Look! I found a gap in the Bible! – Part 1
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters [Genesis 1:1-2].
When I was a wee little lad, I had this issue that needed to be resolved. If I did something wrong and got caught, I hemmed and hawed, shuffled the feet, and attempted to muddy the waters of truth by mincing words. It was convenient, you see, to leave off essential details, so as to make the case against me not so bad as at first blush might appear. Guess what? It never worked! Adults know what’s what. They see right through such shenanigans.
In this self-styled modern scientific age, there are those adults who mimic my childish shenanigans. They only believe what they can see with their own eyes and touch with their own hands—aka doubting Thomases! Many suchlike rascals bombastically look down the nose at the Bible as a collection of old wives’ tales. Others, though, hold the Bible in reverence—sometimes superstitiously—even while all along clinging to the anti-spiritual asseverations of science falsely so-called.
This presents them with a conundrum. On the one hand they cling to the findings of contemporary geology textbooks, while on the other hand they profess belief in the Bible. The two historically being irreconcilable, they find it necessary to attempt a reconciliation. Truth be told, the Bible and true science are not at odds. The Bible and historical studies by atheists are.
I make reference to the findings of evolution and uniformitarianism, dear friends. These fields of contemporary science don’t begin with a tabula rasa and let the evidence take them where it will. They enter the fray with preconceived predilections.
To them the Bible is wrong, and that long before the investigation even begins. They assert, “There is no such thing as God! The spirit world, life after death, eternity—all such things stem from the fear of half-wit cave men who couldn’t understand the facts like modern scientists can. So these cave men imagined such concepts to explain the world and life and death.”
Do you see how this is circular reasoning, how it begs the question? They assume the truth of what they are supposed to prove, and then they look for corroborating evidence to prove them right. Any evidence which doesn’t fit into this mold, well, let’s just ignore it!
Such an approach is no different than faith, though it is quite different than Biblical faith. Biblical faith is belief in the words of the Bible. The man-made faith of these scientists is belief in their preconceived predilections! They don’t believe in the existence of God, so God doesn’t exist. How’s that for logic, huh? Boy, these guys are good!
We will take up this issue further in our next post. Until then why not spend some time alone with the Lord Jesus. He can teach us quite a bit about this matter.
To further research this issue, I direct you to my book Genesis: Volume 1 of Heavenly Citizens in Earthly Shoes. To purchase my books please go to:
http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B005PJ761C
https://sites.google.com/site/heavenl...
When I was a wee little lad, I had this issue that needed to be resolved. If I did something wrong and got caught, I hemmed and hawed, shuffled the feet, and attempted to muddy the waters of truth by mincing words. It was convenient, you see, to leave off essential details, so as to make the case against me not so bad as at first blush might appear. Guess what? It never worked! Adults know what’s what. They see right through such shenanigans.
In this self-styled modern scientific age, there are those adults who mimic my childish shenanigans. They only believe what they can see with their own eyes and touch with their own hands—aka doubting Thomases! Many suchlike rascals bombastically look down the nose at the Bible as a collection of old wives’ tales. Others, though, hold the Bible in reverence—sometimes superstitiously—even while all along clinging to the anti-spiritual asseverations of science falsely so-called.
This presents them with a conundrum. On the one hand they cling to the findings of contemporary geology textbooks, while on the other hand they profess belief in the Bible. The two historically being irreconcilable, they find it necessary to attempt a reconciliation. Truth be told, the Bible and true science are not at odds. The Bible and historical studies by atheists are.
I make reference to the findings of evolution and uniformitarianism, dear friends. These fields of contemporary science don’t begin with a tabula rasa and let the evidence take them where it will. They enter the fray with preconceived predilections.
To them the Bible is wrong, and that long before the investigation even begins. They assert, “There is no such thing as God! The spirit world, life after death, eternity—all such things stem from the fear of half-wit cave men who couldn’t understand the facts like modern scientists can. So these cave men imagined such concepts to explain the world and life and death.”
Do you see how this is circular reasoning, how it begs the question? They assume the truth of what they are supposed to prove, and then they look for corroborating evidence to prove them right. Any evidence which doesn’t fit into this mold, well, let’s just ignore it!
Such an approach is no different than faith, though it is quite different than Biblical faith. Biblical faith is belief in the words of the Bible. The man-made faith of these scientists is belief in their preconceived predilections! They don’t believe in the existence of God, so God doesn’t exist. How’s that for logic, huh? Boy, these guys are good!
We will take up this issue further in our next post. Until then why not spend some time alone with the Lord Jesus. He can teach us quite a bit about this matter.
To further research this issue, I direct you to my book Genesis: Volume 1 of Heavenly Citizens in Earthly Shoes. To purchase my books please go to:
http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B005PJ761C
https://sites.google.com/site/heavenl...
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