Bible matters

I have decided to re-visit my blog page and use it to explain to others the importance of the truth of the bible.

May I take this opportunity to quote an article from Answers In Genesis Europe.

"The writers of the Bible, inspired as I believe they were, they were nonetheless not inspired to do 21st Century physics." (Archbishop Bingham, 2012)

Now, it is true that the Bible is not a scientific textbook, per se. Observational science, based on repeatable tests, is what builds technology. However, historical science (knowledge concerning the past to explain the present) is based on beliefs concerning history. The Bible is a history book - an account of historical science, if you like - to enable us to think correctly concerning the origin of the universe, the meaning of life, the dilemma of sin, and the solution in Jesus Christ.

Contrary to the Rev. Williams views, in our understanding of any aspect of life (including science), there are only two starting points:

There is someone who knows everything about everything, who has always been there, who never tells a lie, and who reveals to us the information we need to know to come to right conclusions about this universe.
Somehow, fallible man, who doesn't know everything, who hasn't always been there, who doesn't always tell the truth, has to figure out the universe.
If the Bible is really what it claims to be, a revelation from the omnipotent Creator, then the history that it reveals to us will make sense of the evidence of the present, and observational science should confirm this history - and it does!

Sadly, because most Christians have been indoctrinated in a secular system, few realise that the secularists who taught them start with presuppositions that disallow the Bible's revelation.

So these Christians, who may be real born-again Christians, ask questions like "How do you fit dinosaurs into the Bible?" Well, you don't! When we understand the right way to think as a Christian, we know that we should start with the Bible (the revelation from our infinite Creator) and build our thinking (worldview) upon that. Then we have the right way to look at the evidence of the present.

A number of qualified scientists are not ashamed to boldly proclaim that their starting point is the Bible. Among them are scientists at Answers in Genesis. As you read various articles by these godly people, you will see over and over again how observational science confirms that the Bible really is the right starting point and reveals the inconsistency of starting with secular ideas.

Why does all this matter? Because if the history in the Bible concerning our origins were not true, then we would have no reason to trust the Gospel message, which is based in that history. And the Gospel is the heart of what Christians do. Bringing the saving message of the Gospel to a fallen world so that people may be convicted of their sin, repent and be saved for eternity.

"If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved" (Romans 10:9).

"And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent. And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead." (Luke 16:30-31)