Scientific Proof of the Supernatural

There are two competing views of where mankind came from. One is that we were created by God and the other is that we evolved over billions of years by the unchanging natural processes of the laws of nature.

The Bible teaches that there was a beginning to creation where God supernaturally brought creation and the laws of nature into being. Darwinism teaches complex life evolved as the unchanging laws of nature randomly interacted over billons of years. Creationism requires a beginning of space and time and Darwinism demands that there was no beginning of space and time but that the laws of nature have always existed. Which is true?

Click on the picture to watch a video that proves from science that the Bible was right; there was a beginning to the universe. Even NASA admits that the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate from a finite point at which it began.

The supernatural is something by definition that is outside the laws of nature. One such law of nature is the law of inertia. It teaches that an object not in motion will remain still unless acted upon by an outside force. And an object in motion will remain in motion unless acted upon by an outside force. That is a law of nature that universally applies to all creation. Now if the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate (and we know it is) then what is causing it? Science calls that "dark energy" and "dark matter" because they don’t' know what is causing it.

If the universe had a beginning (and we know it did from science) then what caused it to start? What put it in motion? According to law of inertia, something had to set it in motion. Creation could not by the very laws of science set it's self in motion. Therefore, there has to be something outside of creation (the laws of nature) that set creation (the laws of nature) in motion. By definition something outside of this creation is something supernatural. Therefore, the laws of science have proven that there is a supernatural realm. Something exists outside of our universe's reality that created and started this universe. There is a supernatural dimension and it has been proven by science.

And not only is there a supernatural realm it obviously set this universe in motion from a finite point and is causing it to expand at an ever increasing speed in defiance to the laws of nature. If there is a supernatural dimension which created this universe and the laws that govern it, then it's not unscientific to believe that these laws could be changed by the one who created them. Therefore, it is not unscientific to believe in God or that Jesus rose from the dead.

Hebrews 11:3 "Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear."

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Turn, Turn, Turn

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The cold winter breeze is growing warmer. The snow covered fields surrounding my house are melting away to show the earth once again. Soon it will be time to plant. The farmers do their work according to the seasons. The seasons change and so does the work that lies before the farmer. They work in hope of the harvest. To everything.. Turn, Turn, Turn.

Genesis 8:22 says "As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease." The earth keeps spinning in its rotation around the sun ushering in seasons of change through the passing years. And so it is with our lives. As things change around us, we must react appropriately to ensure a plentiful harvest of saved souls.

We plant our garden in hope of a harvest in the fall. We teach our children when they are young in hope of a harvest of righteousness in their lives as they mature. (See Proverbs 22:6) We invest our money in hopes of an inheritance to give to our children. (Proverbs 17:14). We gently instruct those who don’t know God’s Word, “in the hope that God will grant them repentance leading them to a knowledge of the truth.” (See 2 Timothy 2:25)

Sometimes, change doesn’t happen fast enough for our liking. We want to plant one day and reap the next but it takes more time then that. We want our children to act mature sooner than they will. We want our investments to grow quicker then they do. We want to teach someone about the Bible once and for them to accept it immediately. We expect the new Christian to be completely mature in Christ the day after his baptism, but we must wait for the seasons of change to slowly come to fulfillment. A harvest takes time.

James 5: 7-8 reminds us, “Be patient, then, brothers, until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer waits for the land to yield its valuable crop and how patient he is for the autumn and spring rains. You too, be patient and stand firm, because the Lord’s coming is near.”

Sometimes change comes too fast. Sometimes, we have been lazy and have not prepared ourselves for the inevitable change that is coming. Proverbs 20:4 warns us that “A sluggard does not plow in season; so at harvest time he looks but finds nothing.” For some a harvest never comes, because they never planted. Other times the fields are white unto harvest, but God’s people ignore the work that needs to be done. There is a limited time to plant and a limited opportunity to harvest. God’s people must be ready in season and out of season to preach the Word (See 2 Timothy 4:2) for a harvest of souls.

Sometimes we want to give up. Seasons change too quickly or too slowly for our liking and we become discouraged. However, the law of the harvest is an undeniable principle built into how this world operates. You will reap what you sow. Keep planting. Be Patient. Keep watering and weeding. Be prepared in season and out of season, and be ready for a harvest of righteousness. It will come, so don’t give up.

Galatians 6:7-9 says, “Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. The one who sows to please his flesh, from that flesh will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.”

God Designed Sex

While many people will be focused on love and romance this week due to the fact many will be celebrating an old pagan fertility ritual which we call Valentines day, I thought I would share some thoughts about sex and romance...

God created us male and female. He gave us the romantic relationship and designed it to be enjoyed in the purity of the marriage relationship. Hebrews 13:4 "Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral."

