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Many people scoff at the Bible because it says that God created
life, yet if we look at NASA’s search for life, we see the
creation story has a lot of scientific truth. The Bible has
preceded many scientific discoveries. The Bible even predicted
the Chernobyl disaster.
Many scientists doubt the Bible, before I tell about the future
prophecies, I would like to digress and write about the Bible’s
record of reliability. It took scientists centuries to discover
the conditions necessary for life to be sustained: water, light
and atmosphere. But in the Bible’s story of creation, the
requirements are all there, written thousands of years before
science began.
The Bible says “In the beginning God created the heavens and the
Earth, and the Earth was without form, and void; and darkness
was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was upon
the face of the waters. In this passage, “the deep” and the
waters refer to the ocean which covered the whole Earth. “And
God said, “Let there be light, and there was light.” (Genesis
1:1-3) and God created light. Water and light are two conditions
that are necessary for any life form. Then the Bible says that
God separated the waters below form the water above. That is, he
made clouds, and he made an atmosphere. This Biblical quote was
written long before science existed. The Bible is far ahead of
its time.
Some scientists reject the Bible, but they are looking for life
in other planets based upon the same principles that are written
in the Bible. Scientists want to explore the moon Europa, one of
Saturn’s ice-covered moons to see if there is life underneath
its ice-covered surface. This mission will take place many years
from the time of this writing because the ice is 16 km thick,
and they need samples beneath that layer. But it will reveal
whether there is an ocean beneath the tough exterior and if
there are microorganisms. Biologists and Astronomers believe
that life on Earth would be like life on Earth, and that it
begins with unicellular organisms.
Here on Earth, scientists have discovered that there are
microorganisms living in the extreme conditions of the water
below Antarctica. According to NASA, there are undersea
volcanoes on Earth that create environments that can sustain
rich colonies of microbes (from the article “Divining Water on
Europa” found at http://science.msfc.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast09sep991.htm
. ). This is possible because light reaches through the
transparent ice. Based on these findings, they believe life
could exist on Europa, an ice covered body. Many of them do not
admit that the Bible says life began with a planet covered by
water and that God made life.
Those who believe that God did not make life, that life began
spontaneously by itself in a “primordial soup”, are rejecting
that law which is basic to science and to rational thinking. I
learned that Pasteur discovered even if you have the right
conditions to support life, life will not spontaneously begin to
exist. Before his discovery, people thought that life would
exist anywhere out of the blue. He sterilized a container and
the people expected that microorganisms would grow like mold or
bacteria. But they did not grow at all. Pasteur taught us
sterilization. Pasteur’s discovery led to our bathing and to
doctors sterilizing surgery implements. Without this law, (that
life does not exist spontaneously), we would still be ignorant
and in the dark ages of lack of hygiene and infant medicine.
The Bible has proven itself in the past. Consider how the Book
of Revelation predicted the Chernobyl disaster. Christian news
analyst Jack Van Impe tells how the name for Chernobyl
translated from the Ukrainian is called “Wormwood” in English.
The Bible says, “And the third angel sounded and there fell a
great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell
upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountain of the
waters; And the name of the star was Wormwood: and a third part
of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters
because it became bitter.” Revelation 8:10-11. A star in this
passage refers to nuclear energy. The Chernobyl disaster was
predicted in God’s book before people knew what radiation was.
The Bible speaks to our time, prophesizing a time of great
tribulation in which the sun will darken. There are two
scientific theories of how that could happen in the near future.
Jesus said, “Immediately after the tribulation of those days
shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her
light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of
the heaven shall be shaken.” (Mathew 24:29). First, Many
Christians believe that the "stars from heaven" refers to
missiles carrying multiple warheads launched into the sky. (In
this passage, “heaven” is in lowercase, referring to the sky).
According to scientists, a nuclear war could cause so much dust
to be put into the atmosphere, that the sun could be unable to
give its light, leading to the coldness of a nuclear winter.
Secondly, other Christians do not believe there will be a
nuclear war. Nevertheless, they point out that the sun could
stop shining for other reasons. Scientists have noticed that the
amount of sun spots is increasing. Astronomists fear that if
this trend continues, the sun could stop giving Earth most of
its light. Both scientific theories, the nuclear winter theory
and the increased sun spot theory, confirm Jesus’ words to us.
Many Christians who study the Bible are sure that we can escape
from that terrible time by believing in Jesus. The Bible is a
book of hope. These Christians are expecting Jesus to appear and
take the believers with him to safety. “When Christ, who is our
life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory”
(Colossians 3:4). At the beginning of the book of Revelation,
before the tribulation begins, it is written “behold, he cometh
with clouds; and every eye shall see him...” In the end, no
matter what happens, believers will go to heaven and have
eternal happiness.
Some scientists mock the Bible, its miracles and revelations
because they do not understand how they can occur. Those
scientists do not know yet that God made all things and can do
anything, our mind can not understand. However, the more that is
discovered about nature, the more realistic that the stories of
the Bible seem. The majority of scientists believe in God,
perhaps precisely because so much of nature is unfathomable and
unexplainable, and so far God’s prophecies have come true. The
accuracy of the Bible thus far is a lesson for us to read and
study the Bible, as important or more as reading the news, to
know what is likely to happen and how we can be saved.
You may be thinking that you want to know more about the topics
in this article. You may want to read books about “apologetics”,
which is the explanation of how the Bible is correct despite
rationalist and scientific objections. And you may be curious
about prophecy, I recommend "The Merciful God of Prophecy: His
Loving Plan for You in the End Times".
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