CAN ROCKS REPRODUCE

 

ROCKS AND REPRODUCTION

I was looking at my driveway today and noticed quite a few little stones/rocks. I thought about them for a while and realized there must be quite a number of rocks in the quarry done the road from us. And, come to think of it, how many rocks would there be in the Grand Canyon? Or, for that matter, how many pieces of sand (tiny rocks) are there along the sea shore of the Atlantic? And that number, world-wide, would be mind boggling, if we could count them. Ours is only one planet in this universe. How many, stones, rocks, and pieces of sand, exist in this world? It is an overwhelming concept. How many rocks, stones, or grains of sand make up the billions of planets, meteors, comets etc., in this universe? And where did they come from?

Did you know that rocks cannot reproduce? Whether we are looking at lithification, fractional crystallization, or metamorphism the fact remains that the matter needed for rock formation is existent in some other form and the shape or type of rock is all that changes. The matter itself cannot be accounted for. It either came into existence magically or rocks (or the matter that made them) can reproduce. All of the none living matter in the universe (which is almost everything we can observe) is that type of matter; essentially, rocks.

Evolution (an incredibly foolish concept) spends most of its time trying to explain where life began. However, life began after rocks began, even in the Biblical account. God created man after he created the heavens and the earth. In the evolutionary account… where did rocks come from? Did they spawn from other rocks? Evolution tries to suggest that life could have come from the incidental combining of a few other elements. But wait!! Where did those other elements come from? By there own logic all none living elements existed for eons of time before life began. So…. where did all those rocks come from?

The “big bang” fallacy suggests that all of those elements were once in one giant mass/ball. However, that does not explain their origin. It simply relocates everything from an expanse to a single, massive, unit. And so, their only possible logic has to be that everything always existed. Or, once there was a tiny rock which had a baby rock….??

The only logical conclusion is something they actually fear; “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth” (Gen. 1:1).

Romans 1:20  For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: 

Romans 1:21  Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

Psalm_14:1 …The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

 

Explaining the origins of this universe, without God, is impossible. Rocks cannot reproduce. And so, everything must always have existed. Or, God created all things.

One day we will come into the presence God, and we will know Him as our Heavenly Father, or as our Judge. Then, at that moment, it will be too late to change the outcome. God is, “…not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance” (II Peter 3:9). But He does not force us to come to Him. He has provided everything necessary for us to spend eternity with Him. However, He left that decision up to us. Will you place your faith in Jesus Christ?

John 3:16  For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 

John 3:17  For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 

John 3:18  He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 

 

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Things or a place in Heaven

 Things or a place in heaven

Psalm 4:2  O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame? How long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah.

How often I have asked the same question we see in verse two. Please, allow me to paraphrase it here, “How long will you continue to take that which belongs to God or is intended to honor God and use it for profane purposes? How long will you love those things which are empty and void of any real value? And how long will you seek after lies, falsehoods and delusions?”

It seems there is no end to the ways people can find to seek after emptiness. Take just one moment, please just pause right here and take one moment to think about the real value of the course you are on right now. Are you seeking to fill your life with things? Things will never bring real peace or contentment. ‘Things,’ and it makes no difference what they may be, will always decay, fall apart, or in some way lose any lasting value. And virtually all ‘things’ must stay here when this life ends. The old adage is true, “you can’t take it with you.” So then why do we spend a life time amassing ‘things?’ We have sheds filled with ‘things.’ Our garage doors will no longer close because they bulge with ‘things.’ And yet, not one car, not one house, not even one dollar bill will ever leave this planet with us. And still our lives are focused on things.

Doesn’t Jesus answer this problem in Luke 12:20? “But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?”

We must begin to see the vanity of earthly possessions and the value of our eternal state. Jesus laid out the basic principle in Matt. 6:19-21, “Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: (v.20) But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: (v.21) For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”

He said everything here will rot and so we must focus on our eternal life. However, if we have no home in heaven then we cannot store treasures in heaven. Do you have a home in heaven? If you died right now, as you are reading this where would you spend eternity? We don’t need more things, we need the home that Jesus went on ahead to prepare for us, John 14:1-3 “Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. (v.2) In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. (v.3) And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.”

Those who “believe” Jesus said already have a place in heaven. Do you believe in Jesus?

John 3:36 “He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.”

1John 5:11-12 “And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. (v.12) He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.”

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