It would be a step back to our original design and mode of life. The way we were meant to be.
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DOUBTING THOMAS AND BELIEF
Christianity is not built on faith alone. It has from the very beginning been based on witnesses and evidence. The Apostle Thomas required evidence of the wounds of Jesus Christ and then proclaimed Him Lord and God.
(24) But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came.
(25) The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the Lord. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe.
(26) And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you.
(27) Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing.
(28) And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God.
(29) Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.
~ Gospel of John
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“The Incredulity of Saint Thomas” by Caravaggio, c. 1602
THE FIRST CAUSE ARGUMENT FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
The argument for the existence of God being the first cause of the universe is a fundamental element to apologetics. The idea that things that begin to exist must have a first cause was introduced into Christian theology by the Dominican priest, theologian, and philosopher, Saint Thomas Aquinas. Aquinas wrote his argument for the existence of God by causation in his dissertation called the Second Way. The Second Way is part of the grouping called The Five Ways in which Aquinas lays forth five arguments to prove the existence of God. In his in his book Summa Theologica he states:
“The second way is from the nature of the efficient cause. In the world of sense we find there is an order of efficient causes. There is no case known (neither is it, indeed, possible) in which a thing is found to be the efficient cause of itself; for so it would be prior to itself, which is impossible. Now in efficient causes it is not possible to go on to infinity, because in all efficient causes following in order, the first is the cause of the intermediate cause, and the intermediate is the cause of the ultimate cause, whether the intermediate cause be several, or only one. Now to take away the cause is to take away the effect. Therefore, if there be no first cause among efficient causes, there will be no ultimate, nor any intermediate cause. But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infinity, there will be no first efficient cause, neither will there be an ultimate effect, nor any intermediate efficient causes; all of which is plainly false. Therefore, it is necessary to admit a first efficient cause, to which everyone gives the name of God.” [1]
The Second Way addresses the argument that God exists by the way of causation. In that, all beings that exist are due to an efficient cause. No being that exists is due to its own cause, it needs an external cause to bring it into existence the “efficient cause”. Aquinas then argues that this causal chain cannot be extend back into infinity. Aquinas, then posits the need for a first efficient cause not unlike Aristotle’s “unmoved mover”. However, Aquinas makes the connection between the first efficient cause and the Judeo-Christian God.
[1] Saint Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Part 1 (Fathers of the English Dominican Province, 2006) I, q.2, a.3.
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KACHINA BRIDGE DINOSAUR PETROGLYPH
On the base of Kachina Bridge in Natural Bridges National Monument in southeastern Utah is an ancient petroglyph depicting what appears as two sauropod dinosaurs.
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JESUS WALKS ON WATER
Painting by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky. (1817 - 1900)
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STATUE OF THE BIBLICAL JOSEPH FOUND IN EGYPT
A statue was found in Tell el-Dab’a, Egypt between 1986 and 1988 that has a remarkable resemblance to the biblical Joseph written about in Genesis.
“Over the statue’s right shoulder you can still see his “throw stick” i.e., the symbol of his rule. On the back – remarkably, as with the Biblical Joseph – you can still see evidence that this ruler was wearing a striped garment, made up of at least three colors: black, red and white. He was found in a tomb. The tomb was empty.”
“he is not Egyptian, rather he is a man who comes from the area of Canaan/Israel.”
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https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/statue-of-biblical-joseph-found-story-covered-up/
JORDAN PETERSON’S UNDERSTANDING OFJESUS CHRIST
“What you have in the figure of Christ is an actual person who actually lived, plus a myth, and, in some sense, Christ is the union of those two things. The problem is I probably believe that, but I’m amazed at my own belief and I don’t understand it.”
“It’s too terrifying a reality to fully believe. I don’t even know what would happen to you if you fully believed it.”
~Jordan Peterson in an interview with Jonathan Pageau
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POLYSTRATE PETRIFIED TREES
Polystrate trees are fossilized tree trunks that are found protruding through multiple layers of rock strata. The question is how the tree fossilizes this way if the rock layers take millions of years to form?
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Dang! That’s funny!
“Nearly everyone I know who has embraced Christianity in adult life has been influenced by what seemed to him to be at least a probable argument for theism.”
~ C. S. Lewis
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SQUID DRAWN WITH FOSSIL SQUID INK
A drawing of a squid was drawn with supposedly 150 million year old squid ink. The ink comes from a fossil of a squid that still has its ink sac intact and unfossilized. The ink was fresh enough to be mixed with ammonia and used to draw.
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Why us?
“A commonsense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as with chemistry and biology, and that there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature. The numbers one calculates from the facts seem to me so overwhelming as to put this conclusion almost beyond question.”
~ Fred Hoyle, the astronomer who came up with the term "Big Bang" speaking about the fine tuning of the equations that govern the universe.
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"SCIENCE INCREASINGLY MAKES THE CASE FOR GOD"
Published in the Wall Street Journal on December 25, 2014 by Eric Metaxas illustrates a compelling case that science is increasingly making the case for a Creator of the universe.
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https://ericmetaxas.com/watch-read/articles/science-increasingly-makes-the-case-for-god/
I will have to check him out. I think a lot of us had a hard time with conventional science and theology. However, the more I looked into it, the more I relished that science is more and more coming into alignment with the Judeo-Christian God. Thank you for your replies! Cheers!