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Imagine A Perfect Universe: Genesis, Revelation, And The Cross Of Jesus Christ
Contributed by Justin Steckbauer on Jun 2, 2021 (message contributor)
Summary: I imagine in the perfect state the world existed in Genesis 2 reality made a great deal of sense. Everything was good and right. I imagine the universe itself, the alignment of the stars and galaxies was much different.
Sharing the good news is hard sometimes though. People don't want to understand. And the atheist professors love to talk about Buddha, Hinduism, the gnostic gospels, and prattle on about eastern mysticism and universalism. Such nonsense.
“If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not. We cannot compete, in simplicity, with people who are inventing religions. How could we? We are dealing with Fact. Of course anyone can be simple if he has no facts to bother about.” –C. S. Lewis
Christianity describes reality the best. It just does. It's the hardest message, but given the grim realities of our world, those that no one wants to see, it would have to be a hard message. I don't like being told about my own sinful nature. Unfortunately at the end of the day it's plain and simply true! It describes reality the best! And it's the only way I can see a perfect world in the future. It's logical outworking is the best world, Jesus Christ is the best humble example of love. I've written extensively on how science indicates strong evidence for design. We've seen how history and archaeology confirm the Bible as legitimate, and the empirical evidence shows that from one peasant named Jesus who was crucified, there are now 2.1 billion followers of him today. That tells me that Jesus Christ did in fact literally rise to life from the death of the cross, and he is literally alive today, and he is God. So I follow him.
And I wonder. I dream. I ask questions in the fullness of my Christian worldview, like...
What will the perfect universe be like? Will we roam the stars? Will we live in a beautiful garden? What language will we speak? What, oh I wonder, will it feel like? I imagine it will feel quite good and well, to be sinless. I look forward to those moments with great anticipation, and I tremble at night in fear that my own sins might net me, and strip me of the faith I currently hold in Jesus Christ. But I trust God will help me, and deliver me from every one of those sins. And he will. I may be fully assured of that. So can you. Amen.
