Would the reader like to hear a story?
A story which pretends that the goals of Satan (death, deprivation, destruction) are an irresistible force of the universe?
A story which portrays the workers of iniquity–indeed ANY and ALL–who struggle against this force to be heroic?
The story is about ENTROPY.
noun. en·tro·py|ˈen-trə-pē | the degradation of the matter and energy in the universe to an ultimate state of inert uniformity
“The most basic human impulse is toward entropy and laziness. The less we have to do to grow spiritually, the more likely we are to do it.”
—Alexandra Fuller
“Entropy is the general trend of the universe toward death and disorder.”
—James R. Newman
Because The Story of Entropy is a story of man: occasionally it has something added to it; occasionally it has something taken away.
“We all behave like Maxwell’s demon. Organisms organize… It would be absurd to attempt a thermodynamic accounting for such processes, but it is not absurd to say we are reducing entropy, piece by piece. Bit by bit. The original demon, discerning one molecules at a time, distinguishing fast from slow, and operating his little gateway, is sometimes described as “superintelligent,” but compared to a real organism it is an idiot savant. Not only do living things lessen the disorder in their environments; they are in themselves, their skeletons and their flesh, vesicles and membranes, shells and carapaces, leaves and blossoms, circulatory systems and metabolic pathways – miracles of pattern and structure. It sometimes seems as if curbing entropy is our quixotic purpose in the universe.”
—James Gleick
“Everything that comes together falls apart. Everything. The chair I’m sitting on. It was built, and so it will fall apart. I’m gonna fall apart, probably before this chair. And you’re gonna fall apart. The cells and organs and systems that make you you—they came together, grew together, and so must fall apart. The Buddha knew one thing science didn’t prove for millennia after his death: Entropy increases. Things fall apart.”
—John Green
“Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.”
—Yevgeny Zamyatin
“The minute those two little particles inside a woman’s womb have joined together, billions of decisions have been made. A thing like that has to come from entropy.”
—Rex Stout
“Nature’s Compensation: Entropy – The [second] law that entropy always increases, holds, I think, the supreme position among the laws of Nature. … if your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I can give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.”
—Arthur Eddington
“Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.”
—Vaclav Havel
“The fact that you can remember yesterday but not tomorrow is because of entropy. The fact that you’re always born young and then you grow older, and not the other way around like Benjamin Button – it’s all because of entropy. So I think that entropy is underappreciated as something that has a crucial role in how we go through life.”
—Sean M. Carroll
“No structure, even an artificial one, enjoys the process of entropy. It is the ultimate fate of everything, and everything resists it.”
—Philip K. Dick
Like all stories of man, The Story of Entropy challenges the Word of God.
And, what does the Word of God say about this impersonal, inevitable force that is entropy?
“There are many devices in a man’s heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.”
–Proverbs 19:21
“For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.”
–Isaiah 55:10-11
“For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.”
–1CORINTHIANS 14:33
“But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased.”
–Psalm 115:3
SO, the next time the reader hears someone repeating a superstition such as “entropy“, just remember:
It is only just another story of man.
“The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand”
–Isaiah 14:24
DOES the reader believe that his life is governed by many invisible, irresistible forces?
It is not YET too late: there is still time to change direction (repent), place your faith (hope) for the future entirely on Jesus Christ and enter the kingdom of heaven.
DOES the reader believe he is saved?
Make Your Calling and Election Sure: End Times Survival
DOES the reader believe he is NOT saved?
Time is Running Out: Today is the Day of Salvation
- Gospel of Jesus Christ: Making a Choice
- The Gospel of Jesus Christ
- Gospel of Jesus Christ: The Power of God Unto Salvation
- Gospel of Jesus Christ: The End Times Power of God Unleashed
THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST
“Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve: After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep. After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles. And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time. ”
–1 Corinthians 15:1-8
“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.”
-–Romans 1:16
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