Exciting Times (Part Two)

So today we had christian union, I love it. Just sharing life with other Christians is awesome. We spend alot of time telling the others about our plans for the coming mouths, everyone seems up for it, so it's all good.

On saturday some of the christian union went to a training day with new generation, they were training us in how to reach your school/college/uni. At the training day there was a group of lads from a school in bolton. These guys have completely the same heart as us. We decided to partner, we don't know how we are going to go about this, just let, but it's exciting. They were telling us about these outreach meetings they have been doing, with around 300 people coming. Last year they saw 30 people saved, which is awesome. I'm so excited about what God has planned in the coming years

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Exciting Times (Part One) - Habaukkuk 1:5

I'm so excited about this week, so much going on, some I can and will talk about, other stuff I can't but it's all still good. Do you ever get that feeling that God is just about to do something. Well that's the feeling I have right now. This week is the start of the 'campaign of love' in my college. That the name we, we as in the christian union, have given to describe our outreach into the college. We just want to show the college we are there for them and love them. This Wednesday we will be handing out candy floss as start of that, it going to be sweet.

My mind goes back to a verse in Habakkuk 1:5,
' ⁵ "Look at the nations and watch—
and be utterly amazed.
For I am going to do something in your days
that you would not believe,
even if you were told.'
This verse some up what I feeling right now, I don't know what God's going to do, I just know it's going to be good.

This week I really feel God is calling me to blog every night, so I will. I have a number of other things coming up this week, which I will tell you all about, which are exciting as well. God is on the move, this isn't a time for us as the people of God to sit back. This is a time for us to move and get the job done, that job is being his hands and feet in the all the earth.

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Science Doesn't Have All The Answers

A blog on politics will come but i may set up a whole new blog for that, for now there are my thought on science and where science needs to stop and faith needs to begin

Stephane was a confirmed atheist. But now he's a Christian. How did this happened? He started questioning scientific discovery. He was convinced that science had all the answers. But when he started looking and investigating, he came to the conclusion that science was asking him to believe in a god called 'chance'. By 'chance' the world came into being though the 'big bang'. Yet, everything in science points to an incredible order in nature. 'How could this be?' he asked himself and he found God.

I believe it is possible to believe in science and Genesis, that you don't just have to believe in one or the other. It is possible for the two to go hand in hand, when you consider the questions that science is answering and the questions religion is answering. Religion is there to give people the outline, science is there to give people the detail. As the Professor of Astronomy at Cambridge University and Christian, John Polkinghorne, says,

“Science asks how things happened, religion asks why. Genesis is not

there to give short, technical answers about how the universe began.

It gives us the big answers that things exist because of God's will.

One can perfectly well believe in the big bang, but believe in it as well as

the will of God the creator.”

People opposed to this argument would argue that science has found all the answers to origins of the universe and how life began, without a need for God. They would say that scientific discovery is contrary to what it says in Genesis 1.

It is possible to believe in God, the big bang and evolution. The story that is laid out in Genesis 1 shows a perfect plan, with everything happening in a certain order. If you look at the big bang and evolution it seems to follow the same order as in Genesis 1. Also, the Hebrew word for 'day' that is used in Genesis 1, means a set time. Therefore the writer of Genesis could of meant a set time, not day and it has got lost in modern translation. This 'set time' could be billions of years.

Genesis, I believe, was never intended to explain how the universe came into being, but why. It tell us it was God's plan and his intention to make the universe and that it didn't just happen by 'chance'. Genesis gives you an outline and rough guide about the beginnings of the universe and leaves it up to science to fill in the gaps. The Astrophysicists and Christian, Dr. David Wilkinson, writes,

“The bible contains many different kinds of literature: poems, proverbs, history, letters, allegories, parables, ect. The first task in reading the creation stories is to decide what kind of writing this is. Genesis 1 and 2 bears all the marks of a poem, or a hymn, or a teaching to be used in worship. Such poetry has the strength of conveying powerful ideas about God, but all the limitations in scientific understanding that you would expect of a writer of many thousands of years ago limited to their own scientific knowledge.”

Genesis also say that God created the universe for a reason and it was his command that it was created. The Bible wasn't intended to be a scientific book, it was written to give people spiritual understanding and insight. So people shouldn't expect it to give you answers to scientific questions.

If you look into the big bang and evolution it all hangs on one thing, 'chance'. I believe that this 'chance' is God. That God set the thing in place and made the universe perfect and as he intended it to be. In September 2008, scientists at C.E.R.N., tried to find the so called higgs boson, also known as the 'God particle'. If they find it they would be able to explain how the universe same into being and answer the some of science's unanswered questions. Scientists haven't yet found this particle. I believe that this particle and factor in the big bang is God, and with God in the equation you can take out all element of 'chance' in science.

There are to arguments Christians use for God, both of these can go hand in hand with science. The first is the 'first cause' argument is when everything in the world must of come from somewhere. Pointing to one moment in time when everything came into existence. This could point to the big bang, scientists still can't tell us what caused the big bang, I believe God cause to the big bang and that is when everything came into existence. The second argument is the 'design' argument, meaning everything in the world must have been designed by someone. That when you look at nature and how scientists explain how things happen in nature, that it happens with such a structure and incredible order in nature that someone must of designed it. Of cause this could happen by 'chance' but I believe that God designs everything to happen for a purpose.

This is an important issue about so many people have written off God thinking that science has proven there isn't one. Without thinking about what science can and can’t do.