Across the Universe
Consider the universe. There are countless theories about the size, shape, and age of our celestial neighborhood where we find ourselves. One recent idea is our home is flat and some ninety billion light years wide. It is so big that we will never be able to see the far side! And get this; scientists also say that we are but a bubble in a great big glass of beer with millions of other bubbles all rising to the occasion.
Now let’s go the other way. Go down. Down to the atomic and then subatomic level. Little tiny entities just spinning their little hearts out. Look up, look down, it is the same.
And our ride is earth. Barely visible from Saturn. That’s us. Consider how small and insignificant we really are. Striving, toiling, hoping, lying stealing, all trying to make our mark. All seven billion of us by recent counts, trying to rise to the occasion in the universal glass of beer.
Now consider this; Do you really believe all this created itself? Atheists tell us that this is all a hodgepodge of chance that hits a line drive after a few billion swings at the ball, yet when you look up at night you see evidence of thousands of successful line drives.
Earth sits in the absolute perfect place, with a perfect star, the perfect tilt of its axis, even a moon fixed perfectly to balance the rotation like a Goodyear tire so our home never goes out of balance while we fret about a change of climate over thousands of years. Gets too cold, some die and the ones that survive invent fire. Earth gets too hot CNN makes a fortune, and the government tries to make you believe you can do something about it.
And for all the enormity of the universe and the insignificance of the subatomic level no proof of life has ever been conclusively found. It’s only us. But aliens built the great pyramid? What are the odds on that one? We listen for something, anything that will show intelligence out there while looking right at the real intelligence that set the whole thing in motion. Aliens built Egyptian pyramids? Yet these same archaeologists will admit Mexicans built the ones on the Yucatán. Viva Villa! So why do we still have atheists?
Because the atheist has an unresolved grievance ie God won’t do what He’s told. God set up this thing with finely tuned rules. The 6.14 rule is standard for many things from the distance between eyes of a pretty girl to the pedals on a sunflower. Then God turned it over to us. We were charged with running it. We?were made in God’s image with free will and a free vegetable garden, but when we run everything off the road we get mad because God didn’t miracle us a wider road. So God doesn’t exist for the atheist. And that universe up there doesn’t exist either, huh Christopher? Then who met you at the gate? They poke fun at the watchmaker theory. If there is a watch there must be a watchmaker. Who dropped the watch, the earth, Taylor Swift with that perfect space between her eyes? With a ninety billion light year floor plan the universe is a tad more than a Timex.
God doesn’t owe you anything! Preachers go on and on about eternal life, but when you look at it why should you deserve eternal life when you can’t even get a date withTaylor Swift? Jesus gave us simple rules, treat others like you’d like to be treated. And when it’s all said and done you can’t even get that right except you have to because the Kingdom of God is within you! You create your own heaven or hell. Judge not lest you be judged. Man writes holy books to lay burdens on other men who think that if they carry all the burdens correctly they will go to heaven while they spend their entire life designing their own personal hell. Gaza or Georgia, it is the same. They will hate regardless because they are good at it. Just gotta find someone or something to hate. Haters gonna hate.
It’s all perception. Two students in a religious school had an assignment to define suffering. The went about the campus asking people what suffering meant to them. Finally, they arrived in the room of an old rabbi who had permanent residence as part of his retirement. He was blind and confined to a wheelchair. And they asked him what suffering meant to him to which he told them that he couldn’t say because he’d never suffered.
You control you. You don’t control anything else. You think you are influential? Try ordering someone else’s dog around. And that dog does not fear death like you do. On his last day he thinks he’s going to sleep and verily verily I say unto you, that dog will make the same difference to the universe that you will!
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