Willingly ignorant, the blind lead the blind

Waking up this Sunday morning with stomach cramps and other details I will spare you, I sent my lovely family off to church, and I proceeded to drive myself completely insane. What did I do that caused me to pull all my hair out? I went to msn.com and read some of the articles. I am convinced The Bible is the thing that is most talked about (with conviction) by people who have no idea what they are talking about. Based upon what they hear even though they have never check out what they are spouting, they don’t read The Bible they just regurgitate what they hear from other proud fools. These “experts” are willing to be quoted in national articles and say things that are just plain wrong. I am a simple lay person, not a theologian by any means, yet with my limited knowledge I see so many errors that are printed as truth. The reason all these lies get through is because none of these secular people study their Bible, they just believe whatever they hear and start repeating it. How frustrating, if The Bible itself did not warn me of this mass ignorance I would be going absolutely bonkers! Aside from the ignorance of God’s word, the other thing unavoidable by sampling a few articles is evolution; the earth being billions of years old is now treated as fact. I remember as a child, articles would always say “an estimated” 350 million years ago… I have now noticed the “estimated” part is being dropped altogether. These articles are being written like they were actually there to witness these things. The simple truth is there dogma is being repeated by everyone so loudly and so often that the blind people of this world simply throw up there hands and say it must be true.

Let’s explore this. In article about science and “religion” (I put that in quotes because Christianity is not religion, it is a personal relationship with Christ, creator and Lord of this world. Yet they always lump true Christianity, Catholicism, and apostate Christianity together under the title of religion, which makes it very easy to make us look like fools, but I digress). Here is a paragraph from the person supposedly defending the side of Christianity:

Expecting to hear a further defense of his faith, I ask Coyne what effect science has had on religion and, in particular, on the Bible. “There is no science in the Bible. Zero, none,” Coyne says. “The Bible was written in different times by different people. Some of the books are poetry, some of them are history, some are stories.” “Are you saying that the Bible should not be held up to scientific scrutiny?” I ask.“That is correct,” Coyne says. “Absolutely.”

What? No science in The Bible? I say hold The Bible to the highest scientific scrunity, do your worse and come up with one example where it’s wrong. You want some science in The Bible? Ok, here is a small list of things The Bible knew and scientific men did not:
The earth is a sphere(Isaiah 40:22).
Free float of earth in space(Job 26:7).
Light moves(Job 38:19,20).
Air has weight(Job 28:25).
Winds blow in cyclones(Ecclesiastes 1:6).
Blood is the source of lifeand health(Leviticus 17:11).
Ocean floor contains deepvalleys and mountains(2 Samuel 22:16;Jonah 2:6).
Ocean contains springs(Job 38:16).
When dealing with disease,hands should be washedunder running water(Leviticus 15:13).

Absolutely none, zero? Well this catholic priest apparently does not read his Bible.

In this next paragraph we have another person the media presents as being on our side. This “Christian” says the following:

“A hundred years ago we didn’t understand the Big Bang,” he says. “Now that we have the understanding of a universe that is big and expanding and changing, we can ask philosophical questions we would not have known to ask, like ‘What does it mean to have multiverses?’ These are wonderful questions. Science isn’t going to answer them, but science, by telling us what is there, causes us to ask these questions. It makes us go back to the seven days of creation — which is poetry, beautiful poetry, with a lesson underneath it — and say, ‘Oh, the seventh day is God resting as a way of reminding us that God doesn’t do everything.’ God built this universe but gave you and me the freedom to make choices within the universe.”

Anyone else feel like there head is about to explode? The seventh day is poetry? The big bang? Wait, I really have to make sure I get this. The whole point about the 7 day creation account is to remind us that we have freedom to make choices? I guess I missed that in my modest study of The Bible. And these people are the people being presented to defend the religion side of the argument. With defense like that we don’t even need intellectuals like Dawkins coming at us, we can destroy the truth of The Bible all on our own. However, the author of this article still decided to let Dawkins have his say in the debate as well. I am glad they did, believe or not, this God hater was our best defense in this article. Below is a quote from Dawkins in the article, and he is dead on is what he says:

“Science cannot tell you what is right and wrong. When it comes to really interesting questions, like ‘Where did the laws of physics come from?’ or ‘How did the universe arrive in the first place?’ I genuinely don’t know whether science will answer those deep and at present mysterious questions…” Here Dawkins admits the conscience (God’s law written on your heart) cannot be explained by science. There is no explanation for the beginning of the universe in science, or how the laws of the universe (gravity, thermodynamics etc) cannot be answered by science. The Bible of course does. Backed with tons of scientific, historical, archeological, and prophetic evidence anyone willing to humble themselves, remove their pride, can open The Bible and see if for themselves. Of course we have the ultimate evidence, when you do submit to God he reveals Himself to you, and no argument can convince someone they did not experience something that they did. Skeptical? Do it for yourself. Think of all your sin, your thought life, your actions. Apologize to God for taking Him for granted and admit you have lived your life for yourself and not for Him. Repent of those sins and ask Jesus to pay the penalty a just God has to put on sin, trust in Christ’s payment for your sin and you won’t have to pay your own fine (with life in Hell). If you do this you will pass from death to life, and a have a new heart with new desires, and you won’t have faith anymore, you will have an experience that you cannot be talked out of.

After two pages of that article I needed a break so I clicked on a link about a new species of fish being found. Ok I admit I was pushing it because I knew I would find something else to increase the pressure on my head, and I was not disappointed. This one however I found extremely funny because the author began it with the words of a fairy tale. I have always said that evolution and millions of years is a fairy tale for grown ups that allows them to live in their sin, quiet their conscience, and not have to be judged by a holy God some day (in their own mind of course). Here is what the article said:

Once upon a time, about 3.5 million years ago — before the Caribbean and the Pacific were separated by present-day Panama — they were, in fact, the same species. Now, DNA tests have revealed the two populations have distinct genes, indicating they likely evolved into two separate species after their ocean homes were divided by Central America.

“Once upon a time” I am sure the author was not trying to point out evolution is a fairy tale, but I thought that was classic. They write like they were there to witness this event. 350 million years ago, give or take a few million this fish evolved into two species. Well if one evolved from the other why do we still have both of them around? And what new traits that are better did one evolve over the other? What we really have here is some natural selection, small scale (pun intended) changes within a species. The fish is still a fish, it never became a reptile, which became a bird, which became a monkey, which became you. However it makes for an interesting fairy tale.

Well this is just a small sample of what you will encounter if you decide to jump into the secular media. Be careful the amount of willingly ignorant people who love their sin so much that they believe this stuff can become quite frustrating and depressing. Do not dive into this without the full armor of God or you may even end up using this nonsense to quiet your own conscience. My advice, crack open your Bible, or spend some time spreading The Gospel, the ultimate truth of this world before reading this nonsense.