“For God so loved the world He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.” John chapter 3 verse 16, The Bible
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” - Genesis 1v1
“So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them” - Genesis 1v27
Although Christians agree that the universe and everything in it was created by God, some Christians believe that the earth was created in six days, while others believe God used the process of evolution to create life. For more on this please visit our page on Science and Creation.
The laws at work in the universe, the complexity of life on earth, and the miracle of life on earth having developed at all, all point to a Creator of unimaginable power and wisdom. The explosion of scientific knowledge over the past 100 years has revealed to us the instructions for life written in the DNA code, instructions consisting of enormous amounts of information, that point to the Designer who wrote those instructions. Man’s increased understanding of the universe has revealed how finely tuned our universe is, and how unlikely it is that the exact conditions required for the development of life on earth could have arisen by chance*. The evidence points to a Creator.
Not only does the evidence point to a Creator, but the evidence we have from within ourselves confirms that human beings alone were created in the image of God. What is it that makes us different from all other animate life on earth? It is our self-awareness, our need for meaning, our ability to be creative, our ability to reason, our need to worship something or someone (even atheists are worshippers, either worshipping their leaders, or their possessions, or even themselves). It is also our inner sense of justice, or what C S Lewis in his book Mere Christianity identified as the moral law that each of us finds written on our hearts. This difference exists because we have eternal souls made in the image of God.
God is not surprised that many people do not recognize Him as their Creator. To read what the Bible says on this click here.
The answer to the question “where do we come from?” is that we were created by God in His image for a very special purpose. To find out more click here.