COMMENTARY: The Fear Of God Is The Beginning Of Wisdom

…..by Yves Ephraim 

Recently, I was involuntarily drawn into a debate on Mental Health and though I did not mind the stout disagreement to the points I was making, two concerns emerged.

My first concern has to do with the deep and troubling scorn that was expressed by the majority of anonymous commentators on matters related to Christianity, God and the Bible. I had known for some time now that Antigua and Barbuda had strayed from God but I had no idea how far we had strayed. I am feeling Sodom and Gomorrah vibes.

Reading between the lines of the various commentators, I detected a sentiment of raw hatred towards Christianity, God and the Bible.

What an unfortunate transformation compared to the nation I knew 43 years ago!

I feel very moved to pray earnestly for this nation and encourage other Christians to so do.

The second observation is the false notion that somehow “science” and the Bible are assumed to be naturally at odds with each other. 

Nothing could be farther from the truth!

I am convinced that pure science is always congruent with the Bible.

Let me break it down.

Simply, I compare the Bible to a user manual. The user manual tells you how to power up an appliance and tells you which buttons to push to get the appliance to perform the functions you desire. 

The user manual does not necessarily tell you in any detail how that appliance works within its casing. The user manual is only concerned with showing you what inputs to activate and the output those inputs produce. For the most part, when you use the appliance, you do not see what is actually happening inside the casing. The Bible works somewhat like that.

Continuing with our appliance/user manual metaphor, “science” is merely the revelation, explanation or the discovery of the details of what happens inside the casing when you push a button and an output is produced. 

One definition of science I pulled from the Internet is:

“The observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanation of phenomena.”

Because Christians believe that God is true, we know that “true” science will always support the Bible. 

Where this all seems to fall apart is where a scientist is more concerned with disproving God than discovering the truth. Often times this bias causes some scientist to collect data that support their own bias and ignore data that does not. The scientific world is rife with many examples of this. 

Even in the immediate aftermath of COVID, information that was revealed through freedom of information requests, demonstrated that there was knowledge of the serious harmful side-effects of the drugs we were forced to take but that knowledge was conveniently suppressed.

There has been many pronouncements made about so called inaccuracy about the Bible, but only to have those assertions reversed years later after new evidence exonerates the testimony of the Bible.

Take for example British physicist, cosmologist Stephen Hawkings who considered himself an atheist, but before dying started to realize that everything in the universe was somehow connected to the sustenance of humans on this planet. 

In other words, he had started to realize that this universe was not merely the result of a random “big bang” that somehow miraculously put everything into perfect order. He had started to gradually concede that the universe itself strongly suggested the involvement a designer/creator.

Whenever science appears to be at odds with the Bible, it is just a sign that man is still early in the discovery of the truth. Inevitably, a new scientist will eventually come along and discover the real truth and once again exonerate the truth of the Bible.

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