Life in Christ

John 1:1-4 “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.

I never have believed in “Naturalism” (the philosophical belief that everything arises from natural properties and causes, and supernatural or spiritual explanations are excluded or discounted). Based upon the physical facts in nature, I do not have enough blind faith to be an atheist. I have loved “Physical” Science since first taught and have studied “creation” (Ktisis – Greek for formation), which Creator God created (bara' – Greek for fashion and create). The heavens and the earth declare His glory in irreducible complexity and order.

I read where a host of naturalistic biochemists and other atheistic scientists have tried for over a century to determine how life evolved from non-life and disprove the existence of a Creator God that they are accountable to. Such a quest is absurdly impossible, for the simplest imaginary self-replicating system would be infinitely more complex than the most elaborate machine ever designed by man. Hoyle's “Calculation of the Odds of Life” arising by chance are 1 in 10 to the 40,000 power (mathematically impossible). Life can come only from life. The first human life, indeed the first living system of any kind, could only have come by special creation from the omnipotent, living Creator God; “For I am fearfully and wonderfully made”.

Thus, Acts 17:28 rightfully states, “in Him we live, and move, and have our being,” and He is “not far from every one of us”. The Lord Jesus Christ is the one “by whom also he made the worlds” and who now is “upholding all things by the word of his power” - Hebrews 1:2-3. The beating of our hearts, the breathing of our lungs, the very atoms of our bodies are continually sustained by Him. Were He to withdraw His power for a moment, life would cease and all light would become darkness. Even those who reject Him, deny Him and blaspheme His holy name owe their very existence to His power and grace.

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God.  “As the Father has life in himself; so has He given to the Son to have life in himself” (John 5:26). Life is “in Him”; He alone can conquer death and raise the dead. “As the Father raises up the dead, and quickens them; even so the Son quickens whom he will”, for as “the first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit” (1 Corinthians 15:45).

The article concludes, thus, “he that has the Son has life; and he that has not the Son of God has not life” (1 John 5:12). Through faith in His atoning sacrificial death for our sins and resurrection life, “you are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.”  Henceforth is Christ Himself “our life” (Colossians 3:3-4). We have life in Christ.