No, That Isn't All That Matters

 Ever heard the popular saying, “Ignorance is bliss”?   Whoever dug that one up?  I understand how the statement can be used in frivolous light conversation, however consider this:  In reality there are multitudes of people who actually live in ignorance, and worse – they don’t have much of a desire to change.  Ignorance is not only not “bliss”, it is a formula for a life of disaster.  

How about the attitude:  “So, they say we came from monkeys.  Some say that God (whoever he is) created us – so what?  Who cares?  I’m here, aren’t  I?  That’s all that matters”.  That is indeed a sad commentary on the mind set of a mass of people.  But can you blame them?  For years the humanists have to a large degree controlled our educational system, book and magazine content, and different means of communication to a degree that the “monkey to man” idea is accepted as established fact.  I hardly read any books, school or otherwise, that don’t simply assume that man evolved from monkeys and hence from earlier life forms.  Even the excellent and much respected magazine National Geographic falls into that category.

Contrary to the conclusion which says “that’s all that matters” let me shout it from the hilltops, if necessary – THAT ISN’T ALL THAT MATTERS!  If you did indeed evolve from monkeys and then from earlier life forms you are forced to carry your logic to its extremes.  Those life forms take you back to the ultimate – some kind of primordial slime in some ocean where one cell by chance became alive and reproduced.  In the months ahead I will talk about this supposed process of evolution in a lot more detail.  But for now let’s continue with how all this affects YOU.

If you evolved from this impersonal, materialistic, chance process through millions of years, then you are nothing more than another animal at the end of the long chain.  Let’s call you an intelligent monkey.  In that state no God exists and there is no such thing as eternal life.  All moral values go out the window and there is no fear of judgment.  In such a condition there is absolutely no limit to the depravation a human being can enter into.  I submit to you that this is exactly the condition of a mass of humanity today.  I am appalled at the utter degree to which persons with no conscience can sink.  The examples are mind boggling, but let me just name a few from this last century:  Adolph Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong (Tse Tung), Pol Pot and Idi Amin.  Take some time and read about these men.  However, you don’t have to go to the “long ago and far away” to find closer examples of the acts of depraved minds.  Just watch the news on TV.

However, from the beginning it was not intended to be so.  God created you and chose you to know and follow Him through accepting Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior.