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Challenges to God's Version of History (Creation, the Flood, Age of the Earth, Dinosaurs)
How can we know anything about anythingTo try to explain truth to him who loves it not is but to give him more plentiful material for misinterpretation. George Macdonald Do we have to make a choice between science and the Bible? NO! That is NOT where the problem is, but that is what everyone seems to want to talk about. Take science as an example. How can we know anything about the created material world around us? How can we know anything from what we can see using natural sciences? We all see the same things in the material world, but we don't come to the same answers. Why is that? How can we know anything about the Bible and what it teaches? Every person believes different things about the Bible and how it should be read. Why is that? Same scientific facts. Different answers. Same Bible. Different answers. Why is that? The true question is this: How do we come to our answers that we get from what we can see through science or what we can read in the Bible? How do we think about what we see using science or what we read in the Bible? How do we analyze what we have seen and read? How do we interpret what we have seen and read? We use logic, but logic always has a foundation. Jesus talked about building on the Rock. That Rock is Jesus Christ. He is the true foundation. There are also the false foundations of the ungodly. An example might help. Question: Why do you believe in evolution? Answer: Because my science teacher told me that evolution is scientific fact. Question: Why do you believe your science teacher? Answer: because he agrees with the textbook he assigned us to read. Now, we have asked, "Why?" twice. If we continued to ask, "Why?" we would come down to the foundation of this person's thoughts. When we get down to the foundations, there are no more questions that can be answered. So where to the foundations come from? There are three possibilities.
Question: Why do you believe in creation? Answer: Because God revealed this to me. He spoke to me through the Bible and gave me His faith so that I could believe Him. See how quickly we got to the foundation. This is a belief that has a foundation that is solid and that cannot be moved. In reality, the things that we make up, that are pulled from the air, are actually from demons and all the lies of demons spring from the prince of demons, Satan. So these are one and the same. Divine revelation comes from the Almighty, Creator, God, Jesus Christ. So there are only two choices, but how do we know there are only two choices? Because God has revealed this truth to us. The question then is how do we tell the difference between the revelation that comes from God and the lies of Satan? The answer is that everyone who sincerely wants to do the will of God will know. Jesus said, "If you really want to obey God, you will know if what I teach comes from God or from me" The rejection of the revelation that comes from God is not an intellectual problem. It is a moral problem. Jesus said, "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you: For everyone who asks receives; and he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks it shall be opened." Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to those who ask him? Matthew 7:7-11 You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. You can set the truth before someone, but you can't make anyone believe those things that they don't want to submit to. They have to want to obey God. How frequently it is brought to our attention that nothing good can be done if the will is wrong! Reason alone fails to justify itself. Richard M. Weaver Jesus said, "You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free" (John 8:32) "If we are not prepared to buy the truth at the cost of our own humbling we shall not receive it" Lies appear to have no price upon them. They seem cheap and they abound everywhere. But for the truth there is always an obvious price to pay. "[God] has set a day when He will judge all the world's people with fairness. And He has chosen the man Jesus to do the judging for Him. God has given proof of this to all of us by raising Jesus from death" (Acts 17:31). "There is a judge for the one who rejects Me [Jesus] and does not accept My words; that very word which I spoke will condemn him at the last day" (John 12:48) That also stands for every person who speaks the utterances of Jesus. When we hear them, we hear Jesus Christ, and we either accept or reject. Every person who follows Jesus Christ is commanded to only speak His utterances and not their own. "When we love others, we know that we belong to the truth, and we feel at ease in the presence of God" (1 John 3:19) Ravi Zacharias did two open forums in a university. On the second night, one man told him that he had brought two Atheists in the night before who said that the arguments presented were so strong that they could not contend with them, but they were going to remain Atheists because that is what they prefer to be true. In another case of just listening to an unbeliever and drawing out his reasoning, the unbeliever finally came to his foundations. They turned out to be assumptions that