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"Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? "   ---  Carl Sagan

Matt 7:13-14
13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.



Carl Sagan tried to use science to disprove creation. Ironically while rejecting Christ as Savior, he chose instead to believe the exploding rock theory, or the Big Bang. I believe every word in Scripture was put there for profound reasons---

Christ is referred to as the Chief Cornerstone; and His followers will build their lives on Him---
Ephesians 2:19-22
Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone, in whom the whole building, being fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord, in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.

So mankind have a dilemma here. Do they believe in an exploding rock or the Rock of Ages? As I said every word in Scripture has profound meaning and application. Men, the lost, will be ashamed in the day Christ is revealed as they realize like Sagan surely has, the absurdity of attributing their existence to that which was made, (the universe) rather than He Who made all those things. It is therefore no small irony that man would get his 'rocks' confused.


But Sagan gives us even further insight as to the folly of men's thoughts regarding his observations about the universe. Bible scholars say there are about 1800 prophecies recorded in the Bible. And like Sagan, this is where the greatest secular minds have focused their attack. Never once, even using terabytes of computer cross referencing power, have any of them been able to find a single chink. Prophecy does prove the Scripture. But in addition than that, men know instinctively in their hearts that time is short.

Romans chapter 1 TLB
As the Scripture says it, “The man who finds life will find it through trusting God.”*

18 But God shows his anger from heaven against all sinful, evil men who push away the truth from them. 19 For the truth about God is known to them instinctively; God has put this knowledge in their hearts. 20 Since earliest times men have seen the earth and sky and all God made, and have known of his existence and great eternal power. So they will have no excuse when they stand before God at Judgment Day.