Why We Believe - The Bible is God's Word

Why We Believe the Bible Is God's Word

If you want to open your Bibles to Psalm 14, Psalm 14, we were just there, so I'll have it up. Psalm 14, starting in verse 1. Hear now the word of the living and the true God. The fool says in his heart, there is no God.

They are corrupt. They do abominable deeds. There is none who does good. The Lord looks down from heaven on the children of man to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God. They have all turned aside.

Together they have become corrupt. There is none who does good, not even one. Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers who eat up my people as they eat bread and do not call upon the Lord? There they are in great terror, for God is with the generation of the righteous.

You would shame the plans of the poor, but the Lord is his refuge. Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion when the Lord restores the fortunes of his people. Let Jacob rejoice. Let Israel be glad.

As far as the reading of God's holy and inspired word, let's pray together as a church. Father, we come before you and ask for you to bless today as we reflect on this important question and answer about why we believe that this is your word, that it is the truth.

I pray that you'd bless us as your people to understand your glory in giving to us this revelation. Help us to understand the power of your revelation, the certainty of your revelation, the goodness of your revelation.

And I pray that you help me, Lord, as a pastor to your people, to speak to your people in such a way that I'd be led by your spirit, guard my heart, my mind, and my mouth from error. And I pray that you would, Lord, allow this message to put our feet on a rock and allow it to give to us boldness as we confront the world and its love for error.

I pray that you would allow this message and these truths to set into our hearts and minds. Lord, I pray that we would teach it with passion and preach it with passion. In Jesus' name, amen. So why do we believe?

That's the quick little series we're doing right now. Why do you believe? We're doing right now three questions. Why do you believe the Bible is God's word or the Bible is true? Why do you believe the Trinity?

And why do you believe that Jesus is the Messiah? Why do you believe? It's an important question. I mentioned earlier that it's important to have an answer to these questions, not simply for the unbeliever and the antagonist.

Of course, we live in a time period, in a nation, in a section of the world in the West that was so heavily impacted by the Christian worldview, and we're just beneficiaries of all of God's word to the degree that at times we don't quite understand that, oh, that came from Christianity.

That came from the biblical worldview, whether it's advancements in science or medicine or arts or beauty or law, we don't even reflect anymore because we don't even know God's word or our own history.

Where does this actually come from? Where do we get these ideas? We don't understand. They didn't come from atheism or agnosticism. We think today about people talking about the importance of the Constitution and all those sorts of things.

I agree in many ways, but when we think about foundational truths that are behind some of our founding documents, people endowed with their creator with certain You know the thing. I'm just joking.

By their creator with certain inalienable rights, life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness. You think about things like this, you wonder, did this come from atheism? Does it come from agnosticism? You think about things like what we have with blessings in terms of justice, whether it's the Fourth Amendment, the Fifth Amendment.

We talk about things like warrantless searches and seizures. Where'd that come from? The whole idea of not being able to just rough somebody up and assume their guilt and start looking to see if you can prove them guilty or prove them innocent.

Where do we ever get the idea of having a judge adjudicate and decide if there's enough evidence or eyewitnesses to actually pursue something against somebody? We didn't get that from atheism. As a matter of fact, there's actually a track record back to that particular idea of justice and no warrantless searches and seizures that comes from the Christians that were undergoing injustices and looked to the law of God and say, this isn't righteous before God.

His law says that you're not to bring a charge against somebody without two to three independent witnesses. God's law says the assumption of innocence is the most important thing to consider at the beginning.

You have to have witnesses and evidence to bring charges. Everybody is to be assumed innocent. Where'd you get that idea of the assumption of innocence? Not from atheism, not from agnosticism. You get that from Scripture, explicitly from Scripture.

Where'd you ever get the idea of being able to have, as a person being accused, the right to remain silent? Where'd that come from? Atheism? Agnosticism? They come from the humanistic ideas we have today?

No, that came from Scripture. You had to assume the innocence of every person and an innocent person isn't required to respond to somebody who's bringing charges against them. All of those things, the blessings of the Christian worldview, we have so much around us.

I mean, it's just admitted that science gets its big pop in the world because of, well, just the circumstances? No, because of the Christian worldview. You can think about the major universities today and the centers of learning that are the most revered and respected, and you think, oh, those were started by atheists.

Well, they're overrun by atheists today and Marxists and unbelievers and humanists today, for sure. But you think about Harvard and Yale and Brown University and Cambridge and Oxford and all these universities.

