I was talking with a coworker last night and somehow we got onto the subject of Christianity. He made a statement that Christianity is here to teach us to have a good moral compass. Since that has little to nothing to do with what Christianity is actually about, I politely disagreed with him and explained what it is actually about. The conversation looked a little like this:

Coworker: “Christianity is good for us because it helps people develop a strong moral compass.”
Me: “Christianity isn’t really about morality, although that is a side-result. If you read the entire Bible from beginning to end and look at it from the context that Jesus came to destroy death, it will make a lot more sense.”
Coworker: “That would be nice if that actually worked, but everyone dies. Entropy can’t be reversed.”
Me: “That’s my point though. The purpose of Christianity is to reverse entropy. Jesus didn’t come to teach moral law, although at times he did discuss it, but to supersede natural laws through divine power. His entire goal was to completely reverse entropy.”
Coworker: “If that’s true, that’s some multidimensional s**t!”
Me: “Yes, that’s exactly what it is.”

For this to make sense, it helps to know what entropy is. According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the word Entropy has a few basic definitions:

“1. The degree of disorder or uncertainty in a system
2. The degradation of the matter and energy in the universe to an ultimate state of inert uniformity and/or a process of degradation or running down or a trend to disorder.”

Ultimately, it means that in regards to the universe we live in, that everything is gradually decaying and degrading into a chaotic mess.

The primary mission of Jesus as expressed in the Bible is actually about destroying death and releasing everyone and everything from the power of death. God warned Adam about it in Genesis 3 quite clearly. John 3:16 states it plainly. Jesus explained his purpose again in John 10:10, and if none of that was clear enough, Paul explained in 1 Corinthians 15 that death was an enemy that will be destroyed, and again in Romans 8 that it is our job to remove the decay from the universe.

Think about it. If entropy is the process of decay and it is our job to wipe out all death, decay, destruction, and loss so that the earth realm functions in the same manner that heaven does, then the gospel empowers us to reverse entropy. I mean, what is raising the dead other than counteracting the laws of death and decay? What is healing the sick or multiplying bread or turning water to wine other than stepping above natural laws to make them function far differently than the failing system of this universe would push them toward? It is clear even in scripture that our universe is headed toward decay, but equally clear is the fact that the gospel is the power of life to those who are perishing, and we have been gifted the power and given the responsibility to reverse that entropic decay once and for all in and through the power of Jesus Christ.

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