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发帖数: 6300 | 1 3.3 How clear do we need the evidence?
Evidence supporting the Bible's believability and the existence of God is
not absent, it is abundant. Of course, several reasonable challenges at this
point include asking:
So why do we have to read the Bible and study history for proof of these
things?
If the Bible explains the only true salvation, why doesn't God do something
to make that obvious to us?
And if these things are so important and so real, why don't we see crystal
clear evidence for them?"
The answer to these questions begins with asking this in response: What is
your definition of clarity?
Without possessing all knowledge, nothing can be proven beyond all doubt.
That is the basis for stating that it is impossible to prove anything with
100% clarity or certainty. For example, if we demanded to have notarized
confirmations of the absence of every possible contaminant our food could
ever contain, and vowed not to eat until then, we would starve to death. No
one can provide this level of assurance. Therefore, every time we bite into
something without having subjected it to a hundred congressional
investigations, we are accepting as truth merely the reasonable certainty
that it is safe.
We act on what we know. You and I are not choosing to die of starvation
because we lack total knowledge of all food contaminants. We might read a
product label, or inspect our food, but we continue to eat based on faith -
a faith based on the available pieces of data which indicates the food in
our hand is reasonably safe.
Although the acceptance or denial of Christianity and the Bible is a
commitment of potentially eternal consequences, this decision must also be
made based on what we know. Physicist John A. Bloom reveals that
scientists have found long ago that they can learn more about the universe
by studying the evidence which is available than by abandoning a topic until
the data are perfect and the conclusions drawn from them are
philosophically irrefutable." 3
We will never know everything. What we do know is that the Bible informs us
God has given us sufficient evidence to know he exists, and to be held
morally accountable to him as Lord. Taking that to be the case, let's now
consider the matter of sufficiency.
Has God truly left sufficient evidence to believe in him?
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发帖数: 5754 | 2 “We will never know everything. What we do know is that the Bible informs
us God has given us sufficient evidence to know he exists, and to be held
morally accountable to him as Lord.”
Good point.
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