These were explicitly Christian universities from the start, created to advance the knowledge of the Scriptures and the biblical worldview and the glory of God. Why do we believe? You see, this is such an important question to ask, and it's so important to have the answer, again, not just for the unbeliever, but for you and your walk with the Lord to know why you believe what you believe about Jesus.

Do you have an answer? It's so important because we live in a day where people just take for granted all of the great benefits of the biblical worldview, and we don't understand where they come from. And when you don't understand where they come from or why you believe them in terms of an objective standard outside of yourself, you get people in a culture and society that don't know their history, don't know why they believe what they believe, and they don't understand the objective nature of the system of justice that we have even today that we've benefited from, and so they want to overthrow it.

You think about what's happening in the streets today with the Marxists. You think about what's infiltrating the church today with BLM and all these Marxist ideologies and intersectionality. You think, how could it be impacting us?

And here's the real reason. We don't know the Word of God. We don't know what we believe. We don't know why we believe it. And so we have people today who are professing Christians in the West, and we have a Christianity that, let's be honest, is Christian in name only.

It's Christian in name only. We have mega-churches filled with people who make professions of faith in Jesus. They don't know what they believe, why they believe. If you ask them to describe what the Bible teaches about the Trinity, they would give you heresy, heresy.

If you ask them, why do you believe the Bible is God's Word, you would get answers that are truly philosophically absurd answers and not biblical, not coherent, not strong answers. And that is just, in fact, not our history, brothers and sisters.

It is our current time. We have churches filled with people who don't know what they believe, why they believe. If you were to ask the question, why do you believe Jesus is the Messiah, you would have modern evangelicals and others who would say, well, by faith, well, yes, agreed, amen to that, I want the t-shirt.

We have faith in Jesus as Messiah, but why do you believe He's the Messiah? Why not any of the other false messiahs in the first century, or the false messiahs that exist today, ones in Russia today, calling themselves Jesus?

How come you don't believe in that guy? Blind faith? That's fideism. We reject that. The Bible would reject that. So why do you believe what you believe? And so I'll ask the question now for you and for those who are watching right now around the world.

Don't answer out loud, but why do you believe that the Bible is true, or the Bible is the word of God? Why do you believe it? Do you have an answer? Because, again, two things, one, you need to have an answer, because scripture commands you to, to always be ready with an apologia, apologia, proper word there, sorry, to have a ready defense, a reasoned defense.

To everyone who asks of you a reason for the hope that's within you, it's to do with gentleness and reverence. Of course, that's a command of scripture. Be ready as a Christian to give an answer, to give a defense for the biblical faith, but also for your own walk with Jesus.

Why do you believe it? Because your faith will be tested in this life. You live in a fallen world. There's going to be antagonists. There's going to be YouTube videos. There's going to be articles written trying to come against your faith.

Will you be able to respond to those things? There's going to be trials of life. There's going to be suffering. I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that before this very pulpit, if the Lord allows us to keep this location, before this very pulpit are going to be some of your dead bodies.

I'll be preaching over your dead body to your family, your friends, your loved ones. How are we going to manage that pain, that grief? The pithy slogans don't work. The 25-minute motivational speech sermons that are so common today, they don't meet you in that hour of pain.

They won't. But understanding what the Bible says about God's truth, who God is, what the Bible says about God's world and you and God's promises about the future, that will transform those moments. Why do you believe what you believe?

Why do you believe? Do you believe because of your parents? Right? Many of us raised in Christian homes, not me, some of you guys raised in Christian homes, you have the tremendous benefit. Kids, listen.

Kids, right now, listening in the room, you have the tremendous benefit, the gift from God to be raised in a home with parents who love God. That is a gift. Who have the word of God and they give it to you.

None of us are perfect parents, but it is an amazing gift from God to have parents who love Jesus and point you to Jesus. But why do you believe? Is it because your parents believed? That won't save you.

It won't actually bring you to Christ and ultimately, it won't save you in your hour of pain. Saying, well, I believe this because mom and dad did. It's not going to save you. It's not going to help you ultimately.

And I would say it's not what God wants you to hang on to as an ultimate. Mom and dad said this. Well, moms and dads say lots of crazy things, right? How do you know what they say is the truth? What's it rooted in?

Some people have said in answer to the question, why do you believe the Bible is God's word? They say, well, because I've had a compelling experience. I've had these amazing experiences with the Lord.

I've had so many amazing experiences. Well, I'm going to challenge that. Praise God for the experience if it's genuine with the true God. Now, I'm not saying that this is just merely intellectual. The Christian faith is deeply intimate.

