Logically Jesus

The book presents evidence that supports the truth and accuracy of the Bible as well as the importance of knowing where we stand concerning our religious beliefs. It is intentionally written on a simple level using what I consider common-sense arguments and examples so that most anyone can understand the concepts being conveyed. The intended audience is more the average person rather than the highly technical type, for the great majority of people have not studied science in depth.

Suppose you somehow knew that you were going to die tomorrow at, say, 3 p.m. How would you spend the last few hours of your life? What would be your thoughts about the hereafter? If you are a skeptic or an agnostic, would you make it a priority to somehow determine if Christianity is true and if you could indeed become a Christian as your departure time from this life approaches? Or, would you only be concerned with saying your goodbyes to your family and friends that you believe you would never see again and finalizing your funeral arrangements? Well, your time will certainly come one day. It will for all of us, for no one is exempt.

Either the teachings of Christianity are true, or they are not. If they are true, and you are not a believer, then you will have lost everything beyond this life on earth. Nothing you have accomplished or accumulated on earth will matter. If these teachings are not true, then you haven’t lost anything, except maybe a little time you may have invested in studying the possibilities.

The cell is the basic unit of all life. All the features of a living cell must be operational for the cell to live and function properly. A single living cell, either plant or animal, consists of many individual components with each performing its specialized function and working in conjunction with all the other components. That is true for even the simplest of living cells such as a bacterium. If any one component is not yet operational, the cell is severely degraded and usually cannot live.

I must then ask the question: How did the first living cell come into existence? How did all these required cellular components come about at the same time, be put into place within the cell, and be able to interact with all the other components to produce a functioning living cell?

The DNA, RNA, and protein molecules had to have been created at the same time and the same place, so they could function together. Any one is useless without the others. To me, the requirement for the simultaneous appearance on the scene of these complex molecules proves that a Creator, without question, is required. To me, there is no other alternative.

So, if we are to believe that the universe, and thus matter, has always existed, then we must ask how all these different kinds of basic atoms with their structured components were in place for all eternity without a cause. We must ask how the mechanisms came about that facilitated the bonding of these complex atoms to form the various inorganic molecules that supposedly later interacted to form organic molecules of which life is made without a cause.

A big point of contention with me concerning evolution is how mutations start the development of various useful appendages or organs on/in an animal species. A good example of an appendage would be wings on birds, and a good example of an organ would be eyes that we will discuss later.

I agree that a few cells may develop as a mutation. However, a new appendage or organ would have to be developed to such an extent that it would be useful to the species to promote evolution for enhanced development, and I don’t see how it could ever get to that point just from random mutations and natural selection. In the early stages of development, what would initiate enhanced further development by the addition of a few more cells? It appears that it would be impossible for a useful organ or appendage to have been conceptualized for further development through evolution in these very early stages. There would be no end goal to pursue at this point.

Birds and certain insects are unique in that they can fly. I ask how the wings evolved that allow the birds to fly? If birds evolved from another species without wings, it seems that the first mutations from its ancestor toward this end would have to start the development of both wings simultaneously, and I question the probability of that happening.

A complete set of wings is required for flight, for one wing would be no good. A single partially developed wing would serve no purpose at all. What are the odds of two perfectly symmetrical wings developing by chance mutations simultaneously on the species? The odds are infinitesimal.

Note how complex and different are the structure and function of the reproductive organs of both the male and female of a species, while still totally complementing each other perfectly in the reproductive process. How could the process of evolution determine that an organism needed an opposite sex partner to produce offspring and initiate such development?

All these prophetical books of the Bible together contain hundreds of prophecies (predictions) and, up to this point, each has been shown to be fulfilled with 100% accuracy. With that success rate, I fully expect this trend to continue and all the prophesied future events to be fulfilled to 100% as well.

When Jesus was born, all those prophecies about a coming Messiah had already been written and could not have been changed. Of all the hundreds of prophecies in the Old Testament about a Messiah, Jesus fulfilled every one of them down to the finest detail. Nothing was prophesized about Jesus’s first coming that didn’t happen. No other person ever came close to satisfying such prophecies. How could this prophetic accuracy be if Jesus were not the Messiah?