(February 14, 2014 at 3:11 pm)Bad Wolf Wrote: The problem with comparing the bible and scientific peer-reviewed articles, is that the articles are reliable, valid and accurate and (in most cases) demonstrably true, whereas the bible is not. The bible is made of translations of copies of copies of translations of copies of translations by anonymous authors. On many occasions it defies reality.
How do I think life began? I don't know. Scientists think it could be abiogenesis, or maybe some kind of seeding. Christians think that god magicked us here out of dirt.
I go for the answer with more explanatory power.
I know if God's hand hadn't been protecting it, it would have ended up a complete mess. Yet it's able to do things like this:
(This is a copy and paste of a message I sent to someone)
The Bible contains many prophecies that have come true and many that are currently coming true. Throughout the OT the Lord Jesus Christ's coming is prophesied many many times. The most complete one being in Isaiah 53. Also in the OT there are pictures hidden within the actual stories which portray events that had not and have not yet taken place. Take, for example, the story of the passover. The Israelites, who were held captive in Egypt, were commanded to sacrifice a lamb without blemish(Ex 12:5) and put its blood on the doorposts(Ex 12:22). The next morning they went out through the bloodstained door and were free from their captivity in Egypt. This symbolises the salvation which God intended to bring through Christ. Their captivity in Egypt symbolises man's captivity to sin. The lamb without blemish symbolises the sinless Jesus Christ(1 Pet 1:19). And the Israelites leaving their captivity in Egypt through the bloodstained doorposts, symbolise that man is freed from their captivity to sin when they enter through the blood of Christ(Heb 9:11-28). To affirm that this truly is what it symbolises, the following verse makes it clear:
"...For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us." (1 Cor 5:7)
