Discover the unchanging truths of God’s word

The Bible is not the book of the year; it is the book of the ages. It has outsold, outlasted, and surpassed in reach more than all other books put together. However, not so long ago, personal reading of the Bible was frowned upon in our country.

In fact, in many countries, the Bible has been burned and banned. Indeed, rather than accept that the Bible is God’s word, many still deny, distort, and disregard its gracious truths.

“Oh, we can’t believe the Bible”, some sneeringly say, “Science disproves it”. Well, I’ll be the first to admit that the Bible is not a science textbook. It isn’t meant to be. It’s a book that teaches us about God, His character, and His redemption through Jesus Christ. However, when someone says that science disproves the Bible, they are incorrect. They would be more accurate if they said that some science disagrees with certain parts of the Bible. Disagreement, however, neither proves nor disproves anything.

Given enough time, science will catch up with the truths of the Scriptures. Science, you see, is always changing and developing. For example, in 1861, the French Academy of Science printed a brochure giving 51 incontrovertible scientific facts as to why the Bible was in error. Today, not one scientist believes in any of these so-called proofs.

Again, for thousands of years the science of the day maintained that the earth was flat. In 1492, as his ears rang loudly with warnings that he would fall off the edge of the world, poor old Columbus set sail to discover new lands. But the earth wasn’t flat. The Bible had said this all along. The Bible prophet Isaiah, 2,700 years ago stated, “It is He that sits on the circle of the Earth” (Isaiah 40:22). The word ‘circle’ is literally the word for sphere or globe! So how did Isaiah know that the earth was a sphere? God told him (2 Peter 1:21).

God’s word never changes, but science changes constantly. For example, we take it for granted that the earth is suspended in space. But science didn’t always believe that. In ancient Egypt, they believed that the earth rested on five pillars. The Greeks, in turn, believed that it was supported by a giant named Atlas. The ancient Hindus believed that the world rested on the backs of giant elephants who, in turn, rested on a giant turtle who rested on the back of a serpent swimming in a cosmic sea. But we don’t find anything like that in the Bible. What we do find, however, is Job 26:7 which informs us, “He hangs the earth upon nothing!” Wow! How did Job know that? God told him.

Again, consider how, in 150 BC, Hipparchus the astronomer charted the heavens and concluded there were 1,022 stars. A few hundred years later, Ptolemy said, that due to scientific advances he could now tell that Hipparchus was incorrect. There were, in fact, 1,026! The 1,300 years later, along came Galileo with his telescope and reckoned that the stars numbered in the thousands. Was he correct? Far from it! Astronomers now estimate that there are at least 12 octillion stars in the known galaxies.

However, no one needed to calculate the number of the celestial luminaries, Jeremiah, the Bible prophet, had already addressed this. He stated clearly that the host of heaven (the stars) cannot be numbered (Jeremiah 33:22). How did he know that? It’s simple: God told him.

From the examples above it is noteworthy and observable that as science has advanced over the years – that scientific research often agrees with the Bible. And so we can be confidant that any apparent disagreements between science and Scripture at the present time will also be resolved in the future.

“The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom” (Proverbs 9:10)

Source: Michael Denham KCA

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