By: A.B. Timothy
On X recently, I’ve argued that God has the right, as the owner of humanity, to give and enforce laws as he sees fit. Someone asked me, “Why does God have this right?” The answer is simple: If you create something, you own it. The ancient Greeks understood this (Aristotle’s Politics). If you create something (with materials you own) and you own that thing, certainly creatio ex nihilo (creation from nothing) would give you an even greater right over that thing.
This conversation started in response to my article on why authority is necessary, where I argued that an objective lawgiver is needed. The logically consistent argument from a naturalistic or evolutionist standpoint is for men to rape, pillage, and murder. Rape spreads the rapists genetics, which is the highest and only calling of naturalism. Pillage steals from others and increases the thief’s standard of living. Murder kills off genetic opponents and allows for the genetics of the murderer to be the only ones that persist.
Evolution is unadulterated meritocracy, which, while useful for a capitalistic society where there are laws precluding murder and erasure of the competition, is disastrous when brought into a pre-civilizational Amazon.
If there were truly no standard beyond the feelings of the individual (and evolution were true), we would still be warring tribes in Africa.
To ask why, then, is to ask the owner of a piece of property why they don’t want someone else to come and burn down their property. “What kind of a question is that?” the person might exclaim. “It’s mine, you’ve got no right to destroy what’s mine.” And they would be 100% in the right to say that.
God owns us because he created us. He has given us free will to choose to submit our will to his and enslave ourselves to Christ. But he has also given us that same free will to choose to enslave ourselves to our fleshly desires and pursue pure naturalism.
Now this is the part where I extend the gospel to you, the reader.
The Good News
Have you been living for yourself? Does life seem to repeat the same hedonistic cycle of: Feel Good → Feel Meh → Feel bad → Do something new → repeat? If you said yes to that, you will be stuck in the cycle until you die, I promise, unless you pursue something that is beyond yourself. Every human has a soul, and that soul yearns to be united with its Creator.
That longing you feel after a night of binge eating/drinking/self-pleasuring, is your soul longing to be purified and brought out of the filth it finds itself in. God is the only answer to this longing, and not just any God, only the God of the Bible, Jesus Christ, can fulfil that longing.
This God came down from heaven, lived life as a human but lived it perfectly, was falsely accused of blasphemy, died the most excruciating death imaginable, and raised Himself from the dead three days later.
The best part? He did all of that for you. To give you an out. To give you the resurrection he experienced, Paul, an early convert, wrote in a letter to the church in the city of Ephesus, “Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:” He explained to these believers that even though we were dead in our sins, God made them alive again with Christ, in their salvation. All you have to do is accept His free gift of salvation to be made alive in Christ.
Want to know more? Go watch this video and find out how you can know for sure, today, that you are on your way to heaven. Then, go find a church in your area and get plugged in.
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