Friends, and I say that sincerely because I know that you’re all image bearers of God and are to be honored and respected for that reason alone. And I know if I were to meet you in person I’d be blessed to have spent that time with you.
So please forgive me if I rustle feathers and maybe even offend you slightly but I just can’t resist sharing this. Hopefully at least one of you will take this in the right way. And please understand, science & discovery is great and has brought much good and blessing to mankind and comes from the very goodness of God. But like anything in life, we must be careful not to make our science and discoveries into idols.
So I read this forum regularly and happened to read thru this entire post and found myself pulling out comment after comment. Here are just a few of the…how should I say…interesting…comments and very, very confident claims…from people who have maybe lived an average of 50-70 years on the earth but are very certain of facts and data on things that happened at least thousands of years ago…and as some want to believe, even millions or billions of years ago. Please, send me the data from whoever was around at that time collecting the real-time data/observations/measurements…photos would be great…video even better…satellite footage outstanding…can’t wait to receive all that! (sorry for a little sarcasm but it only gets…a little better?):
- All soil life would have died from the sea salt alone (Hmm…really? I like sea salt on my steak.)
- Sediment world wide…in the same order everywhere (Hmm…really? You’ve used a lot of shovels!)
- Obviously that takes very long periods of time (Obviously! Right? Obviously!?)
- Little erosion would take place as turbulence at depth is minimized (Yeah…I’m pretty sure about that too)
- The only thing that explains the deep layers of sediment, is deep time (Yes…its the only thing! And very deep!)
- The flood is being used as a magic excuse to ignore every piece of evidence for an ancient earth (Totally! Mahjeek!)
- The Rocky mountains were at one time as high as the Himalaya’s (Yes!..I live here…took a selfie…higher than Everest!)
- So just on my own property the geology refutes a global flood (Yes…and your property IS the source of truth!)
- The Bible does not try to teach modern science (Indubitably! Modern Science knows all things! Bible old…SCIENCE NEW!)
- Sea level ingress and regress, yielding a continuous record both local and general (It’s all about the ingress/regress!)
- There is nothing about a global flood that is (scientifically) documented. (Of course…unlike…Evil-lution!)
- It’s not okay that you continue to work against God’s kingdom (No…not ok…I reject His words in Genesis…but that’s ok)
- It’s their way of interpreting Scripture. Let’s not just deal with the symptoms. (Right! They read the Bible! Stop them!)
As I read all these and many more “scientific” claims & facts…it only brought me to Job and what God said to him because it speaks to all of us (yes, I have pride too and think I know everything):
Job 38:1-3
Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said, "Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? "Now gird up your loins like a man, And I will ask you, and you instruct Me!
Continuing until chapter 42:6, the God of Creation then proceeds to magnificently declare His glory in all that He has created through question after question that no one knows the answers to…only God who created. And wonderfully, He has given His revelation of things that we could never know or discover thru “science”…only thru His revealed word contained in the Bible.
Perhaps the only comment in this blog that is worthy of consideration is this one:
- The Bible does not change; science texts by their very nature change all the time. So we must be careful to not change our understanding of scripture based on the shifting sands of current scientific fashions.
Well said. Yes, we should be very wary about trying to dismiss/deny an event or account that God speaks of with absolute clarity and purpose (Genesis 5 thru 9, Matthew 24:37-39, Luke 17:26-27, Hebrews 11:7, 1 Peter 3:21, 2 Peter 3:5) because it does not fit with our “science” of the day. This elevation of “science” (man centered) above the revelation of God’s word (Divine Truth) brings one into a dangerous position of reducing the word of God, and the saving Gospel of Christ, to a belief that is an empty shell of the truth in God’s word…and most dangerously, a gospel that does not save (ie. just be a good person).
So “Let’s not just deal with the symptoms”…read the Bible…believe the Bible…study the Bible…find Christ in the Bible…its God’s Word…not shifting sands of “science”.
Have a great Friday and weekend!