I believe in the truth of the bible.

There are some however who confuse truth of the Bible with truth of interpretation.

There is a difference.

We have had many truths of interpretation over the last 2000 years, some accepted as gospel and some not so much. When God gave the first five books of the Old Testament to Moses on Mt. Sinai He didn't give us a manual on how to interpret it.

There is no doubt that we live in an age of knowledge and enlightenment, and that there are many truths coming to us in the field of science that we didn't have in the early days of Christianity. Maybe it is time to re-evaluate our "interpretations". Some would say that those interpretations were divine-led, but man is imperfect and doesn't always hear God's will perfectly. That is why we have so many "perfect" versions and interpretations of the Bible in print today. They are the same ones who say we should "never question the Bible". FULL POST

According to your high school physics book there are 4 forces in the universe. These are gravity, the electromagnetic force, the nuclear binding force, and the electro-weak force. We really don’t interact with the nuclear forces except in special circumstances involving atomic energy. Gravity and electromagnetism are with us every day, controlling how we interact with the world.

Christians believe that there is a 5^th force that they call “faith” and that it also plays a part in our lives. Non-Christians would say “where is the evidence”, or “prove its existence to me”, but it is more a personal force that only interacts with someone who exhibits a belief in its existence. It is not measurable nor are its effects as visible as gravity. If it does exist, where does it come from and what does it affect that we can see?

It may surprise some that there is no Hebrew word for “faith”, yet Jesus emphasized its power throughout His ministry. The word in Greek that is closest in meaning is “Pisteuo” which means “to believe”. FULL POST

Of all the topics of the Bible, the Trinity of God is probably the least understood and the most mysterious concept of all. Most students of the bible, theologians included, find it hard to conceptualize God as three unique people, yet one entity. There is a way to explain it in understandable terms through, of all things, science and mathematics.

String theory is an idea in quantum physics that predicts that there are many universes, of which our own is one, each made up of different numbers and varieties of dimensions. Our universe has only 3 spatial dimensions and one time dimension.

M-theory, a special form of “string theory”, predicts that there are 11 dimensions in all, that make up the complete “multi-verse”. We inhabit a universe that consists of only 3 physical dimensions plus time, of those 11.  Since we only see three of those dimensions, length, width, and height, we have to ask where are the other dimensions. We experience time only because we move through it, but can’t see it. FULL POST

I wrote an article on heaven some time back and since then I have had many thoughts about it. I always was a daydreamer in my youth, thinking about being the first person to set foot on the moon, being an astronomer with my own observatory, and such fantasies.

I recently read an article about multiple universes in which the author hypothesized that perhaps we can live out our fantasies by jumping into parallel universes in which all our fantasies have come true. I thought, “What if there is a parallel universe in which I made all the right decisions that led to my actually being the first astronaut on the moon”. Could this be the “reward” Jesus spoke of in Heaven?

It occurred to me that it would be the wonderful if we could somehow jump back into this life at any point we desire and have it take a different path that would lead to those fantasies coming true. There are so many possibilities, I don’t think I could ever exhaust them all. FULL POST

You have to be careful if you are a Christian how you phrase a question concerning the Bible. If you simply ask how the flood of Noah covered the earth, you will quickly get a response that suggests that you doubt the Bible’s accuracy. That is wrong.

Christians should never be discouraged from asking questions about how God works. Yet that is what we do to our youth. We tell them to not question “The Bible”, when what we really mean is “don’t question our interpretation of the Bible”. BIG DIFFERENCE.

Why should young college age adults come to church when we say the world is only 6000 years old or that the earth was completely covered with water 5000 years ago, when they see and hear convincing evidence in their classrooms that those “interpretations”, (there’s that word again), can’t possibly be true.

As a person who has studied and taught science most of my adult life, I have examined the scriptures and adapted my interpretations to where I believe there is NO conflict with what the book of Genesis says and what we now know to be true in science. I could write volumes on how God was right “in the beginning” and how man was wrong in how he read His Word describing it, but that is not the point of this article. FULL POST

I read this definition of atheism on the internet and it made me start to think about what it is saying.

"Atheism may be defined as the belief that there was nothing and nothing happened to nothing and then nothing magically exploded for no reason, creating everything, and then a bunch of everything magically rearranged itself into self-replicating bits which then turned into dinosaurs. Makes perfect sense" .

This was credited to an anonymous donor but it raises a serious question about how
everything began.

