How do you know that? There are certainly many subjects which we all claim to have some knowledge of. Whether we learned information in school, private study, someone else’s input or just by experience, we have an answer to the question, “How do you know that?” Many times our answers don’t “jive” with someone else’s answers. It all depends on where we get our information. Wouldn’t it be great if someone would collect the answers to some of the mysteries of everyday life? Years ago, the staff of the Science and Technology Department at the Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh had been doing just that. Every year they received nearly 100,000 inquiries from the public on a variety of subjects. Armed with 395,000 books, 425,000 bound periodicals, and thousands of government reports, the department had developed a special file to answer questions quickly and reliably. Today we have Google!!! There are many questions whose answers are unimportant, but interesting. How often do we blink? How many hairs do we have on our head? Why do geese fly in a V formation? How much water is in an inch of snow? You get the idea!
Job 26:7 states, He…hangeth the earth upon nothing.” God the Creator suspended the earth in space without any visible means of support. Yet for centuries pagan people imagined that the world rested on the back of a huge turtle, or that it was carried on the shoulders of the god Atlas. Job 28:25 tells us that the atmosphere has weight. Science has now confirmed this fact. No one imagined that the winds moved by certain fixed laws, yet this is intimated in Ecclesiastes 1:6, “…the wind returneth again according to his circuits.” Hundreds of years before Christ, it was thought that there were only about two thousand stars in the dome of space. Centuries later, the total was computed at 400 million. Today, astronomers agree with Jeremiah who said the stars cannot be numbered. Jeremiah 33:22.
There are many answers posed to the question of Job: “If a man dies, shall he live again?” Science says, He may live again.” Philosophy says, “He hopes to live again.” Ethics says, “He ought to live again.” Atheism says, “He will never live again.” The Reincarnationist says, “When one dies, One’s body decomposes, but is reborn in another body. It is the belief that one has lived before and will live again in another body. The bodies one passes in and out of need not be human. One may have been a Doberman in a past life, and one may be a mite or a carrot in a future life. Some tribes avoid eating certain animals because they believe that the souls of their ancestors dwell in those animals. A man could even become his own daughter by dying before she is born and then entering her body at birth.” You’ve got to be kidding!
What does God say in His Word? I John 5:11-13, “And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.” “He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.” “These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.” Romans 3:4, “…let God be true, but every man a liar…”