Think about it: Here are all these particles—electrons, protons, negative-charged particles, positive-charged particles, matter, anti-matter, etc. And what makes them so that we can observe and experience? A bunch of rules. Without those rules, those particles can’t work together. And without working together, none of them can exist. Turns out that these rules from God keep them in existence. For you atheists and sceptics. But that’s not all.
Why is it so many won’t accept the record of facts? And, that Noah and Moses both were told by God what to do, and to write everything down that God said to them and that they experienced with God. This is the first five books of the Bible. (The Flood has been scientifically proven by archeologists.)
The real question is as one Rabbi puts it: What would it take to convince sceptics?
To convince them that:
a) There is a G d, responsible for the very ground of existence.
b) This G d cares about what’s happening in that existence.
c) This G d can communicate, and actually does communicate, to human beings all that He would like us to be doing down here.
All the evidence in the world wouldn’t be able to budge those people. Because we are not talking about logic here—we are talking about axioms. And to those academics, it is a foregone conclusion, an axiom, that if not ‘a,’ (that God created), then certainly ‘b,’ (that God cares about what is happening in the world), and ‘c,’ (that God does talk to us), are just preposterous.
There are two possibilities here: Moses did all he did as recorded in the Torah and first 5 books of the Holy Bible because God spoke within him, or people made this up as history went along.
The fact is that this biblical record of Moses having God speak to him for the good will of His people – is so wild. You CAN NOT arrive at it through philosophy or logic. So, why DO we believe it?
Not just because we believe in the life of the Jewish people, and the patriarchs’ scrolls (journals) of their experience of God, beginning with Noah (Genesis with the flood) and on with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob – God speaking to them and leading them in what to do or not do. We believe in Jesus, from the line of Judah (Judah – one of Jacob’s 12 sons). Jesus is a Jew and all the hatred of Jews really stems from their hatred of God and the Jews who brought us the Torah and the Bible.
We believe on TRUTH, not opinion or feeling. We believe in personal eye-witness testimonies, and also all the scientific evidence. Archaeologists continue to dig up more and more proof of what the Bible says. We believe in ‘eye witnesses’ with their same testimonies of having walked with Jesus, watching Him go to His cross to die in our place, then laying Him in the tomb where 3 days later – they saw only His folded up burial clothes on the altar. All factual! Eye-witnesses of Jesus’ re-appearing to 500 of them in bodily form and speaking to them His promises, and instructions to go into all the world telling people about His love for them.
And on it goes, and won’t end until Jesus returns as King of kings – just as promised, and even foretold to the early prophets of God.
Since we believe in the life-experience of the Jews, which means we believe in their testimonies within Torah, we believe in God and that God cares and speaks.
Modern society is grounded lock and barrel on Moses’ idea: The idea that all people are created by a single God who cares about each one of them. That is the basis of modern democracy and all civil rights.
Yet without God’s laws and principles, society is simply not sustainable—and neither is life on the planet. If God just is and life just is and everything just is – without innate meaning or value – then what? Well we are seeing “what” in our world today – that is sooo grievous with lost and hopeless people in their godless societies and nations with raging inhumanities.
So, if Moses is right that God cares as we see with all Moses went through to rescue God’s people from their slavery – when God first audibly called to him, then what is so impossible – in that God might wish to communicate exactly what He cares about, and that it actually happened at a certain point in time with Moses and at a certain place to a certain mass of people (Hebrews/Jews)?
Truth and Love! This is why I have come to believe in the God of the Holy Bible, and in His Son Jesus Christ – my Savior and Lord. He is my perfect peace and joy, my sure hope for eternal life, and certainty that He hears my prayers for my loved ones and for the lost people in our world. God hears me, this I know. I hear Him, because He poured His Holy Spirit into me, and He lives in me.
I lived a very empty sinful worldly life till I met Jesus at the age of 22 – when I was questioning and wondering about life after death. And I was not disappointed by God in the least. For He knew me and loved me. Just like he does you. I have never had a reason to doubt this in over 50 years. I am 73 now, and I never will doubt Him. “Brainwashed,” you say? Yes, my “brain was washed clean and new.” And I will forever be grateful to my Redeemer!