Things are not getting better!
Have you ever wondered why we get tired and need to spend so much of our time sleeping? The scientists have defined a law to explain it. They call it ‘The Second Law of Thermodynamics’. This is all about the quality of energy. It states that as energy is transferred or transformed, more and more of it is wasted. It also states that there is a natural tendency of any isolated system to degenerate into a more disordered state, called entropy.
In simple terms, this means hot things always cool unless you do something about it. It expresses a fundamental and simple truth about our universe: that disorder always increases.
The Bible has much to say about this ‘law’ operating in our experience of ‘life’. It tells us that like our gardens, our cars, our houses, left to ourselves we age, deteriorate, and eventually degenerate to finally collapse in disorder. That means that our garden, without tending becomes a jungle; our cars neglected rust away; our houses without any maintenance fall into ruin and for us, with the passing of time, the keenest eye will dim, the straightest back will bend, and we soon return to the dust from which we were originally made.
So, in Bible language we are mortal, i.e. dying creatures. When first created Adam was ‘very good’. He could have shared the nature of angels who cannot die. Instead he failed the test of ‘hearing’ the word of God and would suffer all the ills of mortality and eventually die. We are all descended from Adam and therefore inherit this condition ourselves.
In fact, the Bible teaches us in a meaningful way about our origins, (something which scientists are still trying to explain), also it explains why we are here and the purpose of our existence.
To learn more, follow this link to the on-line booklet about how we can escape mortality and have eternal life through the work and person of Jesus Christ.
And to Adam God said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life; thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
Genesis 3:17-19 E.S.V.
