Tom Magnuson - My Worldview
If you have come this far in my WORLD VIEW you are either a friend of mine who felt obligated to read on OR you were interested in learning how the Christian world view can be defended. Whatever the case, thanks for sticking with me.
Earlier, we discussed general revelation, where the Intelligent Designer shows himself through the creation. This message seems to come through loud and clear, if you are honest with yourself and stop to look at the evidence.
How are the scientists thinking?
Non-theist scientists who study the universe see the design, but, dismiss it. They do NOT want to consider anything or "Anyone" outside of physical reality to explain the origin of the universe. "That wouldn't be "scientific", they say.
So, what should be the definition of "Science"?
Is "Science" the search for the ultimate Truth of physical reality,
OR is "Science" the following of one's scientific materialistic world view?
Put another way, do scientists follow the scientific evidence where it leads, OR do scientists try to interpret the scientific evidence ONLY in the light (or darkness) of their scientific materialistic worldview? I believe "Science" should be the search for the ultimate Truth of physical reality. And if that ultimate Truth involves "Someone" beyond this physical reality, so be it. We want to find the Truth, with a capital T, or what the late Dr. Francis Schaeffer called True truth.
Some scientists who may be open to an Intelligent Designer can't seem to, or don't bother to get past the problems that we looked at in the last section.
With theof information available today,
and the compelling evidence for design, people still don't see it, or don't want to see it for various reasons.
Where's the real battle?...
It's not "politically correct" to even bring up the subject of God in polite conversation, let alone the spiritual battles that are going on for the minds of men. But a man's rejection of the facts of design and where they lead can only be explained in this context. Read and think about how relevant this passage is in today's world:"Although they knew God (from general revelation), they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. Therefore, God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served created things rather than the Creator - who is forever praised. Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion. Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them."
Whew!! Basically, what the above says is that when you, or your society rejects the evidence for God and the existence of God, God allows the natural consequences to follow. The overriding consequence is moral relativism.
Every man does what seems right in his own eyes, because there is no transcendent, absolute authority. Man become lawless and shameless. If not for government checking the immoral behavior of men, there would be anarchy. This is the post modernist world we live in. If it FEELS good, do it, NOT, if it's GOOD, do it. Anyway, the moral relativist would say who says what's "good" and what's "evil"; what's "right" and what's "wrong" .
With reference to the above passage from Romans 1 in the Christian Bible: "they worshipped and served created things rather than the Creator",
The late Carl Sagan, popular astrophysicist of the late 20th century had this to say about the Sun,
"Our ancestors worshipped the Sun, and they were far from foolish. It makes good sense to revere the Sun and the stars because we are their children."
What say the experts?...Here are a few quotes from other brilliant people, who, I believe, are as spiritually blind as Dr. Sagan was. They have studied the marvels of creation and still reject a personal Creator God.
STEPHEN HAWKING - Astrophysicist
"The laws of science, as we know them at present, contain many fundamental numbers, like the size of the electric charge of the electron and the ratio of the masses of the proton and electron ... The remarkable fact is that the values of these numbers seem to have been very finely adjusted to make possible the development of life."
Perhaps the most brilliant theoretical physicist alive looks right past the evidence and remains a non-theist.
SIR FRED HOYLE - Astrophysicist
"A common sense interpretation of the facts suggest that a superintellect has monkeyed with the physics, as well as with chemistry and biology, and that there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature. The numbers (i.e., probabilities) one calculates from the facts seem to me so overwhelming as to put this conclusion almost beyond question."
Dr. Hoyle calculated the odds that chemicals would naturally come together anywhere in the universe to cause life to be 1 chance in 10*40000 (that's 1 with 40000 zeroes after it). There are only 10*80 atoms in the entire universe!! He has been holding to the idea that life came to Earth from aliens (wherever they came from), pushing away the common sense answer of a transcendent, Intelligent Creator.
FRANCIS CRICK - Nobel Prize winner
"An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be ALMOST a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going."
Crick was an atheist until his death.
JAMES TREFIL - Physicist
"For, as we have seen in (my) book, the evidence we have at present clearly favors the conclusion that we are alone. From the formation of the sun as a single G star to the evolution of the earth's atmosphere to the conditions of the earth's recent climate, everything points to the same conclusion - we are special.
