Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Things Are Not As They Seem (the Truth Is Inevitable) - M.d. James F. Ivey

things are not as they seem (the truth is inevitable) - m.d. james f. ivey
things are not as they seem (the truth is inevitable) - m.d. james f. ivey

This is a book of Christian apologetics. It seeks to show that Christianity is intellectually sound and logical and is the Answer to our ultimate questions. Christian faith can be defined in several valid ways, e.g. it's being a sense with which one can see beyond space-time and the only sense we will possess after death. Humanity is in possession of little knowledge other than math and various ethical axioms. Even scientists must depend upon belief, essentially indistinguishable from faith.The Gospel of Jesus is beautiful and simple, and these adjectives strongly correlate with truth. Science, particularly Relativity and quantum mechanics, along with cosmology, philosophy, and history, strongly support the validity of the Gospel. Mind is primary in our universe and beyond, subordinating matter, force, space and time. Matter is no more substantial than is mathematics, and math is a product of mind. Christianity is unique among religions and much easier to defend than they in terms of rationality. We have nothing without eternal life, and no other faith offers this as convincingly as does Christianity. Also, Jesus uniquely emphasized love, the strongest force in the world, through which Christianity, as it were, conquered the Roman Empire. Stupendous odds militate against the views that everything came into being without God or that evolution could take place without intelligent direction. In a universe with age 10 to the 18th power seconds, the occurrence of DNA by chance is about 1 in 10 to the 78000th power and therefore essentially impossible. Much evidence exists in favor of the existence of a timeless realm, while there is no evidence extant against same, and modern physics makes its reality easy to imagine. Relativity renders both space and time illusory, and quantum electrodynamics suggests that elemental particles are continually popping into and out of space-time. Relativity also emphasizes the unique nature of light, suggesting that it is not confined by space-time, while the New Testament characterizes Jesus as "the Light." As cosmology posits the existence of parallel universes, it would seem reasonable for that discipline to contain heaven as part of its curriculum, since the latter is less fantastic than the former. Because they would have to desert their most basic premise, causation, in order to do so, scientists can never find the Prime Mover, and attempts to explain the origin of the universe without resort to God are much more more difficult to feature than are those of theology/the Bible. Scientific deliberations inevitably arrive at the existence of God. The late British cosmologist, Sir Fred Hoyle, initially a hard-nosed atheist, finally had to recognize that Supreme Intelligence is in charge of the universe after learning of just one of approximately one hundred thirty fine-tunings of the universe which must be in place in order for there to be life on earth. The characteristics we would expect an ideal God to have are those of the God of the Bible, particularly as He appears in the New Testament. Jesus is He whose personality and teachings best fit our consensual ideas concerning what God would most likely be like as a human, and He has had more influence on the history of western civilization than any other person of all times. This is of course just what we would expect to be the case if the true God came to us as a man. The history of the Jews is utterly unique, as we would expect re God's chosen people. and our newspaper headlines often reflect their validity as such as well as the truth of their prophets. In seeking the most profound truths, we must think big and timelessly because the answers to the deepest questions we can ask lie beyond space-time. Socrates and Plato realized that things are not as they seem and that it is our minds, not our senses, that are capable of revealing ultimate reality. They also believed in a purposeful universe and an absolute code of ethics established by God.

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