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of time, the keenest eye will dim, the straightest back will bend, and we soon return to the dust from which we were originally made.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.


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