Why Believe? God Exists!: Rethinking the Case for God and Christianity

by Terry L. Miethe

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 089900699x
• ISBN13: 9780899006994
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: College Press Publishing Company
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Taking the Bible seriously

Some people may say that Gary Harbemas's book is just about quoting scripture. That is not true, for that matter. But I want to leave a word of caution to those who dismiss the Bible too fast. Can they understand modern republican, democratic and human rights standards without reference to the New Testament? Can they understand world history and contemporary reality without quiting the Bible? The truth is that the world is not coming from where men like Darwin, Dennett, Dawkins or Gould say it is coming from, nor is it going where men like Hegel, Marx, Engels, Lenin or Hitler (or Fukuyama, or Huntington) have thought is is going. Jesus Christ is the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. Darwinism has failed to give a convincing account, by any "preponderance of evidence standard" (much less by any "beyond reasonable doubt standard"), of the origins of energy, matter, space and time. It has failed to give a convincing account of the origins of life, the information in DNA, macroevolution, complex specified information in the universe and in biological systems, the mathematical and computational structure of nature, human consciousness and moral awareness. The cambrian explosion, the cataclismic structure of the fossil record, the gaps in the fossil record, the movement of continents, the ice age, the extinction of dinossaurs, the flaws in radiometric mechanisms, are just a fez of the many questions the darwinism has still to answer convincingly. I am convinced that the Bible knows more about all these topics than many people believe. Actually, the Bible knows more about everything than most people would believe. Take the example of Adolph Hitler. He wanted history to go his way. He wanted to have the final word in the destiny of the Jewish people. In this he was much inspired by Darwin, Spencer and Haeckel, when it came to "the survival of the most favored races in the struggle for life" (Darwin, sub title to the Origins of the Species). The "Cristal Night" happened in October 1938. The terrible Holocaust would soon follow. Ten years later, though, Hitler was dead and the State of Israel was being internationally recognized, to the surprise of many Jews. The begining, the course and the end of history are not for men to decide. It is up to God to decide that. We are free and responsible beings, but God never loses control of the events in history. In human history (His-Story) we are given the possibility to chose freely and responsibly to reconcile ourselves with God and follow Him, through Jesus Christ (God made flesh). If we reject that and try to to do things our way, we will end up somewhere in the garbage can of history (like the Pharao in Genesis,Judas in the New Testament, like Darwin, Marx, Hitler, Staline, Bin Laden), and will be seen as examples of what shouldn't be done. As Mark Twain said, history may not repeat itself but it very often ryhmes. The moral design and divine purpose of history make it rhyme very often, leading i