It's deeply intimate and deeply experiential. There's no question about that. But saying I believe this book, this revelation because I have had a compelling experience is the kind of thing that you'll hear from Mormons.

And they have a false God. And they have a false gospel that will not save. Led by a false prophet. Led by many false prophets. But if you're out with us at the Mormon temple to love our Mormon friends and neighbors, then you'll hear often the Mormon will say, I know this is true.

How do you know it's true? Because I have a burning in my bosom. You know you're in Mesa whenever we're going to answer that question. Because I have a burning in my bosom. You see, here's the thing. I've prayed about the Book of Mormon, and I know it's true because I've had a burning in my bosom.

Listen, if you get a representative from every religion up here, whether it's Islam, whether it's Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, whether it's Roman Catholics, or atheists and agnostics, you bring them up here and you say, have you had a compelling experience in your commitments?

And all of them will tell their grand stories about their amazing experiences and what they felt and how closely connected they feel to the universe or to their God. Anybody can say that. But why do you believe?

Is it because you've had a compelling experience? Again, if you had had a compelling experience in Christ, I don't want to discount it, but that can't be a foundation for our faith in Jesus Christ. It's very subjective.

Some people say, well, I believe because there's a strong set of historical evidences. So they have a collection of evidences that they say, here is my standard. These evidences are why I believe, because of this set of evidences.

Well, what are you going to do when someone comes along and challenges those evidences and brings counter evidence that disproves it? What if you're hanging on to a particular set of evidence and you find out that actually the person that told you that wasn't giving you the whole scoop, it was kind of spurious evidence and now your faith is rocked and over and I'm no longer a Christian.

Because all those evidences that I had my trust in, I found out they weren't that great and so I've abandoned the faith. You see it happening today in droves, in droves. Rhett and Link, Good Mythical Morning, right?

Solid past in the Christian church, even did stuff for Veggie Tales, right? Veggie Tales. And now coming out and saying, we're not believers anymore, right? What we thought was good evidence, we found counter evidence that doesn't make it so great anymore, so I think I'll live as a happy agnostic, maybe someone says, or they go some different direction because their faith was in evidence that maybe wasn't so great.

Or what do you do in those cases where you have a set of historical evidences that you're putting all your faith in, but in your moments of trial and trauma in this life, that's not enough for you to continue your trust in God.

This world is an awful place at its worst when the fall really puts legs on it. And in those moments of deep pain and suffering and trauma in this world, having your faith rooted in a set of particular evidences, well, maybe you'll have an answer like say Ben Shapiro when he was interacting with William Lane Craig on the evidence for the resurrection of Jesus, I grant that Dr. William Lane Craig has amazing historical evidences for the resurrection.

Don't get me wrong, the evidence for the resurrection is overwhelming as an historical event. I don't think that it can ultimately really be coherently disputed. The evidence for the resurrection is incredible, but here's what the unbeliever says to those evidences, I just find them uninteresting.

That was his response. Uninteresting. Because the problem isn't ultimately a lack of evidence for the unbeliever, the problem is the problem of the heart. The problem is human sin and rebellion against God.

And sometimes you say, well, here's my evidences, it's what I put my faith in, this is why I believe something is true, and you put it out before the unbeliever, and you go, look, isn't that compelling, isn't it amazing?

And the unbeliever retorts, I just find that uninteresting. You're like, what? Uninteresting? Well, it's uninteresting to the hardened heart. It's very interesting and glorious to the person that's been changed by Jesus.

Or why do you believe that the Bible is God's word and it's true? Is it just blind faith, right? Just cause? There's a lot of us that have just cause commitments. There's atheists that have just cause commitments.

I think it's the one year anniversary, isn't it, of our debate with, it's the, it's the Anderfries debate, right, a year ago in Salt Lake City. There were so many, it's not just Christians and religious people that have just cause blind faith commitments.

I pointed it out to the atheists on stage. It's a just cause blind faith commitment. You believe in science and an orderly universe, but your system doesn't allow you to depend upon an orderly universe, therefore you can't have science.

So why do you believe the future's gonna be like the past so that you can do science and evidence and examination and you just, let's just, just cause, right? It's just blind faith. It's blind, stupid faith.

When I say stupid, by the way, I know the kids are like in here giggling. I heard that when I say the word stupid, some parents are like, you know, my kids aren't allowed to say that. I'm not saying that as an insult.

