ONE HEARTBEAT AWAY - PART 25

                                               ONE                              HEARTBEAT                AWAY
                                                PART 25

   (Mark Cahill's Book)

 In the Book of Job,  written 3.500 years ago, we read, 
"Canst thou take the lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, 'Here we are?'" 
Job 38:35

The Bible here is making a scientifically ludicrous statement - that light can be sent, and then manifest itself in speech. But did you know that radio waves move at the speed of light?  This is why you can have instantaneous  wireless communication with someone on the other side of the earth. Science didn't discover this until 1864 when the British scientist, James Clerk Maxwell suggested that electricity and light waves were two forms of the same thing.

Once again the Bible is scientifically accurate.
2,800 years ago Isaiah also made an interesting observation, he said:
 "It is He that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain , and spreadeth them out like a tent to dwell in. " 
Isaiah 40:22

Ray Comfort, in Scientific Facts in the Bible,  said:

"The Bible informs us here (Isaiah 40:22) that the earth is round. At a time when science believed that the earth was flat. It was the Scriptures that inspired Christopher Columbus  to sail around the world, he wrote;  
"It was the Lord who put it into my mind. I could feel His hand upon me .... there is no question the inspiration was from the Holy Spirit because He comforted me with rays of marvelous illumination from the Holy Scriptures."

The Creator of the universe, of course, knows how His creation operates., and He has given us evidence of that fact throughout the Bible.

One day as I walked into a  magazine shop in an airport, I noticed Vanilla Ice, a popular rap artist from a few years ago. I started a conversation with him, and at one point I said, " I heard that you had gotten into Christianity."  He said "I used to be into that." 

That's an interesting statement. As we continued to talk, he said that according to the Bible, someone who commits suicide will go to hell. He was trying to quote the Bible, but he didn't know what it said. I told him there are  six suicides mentioned in the Bible and not one time is it said that it is the right thing to do. But it also doesn't say it is an automatic ticket to hell. 

He also mentioned that he was really into science, so I shared some of the scientific evidence that the Bible contains. He was very interested in the evidence, and he even gave me his address so that I could send him a book with more information!

Our logic and our concience tell us that we really do want to know the evidence that will lead us to the right answer for this life - and the next.

Are your logic and conscience telling you that?

Next post  29th August