I am astonished that the world fails to see what seems so evident. We know that systems function better when governed by consistent rules. If even invisible atoms behave predictably under known conditions, I believe that their order points beyond themselves to an unseen realm and, ultimately, to a Supreme Lawgiver who governs it all.

Someone might challenge this reasoning by asking whether the relationship works the other way around: What if humanity is the highest power, determining what occurs in other realms through its actions? Those who interpret existence solely through evolutionary processes might reason this way. Yet if humanity were truly supreme, I would expect human beings to endure rather than live briefly and die. They would have to remain present to account for the mysteries of life and existence that have occupied generations. I believe instead that omnipotence resides in the unseen realm, where science itself reveals immense power, even within the nuclei of the atoms that compose matter. Human power, therefore, is not ultimate; it is derived from a greater invisible order governed by laws under a Supreme Lawgiver, the Creator God.

How deceptive pride can be. Because human beings possess physical form and greater intellectual capacity than other mammals, they may assume the authority to decide how things ought to be while refusing to acknowledge their Creator. Yet people also recognize the wisdom of the saying that “surprise overthrows a strongman.” If the unseen universe possesses the tremendous power we have discovered within it, should we not also consider its capacity to affect the visible world unexpectedly? If a powerful Lawgiver is necessary to account for order in the unseen realm, then the influence of that Lawgiver cannot wisely be ignored. The possibility of a day of reckoning should therefore command serious attention. As the legal principle says, “Ignorance is not an excuse”; law, by its nature, must uphold justice.

The Supreme Lawgiver is therefore justified in one day calling human disobedience to judgment. “Because that, when they knew God, they glorified Him not as God,” neither did they seek to learn and keep His precepts. Just as the boss in the movie reprimanded a subordinate for failing to follow the rules, God will hold humanity to the standards by which people judge others. Although people understand the importance of rules, they may ignore the voice of moral conscience that, in my view, points to a Lawgiver. Instead, their imaginations become vain, and their hearts resist the truth. Yet this is the decisive point: the invisible things of God are clearly perceived through what He has made, so that they are without excuse.