Evidence that the Bible is God's Word.
By: Steven B. Smethers DD
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Wouldn't it be nice if we had all of the answers to life? If we could turn to one source of knowledge for every answer we ever needed in our lives. A manual for mankind to follow. Life would be so easy and uncomplicated.

The Bible has NEVER been disproven on any point although many have tried for centures to do just that. The Bible is always correct. All of the answers that God knew we would ever need are in the Bible. The ultimate handbook for living in this world and it's without flaw.

Approximately 40 different people, working independently, were used by God to write the Bible. They came from different geographic areas, different political systems and different social situations. They came from different walks of life; including a king, farmer, shepherd, doctor, fisherman, priest, philosopher and tax collector. They ranged from educated to uneducated, from rich to poor. They lived on three different continents, spanning a period of more than 1,500 years.

Amazingly, when all of these independent writings are put together, they read as a single coordinated volume. The harmony within and among the 66 writings that comprise the Bible is evidence that the Bible is God's book.

The scriptures have survived throughout all time despite repeated attempts by government leaders to destroy ALL Bibles and or related scriptures. All these rulers and their doctorins have dissapeared but the Bible has survived EVERY attempt to destroy it. Evidence that a devine power is protecting God's Word.

The original writers of the Bible, wrote things which contradicted the common scientific beliefs of the days when it was written.

EARTH PILLARS:
The Egyptians, the scientists of their day, believed that the earth was supported by five giant pillars. But the Bible said God "suspends the earth over nothing"

Job 26:7 He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, [and] hangeth the earth upon nothing.

FLAT EARTH:
Nearly everyone believed the earth was flat. But the Bible said the earth is a "circle" (word then had same meaning as our "sphere" )

Isaiah 40:22 [It is] he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof [are] as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:

PHYSICAL MATTER:
Scientists used to believe that everything physical could be seen with the naked eye. But the Bible, recognizing molecular composition, said the "universe was formed at God's command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible" .

Hebrews 11:3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.

More recent discoveries include:

VISUAL IMAGES:
It was universally assumed that if anyone was to "see" something, he had to observe it directly with his own eyes at the moment it happened. But the Bible said that when Jesus Christ returns to earth, "every eye will see him". Until this century, critics scoffed at that statement, saying it would be impossible for people throughout the world to see a single event simultaneously, but now we know it's possible with television.

GENETICS:
Many; perhaps most; modern day scientists believe that man evolved as an animal over millions of years through a process of natural selection and survival of the fittest. But the Bible said God created man and woman as a special human (not animal) creation .

Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his [own] image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Recent discoveries by scientists with newer and better instruments, through mitochondrion DNA analysis, show that all races have a common ancestor, a woman who lived thousands of years ago, leaving resilient genes carried by all of mankind. In the scientific community - as in the Bible - they call her "Eve."

In 1861, the French Academy of Science listed 51 "incontrovertible facts" which supposedly proved the Bible to be wrong. But today, in light of new knowledge, no scientist would believe more than a few, if any, of those 51 statements. There are now tens of thousands of obsolete books on science which reputable scientists will no longer use.

Science is constantly changing, and each change usually brings it closer to the Bible. The fact that the Bible makes statements that were out of step with the thinking of the day - even though later proved correct - reveals more evidence that the writers were given superior knowledge of the world. The science books have changed, but the Bible (in it's original context)is more credible than ever. The Bible is never wrong.

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Written by: Rev. Steven B. Smethers DD
Senior Pastor / Administrator - UCMI 1998