Sacred Order

[Timothy J. Keller]

“How did you start? Did a creator—a personal creator—design you, or are you an accidental collocation of atoms? Are you just an accident? Which is it? Now, depending on what you believe, will totally determine the way you go about working through your problems. Unless you know whether you’ve started—your alpha point was just chance and accident or a personal creator, you won’t even understand life, and you won’t even know yourself enough to know how to proceed. Don’t you see? If you start with yourself; If you refuse to get out of yourself and see your context... What is your context? Did those gases solidify on their own eons ago, or have you been created by a personal designer? The Bible says he is the alpha. Start with him; other things make sense. Start with him and you’ll find yourself.”