Hal Lindseyn kirje skeptikolle (in english)

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© 2001 WorldNetDaily.com
I recently received a letter from someone who saw a broadcast
of my television program, The International Intelligence Briefing, on TBN
last week. According to my correspondent, I'd have to be an idiot to put
my faith in the Bible.
 

I saw you on TBN and boy, I am impressed. Why don't you
pick up a science book and learn the real truth? All religion is mythology.
People of many religions have been predicting the end of world for years.
The Garden of Eden, The Flood, The Last Supper, the Resurrection story,
The Trinity, etc. were all in religions before Christianity. Do you deny that? Do you honestly believe the Earth is only 6,000 years old? That we
lived with dinosaurs? That we did not evolve from apes? Do you think there
is a conspiracy of scientists in all different fields against the Bible?
Einstein, Darwin, Sagan, etc. were not out to disprove the Bible, they
were seeking knowledge. Because of them the world is a better place.
I often get letters like the one above, but I usually
answer them privately. This one deserves a wider hearing.


Dear Sir:
You argue that because of Darwin and others the world
is a better place. A woman has a "right to choose" to kill her unborn baby
– the baby has no right to "life, liberty or the pursuit of happiness." Families are breaking up, kids are turning schools into war zones, perjury
is no longer a "real crime," gangs run rampant in our cities and serial
killers are now commonplace. Sure, things have never been better.
(Who told you I believe that the earth is only 6000 years
old? The Bible does not teach or require that belief.) Also, please explain
the fossilized human footprint in the same impression as a dinosaur footprint
located in the Permian Basin outside Midland, Texas. So far, science has
been unable to. Apparently, you are willing to put your faith in science
books alone. I'm sure it provides you with plenty of hope for the future.
I agree people have been predicting the end of the world.
Indeed, that comes as no surprise to those who eschew the "real truth of
science" ("man will never fly" – "bloodletting will cure disease" – both
once scientific truths) for the "myths" of the Bible. How many people do
you think have tried to prove the Bible wrong in the last 20 centuries?
Philosophers, thinkers, scientists and doctors from every generation, on
every continent, for 2000 years have tried to conclusively disprove the Bible – archeologically, historically, medically, scientifically – the
one who found a single provably incorrect statement in any of these fields
would prove the Book was written by a man.
Such a one would utterly destroy the underpinnings of
the Judeo Christian ethic and would be the most famous philosopher who
ever lived. The man who proved the Bible wrong! Surely history records
such a genius – it's not like the Bible and its precepts haven't been under
constant attack throughout history. But, sadly, there is no record of our
historical genius.
You can't really believe you are the first to question
it. I challenge you to conclusively disprove the Bible. While you're at
it, can you conclusively prove evolution? Science demands empirical evidence
that can be re-created in a laboratory before it labels something as "fact."
Consequently, we teach evolution as fact in schools, but call it the "theory"
of evolution. Look up "theory" and you'll find it means "a supposition"
– an unproved fact.
On the other hand, the Bible is made up of 66 books, written
by at least 40 different men in different cultures and places over a period
of 2,000 years. Yet the message is perfectly consistent, homogenous, connected
and progressive.
The Bible details history, medical information, scientific
information (the Book of Job tells us, among other things, the world is
round, wind moves in cyclonic patterns rather than a straight line and
that light is in motion), without contradicting the latest findings of
science. Archeological information has never disproved but rather confirmed
the details of the Bible. Archeology has proven the existence of such key
figures as Pontius Pilate, Caiaphas the High Priest, and we also have the
record of Flavius Josephus, the secular Roman historian who mentioned the
life of Jesus.
You are entitled to your opinion, as am I. And if you're
right, the same thing happens to me as happens to you when we die – nothing!
If you're wrong, however, you will pay for all eternity.
I'm unwilling to gamble on a discipline (science) that
has been wrong so many times before, when I have before me a discipline
(Biblical Christianity) that has never been disproved a single time in history.
So, I thank you for your suggestion that I pick up a science
book and learn the "real" truth. But I already have and found that "truth"
wanting. When I was a boy, science told me it was impossible to split the
atom. Science told my dad that man would never fly. I've lived to see both
scientific truths disproved, yet I still await the disproval of a single
point in all 77,000-plus verses of Scripture.
I've studied science. I've read dozens of books on dozens
of scientific theories and breakthroughs. Have you read the Bible? Or are
you basing your condemnation of me on only half the evidence necessary
to support your argument? Surely you aren't saying to me "I've read science,
but not the Bible, and I conclude the Bible is wrong and science is true,"
are you? That wouldn't be very scientific, would it?
I'd like to invite you to know the One Who not only wrote
the "real" Truth, but has kept it to this day. You can meet Him here.

Sincerely in Christ,
Hal Lindsey

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