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Do you believe the impossible? Last week, we considered a few events from scripture that, humanly and reasonably speaking, are all impossible. They could not have happened. But, the Bible records them as actual truth! Let's go on a bit more, because to be a Christian,
you have to believe many things that, to known scientific laws, are impossible.
By laws of biology a man cannot be swallowed by a large fish and stay alive for three days. It is not possible for a human to lift the gates of a city off their foundation and carry them away on his shoulders. Besides, the length of a person's hair cannot possibly
have anything to do with his strength.
Shall we mention Peter coming out of a heavily-guarded prison - unnoticed?! Impossible. Or water being turned into wine? Surely that breaks some law of chemistry! Do we believe these things?
I could go on and on. Many other impossible events like these have been recorded in the Bible. And most Christians do believe that they happened. Literally! But, why? Why would Christians believe this? It is not because they’ve seen these
events with their own eyes, or tested the events in the science laboratory. No, Christians believe because we accept the Bible as the God-inspired, infallible Word of God.
If all of these "impossible" events are believed by Christians to be fact as plainly written, why then do many Christians struggle with the origins issues found in Genesis? Why do many of them believe that God did not create everything in just six,
literal days, or that the earth’s age could not possibly be only six to ten thousand years, or that the flood could not have been a global event, etc.?
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The main reason is simple. There are three areas of the Bible that are mocked the most, especially by the current education establishment (our schools and colleges). Those areas are 1) the creation itself, and 2) original sin, and 3) the global flood. Of all
the “ridiculous & impossible” things that Christians believe, these are the worst, so they think. Why? Again, a simple answer. Those issues and their implications lie squarely in the path of the accepted norm of naturalism, the theory of evolution.
Therefore, Christians who are educated in the world’s schools will receive the world’s education. That education won’t spend unnecessary time ridiculing the account of a donkey that spoke, or an axe head that floated, or a lone hand that wrote on a wall. But it
will invest time and energy into the core issues relating to the origins and purpose for life. That education will, in fact, include a random, purposeless origin for everything that exists. That education will provide the foundation for believing anything you want, and living the same way!
So, we have many Christians in the world today who will believe all of the many, awesome, amazing, “impossible” facts found in the Bible, but will stumble on the simple, straight-forward ones found in Genesis. If a person stumbles over these truths at the beginning of
the bible, what will keep that person from stumbling over other difficult passages? It's either all true and trustworthy, or none of it is.
I wonder --- Who or what is their source of authority?
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