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DEUTERONOMY

DEUTERONOMY

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while they’re alive; MIGHTmares are what people experience after they die. Max: God, could I see you answer some prayers? God: Yep! Max: Ok, when? God: Just did! Max: Just did what? God: I just answered 925,682 prayers while you were asking me if I could answer some prayers. Max: How much of my ten minutes do I have left? God: Just a few seconds… of course, around here that might mean around 50,000 years. You never know. But in your case, it means just a few seconds. Max: Do you watch me when I’m down here? God: All the time… in fact, I watch everybody at once, but if I told you how I do it, it might give you MIGHTmares. So just take my word for it for now, ok? Max: Ok… one more thing, God, if that’s ok? God: Sure. What ya got? Max: How do I know that I can trust this interview we’re having? God: Because I don’t change my views with the changing of the winds. In fact, Max, “I change not.” You’ll find that in my Word under Malachi 3:6, not that too many people are looking. Because I’m immutable, what I say I will do… and what I do is done; for I never differ frommyself. I may on occasion alter my dealings with men in a dispensational sense, but my Divine character remains constant. Max: You know, God… after just ten minutes with you I realize that I cannot even pretend to know who you are. God: Yep… there’s no use pretending, Max, even though a great many people try. But it hasn’t worked for them and I suspect it won’t work for you either, Max. Max: One last question, God… how long before I die? God: A vapor’s length. Max: That’s not very long… God: I’m glad to see that you’re finally seeing what you came to see. Max: After just ten short minutes with you God… and I see. God: What do you finally see, Max? Max: I see two things that I have never seen before. God: What are those two things, Max? Max: Outside of the fact that you’re omniscience, omnipotent, omnipresent, and eternally immutable, I don’t know the first thing about you. God: What’s the second you learned from this interview of ours, Max? Max: I’ll see you in a vapor, God.

It’s true: The first thing you need to know about God is that you’ll never know God outside of what He has revealed about Himself in Scripture. So whatever Scripture explains about God, that’s all God intends for us to know at the moment. He’ll explain to us what we need to know on a need-to-know basis. For example, we know, according to God’s own Word, that He created everything. The question arises however, “Who created the Creator?” Unlike everything He created, God is infinite and eternal (Psa 90:2), which means God is the uncaused First Cause. Dr. Harry Rimmer in The Theory of Evolution and the Facts of Science notes:

There is no life without vital antecedents. This is perhaps a waste of your time, so well is the law established, but it brings us face to face with the hopelessness of a scientific answer to the enigma of vital origins: for if life only comes from life, from whence did the first life come? 2

The fact that the universe was created by an unmade Cause greater than it will no doubt be explained to us on a need-to-know basis. Until then, we have no way of knowing the answer to this “all-important” question. His Word will just have to suffice. For all we know, the Lord may have existed for so long that even He has lost track of His own beginning. The problem with the origin of God is that it is shrouded in a mystery so deep and impenetrable that the mind of man staggers in its very approach to the bewildering subject. Of course, there will always be those sneering infidels who love to beg the question, “If God created everything, who created God?” The problem with this kind of blatant inquiry, however, is that it always leads to a mental merry-go-round with no place to get off. For if someone or something made God, who made that someone or something?