Rob Bell Sermon

We watched a sermon in class today given by Rob Bell. It was really awesome and he gave some really cool facts about the universe! It was surprisingly sort of hard for me to pay attention though. I had just come from Chemistry class, where we are learning about the atom, to watch this sermon where he talked about atoms and chemistry related things for a long time. Honestly, I thought I was thinking so much that my brain might have exploded in class! The other downfall was that a lot of the facts I had already heard from Joe White. Every year Joe takes us out and gives us the creation talk and we go out to this huge open field where you can see thousands of stars and he just tells us all of these amazing facts about the stars and the world and the universe and God! He tells us soo much information and since its coming from a man that I look up to and personally know, it is so much easier to just soak up all the information and want the talk to never end! Its kind of hard though when your in class, if that makes since. At the same time, I truly do love learning facts! I love reading articles about how Darwin doubted his own theory! and how crazy his ideas where. I love learning about what happened to the dinosaur and where all the water from the flood came from and where did it go! I love learning these things!  The Bible is true and it was divinely inspired to let us base ALL truth off the Bible and the Bible alone, that being said we also can't claim to know God and claim to know the full picture because our brains are petty and limited. A lot of the prophesies about Jesus that seemed so straight forward and literal did not make sense until hind sight.  Isaiah talks about how the Messiah will be a King.  But we now know that by King, God meant a spiritual King, not a worldly king. So we also need to look at Genesis and say, it could be the world was made in a literal 7 days. I dont know. It DEFINITELY could have happened like that, and thats the view I believe. but the point is I dont know. The point is that I want to seek truth.. but not get caught up on figuring out all the facts. We probably wont know the answers to those questions in our life time and just rest in the fact that we will be able to ask Jesus someday ourselves and then we will be like.. oooohhh! I get it! :) At the same time the Lord gave us inquisitive minds and science and the ability to learn so we could know and explore him more. Which means the deeper we get into understanding this world and how it was made and how it works.. the deeper we get to know GOD! This sermon, while it almost made my brain explode. Took me back to kamp, my favorite place on earth. It let me think of all these things again and I'm just excited to get to know God even more! :)