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Scientific Facts in the Bible Amazing truths written thousands of years before they were discovered by man.
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Scientific Facts in the Bible From, The Evidence Bible (Bridge-Logos)
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Printed in the United States Non-copyright, 2001 ISBN 1-878859-77-3 Cover: JoePotter.com
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his booklet is about scientific facts in the Bible. I hope you have opened it with a good deal of skepticism. So you should. The world is full of simple folk, who will make a shrine to a knot in a tree because it supposedly has the features of a dead “saint.” Before we look at these “scientific facts” in the Bible, I must preface them with some very important information. To do this, I will have to quote the Bible. This is not using what is commonly called “circular reasoning.” I simply want to make a point that is relevant to what I am going to present. Many years ago, I ran a children’s club. At the end of the club I told about one hundred kids to line up for some candy. There was an immediate rush, and the line sorted itself into what I saw as being a line of greed. The big and selfish kids were at the front, and the quiet sickly ones were at the back. I then did something that gave me great satisfaction. I told the kids to turn about face. Everyone did. Then I told them to stay where they were, and I took great delight in going to the other end of the line and giving the candy to the quiet, sickly kids first. In a world where the rich get richer, and the poor get stomped on, we are informed that God has gone to the other end of the line with the message of everlasting life (I know that you may not believe in the existence of God, but please bear with me). Here is what we are told: “For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness…For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent…But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; and base things
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of the world, and things which are despised, has God chosen, yes, and things which are not, to bring to nothing things that are: That no flesh should glory in his presence” (1 Corinthians 1:18,19,27-29). How has God gone to the other end of the line? Simply by choosing that which is weak, base, and despised. Let me illustrate what He has done: Do you believe that the following biblical accounts actually happened? • Adam and Eve. • Noah’s ark. • Jonah and the whale. • Joshua and the walls of Jericho. • Samson and his long hair. • Daniel and the lion’s den. • Moses and the Red Sea. Of course you don’t. To say that you believed such fantastic stories would mean that you would have to surrender your intellectually dignity. Who in their right mind would ever do that? The answer is simply those who understand that God has chosen foolish, base, weak, and despised things of the world to confound those who think they are wise. Look at the intellectual offense in the tone of this letter I received, regarding a debate I was due to do, on the subject “Does God exist?”: “How sad for you to have so completely surrendered your
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intellect to an ignorant, pre-scientific book. I know about your upcoming debate…I won’t be there, but I’m sure that the audience will get some good belly laughs from your presentation. Biblical literalists may not be very bright, but they are extremely funny.” Where’s the Evidence? Imagine that you are looking at a luxury liner moving through calm waters. To your amazement about a dozen people jump off the ship, and cling to a lifeboat. You watch as the rest of the passengers stand on the ship and laugh at them. You can understand their reaction. What those few people did was foolish. It made no sense. Suddenly, the ship hits an unseen iceberg and sinks, taking with it all who stayed on board. Now you see that those who seemed like fools were wise, but those who stayed on the ship and seemed to be wise, were fools. We have in the Bible a command to jump off the luxury liner of this world. Before you laugh at stupid Christians, ask yourself if there is any proof that its claims are true. Here is compelling evidence that the Bible is no ordinary book: • Jeremiah 33:22 (written 2500 years ago): “As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured.” The Bible claimed that there are billions of stars (“host of heaven” is the biblical term for the stars). When it made this statement, no one knew how vast the numbers of stars were as only about 1,100 were observable. Now we know that there are
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billions of stars, and that they cannot be numbered. • Job 26:7 (written 3500 years ago): “He stretches out the north over the empty place, and hangs the earth upon nothing.” The Bible claimed that the earth freely floated in space. Science then thought that the earth sat on a large animal. We now know that the earth has a free float in space. • Hebrews 11:3 (written 2000 years ago): “Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.” The Bible claims that all creation is made of invisible material. Science then was ignorant of the subject. We now know that the entire creation is made of invisible elements called “atoms.” • Leviticus 17:11 (written 3000 years ago): “For the life of the flesh is in the blood.” The Scriptures declare that blood is the source of life. Up until 120 years ago, sick people were “bled,” and many died because of the practice. We now know that blood is the source of life. If you lose your blood, you will lose your life.