But we are living on an insignificant speck of rock going around an undistinguished star in a low-rent section of the galaxy. We are not the center of the universe.
If I were a religious man, I would say that everything we have learned about life in the past twenty years shows that we are unique, and therefore special in God's sight. Instead I shall say that what we have learned shows that it matters a great deal what happens to us."
It seems Trefil is doing what non-theist, moral relativists do very well; taking a leap to the "upper story" of significance. He concludes we are unique in the universe. He correctly states that we are not at the physical center of the universe, but I believe we are at the spiritual center of the universe. While stating he is not a religious man, he speaks about a God and says it matters what happens to us. Why would it matter if we are just mortal beings destined to live for a moment, then perish into oblivion?
PAUL DAVIES - Astrophysicist
"The present arrangement of matter and energy, with matter spread thinly at relatively low density, in the form of stars and gas clouds would, apparently, only result from a very special choice of initial conditions. Roger Penrose has computed the odds against the observed universe appearing by accident . . . He estimates a figure of 1 chance in 10*10*30 (10 to the 10th power to the 30th power (infinitesimal))"
Davies has written much about the universe. To his credit, he has migrated away from an atheistic world view. One wonders if he may become a follower of Jesus Christ some day!?
Interestingly, Stephen Hawking has commented about the aloneless of life on Earth in the universe. He cannot figure out why the God of the Bible wouldn't have just created one Sun, one Earth, and one Moon for man and been "done with it." He believes that God should be a "God of economy." Remember what the Bible says, though, "My ways are not your ways, and my thoughts are not your thoughts." What the brilliant Hawking fails to grasp, unbelievably, is that the mass-density of the universe as it is (matter spread thinly at low density) is an absolute requirement for the generation of stars and galaxies, which is a precursor for life to be possible. The Creator, in His infinite wisdom, set up the initial conditions perfectly so that the Creation Event (Big Bang) would form a trillion galaxies and a billion trillion stars. God went to all that trouble, so for a brief time on planet Earth, man would have a nice place to live! "The heavens declare the glory of God." The immensity of the universe is a visible show and declaration of the omnipotence of God.
STEPHEN HAWKING - Astrophysicist
"If the rate of expansion one second after the big bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand million million, the universe would have recollapsed before it ever reached its present state . . . The odds against a universe like ours emerging out of something like the big band are enormous . . . What is it that breaths fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? . . . I think clearly there are religious implications whenever you start to discuss the origins of the universe. There must be religious overtones. But I think most scientists prefer to shy away from the religious side of it."
Hawking was once married to a Christian, and at last report was socializing with people who believe in God. Perhaps Hawking will someday work past some of the problems discussed in the last section and become a follower of Jesus Christ.
HEINZ PAGELS - Physicist
"Where are these physical LAWS written into the void? What 'tells' the void that it is pregnant with a possible universe? It would seem that even the void is subject to LAW, a logic that exists prior to (our) space and time."
The void was subject to The LAWGIVER...God !!
SIR ARTHUR EDDINGTON - Astrophysicist
"The idea of a universal mind or Logos (WORD, sound familiar?) would be, I think, a fairly plausible inference from the present state of scientific theory . . . Philosophically, the notion of a beginning of the present order of Nature is repugnant to me . . . I should like to find a genuine loophole."
These statements by Eddington show a resignation to the true state of affairs . . . then his ego gets in the way of the conclusion he should draw about a transcendent Creator. This is a problem of the WILL . . . a spiritual crisis.
SIR EDMUND WHITTAKER - Astronomer
"It is simpler to postulate creation ex nihilo - Divine will constituting Nature from nothingness."
Whittaker died in 1956. I do not know what his beliefs were.
ROBERT JASTROW - Astrophysicist
"For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries."
At least Dr. Jastrow is honest. He recognizes that what Genesis says about the creation of the universe matches perfectly with what science has discovered. He continues to reject the God of the Bible for a more "satisfying" materialistic answer.
