Bible Truity? Scientifc View 10-25-08

Sup all: So yesterday we were dead tired so sorry for no devo ):. But we catching up!!! So if you guys went to ybc yestday we talked about reading the Bible more...most of you don't go to ybc! But anyways so i didnt tell our special writer today his topic. Instead he chose it and that is probably another sign of God working in a weird way. Reason why is that we talked about reading the Bible more. And now someone decides to come and take it to the next step. Is the Bible true!? Well here's today devo (friend writer antony chu):

Were they real?

Read Genesis 1-2:2 Genesis 6-9 Joshua 10 Most people think that things in the Bible are theoretically impossible or unexplainable by science. Some people think that it’s because it’s not a science, that it’s completely faith based. However, science CAN go the distance to prove that many events and occurrences in the Bible are totally possible and/or have effects on today. For example, many people don’t really believe that the Creation is possible simply because it took ONLY 6 days to do so. However, if you look at Einstein’s special theory of relativity, it is completely possible. Einstein says that, going at very great speeds, speeds approaching that of light, time will get much, MUCH shorter. That means, say you’re traveling in a spaceship that can go that fast, then years will seem like minutes or seconds. At this rate, millions or even billions of years will equate to six days. This supports the view of the day-age theory of Creation, but in a different manner. The day-age theory says that the Bible’s definition of “days” means “a long time.” However, this is talking in a symbolic manner. What this science says is that it really occurred in six days, but according to someone outside of time. Another perfect example is that of the deluge (flood). Genesis says that all the fountains of the earth spewed forth its water and the floodgates of heaven opened. This caused the whole world to be submerged. There are several evidences for this, some scientific, some geological. The scientific evidence is in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, deposit of fossil fuel. Fossil fuel is formed when dead plant or animal remains are crushed under enormous heat and pressure. In order for that to happen, there must have been a large amount of plants in a localized place. This place would have been the Garden of Eden. Then there would have to be a force that would have driven all these plants into the Arabian Peninsula. This would have been the flood in the Bible. The numerous layers of earth would have caused enough pressure to break the bonds in the remains and turn them into what we have today: fossil fuel. One unexplainable and unscientific event that has no proof, at least secularly, is the extra day mentioned in the book of Joshua. Joshua held his staff up for a day, and God granted the Israelites an extra day so the enemy wouldn’t flee. When NASA was charting the days in the history of Earth, there was an unaccounted day in the chronology. Then one man in the room piped up and said, “I remember from my Sunday School class that God gave Joshua an extra day to fight.” Go ahead and believe… or not. It’s not up to me. It’s totally up to you. If you don’t, I suggest you read into it, research it some, and then draw your own conclusion. Anthony.