Romans 1:19 ¶ Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. 20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: 21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. 24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: 25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. 26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: 27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. 28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; 29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: 32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
Here is the religious history of mankind, what is important, not
the endless wars, kings, queens, and dynasties, building projects, art, and
literature that interests us. This is what concerns God.
God is revealed in creation, even without a Bible.
Psalm 19:1 «To the chief
Musician, A Psalm of David.» The heavens declare the glory of God; and the
firmament sheweth his handywork.
In today’s world of non-scientific science theory there are many
seemingly intelligent people who live in a world of delusion. They will see;
In Genesis 1:3 God calls light into being.
Regarding light,
scientists presume the existence of the basic particle of light, a photon. The
universe is bathed in that light. For every estimated proton around the nucleus
of an atom they say there are a billion photons.[1] Of
course, photons might not even exist except as theoretical entities to explain
things that can be seen by mathematical constructs. But, even guessing at this,
they deny the truth of what the Bible already said.
In fact, God’s
existence is verifiable, among other ways, by logic alone. Here are some
comments I made previously.
“There are things outside of our personal experience
with God, a personal experience that no unbeliever can understand or accept
unless God Himself touches their hearts.
Let’s take something as complex as life. The
astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle was born in Yorkshire, England on June 24, 1915. He
was conferred a master's degree from Cambridge in 1939 and then was elected
Fellow, St. John's College, Cambridge in the same year. He worked his way to
become a Professor of Astrophysics and Natural Philosophy in 1958. He was a
leading contributor in the discovery of how the elements from lithium to iron
are synthesized inside stars.
Professor
N. Chandra Wickramasinghe was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on January 20, 1939,
studied astrophysics at Cambridge, and was a student of Hoyle's. He received a
Ph.D. in 1963 taught at Cambridge. He later became a Professor of Applied
Mathematics and Astronomy at the University College, Cardiff, Wales. He is an
expert in the use of infrared astronomy to study interstellar matter.
These
are no lightweights although Wickramasinghe has gone a little bonkers in the
last few years. But, they both came to the logical atheist conclusion that life
came from outer space. Why? Because it was impossible
for it to have happened by random chance on earth, not in 15 billion years or a
hundred billion years. Let me read you a quote published recently by Dr. Wick…
‘Improbability of Life
The blueprint for all life from bacteria
to plants to animals was discovered in the 1950s by Watson and Crick to reside
in DNA – in particular in the precise arrangements of the nucleotides A,G,T,C
that effectively code for proteins that in turn control cell function. In a
series of books and articles published in collaboration with the late Sir Fred
Hoyle, I have argued that highly specific arrangements needed for the operation
of living cells cannot be understood as arising from random processes. For the simplest
bacterium (Mycoplasma genitalium) the probability that its few hundred genes
will be discovered by random shuffling of their amino acid components gives a
figure of 1 in 10 to the 1000th power or smaller. Hoyle and I have
compared such horrendous improbabilities to the odds against a ‘tornado blowing
through a junk yard leading to self-assembly of BOEING 707 airplane.’[2]
1 in 10 to the 1000th? These types of
scientists estimate there is only 10 to the 80th power number of
atoms in the universe. Saying that life came about by random processes is like
me saying that I’m getting handsomer, wealthier, and smarter as I get older.
You would just look at me and go, what? I’m joking, right? But, scientists who
believe in spontaneous generation, I mean abiogenesis, or life by accident are
serious.
So, proof that God exists, step one. Life could not
have happened on earth by chance. It’s not mathematically conceivable, not by
any stretch of your Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek, Hitchhiker’s
Guide to the Galaxy, Dr. Who imagination. But, what about it coming from
somewhere else? That’s called panspermia and that’s what Dr. Wick believes in.
[1] Lee Smolin, The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, and Fall of a
Science, and What Comes Next (New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2006), 75.
[2]
Chandra Wickramasinghe & Robert Bauval, Cosmic Womb:
The Seeding of Planet Earth (Rochester, Vermont:Bear & Co., 2017), Kindle ed., chap. 1
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