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00:01 - Sometimes things aren't really what we thought they were.
00:04 And sometimes we discover we were really wrong 00:07 about something, tragically wrong. 00:10 Today I'm gonna show you why I think your ancestors 00:12 were probably smarter than you think they were. 00:16 [upbeat music] 00:37 At the beginning of the 20th century, 00:38 a sponge diver was in the ocean in the Eastern Mediterranean 00:42 when he stumbled across this ancient Greek shipwreck. 00:46 And the area was saturated with archeological goodies, 00:50 statues and the usual kinds of things that you find. 00:55 But there was one item in the wreckage 00:57 that suddenly forced us to change our perception 01:00 of the ancient world. 01:02 It was the remnants of a gear box 01:04 dating back to somewhere between 260 BC. 01:08 And it featured some really fine mechanisms. 01:11 Some of the gears had teeth as short as a millimeter, 01:15 and they were incredibly complex, 01:17 far more complex than we had assumed was possible 01:21 at that point in history. 01:23 It was a bit of a mystery, 01:24 and even though we've had possession of this strange machine 01:27 for more than 120 years now, 01:30 it's taken us nearly that long to appreciate what we found. 01:34 It appears to be an analog computer designed to measure 01:38 and predict the motion of the sun, the moon, and the planet. 01:43 And that's no small feat 01:44 because from where we sit in the solar system, 01:47 the planets appear to change direction in the sky, 01:50 sometimes moving in harmony with the sun's trajectory 01:54 and sometimes going in the opposite direction. 01:57 That's because the planet's orbit the sun 02:00 and not the earth like we used to believe, 02:03 or at least we thought that's what we used to believe. 02:07 And yet here was an ancient device 02:09 designed to calculate planetary motion 02:12 with incredible detail. 02:14 Inscriptions on the inside of this incredible machine 02:17 tell us exactly what this was designed to do. 02:21 If you aligned it with the current night sky, 02:24 you could move the dials 02:26 and travel forward and backward through time 02:28 to see where everything would be at any given moment. 02:32 On the front of the box was a dial 02:34 that showed you the positions of the stars and the planets. 02:37 On the back, there were two dials, 02:40 one that provided a 19-year calendar 02:43 to track the cycles of the moon 02:45 and another that helped you predict solar 02:47 and lunar eclipses. 02:49 And that one was calibrated for a 223 month cycle. 02:55 And all of that was driven 02:57 by the incredibly complicated gears inside the box, 03:01 which means that more than 2000 years ago, 03:05 somebody was calculating all that stuff, 03:08 as well as you and I can figure it out 03:11 with the astronomy app on your smartphone. 03:15 Of course, we know that our ancient ancestors 03:18 had a very detailed knowledge of astronomy 03:21 because, well, there was very little light pollution 03:24 and nobody had Netflix to distract them at night. 03:27 These people had all the time in the world after dark 03:30 to just study the heavens. 03:33 Long before the Greeks, 03:35 the Babylonians were already predicting 03:37 the motion of heavenly bodies with unbelievable accuracy. 03:42 And they discovered 03:44 that the moon went through a 19-year cycle. 03:48 Just imagine the patience you'd have to observe all of that. 03:52 And then at some point, 03:53 somebody in the Greek world translated all that knowledge, 03:57 all that math into working machine, this analog computer, 04:03 that smart defies the imagination for most of us. 04:08 What kind of math skills would you have to possess? 04:11 What kind of imagination would you need to have? 04:14 What would your grasp of spatial concepts 04:17 have to be like in order to assemble all these little gears 04:21 into something that can make those predictions? 04:25 Those of us who predate digital watches 04:28 are used to seeing intricate gears and springs 04:30 inside a very small time piece. 