What really happened?

We don’t know exactly, because we were not there. But the conception, gestation and birth of a human baby and the processes whereby seeds turn into plants, caterpillars into butterflies, eggs into chicks, don’t look like things that came about by chance. Intricate design points to a designer, life requires a life-giver, and the information in every cell needs an intelligence to put it there. They point to an awesome Power.

If, after honest inquiry, you find that you cannot explain such things as made by the world itself, it may then be reasonable to ask whether there exists a Creator.

Here, we suggest that the most important facts to consider are not scientific ones but the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ – the facts that show that he came from God, and came to reveal God. One New Testament writer, John, describes him as the Word made flesh. He had authority to tell us about life because he was the Son who executed the commands of his Father at Creation. ‘All things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made.’ In the Old Testament we read:

• “God spoke, and it came to be, He commanded and it stood firm.” Psalm 33:9
• “By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, and all their host by the breath of his mouth.” Psalm 33:6
• “In the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth. And God said “Let there be light… and God created every living, moving thing according to its kind.” Genesis 1:2, 20

The Bible indicates that we have a Creator God. It also indicates that he is willing, and indeed wants, to enter into a personal relationship with each of us, his creation. Jesus Christ said “Here I am, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in.” Revelation 3:20