August 27, 2017 | Tom Dunham
Passage: Zechariah 12:1
God’s Fingerprints in LIFE!
In the beginning God created … Genesis 1:1
… Thus says the LORD, Who stretches out the heavens, lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him: Zechariah 12:1
Two weeks ago: God’s Fingerprints in the Heavens!
Last week: God’s Fingerprints in the Rocks!
Today: God’s Fingerprints in LIFE!
The year was 1953: … … …
DNA is the language of life!
- Codes for over 50,000 proteins in our bodies …
- Hair color … skin density (we’re all the same ‘color’!) …
- Eye color … organ formation … photoreceptors … enzymes …
- It’s a language! … like a HUGE book … really, like a computer program …
- It had to be divinely created, since ‘information’ – especially such complex information – never arises by change …
- The ‘information’ was present at the beginning … mutations only result in lost information, not new information …
The inevitable result of rejecting God as Creator: the descent of man/society:
- Romans 1:18-32 …
- If there is ‘design,’ there must be a ‘Designer’ …
- If there is morality, there must be a moral Lawgiver …
Þ The crux is that we are accountable to Him …
The ‘Fix’: back to God/the Bible/the Moral Code:
- You can try to fix each individual societal problem w/ a ‘program’ … or you can address multiple ills at once w/ God’s Word …
As DNA is the language of life, the Bible is the language of eternal life!
- He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. I John 5:12
Belief in Genesis/creation is vital to having a healthy, proper world view.
Genesis is not an allegory.
Jesus believed in the Genesis account exactly as written: … “Have you not read that He Who made them at beginning ‘made them male and female,’?” Matthew 19:4