SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES WITH BOB
January 1, 2014
IN THE BEGINNING, GOD
Life springs from life. I remember as a child that mother baked all our bread in the oven of our kitchen stove. She always made certain that she had a jar with a sizable amount of dough left. That jar was placed in our cool cellar to be mixed with the ingredients of the next time she baked. I think that was called “saur-dough,” which some bakeries still offer. On occasions the yeast would die, and the cycle was broken until we went to the bakery in town and bought fresh.
The Africans we lived near in Namibia bought a lot of live yeast, not for bead, but to hasten the fermentation of the “Bantu-beer” they buried every Monday in kerosene tins. It would be dug up the following Saturday ready for the week end.
The “theory” of evolution is proved to be false, by the fact that there has to be physical life to produce physical life, and even then it has to be of the same species. I have seen a “liger” in a zoo, but both lions and tigers are of the same species. You will never see a pony born of a cow no matter how many millions of years you might wait. Neither will you ever see “spontaneous life” produced. Life is necessary to beget life.
The beginning of a new year is a good time to think about the beginning of life. It is really no mystery. Our Lord has told us exactly where life began.
GENESIS
“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” Genesis 1:1. This verse answers the question of the source of life, (God), and the next verse, specifically, the Spirit. After he had created a perfect environment for man, he introduced mankind in verse 27. “so God created man in his own image.” The trees and plants produced all manner of fruit, and seed, these were for food, “To you it shall be for meat.” Since man had the ability to make his own decisions, there had to be a “test” and that was the one forbidden tree. If you have ever eaten an unripe persimmon that is how I picture that one tree. Our’s was a beautiful tree, but bitter as can be imagined before a strong frost made it palatable. .
John 1:1-3, confirms these same facts, when it reads, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made.” Here is the third member of the Godhead; JESUS CHRIST
Genesis adds the fact that he “spoke” all the material universe into being, and “saw that it was good! Man thinks himself great when he is able to release a tiny bit of that creation in an atom bomb, but he can not imagine that will happen when God lets this material universe fly apart as a whole! One wonders if Go is going to just let us blow ourselves up in just that way while we meddle with his creation in the name of “science.”
Don’t delay, accept his only way to prepare, accept him, the Lord of Lords, and King of Kings, as your personal saviour, safe in His church. “And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.” (were being saved) There is no other way, “I am the way, the truth, and the life, no man cometh unto the Father but by me.) Jesus. (Read Acts 2:38.)
The psalmist who wrote so many of the Psalms, wrote in 14:1, “The fool hath said in his heart, There s no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.” He repeats the same line in Psalm 53:1. We have been forbidden to call any person a fool, but this is God speaking through David. I thought of these words as I looked out my hotel window at the junction of King David and George Washington Streets, at the walls of old Jerusalem. Earlier that day we had looked over the valley at the temple site as seen from the Mount of Olives. It was there that Jesus wept for the city that had rejected and killed the prophets. Later that week, we attended Pentecost services at the Garden Tomb. We had walked where Jesus had also walked many years before, but the reminders are still there to be seen today.
To quote Albert Einstein: “The more I study science, the more I believe in God.”
God has told us where mankind came from, science never will, because it has made it’s decision and looks only for proofs, ignoring those that don’t agree with their theories.
At the Sterkfontein caves, near Johannesburg, South Africa I remember such a “proof” a few bone fragments embedded in a plaster skull. The fragments were from the cave, across the road, but the rest was by “unsanctified” imagination pieced together and dated, so far back that no one could prove them wrong.
There is a beginning, and there is an end, both are recorded in our Bibles. The beginning in Genesis 1, and John 1, and the ending in Revelation, the last few chapters.
“He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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MAKE A NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION TO:
READ YOUR BIBLE THROUGH IN A DIFFERENT VERSION THIS YEAR
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