Bible Miracles and Scientific Explanations

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Bible MiraclesandScientific Explanations
Psalm 141-6 John 1145-47 Acts 416
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Bible and Science

• Science to know, having knowledge
• Humanism views science as truth and interprets
  everything through the template of naturalism, 2
  Pet. 33-4
• Example The Ten Plagues of Egypt

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Scientific Theory for Egyptian Plagues

• From The Reaping (movie, Hillary Swank)
• In 1400 B.C., a group of nervous Egyptians saw
  the Nile turn red, but what they thought was
  blood was actually an algae bloom which killed
  the fish, which prior to that had been living off
  the eggs of frogs. Those uneaten eggs turned into
  record numbers of baby frogs who subsequently
  fled to the land and died.

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Scientific Theory for Egyptian Plagues

• Their little rotting frog bodies attracted lice
  and flies. The lice carried the blue-tongue (?)
  virus which killed 70 of Egypts livestock. The
  flies carried glanders (?), a bacterial
  infection, which in humans, causes boils. Soon
  afterward the Nile Rive Valley was hit with a
  three-day sandstorm, otherwise known as the
  plague of darkness.

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Scientific Theory for Egyptian Plagues

• During the sandstorm, intense heat combined with
  an approaching cold front to create not only
  hail, but also electrical storms, which wouldve
  looked to the ancient Egyptians like fire from
  the sky. The subsequent wind wouldve blown the
  Ethiopian locust population off course and right
  into downtown Cairo.

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Scientific Theory for Egyptian Plagues

• Hail is wet locust leave droppings spread
  both on your grain and youve got micro toxins.
  Dinnertime in ancient Egypt meant the firstborn
  child got the biggest portion, which in this
  case meant he ate the most toxins so he died.
• Ten plagues equal ten scientific explanations.

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Science and the Bible

• Science is the quest for human knowledge of the
  world and how it operates (its origin, causes and
  purposes)
• The Bible is revelation from God that explains
  the worlds origin, causes and purposes

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Science and the Bible

• Science changes with the increase of knowledge
  Bible as the source of truth does not change
• Science can be false, 1 Tim. 620
• Ptolemaic SystemCopernican System
• Moses vs. Egyptian knowledge (Acts
  722 Gen. 11, 26-27 27)

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Science and the Bible

• When the miracles of the Bible are rejected for
  natural explanations, inescapable conclusions
  follow

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Science and the Bible

• Denial Rejection of God, Romans 118-21,
  28
• BIBLE God said (Gen. 1 Psa. 33 6-9) The
  plagues, Exo. 720
• SCIENCE Natural processes of evolution over 20
  billion years (2 Peter 34)

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Science and the Bible

• Denial of the Deity of Jesus
• BIBLE God with us Creator, John 11-3
  Col. 116
• SCIENCE Historical figure, great philosopher but
  not deity
• Cannot answer the resurrection of Jesus from the
  dead! 1 Cor. 153-8

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Science and the Bible

• Denial of the Inspired Word of God
• BIBLE Verbally-inspired, 2 Tim. 316 Zech.
  712 1 Cor. 1437
• SCIENCE Can never explain the Bibles unity,
  harmony, fulfillment of prophecy and endurance

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Science and the Bible

• Denial of Sin and Salvation
• BIBLE Origin and results of sin death and a
  Savior, Genesis 31-15 Romans 512, 15
• Miracles testify Jesus is Savior, John 1025
  2030-31

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Science and the Bible

• Denial of Sin and Salvation
• SCIENCE Can never explain the origin of the
  human conscience never solve problem of shame
  guilt
• Humanism No deity will save us we must save
  ourselves.
• Rejects the persuasive evidence (Acts 1730-31)

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Science and the Bible

• Denial of Personal Faith in God
• BIBLE Personal faith
• Produced by inspired word, Rom. 1017
  116-17
• Necessary for salvation by Gods grace, Eph.
  28-9
• Necessary to please God, Heb. 116 (2
  Cor. 57)

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Science and the Bible

• Denial of Personal Faith in God
• SCIENCE Rejects the need for personal faith in
  God, 1 Timothy 620-21
• Believe in yourself, not God (Jer. 1023
  Prov. 1625)

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Science and the Bible

• Denial of the Soul and Eternity
• BIBLE Answers yearnings of the heart, Psa.
  83-9 Eccl. 1213-14
• SCIENCE Man is an evolved animal, only physical
  without immortal soul, no heaven and hell, death
  ends all existence

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Science and the Bible

• Mans knowledge must be directed by divine
  revelation tempered by true faith in God, Acts
  2624-25
• Do not lean on your own understanding lean on
  the Lord, Proverbs 35-6

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