I teach Christian evidences at a Christian school. My students come from different religious backgrounds. Some have wondered if God exists (our first study this year) and most have never questioned God’s existence. Most can’t make a defence of the hope of eternal life through the resurrection of Jesus as Peter called for (1 Peter 3:15). They are mostly surrounded by other kids raised in the Christian faith and churches, so they don’t even talk to Hindus, Buddhists, or atheists, although several said they had an atheist friend. So I teach them basic Christian evidences. We study the causal argument (God has to be the first cause that created everything since you can’t get something from nothing. We study the teleological argument (the design in the universe, in the human body, in DNA, in the periodic table, etc demands a supernatural designer), i.e. the intelligent design argument. We study the argument that evolved chemicals that end up as the human brain cannot have free will or a conscience of right and wrong, or reason. God must have put those things in people (a C. S. Lewis argument from Mere Christianity). So I teach the basics and pray that the seed will be sown. Fortunately, I had an atheist sudent come to belief in God and Jesus, and had the privilege of baptizing him. Hopefully what I have taught students will help them defend their faith, keep their faith as they go to colleges with a lot of atheistic teachers, and to help their friends come to faith.

But you know what is more important? I have a grandson who is very, very smart. At age 7, he could name all the moons of all the planets in our galaxy. He is into science, dinosaurs, etc. We had a discussion on the way back from McDonalds. Who made the sun? He said it was just formed like all the stars, i.e. somehow formed from the Big Bang explosion. Supposedly, all the matter in the uninverse was condensed into a small dense particle, a “singularity”, and it exploded and started forming all the stars and planets. But I asked him, “who created the singularity”? He said, “we don’t know.” I told him, “that is exactly what atheistic scientists tell us. They add, “science will figure that out some day.” I said, “you can’t get something from nothing (the first law of thermodynamics), so science can’t explain the creation from using the scientific method. Any theories they come up with is human speculation, not true science. But they will tell you that it could not have been created by a supernatural being, God. That would be out of the question. I told my grandson, “which is more logical: that everything was created from nothing, which violates scientific laws, or that there might be a supernatural God who created it all?” Neither scientists or creationists can prove their belief, and both involve faith even though scientists say their teaching is solely based on science, not faith (then they will tell you their theories as if they are facts). They will tell you that science will eventually get all the answers about creation, but that we no longer need to believe in some superstition about some God who created everything.

My point in all this is that it felt so good to be sharing evidences with my own grandson. Noah saved his own family. He was not able to save anyone else. I pray for my grandchildren to have faith in God and in Jesus, as I’m sure you the reader of this article pray for your families. They are so susceptible to modern scientific theories that go against the Bible and faith in God and Jesus. They are told that dinosaurs died out 70 million years ago and yet we have plenty of evidence that dinosaurs coexisted with people (drawings of dinosaurs on caves, figurines of dinosaurs made by native Indians, even dinosaurs in the Bible like Leviathon and Behemoth and the dragons in Isaiah). Atheistic scientists tell them that macro evolution (all life evolved from a single cell) is a proven fact when it is really just a theory that has little suport. The Law of Biogenesis says that you can’t get living things from nonliving things, and yet that (spontaneous generation) had to occur for macro evolution to happen. Spontaneous generation was disproved by Pasteur and Redi, and even atheists agree with the Law of Biogenesis.

Many atheists even admit that Darwinian macro evolution by natural selection and mutations could not produce the design in the universe, even though they don’t believe a supernatural God did it. There is a great video, “Evoltution and God” on youtube where college students are asked why they believe in macro evolution even though they can’t name a single proof. They simply say, “that’s what our science professors taught us”. The atheistic scientists say that miracles cannot happen b/c they can’t be tested in the lab, so the miracles in the Bible and the resurrection of Jesus can’t really have happened. Many of our founding fathers, like Thomas Jefferson, were Deists who believe that God created everything but then never intervened in human affairs after that. He rejected the miracles in the Bible. His famous Jeffersonian Bible has all the miracles of the gospels cut out! He did not believe tht Jesus was the Son of God, since God becoiming flesh by a virgin birth is impossible.

My prayer for you today is that God will bless your families, your children, your grandchildren, etc. that they might have faith in God and in Jesus in spite of all the attacks on Christianity and God and the Bible that they will hear. I know that you are praying for your families. Be ready to share basic evidences with you children and grandchildren. Have you ever tried to talk with them about God, about Jesus’ resurrection, about miracles in the Bible? You might be surpirised at some of their beliefs. Talk to them.

God bless you and your families.