Lie: The Bible is Scientifically Inaccurate!

 I have 4 topics that I just want to kind of quickly go over…just to give you a quick…science look…and Bible look.  There is no way possible to go into deep details or discuss these topics extensively but I hope that scraping the surface will at least get you thinking that God is BIG and the Bible is His Word!

 #1  The only stars that exist are the stars we see.

 Scientists have changed how many stars they believe are in the universe since the beginning of time!  Only 3,000 can be seen with the naked eye.  Before telescopes this caused a problem for scientists.  Scientists estimate at this current time that there are 10 to the 21 power of stars.  The number of grains of sand on the earth is estimated to be 10 to the 25 power.  The Bible has said there are tons of stars for a long time! 

 Genesis 22:17

Jeremiah 33:22

 #2 The water cycle was officially discovered in 30 BC.

German Engineer Marcus Vitruvius was the first person to officially document the water cycle in the year 30 B.C.  He was given credit for the water cycle.  The problem with that is that somewhere between 1600 and 1400 B.C. the multiple writers of scripture discussed the water cycle. 

 Psalm 135:7

Jeremiah 10:13

Job 36:27-29

Job 26:8

 #3 Dinosaurs were dead long before man walked the earth!

 Scientists predict that the earth is 4.6 Billion years old…they also believe that dinosaurs existed between 230 to 65 million years ago.  Humans are predicted by scientists to be 4.4 million years old.  Therefore…according to science…dinosaurs and people never lived together! 

 The Bible is believed to refer to Dinosaurs in Job 40:15-19 and Job 41:1-10

 #4  The world is flat!

 Aristotle suggested that the earth might be a sphere in his writings “On the Heavens.”  Aristotle lived from 384 to 322 B.C.  Therefore Aristotle is given credit for “SUGGESTING” that the earth was a sphere.  Of course we all know that Christopher Columbus and many other early travelers were told that the earth was flat.  Bible writers stated that the earth was a circle somewhere between 740 and 680 B.C.  At least 300 years before Aristotle suggested it! 

 Isaiah 40:22

 Again…I am not a scientist…I am not a Bible scholar…but I am a Bible believer…this is stuff that I have looked up and stuff that I believe to be true based on what Bible scholars and people that I trust have believed to be true from scripture!

 To sum up the whole Liar Liar topic…Satan is at work all around us here on this earth.  He is the father of lies and it is his native language!  He loves confusing us…causing us to argue…and most importantly he loves keeping our focus on anything BUT CHRIST!  As Christians we need to put our focus on Christ.  Put our differences aside and tell others how much Jesus loves them!

The lie I want us to look at in this blog is simple…but it is one that so many people struggle with regardless of how many times they are told it isn’t true.

Lie: No One Loves You!

Love is a funny thing.  In this world we typically LOVE someone…BECAUSE…

In other words we love conditionally…that means that we love someone because they fulfill a need in our lives. 

I love you because…you are beautiful.

I love you because…you are nice to me.

I love you because…you take good care of me.

I love you because…you are fun to be with.

We love based on our emotions and our feelings.  The problem with that is our emotions and feelings can change from one minute to the next. 

A perfect example of the love we have here on earth is shown through the divorce rate.  The divorce rate is HUGE…mainly because husbands and wives “fall out of love” all the time!  In other words most people come to rough times in a relationship and instead of loving each other and working through it…they give up…because it is easier to do. 

Honestly…Stella (my daughter) is the first person in this world that I have LOVED without a reason…I just love her!  With Holly (my wife)…I had to fall in love with her…I had to find that attraction…I had to find those things that made us click…just like she had to do with me.  But even the love I have for Stella that just IS or the love that I choose to have for Holly doesn’t even compare to the UNCONDITIONAL LOVE that God has for me or you.

1 John 4:8b

This verse tells us that “God is love.”  It is easy to tell people that and read that…but it is a personal choice to BELIEVE that. 

John 3:16

This verse is the most popular Bible verse in the entire world…people use this to explain how much God loves us. 

That verse tells us a couple things.

1: We- humans…throughout time have rejected God.  We didn’t listen to His word…whether spoken…Adam and Eve…or through scripture…all of us.  We crucified His perfect Son on a cross…for no reason!

2: God loved us anyway!

There are no conditions in that verse other than believing!  God doesn’t give us reasons or things we must do before He will love us…it just says…He loves us!

God’s love doesn’t change!  Malachi 3:6a is a straight up statement from God.  “I the Lord do not change.”  God’s love isn’t based on feelings or emotions!

God proved His love at the cross…He sent Jesus to pay our penalty!  That penalty took care of ALL of our mistakes!

Proverbs 10:12           Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers over all wrongs.

Just because God loves you doesn’t mean this world is going to be pleasant to you…or nice to you…or that life is going to be easy. 

John 15:18      If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first.

This world is not your home!  If you are a Christian…you belong to a better place.  This world…and the things of this world…HATE that!

John 16:33      I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace.  In this world you will have trouble.  But take heart!  I have overcome the world.

God loves us and God wants to use our lives for His glory.

Romans 8:35-39         Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?  Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?  As it is written:  For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.  No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.  For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

I want to leave you with a prayer from the Bible…this prayer was the last prayer Jesus prayed before He was arrested to be crucified.

John 17:20-23             My prayer is not for them alone.  I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you.  May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.  I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one:  I in them and you in me.  May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.

In the garden of Gethsemane, Jesus wanted the world to know that God the Father loved US just as much as He loved Him!!!  That is something special!!!

God knew this!

Therefore God had a plan.  God sent His son Jesus to this earth to die on a cross and take our punishment for sin!  Our part in all of this is to accept the payment and ask for forgiveness.  Once this happens we are saved and are guaranteed an eternity in heaven.  John 6:40. 

The Holy Spirit then comes into our life and gives us a new spirit that wants to do what is good and uplifting to God!

The lie Satan wants us to believe is:  “You Can Sin All You Want, Once You Are Saved!”

Satan wants us to believe that salvation is a get out of hell free card that gives us the freedom to sin!  Too often Christians believe this lie because we have the flesh and the Holy Spirit fighting within us.  Galatians 5:17.  Our bodies didn’t change at salvation.  Our soul didn’t change at salvation.  We gained the Holy Spirit at salvation and everything else stayed the same.  I wish that when I was saved all the other junk in my life could have been taken away and my only focus could be Christ.  Unfortunately this won’t happen until God takes me to heaven!  As long as I am on this earth I will struggle with sin and I will slip and fall because I am only human. 

If my focus is on Christ…this won’t happen as often.  But if my focus is on my flesh and my desires then I will sin and will sin much more often.  Some people say that eternal security is an excuse that people use to just do what they want…but coming from someone that believes in eternal security…I think that is far from the truth.  Romans 6:1, 2, 14, 15 teaches me that to continue to sin after salvation and not care is making a mockery of the death of Christ. 

Even after you are saved sin will still hurt your relationship with God!  It won’t end your relationship with God…when you were saved you became a child of God…nothing can change that!  But the sin in your life will find you out and God won’t allow His children to continue in sin without getting their attention!

So if you believe you can sin all you want and still be saved…my advice to you is to go back to scripture and think again!

Glenn Dillon & the Leaders @ The Place