I was born and reared in Delta, Colorado—a small farming community in the mountains of western Colorado . My parents were practicing Christians and naturally that was a strong influence in my life. Thankfully, they both “practiced what they preached” and so I didn’t have to deal with the issue of hypocrisy in them This is always a major issue when dealing with Christians and Christianity as well as every other segment of society. Although I was taught about God and eternal matters as a boy, this does not mean that I never faced the same questions that someone else faces who has not had a similar upbringing. At all steps of my life, high school, university, medical school, and even yet, I am confronted by those who say that God does not exist, and if he does we cannot know him. From personal experience, and also from reading God’s Word, I know as a fact that He is real, and that he can be known by anyone who sincerely wants to know the Truth. If, at this stage of your life, you are sincere in wanting to know reality, you can discover the truth of God; I would challenge you to speak out loud and say, “If you are there God, I want to know you.” I assure you that God will respond to you if you say that and truly want to know the truth. The critical key to getting an answer is that you must be 100% sincere. God knows our hearts and minds and doesn’t relate at all to insincerity. Many people actually do not really want to know the truth of God’s existence and His part in the creation of the universe--and our particular piece of dirt called the earth. To acknowledge God’s existence, brings with it responsibility, and many do not want to accept personal responsibility.
It is true that to know God and follow his guidance does involve a measure of “faith.” It is not “blind faith,” however, as some might say. God confirms our faith in Him in many different undeniable ways which I have experienced and you, too, can personally experience. Jesus Christ was either genuine and what He claimed to be, or he was a lunatic or a liar. Those are the only three choices which you and I have. If you have never done so, read the Gospel of John in the Bible. (In addition to the Gospel of John, there are three much smaller "epistles" written by John and they, too, are very good but the full Gospel is probably the best place to start, to see what Jesus said about Himself and also His instructions for all of us. The Scriptures say that “the heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament shows His handiwork.” As we see further and further out via the Hubble telescope, and further and further in via the electron microscope and even more exotic mechanisms, etc., His creation is mind-boggling and incredibly beautiful. In order to deny God and His role in the universe, we are obliged to embrace some type of great Accident as our “god.” Evolution is taught as a fact, when, in fact, modern science has disproven the possibility of evolution, even though a multitude of pseudo-“scientists” will loudly proclaim this very flawed theory as a “fact.” Darwin, himself, said that life started as a “simple life-form” and that failure to find that “simple life-form” would disprove that theory. A simple life form has not been discovered and if you think logically about it, if it is (or was) “simple,” there is no reason for it not to still exist. The most “simple” life forms that we know of (eg single cell organisms such as bacteria, protozoa, etc) are in NO way shape or form, “simple.” The RNA and DNA of all forms of life is incredibly complex, and in no way “simple.” To believe that complex amino acids formed by accident and then magically spun themselves into a helix and started a life-form is faith beyond any imagination. To throw in the catch-all “explanation” of “billions and billions of years” does not work with a truly honest and intelligent mind. You can take my wristwatch apart and put all the pieces in a spinning bubble and have it spin and jiggle for as many billion years as you want, and it will NEVER accidentally happen to once again be a wrist-watch.l
I will hasten to add that evolution DOES exist within families of animals and plants and there are “adaptations” and mutations, etc. These ALL occur on a basic matrix of DNA or RNA that actually has the ability for these things to happen programmed into them. If YOU can fancy yourself as the Creator, you, yourself, would program the creation to be self-sustaining and adaptable. To do otherwise would not be logical, and God is completely logical. He is intelligence personified and as such is totally logical on a level we cannot comprehend.
Atheistic evolution also presupposes the existence of intermediate life forms as one species “evolves” to another. The number of “steps” necessary would be very long, and the few examples pulled out to support this miracle process are very few, and all far-fetched. True, there was the flying reptile, the pterodactyl. To get from this creature to a modern eagle would involve how many evolutionary steps and stages? Where are the remains of all these intermediary forms? The simply don´t exist—apparently were all magically whisked away by some wicked witch.
I suspect you do accept the existence of other dimensions in some shape or another. Very few atheists, evolutionists, etc., would say that that the only dimensions in the entire universe are the few that we know and that mankind has to be the supreme and only intelligence possible. So, all people, really, generally accept the possibility of some form of extraterrestial life, or some other form of higher intelligence and power. At the same time, however, they want to deny that any such intelligence would be interested in any personal way in we human beans (error intentional! --ha), although they have zero evidence to support that contention. Even very primitive peoples have their beliefs about the spiritual dimension and the plethora of belief systems present in the world attests to that fact.
This letter is getting too long, so I will rather abruptly bring this epistle to a close with a personal experience. I spent four years of my life working in a hospital in Swaziland, southern Africa. While there I was endeavoring to help a deeply troubled young adult—many suicide attempts, etc. He was deeply involved in “black magic,” witchcraft, etc. He frequently visited us in our home and during one such occasion abruptly stood up and went out into our kitchen. I decided to follow him to see what it was all about. As I took just one step through the swinging door into the kitchen, he came at me from the side with a huge kitchen knife. I had no chance to react in any way and I only saw the blur of motion with my peripheral vision. The knife came at my neck with full thrust and velocity—not with tentative motions at all. When the knife arrived at the side of my right carotid artery and my right jugular vein, the knife bounced off of something hard and fell to the floor. If God had not put His hand down between that knife and my neck, I would not be alive today.
God has proved Himself to me in many other ways and will do the same for you if you want Him to. If you have a question or something you would like to discuss further, I will do my best to respond within the limits of my understanding. I do know that God loves me and I know that He loves you equally well. I pray that you will inquire after Him.
