@jerlands,
Quote:How do you know the Bible wasn’t composed to destroy the world.
. Everywhere I look I see information. I am sitting in a restaurant looking around and the restaurant is just information that tells me about the person that designed the restaurant. (He liked the color red or at least he thought his customers would).
I look at the night sky and see countless stars, but I know that some of what looks like stars are actually other galaxies with billions of stars in them. My eyes can’t see the stars in those galaxies but scientists have proven they are there.
The stars and the restaurant are both made of quarks, which are the smallest bit of information. Every quark in every hydrogen atom looks and moves the same no matter which galaxy or which star it is in. (And that’s the same for the quarks in all the other elements.). That is a vast pattern that represents a lot of information.
Information always tells you something about its author. If there is a God or intelligence behind all the patterns in these quarks what does the night sky and the details of your life tell you about Him. If some God actually did lay out all this information, He is a quite capable being and must want everyone with eyeballs (and especially if they have telescopes and microscopes) to know it.
If He is that almighty, wouldn’t He leave a message revealing His plan. Or, why wouldn’t He just enter the universe personally and tell us the plan. I think the eye witness evidence in the Bible and other books, plus nature and science reveals that He did just that.
The initial idea of the universe had a perfect beginning and a perfect ending. Nothing has been added to that idea since He initiated it. The universe (with us in it) is in the process of revealing this perfect idea to us. Part of the process is, “teaching us what happens to perfection when you don’t follow the intended plan.” (It deteriorates and eventually will be destroyed).
But that’s just the first part of the lesson, the second part is if you are sorry for not following the rules, He said He has the capability to restore the universe and anyone who believes back to perfection.
So, I believe that the Bible is one source that reveals Him for two reasons:
1. If you can create a universe this vast with so much information, beauty and intelligent life you deserve a little trust and credit.
2. He came to earth, was killed and rose from the dead to personally (in front of witnesses) to prove he can do it.
If I am wrong in my interpretation of the evidence (which I find highly improbable) I am going to live as good and moral life as I can because I am a Christian (which I learned to live by trying to follow Jesus’s example). I will then be destroyed and eventually so will the universe with everyone and everything else in it.
If I am right (which I Feel the evidence greatly supports). I will die and some day rise from the dead and continue on in the initial perfect idea (That is in in the process off being revealed right now) along with all believers and the rest of the universe for enternity.
What is all this information in the universe telling you?