Knowing Jesus

I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life; no one comes to the Father but through Me. John 14:6

Why Believe in God?

People choosing path to heaven or hell.

The Bible is very blunt about how misguided it is to deny God. Romans 1:19-23 reads,

"because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse. For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures."

When the Bible says, "For even though they knew God," It is suggesting that God created us with an awareness of the reality that God exists, and God reinforces that knowledge by providing a universe that demonstrates His eternal power and divine nature. (Note: Part of that eternal power and divine nature includes providing a planet for us to live on that yields all the food and materials we need to sustain our lives.) Unfortunately, many will not honor God or give thanks to Him but will become futile in their speculations. (Typical speculations of today include "evolution" and the "Big Bang" theory of origins.) Many have determined that they have "understandings" that are more sophisticated and more factual than the Bible, so they turn away from the one, true, living God. By turning away from God, they put their faith and hope in other things, and therefore, they worship "other things".

A primary concept that lures people away from believing Biblical truth is embracing the false premise that science (through evolution, the geologic column, and the big bang) has disproved the Bible. A thorough discussion of these topics is beyond the scope of this website, but I will say that new scientific discoveries continue to affirm Biblical truth, and I discuss a few key topics and provide reference material below.

  1. Practical vs Historical Science. Practical science includes developments in computer technology, medical research, alternative power development etc., and Christians are in complete agreement with the importance and benefit of these scientific endeavors. Historical science includes the scientific research to determine world history and origins (origin of life, and origin of the world and universe). Christians DO (or at least should) take issue with the popular scientific historical model that includes the big bang and the theory of evolution. The Biblical historical model based on a literal interpretation of scripture clearly states that God supernaturally created the earth, vegetation, the universe, animals and humans during week one (Genesis chapter 1). Admittedly, various theologians debate the detail of Biblical history, but, unless context demands otherwise, this website will use the literal interpretation of the Bible. Many will be surprised to hear that, scientific evidence (when interpreted correctly) overwhelmingly affirms the Biblical model of world history as based on the literal interpretation of the Bible.
  2. Scientific Interpretations Are Heavily Influenced by "World View". Even though I said scientific evidence affirms the Biblical model of world history, public education, universities, and the scientific community at large are obviously not dropping their model of world history based on evolution for the Biblical model of world history. Quite the opposite, they still ridicule the Biblical model of world history, because it imposes a supernatural God. A little background here could be helpful. Until recent centuries, centers of learning were frequently tied to religious institutions, and the philosophers and the intellectual elites primarily shared a world view that included the biblical model of world history. Then in the 1800's, a growing band of scientists (including Darwin) started embracing and promoting a new world view completely contrary to the Bible. The new concept was that world history must be explained using uniform changes based the natural laws. In other words, world history must be explained using scientific principles that are observable and repeatable, along with known processes like wind and rain erosion and known catastrophic events like floods and earth quakes. This world view is called "uniformitarianism" and is defined such that processes acting in the same manner as at present and over long spans of time are sufficient to account for all current geological features and all past geological changes. The uniformitarianism world view dominates the scientific community with such zeal that if a scientist today proposes a scientific conclusion that could be interpreted to counter evolution and support the Biblical record of history, they will likely be fired. Going forward in this discussion, I will refer to the scientific community that embraces uniformitarianism as secular science, because of their wholesale rejection of spiritual supernaturalism. Evolution has now been taught as fact for decades, and uniformitarianism is enforced throughout the scientific community with militant zeal that scientists are typically fired if they ever draw a scientific conclusion that could in any way be seen as supportive to a Biblical world view. Exploration of the Biblical model of world history is essentially limited to Christian research institutions that are financially supported by Christians. I will refer to Rock layers accumulate gradually and uniformly over time. Life evolved in different directions, but it evolved into more complex life forms uniformly over time. This new model for history specifically denies and absolutely does not allow any supernatural influence from God at creation or at any other event throughout the historical time line. *** Favorite example of interpretation based on World View is Grand Canyon. *** The truth is that the secular scientific community have been leading the masses down a 150 year erroneous rabbit trail.
