Like I've said before there is a truth that is above all things and stands all by itself without the support of other truths. Humanists would say that this would be the universe. They would say that that is all there is and all there ever will be. They tell us that we are an accident of nature and that we don't have any true purpose for being on the Earth. My wife loves the part of one of Frank Peretti's messages called God's Way or My Way that points out how our children can go to biology class in high school and become so depressed and disillusioned and then they wonder why we have to give our kids classes on self-esteem so they won't go around killing each other. She loves it because she literally had a biology class that depressed her and made her question her existence and then had a 'self-esteem' class back to back with it.
This is what Ken Ham said in one of their Answer's in Genesis:
‘I’ve learnt a tremendous amount today,’ the woman stated. ‘This seminar has really helped my faith. Please tell me, how do I answer these objections from Bill, my husband?’
I thought for a moment, and then asked her, ‘Do you and Bill have any children?’
‘Why yes, we have three children, eight years old up to 13,’ she replied.
I told her, ‘If your husband was in front of me right now, I think I would say something like this to him.
‘Bill, I applaud your faith in God’s Word. That is very commendable. In fact, the only way we can know truth is because we have a revelation from the One who is truth. From the perspective of understanding what Christianity is all about, you are quite right, the Bible is all we need.
‘However, as you are aware, people will challenge you and your children in regard to this faith in the Bible. In fact, through the media and the education system, children and adults are bombarded with evolutionary ideas. They are being told there is no God. and that all life can be accounted for by chance random processes.
‘If we are honest, there is no way we can shelter our children from hearing such attacks on the Bible. They may hear it from their teachers at school, friends in the neighborhood, a television program, the local newspaper, a magazine they pick up somewhere, a museum, college, or, sadly, even in some churches! No matter how much you try to isolate your children from evolution, they will hear this teaching now or later.
‘Bill, what are you going to say to your children (whether young, or grown up), when they come and ask such questions as:
“‘Dad, I’ve heard that dinosaurs lived millions of years ago, and this disagrees with the Bible, is this correct?”
“‘Dad, the majority of scientists say they can prove man evolved from some ape-like creature, and that the story of Adam and Eve is not true—do you have an answer for this?”
“‘Dad, the majority of people say you can’t trust the Bible because it is just a religious book, but real science has proved that God did not create the world the way it says in the Bible. Why shouldn’t I believe the scientists, after all they did put man on the moon, and have made wonderful inventions like computers?”
“‘Dad, where did the fossils come from? Do they fit with the Bible? If Genesis is not true, why should I believe the rest of the Bible, particularly when Jesus Christ quoted from Genesis? Is it true that there was never a world flood like the Bible states in Genesis? Every museum I’ve seen states clearly that all the scientific evidence proves evolution so why should I accept your faith in the Bible?”
‘Bill, the problem is that while the Bible is, in a sense, all we need in regard to understanding salvation, the Bible also tells us the following:
“‘But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear” [I Peter 3:15].
“‘Prove all things, hold fast to that which is good” [I Thessalonians 5:21].
‘In other words, Bill, Christianity is not a blind faith, it is an objective faith—a rational logical faith based on facts. It is not like the blind, subjective faith of the evolutionist. Although we can’t scientifically prove our faith, because we can’t scientifically PROVE anything in relation to the past, none the less, we can logically defend our faith.
‘When men teach things that are contrary to Scripture, and endeavor to destroy people’s faith in God’s Word, then we are commanded to oppose this.
‘“Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ”( II Corinthians 10:5). (emphasis added)
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