The Reality of Design

This “purely scientific” viewpoint, however, overlooks the reality of design. Consider the human eye, for example, which is irreducibly complex. For the eye to work, all its component parts must exist together. The theory that eye evolved from a simpler form is therefore in itself unscientific.

Similarly, take the beautiful music of an orchestra: the various instruments work together to create a harmonic sound. No one could reasonably argue that such happened spontaneously and randomly, without someone having written the music or conducted the orchestra itself. So too with creation: the beauty, order, and harmony of nature tell us that God himself created it. 

God created you with both a spiritual part like the angels, and a physical part like the animals: unique among all creatures. He fitted you with an eternal soul, with motions and affections unexplained by any physical or chemical action. He gave you a will that, if and when conformed to his will by his grace alone in Christ, would drive you towards heaven through love. 

The Unique Nature of Man

God gave you a yearning for immortality that indicates the reality of eternal life. He gave you a body to be resurrected like the flourishing of leaves in spring after the winter of death, if you are in Christ. He gave you a conscience that acts as your internal judge and gives you a foretaste of Judgment Day.  Your conscience also indicates to you (or did, before you suppressed it in pleasure, distraction and vice) that when you sin, you are not living for the purpose for which God originally created Adam.  

Revelation and Ethics

God made you to appreciate nature in both its order and its beauty, both of which speak of Him. He equipped you with language and the written word to be able to read his Word as he speaks to us in the Holy Scriptures. He also provides His Holy Spirit to his people, so they can understand it. Through this, God revealed the virtues without which you cannot be truly happy.

He provided the framework of ethics (personal life), economics (family life), and politics (civil life) in which these virtues are to be lived out. While philosophies such as Harari’s seek to reduce us to a miserable, meaningless machine, you ought to know better.

The Truth We Hide

God does not merely want us to know that He exists. In truth, if we are honest with ourselves, all men already know that God exists, though some seek to hide that by denying Him loudly. Even those who live as atheists know deep down that God truly made them; they simply dislike Him because they wish to live according to their own will.

God wants us to believe in Him and obey Him, turning away from our sins—sins that Jesus Christ took away on the cross for His people. As it is written in Isaiah 55:3

Isaiah 55:3

The Promised Messiah

Today, you can put aside the delusions of atheism and modern science and recognize God’s truth found in the Tanakh. After Adam fell by inclining toward the voice of his wife and eating the forbidden fruit, all men born afterward inherited the curse of sin. This curse could only be broken by the promised Messiah, Jesus Christ.

God promised Adam and Eve that the Messiah would come into the world (Genesis 3:15). The Prophets further revealed:

• He would die for the sins of His people and so justify them (Isaiah 53).
• He would be born in Bethlehem (Micah 5:2).
• He would die at the specific appointed time for Messiah (Daniel 9:24-27).
• He would be raised to life (Isaiah 53:9, Psalm 16:10).
• He would be born of a virgin (Isaiah 7:14) and, being a man, would also be God Himself (Isaiah 9:6-7).
  

Jesus Christ is Jehovah, God himself, who came down to earth to die for our sins and be raised to life. We need the Messiah because all of us have sinned and gone astray, turning each one to his own way; yet the Lord has laid on Christ the iniquity of all his people (Isaiah 53:6). This good news is only saving to those who believe, as “the just shall live by his faith” (Habakkuk 2:4).