04:33 And we know that you can more or less keep accurate track 04:36 of hours, seconds, and minutes with tiny little gears, 04:40 maybe even days of the week and the date of the month, 04:43 depending on how expensive your watch was. 04:46 But man, to keep track of mercury, Jupiter, Mars, Venus, 04:50 the sun, the moon, eclipses and more, all with one machine, 04:54 it boggles the mind and it puts to rest of this idea 04:59 that our ancestors were unlettered simpletons, 05:01 who didn't have access 05:03 to the higher thinking we think we possess, 05:07 these were not some flat earth imbeciles 05:10 whose existence was driven by mere superstition. 05:14 And something tells me 05:15 that even though some of my ancient ancestors 05:18 in Northern Europe apparently believed 05:19 the earth was the center of the universe, 05:22 these people knew better. 05:24 How else do you account for a machine 05:26 that can accurately predict the pro grade 05:29 and retrograde movement of the planets? 05:33 Sometimes we like to think of the ancients 05:36 as people who had barely escaped from their caves, 05:39 but the more we dig out of the earth, 05:41 the more we learned that in some ways, 05:44 you and I would have a lot of catching up to do 05:46 if we could magically be transported back to their time. 05:51 Sure, we've accumulated more information today. 05:54 And the collective body of human knowledge 05:56 has dramatically expanded 05:58 since the day that Greek ship sank, 06:00 but we've also become lazy allowing smartphones 06:04 to do a lot of our thinking for us. 06:07 Now, that's not to say that everybody in the ancient world 06:10 was a good thinker because obviously, that wouldn't be true. 06:13 Society had its smart people 06:14 and it's not so smart back then too. 06:18 And the Antikythera mechanism, 06:20 the name we've given this machine was probably invented 06:24 by one of the brighter specimens of the day, 06:27 but still, it was a time when people largely 06:30 had to do all their math in their head. 06:32 And so their mental skills were obviously pretty impressive. 06:38 Once upon a time I actually had a science teacher 06:40 when I was a kid who wouldn't let us use a calculator 06:43 until we proved that we could do the math the hard way first 06:46 with paper and pencil. 06:48 Right about now, I'm starting to appreciate that 06:51 because I could see that teacher was doing us a favor. 06:54 I sometimes think we're losing a lot of essential skills 06:58 because of all the digital shortcuts we've created, 07:00 but I'm getting a little off topic. 07:04 Given the fact that the Antikythera mechanism 07:07 was discovered in a shipwreck, 07:09 I'm tempted to believe 07:10 that it was probably a navigation tool, 07:13 a method of charting your course against the stars. 07:16 In later years, 07:17 we used a compass in this extent to determine our position, 07:20 but maybe back when this thing was created, 07:23 it had even better calculations. 07:27 And I guess what I'm driving at today 07:29 is the deep fascination we seem to have for the heavens. 07:33 Not only do we find the night sky beautiful, 07:36 we find it incredibly useful. 07:38 It's a precision calendar that shows up every night 07:42 right above our heads. 07:44 And it's so exact that it led to this idea 07:47 during the enlightenment period, 07:49 that the universe runs like a watch or a machine. 07:54 Now, if you've ever been to the city of Cuzco down in Peru, 07:57 you've probably been blown away 07:58 by the stunning architecture of the Incas. 08:01 And for a long time, 08:02 people wondered why the Inca emperor, Pachacutec 08:05 who built Cuzco, arranged the street in his city, 08:09 the streets rather in such an odd pattern. 08:13 You and I tend to make our roads perpendicular to each other 08:16 at 90 degrees. 08:17 But in Cuzco, the alignment seems a little off, right? 08:21 It's not perpendicular. 08:23 And it seems off until you realize what he was doing. 08:27 At one time of the year, 08:28 one of the main streets lined up with the Milky Way, 08:31 and on another important day, 08:33 another street lined up with the Milky Way. 08:35 So it turns out that the whole town 08:38 might have been a celestial calendar. 08:40 And you could tell what time of year it was 08:42 just by looking up at the night sky, pretty ingenious, 08:48 but our fascination with the heavens 08:50 runs much deeper than mere time keeping. 