  3. Traditional Scientific Historical Model is Atheistic at It's Core. Many will say that is a bold (and perhaps ridiculous) statement, but let me explain. From a Christian perspective, the denial of God's supernatural influence is atheistic. Christians know the inerrancy of the Bible. God's description of creation in Genesis chapter 1 demonstrates His supernatural creative power, and God cannot lie. Additional supernatural events intervened regarding the normal expectations of humanity during the global flood of Genesis chapter 6, the miracles of Moses, the miracles of Elijah/Elisha, and the miracles of Jesus and the Apostles. Denying supernatural phenomena also means the denial of how Jesus paid the sin debt of the world; it denys resurrection; it denys eternal life in heaven; it denys prophetic vissions.... The supernatural influence in world history as described in the Bible by God (Who cannot lie) is absolutely true, and scientific discoveries always affirm that when the information is interpreted correctly. Christians that don't gleefully embrace the supernatural influence of the one, true, living God need to take a huge step back and assess the reality of their very salvation. Scientists committed to the big bang and evolution continue wrapping themselves in a pretzel trying to explain away all the evidence that debunks these disproven concepts, or they ignore the evidence all together.
  4. Christian Scientists. There are an abundance of truly brilliant Christians in the scientific community who are perfectly happy with how their detailed understanding of contemporary science is completely harmonious with Biblical truth. In addition, there are some of those brilliant scientists who specifically became Christians, because contemporary scientific discoveries further declare that God is the only possible explanation for the world and universe as we know it. Dr. Spike Psaris; Dr. John Sanford; Dr Russ Humphries; Creation Ministries speakers
  5. Evolution Is Actually Devolution Before discussing how neo-Darwinian evolution does NOT happen, I must first clarify that both evolutionary and Biblical world views acknowledge that practically any living creature can adapt over time based on environmental conditions or selective breeding. Here again, we have opposing world views. The evolutionist world view says that purely through random DNA mutations during cell reproduction new characteristics are developed. Sometimes those characteristics are beneficial and give that individual a better chance at survival. That characteristic then proliferates throughout the land based on the increased survival of that individual and its offspring. These low-level beneficial characteristics would be called microevolution. The continued collection of beneficial characteristics over time would then eventually evolve that creature into a completely new and more sophisticated creature. This would be called (if it ever actually happened) macroevolution. The Biblical world view describes a completely different process, whereby the adaptability of the creature is limited based on the "kind" of creature it is. Also, the nature of the new characteristics are dependent on the preprogrammed diversity included in God's original design for that animal "kind". In other words, dogs can be adapted from fox to wolf to greyhound to chihuahua, but they can't vary much farther than that, and they will always be dogs.lots of dog characteristics can be adapted based on environmental conditions and selective breeding, but there are limits as to how far those adaptations can go and those changes will never go beyond its "kind". Dogs will always be dogs, and they will never evolve into cats or horses.
  6. Evolution Statistically Impossible. Before discussing how neo-Darwinian evolution is statistically impossible, I must first clarify that both evolutionary and Biblical world views acknowledge that practically any living creature can adapt over time based on environmental conditions or selective breeding. Here again, we have opposing world views. The evolutionist world view says that purely through random DNA mutations during cell reproduction new characteristics are developed. Sometimes those characteristics are beneficial and give that individual a better chance at survival. That characteristic then proliferates through the increased survival of that individual and its offspring. These low-level beneficial characteristics would be called microevolution. The continued collection of beneficial characteristics over time would then eventually evolve that creature into a completely new and more sophisticated creature. This would be called (if it ever actually happened) macroevolution. The Biblical world view describes a completely different process, whereby the adaptibility of the creature is limited based on the "kind" of creature it is. In other words, lots of dog characteristics can be adapted based on environmental conditions and selective breeding, but there are limits as to how far those adaptations can go and those changes will never go beyond its "kind". Dogs will always be dogs, and they will never evolve into cats or horses.
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has NOT disproven the Bible.

Practical science vs historical science

Wrong assumptions on age of the earth metrics

Polystrata focils

Human representation of Dinosaurs throughout antiquity

Wrong assumptions on age of the earth metrics

Wrong assumptions on age of the earth metrics

Wrong assumptions on age of the earth metrics