You do understand that your position is based on faith rite? But that is your choice, and you are free to do so. The only problem non believers have is when creationist tries to pass off creationism as science and demand that it is taught as such. If it remains within the domain of religion, nobody would take issue with it.
Hi JD,
Yes, I fully understand that. But it is not a faith based on nothing. It is a faith based on a testimony that, for me, has quite a bit of available 'proof' that it's true. I would never equate creationism to science. It isn't. It's just the truth. Yes, yes, I fully understand that you're not going to agree with that final statement. That's ok with me.
As a matter of fact, I would deny wholeheartedly that creationism is scientific in any way. It is miraculous. It is the work of God and the things that God does can never be proven or studied scientifically. Let me give you a couple of examples:
God can make water stand straight up all by itself. No walls to hold it in place. No supports of any kind. According to His testimony and the testimony of the people who passed through the sea on dry ground, He parted the sea and as His people passed through to safety on the other side, the water stood as a sentinel on both the right and left hand as they passed through. Now, friend, scientifically that's impossible!!!!!! That absolutely without a doubt cannot happen because we know that an immutable fact of the nature of water is that it will seek its level. Even when a giant wave comes crashing on shore, within moments that water that was standing above the rest of the water due to the force of the wave current will level itself as it climbs the shore. In this case, we're surely talking about water standing up for at least a couple of hours as the people crossed through. That's just absolutely, unequivocally impossible. Scientifically we all know it's impossible. There is no question by all the rules and studies of science that it didn't happen. But God's word says that it did.
The Scriptures account for us that Jesus, my Savior, was born of a virgin. Friend, scientifically and medically that's just absolutely impossible. There is absolutely, even today, no way that a woman can become pregnant without human sperm fertilizing her egg. It can now be done outside of the woman's body, but it still requires these two basic ingredients. One of which needs to come from a man. He can [bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse] into a bottle and his sperm be drawn out with a needle and punctured into the female's egg, but it still requires those two basic ingredients. According to the Scriptures, that isn't how the birth of Jesus came about. Mary protested to the angel who visited her with the news, that such a thing cannot be, for she had never 'been with' a man.
Now, we can all make up in our mind some explanation to explain away the impossibility of what the Scriptures tell us happened. We can believe in our hearts that she was raped and made some attempt to hide it. We can believe that Joseph and Mary fooled around before their marriage and also worked together to hide that by concocting this outrageous story. We can just believe that this life of some man named Jesus who lived 2,000 years ago in Israel is all some wildly elaborate hoax perpetrated on the world. But then we read about Jesus' life and the things that he did, and for those who believe that the Scriptures are truthful in what they tell us, there really isn't anyway that Jesus wasn't born under the exact circumstances that the Scriptures proclaim that he was born.
But yes, it's all believed on faith by those who are born with the Spirit of God. That's exactly what the Scriptures say of those who are God's children. My righteous ones shall live by faith. Paul writes that it is by faith that we believe any of it.
For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed—a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.” Romans 1:17
It was not through the law that Abraham and his offspring received the promise that he would be heir of the world, but through the righteousness that comes by faith. Romans 4:13
For we live by faith, not by sight. 2 Corinthians 5:7
Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. This is what the ancients were commended for. By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible. By faith Abel brought God a better offering than Cain did. By faith he was commended as righteous, when God spoke well of his offerings. And by faith Abel still speaks, even though he is dead. By faith Enoch was taken from this life, so that he did not experience death: “He could not be found, because God had taken him away.” For before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God. And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him. By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family. By his faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that is in keeping with faith. By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going. By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise. For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.
And by faith even Sarah, who was past childbearing age, was enabled to bear children because she considered him faithful who had made the promise. And so from this one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore. All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance, admitting that they were foreigners and strangers on earth. People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own. If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return. Instead, they were longing for a better country—a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them. By faith Abraham, when God tested him, offered Isaac as a sacrifice. He who had embraced the promises was about to sacrifice his one and only son, even though God had said to him, “It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.”
Abraham reasoned that God could even raise the dead, and so in a manner of speaking he did receive Isaac back from death. By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau in regard to their future. By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of Joseph’s sons, and worshiped as he leaned on the top of his staff. By faith Joseph, when his end was near, spoke about the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt and gave instructions concerning the burial of his bones. By faith Moses’ parents hid him for three months after he was born, because they saw he was no ordinary child, and they were not afraid of the king’s edict. By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be known as the son of Pharaoh’s daughter. He chose to be mistreated along with the people of God rather than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. He regarded disgrace for the sake of Christ as of greater value than the treasures of Egypt, because he was looking ahead to his reward. By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the king’s anger; he persevered because he saw him who is invisible. By faith he kept the Passover and the application of blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn would not touch the firstborn of Israel. By faith the people passed through the Red Sea as on dry land; but when the Egyptians tried to do so, they were drowned. By faith the walls of Jericho fell, after the army had marched around them for seven days. By faith the prostitute Rahab, because she welcomed the spies, was not killed with those who were disobedient. And what more shall I say? I do not have time to tell about Gideon, Barak, Samson and Jephthah, about David and Samuel and the prophets, who through faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, and gained what was promised; who shut the mouths of lions, quenched the fury of the flames, and escaped the edge of the sword; whose weakness was turned to strength; and who became powerful in battle and routed foreign armies. Women received back their dead, raised to life again. Hebrews 11
Yes, I do solemnly affirm that what I believe is strictly and only by faith in the one true and living God and that He has shown through the resurrection of His Son to life after he was put to death on the earth, that He can do the same for anyone who will come to Him in faith. I'm counting on that.
God bless you,
In Christ, ted
