November 12, 2010
Clueless
I’m a fan of the CBS TV show the Amazing Race. In a recent segment two teams violated the rules by taking a taxi to their next destination rather than walking. Standing at the Pit-Stop ready to be checked in each team learned that they would incur 30 minute penalties. Host Phil Keogham asked each team, “Didn’t you read the clue?” Whether it is the early disciples, believers today or even non-believers, I can just picture Jesus asking, ‘Didn’t you read the clues?’
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Gail;
-----Not long ago I was rather upset with God over the way He so deeply encrypted His message in both the Bible and nature. Of nature, the Bible states that what can be known about God is made plain in His creation. But if it were so plain, why has the majority of people missed that knowledge and denied the message? The message concerning our need for salvation and the provision of that salvation in Jesus Christ is plain to those of us who know Him. But why is it such a puzzle for assembly to those who do not yet know? Since eternal death is such a dire consequence, why did He not direct Moses to state the Bible’s thesis outright at Genesis 1:1, maybe like, “All you people are in deep, deep doo-doo! Therefore I am going to become a man living among you named Jesus Christ and some other people called Romans are going to crucify Me. Yet I will raise myself from the dead and thus save all your sorry backsides, if you believe Me. Just wait and see! It will happen in a city called Jerusalem during a year that will eventually be known as AD33 (known as such by smart people, 33CE by not so smart ones.)” Pretty much all of this statement was given to man in His Holy Word centuries before He lived among us. It just was not summed up so succinctly in one scriptural context.
-----As a puzzle, the Bible is an absolute marvel. It is both solvable and impossible to have been devised by the minds of men. No book in all the libraries of the world is anything like it. Its very existence demands logical explanation. And by such demand, it is the keystone for any correctly, structured understanding of the empirical universe. But that is just the problem. Why did God create the universe with such an array of information that would be so misleading without the Bible’s information? Why did He direct history so that the actual parchments and papyri upon which the prophets and apostles and others who wrote the Bible were not dug up in these days for refuting the claims of higher criticism? Why does light reach the earth from places calculable to be at such a distance requiring 14.5 billion years of time for its journey when the Bible constructs only six thousand years of time after creation? If dinosaurs were created on the sixth day with man, why have paleontologists discovered no human fossils bearing dinosaur chomp marks, or no dinosaurs fossils bearing embedded spear points? Why do these fossils exist in different layers and their fossilized footprints in different track-beds? If the Bible is the pinnacle of importance for our knowledge, why does not all the information of empirical existence undeniably point to its truth?
-----Then, not long ago, it dawned upon me. Since I knew that fullness of knowledge could not be the basis for belief, for no man can even possibly begin to know all the information there is to know, then intuition must fill in the gaps. Since God made plenty of gaps by limiting the information available to us, what we choose for gap filler builds into the soul a reality not provable by all available clues, but provable by some. Then, our knowledge is made more of what fills in the gaps than it is made of concrete information. Therefore, we reveal ourselves in how we choose to fill in the gaps, while God reveals Himself in all information. As such, we each stand before His reality neatly sorted by our own choices.
Love you all,
Steve Corey
Some people just don't understand that there are consequences to our actions. The Lord means what he says. When we listen and obey him then we can receive his blessings, but when we decide to do it our way, usually we become unhappy as a result of our disobedience. And they wonder why God did this to us. Well, God doesn't do anything to us. We do it to ourselves.
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