Body: | The Bible:
God's inspired message to man.
Scientific evidences to prove it!!!
The Bible is the world's all-time best selling book. About 2.5 billion
copies have been printed which are available in over 700 languages.
Although the Bible has enjoyed such vast distribution and attention, it is
read relatively little. Perhaps part of the reason the Bible is so
neglected is the many doubts people have about this unique book. If the
Bible came from the mouth of God, then the scriptures are believable when
they speak of Jesus Christ and accurate when they touch the realm of
science.
All scripture is inspired by God and is profitable for teaching, for
reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; that the man of God
may be adequate, equipped for every good work . (2 Timothy 3:16,17)
The word "inspired" (theopneustos) in the original Greek language literally
means "God-breathed". When the Bible claims to be inspired, we understand
therefore, that it came from the mouth of God. It is God-breathed,
inspired.
But a skeptic will say, "Everyone knows the Bible was written by men! The
book of 1 Corinthians, for example, was written by a man named Paul. After
all, the very first verse bears his name as the author." In reply to this
we answer: "Yes, 1 Corinthians was written by Paul. Notice however, what
Paul said in chapter 14, verse 37: "the things I write to you are the
Lord's commandment." Paul knew the source of his writings and understood
that he was like a pen in the hand of Almighty God. We must not view the
Bible as the word of Paul, Peter, or Jeremiah, but rather, as the message
God revealed through these men just as it is written in Jeremiah 1:9,
Then the Lord stretched out his hand and touched my mouth, and the Lord
said to me, 'behold, I have put my words in your mouth'.
The Bible writers were not like news reporters giving their personal
interpretation of events they eye-witnessed, but were divinely guided as 2
Peter 1:20-21 says,
Above all, you must understand that no prophesy of scripture came about by
the prophet's own interpretation. For prophecy never had its origin in the
will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy
Spirit.
God and man worked together in writing the scriptures. However, in this
work, God is the author who dictated the message, and man is the writing
instrument. Men were guided or inspired to write the exact message God
wanted recorded in the Bible. Now that we have a fundamental understanding
of inspiration and the origin of the Bible, let us look at some evidence of
inspiration.
"We constantly thank God that when you received from us the word of God's
message, you accepted it not as the word of men, but for what it really is,
the word of God" (1 Thessalonians 2:13).
Scientific information in the Bible
Although the Bible is not primarily a book of science, it does contain
numerous scientific facts. We laugh at the scientific knowledge of just a
hundred years ago. If man alone were the author of the Bible, we would
expect to find many such humorous errors contained in it. However, if we
examine the scientific data of the Bible and find it to be accurate to
present-day knowledge, then we have powerful evidence for divine
authorship. The scientific facts we are about to examine are not only
accurate, but were revealed thousands of years before man discovered them
for himself. The Bible does not contain any errors typical of the time in
which it was written. Would we expect anything less from a book written by
God?
The earth is round!
You may be surprised to learn that the Bible revealed that the earth is
round. Job 26:10, Prov 8:27, Isaiah 40:22, Amos 9:6. Today, we chuckle at
the people of the fifteenth century who feared sailing because they thought
they would fall over the edge of the flat earth. Yet the Bible revealed the
truth in 1000 B.C. 2500 years before man discovered it for himself!
"Paths of the sea"
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Matthew Maury (1806-1873) is considered the father of oceanography. His daughter was reading a portion of the Bible to him. While listening, he noticed the expression "paths of the sea" in Psalms 8:8. Upon his recovery, Maury took God at his word and went look ing for these paths. We are indebted to his discovery of the warm and cold continental currents. His book on oceanography is still considered a basic text on the subject and is still used in universities. Maury used the Bible as a guide to scientific discovery. If only more would use the Bible as a guide in their personal lives!