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• Leviticus 15:13 (written 3000 years ago): “And when he that has an issue is cleansed of his issue; then he shall number to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean.” The Bible said that when dealing with disease, hands should be washed under running water. Up until 100 years ago doctors washed their hands in a basin of still water, resulting in the death of multitudes. We now know that doctors must wash their hands under running water. The Encyclopedia Britannica documents that in 1845, a young doctor in Vienna named Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis was horrified at the terrible death rate of women who were dying after giving birth in hospitals. As many as 30% of those giving birth died. The Doctor noted that doctors would examine the bodies of those who had died, then, without washing their hands, go straight to the next wards and examine expectant mothers. This was their normal practice, because the presence of microscopic diseases was unknown. Doctor Semmelweis insisted that doctors wash their hands before examinations, and the death rate immediately dropped down to 2%. • Job 38:35 (written 3,500 years ago. God Himself speaking): “Can you send lightnings, that they may go and say unto you, Here we are?” The Bible here is saying a scientifically ludicrous statement—that light can be sent, and then manifest itself in speech. But did you know that radio waves move at the speed of light? This is why you can have instantaneous wireless communication with someone on the other side of the earth. Science didn’t discover this until 1864 when “the British scientist James Clerk Maxwell suggested that electricity and light waves were two forms of the same thing” (Modern Century Illustrated Encyclopedia, Vol. 12).
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• Isaiah 40:22 (written 2800 years ago): “It is he that sits upon the circle of the earth.” The Bible informs us here that the earth is round. At a time when science believed that the earth was flat, it was the Scriptures that inspired Christopher Columbus to sail around the world. He wrote: “It was the Lord who put it into my mind. I could feel His hand upon me…there is no question the inspiration was from the Holy Spirit because He comforted me with rays of marvelous illumination from the Holy Scriptures…” (From his diary, in reference to his discovery of “the New World”). • Job 38:19 (written 3500 years ago). “Where is the way where light dwells?” Modern man has only just discovered that light (electromagnetic radiation) has a “way,” involving motion traveling at 186,000 miles per second. • Genesis 1:1,3 (written 3,450 years ago): “In the beginning God created the Heaven and the earth...And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.” Science expresses the universe in five terms: time, space, matter, power and motion. “In the beginning (time) God created (power) the Heaven (space) and the earth (matter)...And the Spirit of God moved (motion) upon the face of the waters.” • Why did the dinosaur disappear? This is something that has modern science mystified, but the Bible may have the answer (written 3500 years ago. God Himself is speaking):
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“Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eats grass as an ox. Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly. He moves his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together. His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron. He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him. Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play. He lies under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens. The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about. Behold, he drinks up a river, and hastens not: he trusts that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth. He takes it with his eyes: his nose pierces through snares” (Job 40:15-24).
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• Psalm 8:8: “And the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passes through the paths of the seas.” What does the Bible mean by “paths” of the seas? The sea is just a huge mass of water, how then could it have “paths?” Man discovered the existence of ocean currents in the 1850’s, but the Bible declared the science of oceanography 2,800 years ago. Matthew Maury (18061873) is considered to be the father of oceanography. He was bedridden during a serious illness and asked his son to read a portion of the Bible to him. While listening, he noticed the expression “paths of the sea.” Upon his recovery, Maury took God at His word and went looking for these paths. His book on oceanography is still considered a basic text on the subject and is still used in universities. • Jonah 2:6 (written 2,800 years ago): “I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet have you brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.” When Jonah was in the depths of the ocean, he spoke of going down to the “bottoms of the mountains.” Only in recent years has man discovered that there are mountains on the ocean floor. The greatest ocean depth has been sounded in the Challenger Deep of the Mariana’s Trench, a distance of 35,798 feet below sea level. Mount Everest is 29,035 feet high. • Amos 9:6 (written 2,800 years ago): “He…calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out upon the face of the earth; the Lord is His name.”
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The Mississippi River dumps over six million gallons of water per second into the Gulf of Mexico. Where does all that water go? That’s just one of thousands of rivers. The answer lies in the hydrologic cycle, something that was not fully accepted until the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, 2500 years after the Bible said that God takes the waters of the sea, and pours them upon the face of the earth. • Job 38:12, 14, (written 3500 years ago) God Himself says: “Have you commanded the morning since your days; and caused the dayspring to know his place; that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it? It [the earth] is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment.” Modern science has come to understand that the earth’s rotation on its axis is responsible for the sun’s rising and setting. The picture here is of a vessel of clay being turned or rotated upon the potter’s wheel—an accurate analogy of the earth’s rotation. • Psalm 19:4-6: “In them has He set a tabernacle for the sun, which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoices as a strong man to run a race. His [the sun’s] going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.” Bible critics have scoffed at these verses, saying that they teach that the sun revolves around the earth. Science told them that the sun was stationary. Then they discovered that the sun is in fact moving through space at approximately 600,000 miles per hour. It is traveling through the heavens and has a “circuit” just as the Bible says. It is estimated that its circuit is so large, it would take 200 million years to complete one orbit.
