The Shadow
Dear Editor,
A drop of water. If a man were to count all the water molecules in a single drop of water at the rate of one molecule per second, it would take him 53 trillion years to count them all.
That amounts to 1.67 times 10 to the 21st power number of molecules. Every one of those molecules follows hidden laws to stick together.
Who set up these laws that every last water molecule obeys, without question? What makes them obey such laws? How many drops of water exist in a puddle, a pond, a lake, an ocean? What forces a drop of water to hold/suspend other molecules “dissolved” in the water, enveloped/bonded in the water molecules (gases, solids, other liquids)?
What killed the outer space aliens in War of the Worlds when they opened the doors of their spacecrafts? It was little critters that live in the air we breathe, in the water all around us, inhabiting our very bodies, microbes, micro-organisms. How many molecules are in each microbe, living creatures we cannot see with our naked eyes, each molecule obeying hidden laws that prevent chaos?
From a column written five years ago by one Donald DeMarco, we retrieve these facts: A single cerebral cortex, the fatty gray matter of our brain, contains more molecular-scale switches than all the computers and Internet connections on the entire planet.
The human brain has 86,000,000,000 (86 billion) neurons/nerve cells in it. Each neuron has 1,000 to 10,000 synapses (connections, or junctions), and each synapse has up to 1,000 molecular-scale switches on it.
Additionally, there are around 860,000,000,000 [860 billion] glial cells, cells that assist in neuron speed.
There are also 100,000 miles of myelin in the brain. The myelin is the insulating sheath that covers the 100,000 miles of nerve fibers — just in the brain. What about the precise routing of all nerves to all parts of the body and why or how it all is forced to be perfectly connected. All this “grew” from a single cell at the moment of fertilization from a sperm and an ovum.
So, as mind-boggling and wonder-eliciting as the above is, it barely scratches the surface of the ordered nature of things on a sub-microscopic level, let alone the sub-atomic level. And what then is smaller than “sub-atomic” — space/volume/energy? — whatever those might be. How did space, or volume, come to be?
Could the complexity of even the simplest of organs within organisms have come about by random “evolution”? What drives matter to organize so precisely from a level we cannot even see? Where did the primordial mud come from that we supposedly evolved from? Where did the big bang come from that supposedly made up the universe? Where is the overwhelming evidence that shows all the interspecies between all species that proves macro-evolution?
If this is how we came to be, then there must be proof of all in-between phases between every differing species. If not, then there is much more faith required to believe in evolution than there is required to believe in a God who created all things from nothing.
How about the non-physical world? From where does a thought originate? Dreams? Who puts ideas into one’s mind? How can the transmission of sound waves, formed by lung-supplied air pressure over our vocal chords and modified with our mouths, ordered to form words, ordered to form a language, have such a great impact on our emotions, or command us to act in different ways? Et cetera and et cetera ad infinitum.
At death, a body goes back to its lower state — non-animated matter broken down into more elemental elements. “From dust you came, and to dust you shall return.” Where did the animation, spirit or soul come from to give visible life to the collection of deliberately ordered matter/molecules, and where did it go at death?
There is another world, at least one other world, hidden behind what we sense, that influences all things — all things. Angels and demons and principalities and dominions, et cetera, and God, the Holy Trinity.
“Before Abraham was, I am,” hearkening back to words spoken to Moses “I am who am.” One who cured any disease at will. One who gave the life back to cold bodies, raising them from the dead. One whom storms and ship-sinking waves obeyed. One who commanded evil spirits to leave a fortunate soul’s body (“fortunate” to be in the presence of the Commander). He raised himself from the dead. One who was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
“Was” is “is.” “…through Whom, all things were made,” as the Nicene Creed states.
Those who deny the existence of God are true fools, the real walking dead. One may not like how God permits things to happen, due to human free will and the influence of evil, but to deny that God exists and keeps all things from annihilation is a fools thought. At death, a rude awakening awaits such a one.
Christmas is now long passed, but those who greeted others with “Happy Holiday” are in one sense denying Jesus before other men. That holiday is really a holy day, the celebration of the birth of Jesus the Christ, who is the God-man, with two natures, human and divine.
He was born to suffer and die, as a sacrifice, to open the once-closed door to the wonders of the world beyond, a world referred to as “heaven,” the many rooms in “my Father’s house.”
We but must obey His commands and love as He loved and love Him as He loves us, with the help of grace, to be admitted passage through that door upon our departure from this life.
Sin separates us from Jesus. We all sin, and often, but to publicly advocate sin and force it upon everyone, by law, is quite serious sin indeed.
Lawyers and policymakers will have to stand before God, at death, like all of us broken mortals. Thou shalt not kill. Honor thy father and thy mother. Very recent efforts, in our Richmond government, to wipe out all hard-earned protections for our unborn against being murdered and bills pushing LGBTQXYZ gender mis-identity ideology will lead many multitudes to break Gods Commandments.
Ditto for legislation to replace “husband and wife” with gender-neutral terms. It is easy to guess which political party is advocating such demonic behavior. Voting to keep such individuals in power puts a level of culpability on the voter.
“But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and be drowned in the sea.”
Drowning is a much more merciful sentence than consignment to Hell forever for deliberately turning one’s back on God and publicly leading others to do the same.
Legislators have a grave responsibility to pass laws that reflect the laws of God and we have a grave responsibility to elect God-fearing legislators, ones who may not necessarily say the right things, but who do the right things. Think about it.
Sincerely,
John Stec
Green Violet Drive, Covington
