Thursday, August 27, 2009

Where do you put your faith?

As a Christian, I put my faith in Jesus Christ. Why? Because I have sinned against the creator of the universe. I have violated His law. I am deserving of death and eternity in Hell. However, the creator sent His son, Jesus, to take the punishment that I deserve, which means that I can go to Heaven if I repent and put my trust in Him. There is nothing I could have done to earn my way into Heaven, it is only by God's grace and the sacrifice of His Son Jesus. I know this to be true because it is written in God's word (the Bible).

Many people do not put their faith in Jesus Christ. Why? Because they put their faith in science, which they believe proves that God does not exist and that the Bible is not true. They are choosing to reject God's free gift of salvation based on man's fallible theories that prove over and over again to be wrong. The Bible, however, has shown over and over again to be inerrant and true. Here are some examples of the Bible's accuracy (keep in mind that it was written over 2,000 years ago!):

Bible: Says the sun is on a circuit through space (Psalm 19:6)
Science: Thought the sun was stationary until recent years

Bible: Says the earth is a sphere - about 700 B.C. (Isaiah 40:22, Proverbs 8:27, Job 26:10)
Science: Thought the earth was flat - in 1492 people thought Christopher Columbus would sail of the edge of the "flat earth"

Bible: Says the earth hangs on nothing (Job 26:7)
Science: Did not discover this until 1650

Bible: Says that the stars cannot be numbered (Jeremiah 33:22)
Science: Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) said that there were 1,006 stars. In 1608, Galileo used a telescope to determine that the stars cannot be numbered.

Bible: Says that we should wash our hands in running water (Leviticus 15:13)
Science: Thought it was best to wash our hands in a bowl of standing water

Bible: Says that blood is the source of life (Leviticus 17:11)
Science: Thought that sick people should have their blood drained from their body

Basically, many "scientific discoveries" were not really discoveries because the Bible had said it all along. So my question to you is this, where will you put your faith? Will you put it in the inerrant, infallible word of God or the fallible ideas of man? I pray that God would open the eyes of all who are deceived so that they would know the truth and be set free.