Perfect Sense, Science and Genesis

This post was originally a comment-response posted by myself on my blog post, Perfect Sense. This post has been edited compared to my original comment, but if you want to see the full unedited version of my response; plus the whole comment discussion, check out the comments in my Perfect Sense post--FYI: for the comments on Perfect Sense--before I changed to Forward Thought, I was Anthony Mason.

I am not closing out science altogether. I understand and believe that science helps to explain what most of us cannot explain. I understand that because of science great things like hospitals and medicine derived, but what I am saying is science cannot explain everything and never will--there are some things that even science cannot touch, so why do we just stop at the point where some state that science is something that cannot be completely unfalsified because eventually you have to get to there with science, but by then the meaning of science would no longer exist. So what then, what is there to accept?--Theories that have no scientific relevance? I believe we were created to be intelligent beings. So, what ever spectrum you come from, creation or evolution, it is hard for me to accept that as intelligent creatures we must accept everything up to the point of nothing or “in flux,” as some say; which are all theories with no scientific relevance. I guess then the Creation theory is one of those “lack of science” theories as well, but it is the one I choose to believe in and put my faith in.

A person asked me one time, “What if you are wrong about the whole God thing?” My response to that person was, “Well, what if I am right?” I get a kick out of that question because you might as well ask a fish, why does it swim. I have faith in God because I just do, the belief is so deep and strong it can be hard to explain, but to believers it is as simple as 2+2=4.

The Concise Bible Commentary by Don Fleming is a great book that splices historical accounts with Biblical accounts book by book in The Bible. In the first chapter, Genesis, the author writes:

Science may investigate the physical world and suggest how something happened, but it cannot say who made it happen. Believers may therefore hesitate to dismiss a scientific theory simply by saying “God did it”, because the theory may have been the way God has done it. When scientist tell us how rain falls or how the grass grows, we do not contradict him by saying, “God makes the rain and the grass grow.” We accept both.

It is interesting that some state The Bible should not be considered a factual based book to teach science and should only be considered a book of allegorical value, I agree, but not completely. Though The Bible does not explain in detail everything about accepted scientific principles--that was not God‘s intention for The Bible; though, it does explain some accepted scientific principles used today.For example, in Isaiah 40:22 (written 2800 years ago) it says, “It is He that sits upon the circle of the earth.” During the time that the book of Isaiah was written, the accepted philosophy was that the world was flat. It was not until Christopher Columbus (2300 years later), whose voyage was inspired by this verse, set out to falsify the “world is flat” theory, sounds like a scientific experiment to me and guess what, it was falsified. If you want to see more examples, hit link.

Genesis is an account of how God made the formless to the formed, and with His almighty power made everything out of nothing, not in flux, not by chemicals reaction--NOTHING and as a believer I can easily believe that, “By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God‘s command, that what we see did not come from anything that can be seen.” Hebrews 11:3

“All scripture is inspired by God…” II Timothy 3:16, that even includes Genesis.

"Simple Truth"

VERSE 1:
So many truths,
So many beliefs.
The many differences, each one unique.
What is all the problem?
Why make confusion?
When faith, love, and trust is all that we need.

CHORUS:
One simple message,
One simple way.
Faith, love, and trust,
Is all that He wants.
And that simple truth has always been-
Right in front of us.

VERSE 2:
What’s in religion, but only a name?
Created by man to give his debate.
For spiritual understanding in his own way.
So stop the confusion, and stop the debate.
When faith, love and trust has always been His way.

VERSE 3:
Is it so hard to see?
The simple truth that we need.
So that one day we will see Him in time,
And He will say to us, “That simple truth has always been yours and Mine.”

No matter what the debate is and when all the smoke clears, all believers are in the same body of Christ and it all comes down to three basic principles Jesus wants from us: Faith, Love, and Trust. And I think every believer can agree on that. Though, it concerns me that there are people, in recent news the funeral protesters, who claim to be in the body, but weaken His most important principle of the three: Love. “God help them.”

I Corinthians 12:27: “Together you are the body of Christ. Each one of you is part of His body.” [CEV]

I Corinthians 13:13: “For now there are faith, hope, and love. But of these three the greatest is love.” [CEV]

If you want to see my inspiration for writing this song read my blog, Seeking The Truth. And please, be respectful and do not copy and paste this blog or song. Thank you

Perfect Sense

I was thinking the other day, How can any mindful person find it easier to believe in the Evolutionary theory than Creationism? I believe in Creationism, but just in general thinking, wouldn’t it be easier to believe or conceive that an ALL POWERFUL, ALL KNOWING, SUPER NATURAL BEING (i.e. God) created all the galaxies, the earth, and everything in-between; in addition, this type of thinking has been around since the beginning of man: seems like practical thinking to me. But for some odd reason it is more practical to believe, think and teach the Evolutionary theory, which has never be proven, but our society teaches this theory in schools and colleges as though it is actual fact. Everything came from nothing which spawned evolution: Yes, of course, that makes perfect sense.

I asked my anthropology teacher one time, “If Evolution is a theory, which cannot be proven and Creation, in the same regards, is a theory as well, why do most schools and colleges teach Evolution?” His answer was, “Good question, but that is what is in the book and that is what I teach.” In another class I asked my biology teacher, “Where did Evolution come from or how did it start?” And she said, “Well, it was a series of chemical reactions and matter.” Then I replied, “Well, where did the chemical reactions and matter come from.” She replied, “I don’t know, but maybe a physics professor can answer that.”