were pulled from the air. When asked why he believed his basic assumption, the unbeliever looked startled and blurted out, "I guess I'm making the whole thing up." It was quite a revelation to him since he hadn't even known that he had any assumptions. However, he decided to remain an Atheist because he didn't want God to rule over him. Remember that, even if you show a scoffer that it is irrational to believe in Atheistic versions of history, the scoffer cannot come to hear the utterance of God through the Bible unless they desire the truth and desire to obey God. The deliberate unbeliever cannot come to Christ. You will notice that very little of the Bible is addressed to scoffers and to those who persist in absolute unbelief. There is much in the form of warnings to Christians that they must be careful not to be influenced by such people. There is much written as warnings to Christians so they do not consider their philosophies to have any validity. There is much to say that Christians ought to be understanding their own experience with Christ and the Body of Christ so that they will be able to give a reason for the hope that is in them when they are asked. That implies that the Christian's life needs to be a life that prompts the question. That life ought to be a life of love, joy, peace, patience, meekness, kindness, gentleness, inner strength that comes from the Spirit of God, and the faith of God that comes as a free gift as we hear the utterance of God in every moment of our daily lives. We know that the account in the Bible is correct because of direct revelation from God. (read more) We know that God exists because He has revealed Himself to us. (read more) We know that Jesus Christ is God because God has revealed Jesus to us and continues to unveil Him to us moment by moment. We know that salvation is through Jesus because God has uttered it and we have heard it. (read more) Frankly, we trust God but do not trust the lying human mind. The human mind and human ability to observe reality is unreliable and deceitful. It is desperately wicked. None of what we know is derived by poor logic or irrationality. Everything that is used against the gospel of Jesus Christ, God, and the Bible is based on poor logic and irrationality [insanity]. (read more)
How To Respond To Anti-Science Accusations Against Christ The Fallacy Of Methods For Determining The Age Of The Earth Scientific Method Uncovers Facts that Support Creation, NOT Evolution Arguments Against Evolution Evolution is Flim-flam Video: So-Called Evolution's Origin Quickly Debunked Natural Selection And Mutation Evolution Obviously Violates The Revealed Word Of God What Is Wrong With Theistic Evolution? What is the Real Question? The Cult, Evolutionism If you explain that everything exists because God created it, you still have not explained anything. Challenge: Where did all the people in the land of Nod come from? Help in explaining how there came to be so many races Claim: Evolutionists Claim That Similar Features In Fossilized Skeletons Prove Evolution. Question: Is There Any Truth To This Claim? Challenge: Evolutionary Value and a Demonstrable Biological Explanation How could there be light on the first day when the Sun wasn’t created until the fourth day? Lying claim: Morality existed long before religion. Answers: Natural Selection and Mutation Evidence For The World-Wide Flood Of Noah And The Ark How did all the 2 million species get to the ark? "Regarding the Ark, where did all the food and water to feed them come from for the lengthy voyage?" What happened to all the urine and excrement of the animals on the ark? The ark must have smelled really bad. When the animals debarked from the ark, how did they get to places like Australia, South America, the South Pole, Alaska, etc.? After the flood, since all plant life had been destroyed and there was also no animal life, what did the herbivores eat? How could 8 white people on the ark somehow create races of Negro, Indian, Asian, Hispanic, etc.? The Simple Cell? Unproven And Unbelievable Evolution Dinosaurs In The Bible Questions and Answers: Is Distant Starlight A Problem For Creationists Or Evolutionists? The Human Genome And DNA Dinosaur Tracks If there was no time before the creation, that is, time was created, then how could God cause the universe to come into existence. Does the Founder Principle Support Evolution? The Bias Of Scientists And Other Humans Author/Compiler Last updated: Mar, 2012 |
There are 36 sub-topics of "Creation, Flood, Etc.":
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The Age of the Earth
Science: Creation NOT Evolution
Arguments Against Evolution
Evolution is Flim-flam
Video: Abiogenesis Debunked
Natural Selection and Mutation
Evolutionism is Anti-Bible
Theistic Evolution
The Real Question
The Cult, Evolutionism
God Created Explains Nothing?
Cain's Wife?
The Land of Nod
So Many Races?
Similarities Prove Evolution?
Naturalistic Explanation
Light Before the Sun
Morality Before Religion?
Natural Selection & Mutation
Flood Evidence
Ark Animal Space
Ark Animal Feeding
Ark Animal Care
Ark Animal Distribution
Food After the Flood
Races After the Flood
The Simple Cell?
Unproven Evolution
Dinosaurs in the Bible
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