{"id":29,"date":"2009-12-23T14:51:46","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T19:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.windowview.org\/wpb\/?p=29"},"modified":"2013-12-31T09:01:16","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T14:01:16","slug":"excise-me-%e2%80%93-but-why-am-i-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.windowview.org\/wpb\/excise-me-%e2%80%93-but-why-am-i-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Excuse Me \u00e2\u20ac\u201c But Why Am I Here?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently I was communicating with an old friend from way back in the high school era. \u00c2\u00a0The joy of finding a long lost person gave way to telling each other our stories \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 where we’ve been, who we ended up with, and lots about what we’d done along the way.<\/p>\n

But Who Are WE?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Invariably the stories run to some kind of end point. \u00c2\u00a0Ah, this is where I am in life. \u00c2\u00a0And when I described how I’d found disappointment in the way some or many persons had treated me in my life’s trek \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I relayed the news that I’d started to ask the big questions in life. \u00c2\u00a0I found myself in a way that began to differentiate who I was compared to the large majority of people. \u00c2\u00a0Does that separation somehow make me the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153odd man out?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00c2\u00a0Or did I find something right and everyone else is on the outside?<\/p>\n

A Night’s Realization<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well here is a test for you. \u00c2\u00a0Have you thought about who you are and about others, only to find yourself putting your head down on a pillow at night, in the silence of the darkness, to realize something kind of freaky. \u00c2\u00a0Like we know we are conscious and that means we are alive. Alive. What is that? And then the big question: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Why is there a me?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Of all possible things \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 there is a universe, there is a planet called Earth, and I am here. \u00c2\u00a0But why? \u00c2\u00a0Out of all the thoughts I have each day \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 why does it strike me as strange that I am alive!<\/p>\n

But then, why are we here? \u00c2\u00a0It really didn’t need to be so.<\/p>\n

The Big Story I Told<\/strong><\/p>\n

In telling my personal story, I noted that at one point in my career I started to ask both scientific and theistic questions. \u00c2\u00a0The answers to the merging issues put an answer to the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Why Am I Here?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00c2\u00a0The answers came over time and as new information from biblical archaeology, from a hard core examination of evolution and how Darwinism has its major issues unaddressed by the majority, how the Bible agrees with a universe that has an origin before which there was no space or time, \u00c2\u00a0new discussions on life revealing evidence for design and thus opening the door to a designer, and studies of Israel and historical events that lead to a forward looking of chronological events that have been and will come according to the biblical text. \u00c2\u00a0Science data revealed another side of the coin of truth. \u00c2\u00a0Remarkable! \u00c2\u00a0The Bible describes what was to come, what came, and what will come in the future ahead. \u00c2\u00a0And we live on that time line, right now!<\/p>\n

So maybe you don’t believe it. \u00c2\u00a0But did you look at any of this? \u00c2\u00a0Did you have that freaky moment late at night that pierces one’s being to ask why you are here? \u00c2\u00a0And what if the scientific data and biblical information really do answer the question?<\/p>\n

WindowView is a product of merging thoughts that go to answer why you are here. \u00c2\u00a0It’s not a mistake, you are meant to be a stranger in a place where you are traveling here, in this space and time, to discover that there is a future \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 an eternal future. \u00c2\u00a0Yeah, that seems strange doesn’t it? \u00c2\u00a0But if it’s true, then why not embrace it and learn more and then be joyed by the fact that there is more to life than the mess we face here! \u00c2\u00a0In this way, the future gets better, not worse. \u00c2\u00a0A look around Earth today we see a lot of confusion. \u00c2\u00a0Why not get beyond the confusion and clear up the view! \u00c2\u00a0If science and theism bring you to a whole truth \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 you may not be in the majority, but at least you’ll know where YOU are headed! \u00c2\u00a0And that answers the question: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Why Am I Here!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Science can really tell us how special life is. \u00c2\u00a0The Bible can tell us more about why we are here. \u00c2\u00a0Together, these two perspectives give us a really wonderful big picture!<\/p>\n

Director, WindowView.org<\/a> <\/FONT><\/p>\n