The Book

I was just thinking a little bit while watching a video on Answers in Genesis. I have come across people who discredit Christianity by claiming that the Bible is just some old book. They think its full of fairy tales, like the Flood of Noah, and such. They won't trust this Book! They believe we shouldn't trust it either.

But why do so many people trust so many other books. I grew up trusting that encyclopedias were true and I always trusted them to be accurate, and never doubted. Why? Because I was always taught that the information in them was trustworthy. Teachers, my parents , and others gave me confidence in those books, all throughout my school years.

I used to (and still do) like dinosaurs. I believed every "science" book that taught how dinosaurs evolved and how man evolved too. No one EVER told me to question those books.

I was taught that fiction was make-believe. ok, fine. I was taught that science books were true and so were text-books, etc. So I never doubted them. But when it came to the Bible, there was always sort of a big, mysterious question mark about it. I wasn't really taught that it was a FACTUAL HISTORY book, even though growing up Catholic. I was not told that it was fiction either, but I sort of believed that the stories of the Bible (like the Flood, and the Parting of the Red Sea, etc) were things that happened in some mystical time and place far away and long ago. The Bible was a good book to live your life by, basically, but somehow, in my mind it never seemed to really be either fact or fiction. It was something to "believe", but yet it wasn't fact-based true reality, like "science".

It was never really impressed upon me that these were REAL EVENTS that actually happened to REAL PEOPLE, on this Earth, in REAL HISTORY!

Its really obvious to me now, as a Christian, how falsely indoctrinated and blinded people are. It's nothing new, of course. We are all blinded because of our sin nature. We all once loved the darkness and hated the light, until God in His own sovereign will saved us and in so doing, changed us (Christians), and enabled us to know and believe the truth. Only God can do that.

But, on top of our own sinful blinded nature, add the other things that are piling blindness on top of blindness to people. We are taught that evolution is true, all throughout our school years, and no-one tells us to question that, so we don't. And then when someone does question it, it seems like HERESY! "What? You mean you believe that book, the Bible? Science has disproven that!" And they laugh. These are unbelievers.

Sadly, many Christians agree with them! If they are believers at all, somehow they haven't been taught that the Bible is really a FACTUAL HISTORY book! Everything in there actually happened. It makes no sense to believe in fairy tales, but it makes great sense to believe in the truth. Not just philosophical 'truth', but actual historical fact. Why base our entire belief on a book unless it really IS TRUE?

Maybe the next time someone challenges me saying that the Bible is just a book made up by men, I think I'd like to ask them why they never questioned whether the encyclopedias were true or not. They were written by men too, after all. And Maybe I'd ask them, "Isn't it true that you believe what you believe because some 'scientists' said it was true? And you didn't question it? Why?Scientists are just fallible men and they make mistakes all the time. We see that in the fact that they continually revise their 'theories'." (And in the case of evolution, these 'theories' have been taught as 'fact', and shoved down all of our throats for many years.)

But the Bible is God's own revelation of Himself.

Of course, Only God can regenerate a person, not my words. Just a thought.

Chris