Science From the Bible

Good Morning,

I am willing to say that probably all of my audience would choose the Bible over science, if the two were in conflict. Not that we are anti-science, but if there is a problem between science and the Bible, we will trust the Bible, and I do not think there would be much debate over that idea.

I find it interesting that in the areas of life which demand more faith, we would choose science (more often than we would like to admit).

Allow me to give you a few examples:

1. On six different occasions, God speaks of the unicorn. 

Job 39:10 “Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?”

Psalm 29:6 “He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.”

Psalm 92:10 “But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.”

(Several more verses clearly speak of a unicorn.)  

2. Then there is the satyr.  No sane person would believe in something like that, would they? 

Isaiah 13:21 “But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.”

Isaiah 34:14 “The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest.”

The issue is, do we believe “scholars” who deny what we read, or do we believe the written Word.

Consider this: we believe in dinosaurs, and we have never seen one.  In fact, the skeletons that we see in different museums are usually the guess work of someone who is good with plaster of Paris. That giant creature could have been entirely constructed from one jaw bone or a femur, and a great deal of imagination. We readily accept the reality of these creatures.  while the Bible speaks several times of the satyr; why do we simply not believe it?

There are other subjects that also test us in this matter of faith versus science.

Revelation 9:16 “And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.”

vs. 17 “And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.”

Let us just believe our Bible, and, on occasion, trust science, if it does not conflict with the Word of God.

Pastor