Irrefutable Evidence Of Inspiration In the First Book Of The Bible
Posted: Thursday, August 04, 2011
by Joel Hendon
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People who close their minds against the proofs within the Holy Bible showing it is very obviously inspired, miss a lot. To an unprejudiced mind, no one can truthfully say the author of even the first book would have been able to write the book with out inspiration from God. Let us start at the beginning.
A famous philosopher, Herbert Spencer, who lived in the last part of the 19th century and into the first of the 20th, made the remark that he has been noted for. He stated that there were five basic fundamentals of science, that of time, force, action, space and matter. Keep in mind this conclusion of this came somewhere within the period of his life, between 1820 and 1903.
“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth“. (Genesis 1:1 KJV)
Look at that. Beginning (time), God (force), created (action), heavens (space) and the earth (matter). It would be difficult to try and figure out a ten word sentence which would make sense while incorporating those five words as the fundamentals we are speaking of. The best anyone can say to deny this is just saying something without substance. It would not have happened without inspiration, yet it was not intended, simply to get all of those five words in it. The sentence is profound if you do not even consider those fundamentals.
Moses was not trying intentionally to impress anyone with his knowledge or wisdom but was only writing what God was directing him to say. And Moses (assuming he is the author) was born in 1572 B.C. and he died at 120 years of age, or 1452 B.C. It is believed that he wrote the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy, the first five books of the Old Testament, and did so in the final 40 of his years. These five books are referred to as the Pentateuch and also called the Torah by the Jews. I’ve said all that to show you that these fundamentals were written by inspiration about 3425 years before the noted philosopher Spencer declared his statement of them.
This first verse of Genesis, is certainly not the only scientific facts that are brought out in the bible. And, keep in mind that at this early age, knowledge of science was in it’s primitive stage. Let’s notice a few more.
Let’s look at the efforts made in numbering the stars. As far back as 150 B.C., we have the record of one Hipparchus, an astronomer in his day, who undertook to get an accurate count of the stars. After much effort, he determined there were 1,026. Then, about 300 years later (150 A.D), Ptolemy took the time to count them and he determined there were 1,056. A fairly close number to that of Hipparchus. A man named Brahe gave his count in 1575 A.D. as being 777. Then Kepler gave his estimate 25 years later as 1,005. Now, just a few years ago Dr. Carl Sagan, a famous astronomer from Cornell, gave his estimate as being 25 sextillion! That is probably far off the real number but is certainly more realistic than those given by the ancients. That number is 25 followed with 21 zeros. Forget about this nation’s debt of 14 trillion dollars, that is spending change compared to the above figure. But what I am getting at, is there are too many stars to ever get an accurate count.
Does it not seem that the writers of the books in the bible would have had an idea such as, for instance, Hipparchus? Moses wrote in Genesis 15:5, “And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.”
Some have argued that this verse within itself is untrue, because it is obvious to all that there are more stars than there are of Abraham’s descendants. Of course there are, but that is not what the Lord said. His remarks refer to the fact that Abraham could not count the stars, and that his seed would also be innumerable.
Then in Jeremiah 33:22, God spoke to the prophet Jeremiah, saying: “As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.”
God knew that man could not count the stars, and he inspired the writers to say those things. They had no way of knowing they could not be counted, except from God.
Another one, of many instances of foreknowledge comes from King Solomon who wrote the book of Ecclesiastes 1:7. “All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.”
They were unaware in those days, of the water cycle which occurs over and over. And especially when one considers just how much water is involved. We can take one river, for example, the Mississippi River. Approximately, the average flow of water into the Gulf of Mexico is 6,052,000 gallons of water per SECOND! Now try and imagine all the other rivers on every continent and the total flow of water is staggering. Yet, the water is evaporated and again rains down upon the earth.
These are only three subjects of study. Any one of which should cause one to give serious thought. These writers could not have known these things. Many people today do not even know the immensity of these factors. It is easy enough today, to think that they may have known, but if you study the extent of their knowledge of astronomy, oceanography and just general science in those days, it becomes very obvious, these things were not simply written accidentally.
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