The sudden appearance of the highly sophisticated and complex information contained in the life-script of Abraham, created the novel and innovative concept of God displacing our plans with His higher ways and thinking through a new and different life-script inserted into our lives.
This can accurately be called the Abraham Explosion in relation to the similar occurrence 535-million years ago in the natural world during the Cambrian Explosion.
These two events are similar in that they represent a top-down, actualized manifestation of complex information having functional coherence[1] coming suddenly into existence in a moment of time without evolutionary, gradual progression.
An Abraham Explosion could not occur in a past geological era through pre-humans living hundreds of thousands of years ago, because fully mature human beings are the only known living organisms that possess the capacity for modern intellectual and moral reasoning (Gen. 1:26).
Like the coordinated ensemble of biodiversity and ecology to be in-place to receive the new creatures coming into existence at the Cambrian Explosion, human beings needed the broad array of moral concepts to be in-place for the Abraham Explosion to actualize.
Like the need for there to be an atmosphere of nitrogen and oxygen to be in-place for flight to occur, the incredible environment of right and wrong, truth and error, and the consequences of our actions must be in-place for a biblical-quality journey of faith to be possible.
The fact that there are no transitional, intermediate life-stories leading-up in human history as precursors to the Abraham Explosion, dovetails seamlessly with the same reality that occurred 535 million years ago at the immergence of complex life-forms.
One key end-point outcome of a journey of faith following God for Old Testament Jews and for New Testament Christians in the early church and today, is that we are supposed to be able to look back in reflection at some point in time, about the course and direction of our lives.
We should be able to say in hindsight: “God knew what He was doing in guiding and directing my life, better than I could possibly have known about or orchestrated on my own. He led me through a narrow path that was right and correct, in a way I could not have foreseen or anticipated ahead of time.”
This concept is categorically different from human fiction-writing.
The suspense-filled story endings for Jack Ryan, Jason Bourne, Jack Reacher, James Bond, Tom Sawyer, Elizabeth Bennett, and even for Sidney Carton in Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities are that they knew what they were doing, that theyresolved their particular conflict through human ingenuity, persistence, technology, and the application of their unique talents or their unique positions at the time.
The Bible is the only work of literature in all of history that has stories with endings that resolve with the realization that God knew and knows what He is doing.
[1] Undeniable: How Biology Confirms Our Intuition That Life is Designed (with Dr. Douglas Axe), published Nov. 26, 2016 by Apologetics Academy on You Tube.
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