“Incredible!”

Give me just a moment

To explain what I mean,

 I won’t be too long

Let’s reflect on this scene.

A creature: the judge

Other creatures: the jury

The Creator is on trial

For claiming Divinity.

He declares he is God

While posing as His Son,

What are his credentials?

Surely there are none.

The people were blind

Not physically so,

They just closed their eyes

To the facts we all know.

In the Old Testament

That they claimed to know

Were prophecies concerning Jesus

And they clearly showed.

In the New Testament

We have been assured

That he will judge the world

By his Holy Word.

The Father has put such

Into His begotten Son’s hand,

He is the Righteous Judge

This is God’s divine plan.

So how ironic it was

For mere men to judge him

And then had the audacity

To even accuse him of sin.

The ecclesiastical Gurus

Would you believe it

That they accused God’s Son

Of a blasphemous spirit?

This did not go well

With the Roman official

So other charges were brought

To convict this criminal.

He was a revolutionary

And he encouraged tax evasion,

He was a threat to Caesar

Formed their final submission.

A miscarriage of justice

What else could it be?

But these were a religious people

Too blind to see

That before them stood

The Righteous Judge,

So blind they had become

They wouldn’t even budge.

Quite in fitting I must add

Though ironically so,

They were following the plan

And they didn’t even know.

A mystery it would have been

To the unfocused eye

Such that even today

This same Judge we still deny.

Incredible I say

That to the world’s judgment hall

The Righteous Judge of this world

Was by summons called

Then tried and sentenced

To death on a cross,

At first glance it would appear

To be a colossal loss.

But God in his eternal wisdom

Turned loss into gain

And through the death of Jesus

Promised life in his name.

  

For one day coming

Will be another judgment hall

And everyone that ever lived

Will by summons be called.

What we have done with Jesus

Will be the basis of that court

And to this same Jesus

One and all must report.

That too will be incredible

But make no mistake

No one that denies the Righteous Judge

Will be able to escape.

“Incredible!” I say

“Incredible!” I mean,

On that great judgment day

Will be an incredible scene!

Stewart Russell (c) April 2019

Far More Incredible

 

It’s far more incredible to believe

All we see was from nothing conceived

Or to believe Evolution’s story

Rather than God who sits in Glory.

It takes far more faith to grasp

That billions of years had to elapse

Before space and matter were formed

Rather than six days God’s norm.

I find it difficult to swallow

That scientists could be so shallow

To believe out of nothing grew something

Initiated by a Big Bang; that is puzzling.

Aren’t you flummoxed by the idea

That an intelligent scientist would say

Something from nothing could appear

If we just factor in a few billion years?

 

And what is this primordial soup

To which many would dare to stoop

Instead of believing God as the source

Of all life and its principle force?

And what about those who opine

That the first life came out of slime?

Is it not easier to give the affirmative nod

To creation’s Creator, Almighty God?

Come on you who set store by science

God and science agree; there’s no defiance,

Stop for a minute; just a pause…

Yes, that is it!  Yes God is the first cause!

First cause is absent regarding evolution

But certainly not in the case of creation,

While evolutionists don’t know where to begin

Creationists posit that God is the origin.

You see first cause would have to be a being,

I trust by now you are clearly seeing,

Be reasonable and tell me who that could be

If it’s not God the Creator, the Almighty.

I know that your thoughts I have intruded

But hear me out what I have concluded,

Most atheists don’t believe what they believe

When considering these notions they perceive.

The invisible things of God are clearly seen

They manifestly point to a Being Supreme

But men’s foolish hearts just constantly evade

The evidence in the things that were made.

Such is the manifestation of a fool

Who pretends to be wise but folly is his tool

Choosing to become vain in his imaginations

Rather than give God credit for all of creation.

 

Relegating God’s glory to that of corrupt man

Worshipping the created became man’s plan

Rather than the Creator as God had designed

Exchanging God’s truth for the lie in his mind.

They know creation’s argument is valid

But refuse to retain God in their knowledge,

Determined instead to bend basic science

To fit in with their evolutionistic nonsense.

  

And as if such nonsense were not enough

They present to the world another bluff,

The idea of thought and from where it came

And a whole lot of mumbo jumbo they claim.

Nothing is real they say, just a perception,

Just a thought on which one takes an action

So that if you can prove that you are here

It’s just in your imagination that you appear.

Well perhaps the first part of this is right

Nothing is real only if nothing is in sight,

Something on the other hand cannot be disputed

Unless one’s argument is clearly convoluted.

That thought is very involved none can deny

So on God as its origin I must rely,

While a big bang may cause you to run for cover

It could not originate thought; do consider.

Then there is the ongoing issue of morality

From where did humans develop this facility?

Of course evolutionists don’t have a clue

Further clouding their ideas of false and true.

It makes far better sense given our reality

To think of a Supreme Being with such facility

Who Himself being a moral entity

Could make morality a human possibility.