The Bible says that the universe began by God calling it into being with a spoken
word. Science describes the process as a result of the "Big Bang" in which an
unimaginable amount of energy was suddenly created from the emptiness of space
and became the "stuff" the universe came from. Who provided the energy?

Scientists today will all agree that matter can be created from nothing in a device that
causes high energy particles to collide into one another. When this happens other particles are created that eventually decay into pure energy. The process can be reversed by injecting pure energy into a system and two particles can be created from the emptiness of space that exist for a short time before re-combining in a burst of energy that destroys both particles. They call this creating matter from nothing. FULL POST

I once heard a philosopher say,

"The only things that are real are those things that do not change and are eternal". I used to know what "real" meant. It was all that I can see, touch, smell, taste, and hear. Life was simple then.

I read in newspapers and science journals now that "reality" is an illusion. One article even said nothing is real, and that everything we see and experience is a hologram at the edge of the "real" universe, which is actually a black hole.

I find myself searching for reality every time I watch the news on TV. Things that I used to think were true are no longer true, according to news commentators. Religion is no longer the foundation of our country and our beliefs. God is a fantasy, according to
prominent scientists, and the universe really did come into existence without any help or cause. And it is more important to be "politically correct" than to be factually correct or right. You are no longer allowed to speak the "truth" because there are "many truths" and your version may offend someone. FULL POST

Where is God? That is the question Atheists, and Christians, sometimes ask when it appears that the world is crumbling around  us. Anti-religious science will say that He is nowhere to be seen in the universe, as if the artist of a great painting would paint himself into the picture.

Such arguments suggest that God is subject to the very physical laws that He created when He created everything. God doesn't break the very laws He created, except to perform miracles.

That is the old argument of applying Newtonian physics to the problem when it was replaced by Einstein's Relativity Theory and Quantum Mechanics almost a hundred years ago. Most who use that argument against God's existence, desperately hold on to that paradigm even though it is obsolete when applied to matters of cosmic proportions.

If God were in this universe where would He be? We have to go to the frontiers of today's science to get an answer. M-Theory, an offshoot of String Theory says that there is a larger universe of 11 dimensions that encloses our 3 dimensional universe.

If God were in this universe, He have to be as a 3 dimensional entity, greatly restricting Him in His presence. It would be like a 3 dimensional painter entering the 2 dimensional world of one of his paintings. God did just that 2000 years ago when He came to earth as Jesus. FULL POST

                 Part 3: The Worldwide Flood, Explained

Any explanation for what caused the catastrophe we call "Noah's Flood" must necessarily take into account other events that were recorded around the world at the same time. There is now no doubt that 5200 years ago, something happened that caused glaciers to instantly freeze in the Andes and Alps, changed the Sahara Desert from wetlands to one of the driest places on earth, and caused civilization all over the world to record that a great flood took place.

There are also the many descriptions in the book of Genesis and the Sumerian "Flood Epic" that the flood was accompanied by torrential rain, earthquakes, dark skies with thunder and lightning, devastation beyond belief, and an after effect that lasted for
months after the waters receded. In both accounts, there was only one survivor.

When I began researching this phenomenon some years ago, one of the first sources that I imagined for something of this magnitude was a direct comet impact with planet earth. My first thoughts were that such an impact would have the effects described above but where would the impact zone be. At the time I was considering the Black Sea Basin as the probably site of the flood because two researchers from Princeton had discovered that it also contained a catastrophic flood around 7000 years ago. FULL POST

             The Location of Noah's Flood

5200 years ago something monumental happened to planet earth that changed climate and mankind forever. That event, I strongly believe, was also responsible for
the great flood in the book of Genesis.

Does this mean that I think God was not responsible? NO.

I believe that all things under Heaven are the work of God, and that He uses any means necessary, including using natural forces, to accomplish His purpose.

If I say, a comet struck the earth and caused the flood, does that mean I do
not believe God moved the comet to cause the disaster. No.

That is just as logical as saying that God did it instantly with a great miracle. The
entire universe is a miracle and under His authority, and it has never made
sense that God would break the very physical laws He created when He can accomplish the same goal through natural means.

But how did this disaster take place?

In the 1990's, two geologists from Princeton University, William Ryan and Walter Pitman, were doing research on the floor of the Black Sea when they saw something that they couldn't explain. They saw "shore lines" on the bottom of the sea, indicating that at some time past there was a lake at that level surrounded by "dry land". Core
drillings confirmed that 6000 - 8000 years ago all the fossils consisted of
fresh water life, and that there was an event that changed it to marine life of
the salt-water variety, almost overnight. FULL POST