The Bible and Science

The Bible and Science
In the Gospel of John we read,
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.  
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.” John 3:16,17.
This is the sole purpose in Jesus coming to this earth. The whole Bible narrative centres around the salvation message. Centres around the way individuals get to heaven.
Sadly many Christians get sidetracked debating evolution and other scientific theories.  Something that is entirely unnecessary. Something that takes them away from the principle purpose of the Bible, how to get to heaven.
Galileo Galilei wisely said,

"The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, 

not the way the heavens go."

                                 Galileo Galilei.

For me it is enough to know that God created the heavens and the earth. Whether he did it in six twenty-four hour days or over billions of years is irrelevant. God is God and could have done things either way.
I feel as a Christian. A believer in Christ Jesus, it is imperative that I and all Christians stay if you will, on script. That we proclaim the message I noted above,
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.  
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.” John 3:16,17.
Please if you consider yourself a Christian. Think about it.

God, Jesus, & Creation

 God, Jesus & Creation
“He spreads out the northern skies over empty space; he suspends the earth over nothing.” Job 26:7
Job got it right.
In the above photographs, one taken by Apollo 17 from the vantage point of the moon we can see that the Earth is indeed suspended over nothing.
The second picture backs this up. It was taken by the space probe Voyager billions of kilometres from earth, as it left the solar system.
The Voyager picture also shows how small and potentially insignificant earth looks to be in the vastness of the cosmos.
The late Carl Sagan who convinced N.A.S.A. to take this picture said,
“From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.” Carl Sagan.
Sagan is right if you think in strictly human terms that “mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam” is all we have. But it is not all we have. There is more.
There is a God who created it all.
Physicist Dr. Paul Davies who once promoted Atheism, after examining the evidence around creation said,
“[There] is for me powerful evidence that there is something going on behind it all it seems as though somebody has fine-tuned nature’s numbers to make the Universe. The impression of design is overwhelming”Dr. Paul Davies.
Stephen Hawking by far one of the greatest minds ever to live, commenting on how the universe began said,
“It would be very difficult to explain why the universe should have begun in just this way, except as the act of a God who intended to create beings like us,” Stephen Hawking.
These men have looked into the heavens and come to the same conclusion as the Psalmist who wrote,

“The heavens declare the glory of God; 

the skies proclaim the work of his hands. 

Day after day they pour forth speech; 

night after night they display knowledge. 

There is no speech or language where their voice is not heard.” 

                                                                                      Psalm 19:1-3.

The Apostle Paul speaking the learned men in Athens said,
“Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: “Men of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious.  
For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Now what you worship as something unknown I am going to proclaim to you. 
“The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands.  
And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else.  
From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live.  
God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.  
‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’ 
“Therefore since we are God’s offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone—an image made by man’s design and skill.  
In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent.  
For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to all men by raising him from the dead.” Acts 17:22-32.
The book of Acts then goes on to note how those who had listened to Paul reacted. It noted,,
“When they heard about the resurrection of the dead, some of them sneered, but others said, “We want to hear you again on this subject.”  
At that, Paul left the Council.  
A few men became followers of Paul and believed. Among them was Dionysius, a member of the Areopagus, also a woman named Damaris, and a number of others”Acts 17:22-34.
Thus my question to you the reader becomes if you were listening to the Apostle Paul that day which group would you be in?
Would you sneer at the thought of the resurrection? Would you want to hear more on the subject? Would you, do you believe what Paul said?
The choice is yours. Please think about it.

Don't sweat the small things even if in concerns the Universe

Don’t sweat the small things, even if it concerns Universe

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” 
                                                                              Genesis 1:1

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  
He was with God in the beginning. 
Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.  
In him was life, and that life was the light of men....
Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—  children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.” 
      John 1:1-4,12,13.
I listened the other day to an evolutionist who made a compelling argument for evolution. He was a well educated man who spoke out against the six day creation theory.
My problem with what he said wasn’t about evolution but rather that he made it sound like believing in evolution and God are mutually exclusive. In other words you can only believe in one or the other. That’s not true.
Because man is not perfect you can be in error in some of the things you believe and still be a believer in God.
Belief in God and your salvation through Christ is not dependent on how long it took the earth to be created.
I know of numerous Christians that do not believe the world was made in six days. Yet they believe that there is a God and that he created the heavens and the earth.
That Jesus is the son of God and they have accepted Him as their Lord and saviour.
They believe John1:12,13 that states,
“Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—  children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.”
         John1:12,13.
It’s a problem I believe both non-Christians and Christians have. They say you can’t be a Christian and believe in evolution. But it is possible.
In order to be a Christian one must believe by faith there is a God. Hebrews stating,
“Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.” 
                                                                                            Hebrews 11:1
“And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.”
                                                                      Hebrews 11:6.
A Christian must believe the words of Jesus who said,
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.  
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.  Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.” 
                                                                                                               John 3:16-18.
How long it took the earth to form and by what process is unimportant to salvation. What we Christians need to do is not worry about creation arguments. Rather we should be presenting the Gospel of Christ. The salvation message to all we meet both in word and deed and let God and the Holy Spirit show people what is right and what is wrong.
Think about it.

It's my Belief

It is My Belief
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” 
                                                                        Genesis 1:1
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  
He was with God in the beginning. 
Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.  
In him was life, and that life was the light of men.” 
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. 
John 1:1-4,14.
I regard myself as a fundamentalist Christian. I believe the above verses, “God created the heavens and the earth.”
I believe the words,
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  
He was with God in the beginning. 
Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.”
That the “Word” is Jesus.
I believe that He and God are one and that they are also one with the Holy Spirit. That they in union made the heavens and the earth.
Where I would vary from some of my peers is that I don’t really care if it took billions of years as the scientist are suggesting. God could easily have allowed it to be that way. If they are wrong then so be it.
I could also care less if it took six twenty-four hour days. God again could have done it. He could have compressed time. After all I worship and almighty all powerful God.
The point is I believe God created the heavens and the earth.
The Psalmist states,
“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.” 
                                                                                                             Psalm 19:1.
The more I look at the world the more I see the hand of God. Our world is perfect. Every living thing and for that matter every non-living thing is there to support life on this space rock.
I am sure if it were possible to figure it out, every star, every galaxy, every thing in the universe has a reason for being.
I believe that good science will one day be able to prove that this world has form and order that did not come from randomness coming into order by it’s self.  
The one thing Atheist, evolutionist and Christians have in common is faith in what we believe in.
For me it is harder to believe in evolution and the absence of a God than it is to believe there is a God.
The life to me just wouldn’t make sense if there is no God. And if all there is, is this life then what a waste of a soul.
Think about it.