STEVEN WEINBERG - Astrophysicist
"Some cosmologists are philosophically attracted to the oscillating universe model, especially because, like the steady-state model, it nicely avoids the problem of Genesis. It is hard to see (with the present evidence) how the universe could have previously experienced an infinite number of cycles (a particularly attractive model for Hindus (reincarnation)).
As I write this I happen to be in an airplane at 30,000 feet, flying over Wyoming en route home to Boston. Below, the earth looks very soft and comfortable - fluffy clouds here and there, snow turning pink as the sun sets, roads stretching straight across the country from one town to another. It is very hard to realize that this all is just a tiny part of an overwhelmingly hostile universe. It is even harder to realize that this present universe has evolved from an unspeakably unfamiliar early condition, and faces a future extinction of endless cold of intolerable heat. THE MORE THE UNIVERSE SEEMS COMPREHENSIBLE, THE MORE IT ALSO SEEMS POINTLESS.
There is no solace in the fruits of our research, but there is at least some consolation in the research itself. Men and women are not content to comfort themselves with tales of gods and giants, or to confine their thoughts to the daily affairs of life; they also build telescopes and satellites and accelerators, and sit at their desks for endless hours working out the meaning of the data they gather. The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy."
In times of deep reflection, the hopelessness of the scientific materialist's world view surfaces. At least Weinberg is honest, and admits the logical conclusions of his chosen world view; an existence of ultimate insignificance and purposelessness. Believers should pity and pray for a renewed mind for him, and those who believe the same.
ROBERT GANGE - Engineer
When asked about God creating the universe 14 billion years ago, just for us, and the multiple billions of lifeless galaxies around us, and the apparent waste of time and materials, Christian engineer Gange replied,
"My answer is, Isaiah 55:8, 'My thoughts are not your thoughts, and my ways are not your ways. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than yours and my thoughts than yours.' The moment anybody begins to pretend that they can understand the thoughts of God, they have become an imbecile.
Time is something very strange - it's a space - dimension, actually . . . we know that time dialates . . . Time is so unbelievably not what it appears to be that there really isn't a problem with billions of years. God's outside of it all (the 14 billion years may be the blink of an eye for God)." For more from Dr. Gange, click HERE
What a "gear-stripping" change of perspective from Weinberg to Gange. I believe Gange has followed the evidence where it leads, and Weinberg, with the evidence right in front of him, clings to his materialistic world view and anti-supernatural bias.
In summary, it seems that belief in the Creator is NOT an intellectual stretch . . . but rather a problem of the WILL of the person. It's an age-old problem.
Is the Christian Gospel logical?
For the sake of discussion, agree with me that a personal, Super-Intelligent Designer created the universe and mankind. We can then consider seven cosmic "histories" that might have been. The first six are NEUTRAL OR BAD NEWS. The only option that points to the personal, Super-Intelligent Creator is GOOD NEWS:
1) God created nothing. He "enjoyed" Himself.
2) God created and sustained a beautiful universe, but didn't create advanced, intelligent life. He appreciated it as a master artist would.
3) God created the universe, AND self-conscious, free-willed beings like Himself. The persons eventually declared their independence from Him. The situation became very unpleasant, and God exterminated them. A failed experiment.
4) God created the universe, AND self-conscious beings, except He programmed their wills so that they could ONLY do His will. It was NOT possible for them to mess up His universe. God and His beings were "happy", but the beings served God out of compulsion - NOT love. They were like zombies under a spell.
The previous four histories did NOT happen.
5) God created free-will beings in His image, the beings rebelled against His will, the situation was unpleasant, and so God left the mess, went off to His extra-dimensions, letting the beings create their own hell and eventually exterminate themselves.
Many believe this is our situation. However, such an idea is not consistent or plausible with an all-knowing, all-caring God that would have created the universe and intelligent beings in the first place. A God who carefully designed the universe could and would certainly care for it, and not simply abandon it out of "frustration".6) God created beings with free will. When the beings break God's moral laws, He just says, "Oh well, that's O.K. Try not to to do it again." He grades on the curve! God is not true to Himself and the perfect justice He demands. Everyone who does more "good" than "evil" goes to God's presence after physical death. Everyone who is basically descent will surely go to heaven, right?
