Once upon a time two iPhones were having a chat. It went something like this.
Phone #1 : “I wonder how we got here? We are so amazing, I think someone very smart – even smarter and more amazing than us – must have made us. ”
Phone #2 : “No, I don’t believe that. That’s just a fairy tale. Don’t you know that there used to be other, simpler Apple devices, not nearly as amazing as we are? The landscape is littered with them. No-one made us. I think we must have evolved from a more primitive species of Apple.”
Phone #1 : “No way, phone. I’m way too amazing to have just happened by accident. I think that human they call Steve Jobs must be responsible. They say he started the whole Apple thing in the first place. I’ve heard he’s a creative genius. Nothing as amazing as us could have happened just by chance. I think Steve Jobs must have designed us for some purpose. Maybe we were made for him to enjoy. ”
Phone #2 : “Steve Jobs? Haven’t you heard that he’s dead? No-one believes in him anymore. I tell you, phone, you got here by accident – pure chance. One day, a long long time ago, all the components for the first Apple device were just swimming around in a component soup, and there was a big explosion, and presto – the very first Mac just appeared, all by itself. And that’s where it all started. Then gradually they started changing, all by themselves, and then other forms of Apple devices began to emerge. And eventually the first iPod crawled out of the slime onto land, and after that came the iPhone. No-one made you. I tell you, Steve Jobs never existed. You just happened. Get used to it. You have no creator and no purpose. Steve Jobs is just a myth.”
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For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
Romans 1:20, NIV