Deep intimations of our condition and state before God
There is a deep sense from childhood on of being under condemnation. There is also memory of how powerful the depiction of being proclaimed innocent is, whether in court drama or in other depiction such as after army desertion or naval mutiny; i.e. surviving the escape or rebellion in immediate conflict with nature and man is not enough without the final pronouncement of innocence by the law at the end.
This is man's state as a descendent of Adam and living under the condemnation of the law and in need of a Mediator and Saviour to be free of that wrath and condemnation.
We feel this state even as a child when seeing rebellion and mutiny and crime depicted, and even knowing instinctively how the usual common emotions involved play into it (resentment, righteous anger, justifications for the actions taken), emotions taken as noble by fallen man, yet ignoble and of a loser quality to one who knows his true condition and state before God.
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Think of that old movie Man Without a Country.
These emotions, common to all of humanity except for psychopaths, can be explained by evolution (ie. the Third Use of the Law to religious folk, ie. the 'common grace' use as opposed to 'mirror' or 'guide'. If Luther had not bought in to the superstitions of his day, he might have discovered evolution several centuries before Darwin). My only deep sense from childhood, was the horrible perception of annihilation. That there is death and after that it will be as if we never existed. Are you sure you are not running in fear of that?
Your clinging to 'evolution' - hoaxes, disinformation, propaganda, misdirection, bait and switch, institutional bullying, shallow defenders, all included - is a case of you running from what you know in your heart to be true: you have a Creator, and you are in vain and prideful rebellion to him.
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