Marriage is not just for procreation, though it is for that. . It is not just for giving balanced parenting to children, though it is for that. It is not just for companionship, though it is for that. It is also for fulfilling our God given sensual desire for romance and sexual fulfillment.

The Apostle Paul wrote as directed by the Holy Spirit in 1 Corinthians 7:9 "But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion."

Part of the purpose of marriage was to fulfill that burning passion in a godly way. Marriage is God's way to keep us from giving into sexual immorality. For example, we all desire food. Our hunger is natural. There is nothing wrong with eating provided that the food is ours. If you are hungry you buy some food and eat. But if you go and steal food from the store and eat it you will go to jail for eating what was not yours. There is a right and a wrong way to feed your hunger. The same is true of sexual desire. There is a right way to meet that desire and a wrong way. If you marry then you can fulfill that desire in a pure way. If you have sex outside of the marriage you are stealing that which is not yours to take.

Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 7:2-5 "But since there is so much immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband. The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. The wife’s body does not belong to her alone but also to her husband. In the same way, the husband’s body does not belong to him alone but also to his wife. Do not deprive each other except by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control."

When married you have ownership of your spouse’s body and it is right to fulfill your desire with their body. Proverbs 5:18-19 says, "May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth. A loving doe, a graceful deer— may her breasts satisfy you always, may you ever be captivated by her love." God wants you to find sexual fulfillment from your spouse. In fact Paul teaches that it's wrong to withhold your body from your spouse. When you marry you give your spouse the right to make love to you and fulfill their desires with you. It's wrong for a man to withhold sex from his wife. It's wrong for a wife to withhold sex from her husband. Your body belongs to your spouse.

If you were hungry for food and you decided to fulfill that desire by eating poison berries, you would then die from it. Why? Because your body was not designed to eat that food. Likewise, your body was not designed to have sex outside of marriage. The Bible says in
1 Corinthians 6:13 "The body is not meant for sexual immorality." Your body was not designed to be having sex with a person outside of marriage.

If you took a brand new Corvette and drove it into a lake it would sink because it was not meant to float or go in water. In fact, when you pulled the car out of the water it wouldn't run anymore. Why? It wasn't meant for the water. If you drug a new speed boat down the road without a trailer, it would destroy it because it wasn't meant for the road. It was meant for the water. In fact, it would put a hole in the bottom and ruin it. Likewise, when we commit sexual immorality, it ruins us. It brings death. Our body was not meant to have sex outside of marriage. And when we do it can damage us emotionally and kill us physically. Millions are dying of sexually transmitted disease right now that would never have happened if it was not for sexual immorality.

Because sexual immorality is such a danger, we teach and teach on it until some get the idea that sex is dirty and wrong. But sex inside of marriage is pure and beautiful. That message must not be lost. God made us sexual creatures. He gave us that desire. He wants us to enjoy that romantic love relationship. But he wants us to enjoy it in the right way. As you long for romance as we all do, I hope you will fulfill that desire in a way that is pure and blessed before God. Too many of us give into sinful desires when we are young and then live with a life long regrets. Young people, don't allow that to be your fate.

Those who really enjoy sex the best are those whose physical desires for romance are being fulfilled in the committed and loving relationship of marriage as God designed. When ever we do something God's way it's always longer lasting and sweeter. True fulfillment only comes from doing things God's way. I hope those of you who are young will wait to fulfill that desire by God's design. True love waits.

The following is a quote I read from Al Janssen:

"Why is Song of Solomon in the canon of Scripture?... It tells of how King Solomon discovered a beautiful woman and fell inlove with her...[T]he open expression of sensuality makes some uncomfortable, wondering if such words should even be publishedin our holy book. Jewish and Christian scholars generally agree that Song of Solomon is part of Scripture for two reasons. First,it upholds a picture of marital love as it was intended. Here is a glimpse of what God desired when He joined man and wife in the Garden of Eden and told them to 'be fruitful and multiply.' For centuries marriages have occurred for many reasons---for economicor political benefits, because the families got along, because the man needed an heir, because it was convenient and that's what young people did. But marriage primarily for reasons of love has become commonplace only in the last couple of centuries, and notin all parts of the world. Is that what God really wanted marriage to be---an expression of passionate love? In the Song of Solomon we glimpse the possibilities: Man and woman can thoroughly enjoy each other for life within the confines of marriage. Whether marriage emerges from a romance or is arranged, God's intentionis that every married couple experience the fullness of romanticlove for each other." ---Al Janssen

Give Thanks...

Tony Dungy Takes Time To Thank God After The Superbowl

I don't know a lot about Tony Dungy's personal beliefs. I just know what I see on the field during games and hear during his interviews. He could totally be a false teacher for all I know. But from what I have seen I have been impressed. He is my favorite football coach of all time replacing Tom Landry.

The quotes I have read are pretty good. It is nice to see someone give glory to God in front of the largest TV audience of the year and one of the top ten TV audiences in human history.

