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Chuck Missler - What Is Truth?
Part 1
Our Challenges
* Our Skeptical Environment
Attacks on the very existence of Truth
Attacks on the Bible
Attacks on the Lord Himself
* The Existence of Cosmic Warfare
Spiritual Adversaries
The Weapons of Doubt and Deceit
How do we know the Bible is True?
* Testimonies of the Past - Scholastic Evidences, manuscript evidence, testimony of contemporaries
Testimonies of the Present - The Boundaries of Reality
The Lessons of Modern Science
Messages of Extraterrestrial Origin
Hidden Discoveries in the Biblical Text
On May 19, 2006, The Da Vinci Code will be released at theaters.
The Da Vinci Code was a deliberate attack against the church.
The Gospel of Judas was never accepted by the early church.
Why is The Passion excoriated and The Da Vinci Code extolled?
Why are Gibson's motives denounced and Brown's dignified?
The deity of Christ is being passed off as fiction.
Even the undeniable grandeur of the creation is attributed to the randomness of a cosmic accident.
Traditional Defenses of Scripture
The "Jesus Papyri" - P. Magdalen, a segment of Matthew's gospel appears to be written before A.D. 66.
Gnostic Gospels
- All written under false pseudonyms
- All written centuries after the gospel period
- Anti-historical and contradict known history
Gospels of Thomas, Judas, Philip, Mary, Truth, etc.
The Gospel of Thomas does not support that Jesus Christ was married.
Paul warns us about Gnosticism in 2 Timothy 4:3 and 4.
"What is history, but a fable agreed upon?" - Napoleon
Spirit of our times:
doctrinal diversity, pressures of feminism, do-it-yourself Christianity
Epistemology 101
The Study of Knowledge, its scope and limits
Discernment of "things"
Which sources of knowledge are trustworthy?
Cosmic Issues
Is the universe finite?
How long has it been there?
Is it designed or a cosmic accident?
Are there limits to size: How large? How small?
Is space really empty?
Has time always been the same?
Are there other dimensions, beyond the four we experience?
We shouldn't be simply promoting that intelligent design be taught in schools. We should be promoting evidence-based education and the rest will take care of itself.
The Boundaries of Reality
Critical Perspective
Two illusive mathematical concepts
- Infinity
- Randomness (Entropy)
- Stochastic vs. Deterministic Processes
- Pseudo-Random Numbers
It's impossible to get a true random number. It's only possible to get a number that has random properties.
- Chaos Theory
Information Measures
Disorder (Entropy) - Noise, Cacophony, Chaos, Randomness
Order (Information) - Signal, Music, Cosmos, Design
These two are opposites. There is a tendency to go toward entropy. Every field of science except one recognizes we're going from order to disorder. Only biology has chosen to ignore the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics.
"God does not play dice." - Albert Einstein
Coincidence is not a kosher word.
There are no accidents.
Infinity - Macrocosm
The universe had a beginning and it will have an end.
Entropy is the bondage of decay that Paul refers to in Romans 8.
There is no such thing as 100% efficiency.
Thermal Decay
Heat always flows from hot bodies to cold bodies.
If the universe were infinitely old, the temperature throughout the universe would be uniform.
It isn't; therefore, it isn't infinitely old.
Big Bang Speculations:
Steady State Model was admittedly Einstein's biggest mistake.
Hesitation Model
Oscillation Model
Inflation Model
Gerald Schroeder - The Stretch Factor, shows how the universe has stretched (time is not a constant)
There are over a dozen verses that say how God has stretched the Heavens.
Space is not an empty vacuum. It can be torn, worn out like a garment, be shaken, be burnt up, split apart like a scroll, and be rolled up like a mantle or scroll.
Space has some physical properties. It has permittivity, permeability, intrinsic impedance, velocity of light
At creation, the velocity of the speed of light was 2.54 x 10 to the 10th power times present velocity.
Recently, all kinds of journals have been saying that the speed of light is not a constant.
If space can be rolled up, there is some dimension in which space must be thin.
If space can be bent, there is a direction t can be bent toward.
In the 13th century, Nachmonides wrote that there are 10 dimensions and there are only 4 that are knowable.
Today, particle physicists have said the same thing.
How would you communicate a 3 dimensional object to a 2 dimensional universe?
Ephesians 3:17-19 - breadth, length, depth, and height (four dimensions, and one of these Greek words can be used for time, too)
There is a limit to smallness. You can cut a string in half, for instance, over and over. However, when you get to 10 to the minus 33 centimeters, it loses locality!
Quantum Physics
Planck length: 10 to the -33 centimeters
Planck time: 10 to the -43 seconds
Lasers have come from this technology.
Chuck recommends the movie "13th Floor".
A virtual environment was created in Los Angeles and set in 1937. A person in Los Angeles in 2005 was able to transfer consciousness with a person in 1937.
Our reality appears to be a shadow of a greater reality (the spiritual universe).
The Four Forces
Gravity, Electromagnetic Force, Weak Nuclear and Strong Nuclear forces
If these four forces had differing variables, life as we know it would not exist.
The delicate balances of the universe weren't just created by God, but they're also maintained by God. If they weren't, they wouldn't support life as they do.
The universe wasn't just designed, but it was designed to be discovered.
If it weren't for the lunar eclipse, we wouldn't have a lot of the spectrum information that we do.
