GOD V RELIGION ( Archived) (402)

There was a verse that was used nearly a century ago to prove that the Bible couldn't have been divinely inspired. "But the day of the Lord will come like a thief in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be burned up." 2nd Peter 3:10 "How could there be a fire big enough to burn the whole world? Silly fisherman!" It took over two more generations for science to catch up to what God had spoken through Peter, that an atomic reaction could actually melt the basic building blocks of matter itself. God was prophesying how the world would end. In fact, two verses later we find these words, "...the heavens will be destroyed by burning, and the elements will melt with intense heat!" (vs. 12) Do you know what the word "destroy" is? It's a Greek word that literally means to untie. That's an atomic physics statement from a fisherman!

Can the bible accurately predict the future? Of course it can. God can arrange the situations and circumstances of history to bring about patterns laid down before the foundation of the world. The outline of many of these patterns is revealed in the Bible. There are about 3,856 verses directly or indirectly concerned with prophecy in the bible - about one verse in six tells of future events! God's challenge to the world is "Prove Me now - I am the Lord... I will speak, and the word that I speak shall come to pass." (See Jer. 28:9; Ezek. 12:25, 24:14) Buddhists, Confucianists, and Muslims have their own sacred writings, but in them the element of prophecy is obviously absent. The destruction of Tyre, the invasion of Jerusalem, the fall of Babylon and Rome - each were accurately predicted in the Bible and fulfilled to the smallest details. In the brief life of Jesus alone we see over 300 fulfilled prophecies. The odds that these would all coincide by accident in one person are laughable. By the laws of chance, the conservative odds of even just 48 of those prophecies being fulfilled by one man are one in 10 x 10^157. (That's 1 followed by 157 zeros!!!) Let me try to give you an idea of how immense this number is. We'll take a very small object, let's say an electron. (Electrons are so small that if you lined them up, it would take 2½ quadrillion of them to equal one inch.) Now let's go back to our figure of 10 x 10^157. If you tried to put this many electrons into a big pile, it would be 10,000,000,000 times lager than the universe as we know it - which scientists calculate to be 6,000,000,000 light-years across. (A light-year is the distance that light will travel in one year, moving at the speed of 186,000 miles per second.) Now, take just one electron out and color it red. Stir it back into this pile for a hundred thousand years with all the others. Then blindfold a man and send him in to pick it out - first time! Impossible? These would be the same odds that one man would live and die according to only 48 of the prophecies about the Messiah, if it were only an accident. The Scriptures specifically predict events and happenings that are as modern as tomorrow's news release.

You can put any test you like on this book and nothing is even in the same category, not even in the same class. It's not just a book - it is God who has spoken in history, and that's why He says that His word is "living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword" Hebrews 4:12 Only the 66 books of the scriptures bear this divine seal. No other work of man in any language even faintly resembles the intricate structure and design of the bible. The fact remains - only an infinite mind could have devised this book of books.


The end of part 2


Got to keep going...

To be able to choose what is right, you have to be able to choose wrong don't you? Or it isn't choice at all.



You must have had some real bad bosses. Many of my bosses looked out for me. They helped me grow and develope into a good worker. They established trust in our relationship, and encouraged me to keep doing it better. I became (in most cases) a very productive employee, and in return I helped my boss make more money. I feel bad for the working experiences that would make you look at the workplace in such a manner. A manager has to control his people to try to get the work done, but a leader empowers his people to accomplish what we all want in the life. A job well done .



Man is just a man. How can you be arrogant when you are just claiming to be a man? It's when you claim to be more than a man that arrogance is introduced. We are not God, even though we think we are at times.

And do you claim all things are made up from the same "stuff"? Even the spiritual? When a person dies, where does the 21 grams go? What about angels? If we are all the same, can I choose to defy the laws of physics?