Heart Hope by Olga

Several years ago I was sitting in Las Vegas with one of my co-workers when a deep conversation ensued around the topic of evolution versus creation. This young man was telling me how he thought the world had come into being, explaining his big bang/cell evolution theory. That’s not exactly the way I believe it happened and since I had just been teaching a Bible study on the first chapter of Genesis, I was armed and ready for him.  My rebuttal for his hypothesis was that if everything on this planet evolved from one cell, I could possibly accept that one bunny rabbit might have evolved by chance, but what I could never accept is that another bunny rabbit of the opposite sex would have developed at exactly the same time in exactly the same place, so that they could then mate and produce other little bunnies, so how could I ever accept the fact that the same thing happened with every mammal, bird, reptile, amphibian, plant, tree, etc?  The only thing I have to do is loo...

Again, I am disturbed. I have just seen an ad in the local paper that says, “Teach a child to love Mother Nature.” While just the other day on the national news, a commentator said that Mother Earth was showing her fury in regards to the number of volcanoes, tornadoes, earthquakes, etc that were happening. Now don’t get me wrong, I love nature and am in wonder of the seasons and the intricacies of plants, animals, weather and the rest of creation, but I have to ask why is it so easy for people to accept Mother Nature, but give not one bit of notice to Father God? Could it be that Mother Earth is safe? Everyone can accept her and believe that she is in control of creation after all, you don’t have to really know her or have a relationship with her. It is non-threatening. Father God is another story; He confronts us with our sin and tells us that we need His Son, Jesus Christ as a Savior. People don’t want to hear that, it is “offensive”. But what is more offensive--to h...