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ISSUE THREE | NOV/DEC
re-defining
LIFE

WHAT IT WAS MEANT TO BE

By Samuel Phillips

urely, a whole lot is
going on in our world.
Things unimaginable
are taking place all
around the globe.
SThings that will
make a normal thinking person cycle is much stronger, howbeit, bring out a few tips from the Bible
believe that being normal or just in this generation. It will be a just to make my point about life
being human is now no longer the major breakthrough if somehow clearer. Below are a few scriptures
way to live. From various sexual someone will just pause and ask to help create a context about how
orientations that have left many “what is life really?” I think it’s time our lives began. I do not believe
confused, to violence, drug abuse, we all take time out to ask and in some magical big bang theory
prostitution, pedophiles taking also get a clear definition of what creating our earth, but I do believe
pride in their horrible activities life really is and whose plan it is in the “Big Bang” sound of God,
and the various unkind policies for us to be here. I want to believe whose voice brought all things to
governments of nations are putting you didn’t think being here was a be in the beginning.
in place for their citizens, which coincidence or as some foolish In the beginning was the Word, and
don’t even make any sense, let mind of man calls our being here a the Word was with God, and the
alone cut some level of wisdom. result of some big bang stuff. That Word was God… All things were
Life has become so tensed up to doesn’t make sense. For instance, made through Him, and without
the point that if something is not if the car I am driving was created, Him nothing was made that was
done quickly, or if a new narrative is built by a thinking mind and not made. In Him was life, and the life
not propagated, all of these things some big bang, then why should I was the light of men. And the light
that man has built will implode and who is driving the car that was built shines in the darkness, and the
explode in ways that nothing can by someone now be a result of a darkness did not comprehend it.
be gathered again. big bang? Wisdom is profitable to John 1:1‭, ‬3‭-‬5 NKJV
Many have come to the point direct and foolishness has a face, “You are worthy, O Lord, To receive
where life no longer has a clear we just have to look at it and see it glory and honor and power; For
definition outside of being born, for what it is. You created all things, And by Your
go to school, graduate in some will they exist and were created.”
field depending on the fantasy ORIGIN OF LIFE Revelation 4:11 NKJV
life you have in mind or what you Life didn’t just begin from some From both scriptures, we clearly
intend to do with life, get married,
fancy breakage of atoms and see that life is not a coincidence,
have children, keep some money molecules or whatever the big but a deliberate creation by a
for retirement and then when the bang theory told us. That theory deliberate God for a deliberate
heart has overworked itself over doesn’t even make sense. I believe purpose in a deliberate people.
many years of futility and the chase there are people that are reading God made man and all things
for money, it gives up and rest in
the words of this article who may for Himself. Meaning the actual
peace becomes the next title. So not be Christians and so they meaning or purpose of life cannot
it’s a cycle of the same things over may not necessarily accept the be outside of the One who made
many generations, but especially teachings of the Christian Bible. I it and gave it to us. Period! Jesus
the last two generations. This respect that, but I will nonetheless came to model this reality for us
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