05/14/2024 – “The Unknowable Love” / Hebrews 11: 5 – 6 – Comment attached / Join us in the start of another “read through the Bible in a year” starting June 3rd!

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The Proof Beyond Proofs

Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Dr. Peter Remnant, a Professor of Ancient Philosophy, was addressing a gathering of over 1000 university students when he began speaking about the Bible. He said, “There’s no proof in the Bible that God exists.” What a statement! But he was correct. The Scripture doesn’t spend time trying to prove the existence of God because the existence of God is known and understood. It begins, “In the beginning, God,” and goes on from there. God is. Now move on. Too many of us spend our walks wavering back and forth, afraid to step out of the boat, afraid to take God at His word, afraid to really live as if the God of love and miracles were really true. Don’t stay in nursery school. You’re called to graduate and do great things. God hasn’t called you to prove Him to yourself. He’s called you to know Him, serve Him, and to live your life with Him. Stop doubting. God is. Without Him, we wouldn’t be here. It’s time to step out, because in God, it’s not ‘seeing is believing.’ Rather, believe and you’ll see.

From Message #324 – The Unknowable Love 
Scripture: Hebrews 11:6

TODAY’S MISSION – Throw away any doubt today and step out in the hope, faith, love, and peace that comes from God. 

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“By faith, Enoch was taken away so that he did not experience death, and he was not to be found because God took him away. For prior to his transformation he was approved, having pleased God. Now without faith it is impossible to please God, for the one who draws near to Him must believe that He exists and rewards those who seek Him.” Hebrews 11: 5 – 6

For God’s wrath is revealed from heaven against all godlessness and unrighteousness of people who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth, since what can be known about God is evident among them, because God has shown it to them. From the creation of the world His invisible attributes, that is, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what He has made. As a result, people are without excuse. For though they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God or show gratitude. Instead, their thinking became nonsense, and their senseless minds were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man, birds, four-footed animals and reptiles.” Romans 1: 18-23. (*A)

(*A): Let’s take this stepwise in a very summarized stepwise fashion

• Albert Einstein gave the theory of relativity , “the Big Bang”. Even the pagan Greeks 2,500 or so years ago had a foundational common sense and obvious axiom: “ex nihilism nihil fit” , or, “out of nothing nothing comes”. So, if we have scientifically confirmed a “Big Bang”, we must have a “Big Banger”.
• In one of my all-time favorite mind expanding presentations over two decades ago, Stephen Meyer of Discovery Institute had a full day presentation that was essentially: Ok, I cannot prove God, but you can’t prove there isn’t a God. In fact, I don’t have nearly enough faith to be an atheist. haha. So, he built a stepwise case that calculated what are the chances that there isn’t a God, accumulating the probabilities of all the well established laws of science being synchronized as they are. For if they weren’t synchronized, life as we know it, would not exist.
• Sidebar – Darwin did not live to see the discovery of DNA and it’s complexity. DNA is essentially ordered and structured as a computer program, a multitude of of two way switches, “on” or “off”. The computer program needs an all powerful “programmer”, only an idiot would claim that it was random.
• So here is the picture: Creation, Fall, Redemption. Man fell from God’s grace in the garden, requiring a sinless redeemer. That brings us to “Redemption” and Jesus Christ, both God and fully man in the flesh. The Bible has been the most attacked book in all of history, yet no one can even put a small dent in it. Here are 365 Old Testament fulfilled prophecies, each hundreds if not thousands of years between recording and fulfillment:

https://www.hopefaithprayer.com/scriptures/old-testament-prophecies-jesus/

And we are just getting started with the evidence line-up; the Romans 1: 18-23 Truth is rock solid.

Join us in fellowship for another cycle of the 365 day read through the Bible using reading plan “Semikkah7”. (FYI: See my post dated “04/23/2024” using the search key on the date, under the “Blog_Starter Kit_Account Set up” category. If you need a login, email me at www.semikkah7.com. I can give you a quick tutorial on this WordPress tools and key features. The beauty of a bible study blog is it can go global, Christians supporting fellow Christians, be they “current” or “future”, God does not discern a difference. FYI possibility – A subject area can be created for a specific local fellowship group, foregoing the costs of setup and annual charges going forward.

Always connected through prayer and by His grace! Soli Deo Gloria!

Your brother in Christ,

Jimmy