted to form us himself instead of letting evolution create us over time. We were also to rule over the animals because we were set apart from them. I do not see how we could have evolved from the same ancestor. That would not make creation personal because you have many other animals emerging from one. I believe evolution came as a result of sin, and genetic mutations are a part of this fallen world, as are infectious diseases, suffering and death. I could be completely wrong about any of this as I am definitely not known for always being right,lol. However, I just thought that someone might like to know whats going on inside my head, and why I believe what I do :) I have much more to say but this note is getting long so I'm going to probably write another after I eat dinner.......Ciao for now!
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