I mean in terms of the intellectual, stupid, not thinking, blind, stupid faith. It's just hanging on nothing, suspended in air. So why do you believe? You see, scripture gives us commands. The whole history of the church is littered with this.

Christian apologists, defenders of the faith, people that want to know the truth and defend the truth. Christianity is a religion of truth. We love the truth. We want the truth. We want to propagate the truth.

We're committed to the truth. We have a faith that says logical contradiction is wrong because to engage in logical contradiction is to engage in the nature of lying. God cannot lie. His image bearers should not be committed to things that are lies and contradictory.

We have a basis for truth and in the scriptures, 1 Peter 3, 15, it says to set Christ apart as Lord. First thing I'll say, not a long sermon on this one today, but before we start talking about defending the faith, the apostle Peter says this at the beginning of defend the Christian faith.

He says to set Christ apart as Lord. That means no Christian apologetics, no defense of the faith should ever be done, should ever be done apart from a commitment to Jesus Lordship. That means no neutrality, no neutrality.

Jesus says you're either with me or you are against me, but it's the charter verse of Christian apologetics. That's the defense of the Christian faith. Why do you believe what you believe? The charter verse says to set Christ apart as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to give a reasoned defense to everyone who asks of you a reason for the hope that's within you yet do it with gentleness and with reverence.

Our scriptures, the standard of the revelation of God is that believers are supposed to be ready with an answer, with a defense for why we believe what we believe, but we don't do that apart from first a commitment to Jesus Christ's Lordship, but the scriptures teach us a pattern of the apostles themselves and the early followers of Jesus.

Just two examples, Acts chapter 9 and then Acts chapter 18, you have two examples of how they operated. They weren't coming into the culture all around them saying, hey, I've had this amazing experience with Jesus.

You should follow this too. They weren't saying, hey, just because we believe in Jesus because we really think he's a great guy. They weren't saying that. That wasn't the nature of the defense of the Christian faith.

In Acts chapter 9, when the apostle Paul is converted, he takes a beeline to Damascus. Go read it later and it says that he was found at the synagogues reasoning with the Jews proving that Jesus was the Messiah.

How do you think he did that? How do you think he did that? Proving that Jesus is the Messiah. Can you do that? Can you do it? Can you actually engage with people and demonstrate to them without question that Jesus is the promised Messiah?

That's what the apostle Paul was doing. And the kind of trouble that it caused is something that we should think about. When he went to go preach the gospel, the church was built up, they grew, it was multiplied and some people wanted to kill him.

That was the result of the defense of the Christian faith in the public square. And then of course, Apollos, he was mighty in the scriptures, eloquent. And it says that he vigorously refuted the Jews, get this, publicly proving that Jesus was the Messiah.

The nature of the Christian faith has never been fideism, blind faith commitments. It has always been based on objective truth. And our whole history here in this revelation is a history of the defense of the biblical faith based upon objective truth.

Next, the history of the Christian church is littered with examples, I won't give them all right now, of the Christian church defending the biblical gospel and biblical faith against all comers. That's the whole history of our faith.

And we live in a time today where people don't want to live like that. You know what it causes? You know what happens? It causes people, when you have an expression of the Christian faith, where you don't teach what you believe and why you believe it, when you don't give a biblical communication of the gospel, you know what it does?

It fills up a lot of churches that look like they are playing to the flesh of all the people coming. It looks like a lot of churches built to cater to the unbelievers' wishes and whims. And it looks like a lot of churches that are filled with a lot of people who claim to be people who profess faith in Jesus Christ but don't know Him.

They don't know Him. And it looks like a lot of churches that when stress and difficulty and suffering comes, a lot of churches that have become empty buildings because those people didn't know Jesus in the first place and they didn't know why they believed what they believed.

You see, we have a failure in modern Western Christianity. As I said before, much of it can accurately be described as Christian in name only. We have the problem of a distorted gospel, a gospel that doesn't call people to repentance and faith in Jesus Christ.

We don't clearly communicate that God is a holy God and you are a sinner worthy of His wrath and the call of the gospel that Jesus would give would look something like turning to a crowd and telling people if anyone comes to Him and they don't hate and then naming the most favorite people you have, mother, father, sister, brother, wife, and even your own life, He says, don't come.

He says, you gotta take up the cross, come and die, count the cost of following Me. We don't preach that message a lot anymore in the West and so we have a distorted gospel. So we create a lot of false converts that don't know why they're following Jesus in the first place.

