Never False

By Jesse Becker

By measuring seismic activity across the continent, scientists have concluded that over 400 miles beneath the earth’s surface is a vast ocean — a body of water three times greater than all the surface oceans combined. When I came across this science report, I immediately thought of the flood in Genesis 7, where it says, “the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.” Perhaps this great reservoir of water discovered beneath the earth’s crust is the “fountains of the great deep” written about in Genesis. I find it amazing that scientific discovery after scientific discovery never contradicts things mentioned in Scripture. For example, we have discovered that the universe is expanding: God said He stretched out the heavens (Psalm 104:2). We discovered the water cycle where water evaporates from the oceans then rains down again, flowing back to the oceans: Ecclesiastes 1:7 says, “All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.” The stars of Orion and the Pleiades are gravitationally bound star groups: Job 38:31 says, “Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, Or loose the bands of Orion?” The Bible is not a science textbook; however, when matters of creation are described in it, and science discovers the same thing, the Bible is never found to be false.

Throughout life, we put our trust in things or people, thinking they are always true or right, only to be let down at some point. It could be a person’s word, a product’s promise, or a scientific theory. We come to expect it when it involves other humans. But with God’s Word, it is different. There are a lot of stories and claims in the Bible that honestly seem hard to believe, but it is neat to see discoveries revealing things about the world that the Scripture already had a word on and is found to be true.

There are two ways to believe the Bible: by faith and by proof. We believe by faith that the entire Word of God is true, but there is nothing wrong with having some recent discovery prove that it was never false.