Posted by
Woodenblog on Saturday, November 03, 2007 4:03:11 PM
Many a person, atheist, or agnostic, has related how the Bible is simply a book of books written by old dead guys, that God doesn't exist, couldn't exist, never existed, that God is a figment of people's imagination, that God was something made up by early man to keep society in check, and thus is no longer necessary, because that is the purpose of the state.
How wrong on all counts. Firstly, let's examine those who say that old dead men wrote the Bible, that it is irrelevant, and that these were simply rants. Certainly, old dead men wrote the Bible. On that we can all agree. The question is were they men of God, ordained by God to write what they did, and clearly men who had met God, whether in the flesh, or in His spirit form.
Some question whether God was/is a real entity, but we clearly see from various scriptures that God intervened, if not directly, then indirectly, whether through His angels, or through divine intervention, in people's lives. There are too many instance related for this to be a fluke. Jacob wrestled with God, most likely Jesus, the son of God. Daniel was saved from being eaten by lions while locked in a den of them for a long period of time. Jonah was swallowed by a whale, spending three days, and three nights in its belly, after rejecting God's call to go to Nineveh to warn them of impending doom. Those who think that God was irrelevant, or that these stories are simply fables, fail to see the relevance today in prophetic happenings, most of prophecy sealed up until the end time. That meaning we are, or were, incapable of understanding most of it until the latter days of the end of the age of man.
The story of Jesus Himself is detailed by at least four of His disciples, and mentioned by several more. They relate how many of them saw Him after His death in spirit form. How could that be unless He was real. Even speculating that angels may have had a hand must include the fact that angels come from somewhere. The multitude of people's touched by the loving hand of Christ is too innumerable to mention.
To those who state that the Bible is just a bunch of books written by old dead men, not relevant today, simply fiction, deliberate lies, or fairy tales, these preclude the very, and actual hand God had in saving the Israelites from Egyptian bondage, walking and talking with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, intervening in the life of Lot when He was about to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah, speaking directly to Noah instructing him to build an ark, and bringing the multitude of beasts to that ark to be saved from the destruction of the Earth through flood, the longest day wherein God lengthened the day of battle for the Israelites so as to help them become victorious, and not lose their battle edge, the striking down of the walls of Jericho simply by blowing trumpets, and walking in circles around that walled citadel, saving one portion of it in which a believer in God resided, and so many more interventions, and direct communications related, it is hard to imagine that there isn't a living entity of magnificent power, so powerful in fact as to stop the Earth from turning, to cause great gales in which people are swept off a ship and swallowed by a whale, to open a path through the Red Sea wherein the Israelites made passage, and then watching as the pursuing Egyptian army is swallowed up by the massive walls of water. Knowing that the Moabites, whom the Israelites first came into contact with after leaving Egypt, were defeated without a man amongst the Israelites killed. Thousands of men meeting in battle, and only those of the opposition end up dead? How preposterous! Yet written down for all posterity.
Does God exist? I would have to say given the evidence, that He does. That many, even after reading this, could still deny His existence is a mystery to me.