I was recently asked these questions: “With all the Gods and religions out there, how do you know you are serving the right God?” “How do we even know that there is a God or a Heaven?” “We believe it because it says it in the Bible, but how do we know the Bible truly was inspired by ‘God‘?”
Maybe my answers will be a help and blessing to some here.
The real questions that need to be asked are: ONE: Is there any real absolute truth that you can know? TWO: If so, once you have found it how do you know it is the ABSOLUTE TRUTH? Well, let’s begin. Of course there is absolute truth, irrespective of what some college professor may try and teach you. A couple of examples that come to mind: GRAVITY - don’t believe it? Well if you fall off the roof of your house you will definitely be pulled toward the ground, not toward the sky. NO MATTER WHAT YOU BELIEVE ABOUT IT. How about this: without oxygen over an extended period of time - just several minutes - YOU WILL DIE. What you believe about it won’t change it one iota. Or this: The laws of thermo-dynamics and the laws of bio-genesis are irrefutable. I could go on, but I won’t. I know you get the point.
But for some reason, we get ourselves all tangled up when it comes to spiritual truth. For some reason, we have a tendency to believe that no one can know anything for sure - spiritually speaking. But there are absolutes in the spiritual realm that are more TRUSTWORTHY than the laws of science and biology.
Let’s consider the concept of God. I will try not to be too lengthy, but some things must be stated in order to answer obvious questions. First, it takes no faith to believe in a Creator, no matter what name you choose to call Him by. It is a simple truth, that in order for there to be a creation, there must of NECESSITY be a creator. If something has design, there must be a Designer. Now, you know that. Faith isn’t required when common sense should do. Even small children understand that Christmas presents don’t just appear under the Christmas tree - SOMEONE had to put them there. Every adult knows their cell phone didn’t just appear one day OUT OF NOTHING - someone had to make it after the technology was developed to support it.
Consider this. Evolutionists teach that we originated from primates. Well, even on the surface there is an outstanding flaw to this theory. Recent studies of mitochondrial DNA prove that "Neanderthals" are not our ancestors, but that they were a completely different race altogether. Now, that is a problem for the evolutionists without a solution.
Further, amino acids pose an irreconcilable obstacle for the evolutionary theory. The rate of destruction, of even relatively simple chemical compounds like amino acids - by ultraviolet light or electrical discharges - far exceeds their rate of formation. So if evolution were true, no significant quantity could ever be produced. That seems like a problem for the evolutionists - no?
Here's another interesting fact. Evolutionists claim that, BY CHANCE, proteins and amino acids were formed. Well, the probability of a protein with only 50 amino acids forming by chance would be 1 out of 10 to the 65th power. In layman's language, that’s ten with sixty-five zeroes after it, to one. (Some odds. I wouldn’t take those odds in Vegas, would you? But people take them with their everlasting soul. Go figure.) And that's just one protein! Any idea how many proteins are in the human body?
One more thought for now. DNA and RNA are required to produce protein enzymes, but protein enzymes are required to produce DNA and RNA. So, then, which evolved first? One can't exist without the other. The truth is, trying to construct any kind of belief system, ideology, science, or religion that doesn’t recognize the Creator God poses a hundredfold more questions than it answers!
But what about that BIBLE? Well, no question, the Bible is the greatest of all books. It is, by far, the most widely read book in the world. And it is not just a book on religion, or theology, or any other such thing. Even though the principles of scripture can be - and are to be - applied in every area of life, the Bible is actually a book of God’s REVELATION of Himself, and how He has worked, and will continue to work, throughout the history of mankind.
Now, understand, TRUE REVELATION is best defined as that process by which God reveals to mankind things which, at the time, mankind would otherwise be unable to discover on his own. Allow me to illustrate. Moses wrote accounts of events that took place “in the beginning” - see Genesis chapter 1. Events occurring centuries before Moses’ birth. Events to which there were no eyewitnesses. Events to which no human discovery could have been possible at that time. Events of which human science then had no knowledge. You’ll find one example of this in Genesis 1:11,12,21,24,25 where you will notice the statement “after his kind” which is a fact of genetic reproduction not discovered by man’s science until the 16<SUP>th</SUP> Century A.D., by Gregor Mendel. The Book of Genesis was written approximately 1500 B.C. That’s 3,100 years! There is only one possible explanation. Only God could have revealed these things to Moses, as God was the only Witness!
The Bible is literally FILLED with this kind of REVELATION for which no human explanation can be made! The Bible is indeed God’s revelation to mankind. The PROOF is clear, abundant and irrefutable. And the proof is there for YOU that you might believe.
