They’re Just Accidents

What happens when you raise your child to believe that they are nothing but a mistake, nothing but an accident with no hope in sight?  What is the result when you take away their uniqueness and purpose all because you took away their God?  In last week’s article I mentioned that suicide was the third leading cause of death amongst children between the ages of 10-14.  A 16 year old young man wrote an oral presentation about creationism verses evolution.  I listened to this young man talk passionately about his journey to decide which argument comes close to the truth in how he came into existence.

After he had intelligently explained what evolution was—the belief that we were created out of nothing from nothing–he then went on to speak of God’s account of creating this world.  This young man articulated enough to explain that the nonsense behind evolution would be seen as pure foolishness if someone brought that theory in this day and age.  It was in this oral presentation that he strayed away from facts and made personal statements that left me so speechless that I wanted to cry.   I asked him if he would allow me to write his words in my article because it went along with what we had been talking about here.

What’s The Point of Everything?

It starts off…

“Despite the evidence, which points to a creator, atheist say that the big bang event occurred by chance.  They say that in an empty void a giant explosion, by chance occurred, created the sun, planets, and our earth, which just happened to be perfect for life.  No one made the explosion, no one directed its path, or ordered it to make life, it just happened…When I hear scientist avidly fight to prove evolution and enforce evolution on students, it greatly disturbs me.  I want you to think about these statistics from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.  Suicide is the 10^th leading cause of death in the US, on average there are 121 suicides per day, each year 44,193 suicides occur each year, and for each suicide there are 25 ATTEMPTED suicides—that comes up to 1,104,825 people that are so bent on killing themselves that they take action EVERY YEAR!!  This greatly saddens me and angers me because we are being taught in schools that we are nothing more than a common animal, that our lives are equal to the common goldfish that dies in a fish bowl or the ant under our shoes, to the rats in the sewers eating garbage.  They say that our lives were accidents and that we don’t matter, that it matters very little whether we live or die.  If that is all true then what’s the point?  What is the point of everything?”

Can I just stop here… this paragraph was written by my own son, Joey.  I am so emotional at the way I almost allowed this filthy, nasty, wicked, backstabbing, lying world to define my child’s worth.  My heart is beating out of my chest.  This world is stealing the life from our kids and we are sitting back and letting them!! “If evolution is all true then what’s the point?”  You tell me!! Why not kill yourself or encourage others to commit suicide when life is going wrong—we are basically saying that to our children in our own way.

A few months ago I spoke to Joey and his sister Rachel one day.  I asked them a question that leaves any parent holding their breath till the answer is given: Have you ever thought of committing suicide?  To my surprised they said yes.  They didn’t think of it cause they hated their life, but after watching things in the news and hearing the horrific behavior of humans, they thought about it only in the perspective of: What is the purpose of going through all this?  They said they would never do anything; however if they could choose, they would rather go to heaven and leave this world then to live a life purposeless.

I know my husband and I have done the best we can to show them love and tell them that they are special, still even with all of that, there is still a small desire not to be here.  What in the world would my children be going through if I allowed them to embrace the idea of no God and their existence was just a mistake?  Let’s see what else Joey says.

“What does it matter if we die of starvation, steal or kill?   What does it matter if we rape, abuse or murder?  What does it matter if we build better technology, cure cancer, or have world peace if in the end, when we die, we just wander in a lifeless void?  The attack on Las Vegas was terrible, but if evolution is right and there is no God or life after death isn’t real, then it doesn’t matter, right?  We are disgusted by Hitler’s attack on the Jews, but with evolution it’s no different than an anteater killing 3500 ants.”

Is he wrong?  Why are we so upset about the loss of life when there is no purpose for living?  The accepting of this teaching and that there is not God is confusing to the way we live.  It makes no sense to enforce goodness, success and retaining of knowledge when our lives are mistakes; an accident with no real purpose. Why do we get upset when someone’s life is taken?  Why are we trying to preserve life?  Why are we so heartbroken when there is a bombing in Paris, or a hurricane in Puerto Rico?  According to evolutionist teaching, it’s natural selection.

Is There Any Hope?

Let’s read the rest of this oral report

“All of this is a lie!  We are created for a purpose, deliberately and carefully. DNA is proof of that.  DNA is one of the most complex things in the universe.  It is found in birds, grass, trees, cats , dogs and human beings.  It is the story of you.  What your personality will be like, what color hair, eyes and skin you would have.  We are all miracles, handcrafted by the Most High and he has a plan for each one of us.  The eye is one of the most advanced technologies, allowing us to see the beauty of creation.  That does not just happen by chance.  We are not accidents, we are not monkeys, we are children of God.  The world just refuses to accept the truth because they want to stay in their sin.  They do not want to step into the light because they are afraid that their evil will be exposed and that what is done in the darkness (secret) will be seen.  Our lives matter and God loves us the way we are, imperfections and all.  The Bible says God knew us while we were in our mother’s womb and that he openly invited us to be apart of His family.  So what will you choose to believe?  That you were created deliberately and with a purpose or that you were made by accident with no hope?”

I don’t know if you are a parent who never thought too much about the effects evolutional thinking from your child, but I would like for you to think about it for a second.  If we instill in our children the importance of education and we leave them to believe that what they are learning in school is correct, how do we now take them to church and give them a totally different message when it comes to how and why we are here?  Parents we have to be diligent to reeducate our children.  We must not leave the spiritual education of our children to the lies of this world.

We must whisper their purpose while they sleep.  We must write their purpose down and make it plain.  We must remind them of their purpose when they forget.  We must scream their purpose to the world when they try to silence it.

Weekly Challenge:

Read this verse Habakkuk 2:2-3

And then God answered: “Write this.
    Write what you see.
Write it out in big block letters
    so that it can be read on the run.
This vision-message is a witness
    pointing to what’s coming.
It aches for the coming—it can hardly wait!
    And it doesn’t lie.
If it seems slow in coming, wait.
    It’s on its way. It will come right on time.

Allow God to give you a vision for your children. Write it down.  Make it plain so that when they read it, it will be plain.  Allow it to come at his time.  Be patient, wait for it.

Also I encourage you to purchase Tony Evan’s book, “Raising Kingdom Kids.”  We must remember what our kids are called to and this book helps us in that.  If you need additional help please contact us.  Follow us on Facebook and Instagram @throughthewinters.