08:53 Somehow, in addition to finding the night sky useful, 08:57 we also find it meaningful. 08:59 Most of us get the distinct sense, 09:01 there must be something out there, 09:03 something that will help us determine who 09:06 or what we are as human beings. 09:09 And even though the distances in our galactic neighborhood 09:12 are completely mind boggling, 09:14 the sun is 93 million miles away 09:17 and the next nearest star 09:19 is more than 25 trillion miles away. 09:23 Yet somehow we have this urge, 09:25 this belief that we might be able 09:27 to find something important out there, why? 09:32 I'll be right back in a moment 09:33 so we can think about that a little bit more. 09:36 [logo whooshing] 09:38 [upbeat music] 09:40 - [Announcer] Here at the "Voice of Prophecy," 09:41 we're committed to creating top quality programming 09:43 for the whole family, 09:44 like our audio adventure series, 09:46 "Discovery Mountain." 09:47 "Discovery Mountain" is a Bible based program 09:50 for kids of all ages and backgrounds. 09:52 Your family will enjoy the faith building stories 09:55 from this mountain, summer camp and town 09:58 with 24 seasonal episodes every year 10:00 and fresh content every week. 10:03 There's always a new adventure just on the horizon. 10:09 - Like most of you, 10:10 I was absolutely delighted to hear that William Shatner 10:13 was gonna be among the first civilians 10:16 to go into space on Jeff Bezos's rocket ship. 10:20 At 90 years of age, 10:21 he was the oldest person to ever leave the planet. 10:25 And it just, I don't know, seemed appropriate. 10:27 He was Captain Kirk and I was one of those kids 10:31 who religiously watched "Star Trek" when it first came out. 10:34 I'm also from the generation that grew up 10:36 with the Apollo missions and the lunar landings, 10:39 the golden age of space exploration 10:42 and like millions of other kids, 10:43 it was my ambition to become an astronaut. 10:47 Of course at the time, 10:48 I didn't realize that Canada didn't really 10:50 have much of a space program. 10:52 And the likelihood of becoming an astronaut 10:54 was incredibly small for me, 10:56 but that wouldn't have mattered. 10:57 I was a space fanatic, 10:59 so much so that when my family moved 11:01 in the middle of second grade, 11:03 my class gave me a book about the moon landings 11:06 as a going away present. 11:08 And to this day, whenever I get the chance, 11:11 I love to go to a really dark place 11:13 and just look up into the sky. 11:15 Unfortunately, we are running out of places 11:17 where light pollution doesn't ruin the experience, 11:20 but for a while, 11:22 I did have the chance to live on the Alaska highway, 11:24 where the nights are very dark 11:26 and the views of the night sky are breathtaking. 11:29 Even though the best views always seem to coincide 11:32 with minus 40 degrees. 11:34 There's just something magnificent about that universe 11:38 that pool us in its direction. 11:40 It tugs at our hearts. 11:42 Somehow we all sense there's something out there. 11:45 It's a phenomenon as old as the human race. 11:47 In fact, I'm reminded of the eighth Psalm 11:50 written some 3000 years ago, 11:52 which does a really nice job 11:54 of describing some of the emotions we feel 11:57 when we realize just how big that universe is. 12:01 Now, I've read you this Psalm in the past, 12:03 but I wanna read just a little bit of it to you again, 12:06 it says, 12:07 "When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, 12:11 the moon and the ours, which you have ordained, 12:14 what is man that You are mindful of him, 12:16 and the Son of man that You visit him." 12:20 Sometimes we like to think that the ancients 12:22 didn't realize how big our cosmic neighborhood was, 12:25 but here we have David who suddenly realizes 12:29 that God has a lot of universe to deal with out there. 12:32 And yet somehow God makes time for a pidly human being, 12:36 who isn't even a spec on the galactic playing field. 12:40 Something about the heavens makes us feel really small 12:43 and at the same time important. 12:46 And it fills us with wonder and deep emotion. 12:49 It's almost as if well, life is supposed to mean something. 12:54 And I think that's really what drives us 12:57 to leave the Earth's gravitational pull 12:59 to go out there and explore. 