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• Job 38:22 (written 3,500 years ago). God says: “Have you entered into the treasures of the snow?” It wasn’t until the advent of the microscope that man discovered that each and every single snowflake is uniquely a symmetrical “treasure.” • Genesis 2:1 (after creation): “Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.” The Hebrew word used here is the past definite tense for the verb “finished,” indicating an action completed in the past, never again to occur. The creation was “finished”— once and for all. That is what the First Law of Thermodynamics says. It states that neither matter nor energy can be either created or destroyed. There is no “creation” ongoing today. It is “finished” exactly as the Bible states. • Hebrews 1:10,11 (written 2000 years ago): “...And, You, Lord, in the beginning have laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of your hands: They shall perish; but you remain; and they all shall wax old as does a garment.” The Bible tells us that the earth is wearing out. This is what the Second Law of Thermodynamics states. This wasn’t discovered by science until comparatively recently. • Genesis 17:12: “And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations,
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he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed.” Why was circumcision to be carried out on the eighth day? Medical science has discovered that the eighth day is the only day in the entire life of the newborn that the blood clotting element prothrombin is above 100%. • Genesis 3:15: “And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; it shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.” This verse reveals that a female possesses the “seed of life.” This was not the common knowledge until a few centuries ago. It was widely believed that the male only possessed the “seed of life” and that the woman was nothing more than a glorified incubator. • Isaiah 40:12 (written 2,800 years ago): “Who has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand…” We are told that God has measured the waters and set a proper amount of water on the earth. Modern science has proved that the quantity of water on earth is just enough for our needs. If the sea became three meters deeper, the water would absorb all the carbon dioxide and nitrogen, and no creature could live any longer. • Job 26:7 (written 3500 years ago): “He stretches out the north over the empty place…” Less than 200 years ago, through the advent of massive telescopes, science learned about the great empty space in the north.
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• Isaiah 40:22 (written 2,800 years ago): “It is He that . . . stretches out the heavens as a curtain, and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in.” Scientists are beginning to understand that the universe is expanding, or stretching out. At least seven times in Scripture we are clearly told that God stretches out the heavens like a curtain. Prophetic Facts in the Bible: We will now take a moment to look at some of the Bible’s incredible prophecies. These are known as the ‘’signs of the times.” They are the signs that will be indications of the end of this age (not the end of the world). They are taken from Matthew chapter 24, Luke chapter 21, 1 Timothy chapter 4 and 2 Timothy chapter 3: Wars and rumors of wars. Nation will rise against nation. Kingdom will rise against Kingdom. Famines. Disease. False prophets. Deception. Lawlessness (forsaking of the Ten Commandments). The preaching of the Gospel. False Christs. Earthquakes in various places. Signs from Heaven.
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Persecution against Christians. Signs in the Sun. Men’s hearts would fail them for fear of the future. Stressful living. Selfishness. Materialism. Arrogance. Pride. Homosexual increase. People would be cold-hearted. They would be intemperate. They would be brutal. Youth would be rebellious. They would be haters of those that stand up for righteousness. They would be ungodly. Pleasure-seekers. There would be a call for “peace.” People would be blasphemous. There would be much hypocrisy. False Bible teachers would have many followers, be money-hungry, and would slur the Christian faith (see 2 Peter 2:1-3). Daniel 12:4 tells us that in the last days there will be an increase of travel and knowledge. Men would scoff, and say that these “signs” have always been around. They would also deny the flood of Noah (despite the overwhelming scientific evidence of a universal flood). The Bible even informs us of their motivation for the denial. It says they would love lust. Then Scripture tells us that they make one big mistake. Their understanding of God is erroneous. They don’t understand that God’s time frame is not the same as ours. They think (in their ignorance) that God’s continued silence means that
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He doesn’t see their sins. In truth, He is merely holding back His wrath, waiting for them to repent (see 2 Peter 3:8-9): “Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished” (2 Peter 3:3-6). Jesus warned that the sign to look for was the repossession of Jerusalem by the Jews. That happened in 1967, after 2,000 years, bringing into culmination all the signs of the times: “And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled” (Luke 21:24). These scientific and prophetic facts prove that the Bible is no ordinary book; that it is supernatural in origin, as it so often claims. It uses the words “Thus says the Lord” 3,800 times, and has 3,856 verses that speak directly or indirectly concerning prophecy. There is no other book in any of the world’s religions (Bagvat Gita, Vedas, Koran, Book of Mormon, etc.) that contain perfectly accurate prophetic and scientific truth. In fact, they contain statements that are clearly erroneous and unscientific.
