I re-run this post occasionally because it contains perhaps the most sophomoric, High-School wiseguy “question” ever asked on this blog: “Would you be willing to stand in a court of law [as if that were the most authoritative test of truth!] and say Jonah did in fact spend three days in the belly of a fish?”
Of course, if we are going to live as if the Bible really were fiction… wait a minute. I’m afraid the world already does that. It’s what we mean by a fallen world.
It’d be really something, to see how some of those Charlie High School raps play out in the highest court of all…
It always highly irritates me to hear jerks on TV explaining how we “know” the earth is millions of years old.
Saying the Bible is fiction just tears it. I am glad I have nothing to do with Costco.
I heard this this morning on Fox:
https://www.foxnews.com/media/finnish-lawmaker-being-charged-expressing-religious-views-speaks-out
Thanks for the link. They’ve been persecuting this woman for years. I last blogged about her in 2020, and mean to update it today.
The theory of evolution and a billions of year old earth are fiction. Those who live their according to these falsehoods are living fictional lives.
I’ve been in a few conversations about the Bible where the person questioning the Bible would claim to agree with most of the Bible, but then pick out one thing and say that it wasn’t credible because of that. God created all of this; anything else would be a smaller miracle. Stuff a guy in a fish, that’s impossible for a human, but for a spirit creature capable of creating the Universe, keeping someone alive through that would be child’s play. God wrote the rules, and He can suspend them if He chooses. That’s why His miracles work, but if I tried the same thing, I would fail.
The point here is that we can’t be selective about believing the Bible. If Jesus was dead for three days, and then raised from the dead; well, that’s the fact. I don’t know how God did that. I can’t even reverse a broken fingernail and have to go to a dentist if I have a toothache, but God made us and He can take care of anything that comes along, including death.
A few years back, I watched some videos about the complexity of a living cell. Just the elements of a cell, the amino acids, are vastly complex and could not randomly assemble from raw materials. That’s it; one cell is a greater miracle than Jonah. Romans 4:17 states: “as it is written, ‘I have made you the father of many nations’–in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.”
Now, if I call something into existence … let’s just say that I shouldn’t hold my breath waiting for it to happen. God’s works are incomprehensible to humans. We can make absolutely nothing, we can only make changes in matter which God created. We can breed a strain of animals to enhance a particular trait, but we are merely manipulating the genetic information that the Creator put in place. We can build impressive things, but only by exploiting the characteristics of the materials God made. We learned to make airplanes from studying the wings of birds and the best airplane ever designed cannot even begin to perform the maneuvers a sparrow can perform without breaking a sweat.
Every blade of grass, every tree, every bite of food.is a miracle. The tomatoes that were part of my lunch, grew out of the ground. I’d call that a miracle. More to the point, that is at least as much a miracle as Jonah and the big fish. We can’t accept the miracles of God, which includes our very sustenance, and then refuse to acknowledge other miracles. Everything that happens, happens because a loving God created the material realm and made the rest possible. The bad that happens only occurs because of human shortcomings.
As long as I’m up on the soapbox, I saw something about Stephen Fry recently, which rankled me. He is famed for his atheism, but when asked what he would say if he found out that there was a God and could speak to Him. Fry replied that he would ask God why he permitted cancer in children, and do so very disrespectfully. Let’s not forget, this is a fallen world. Children don’t get cancer because of God. Sin has caused our problems, including cancer and the other horrid things we face in this life. Blaming God for our problems is totally illogical.
Mr. Fry is a fat-head.
He sure is full of himself.