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The Analogy
Proving Creation and God’s existence is like proving someone’s birthday.
For example, if you see someone at a restaurant, and there are people singing happy birthday to that person, and they had a cake, ice cream, party hats, balloons and all the usual birthday party stuff. You would probably assume that it is that person’s birthday, right?
Well, let’s say that you decided to go a step further than assuming, so you went up to the person and asked them, “Is it your birthday?”
Now let’s say that the person says that it is indeed their birthday, but you don’t want to just take their word for it, so you ask their friends also, “Is it really this person’s birthday?”
Ok, let’s say that all of the friends that you asked about this person’s birthday also said that it is indeed their birthday.
Let us now, for the sake of argument, say that you still do not believe that it is indeed this person’s birthday, so now you go and try to find their parents, but you soon come to find out that this person’s parents are dead.
So, now that you know that this person’s parents are no longer alive to attest to this truly being their birthday, you set out to find the nurses and the doctor that helped in the birthing process of this individual.
Now, after searching for months and months, you find out that all of them are also no longer living.
So, after several more months of searching for any other witnesses of this person’s birth, you find out that they are all, every single one of them, dead.
So, the parents, the doctor, and the nurses, as well as everyone else that was there to witness this person’s birth are all dead now.
At this point, let us assume now that this person, whom has told you that today is their birthday, is of sound mind, and that they are telling you the truth, and that by this point they have even shown you their original birth certificate.
Now, technically there is absolutely no way that they can actually prove that this day is indeed their birthday, even though they have given you the testimony of their friends; their original birth certificate; there were people singing happy birthday to them at the restaurant; they had cake; they had ice cream; they had party hats; they had balloons, and all the other normal party stuff.
With all of this tangible evidence that you have to attest to the statement that it is truly this person’s birthday, you have two choices. You can either remain a skeptic and choose not to believe that it is this person’s birthday, or you can choose to heed all of the evidence that you have and believe that it actually must be this person’s birthday.
Now this scenario is almost absolutely identical to the one in all of our lives involving the
Creation and the existence of God.
We have all of the normal signs of something
that has been created, like all of the party stuff at the restaurant, such as DNA, the mountains, the beaches, the sunsets, all of the different animals and creatures that we see on earth today.
We have Christians all over the world singing praises to God at church, at concerts, and just about anywhere else you can have music, just like the people singing happy birthday at the restaurant.
We have the Bible, which is where He tells us Himself that He truly does exist. This is also comparable to a birth certificate, which is a printed testimony that the person was indeed born on a certain day and time (i.e. the Genesis account of Creation.)
We have all of the Christians in the world, His friends, who attest to the statement that He really does exist.
We even have the testimony of the unmistakable feelings, guidance, protection, and grace that God has shown to all of his followers, which is comparable to a birth certificate, which is a printed testimony that the person was indeed born on a certain day and time.
But also, just like in the birthday scenario, all of the people who were there at the time of Creation, (Adam and Eve) not to mention all of those people who were there throughout the Bible, such as Moses, Abraham, Isaac, Paul, John the Baptist, and even Jesus, are no longer physically living here on earth anymore to testify verbally to the validity of the Bible and the things that are in it.
There is, however, one extremely major difference between the fictitious birthday scenario and the very much real Creation and existence of God scenario.
The birthday scenario is completely irrelevant, aside from the obvious necessity of analogy for this text, and will not in any way affect your life. It does not matter if you do or do not believe that it is truly this person’s birthday.
But, In the Creation and existence of God scenario, this very, very real issue is completely relevant to each and every one of us, because our ultimate eternity depends on whether or not we believe that God exists and did indeed create everything around us .
There is however one more part to this whole issue. It is not enough just to believe that God exists and created everything around us. We must also come to have a personal and intimate relationship with Jesus Christ, for without it we are surely heading for an eternity of unimaginable pain and suffering.
Oh yeah, there is one more very important similarity to this analogical text. It really is this person’s birthday.
Written by: Trevor Ray Slone
February 21, 2010
This poem is one of the 30 poems in my book "Poetry and Wisdom About Life, Love, and What Really Matters"
Just go to my website at trevorslone.com for details on how to purchase my book, or to learn more about me.
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