But with God doing nothing about all the injustices against Him and His beings, this is not the best "history". It's NOT a "history" that shows the Creator's forethought or care.7) By process of elimination, we come to a "history" that looks exactly like what we see depicted in the Christian Bible.
We have the rebellion described above...BUT God has a PLAN. The all-knowing Creator did NOT force the beings to follow Him. He did NOT walk out on them, or exterminate the beings, or overlook their moral crimes. He DID pronounce a just sentence for their moral crimes against Him...a spiritual DEATH SENTENCE. But, He also granted a FULL PARDON for those who would take it. He took the rap for us, supplying a way of rescue.
That's the GOOD NEWS !
I have come to the conclusion that the Christian Bible is unique in it's accurate description of the creation of all physical reality: the universe, planet earth, and life, and the description of the spiritual world that affects us as described in #7 above. The Christian Bible:
describes a beginning and the Creation Event of the universe
You may ask,
"How can you know that the Christian Bible is the
'Word of God' and without error?"The Bible claims to be God's Word, but that's not good enough for a non-believer. Any writing can make that claim. The accurate description of the creation and fashioning of the universe and earth in the book of Genesis is an indication of a supernatural author. The Bible has predicted the future without error. That is an indication that it had a supernatural author. Archeology has shown that the Bible account is without error with regard to the history of the Holy Land. As I pointed out earlier, the Bible had knowledge about physical reality (a round earth "hanging" in space, for example) before it was known in the culture. For much more detail on the evidence for the Bible being God's Word, click HERE. For a few other articles on the historical reliability and authenticity of the Bible click HERE and HERE and HERE.
The Christian Bible reveals the character of God. God is:
A question we hear regarding God is:
"How can an all-powerful, perfectly good, loving God allow all the evil and suffering in the world".
The person will claim that given the world we see, either God is all-powerful and not perfectly good, or perfectly good and not all-powerful. The question and answer shows a misunderstanding of the total character of God, and how He relates with humans. God created Man with free will, so with the fallen nature of Man, most evil and suffering are not stopped (are allowed) by God.
A moral relativist cannot complain about moral evil and suffering, and at the same time complain about justice NOT being served out by a loving God. He cannot have it both ways. For instance, if a society decided to be morally evil to a group of it's own citizens and caused them great suffering (God removes protection from the group), and then He punished the society for causing harm to the group, you can't complain about the punishment of the society. God allows Man free will, and at the same time is a judge of the evildoers (Remember, though, moral relativists truly have no "good" or "evil" in their world view. Good and evil are just personal tastes that may twist in the wind).
Evil exists in this world because God has given man a free will. Since God did not create man to be a robot, man is able to have friendship with and truly love God, for love is an act of man's free will. As you know very well, you can't force someone to respect you or love you. The dark side of free will is straying from God's way.
The most significant problem between God and mankind is SIN.
Sin is an unpopular word in today's world of moral relativism.
Sin is an old military term which simply meant missing a target. If an archer shot at a target and completely missed it, he committed a sin. It didn't matter how far off he was from the edge of the target. There were no small sins or large sins, justs sins.
The same applies to God's judgment system. If you commit one sin in your whole life, you've missed His perfect target. In the book of Romans in the Bible, God says,
"All have sinned (missed the perfect target) and fall short of the glory of God." Have you ever told a lie? Have you ever stolen something? Have you ever dishonored your parents? Have you ever coveted something your neighbor had? I have. I'm a sinner (a misser of the perfect target of goodness) in the eyes of the transcendent God. The first sin was committed by the first woman and man God created.
They fell and passed that sin nature on to everyone else. We can't play the blame game though. If I would have been the first man, I would have done the same thing.
