1. The implications of believing the worst description of reality.

  2. The implications of believing the actual description of reality.

Roughly described, there are two ways of describing reality:

  1. There is a super-natural
  2. There is only natural

If Darwinism is true, then there are five inescapable conclusions: 

  1. there’s no evidence for God,
  2. there’s no life after death, 
  3. there’s no absolute foundation for right and wrong, 
  4. there’s no ultimate meaning for life, 
  5. people don’t really have free will.’”

Dostoevsky said it well in Brother’s Karamazov, “If there is no God -then everything is permitted.”

Micah 6:8 CSB – He has told you, O man, what is good;
and what does the Lord require of you
but to do justice, and to love kindness,
and to walk humbly with your God?

Ecclesiastes 12:12b-14 CSB – 

Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body.

13 Now all has been heard;

    here is the conclusion of the matter:

Fear God and keep his commandments,

    for this is the duty of all mankind.

14 For God will bring every deed into judgment,

    including every hidden thing,

    whether it is good or evil.

Genesis 1:26 CSB – Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness.

Matthew 19:4 CSB – “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that he who created them in the beginning made them male and female,

Since we were created by God we are (The Lies We Believe-Dr. Chris Thurman):

  1. Fearfully and wonderfully made

Psalm 139:13-15 CSB – 

13 For you created my inmost being;

    you knit me together in my mother’s womb.

14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;

    your works are wonderful,

    I know that full well.

15 My frame was not hidden from you

    when I was made in the secret place,

    when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.

  1. Equipped with talents and abilities

1 Corinthians 12:24b-26 CSB – But God has put the body together, giving greater honor to the parts that lacked it, 25 so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. 26 If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.

  1. Worthy of love

Romans 5:7-8 CSB – Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

  1. Have a rightful place in this world

Ephesians 2:10 CSB – For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

You are specifically hand-crafted by a creator who loves you and has put you in this time and place with a specific purpose for your life.