by admon » Tue Mar 30, 2010 6:41 pm
If you are so smart you should try a little reading.
Isaiah 40:21
"Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
Has it not been told you from the beginning?
Have you not understood since the earth was founded?"
Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph were bronze age. When God promised the Holy Land to Abraham's descendants there was no iron use in the area. While they were in Egypt for 450 years, the Hittites, a hill tribe from north of the region, came into the area and established a powerful military empire, which was successful due to their ability to manufacture iron tools and weapons. When Moses and the Israelites returned from Egypt, the Hittites were already in decline, but iron working had not yet reached Egypt, so with their Egyptian technology they had a hard time contending with the superior armament of the inhabitants of the region at the time.
Nonetheless, God gave them victory and they eventually did take possession of the land God promised them. What about the gods of the Hittites? Their iron age idols did not save them. Today who worships Baal? Molech? Asherah? It's not the level of technology that counts, it's God.
We have had God's word from the beginning. Since the dawn of writing in Mesopotamia, the true word of God has been passed down to us, and we have Abraham's descendants with us too to show that God keeps His covenant with His people. What you flippantly mock is actually a profound proof of the truth of God's word. The false idols of ancient times are forgotten in dust, but the true word of God remains with us. Go ahead and worship whatever you wish of the most modern and fashionable ideas you choose to insist upon. Long after your television has turned to dust God's people will be rejoicing in His word, as they have been since the beginning.