2010
Soap Box Archives
Revisited
I recently wrote a soapbox, which addressed the fallacy of evolution,
and while the piece stressed my disbelief in the evolutionary theory
and expounded my belief in creationism, I'm afraid that the crux and
intention of my column was basically lost in the pro and con debate
of evolution versus intelligent design.
What I really wanted people to take away from this column is the fact
that at some time in your life, you're going to realize that the only
thing you have to depend on is Almighty God.
It could be in the immediate aftermath of a horrible accident when you're
lying on the ground with your lifeblood flowing out of your veins. It
could be in a moment of imminent danger, it could be in the midst of
sickness or grief or national emergency or it could be as you lie on
your deathbed taking your last breath.
But at some moment in your life you are definitely going to realize
that the circumstances you are in are way beyond the control of any
human being on earth and if you're going to get out of your dilemma
it's going to take someone much greater than yourself to reach out to
you.
There is an old World War II saying, "There are no atheists in
fox holes," in other words, when death comes or is imminent.
Even the most hardcore unbelievers start grasping at straws and wondering
what awaits one who has denied the existence of God on the other side
of the veil of death they're facing.
It is a pity that some of our greatest universities have turned into
bastions of atheism where it is considered the coolest form of intelligence
to deny the existence of God.
The Holy Bible speaks of a time like this when man considers himself
more intelligent than the God who created him.
I need no further evidence than the word of God to confirm my belief
in creationism. It supersedes all other writings on the creation of
the universe and mankind and was inspired by not by humans but by the
infallible Holy Spirit.
I speak from personal experience. There have been times in my life that
no person or power on this earth could control the situation I was in,
no human being had the power to change my circumstances, only the hand
of God was capable of delivering me and at such a time the theories
of people like Charles Darwin mean absolutely nothing and don't even
belong in the equation.
I know God is real, and it's not because I read it in a book, I know
it in my heart.
God is not a theory. God is not some academic undertaking to be disputed
by men who consider themselves above divine wisdom.
God parted the Red Sea and made the sun stand still for a day, the children
of Israel wandered in a desert for forty years while their shoes and
clothes never wore out, and God fed them manna from heaven and made
water flow from barren rocks.
If you don't happen to believe in my God I can only say that you will
one day. You will know beyond a shadow of a doubt that this universe
and everything in it was created by Him. And you, along with Charles
Darwin, will bow and acknowledge Him as creator and His Son, Jesus Christ,
as King of Kings and Lords of Lords.
You can intellectualize all you want to but this is going to happen.
You can believe it now or believe it later, but believe it you will.
What do you think?
Pray for our troops, and for our country.
God Bless America
Charlie Daniels
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