And so the moral compass we have within

Prompts us regarding what’s right and what’s sin

Having been created in the image of the Supreme

In us these attributes are clearly seen.

  

The ability to think, the facility to discern

Are strictly speaking both human terms,

Design and innovation are found in no beasts

Not even chimps and monkeys to say the least.

 

 

Sparrows still build nests as they did before

One room apartments no windows no doors,

Fish cannot adapt on land or in space

But humans everywhere leave their trace.

Machines to roam the land and seas

And spacecraft, humans invented all of these,

Made in the image of God Almighty

Man unlike any other has immense ability.

All this from Big Bang and primordial soup

Is like chickens before birth building their own coop,

Such a notion is inordinately insane

But this is the measure of the evolutionist’s claim.

And you say it is incredible to believe in God

And to Big Bang and slime give an affirmative nod

Affirming nothing is the source for all we see,

Of nothing came something; that’s how it has to be.

And so for me evolution is far more incredible

Than God who did what was humanly impossible

And to put trust in what is clearly unintelligible

Is to reject the evidence that is so undeniable.

Stewart Russell © 2016

Far More Incredible

It’s far more incredible to believe

All we see was from nothing conceived

Or to believe Evolution’s story

Rather than God who sits in Glory.

It takes far more faith to grasp

That billions of years had to elapse

Before space and matter were formed

Rather than six days God’s norm.

I find it difficult to swallow

That scientists could be so shallow

To believe out of nothing grew something

Initiated by a Big Bang; that is puzzling.

Aren’t you flummoxed by the idea

That an intelligent scientist would say

Something from nothing could appear

If we just factor in a few billion years?

And what is this primordial soup

To which many would dare to stoop

Instead of believing God as the source

Of all life and its principle force?

And what about those who opine

That the first life came out of slime?

Is it not easier to give the affirmative nod

To creation’s Creator, Almighty God?

Come on you who set store by science

God and science agree; there’s no defiance,

Stop for a minute; just a pause…

Yes, that is it!  Yes God is the first cause!

First cause is absent regarding evolution

But certainly not in the case of creation,

While evolutionists don’t know where to begin

Creationists posit that God is the origin.

You see first cause would have to be a being,

I trust by now you are clearly seeing,

Be reasonable and tell me who that could be

If it’s not God the Creator, the Almighty.

  

I know that your thoughts I have intruded

But hear me out what I have concluded,

Most atheists don’t believe what they believe

When considering these notions they perceive.

The invisible things of God are clearly seen

They manifestly point to a Being Supreme

But men’s foolish hearts just constantly evade

The evidence in the things that were made.

Such is the manifestation of a fool

Who pretends to be wise but folly is his tool

Choosing to become vain in his imaginations

Rather than give God credit for all of creation.

Relegating God’s glory to that of corrupt man

Worshipping the created became man’s plan

Rather than the Creator as God had designed

Exchanging God’s truth for the lie in his mind.

They know creation’s argument is valid

But refuse to retain God in their knowledge,

Determined instead to bend basic science

To fit in with their evolutionary nonsense.

And as if such nonsense were not enough

They present to the world another bluff,

The idea of thought and from where it came

And a whole lot of mumbo jumbo they claim.

Nothing is real they say, just a perception,

Just a thought on which one takes an action

So that if you can prove that you are here

It’s just in your imagination that you appear.

Well perhaps the first part of this is right

Nothing is real only if nothing is in sight,

Something on the other hand cannot be disputed

Unless one’s argument is clearly convoluted.

That thought is very involved none can deny

So on God as its origin I must rely,

While a big bang may cause you to run for cover

It could not originate thought; do consider.

Then there is the ongoing issue of morality

From where did humans develop this facility?

Of course evolutionists don’t have a clue

Further clouding their ideas of false and true.

It makes far better sense given our reality

To think of a Supreme Being with such facility

Who Himself being a moral entity

Could make morality a human possibility.

And so the moral compass we have within

Prompts us regarding what’s right and what’s sin

Having been created in the image of the Supreme

In us these attributes are clearly seen.

The ability to think, the facility to discern

Are strictly speaking both human terms,

Design and innovation are found in no beasts

Not even chimps and monkeys to say the least.

Sparrows still build nests as they did before

One room apartments no windows no doors,

Fish cannot adapt on land or in space

But humans everywhere leave their trace.

Machines to roam the land and seas

And spacecraft, humans invented all of these,

Made in the image of God Almighty

Man unlike any other has immense ability.

All this from Big Bang and primordial soup

Is like chickens before birth building their own coop,

Such a notion is inordinately insane

But this is the measure of the evolutionist’s claim.

And you say it is incredible to believe in God

And to Big Bang and slime give an affirmative nod

Affirming that nothing is the source for all we see,

Of nothing came something; that’s how it has to be.

And so for me evolution is far more incredible

Than God who did what was humanly impossible

And to put trust in what is clearly unintelligible

Is to reject the evidence that is so undeniable.

Stewart Russell © 2016