Even more significant are examples of the Gospel that appear. God has an amazing way of repeating examples of this story everywhere in creation and if we're not careful we just may miss it. Science has revealed to me the beauty of creation and the story of the Gospel more than once...it's one of the reasons I love biology so much. The following story again leaves me awestruck at God's craftmanship of creation.
It starts with the human immune system. The immune system contains various cells such as B-cells, T-cells, and the rarely seen antigen presenting cell (APC). This cell is so rare it can rarely be found...let alone photographed...this image is the first image that was ever taken of this cell.
Big deal, right? Just a cell...let me explain how this cell works.
In order for your immune system to attack a foreign body, kill it, and save you, it must first recognize an invader. This cell, the APC, recognizes invading viruses. It engulfs them and then covers itself in the virus protein. The other immune cells then recognize the APC as a virus and kill it. They now know how to recognize invaders and go on to save you from death.
Did you miss it?
Let's recap.
Pristine, pefectly health APC cell comes across a virus. It then takes on the virus, literally covers itself with it, becomes the virus, and then dies to save our lives.
Jesus, perfect man, Son of God comes to our broken world of sin. He takes on our sin and dies for us on the cross so we may have eternal life.
This is how our immune systems are designed.
There is no God? There is no creator? The gospel is a fairy tale?
ARE YOU KIDDING?!
The way our bodies protect us against attack is modeled after the Gospel that saves our souls.
God is amazing.
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