It isn't a surprise to any of us that we look out at our world, look at its problems, its issues, its evils and say "Why are things like this?
They shouldn't be like this!"
This is a valid question and a true statement. While I don't want to address the why in this post (check out
http://the-true-way.blogspot.com/ for a posting with this regard), I do want to discuss the fact that we ask the question itself.
We are all used to it and we just assume it is natural, but consider that if we had evolved and we are the way by virtue of a series of cosmic accidents and natural forces, from where does such questions about "how things ought to be" come? If we are the way we are based on natural forces and such, then we have no basis or reason to say "thing ought not to be this way". In fact, all we can say is "things cannot be any other way" because this is the way nature and evolution made things. In an evolved universe, there is "ought"--there is only "because".
And yet, we ask such questions and feel things "ought not to be this way". This is definitely not a desirable trait that evolution should have selected out. It has let to much self-destructive behaviour (drug abuse, drinking, suicide), depression, etc. Definitely not a strong genetic trait. If we had evolved, the survival of the fittest should have selected such a weak gene out in favor of those who full accepted and were more than content with their existence as it was.
And yet, we ask such questions. Beyond the fact that evolution should have selected this out, there is also the question of "what is this 'ought' of which we speak"? When we talk about things needing to be better, what is our basis of comparison? How do we know that the way things are now are not the best they could possibly be? From where do we get this information? From our imaginations? If that is what we are trusting, as supposedly evolved creatures, we cannot trust it as anything but the fantasies random chance. They are no more valid that the ramblings of a madman.
And yet we ask such questions, and we are positive "things ought not to be this way", and we are certain we know what that "better way" would be, in general.
Evolution and natural, humanistic philosophy cannot address this. It cannot explain why we ask such questions, on what basis we make such statements, and from where we get our idea of "the better way". Nor, however, can it dismiss them as invalid. Even those who adhere to evolutionary and humanistic thinking believe "things ought not to be this way". What they may think of "the better way" may differ from mine, but nonetheless they think it.
There really is only one logical conclusion. That from somewhere outside of ourselves, from somewhere outside of the human realm as we perceive it, we have been told--right into our hearts--that there is something wrong with us and our world and what that "better way" should be.
I put forth that the only source of such understanding that logically makes sense is God Himself. I have already shown how natural forces and thinking cannot explain it. Some One transendent, beyond us and above us, has to provide this information to us. And it cannot be some impersonal force. Such thinking is highly personal, the ideas of a mind. It must come from our very personal God, our creator, the Lord of Heaven and Earth.
Think about it. Ponder it, and see if in your heart you do not come to the same conclusion.
