The active Word February 01, 2012
Honeybee Rhoads
The active Word
pastor bob coy
February 01, 2012
The way of the world
"Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die." Genesis 2:16-17 (NKJV)
Perhaps the greatest proof we have of the Bible's authenticity and reliability is the one we tend to take most for granted: the world around us. "How so?" We need to go back to the beginning of the biblical record, back to when God had just created a perfect paradise populated with two perfect people, Adam and Eve.
Everything was ideal. But God warned Adam and Eve against one thing: partaking from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. If they did, things would change forever. Death would enter into their condition, at first spiritually and then, over the course of time, physically. Their perfect world would become a perishable world.
According to Genesis 3:6, Adam and Eve did eat the fruit of that free, they did disobey God, they did invite sin into their existence, and they did initiate the process of death and decay. God's word of warning came to pass, and we still see the evidence everywhere we turn.
Earth isn't a perfect place. It's a perishing place. There's a popular push to portray our world as tracking in a positive direction. The theory of evolution clings to this notion with whitened knuckles. It says Planet Earth is progressively evolving into a better place with better people.
But that's not true, according to the Law of Entropy. This scientific law, also called the second law of thermodynamics, is one of the most fundamental laws of physics and is universally accepted as true. Put forth by physicist Rudolf Clausius in 1865, it says the natural world tends to devolve from order into disorder. On their own, things generally don't get better. They become worse. They perish.
This is perfectly consistent with what the Bible stated in the very beginning: Our world is getting worse, not better. So the next time you see an example of earth's imperfection, let it remind you of the Bible's perfect presentation of truth.
Think About It… What does this passage reveal to me about God? What does this passage reveal to me about myself? Based on this, what changes do I need to make? What is my prayer for today?
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