J.J. Stark
January
2016
Week 2
INGINTE
Class 10
Inductive
Bible Study (IBS)
Hope
in the Evidence
“Now
faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” -
Hebrews 11:1 (NKJV)
After
reading this verse, I can’t help but think about the world we live in today
(the U.S. in particular), and how the thought processes developed over the last
century have twisted and corrupted the truth of God’s existence, especially in
the realm of science. Because evolution,
the idea that this universe came in to existence by chance over billions of
years, has been taught in schools and universities as fact, and that science
and “religion” have nothing to do with each other. However, when evaluating the supposed
evidence that evolutionists present as fact, and then compare it with what is
actually observe to be happening today, we see an overwhelming amount of valid
evidence for our Creator God. The latter
part of Hebrews 11:1 stuck out to me, “Faith
is…the evidence of things not seen,” because nature screams this! One only has to look at the human cell: the
nucleus of the cell itself contains so much organized genetic information and
DNA coding that it took the world’s largest super computer years to completely
track the human genome. And if the
complexity of something that small isn’t evidence enough for the all-knowing
Designer, we can then turn our attention to our own local solar system. Astronomers have yet to be able to number the
amount of stars just in our solar system, and of the relatively few they have
numbered, no two have been alike. Then
looking at an analysis of the components conditions that are required for an
individual star to function, it also reveals a complexity that rivals that of a
cell!! Psalms 19:1 says it correctly,
“The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows His handiwork.”
Putting
it in that perspective, takes more faith for me to not believe than to believe.
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