A SATISFYING LIFE How to Attain It

4. Conclusion of The Author of the Unique Book

Are you really comfortable with the theory that human life came into existence without any intellectual drive behind it?  Let us take what some have considered "the most complex object in the universe," the human brain, and see what conclusions we can reach.  "The performance of even the most advanced of the neural-network computers," says Dr. Richard M. Restak,  "has about one ten-thousandth the . . . capacity of a housefly." The brain of a human is far superior to that of a housefly. It comes programmed to learn languages. It repairs itself, rewrites programs, and improves its capacity.  No doubt you would agree that even a powerful supercomputer with only "one ten-thousandth the . . .capacity of a housefly" has an intelligent designer. What about the human  brain? 

Some 3,000 years ago, at a time when humans did not fully understand the wonders of their own physical structure, a Bible writer meditated on the makeup of the human body and said:  "I shall laud you because in a fear-inspiring way I am wonderfully made.  Your works are wonderful, as my soul is very well aware."  Without a knowledge of DNA molecules, he wrote:  "Your eyes saw even the embryo of me, and in your book all its parts were down in writing."   (Psalm 139:14, 16) About whom was he talking? Who brought forth everything in the universe by means of "the abundance of everything"? 

The very first verse of the Bible says;  "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." (Genesis 1:1) He is also the Author of the Bible, the One who inspired its contents. He reveals himself as a person with whom we can have a meaningful relationship.  

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