Inconvenient Questions
Where Did GOD Come From?
Getting a straight answer from the Church is harder than you might think.
The other day I was in a conversation with a Christian friend who challenged the theories of Evolution and the Big Bang with Biblical narratives, as if these religious narratives were somehow superior to what we have been able to observe in the natural world and the greater universe around us.
Mind you, the Church has a rather pathetic track record when it comes to accepting science over their own “holy traditions” that were ostensibly inspired by God. Just ask Galileo whom the Church persecuted and sentenced to house arrest for the rest of his life for doing nothing more than challenging the Church’s errant rejection of Copernican (Heliocentric) astronomy. The Church thought and demanded as a matter of doctrine that the sun revolved around the Earth.
This pathetic track record of telling the truth also includes what got written into the Bible.
Mind you, while the Church has in recent centuries declared their Bible wholly inspired, infallible, and inerrant in its every word, they seem to not have any problems CORRECTING something that is immutably without error, namely,
- Protestants dropping several books from the…