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The Weekend Sun
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Having once been an atheist myself and then having become a convinced Christian while studying physics at University, I explained to them one of the reasons I believe in God. I explained, ‘Sometimes Atheists ask us to believe the most outrageous things.’ Take this comparison! This is one reason I don’t have enough faith to be an atheist. The most recent Android operating system that runs a smartphone such as the new Samsung Galaxy S6 contains about 12 million lines of code. No-one believes that this operating system is the product of chance. It is carefully designed by Google. Most sane people would readily admit that they couldn’t believe random chance would produce the Android operating system. If this is so, then it is even more unbelievable
to say that the human genome, which contains more than 3300 billion ‘lines of code’, and is readily admitted to be the most sophisticated information system in the known universe, is the product of chance. It is brilliantly designed and is more sophisticated than the Android operating system. For a start instead of a base of two (zero and one) it uses a chemical base of four and is self-checking, self-correcting and self-replicating. It is not the product of chance! The designer is simply brilliant. Who is it? Christians say it is God!
Next weekend we celebrate Father’s Day. Some folks have labelled this as a commercial money-making venture just to cause us to frequent the hardware stores and men’s clothing aisles.
who do not provide a good example of what a father should be and so their children, when they read the Lord’s Prayer may say, “My experience with my father was not good. He was unkind, unfair and abusive, so how can I address my God and honour my God with the term ‘Father’?” The Bible teaches us that we can trust God as our heavenly father, one who is faithful, fair and can be trusted in all aspects of life. And one who is always there for me. While us as dads should be modelling ourselves on the God concept of the father. We do acknowledge that not everyone is blessed to have a great dad, but if you are a dad can I encourage you today to step up and be one who is faithful, fair and can be trusted? It’s not always easy, but let’s try and be the dads that God calls us to be. Let’s honour our dads and bless them in the good things they do.
Rev Jim Wallace, St Enoch’s Presbyterian Church
Honouring our dads
And that may be in part, but it is also a great opportunity (with or without presents) to honour our dads and thank them for all they have meant to us and they do. In the Lord’s Prayer in Matthew chapter 6; verse 9 in the Bible, Jesus encourages us to pray and starts by addressing God with the words, “Our father who is in heaven”, making the link that God is our heavenly father and we are his children. Unfortunately, while there are some really good dads about, there are some
By Stephen Tyrrell, South City Baptist Church Tauranga