Couldn't biblical characters be recruited as high-tech promoters? Consider the following tech advocates and their ad slogans:

10. Noah for Match.com: We can find a mate for anything. Why not you?

9. Moses for the Excedrin Headache Resource Center (Excedrin.com): Take two tablets and call me in the morning.

8. The dove for UPS.com: Guaranteed delivery in 40 days and 40 nights.

7. Adam and Eve for Dell: No Apples for us. We've learned the hard way.

6. Solomon for Microsoft: Don't cut the baby in half.

5. Joseph for Nikon Coolpix: Only Nikon can capture the 36-bit color of my megapixel dreamcoat.

4. Methuselah for AARP.org: Life begins at 960.

3. John the Baptist for DunkinDonuts.com: You'll be head over heels for our new Munchkin platter.

2. Pharaoh for Symantec: If only we'd had Norton AntiPlague 2002 in 2002...B.C.E.

1. Job for Nasdaq: 'Nuff said.

 But you might ask is there a God? And to that we can ask from just two people from the 20th century!

Most of us feel the existence of God is just too big an issue for puny human beings like ourselves to try to decide. After all, we don't have the greatest minds in the world - there are other people more intelligent than we are. What do they think?... Einstein, for instance? Here are his own words: "My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior Spirit who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God."1

Oh, but didn't Darwin long ago show how the order of the universe could be explained by evolution - apart from God? No, he didn't - here is the way Darwin concludes "The Origin of Species": "There is a grandeur in this view of life with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved."2

Aldous Huxley says "No"?

For Darwin, as for Einstein, evolution of an ordered universe was only feasible if some intelligent Mind designed the evolutionary program. But why then don't all the great intellectuals believe in the existence of God? Because other irrational presuppositions interfere with the mind's logical working. Here's the frank confession of the agnostic, Aldous Huxley: "I had motives for not wanting the world to have a meaning; consequently assumed that it had none, and was able without any difficulty to find satisfying reasons for this assumption. The philosopher who finds no meaning in the world is not concerned exclusively with a problem in pure metaphysics; he is also concerned to prove that there is no valid reason why he personally should not do as he wants to do, or why his friends should not seize political power and govern in the way that they find most advantageous to themselves .... For myself, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation, sexual and political."3

 You see Gentle Reader, if you chose not to believe in  a God or that He would have spoken to us then  It doesn't make a difference what you do or where you go. Which means that if you choose to put a cabbage on your head and walk backwards or you could just as easily high jack a fully loaded airplane and  fly it into a skyscraper.  Freedom is not doing what you want freedom is doing what you ought. But of course you would know that if you ever read the Bible!

 But  if you don't understand  the Bible, or you let someone else tell you what it says!  Like the great historian Dan Brown! Why? Because the past books of antiquities are not books you can learn from (let alone trust).  (So you think)  You would much rather read a fictional book replete with so many obvious discrepancies as to be laughable if it weren't for the fact that so many under educated people believe every word! (not their fault, but they could learn if they wanted too. Also Many pastors and Churches keep you in the dark).  Remember  the old expression "You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time but you can't fool all of the people all of the time" (A. Lincoln)   

Once I heard a professor say to a student [The conversation was about Julius Caesar]  Proff" Who wrote the Gallic wars"? Student "Caesar" Proff "How do you know?" Student 'We have Manuscript evidence"  Proff " And how old is this so-called evidence?"  Student " Well, it was written about 58-50 B.C. and the earliest copy we have is about 900 A. D. so the time span was about 1000 years" Proff " And from how many copies was the writings of Julius Caesar taken?" Student "I'm not real sure about that" Professor "10 copies, just ten copies, that all the evidence you have 10 copies written almost 1000 years from the event? No classical scholar would ever listen to an argument that the authenticity of Caesar is in doubt because the earliest MSS of his work of any use to us is 1000 years latter that the original. And what about Plato with only 7 manuscripts, and Aristotle with 5 manuscripts , or Euripedes with 9 MSS or Sophocles we have a hundred of his manuscripts.  

Do you get it Gentle Reader? No one questions if Julius Caesar lived or not no one questions the veracity of the history of Caesar or whether He said  Veni, vidi, vici. I came, I saw, I conquered. (Caesar)  And yet some well meaning folks (see I'm exercising Grace) would rather believe that Caesar wrote the Gallic wars, than believe that (suspend your disbelief for a moment, if you please) God would have spoken and that His words were written down by men of God .

For example Gentle Reader,  consider if you will just the historic reliability of the Bible. For you see you can test the reliability of the Bible by the same criteria that all historical documents are tested. First there are

8000 Manuscripts of the Latin Vulgate + 1000 other early versions

And over 5000 Greek Manuscripts

 And then we have 13,000 copies of portions of the New Testament besides much of the New Testament can be reproduced from the quotations of the early Christian writers (A. T. Robertson). Then of course if you wish to add the Old Hebrew Scriptures and on top of that the eyewitness accounts of the four Gospel writers
as regarded by scholars today as a competent primary source from the first century. Based on internal evidence we can date the New Testament   thus

Mathew published about    41 A. D.

Mark       "               "      43 A. D.

Luke                                 64 A. D.

John                                64 A. D.

Paul's Letters                  52-68 A.D.

Nelson Gluck who was the world's foremost Biblical archaeologist said "We can say emphatically that there is no longer any solid basis for dating any book of the New Testament after about A. D. 80..." 

 Can you trust the Bible You bet!

 Till next time Gentle Reader,

When, We shall take up the eye witnesses

 G. R. A. C. E.  ( Grace Rightly Applied Changes Everything)

Denis

 Footnotes (Check me out)!

The Universe and Dr. Einstein
New York, Wm. Sloane Associates, 1975
p. 95 

Darwin, Charles
The Origin of Species
Chicago, Great Books of the Western World, 1952
p. 243 

Huxley, Aldous
Ends and Means
London, Chatto and Windus, 1938
pp. 270ff 

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