{"id":1878,"date":"2013-03-23T11:26:12","date_gmt":"2013-03-23T16:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=1878"},"modified":"2013-03-23T11:26:12","modified_gmt":"2013-03-23T16:26:12","slug":"thought-of-or-thought-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=1878","title":{"rendered":"THOUGHT OF &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; OR THOUGHT UP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Newton observed gravity, he did not invent gravity or create it.\u00a0 He &#8220;thought of&#8221; gravity, not &#8220;thought up&#8221; gravity.<\/p>\n<p>When science describes the world, it cannot explain everything it describes.\u00a0 Science discovers new stuff in this phenomenal world all the time, and science explains how some of it works.\u00a0 But one thing is constant about scientific advancement&#8212;ever-increasing complexity observed, ever-increasingly unexplainable.<\/p>\n<p>Science describes.\u00a0 Science cannot explain.<\/p>\n<p>spiritual<\/p>\n<p>moral<\/p>\n<p>thought<\/p>\n<p>God<\/p>\n<p>origin<\/p>\n<p>As knowledge and technology multiply by leaps and bounds, we vainly imagine that we can come up with answers to everything.\u00a0 And we have seven billion different answers.<\/p>\n<p>Something is missing.\u00a0 But no, it is not missing.\u00a0 It is just ignored.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of continuing the futile search for the missing link to prove evolution (biggest failure of &#8220;science&#8221;), we have the Missing Link clearly written in three places for all to see, regardless of intelligence, fame, or fortune.<\/p>\n<p>God explained everything we need to know&#8212;written in the grandeur of the universe, written in the heart of every human, and written in the Bible.<\/p>\n<p>First, God is thrilled when man discovers all kinds of amazing new stuff, with more guaranteed to be found.\u00a0 He put it all together with just enough secrecy to keep us searching&#8212;from the gold prospector to the psychiatrist to the physicist.<\/p>\n<p>To put the second in human terms, God has a clear conscience because He put into our conscience a clear awareness of right and wrong and His sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p>Third, the Bible explains very clearly how this whole world got made, how it got messed up, how it gets fixed, and how it ends.<\/p>\n<p>Check it out&#8212;now, while you have time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Newton observed gravity, he did not invent gravity or create it.\u00a0 He &#8220;thought of&#8221; gravity, not &#8220;thought up&#8221; gravity. When science describes the world, it cannot explain everything it describes.\u00a0 Science discovers new stuff in this phenomenal world all the time, and science explains how some of it works.\u00a0 But one thing is constant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-faith_based","category-inspire_lifter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1878"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1880,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878\/revisions\/1880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}