Now your thinking I am a religeous zealot. Wrong. I just believe in Christ and God. It gives ME comfort. I really don’t care what you use for comfort. I do not ignore facts but you seem to. Recently an article surfaced about Jesus being real. Several agnostic and athiestic scientist could not find fault with everything Jesus is supposed to be. People just believe the new patter. God is dead. God doesn’t exist. Prove that to me. No amount of science can do that. Let me tell you a little story about me. I am a Vietnam combat veteran. When I left and came home, I no longer felt I had any reason to believe God was anywhere. For years I railed against the established churches (and to some extent still do.) I drank, I smoked I cheated on my ex-wife on many occasions. I was searching for something to make me feel alive again. No matter how drunk I got, I still had to wake up the next day with a hangover and an empty feeling. For over 10 years I felt like this. One day a good friend lead me back to Christ and suddenly that hole I had started closing up. I quit drinking (29 years clean and sober), I got remarried and found a great woman. I mended the relationship with my son, thankfully. I have two beautiful granddaughters that I love dearly. But I still do not have a church home. I attend occasionally in different locations, but my problem is that everyone has their own opinion of the Bible verses. My interpretation is as good as anyones. Some stuff in the Bible I refuse to accept at face value. ex: God created the earth in 7 days. I know that is not true in our time of measurement, but how long is a day to God? 24 hours or 100,000,000 years. I believe in evolution I find no fault with that. I believe in dinosaurs but not that man and beast walked together at the same time. Was it some cataclismic explosion that killed off the dinosaurs? I find that one hard to follow. If it would have killed off the dinos why not the crocs. Why not all birds expecially if birds decended from dinos? Mammal lived through that time period as well. Many sea creatures moved forward in the evolution cycle from that time except trilobites. Now I really like “bugs” I own several fossils of trilobites, but can’t help but wonder why they did not move forward in earths future. They were certainly capable of doing so. Hard armour plate, multiple eyes, mobile etc. Horseshoe crabs lived in the same time period but they moved forward. They were very small and mostly nocturnal, yet they survived to move forward. Every scientific discovery tends to raise more questions in me. If it doesn’t for you, they you may already be worshipping a different God. They say that the Bible was written by men and they did so to favor themselves. All these conflicting scientific reports are written by men as well. Why? They also do it to favor themselves. Granted there are people out there that hammer and hammer people with God. Why is my older rock statement ridiculous? Because it flies in the face of your reality or because it is true. Within the past two year the age of the earth has be changed and challenged twice. I can’t quote you the article but you can certainly google it. We children of God have a sense of humor, you children of science do not.
I am just saying that yes I believe in God and Crist. I believe Christ lived among us. I believe that he rose from the tomb in three days after his death. I believe that the earth is billions of years old and I believe that there will be other finds made that will even change the current theory. I also believe that we will never truely know what happened in the prehistoric past. We can only speculate. So again do not try to paint me into your hard “ONLY GOD” corner like you have painted yourself into the ‘only science’ corner. Have you even studied the Bible? I doubt it. You are the one stuck in their belief system. I have long ago opened my mind to explore other things and see fact in what I look at and read about, but I do question science on many levels just as I question the Bible on many levels. You can not make me nor shall I hide in a corner and occasionally shout, “God is great, God is good”. I will however where ever I go say that I believe in God.