It's nice to see someone who's character not only shines when he wins the super bowl but when he lost in the playoffs last year after losing his son in a prescription drug overdose.

Most teams would celebrate with champaign and a drunken party after winning the super bowl. But as the above picture shows that the Indianapolis Colts elected to set the World Championship Super Bowl trophy down to the side on a table and bow on their knees and thank God for the blessings he gave them. It sure looks like his priorities are right to me.

See what Tony Dungy Said about the Character of his teams players. Click here. The Pacers coach couldn't say that.

See what Coach Lovie Smith of the Chicago Bears has to say by clicking here.

Why Do I Need Confessed To Angels?

Question: I noticed in the article on confession that Jesus said he would confess us before the angels of God. I know why Jesus would need to acknowledge me before God the Father on Judgment Day, but why do I need confessed before the angels?

Answer: For those who may not have read the other article, Jesus said in Luke 12:8-9, "I tell you, whoever acknowledges me before men; the Son of Man will also acknowledge him before the angels of God. But he who disowns me before men will be disowned before the angels of God.” The question is why Jesus needs to acknowledge or confess us to the angels of God.

In the Jewish teaching (and Jesus teaching), it is the angels of God who transport the souls of the dead to Paradise and Hades at death and Heaven and Hell at the final Judgment. So if Jesus did not acknowledge you to the angels they would drag you from his presence and cast you into outer darkness with a weeping and gnashing of teeth, where the worm never dies and the fire never goes out. (See Matthew 13:49-50 and Mark 9:48)

A first century non-Christian Jewish Historian named Flavious Josephus wrote in his book Discourse to the Greeks concerning Hades the following,

“But as to the unjust, they are dragged by force to the left hand by the angels allotted for punishment, no longer going with a good-will, but as prisoners driven by violence; to whom are sent the angels appointed over them to reproach them and threaten them with their terrible looks, and to thrust them still downwards. Now those angels that are set over these souls drag them into the neighborhood of hell itself; who, when they are hard by it, continually hear the noise of it, and do not stand clear of the hot vapor itself; but when they have a near view of this spectacle, as of a terrible and exceeding great prospect of fire, they are struck with a fearful expectation of a future judgment, and in effect punished thereby.”

Josephus’ teaching was the common Rabbinical teaching of the day on the afterlife. This was what the Pharisees and most Jews in Jesus’ day believed. And if you read his complete writings on this subject, you will find they match up with Jesus teaching very well. It is one thing the Pharisees seemed to have gotten right. You can read his complete teaching on the afterlife by clicking here. Not only did Jesus teach that angels transport us after death, but that they will separate us based on our salvation or damnation on the Day of Judgment.

Jesus depicted the role of the angels of God in several parables. For example in one parable Jesus compared Himself to a king giving a wedding banquet. Matthew 22:10-13 says, “So the servants went out into the streets and gathered all the people they could find, both good and bad, and the wedding hall was filled with guests. But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes. ‘Friend,’ he asked, ‘how did you get in here without wedding clothes?’ The man was speechless. Then the king told the attendants, ‘Tie him hand and foot, and throw him outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” The servants of the king in this parable are obviously representing the angels of God.

Jesus told them another parable in Matthew 13: 24-30, "The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field. But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away. When the wheat sprouted and formed heads, then the weeds also appeared. The owner’s servants came to him and said, ‘Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Where then did the weeds come from?’ ‘An enemy did this,’ he replied. The servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and pull them up?’ ‘No,’ he answered, ‘because while you are pulling the weeds, you may root up the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn.’"

Jesus explains the above parable in Matthew 13:37-42 saying, "The one who sowed the good seed is the Son of Man. The field is the world, and the good seed stands for the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil one, and the enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels. As the weeds are pulled up and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of the age. The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil. They will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

Jesus makes it very clear in Matthew 13:47-50 when he says, "Once again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was let down into the lake and caught all kinds of fish. When it was full, the fishermen pulled it up on the shore. Then they sat down and collected the good fish in baskets, but threw the bad away. This is how it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come and separate the wicked from the righteous and throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

On the Day of Judgment when we all stand before the throne of God and an angel, who is separating the righteous from the wicked, takes hold of you, and says, “Jesus, what do I do with this one?” What do you want Jesus to do? Do you want to Him to acknowledge you or disown you? Do you want him to say, “Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness!” (Matthew 25:23) or do you want him to say, “Tie him hand and foot, and throw him outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth?” (Matthew 22:13) The choice is yours to make now. Your fate will be determined by what you do now, not at Judgment. (See 2 Corinthians 5:10)

Luke 12:8-9 says, "I tell you, whoever acknowledges me before men; the Son of Man will also acknowledge him before the angels of God. But he who disowns me before men will be disowned before the angels of God.”