Friday, August 30, 2013
Would You Bet Your Life On It?
"In
Midieval times people believed the Earth was only a few thousand years old. In
1897 Lord Kelvin... calculated that the earth was between 24 million and 400
million years old... In 1905 Ernest Rutherford used radioactive decay of
minerals to arrive at a date of 500 million years. By 1907 Boltwood had
increased this estimate to 1.64 billion years using the same technique...we are
now convinced that the oldest rocks on the Earth are almost 4 billion years
old. " (rsc.org) So within the past
one hundred years the scientists' estimates changed by 4.3 billion years!! That
a pretty big re-calculation! Would you trust
a company that changed their figures that drastically?
When
I was in grade school I was indoctrinated to believe I should eat from the 5
food groups every day. By the time I was
in high school at least three of those food groups were considered
problematic. Today, many people in the
health industry today refuse to eat several of those food groups. Should I believe my grade school text books,
my high school text books or the current text books? Incidentally, God gave Moses some health advice
3300 years ago; I find it interesting
that after all these years mankind is coming around to many of the same dietary
opinions.
Grant
it, mankind is always learning and adapting to new discoveries. Nonetheless, it is baffling when people readily discard long-proven
truths in favor of theories devised by the same "authorities" who
change their answers about the age of the earth by billions of years. Why should a person bet their world view and
their eternal life on constructs that change so drastically?
My
point is that God made us and He has done His best to communicate truths to us,
but, for some reason, we are prone to sneer at God's advice and embrace that of
our peers, even though our peers have changed their opinions drastically in
very short periods of time. When it
comes to my life and my afterlife, I am very uncomfortable banking on the shifting
opinions mentioned above. I need a more
solid foundation; something that has been proven rather than something that
always has to be altered to fit the current theories.
1500
years ago the Bible predicted a Messiah would come and die. Jesus came, claimed to be the Messiah, and accurately predicted his death and his
resurrection. It came to pass before his
contemporaries' very eyes. He rose from
the dead and came out of tomb guarded by a contingent of the world's elite
fighting force. Then he ascended into
heaven in front of a crowd of 500 people.
These events were so real and tangible, that his followers were
transformed from cowards into bold miracle workers and martyrs.
Which
source are you going to trust your eternal life to? Are you going to let your world view be
shaped by a community that changes its facts and figures by billions in a matter of a few decades? Or will you trust someone who says something
and it comes to pass in every detail?
Will you trust your spiritual heath to people who can't quite agree on
what is healthy or healthy for you, or will you trust it to someone who came
back from the grave? God never
miscalculates, and he loved you enough to come in the form of a man and provide
evidence that His Word is true. Furthermore,
He will respond to your sincere efforts to know Him, because He wants you to
have abundant life now and forever. You can bet your life on it!
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