Let’s take a handful of scriptures, a handful of science and a handful of nature, mix them all together and see some once obscure scriptures come alive to demonstrate the Bible has always been far ahead of science and can be trusted as true.
Let’s begin with 1st Corinthians 15:41 written by Paul around 53–57 AD so it’s about 2000 years ago when man could only look at the stars and note their positions throughout the year but no telescopes. Verse 41 “The sun has one kind of splendour, the moon another and the stars another; and star differs Verse 41 from star in splendour.” Man certainly could not know that star differed from star 2000 years ago but it was in the bible to be believed or to have been scoffed at. They could have reasonably looked at the sky then and said that that scripture was obviously not right but that just shows us that even what we think we see, if the bible says otherwise, we should take a second look! Within the the last 10 years the New Horizons spacecraft captured images of the all the planets and showed that they were indeed all different colours. How could we have known that years ago? BUT THE BIBLE DID… it says so; “The sun has one kind of splendour, the moon another and the stars another; AND STAR DIFFERS FROM STAR in splendour.
So, just like today where those same men in white coats insist, we evolved from some kind of slime in a prehistoric swamp and we could not possibly have been created because, (as one particular scientist put it) “Evolution is unproved and unprovable, we believe it because the only alternative is special creation, and that is unthinkable”. Sir Arthur Keith; born1866 was a physical anthropologist and geologist from Great Britain. (Is that true science?) Just to balance things up a bit, Sir Isaac Newton, probably one of our greatest scientists said “He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.” It’s worth noting that today there are more than 50 theories of evolution and, bizarrely, all based on the same evidence, rocks and fossils so all these theories are by their very nature in conflict with one another while the bible sails on through the years carrying the plain truth to those who would accept it.
So, let’s look at some more examples.
If we go back one or two thousand years, we find that what the bible said then is what the bible still says today. However; there were things we read then that we could never have fully understood at the time and there are still things today that folk firmly believe in but a glance at scripture would put them straight. Yes, let’s look at that old chestnut the Turin shroud.
Here is a great example of people today ignoring the bible and putting a gun to their own heads by denying perfectly good scientific facts!
In 1998 and 2000 Pope John Paul II arranged for public viewings of the shroud; here is the quote from John Paul II: "For the believer, what counts above all is that the shroud is a mirror of the Gospel!!” Now why would he say that because the bible’s account is strikingly different to that piece of cloth still hanging in the Cathedral in Turin. He must have known this was pure guesswork because there has certainly never been any documented proof that the face on the cloth was that of Jesus.
What science says about it?
Carbon dating tests (1988) placed the cloth between 1260 and 1390 AD, (Henry 111 and Richard 11 were on the throne then) and being one single piece of linen it was in line with medieval burial practices of that period. C14 dating is pretty accurate for things that are no more than 5000 years old.
John 19:40 "So they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen cloths (plural) with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews."
The original Greek uses the word (othonia), which means strips or multiple linen wrappings, not a single sheet.
Anyone who was able to read scripture in 1260 AD should have been able to point out that this could not possibly have been the shroud that Jesus had been wrapped in because; take a look at John 20:6-7 Then Simon Peter came along behind him and went straight into the tomb. He saw the strips of linen lying there, 7 as well as the cloth that had been wrapped around Jesus’ head. The cloth was still lying in its place, separate from the linen.
Luke 24:1212 Peter, however, got up and ran to the tomb. Bending over, he saw the strips of linen lying by themselves, and he went away, wondering to himself what had happened.
Do the popes actually read the scriptures?
Let’s wrap this all up by reading John 11:44.
Jesus called in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” 44 The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face.
(You see, that really was the practice in those days) Jesus said to them, “Take off the grave clothes and let him go.”
A change of subject; The Water Cycle.
Here is a simple example showing how the Bible contains descriptions of natural processes and realities that were beyond ancient human knowledge but today we all know how this works through scientific advancements.
Ecclesiastes 1:7 – "All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place the streams come from, there they return again."
IT WAS IN THE BOOK AND STILL IS!
Well, here’s an easy one and it is in Job of course. Job 26:7 “He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth on nothing (when we thought the earth was flat and resting on 4 turtles or 4 elephants, mad eh?) but … IT WAS IN THE BOOK!
Clearly God wanted to make sure we doubly understood and so in; Isaiah 40:22 it reads; "It is He (God) who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers..." No need to say much more about that, the bible was certainly right again, the earth is certainly not flat so another tick for the scriptures.
IT WAS IN THE BOOK!
Here’s one that has fascinated me!
You will all have seen on TV those images of pods of stranded whales washed up on the beaches from time to time. In 2017, over 600 pilot whales stranded themselves on a New Zealand beach in fact in Feb 2025 ninety whales washed up on a remote beach in Tasmania.
Have you ever wondered how those whales could have made such a mistake and when they felt the beach underneath them instead of the deep ocean, why didn’t they turn around and head back out to deeper water? Did God make a mistake in their design? For me this has been a fascinating journey of discovery because the same things happen to turtles who suddenly, one particular year, fail to return to the beaches from where they hatched, this is a disaster for them of course. Quite often whales have beached themselves in one part of the world and in a completely different part of the world and at the same time turtles have also lost the navigational plot and it doesn’t end there.
