Monkey Myth or Inspiration
This past Easter Sunday Christians celebrated the resurrection of Christ, an event, which, if the Bible is credible, gives assurance of life beyond the grave.
Darwinism gives no such assurance; man’s fi nal destiny is fertilizer.
The choice to believe in either the Biblical account of creation, or Darwinism, must be based on some type of solid evidence. Christians believe such evidence is found in the inspired words of Scripture, which evolutionists reject as a “work of fiction.”
They claim science provides ample evidence, which Christians reject as “science so called.” They point out that the missing link is still missing, and Lucy is only a monkey myth. Christian Scientists who believe in an early earth say “true science” is congruent with the Bible.
According to 2 Peter 1:21, the Bible was inspired by the Holy Ghost, but any book can claim inspiration and simply saying so doesn’t make it so.
That the Bible is not just “any book” is seen in the following support for its inspirational claims.
“Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else;
I am God, and there is none like me, Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure” (Isaiah 46:9, 10).
One researcher found that out of more than 1,000 prophecies in the Bible, 668 are known to be fulfilled.
Those not yet fulfilled basically relate to the end times and are still in the process.
None have been false, which cannot be said of Jeanie Dixon or Nostradamus, whose predictions, based on guesswork, are hit and miss, and recorded in such figuratively vague terms as to defy a literal interpretation.
One of the most amazing is Daniel 2, which accurately predicts the rise and fall of the following four “world” kingdoms, listed in order, Babylon, Media-Persia, Greece, and Rome.
With the collapse of Rome (476 AD) and its division into the ten kingdoms of Western Europe, it prophesied those kingdoms would remain in a divided state until the return of Jesus.
Although many have attempted to reunite them, which would prove it wrong, after 1,554 years it still stands. Only an inspired book could make such a prediction.