They just really like Coldplay concerts, which is what much of these worship centers look like. There's no call to come and die. We have pithy 25 to 30 minute motivational speeches, not proclamations of the gospel.

So what do we create? People who don't know why they follow Jesus in the first place. So the first instance of struggle or challenge to the faith, they abandon the faith. You have people today like famous Christian rock stars, they're like, I'm now an atheist.

You're never a believer in the first place. When they talk about why they have now left the faith and, you know, what did you believe before? You're like, well, I don't believe that in the first place.

You were hanging on that? It was a fiction. It was a fiction and any fiction lived like that will eventually close. The story will end. They'll come out of it and realize, I don't know why I believe this in the first place.

So why do you believe that the Bible is God's word? Why do you believe? We don't know what we believe or why we believe it. And that's a problem. And I might add that it's not a problem that the Christian church has had for 2000 years.

We've had a history and a tradition of Christians that know what they believe and why they believe it. You want a good example of this to knock your teeth in? Go read the attributes of God by Charnock.

Go read it. It'll make you feel very small and let you know about what some of our predecessors did with the word of God, how they revered it and wanted to know God, to know why they believe this about God.

It's challenging stuff. So here's the deal. Listen, when we approach the question of why we believe, why we believe the Bible is God's word or why we believe that the revelation of God in Scripture is true, you can approach this a number of different ways.

Think about it. Now, by the way, I love this about our faith. I love this. People will say, well, we can muster together these evidences of archeology. What does focusing upon biblical archeology? What's that mean?

Well, I'll give you an example. Before COVID, Pastor James and I were supposed to speak on a tour. We were going to go to, goodness, where? We're going to Jerusalem and we were going to Athens, right?

We're going to this amazing tour to go and go to these places. What were we going to do at these places? We were going to go to the spots that the event happens. How you like them apples? Try that with the Book of Mormon.

Can't be done, right? We were going to go to the place. We were going to talk about this is what happened in the biblical story. This is where it happened. Look around you. Feel this. Look at where Jesus, this is where we can go where the crucifixion events took place and where Jesus was.

You can go. You can smell the air. You can feel the dirt. You can taste it. Touch it. Feel it. Biblical archeology is massive and unreal. So many things, so encouraging. These things still are there. You can touch them and feel them and you can experience.

You can go to where Jesus was in the Sea of Galilee. All this stuff is a matter of history and record. Of course, you can talk about the evidence for the global flood. Some crazy stuff in biblical archeology related to the global flood.

It's really quite compelling. You could talk about evidence for the resurrection, the history of the resurrection itself. That in itself is just really an incredible study. There is no shortage of evidence for the historicity of the resurrection.

I'm not going to deal with it all right now, but I want to encourage you as a believer who believes in the word of God, this objective revelation in history, look at some of the historical evidence for the resurrection of Jesus.

It'll blow your mind. It's very exciting. You can approach the question, is the Bible God's word or is the Bible true with extra biblical evidence for the historical Jesus? You can do that. You can show that Jesus is a real historical figure.

You can show that the events surrounding the resurrection of Jesus, people were talking about it who actually weren't in the Bible. So I'll give you some examples here just to whet your appetite to look at this.

Pliny the Younger, 62 AD to 113 AD, that's where he lived, 62 AD to 113 AD. So he was born when there were still some apostles around ministering. There's a section from Pliny the Younger where he actually says about the Christians that they were in the habit of meeting on a certain fixed day before it was light when they sang in alternate verses a hymn to Christ as to a God.

So according to this person in the first century, he's referring to the Christians and their practice of singing songs to Jesus like to God. So when people talk about, well, the early Christians didn't believe Jesus was God.

Well, Jesus said he was God, the Bible teaches he's God, people were talking about it knowing where the Christians' practice was worshiping Jesus as God. And he says this, and bound themselves by a solemn oath not to any wicked deeds but never to commit any fraud, theft, or adultery, never to falsify their word nor deny a trust when they should be called upon to deliver it up, after which it was their custom to separate and then reassemble to partake of food, but food of an ordinary and innocent kind.

One of the examples of this. You can also, of course, go to Tacitus, 56 AD to 120 AD. We could talk about the historical Jesus. And Tacitus talking about the early Christians actually says this. He says, consequently, to get rid of the report, Nero fastened the guilt and inflicted the most exquisite tortures on a class of hated for their abominations called Christians by the populace.

