I’m going to wrap up this series on reason why I think God exists.
There will only be on more post after this.
This piece of evidence comes in the form of a baby rabbit.
When I was a kid, my brother and I found a baby rabbit in our backyard.
Somehow, we captured the little guy.
We put him in a box and planned to release him after we raised him to adulthood.
He laid in the box for several hours and didn’t move except for rapid breathing.
We thought he was tired.
We didn’t realize how traumatizing it is for bunnies to be scooped into boxes.
I was staring at him when he suddenly kicked his feet, flipped over…
…and died.
That moment when the bunny stopped breathing profoundly affected me.
One second, the critter was alive.
A half-second later, it was dead.
The bunny body was still intact.
Nothing had changed physically.
All the bones, skin and organs were there in the box.
Everything was still connected.
But something important had gone missing.
The bunny had lost its “life force”.
Call it what you want: a soul, a spirit, an essence…it wasn’t there anymore.
It still fills me with awe to think about it.
The spirit gives life to the body.
It’s not the other way around.
The scripture confirmed what I learned from a dead bunny.
The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you—they are full of the Spirit and life. – John 6:63
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Ah, so sorry about the bunny.
This is kind of gross, but I spent some time working in the wound clinic and was really impacted by how “the spirit gives life.” Our cells are either regenerating constantly or we are decaying. There is no in between. Kind of fascinating too, but the life is in the blood. Lose your blood flow, and you just start decaying. We didn’t understand these things a few thousand years ago and yet, His blood gave us spiritual life, and life abundant.
In ancient days nobody was looking at blood as we do today, well except for Jesus perhaps, because He was talking about it long before we discovered the science behind His words.
My bad about the double comments! I didn’t think the first one published so I put some more thought into my second one, only to find out the first one published after all. Oh well :/
I love seeing your unique arguments for the existence of God, they’re all things I never really considered. However, the thing that got my attention to this post was that my dog hunted down a baby bunny in our yard about 45 minutes before I wrote this. This post (and the untimely murder in my back yard) really got me thinking, if athiests believe animals don’t have souls, then why does it matter so much to vegans and PETA when we kill them? Thanks for the great content you put on here and on the podcast, JB! 😃
This is an excellent argument towards the existence of the soul. I kid you not JB, my dog just was outside and killed a baby bunny about an hour before I wrote this comment. I thought it was grimly ironic that I saw this in my email box after this incident 😂
Evidence is everywhere!
This demonstrates the absurdity of the magic thinking of naturalism. They say that matter is not alive, yet somehow it magically comes alive in a living being.
Silly bunnies. 🙂
Best one yet!!