Matty Lawrence

June 13, 2020January 27, 2022

Written on Our Hearts

For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them
(Romans 2:14-15) ESV

The Bible tells us that the truth about God has been made known to us all. It also tells us that the moral law of God has been written on our hearts. When we consider the events of the first day, up to and including the development of cellular life with replicating DNA, it’s not too far fetched to propose that the word of God was encoded on that day.

June 13, 2020June 13, 2020

We are Without Excuse

For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
(Romans 1:20) ESV

The beauty of nature is proof of God. We know right from wrong. Disbelief is active, not passive, it’s not the default state. Popular science (SciPop) is an attempt to account for human existence in such a way that it appears God isn’t necessary.

June 13, 2020June 13, 2020

God has Shown it to Us

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.
(Romans 1:18-19) ESV

Our conscience is why we experience guilt. We don’t have to be told when we’ve done something wrong: we know. We may act like it doesn’t matter but we still know that we did something wrong because of guilt.

June 13, 2020June 13, 2020

Guilt

My guilt overwhelms me— it is a burden too heavy to bear.
(Psalms 38:4) NLT

Guilt is the fact of having committed a breach of conduct especially violating law and involving a penalty, the state of one who has committed an offense especially consciously, feelings of deserving blame especially for imagined offenses or from a sense of inadequacy, a feeling of deserving blame for offenses.
– Guilt, definition (Merriam-Webster)

June 13, 2020July 30, 2020

Longsuffering

Cutaway of planet Earth showing the crust, mantle, great gulf and hell.

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
(2 Peter 3:9) KJV

Here’s something we hear a lot, the indignant cry:

“I’m not going to believe in a god who would torture people who don’t love him!”
– Understandable but misguided opinion

June 13, 2020October 1, 2021

Hypothesis 10

Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
(Isaiah 14:9) KJV

IF nuclear decay isn’t constant, AND an initial burst of radiation caused the core of the Earth to melt, THEN material from the lower mantle will melt and fall into the molten core which is why it’s expanding.

June 13, 2020September 11, 2021

Everlasting Chains of Darkness

For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment.
(2 Peter 2:4) KJV

Hell wasn’t created during the six days of creation. This is important to understand. Hell is a consequence of sin which began after the fall of man.

June 13, 2020October 28, 2021

Nuclear Decay

“Then he cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.’
(Luke 19:24) NKJV

It’s impossible to prove that radioisotopes have always decayed at a constant rate throughout history, since the ability to detect and measure radioactive decay is only about 120 years old.

June 13, 2020July 30, 2021

Cursed is the Ground

And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
(Genesis 3:17) KJV

Nuclear decay began when God cursed the Earth. God’s presence is the power which maintains matter in a stable state. God can’t tolerate sin, so when sin entered the world he withdrew his presence.

June 13, 2020January 1, 2021

Argument from Ignorance

And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.
(Genesis 3:8) NKJV

Popular science (SciPop) doesn’t have any positive confirmation for the hypothesis that nuclear decay rates have always been constant. What’s a paradigm to do in a situation like this? Go for negative confirmation.