Considering answers to those faith-questions we all ask…
Tag: God
Christians have been accused, most notably by Richard Dawkins, of worshipping and believing in a "God of the gaps". That is, whatever science doesn't yet understand is where we Christians claim God is. Is this true? Has science backed our God into a corner, so that most of our world can be observed, and the part where our God is gets smaller and smaller as knowledge increases?
How many people across the Western world have convinced themselves that the God of the Bible can't be the real God, because they're sure that the real God would do things differently?
Perhaps a majority of people have submitted their lives and their eternal destinies to the idea that we all evolved from nothing, via some sort of single-celled organism, then a fish, a lemur-like creature, and an ape-like animal which eventually learned to walk on two legs.
A God who would bring billions of people into the world in order to send them into the pits of hell for ever is not a God of love at all. He is, as Erasmus observed in his debates with Luther, a monster. I for one would not want to go to His heaven.
Many times in recent decades and over the past two hundred years, archaeological finds have confounded skeptics and unbelievers, and given evidence in support of the Bible. One such find is the "Moabite Stone", aka "The Mesha Stele". I'm here summarizing the description of this stele and how it came to light, as told in two video documentaries noted below.
Fuel for Faith, Food for Thought 