So, what's the big deal about sin. If you do just a little more good than bad in this life, can't you just get a passing grade, and enter the presence of God? NO. Look at it this way. In man's civil court, if you break a law, you pay. If you obey every traffic law, and then run a red light, and an officer sees you and pulls you over, what would you say. "Officer, I've obeyed every traffic law today, and now you're giving me a ticket for running a red light. That's not fair!" Of course it's fair. You have practiced more good behavior than bad behavior on the road, but you still owe the court the $150 fine for the offense; running a red light. In the Bible, Romans 6:23 categorically states that
"the wages of sin is (spiritual) death
(separation from God in this life and the next)"The penalty for sinning seems pretty harsh. But, remember God is perfectly holy and just. He cannot allow any sin to enter His presence in the heavenly realm. The target is perfection, and no man has, or ever will reach it. Psalm 5:4-5 says,
"You are NOT a God who takes pleasure in evil;
with you the wicked cannot dwell. The arrogant
cannot stand in your presence."
Man has NO way to erase his own sin, not through good works or sacrifice. It's up to God to provide the way for a man to get back into a perfect and right relationship with Him.
Look at the situation this way. In civil court if you have committed an offense against your fellow man, you can expect to receive punishment. That's BAD news for you. It would be GOOD news if someone who was able, stepped up and paid the debt for you. In our relationship with the perfectly holy judge, God, we must pay the debt, or the penalty, but we aren't able to do so. The ONLY way our debt against God can be pardoned is for a Being that has never sinned to stand in our place and pay the penalty. The only Being who can do this is God Himself.
Too many people look at Jesus and religion as some sort of "life enhancement". Jesus is like a "flavor of ice cream", just someone that some people personally prefer to relate with, instead of "a continous supply of oxygen", which we all NEED TO SURVIVE. Religion may be thought as something that we "do" one day a week, then live life as we want on the other days. Most people in our world don't look at Jesus as anti-venom, something that is necessary for our survival.
According to the Bible, Jesus isn't a crutch, or a band-aid to get us through life.
Jesus is the only ANTIDOTE or RESCUER for our predicament. What do I mean by this?
Let's suppose you are out hiking, and a rattlesnake bites you. Your hiking companion opens the first-aid kit and takes out a large band-aid and covers the fang punctures, and says, "there, that should do it." You are succumbing to the venom, but you still realize your hiking friend is an idiot. He hasn't done a thing for you. You need anti-venom, and fast. You need THE ANTIDOTE, or you will die. Nothing else will do. In real life,
Jesus is the ANTI-VENON,
the ANTIDOTE.Nothing else (good works), and No one else will do.
God has chosen to relate to man in ways that man can understand. In times past, God chose to cover the sins of humans by the blood sacrifice of animals without physical defects. The blood sacrifice of animals was only the credit card payment on the penalty of sin, though. The gospel (GOOD news) of the Christian Bible is that God Himself stepped out of His transcendent realm, came to earth, lived a perfect life without sin, had his blood shed, and died
a sacrificial death
to once and for all pay the debt that was owed to God for every moral crime (sin) that every man did and ever would commit against Him. God made the way so man could be brought back into perfect relationship with Him. When a man simply accepts this blood sacrifice gift from God, God forgets every sin that that man has committed or will commit. That man is looked on as perfect by God, and that man can enter into God's presence after he dies. Romans 3:22 says,
"This righteousness (perfection) from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe (in His blood sacrifice, redemptive death)" One of the most quoted passages in the Bible is John 3:16,
"For God so loved the world that He gave his only son, that whoever believes in Him (who He was and what He did for us) will not perish (be eternally separated from God), but have eternal life (with God)"
THAT, IN A NUTSHELL, IS THE GOOD NEWS OF JESUS CHRIST
If you're a non-believer, the last few paragraphs may seem utterly crazy to you. The fact that I believe it may make you think that I have lost my mind. God and the Bible anticipated this reaction. In fact, God says the non-believer will call this GOOD NEWS foolishness,
"For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who (don't believe), but to us who are being save it is the power of God...God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. (Man) demands miraculous signs and looks for wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified: a stumblingblock...and foolishness to (Man).
- I Corinthians 1:21-23The method of attaining perfection in God's eyes was designed by God to be understandable to every human being; from a child to the most brilliant professor. This universal message is NOT just available to people who can figure it out. It's for everybody, and knowable even to the simplest mind. A right relationship with God, so a person can enter His presence at death, is accomplished by believing that
Jesus Christ's sacrificial death paid the debt for your moral crimes (sins) against a Holy, Righteous, Just God.
