Theories we accept as Truth

Genesis 8:20-22

Jan and I have just returned from a mission trip and vacation to Costa Rica, and part of the vacation took us to Tortuguero, it is a rain forest and you travel everywhere on the canals.  One of our guides was a man named Thomas, and he came across as someone who knew a lot and he was good at telling us all he knew, that is what a guide is suppose to do on the area he is guiding you through, but Thomas went a little too far in his comments.  His views became not opinion but were stated as facts, he told us how things developed, how the different kinds of living organisms developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of the earth.  Thomas kicked around millions and billions of years as if his opinions were founded in facts and not in theory, but it’s not just Thomas that takes such liberties, so does the History channel, and the News papers, the T.V. talking heads, all of them, even our Government gives us information that is at best, some persons theory and not based on truth or facts.

What if you grew up sitting in front of the T.V. and the History channel, what if Thomas is your dad or uncle, what if the Church is silent and does not challenge these opinions that are at best man’s theories, what happens to that generation of young people?  They believe what they are told, it’s that simple, they have no reason to not believe what has been spoon feed to them almost from the time of birth; they become agnostic in their belief system because that is all they have been given.

Noah got out of the ark and built an altar to the Lord, and he offered the best of the clean animals as an offering to God on the altar.  Genesis 8:21,22, “And when the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, the Lord said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man’s heart is evil from his youth.  Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done.  While the earth remains, seed-time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.”

One day Thomas and I were walking ahead of the group, and I said, “Thomas, our great Creator Jesus Christ, sure did good,” and Thomas replied, I still believe in him even after all my studies.  It was not the place or time to challenge Thomas’s belief system, but what if Thomas had this information taken from Genesis 1:24,25, “And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds – livestock and creeping things and beast of the earth according to their kinds.”  And it was so.  And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that creeps on the ground according to its kind.   And God saw that it was good.”

How much of man’s theories have you accepted as truth?

From the Back Porch,

Bob Rice