What Kind of Purpose and Meaning Does Your "Origin" Provide? Proverbs 8:32-33

“Now therefore, O sons, listen to me, For blessed are they who keep my ways. “Heed instruction and be wise, And do not neglect it.    Proverbs 8:32-33

After wisdom has spoken to us about all that God has done and how wisdom has not only watched creation, but God created manifesting that very wisdom in all that He made - now God makes an appeal that we walk by wisdom.  Since we have compared God's wisdom to the thinking and mindset involved in evolutionary therory - we will once again compare the way this worldview and philosophy compares to that of God's wisdom as well in the conclusions we come to at the end of this chapter of Proverbs. 

Wisdom offers an exhortation, through the father, to his sons.  Just a quick hit here, dads.  It matters what you believe about origins.  It matters what you teach your sons - and it matters what philosophy they wind up seeing life through as they live their lives.  If you have the wrong view of origins - you will wind up with a philosophy of life founded on false precepts.  This in turn will lead you and your sons to make bad decisions in life.  Wisdom says through the father that the ones who keep the ways of wisdom will be blessed.  They will have a wise foundation which in turn will lead to a blessed way of life. 

God tells us that this world is NOT an accident.  It is His creation – and it functions according to laws that He has set in place.  He then revealed Himself to His creation and gave them His Word.  This revelation of Himself gives us the purpose for which we are to live – and very specific morals which we are to embrace.  We are made for God’s glory – and His pleasure.  Therefore we have a very strong purpose in life.  We know that the answers are going to be found in God’s revelation of Himself in the Bible.  We know that we are made for God’s glory – and that when we live for His glory our lives will be filled with meaning and purpose.  That is why God can say to us that we need to listen to Wisdom – heed God’s instruction – and keep God’s ways.  When we do – we will be blessed.

The other option is that of evolutionary theory.  The enlightened ones in the scientific area who hold to this view get very offended when we press them on the ramifications of what this view means philosophically.  They want to tout their superior education which has brought us such so-called scientific enlightenment on matters concerning the origin of the earth and space.  The problem is that their pseudo-science makes for horrible philosophy and absolutely no reason to live.  Let’s explore why this is so.

One’s origin matters – because it tells us much about what purpose there is for that person.  Purposeful origin means a life filled with purpose.  But an origin that is chalked up to pure accident and utterly random chances does not make for a pleasant ride when it comes to a philosophy of life.  The reason Christianity has morals and purposes is because God, Who created us, gave them to us in His revelation of Himself (which also contains the revelation of our origin – which is Him).  But what purpose is there for a being – or a world – that happened due to completely random chance?  Actually, there is no meaning or purpose in such a situation.  Philosophically – you wind up with Nilhism – if you are going to be philosophically honest.  If you try to account for some moral code – or some purpose in that world – you are fudging.  There are no morals in a purely Darwinian world.  There is no purpose for a purely Darwinian world.  You are left with no reason for existing – no reason for living – and no basis upon which to conclude that a moral code exists.  You are left with the survival of the fittest.  You are left with a motivation for pure survivalism.  Therefore whatever will make for the survival of your species – DO IT!  If a race or a group is in danger of polluting the gene pool – exterminate it.  To leave it in tact makes no sense whatsoever if you are wanting to advance the evolution of your species.  Therefore – according to evolutionary thinking and the honest philosophy that comes out of it – Hitler was doing the world a favor in exterminating the Jews – especially if, as he said, they were an inferior race.  Any kind of code by which someone should live, that goes against the ultimate survival and advance of your genetics to the next level – should be soundly rejected.  This is HONEST philosophy according to an evolutionary view of origins – and it really ticks off the evolutionist to face it.  But the truth is the truth.

This is why issues about our origin are important.  They can determine how we live – and whether we have any meaning or purpose as we do.  To ignore these things is to ignore the happiness that can be ours when we know the truth.  Our other option is to admit that there is NO truth – at least upon which to build a worldview and its subsequent moral code by which one lives.  There is only random emptiness and a dark void where things like meaning and purpose are not only rejected – they just do not exist.