During some autumn migrations, flocks of European birds such as our robins have been recorded arriving in North America instead of heading to their usual wintering grounds in southern Europe! So, let’s get the answer from the Book of Psalms written between 1400 and 450 BC.
Let’s take a look at the enigmatic Psalm 8:8"The birds of the air, and the fish of the sea that pass through the paths of the seas."
The paths of the seas? What paths, have you ever seen any paths in the seas? No, you as a human being won’t ever see them because you don’t possess the chemicals in your brain that some other creatures do such as whales, robins, salmon and pigeons. Some animals have tiny crystals of magnetite (a magnetic mineral) in their cells, which respond to Earth's magnetic field, helping them to navigate. Have you ever seen images of the earth showing the myriad lines of the magnetic field that surround the earth? Well, those lines go right around the earth, through the air and the sea and to the very bottom of the sea to the earth’s core.
Are you starting to get the picture now? Lines in the air, lines in the sea, paths in the seas… do I hear a eureka moment!
The following is only very recent research and suggests that many marine animals have the ability to detect Earth's magnetic field to navigate vast distances but the field shifts from time to time & there’s the clue. Just as birds use magnetic cues for migration, whales and fish and turtles follow these "invisible roads" in the ocean, similar to how humans use highways. These pathways are literal, but unseen (to us) "paths in the seas"—not currents, but natural navigation routes; pathways, tracks if you wish, that they can see or feel and follow for 1000s of miles while we can’t see a thing.
This information strengthens that enigmatic Psalm 8:8 even more by showing us yet again that all this was already written in the scriptures. There are actually “paths in the seas”. We didn’t know that until very recently and certainly didn’t know it 2000 year ago! BUT…IT WAS IN THE BOOK!
Recently you may have heard scientists questioning their own theories because they have just discovered that the universe is expanding and this is driving them all nuts because, as far as they are concerned this just cannot happen, they thought the universe was a fixed ‘unit’, their long-held big bang theory might be wrong!
Here’s some Bible References:
Isaiah 42:5; written around 560 BC . This is what God the Lord says—the Creator of the heavens, who stretches them out…
Job 9:8 written around 6 BC He alone stretches out the heavens and treads on the waves of the sea.
Zechariah 12:1 Written around 520 BC “A prophecy: The word of the Lord concerning Israel.” The Lord, who stretches out the heavens.
The universe is expanding, a fact discovered in the 20th century with Edwin Hubble’s observations. The Bible repeatedly describes God as "stretching out" the heavens.
A couple of years ago a newspaper headline read: “Surprise: The Big Bang isn’t the beginning of the universe anymore.” (Even I was surprised to see them admit that!) They went on to say “We used to think the Big Bang meant the universe began from a singularity but now, nearly 100 years later, we’re not so sure.” (Don’t forget, with the same piece of evidence in the rocks and fossils those wavering scientists have more than 50 theories of how we all ‘evolved’!)
So much for their theories, but as we have seen, they aint necessarily so!
Job 38:12 (good old Job again) God says “Have you ever given orders to the morning, or shown the dawn its place, 13 that it might take the earth by the edges and shake the wicked out of it? Verse 14 The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its features stand out like those of a garment.15 The wicked are denied their light, and their upraised arm is broken. But here’s the interesting bit…16 “Have you journeyed to the springs of the sea or walked in the recesses of the deep?
Now there’s an enigmatic question! I bet when you read this in Job 38:16 you never considered what it might actually mean? (Remember, “he who reads half-heartedly” or too quickly).
“The springs of the sea” “The recesses of the deep” Has scripture been telling us of yet another truth that has eluded us until very recently? We now know that Everest size mountains exist under the ocean and in 1977 scientists discovered deep-sea hydrothermal vents (springs)releasing mineral-rich water on the bottom of the ocean. Such things were unknown and unknowable to man in ancient times when the book of Job was written.
BUT...IT WAS IN THE BOOK
I think it appropriate to finish with Job which sums things up perfectly… Job 38 2 “Who is this that obscures my plans with words without knowledge? (Take note popes!)
3 Brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer me. 4 “Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation?
Tell me, if you understand.
5 Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know!
Who stretched a measuring line across it?
6 On what were its footings set,
or who laid its cornerstone …… and this dialogue goes right on to Job 40 The Lord said to Job: Verse 2 “Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct him? (I WONDER IF WE ARE TALKING ABOUT SCIENTISTS TOO HERE!) “Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct him? Let him who accuses God answer him!” 3 Then Job answered the Lord: 4 “I am unworthy—how can I reply to you?
I put my hand over my mouth.
5 I spoke once, but I have no answer—
twice, but I will say no more.”
And neither will I because God cannot lie and this book is full of truth, it just takes a bit of time and effort to find it and as Sir Isaac Newton said; “He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.” Why? Because it’s in the book!