Tacitus, of course, is referring to the fire in Rome and the blame put upon the Christians and all the rest of that. He says, Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilate, and a most mischievous superstition thus checked for the moment again broke out, not only in Judea, the first source of the evil, but even in Rome.

So you have early people writing the history here surrounding this, and they're referring to the Christians and Jesus being crucified and all the rest. Of course, there's evidence for the historicity of Jesus outside of the Bible.

You have another example, of course, of Josephus, Flavius Josephus. He gives a history of the war between the Romans and the Jews. Of course, Josephus does mention James, the Lord's brother. He does mention Jesus.

This is probably a more accurate example of what was said. He says this, at this time, there was a wise man called Jesus, and his conduct was good, and he was known to be virtuous. Many people among the Jews and the other nations became his disciples.

Pilate condemned him to be crucified and to die, but those who had become his disciples did not abandon his discipleship. So what do you have there? He was crucified, he died, but the people who were following didn't abandon him after his death.

Why do you think that was? They reported that he had appeared to them three days after his crucifixion, that he was alive. Accordingly, he was perhaps the Messiah concerning whom the prophets have reported wonders, and the tribe of the Christians so named after him has not disappeared to this day.

That's Josephus. So can you do that? Yeah. Can you get into that arena? Absolutely. You can do the extra-biblical evidence for the historical Jesus. You can look at the evidence in the Bible for prophecy.

Now this is one of my absolute favorites, and we're going to do a lot of this on the question of why do we believe Jesus is the Messiah. Check this out. You can go to your Old Testament, and you can demonstrate the prophecy of Jesus as Messiah that will give you goosebumps.

It is so precise to the day. It is so precise and so incredible, only a sovereign God can tell you the future before it happens, and you have it happening time after time after time in the Scriptures.

You can talk about Jesus in the Old Testament, all the details necessary to know Jesus as Savior and as Lord. We know the who is prophesied before it happens. Who's coming? It's very specific. It's God himself.

We know the why he's coming. We know the what. What's going to take place? What's going to happen? He's going to die. He's going to rise again. We know when. Yes, the Bible predicts when the Messiah is coming to the degree that, listen, there can be no other Messiah.

The Bible tells you the Messiah, Daniel chapter 9, is going to come, be cut off, die a violent death before the destruction of the second Jewish temple. The second Jewish temple was destroyed fully and finally when?

70 AD. So if Jesus isn't the Messiah, there is no Messiah. There is no Messiah. We know the where. Where is the Messiah coming to? We know in examples of Scripture prophecy, Jesus saying in his generation that they wouldn't all pass away before that Jewish temple was taken apart, literally stone off of stone, and it happened within a generation of Jesus' prophecy.

We can talk, when we talk about the question of why do we believe the Bible is God's Word, we can talk about the evidence of design. The evidence of design is powerful. It's powerful. It really comes down to what Scripture talks about when it says the heavens declare the glory of God and the fool says in his heart there is no God.

The evidence for design and God's handiwork is unavoidable. It's unavoidable and so powerful and watch this, the deeper we go into science and examination, the lower we go down into the cell and looking at the human genome, the more we see the fingerprints of God.

It is unavoidable. It's the kind of thing that my favorite atheist in history referred to in the film Collision with my friend Douglas Wilson. Christopher Hitchens, my favorite atheist in history, I've said that many times before, but at the end of that film, go watch it, Doug and Christopher Hitchens are in this limousine together and they're having a conversation and I think Christopher probably had some drinks in him so he was in vino veritas and wine there is truth and in this moment Christopher Hitchens basically is talking about the problem of design and he says even as an atheist, he says you really have to work on it because it's not easy to get over.

He says all of everything, all the universe, he says if you change anything to one degree, he goes no, one hair, life isn't possible, nothing's possible. Everything is so designed and ordered, it's this well-oiled machine.

If you move one degree over, nothing is possible. That's all the way from the top down to the bottom of your cells and even an atheist like Christopher Hitchens, as hard as he worked to war against the Christian worldview admits this is a difficult one to get over.

The evidence for design is so obvious. You see, you can talk about the human genome. Give you some examples here talking about DNA, the human genome. Here's some quotes about DNA. It talks about how many feet long our DNA from one of our cells would be if you uncoiled each strand and placed them end to end.

If you do this for all your DNA, the resulting strand would be 67 billion miles long. So in your body, all the DNA, all the code you have, the code that makes you you, the code that makes you who you are, that built your body, made your eyes, all the details of you, if you took those strands and you pulled them all apart, that strand would be 67 billion miles long, 67 billion miles.