Love, the most important quality or attribute in the universe, is invisible, inaudible, intangible, and unweighable. Love is “a strong affection for or attachment or devotion to a person or persons” (Webster). Webster defines his word “affection” as a “fond or tender feeling; warm liking, as the affection of a parent for a child.”

What is the source of love? Life is real and love is real. Is it sensible to say that life and love are accidents? How absurd! It is sensible to say that the Creator of life and love is alive and loving. One who believes in God has no trouble explaining the existence of life and love. But an evolutionist, yoked with a “survival-of-the-fittest” doctrine, is helpless if he tries to explain the origin of life and love. Evolutionist Thomas Huxley was very honest in admitting he did not know how beautiful scenery and music arrived in this world. He wrote:

“One thing that weighs with me against pessimism and tells for a benevolent author of the universe is my enjoyment of scenery and music. I do not see how they can have helped in the struggle for existence. They are gratuitous gifts.” [Darwinism, p. 478]

The Royal Law

Jesus said that the second greatest command is “you shall love your neighbor as yourself” (Mat. 22:39), and James called it “the royal law” (Jam. 2:8). When a certain lawyer asked Jesus “Who is my neighbor?” (Luke 10:29), the Master Teacher told the Jewish lawyer about the good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37), from which we learn that a neighbor in God’s eyes is not simply a fellow Jew, but any human being. He is not “someone who should help me when I am in trouble.”

Peter told Cornelius that God had shown him in a

vision "that I should not call any man (person) common or unclean” (Acts 10:28). Peter had overlooked the fact that every human being is created in “the image of God” (Jam. 3:9) and has an eternal soul (Mat. 10:28), and is precious in the Lord’s eyes (Luke 15:7).

A Filipino surgeon was beginning an operation on a Filipino man. As he spread Mercurochrome on the patient’s stomach, he said to the man’s friend (who had been invited to the operating room), “Just as soon as I cut, and pull back this man’s dark skin, you will see that we are all alike on the inside.” Apparently the doctor believed that all humans are one, and Paul agreed with him, saying that Adam was “the first man” (1 Cor. 15:45), and that God “has made from one every nation of men {mankind}” (Acts 17:26).

Some Greek manuscripts (D of the 6th century, E of the 8th century, and others) say that God “has made from one blood every nation of men” (Acts 17:26). A visitor to the FBI headquarters in Washington, asked if analysts could differentiate by blood tests, people of one nation from people of a different nation. He was told that animal blood differs from human blood, but that the blood of human beings is the same the world around. Therefore all people are of one creation, and all of them are neighbors to Christians. Jesus used the royal law to show Christians that if they give special attention to “a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothes,” and neglect “a poor man in shabby clothing,” they are showing “partiality,” and are “committing sin, and are condemned by the law as transgressors” (Jam. 2:2, 9). Survival of the fittest, and evolution, say just the opposite. Love could not have evolved, it came from God.

Hugo McCord
Portland, OR.