What was wrong and the same about both of these situations? What was wrong was that in both situations I received no clear cut answer; moreover, what was the same is that these professors were teaching something as fact when they did not clearly know or understand, themselves. Webster’s dictionary definition of theory is: speculation; proposed explanation. So, why does our society rely, pick and teach a theory, which apparently shows us how we all got here, but can never really explain absolute origin without going into another theory. Yes, you can say the same thing about Creationism, but isn’t it easier to think that GOD created the heavens and the earth than to think that NOTHING created the heavens and the earth? In my thinking, God seems the more rational answer.

"Creed: Weren't They A Christian Band?"

I was talking to a fellow college student one day and we got on the subject of music. Now take in mind at the time I was 28, and the other student is probably 5-8 years younger than I am, which in my opinion is a big gap when it comes to music preference. With that said, after he was done explaining his music interest, he asks me, “What are you into?” I mentioned to him, “I am a big fan of anything rock, but currently I am enjoying the modern rock seen, like Nickleback, Fuel, and especially the front-runner of today’s modern rock, Creed: even though they are no longer band.” Then he said, “Creed: Weren’t they a Christian band?”

Yes, I am a Christian and I believe as Christians we should not shy away from our faith, but for some odd reason that comment has always bothered me. The only thing I can gather is that in every since, not just Creed, when a band does not state or claim to be apart of any genre of music, but because of their lyrics, background, or one comment they make, the media wants to label them. Though the members of Creed did state their faith and never denied any relation in interviews. That does not mean they were a Christian band.

Can a band have Christianity as a background or write Christian/religious style lyrics and not be considered a Christian band? Yes! If lyrics can label a band, then I guess Ozzy Ozbourne is a Christian artist as well. In his song, “I Don’t Want To Stop,” Ozzy says, “So many religions/but only one God/I don’t need another Savior.” Well, I guess according to the lyrics, Ozzy believes in God and has a savior, which is probably a reference to Jesus, then I could say he is a Christian artist--Right. Moreover, what sets Creed apart from the Christian label is that it would be difficult for a labeled Christian artist or group to sale 35 million albums in eight years, win a Grammy for Best Rock Song, spend weeks on the top 10 Billboard rock and mainstream charts, and their videos constantly being seen on VH1 and MTV, which this was all accomplished by Creed. Knowing anything about modern Christian music, even the big-ticket groups like Casting Crowns or Jars of Clays in their whole career, probably, won’t even get close to accomplishing what Creed has, and probably never will because Christian music, in general, has different goals for their music compared to most mainstream music--quality more than quanity. I said all that to say this: based on Creeds accomplishments, in no way was Creed ever a Christian band and to say they were is ridiculous and far from the truth.

Scott Stapp, singer and songwriter, of Creed once said, “When you see a cop and then later find out he is a Christian. Do you now refer to him as a Christian cop; of course not, you still call him a cop.”

Crumbling Foundation, Revisited

I am writing this in response to the comment on my blog, Crumbling Foundation. I appreciate all the positive responses that I received, Thank You. In one comment, I believe the point I was making was apparently misunderstood or overlooked; therefore, I feel I need to explain my point further. The whole point of my blog, Crumbling Foundation, was to state the fact that in America we have “In God We Trust” written on most of our currency, and that same phrase “In God We Trust” was made our national motto in 1956, by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Furthermore, that same phrase is in the final stanza of The Star-Spangled Banner and our Pledge of Allegiance states, “One Nation under God.” The point I was stressing in my blog, Crumbling Foundation, was that it is a shame that even in American the word, God, after all our history has included Him and is still including Him today; companies like Disney, as I used in my example in Crumbling Foundation, are to paranoid or scared to offend any one. That is sad thing when one word that has always been held as something precious in America is becoming nothing more then a curse word; however, companies like Disney do not have any problem taking money that has God written on. I believe that would be considered a double standard.

I completely agree on the commit about the congress of old, stating; not to be partial or bias to any religion, and that all religions are free to worship. However, you can not deny the historical fact of the strong Christian/Protestant movement that came to America for religious freedom, which in turn had a strong influence in the foundation of America.

Crumbling Foundation

Daily, I listen to 104.9 The River. The other day they (The River) had a commentary concerning the new animation movie, The Ten Commandments. In the commentary, The River mentioned that the person that heads up advertising for the movie approached Radio Disney about running an ad for the movie on their program. Well, after the producers for Radio Disney sampled the ad they mentioned to this gentleman, they would, only if, he would rewrite it and take out all the references to God in the ad. The gentleman from the movie then later commented in this commentary, "It is a sad thing, when in America, you can't even say God anymore." He is right, America's foundation was structured around Godly principles and this very country that was founded on His principles is excluding Him and that is a shame. I believe and I see a lot of Christians, including myself, are guilty of not reconizing or just ignoring these type of actions in our society and that is the biggest shame. We as Christians need to be more vocal about things, like what Radio Disney did, and make ourselves known and stop thinking there is nothing we can do. Everyone else in this country tends to stand up for what they believe and most of the time get results: Why can't we? Stand up for what we know is right: write letters, stop watching, stop lessoning, and stop buying into these programs. That is what we can do. ARE YOU PROUD TO BE A CHRISTIAN? ARE YOU PROUD THAT THIS COUNTRY WAS FOUNDED ON GODLY PRINCIPLES? THEN LET IT BE KNOWN!

Fulfillment

I am a Economic student at Ohio State University. I chose this major because seeing, predicting, and understanding economics trends has always came easy and interesting to me. Business is just business (numbers, numbers, numbers), but economics goes a little deeper. It answers the question; why and how business is business or why and how markets are markets or what elements drive buying, stocks, money, banking, importing, exporting, etc.

Although economics is something that interests me and a segment I stay in tune with, my true passion and love is music and everything about it: singing, writing, composing, listening, and playing; nothing else is more fulfilling.