Scripture
“Love ... is always ready to understand and forgive and trust and hope and endure all things” (I Cor. 13:8).
A favorite question for philosophers is “why is there something rather than nothing?” Answers abound. One is that a big bang long ago accounts for all that is; the universe is eternal and simply evolved into its present state by chance. Some scientists have even talked about a cosmic soup that cooled down over billions of years and left us what we call the Universe.
Such theories leave us cold, however, since there seems to be an absence of purpose, a lack of order, and a lack of design. The brute fact of existence is that we are thrown into a Universe that is unfeeling about us. These accounts leave us without a Loving, Creative Artist who accounts for all that…
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