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What About Evolution? What about evolution—doesn’t that disprove the Bible? Firstly, let me make it clear that I do believe in variations within species. Some dogs appear to have evolved from large to small (or small to large), but no actual “evolution” has taken place. They are still dogs. There is no evidence for man evolving from primates (each having a common ancestor), generally known as “the theory of evolution.” Professor Louis Bounoure, Director of Research, National Center of Scientific Research so rightly stated: “”Evolution is a fairy tale for grown-ups. This theory has helped nothing in the progress of science. It is useless.”” Sir Arthur Keith (Sir Arthur Keith wrote the foreword to the 100th edition of Origin of the Species) said, “”Evolution is unproved and unprovable.”” Malcolm Muggeridge, the famous British journalist and philosopher said, “”I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially the extent to which it’s been applied, will be one of the great jokes in history books of the future.”” Dr. T. N. Tahmisian of the Atomic Energy Commission said, “”Scientists who go about teaching that evolution is a fact of life are great conmen, and the story they are telling may be the greatest hoax ever.”” Scrap the Current Theory? Look at this new discovery: “Paleontologists have discovered a new skeleton in the closet of human ancestry that is likely to force science to revise, if not scrap, current theories of human
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origins” (USA Today March 21, 2001). Reuters reported that the discovery left “scientists of human evolution…confused,” saying, “Lucy may not even be a direct human ancestor after all.” In truth, evolution isn’t “scientific.” It’s a theory. Dr. Kent Hovind—an authority on evolution has a standing offer of $250,000 for anyone who can give him scientific evidence that evolution is 1true. Evolutionists should take him to court. They could become famous. They could make this another “Scopes” trial, but they won’t, because they can’t. All they have is faith in a theory. In fact, evolution qualifies as a religion. The dictionary says of the word “religion”: “A set of beliefs concerned with explaining the origins and purposes of the universe…” Evolutionists even have their own religious language: “We believe, perhaps, maybe, probably, could’ve, possibly...” Their founding father of the faith is Charles Darwin. Their god of the religion of evolution is “nature,” often referred to by the faithful as “Mother Nature.” She is the one who is responsible for everything we can see in creation. What’s more, she’s very attractive to lust-filled men. They gravitate to her like a moth to a flame. That’s because she’s deaf, blind, and mute. She doesn’t hear anything, she doesn’t see anything, and what’s most important—she doesn’t say anything. Mother Nature doesn’t have any moral dictates. That’s why evolution is so appealing. It is called “idolatry” (making up a false god) and is a transgression of the First of the Ten Commandments. Microevolution is observable, while macroevolution takes a great leap of blind faith. If Christians had as much faith in the Bible as evolutionists have in the theory of evolution, we would
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see revival. Like little children, they believe without the need of a thread of evidence. Evolution doesn’t disprove the existence of God. It just reveals that those who believe it are truly capable of faith in the invisible. It confirms Napoleon’s observation: “Man will believe anything, as long as it’s not in the Bible.” What About Mistakes in the Bible? Perhaps you have found what you see as mistakes in the Bible, and they are stopping you giving the Bible any real credibility. Here are some common arguments: • Hares don’t chew cud • Insects don’t have four legs • The account of two creations • Cain’s incest • Adam didn’t die the day God said He would • A flat earth • Bible atrocities • Divine genocide • The “Potter’s field” prophecy not being in the Book of Jeremiah • The “contradiction” between “an eye for an eye,” and “turn the other cheek” • Zedekiah not seeing Babylon • Clear contradictions in the conversion of Saul of Tarsus. We will look at two, then I will make reference to more later in this booklet: “And the prince [the “prince” referred to here is Zedekiah] that is among them shall bear upon his shoulder in the
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This is a clear contradiction. One prophet says that Zedekiah will not see Babylon. The other says that he will be taken captive by the Chaldeans, and his eyes will see the king of Babylon. Here is what happened: “Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes: also the king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Judah. Moreover he put out Zedekiah’s eyes, and bound him with chains, to carry him to Babylon”(Jeremiah 39:6-7). Zedekiah looked into the eyes of the king of Babylon, and then he was blinded and taken captive to Babylon. Here is another glaring “contradiction” in two accounts of the conversion of Saul of Tarsus: “And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise,