If you are a non-believer, you still may not believe this TRUE TRUTH after this presentation (it's a free will decision), but if you are intellectually honest, you have to admit that it is a coherent belief system.
If you are a non-believer, you may have heard this
"Final Jeopardy answer" from a Follower of Jesus Christ,"Jesus is the answer" Some non-believers have remarked, "What's the question?" And maybe with good reason. To the shame of many Christians, they do not know how to give a coherent presentation and defense of their faith in God and Jesus Christ. Well, the Final Jeopardy question is,
"Who paid the moral crimes (sin) debt for man, getting him into a POSSIBLE right relationship with a Holy God who cannot tolerate the sin we have committed against Him, therefore allowing that man to enter into God's presence after death?" I want to make one thing perfectly clear here. I am NOT saying that the above is just TRUE FOR ME; something I personally believe in that gives me comfort in this life. It's NOT a subjective, relativistic truth; just my truth. It's TRUE TRUTH. The sin problem and the remedy is true for everyone. It's an absolute truth of the human condition, which is offensive to hundreds of millions of human beings, because Christians say Jesus is the only way to God.
If you are an non-believer, you may be saying,
"I think Jesus was a great moral teacher, but NOT God.
That's too much for me to believe."The truth of the matter is, though, Jesus doesn't give you that option as an answer to the most important question ever asked in history. Jesus asked his disciples in Matthew 16:15,
"Who do you say I am?" The apostle Peter answered,
"You are the Messiah,
the Son of the living God."Jesus replied,
"Blessed are you...for this was not revealed to you by man, but by my Father in heaven." Notice, Jesus did NOT say, "No Peter, I'm not God, I'm just a great moral teacher."
The following are other quotes from Jesus regarding His being God and the ONLY WAY to reconciliation with God:
"I am THE light of the world."
- John 8:12"I tell you the truth, before Abraham was born, I AM." At this, they (the Jewish religious leaders) picked up stones to stone him.
- John 8:58-59
(They did this because I AM means the self-existent one, or GOD. He was a blasphemer, they thought.)"I am THE WAY, and THE TRUTH, and THE LIFE. No one comes to the Father except through me."
- John 14:6"I am THE GATE; whoever enters through me will be saved."
- John 10:9The Bible says of Jesus:
"Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved."
- Acts 4:12"All the prophets testify about him that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name."
- Acts 10:43"For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all men..."
- I Timothy 2:5Of course, Jesus can claim that He is GOD, and the Bible can claim He is GOD...but, so what?? Anyone can claim he is GOD. He has to live up to the claims. Jesus seems to have lived up to the claims. God the Father accepted Jesus' blood sacrifice. We know this because He was raised from the dead.
The resurrection of Jesus from the dead was, and still is, the cornerstone of the Christian faith. If it did NOT happen, Christianity is a false faith. If Jesus was NOT raised from the dead after His blood sacrifice then,
"our faith is futile; we are still in our sins. Then those also who have died in Christ are lost. If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are to be pitied more than all men."
- I Corinthians 15There is compelling evidence for the resurrection of Jesus. There are many excellent books on the subject. Here are three:
More Than a Carpenter - Josh Mc Dowell
Who Moved the Stone - Frank Morison
The Case for Christ - Lee StrobelAll the evidence for the resurrection of Jesus passes the test of convincing legal proof in a court of law.
Another strong piece of evidence of the resurrection of Jesus is the Shroud of Turin. There is good evidence that the shroud is the burial cloth of Jesus. His image was somehow "scorched" onto the cloth when the resurrection took place. For more on the Shroud of Turin, click HERE.
Click HERE for more information on Jesus Christ.
The great truth about the Christian faith is that it is based on scientific and historical evidence. You do NOT have to accept it on blind faith. Ironically, many of the bedrock tenets of Darwinian evolution are accepted on blind faith.
"Religion and science are opposed . . . but only in the same sense as that in which my thumb and forefinger are opposed - and between the two, one can grasp everything."
- Sir William Bragg -
Let's just say that you have come to believe the Christian world view I have presented above. What do you need to do now?
For "the answer", click HERE.
