Posted by
ValiantForTruth on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 5:53:42 PM
‘…when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do the things in the law…[they] show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness…’ [Romans 2:14-15]
The remnants of the Law of God are still within the heart of men even though he is fallen from his created state and under the corruption of sin that leads him in rebellion against his Creator.
Our conscience bearing witness to the Law is part of what it means that man is an image bearer of the living God as revealed in Jesus Christ.
The image is marred as evident by the many examples of the depravity of man, but not beyond redemption as evident by the work of Christ bringing men to Himself.
The personal nature of man separates him and distinguishes him from all other life. The impersonal to the personal is as huge a barrier as the non-living to the living. The naturalist has no idea of the origin of life, nor any idea of the origin of the personal.
We call their theory nonsense because many believe that life originates from non-life or that the personal originates from impersonal matter or energy. Be not deceived, the first cause of life must be living as the first cause of the personal must be personal.