I hope these brief comments may be a blessing to someone who has yet to be exposed to these kinds of answers to common questions. GOD BLESS. Doc
Maybe my answers will be a help and blessing to some here.
The real questions that need to be asked are: ONE: Is there any real absolute truth that you can know? TWO: If so, once you have found it how do you know it is the ABSOLUTE TRUTH? Well, let’s begin. Of course there is absolute truth, irrespective of what some college professor may try and teach you. A couple of examples that come to mind: GRAVITY - don’t believe it? Well if you fall off the roof of your house you will definitely be pulled toward the ground, not toward the sky. NO MATTER WHAT YOU BELIEVE ABOUT IT. How about this: without oxygen over an extended period of time - just several minutes - YOU WILL DIE. What you believe about it won’t change it one iota. Or this: The laws of thermo-dynamics and the laws of bio-genesis are irrefutable. I could go on, but I won’t. I know you get the point.
But for some reason, we get ourselves all tangled up when it comes to spiritual truth. For some reason, we have a tendency to believe that no one can know anything for sure - spiritually speaking. But there are absolutes in the spiritual realm that are more TRUSTWORTHY than the laws of science and biology.
Let’s consider the concept of God. I will try not to be too lengthy, but some things must be stated in order to answer obvious questions. First, it takes no faith to believe in a Creator, no matter what name you choose to call Him by. It is a simple truth, that in order for there to be a creation, there must of NECESSITY be a creator. If something has design, there must be a Designer. Now, you know that. Faith isn’t required when common sense should do. Even small children understand that Christmas presents don’t just appear under the Christmas tree - SOMEONE had to put them there. Every adult knows their cell phone didn’t just appear one day OUT OF NOTHING - someone had to make it after the technology was developed to support it.
Consider this. Evolutionists teach that we originated from primates. Well, even on the surface there is an outstanding flaw to this theory. Recent studies of mitochondrial DNA prove that "Neanderthals" are not our ancestors, but that they were a completely different race altogether. Now, that is a problem for the evolutionists without a solution.
Further, amino acids pose an irreconcilable obstacle for the evolutionary theory. The rate of destruction, of even relatively simple chemical compounds like amino acids - by ultraviolet light or electrical discharges - far exceeds their rate of formation. So if evolution were true, no significant quantity could ever be produced. That seems like a problem for the evolutionists - no?
Here's another interesting fact. Evolutionists claim that, BY CHANCE, proteins and amino acids were formed. Well, the probability of a protein with only 50 amino acids forming by chance would be 1 out of 10 to the 65th power. In layman's language, that’s ten with sixty-five zeroes after it, to one. (Some odds. I wouldn’t take those odds in Vegas, would you? But people take them with their everlasting soul. Go figure.) And that's just one protein! Any idea how many proteins are in the human body?
One more thought for now. DNA and RNA are required to produce protein enzymes, but protein enzymes are required to produce DNA and RNA. So, then, which evolved first? One can't exist without the other. The truth is, trying to construct any kind of belief system, ideology, science, or religion that doesn’t recognize the Creator God poses a hundredfold more questions than it answers!
But what about that BIBLE? Well, no question, the Bible is the greatest of all books. It is, by far, the most widely read book in the world. And it is not just a book on religion, or theology, or any other such thing. Even though the principles of scripture can be - and are to be - applied in every area of life, the Bible is actually a book of God’s REVELATION of Himself, and how He has worked, and will continue to work, throughout the history of mankind.
Now, understand, TRUE REVELATION is best defined as that process by which God reveals to mankind things which, at the time, mankind would otherwise be unable to discover on his own. Allow me to illustrate. Moses wrote accounts of events that took place “in the beginning” - see Genesis chapter 1. Events occurring centuries before Moses’ birth. Events to which there were no eyewitnesses. Events to which no human discovery could have been possible at that time. Events of which human science then had no knowledge. You’ll find one example of this in Genesis 1:11,12,21,24,25 where you will notice the statement “after his kind” which is a fact of genetic reproduction not discovered by man’s science until the 16<SUP>th</SUP> Century A.D., by Gregor Mendel. The Book of Genesis was written approximately 1500 B.C. That’s 3,100 years! There is only one possible explanation. Only God could have revealed these things to Moses, as God was the only Witness!
The Bible is literally FILLED with this kind of REVELATION for which no human explanation can be made! The Bible is indeed God’s revelation to mankind. The PROOF is clear, abundant and irrefutable. And the proof is there for YOU that you might believe.
I hope these brief comments may be a blessing to someone who has yet to be exposed to these kinds of answers to common questions. GOD BLESS. Doc
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