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The Truth Can Be Known
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The deep down yearning of every human being is to know more of the truth. The Lord Jesus Christ said, “.. I am the way, the truth and the life:no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” John 14:6
However, because of our sin nature and its inclination is to resist the truth, “All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way….” Isaiah 53:6a. What conflict human beings suffer inside. On the one hand yearning for more truth while knowing much of it; and then on the other hand, resisting the truth while embracing many other things as truth that are untrue. For an example, “The Eerie Silence is the title of Paul Davies’ new book summarizing the first 50 years of SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence). More than $130 million has been spent scanning the universe for extra-terrestrial life, and the result has been ‘an eerie silence.’
It is described as ‘eerie’ only because SETI is based on evolutionary assumptions that life must have evolved on other planets. This problem is known as the ‘Fermi Paradox.’ In 1950 Enrico Fermi, an atomic scientist, was discussing the question of why evidence for a multitude of advanced civilizations has failed to turn up. He asked, “Where is everybody?” The answer has been in the Bible all along, and it is a Book that is scientifically accurate in all points. Whereas there is no observable evidence for Darwinian evolution, there is nothing but observable evidence for the Bible.
Simple predictions based on its teachings are either true or false and are therefore easily falsifiable. For example, the Bible says that all of life was created to reproduce after its own kind (Genesis 1). For thousands of years men have planted vegetables and raised animals, and it is an established law that life reproduces after its own kind. If corn turned into strawberries or dogs became bears, the Bible would be disproven, but this has never happened. Likewise, the Bible says that the earth was created for man and the stars were created as lights and signs for the earth. Thus, the Bible predicts that there will not be life elsewhere in the universe (except in Heaven). And this is exactly what modern science has discovered.
The ‘eerie silence’ disproves evolution and proves the Bible. Of course, die-hard evolutionists are forever hopeful of discovering evidence for their delusions, and they have never allowed scientific facts to get in their way.” (Church News Notes 6/4/10)
Again the Bible gives us the truth (facts) of the matter- “And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.“ Genesis 3:20
As humans, we are running this way and that, pursuing truth “we think” (?)may be, and we painfully wish would be! We desperately try … and think … and indulge … and experiment … and study … and travel .. and reflect. “There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.” Proverbs 14:12. We look within and are not pleased with what we see until someone comes along and tells us that, “It IS within you’ll find the truth. It just must be recovered and developed to be what you really always have been – a god yourself – complete and powerful and sufficient in the full realization of self. This crowd tells you as well, “It’s been those people all along that has confused you, telling you that you have a sin nature and that you are a sinner and need the truth of The Saviour” . (…. Who, by the way, IS THE TRUTH !! )
The Apostle Paul too dealt with this type of pluralistic society in the 1st centrury, Athens, Greece. He brought them from the many accepted “truths” to the One and Only Truth Jesus Christ. In Acts 17:21-34 “(For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.)
22Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars’ hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.
23For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
24God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; 25Neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things; 26And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; 27That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us: 28For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring. 29Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device. 30And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: 31Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man [Jesus Christ=The Truth] whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead. 32And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter. 33So Paul departed from among them. 34Howbeit certain men clave unto him, and believed: among the which was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them”
You see the Bible promises anyone who really wants to know the TRUTH, will seek after it and will find it the Bible and Jesus Christ; and of course, trust in the Lord Jesus and be saved! “And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.” Jeremiah 29:13. This is what Christ meant when He stated, “Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;32And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” John 8:31-32