I used to believe that
I was a product of mere chance. Anyone could have taken my place at
birth, but I happened to be the autonomous one conceived by my
parents. This is the view I had on life. One based in a universe that
happened by time plus chance. Christianity rejects this. It insists
that each individual person exists as a being created in the image of
God, and that therefore each person is an ongoing entity with
dignity. With Christianity there is purpose and meaning in life.
Without God there is no purpose or stature on which an individual can
find meaning.
Fredrich Nietzsche,
German philosopher who said ‘God is Dead’, said “But all
pleasure seeks eternity – a deep and profound eternity.”
Francis A. Schaeffer
replied to this by saying, “With no personal God, all is dead. Yet
man, being truly man (no matter what he says he is), cries out for a
meaning that can only be found in the existence of the
infinite-personal God.”
Aldous Huxley’s “drug
soma” suggests that we should give healthy people drugs and they
can then find truth inside their own heads; for that final experience
that would give one meaning to life, in the next trip trying to find
truth in one’s own head but left in despair with no way to be sure,
trying to find meaning without reason through a blind leap of faith
in non-reason.
American journalist Lee
Strobel said, “You don’t have to commit intellectual suicide to
come to the conclusion that there is an intelligent designer because
today science is pointing more directly and more powerfully toward a
Creator than any other time in the history of the world.”
