All things are created and designed to operate a certain way i.e. according to their design. This is in fact why the scientific method works; most things are predictable, measurable, and reliable (though also broken and dying). If there was no design there would be zero consistency or predictability with anything. Everything would be chaos i.e. without order.
Yes, there are still mysteries but not everything is a mystery. Certain things operate like clockwork e.g. the earth rotating every day, the sun being the same distance from the earth. The seasons change every year, etc.
If there is design it stands to reason there is a Designer. No one thinks a relatively complex device such as an old-school pocket watch came into existence on its own. How much less an intricately and vastly more complex living being such as a human?
Yet contrary to logic, we seem obsessed with a desire to remove God from the discussion - and life in general. So much so that many of the ideas promoted and believed by so-called experts are actually very illogical.
This indicates that a purely materialistic view of the world is rooted in rebellious unbelief, not reason. In many instances, we often are better off relying on common sense and simply observing the ebb and flow of things instead of the so-called "experts."
When we acknowledge there is a Designer, then it's only reasonable to conclude there is a purpose for that design (i.e. things are created for a reason esthetically and practically). And if there is a purpose, then there is meaning to the existence of that which is designed. God designed things to operate a certain way, just as a watch has a reason for its design and existence.Christ stepped into this broken world of rebellious humanity, which violates His design. He took the ¹harm, destruction, and pain caused by this violation upon himself, allowing it to kill him (violation of design always has harmful consequences to someone, whether it us and others). He did this so we might ultimately be delivered from the consequences of this violation, with the harm, destruction, and breakdown that always occurs when things don't operate according to their design.
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