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The atheistic, evolutionary approach holds that life evolved by chance, with no ultimate purpose or plan. The Bible, however, tells us God created the earth and man with a specific-and awe-inspiring-purpose in mind.
What is that purpose? King David, when viewing the expanse of the night sky long ago, asked, "What are human beings that you are mindful of them, mortals that you care for them?" (Psalm 8:4, NRSV). Unlike all other creatures, God created man in His own image and likeness (Genesis 1:26). He gave man the ability to have a relationship with Him. Man had the capacity to understand and live by the same spiritual laws that God Himself lives by and that are part of His character. Man could grow to become more like God through an intimate relationship with Him.
Our first human parent, Adam, made a fateful choice for the rest of the human race when he tried to find a way of life for himself apart from the intimate relationship God was offering him. We have been groping for meaning ever since.
The awe-inspiring truth is that God is creating a family-the God family. He is the Father of that family. How did Jesus Christ reveal God to His disciples? As "our Father in heaven" (Matthew 6:9). Jesus tells us to follow the ways of God "that you may be sons of your Father in heaven" (Matthew 5:45).
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