The Privileged Planet
- Uniquely positioned for life
- Uniquely positioned to discover
-- positioned in the galaxy
-- positioned for total eclipses
-- positioned within the visible spectrum
- Implies teleology
-- a purposeful design
Chuck recommends the book called The Privileged Planet
- Two Dimensionless Constants of the Universe: pi and e
Take Genesis 1:1 in the Hebrew.
The number of letters x the product of the letters
divided by
The number of words x the product of the words
and you get pi
2.718281828 is the value for e
Take John 1:1 in the Greek.
The number of letters x the product of the letters
divided by
The number of words x the product of the words
and you get e.
Part 2
The Nature of Time
Trigonometry - The sides of a triangle usually, not always equal 180
Einstein believed space has more than 3 dimensions.
There is no distinction between time and space.
Gravitational Time Dilation
Identical Atomic clocks are located in Boulder and Greenwich and are highly precise
The one in Boulder is 5 microseconds/year faster than the one at Greenwich.
However, they're both correct because of the difference in gravity/altitude.
Boulder = 5400 feet
Greenwich = 80 feet
Time is a physical property
Alpha Centauri Trip
Time is not uniform. It is a physical property.
Time varies with mass, acceleration, and gravity.
10 Dimensional Universe?
In Genesis 3, God put a curse on nature. Four dimensions are findable and the others are not.
The entropy laws were introduced in Genesis 3 and not in Genesis 1.
In Romans 8:21, we read that entropy may be repealed.
Statistical Probabilities
347 beads, 2 types: black and white
the chance it spells out the first verse in the Bible is 2.8669 x 10 to the -104 power
Borel's Law: 10 to the -50 is defined as absurd!
The entire food industry depends on the fact that biogenesis cannot occur.
Matter plus energy plus information equals life.
The chances of this planet creating life on its own is absurd.
Hemoglobin is 574 amino acids long.
574 elements from an alphabet of 20.
There are 10 to the 650 permutations possible.
Every non-hemoglobin combination is fatal.
Hemoglobin happening by chance is like winning the lottery every day for 90 days in a row.
Which came first, DNA or Proteins? They both had to be created at the same time.
Darwinians cannot explain the origin of life because they cannot explain the origin of information.
God is not subject to the restrictions of mass, acceleration, or gravity.
He is not simply One with "lots of time", but He is outside of the restrictions of time.
If He has the technology to create us, then He has the technology to get a message to us.
Someone in eternity can see the past, present, and future all at once.
People like us, who believe in physics . . . realize the difference between the past, present, and future is only a stubbornly present illusion." - Albert Einstein
Two Critical Discoveries
1) We have in our possession an integrated message system
2) The origin of this system came from beyond our dimension
Matthew 5:17 and 18 is a call to take the Torah literally.
Chuck recommends a book by J. Barton Payne called, The Encyclopedia of Biblical Prophecy
In 2 Peter 1, Peter says his testimony is valid because he was an eyewitness, but he also says we have a more sure word of prophecy.
Until we can measure a thing, we really know very little about it (Lord Kelvin).
The Tenach was translated into Greek by 270 B.C.
The Old Testament contains over 300 prophecies detailing the coming Messiah.
An examination of 8 of these prophecies
1. Micah 5:2 - Bethlehem birth
What is the probability of any person taken at random, of fulfilling this?
2. Zechariah 9:9 - The triumphal entry
How many people have presented themselves as a king to Jerusalem riding a donkey?
3. Zechariah 11:12 - 30 pieces of silver
How many people have been betrayed for 30 pieces of silver?
4. Zechariah 11:13 - Casting the 30 pieces of silver to the potter
- price: 30 pieces of silver, location: House of the Lord (temple), who ends up with the money: the potter
5. Zechariah 13:6 (see John 20:25) - Wounded in the house of his friends
6. Isaiah 53:7 - Wounded and accused of a capital crime, brought like a lamb to the slaughter, without making a defense (even though innocent)
7. Isaiah 53:9 - Died among the wicked, but buried with the rich
8. Psalm 22:16 - They pierced his hands and feet (predicted while stoning was the punishment, over 700 years before persecution)
The chances of these 8 prophecies coming true in one person is 10 to the 17th power. Or 1 in 100,000,000,000,000,000!
Another way to put this is making the whole state of Texas two feet deep in silver dollars. One has been marked with nail polish. The chances of this coming true is the chance of finding that coin in your first attempt.
If we have 16 prophecies combined, we have a chance of 10 to the 45th power.
I cannot think of any fact that I have more assurance of than the fact that Jesus Christ is the predicted Messiah.
For every prophecy of Christ's first coming, there are 7 or 8 of his 2nd coming.
The secrets of the Torah are revealed in the skipping of the letters.
Equidistant Letter Sequence (ELS)
Sevens in the Bible occur in over 600 passages. Some are overt, some are structural, and some are hidden.
Design Challenge: A Genealogy
There is probably no other language that is as precise as Greek.
Dr. Ivan Panin discovered the heptadic structures underlying the scriptures.
He has some awesome discoveries on the last verses of Mark and how they were originally in the scriptures.
Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and the epistle writers have unique vocabularies.
If you win, you win everything. If you lose, you lose nothing. - Pascal
The more you know about advanced science, the more comfortable you are with Genesis 1.
Jesus was the most anti-religious person who ever walked the Earth. He was all about a relationship with God, not empty religion.
The Jews believe Enoch was raptured on his birthday.
Jeremiah 22:30 should be shown to Jewish scholars. According to this verse, the only provision for a Messiah is a virgin birth because there is a blood curse on the royal line.
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