This building isn't going to build itself out of nothing

The Workingman lives in Rolla, Missouri, home of the Missouri University of Science and Technology.

The faculty and, yes, even the youngest students are all far more intelligent than The Workingman.

These are the brightest of scholars, and The Workingman suspects that most of the approximately

6,000 students and approximately 400 faculty members would pooh-pooh the opening verses of the

first chapter of Genesis. Well, most likely, they pooh-pooh the entire Holy Bible. They trust The Science,

not The Living God.

Now, The Workingman recently read in the newspaper that the university is preparing to expand from preparing

young engineers to build roads, bridges, buildings, computers to preparing them to be bioengineers,

biomedical engineers and who knows what else.

They cut a ribbon to announce officially that they are fixing to build something called a Bioplex. You can read

about it right here: Here.

Keep in mind that these young people and their pedagogues do not believe that God created the heavens

and the earth. Instead, they believe that the universe created itself out of nothing.

Each day, these youngsters are prepared and taught by their teachers to go into the world and create

something new, invent something new, build something new, because all the tools, the processes,

the luxuries that we have were created, built and developed by someone.

Everything we deal with daily was created; well, everything but the heavens and the earth and life itself.

That was all created by itself from nothing, the experts say. 

The Workingman is not a brilliant thinker, so he cannot figure out why this scientific university continues

to build, create and develop new buildings and new programs. Wouldn’t it make more sense to just wait

for new buildings to build themselves from nothing.

If the big ole universe can build itself from absolutely nothing, surely a little ole building muster up

enough energy to build its own self and save the taxpayers some money.

Well, obviously, The Workingman is having a little fun with a little sarcasm mixed in.

Of course, everything that is built, developed, created comes from a creator. Right now, The Workingman

is creating a little sarcasm here in the digital world of the internet.

It seems logical to The Workingman that the existence of the universe (the heavens and the earth)

prove there is a Creator. But there are many in the universities, including the one over yonder a ways from

The Workingman’s Bible study room, who continue to believe that life just popped up out of nothing all by itself.

Quite honestly, the idea of these non-believing folks moving from bricks, steel, mortar

and asphalt into the realm of cells and organs makes The Workingman a bit uneasy.

"How to Read and Study the Bible"

That title above is the same title as some of the books and articles you might run across in so-called ministries and the like. Everybody has some idea of the best way to read and study the Word, even though about half of today's Christians don't call the Holy Bible the Word.

The Workingman is digressing, but that reminds him of a preacher he used to listen to on the radio years ago. His name was Lester Roloff, and he was one of the few good preachers around, in The Workingman's opinion. He said Jesus and the Bible were both the Word of God. The Bible is "Jesus written down," Brother Lester said.

You can take that for what it is worth and think about it. It is worth more than most of what you read on the internet.

Well, The Workingman was curious about ways to read the New Testament, so he went ahead and looked it up on the internet. One way he discovered is to read it chronologically, i.e. read the books in the order they were written. That was the suggestion of one of the most pointy-headed liberal theologians around, a fellow named Martin Borg, who The Workingman is not sure is still alive or if he even believed Jesus was God in the flesh or that He rose from the grave.

This guy said the books were written in this order: I Thessalonians, Galatians, 1 Corinthians, Philemon, Philippians, 2 Corinthians, Romans, Mark, James, Colossians, Matthew, Hebrews, John, Ephesians, Revelation, Jude, 1 John, 2 John, 3 John, Luke, Acts, 2 Thessalonians, 1 Peter, 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, Titus, 2 Peter.

Then The Workingman ran across some outfit called Grace Fellowship Church in Toronto. The Workingman doesn't know what they believe. There is no telling nowadays, but these biblical experts and geniuses said the order is this way: James, 1 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians, Galatians, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, Romans, Mark, Matthew, Philemon, Colossians, Luke, Acts, Philippians, 1 Timothy, Titus, 1 Peter, 2 Peter, 2 Timothy, Hebrews, Jude, John, 1 John, 2 John, 3 John, Revelation.

Then The Workingman looked at a place called UnderstandChristianity.com. He doesn't know anything about this bunch either; they might all be atheists, as far as The Workingman knows, for he recently read excerpts from a book about Christian preachers who are atheists. Figure that out if you can. Anyway, those experts said the New Testament was written in this order: Matthew, Galatians, 1 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians, Luke, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, Romans, Ephesians, Colossians, Philemon, Philippians, Acts, Mark, 1 Timothy, Titus, 2 Timothy, 1 Peter, 2 Peter, Hebrews, Jude, John, 1 John, 2 John, 3 John, Revelation.

So right off the bat, The Workingman figured out these biblical experts have no idea what they are talking about. You can apparently pretty much just make it up as you go along if you are preacher or a theologian.

But The Workingman is just a Bible reader who goes to a country church on Sunday. He reads, listens, discusses in Sunday School with other workingman and tries to figure out the truth that sets us free.

The Workingman believes that Truth is Jesus Christ, who is God in the flesh.

And the only way The Workingman has found to learn about Jesus is the reading of the written Word, the Bible, which he recommends to you, too.