"At one time, when Commodore Maury was very sick, he asked one of his daughters to get the Bible and read to him. She chose Psalm 8, the eighth verse of which speaks of "whatsoever walketh through the paths of the sea," he repeated "the paths of the sea, the paths of the sea, if God says the paths of the sea, they are there, and if I ever get out of this bed I will find them." source
The Hydrologic Water Cycle
Revealed in the Bible: Job 36:27-28
The water cycle was not fully understood until about 30 B.C. by a Roman
engineer named Marcus Vitruvius. Yet every aspect of the water cycle was
fully revealed to mankind in 1600 B.C.! The Bible's description is in
perfect harmony with modern science. Eccl 1:6-7; 11:3; Job 26:8; Amos 9:6.
Vitruvius was 1600 years too late!
6 DAY CREATION...
GOD WAS TAKING HIS TIME
If a fair maiden kisses a frog which instantly changes into a handsome
prince, we would call it a fairy tale. But if the change takes 40 million
years, we call it evolution. We often hear that science has proved
evolution. Nothing could be further from the truth. You see, people often
confuse scientific fact with scientific theory. Current scientific theory
does conflict with creation. But the facts of science do not! There are
many scientists who fully accept Biblical creation. Surprised?
The theory of evolution says that over millions of years simple life forms
(one celled creatures) slowly evolved into complex life forms (fish), and
that one kind of animal evolved into another kind (ape to man). Genesis, on
the other hand, says that all life forms were created in six, 24 hour days.
Genesis chapter one states 10 times that life forms can only reproduce
after their own kind (ape to ape, man to man). All the observable facts of
science strongly support the Bible's claim that it is impossible for one
kind to reproduce a different kind. The truth is, there is absolutely no
tangible evidence to support evolution from any area of science, just
theory and a wild imagination!
But if the Bible is wrong and man actually did evolve in small graduations
over a long period of time, we should find ample fossil evidence of links
in intermediate stages of transition. For decades, evolutionists have
searched for fossils of these links to prove biblical creation wrong.
Although millions of fossils have been unearthed, not even one missing link
has ever been found. Has it ever occurred to you that this is the reason
why scientists refer to them as missing links?
Even Charles Darwin realized the difficulty missing links gave his theory.
Darwin wrote in his book, Origin Of The Species, "Why, if species have
descended from other species by fine graduation, do we not everywhere see
innumerable transitional forms? Why is not all nature in confusion, instead
of the species being, as we see them, well defined?" The reason we have
never found any missing links is quite simple. Darwin's theory of evolution
is wrong!
Experts tricked for 40 years!
In 1912, Arthur Woodward announced to the world that he had found the
missing link between ape and man. Piltdown Man, as he called it, consisted
of a jaw bone and a piece of skull which he estimated to be over 500,000
years old! However, in 1953, when the new fluoride dating process was
applied to the bones, scientists were shocked to learn that the jaw bone
was less than 50 years old. Only then did they notice that the bones and
teeth had been treated with salts and filed to make them appear old and
primitive. In other words, Piltdown Man was a complete fraud. Take note
Bible student! The world's foremost scientific experts had been fooled for
over 40 years! (Read 1 Corinthians 3:18-20.) For almost a half century,
evolutionists pushed Piltdown Man in the faces of Bible believers as
scientific proof we evolved from apes! Some proof!
In spite of over 100 years of intensive searching, the only place you will
find a missing link today is in the colourful imagination of an
evolutionist. Museums certainly don't have any! "In the beginning God
created the heavens and the earth." (Gen 1:1) Have you ever considered that
when God created the universe in six short 24 hour days, He may have been
taking His time?
The Bible is a reliable book of genuine divine prophecy. You can trust it!
The evidence presented here is just a tiny portion of the proofs available
to establish the divine origin of the Bible. Yet, they are more than
sufficient to prove the inspiration of the Bible. There will always be men
who scoff at the Bible. You, however, can be confident when you read your
Bible that God is the author, for it is written:
"We constantly thank God that when you received from us the word of God's
message, you accepted it not as the word of men, but for what it really is,
the word of God" (1 Thessalonians 2:13).
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