A
favorite question of mystery stories the world over is “Who done
it?” Who is the responsible
party? Who caused this to come about?
In
real life it is much the same. In whatever situation,
people the world over want to know the
culprit, or the cause.
When the situation involves signs of intelligence, they want
to know “who” did it.
It
is a natural question, because part of our nature is to ascribe
credit where credit is due, and blame where blame is due. Where there
is a murder, or a robbery or a rape, etc. the public wants to know
who did it so that the culprit can be apprehended, put away, and
removed from being a danger to others. Where there is some seemingly
miraculous achievement they want to know who accomplished it so that
they can be acknowledged and admired.
It
is natural for us to want to know what is going on, because in
knowing what is going on we have a better chance of figuring things
out, and if we can figure things out we can have some measure
of control over our own part of the situation in which we find
ourselves. We can react more appropriately if we know what is going
on.
Yet
“science”, for the last century or so, has been
committing an unnatural act because in spite of the abundant
evidence for the involvement of an involved intelligence burgeoning
all around us, “science”, it would seem, does not want to know
“who done it.”
Note,
please, that, in that paragraph, I enclose the
word “science” in quotes, and I do so because it is not
genuine science that I am talking about. What I am talking about is a
failed philosophy whose adherents actively ignore, and indeed, shout
down the real evidence of real science, because their
motivation is not to know the truth, but is to support their failed
philosophy. They are very strident, ardent and emotional in their war
against the truth, and the more the evidence piles up in favor of
their self-sworn enemy, the more emotional they get in their
reactions to it. I say self-sworn because they themselves are doing
the swearing and not their
enemy. Their enemy simply recounts the evidence, and it is
that recounting that drives them absolutely wild.
It
is much like the current controversy, in the United States, over the
legitimacy of what is euphemistically called homosexual “marriage”,
with homosexual activists around the nation fervently pursuing
Christians in order to force them to participate in what those
Christians see as celebrating sin.
All
the while the homosexual activists try to portray themselves as
victims of persecution at the hands of Christians, it is not the
Christians who are actively seeking out and pursuing homosexuals in
order to reject their rights. No. It is homosexuals pursuing the
Christians in order to remove their basic human rights.
Here
we have a classic case of wolves in sheep’s clothing trying
to pass themselves off as the victims when, in fact they are the
perpetrators of the persecutions that are being suffered today in the
United States of America.
It
is much like those who favor infanticide on demand, crying crocodile
tears over the poor, unprotected women while claiming that the baby
is part of the woman’s body, therefore subtly claiming that the
real victim doesn’t even exist.
What
is the common thread, here? The common thread is a sort of “Straw
men are us” fest whose arguments are so weak and so delusional and
so laughable that they are only worthy of scornful pity.
In
all of these groups, the perpetrators ignore, suppress,
and deny the evidence that is actual and at
hand because they don’t want to know the truth. They don’t
want to know “who done it.”
It
truly is a pity to see someone despairing away their life
because of the utter lack of hope in which their own world view has
trapped them. They fail to see the escape because
they refuse to admit that they need it.
It
all goes straight back to the rhetorical question quoted in every
masthead of this newsletter: “When a person
has—whether
they knew it or not—already rejected the Truth, by what means do
they discern a lie?”
They
are so prideful and so self-absorbed that they cannot even conceive
of needing to escape
calamity. But calamity exists, my friend,
and it is a thing that needs escaping.
Many
of them go through life with all their educational degrees marleying
around behind them,
as though an inked piece of paper can confer
the wisdom to see and the motivation to move.
Upon
reading this, there are those who will want to ask, “But don’t
you believe the Bible, and isn’t that what amounts to a whole lot
of inked paper?” And to that question I can respond, “No. I don’t
believe the Bible. I believe
the One who wrote the Bible, and that
it is He who can provide the wisdom to see and the motivation to
move.
The
people of whom I write are a pitiful bunch. All
the while they are claiming and publicly proclaiming to be all that,
they sit and languish in a trap of their own design, and, having so
blinded themselves to the trap, they cannot conceive that there is a
door that leads to a life of light and truth and mercy and grace and
peace in the eternally loving and forgiving arms of the One whose
very existence they, to this very day, still seek to deny and reject
and defame and insult and slander and decry and to ridicule as a lie.
And
do you know the most pitiful part of all?
The
door stands open.
And
it’s not that the door is simply unlocked, and cracked
open a bit, or even that it’s off its hinges. No.
In fact, the door isn’t even there, having been cast away in the
wee, early hours of that brightest of Sunday mornings 2,000 years ago
on a small hill in a tiny land at the eastern end of a small sea
where the greatest event in all of history occurred.
It
was there that the Designer and Creator of all things that have begun
to be bowed down in order that His creation should murderously put
Him to death. Is it not written, “It
is for this purpose that I have come” 1?
And
why did He say He had come? To witness to the Truth.
But
there was something even more momentous
there. Indeed, it
was
a very thinly clothed warning, and claim, of what was shortly to
come, “No one takes My
life from Me; I lay it down of my own accord. I have the power to lay
it aside, and I have the power to take it up again!” 2
And
there you have it, ferried on the pinions of the King: the death and
resurrection of the Savior of the world; the death, so that sin
should be paid for,
the resurrection, so that all mankind should know.
The
door stands open.
Cast
away with the stone
That
brighting ancient day,
Heaven’s
gates are open
Unto
us today.
Jesus
Christ has suffered
And
has opened up the Way!
Thus
we enter heaven:
By
His grace on us each day.
Sin
no longer conquers;
All
our chains are gone away.
Jesus
Christ has suffered
And
has opened up the Way!
They
shall never find it, who think they do not need it, nor shall they
ever discover the truth about “Who done it!”
1John
18:37
2John
10:17-18
