Myth/Objection: The people in the Bible obviously didn't know much back then.

One very quick discovery I'll try to type down that I came across while preparing for MCAT on Friday (PLEEASE PRAY FOR ME!). One popular objection to the Bible is that because Bible days were so long ago, they must now have known very much back then. But, isn't it funny that the Bible describes the people as early as Noah as being masters of a chemical reaction whereas solid C6H12O6 yields liquid C2H5OH and 2 CO2s? They were able to take glucose, a sugar that even the body modifies for its own energetics, freely available from grapes, and induce a chemical reaction through fermentation to make the ethyl alcohol, CH3CH2OH. It's called wine-making. Gen. 9:21 describes the household of Noah having done this - implicit within this passage is that they produced their own wine. This is seen again in Gen. 14:21 where an Old Testament priest, Melchizedek brought forth bread and wine, both of which have to employ fermentation reactions in their production. They may have been masters of these chemical reactions - the winepress and the grape vineyard were significant entrepreneurial endeavors for the people of Israel that we see all over the Old Testament, even in the illustrations of Jesus Christ in the New TEstament.

I also think that there are a lot of things that the people of the Bible knew how to do in their common way of life that the 21st century common person wouldn't have a clue on - for instance, agriculture. The Old Testament describes these people as spending away signficant time and resources wholly employed in the toil of sowing seeds, plowing, planting, harvesting, reaping, and so on. Could your average person today, fed by Wal-Mart's, Aldi's, and with their pre-made Michaelinas and Hungry-Mans be able to do that? They wove their own clothes. They harnessed the working power of undomesticated animals such as oxen. They built ships, ran marketplaces, and did trade. They even did woodworking and things like fishing. Find one average American that has any two of those skills - it is very difficult. Why in the world would anyone say that they 'didn't know much'?

Regardless of what they knew, this objection doesn't discredit the Bible in any way. Every part of the Bible is still relevant to today: for instance, we still have liars, thieves, adulterers, fornicators, murderers, and all sorts of sin going in - the same as in Bible days (1 Cor 6:9). Men still need a Savior to save them from their sins, and the Bible is still the means to reveal the character and nature of that Savior along with what He taught. Also, must of the labor of the text of the Bible is spent in conveying prophetically what is yet to happen in our day. The Bible talks about events in history that haven't even happened yet in our 21st century - meaning that the Bible isn't a thing of the past, it's way ahead of its time!

Make it an important personal goal to start reading the Bible today. It may seem overwhelming at first, but start with the Gospel of Matthew, first learning about Jesus, and work your way up from there. Here's a freely available Bible online if you don't yet own one: http://www.blueletterbible.org/Bible.cfm?b=Mat&" title="http://www.blueletterbible.org/Bible.cfm?b=Mat&" target="_blank"http://www.blueletterbible.or...;c=1&v=1&t=NKJV#t op
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