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THE
BIBLE
THE LORD JESUS
AND YOU
by
John Roberts
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The
Bible
Chapter 12
MORE than a thousand people jostled for the exits. Many appreciative
murmurs were heard as to the excellence of the lecture. The
speaker had clearly delighted his audience.
This was puzzling. It was plain that the lecturer had been
in command of his subject. He was obviously a brilliant scholar
and an able chap. Much of what he had said, however, had been
beyond my grasp. His vocabulary left me wanting a dictionary.
I could not keep up with some of his arguments.
I began to wonder about my own intelligence. Was I really
so stupid? Had all these people been able to follow the lecture?
Was I the only on left behind in my ignorance.
I questioned one or two about the evening, It quickly became
apparent that I was not alone. Many of them had not understood
it all either. In fact, some of those moving towards the doors
were declaring their simplicity too. "Wasn't it good?"
the said, "right over my head"!
It's a bit like the king's new clothes. Do you remember the
children's song about the king's invisible suit? No-one wanted
to look foolish by admitting they could not see it. It was
the naivety of a little boy who revealed the truth that the
king was in the nude!
It is sometimes like that with things scientific. No-one likes
to admit their ignorance. Instead we look up in admiration
to those better qualified. We respect the educated and feel
sure they must be right. It sounds good even if it is over
our heads!
Blind Chance
Sadly, all too often, it is true that many of us are "blinded
with science". The nudity of the theories is not exposed.
Evolution is such a theory. If carefully examined, it has
little to recommend it. It is bankrupt for ideas in piecing
together how our world might have come into existence.
It suggests that the world has developed by chance. Yet it
leaves many gaps. It supposes a long line of coincidences
leading from one sort of creature to another. Yet it is quite
unable to account for the many links between them that do
not exist.
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Today's
theories began life in Darwinism. That set out to provide an alternative
to creation by God. It began from a standpoint of unbelief in Genesis.
The theory has been built on from there.
Created or Evolved?
It has been bolstered up by various "finds", usually of
parts of animals. The dating of these finds has cast doubts on a
literal acceptance of Creation story. In disputing the idea of creation
in six days, many have dismissed the complete story. That is called
"throwing the baby out with the bathwater"!
From this vantage point evolution has been widely taught. It has
often been presented as fact. It has found its way into schools
and into the minds of schoolchildren. However, it acceptance by
so many does not make it true. It is still theory.
The situation has been made worse by compromise. Well-meaning religious
people have tried to meet the evolutionist half-way. They have suggested
that God was the force who set in motion the process that others
call evolution.
This will not do. It dilutes the simple teaching of the Bible. The
things that God made did not develop gradually over thousands of
years. Each one was a specially made creation.
Real Science
Science is good. The manipulation of scientific facts by biased
unbelievers is not good. Science has at present no facts which disprove
the Bible's claims.
Even from a common sense point of view evolution has nothing in
its favour. I have a piano in my home. It works when someone presses
the ivory keys. They, in turn, raise little wooden hammers covered
with felt. These strike wires stretched tightly between metal pins
on a sounding board. The wires have to be of different lengths and
thicknesses in order to make all the various notes.
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