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and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do. And the men which journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing a voice, but seeing no man” (Acts 9:7). “And I answered, Who are you, Lord? And he said to me, I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you persecute. And they that were with me saw indeed the light, and were afraid; but they heard not the voice of him that spoke to me” (Acts 22:8,9). Did they hear the voice, or didn’t they? Here’s the answer: “Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again. The people therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it thundered: others said, An angel spoke to him” (John 12:28-29). Those who stood by heard God’s voice, but they didn’t hear what He said. Now you have a choice. You can either argue about the word “voice,” or you can stop for a moment and say, “Could it be that I am a proud person, and that I refuse to humble myself? Could it be that my professed wisdom has put me at the wrong end of the line? What Does all This Mean? Here then is the incredible implication. If God did write the Bible through the pens of men (see 2 Timothy 3:16), then its terrible warning of Hell and incredible promise of Heaven are therefore true, and need to be heeded. How then can a person find everlasting life?
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Most think that it’s by living a good life. That seems right, but according to the Bible, it is wrong. Our mistake is that we think that God’s standards are the same as ours. Let’s look at the Ten Commandments to see if we have kept His standards: Have you ever told a lie (even once)? Have you ever stolen anything (the value is irrelevant)? If you said, “Yes” to those two questions you cannot enter Heaven, because you are a lying thief. If you hate someone, you commit murder in God’s sight. Jesus said, “Whoever looks upon a woman to lust after her has committed adultery already with her in his heart.” Have you ever done that? Have you ever desired something that belonged to someone else? If you have (and who hasn’t?), then you’ve broken the Tenth Commandment. Have you loved God above all else? Have you make a god to suit yourself? Have you ever used His holy Name as a cuss word? Have you kept the Sabbath holy? Have you always honored your parents. Listen to your conscience. Remember all those secret sins you thought no one knew about. God has seen them, and He will bring every work into Judgment, including every secret thing. We are guilty criminals, and to offer God anything in the area of good works, etc., is an attempt to bribe the Judge of the universe. The only thing that can save us from His wrath, is His mercy, and that can’t be earned. It doesn’t matter if you don’t believe in God or in Judgment Day. You will still have to face Him anyway. This is what God did for you. He became a Man in Jesus Christ, and suffered and died on the Cross, taking the punishment for our sins. He was bruised for our iniquities. When the Apostle Paul wrote to the church at Rome he said, “God commended His love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” Jesus suffered once and for all for us, and then He rose from the dead. If we repent and trust alone in
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the Savior, God will forgive us and grant us eternal life—”For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast” (Ephesians 2:8-9). How could we earn His mercy by “doing” anything? Yet, it is a fatal mistake to believe that God can be bribed—that you will have a second chance. There is no second chance: “It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment” (Hebrews 9:27). What will you say on Judgment Day? “Hare don’t chew cud?” Will you be worried about where Cain got his wife? Or will your defense be that insects don’t have four legs? What do they have to do with the fact that you have sinned against God? It is not God’s will that you go to Hell. Please, come to your senses and obey the Gospel. If you will admit that you have broken the Commandments, earnestly pray something like this: “Dear God, please forgive my sins (name them). Nothing I can do could merit everlasting life. I trust alone in the mercy that You offer me in Jesus Christ. I put my faith in the Savior (not in man, in a church or my good works) for my eternal salvation. I will read the Bible daily and obey what I read. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.” Now carefully read John 14:21. Thank you for being open-minded enough to read this booklet. My motivation for writing it was solely a concern for your eternal salvation. I earnestly hope you have made peace with God. Yours faithfully, Ray Comfort. For a complete list of books, tracts, tapes and videos by Ray Comfort, write to: Living Waters Publications, P.O. Box 1172, Bellflower, CA 90706, USA, or see: www.raycomfort.com 1 www.drdino.com/Articles/Article1.htm
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