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A House Built on Shifting Sand
One of the best known parables in the Bible is about the foolish man
who built his house upon the sand and when the flood and wind came it
fell and great was the fall of it, Matthew 7:26-27. What is the sand
that Jesus is talking about? The sand is anything that does not conform
to the teachings of Jesus. The foolish man of the parable is one who
ignores God’s Word. This world’s belief systems are built on the
shifting sand of man’s opinion rather than the rock of God’s Word.
Unfortunately, within the Church are many that have aped the world’s
ideas and have brought all sorts of compromises into the Church.
What happens you when try to mix the shifting sand of man’s opinions
with the solid rock of God’s Word? A quote from self-described skeptic
Michael Shermer, “If faith is tethered to science, what happens when
the science changes?”, shows one result of this mixing with
regard to the issue of string theory. Briefly string theory is that
there are 7 dimensions beyond the 4 dimensions we can see and measure.
The whole idea of string theory arises out of problems with the general
theory of relativity. Even though there is absolutely no evidence that
these extra dimensions exists, Progressive Creationists like Hugh Ross
have built their theology upon string theory and other man-made ideas
and these ideas are now beginning to crumble away. In the same issue of
Scientific American quoted earlier, evolutionist physicist,
Lawrence Krauss drives one nail into the coffin of string theory when
he says, “I’d also bet that the solution to these problems (in physics)
is not going to resemble anything being done now, including string
theory.” “But I do think its (string theory) time may be past.” Ideas
develop a momentum of their own, even as they are being discarded by
the science establishment, you may continue to see stories in the
popular media about things like string theory. One of the many
nice things about being a Biblical Creationist is that the truth in
God’s book doesn’t change. Evolutionist stories come and go, but God’s
Word endureth forever. But what will happen to the compromisers when
the man-made ideas their theologies are built upon are discarded by the
very evolutionist scientists that they have put their faith in? It is
interesting to consider that someday we may see the absurd situation in
which the last defenders of the Big Bang and string theory are those
compromisers within the Church.