13:01 Somehow, we think we're gonna find something. 13:04 We think we're going to discover deep secrets 13:06 that will help us unpack the real nature of human existence. 13:11 We think we're going to find where we came from 13:13 as a species, how we got here, 13:16 and maybe we can figure out then where we might be headed. 13:20 We've put robots on Mars to collect soil samples, 13:23 hoping to find water, 13:24 a key ingredient for life, and maybe even bacteria, 13:29 which would mean we aren't the only life forms out there. 13:32 Some people wonder if maybe Mars used to be inhabited, 13:35 but then somehow became a wasteland 13:38 that could no longer sustain life. 13:41 What would that mean for life on earth? 13:43 What could we learn about the past, 13:45 if that happened to be true? 13:47 And what could we learn about the future? 13:49 Why? 13:50 Why do we have this fascination with the thought 13:52 that we might not be alone in the universe? 13:55 Why do movies like "ET" or "Close Encounters" 13:58 appeal to us so strongly? 14:01 You could say it's just entertainment, 14:03 but the box office success of movies 14:05 about extra terrestrial contact suggests otherwise to me, 14:10 from contact to arrival, 14:12 to the day the earth sat still, 14:14 it sometimes seems like we're obsessed with the idea 14:17 that we should not be alone. 14:20 Maybe you've heard of the Drake Equation. 14:22 Back in 1961, 14:24 astronomer Frank Drake developed a formula 14:26 to determine the probability 14:28 of finding other life in this universe. 14:30 He took all kinds of variables into account. 14:33 How many stars there are in our galaxy? 14:36 How many of them might have planets? 14:37 How many of those planets might be able to support life? 14:40 How many of those life supporting planets 14:42 might have intelligent life? 14:45 And then how many of those intelligent beings 14:47 might have the technology to send us a signal? 14:51 Depending on the estimated values for each variable, 14:54 the Drake formula has been used to predict anywhere 14:57 from 20 to 50 million other inhabited worlds 15:01 right here in the Milky Way. 15:03 Of course, the fact we've heard from none of them 15:07 and the fact that nobody has ever responded 15:09 to signals we send in this space, 15:11 probably lowers the probability quite a bit. 15:15 And if somebody else did exist out there, 15:18 the odds of lining up some cosmic render view 15:21 are definitely against us. 15:24 If the closest star is 25 trillion miles, 15:27 long distance space travel is going to have to mean 15:31 traveling faster than the speed of light. 15:34 If you don't wanna die of old age on your first trip, 15:37 and of course, 15:38 Einstein assured us that traveling faster 15:41 than the speed of light is not possible. 15:44 The only way you could get a bunch of humans 15:45 that far out into space is to build a space arc 15:49 where you have children in space 15:51 and grandchildren and great-grandchildren, 15:53 and then maybe one of those generations 15:56 would finally arrive at the destination. 15:59 Of course, that concept would be complicated 16:02 by the exceptionally high levels of radiation in space, 16:06 which would make childbearing incredibly risky. 16:10 After astronaut Scott Kelly spent one year in space, 16:13 we discovered that the gene expression emerging from his DNA 16:17 had changed, thanks to cosmic radiation. 16:20 So much so, that it was 7% different from his twin brother. 16:27 We've discovered that space travel makes permanent changes 16:29 to your gene expression. 16:31 So what would happen over several generations raised 16:35 in a spaceship? 16:36 The whole thing seems well unlikely. 16:39 So even if we did get a signal from a distant civilization, 16:43 a signal that might be thousands of years old 16:46 when we finally got it, 16:47 the likelihood of ever meeting up 16:49 without cracking the secrets of worm holes. 16:52 Well, it's pretty low, 16:54 of course, that doesn't mean there isn't life out there, 16:57 from a Christian perspective, 16:59 it just seems unlikely that an infinite God 17:01 with an appetite for creativity 17:03 would only make the one inhabited planet. 17:07 One of the most frequent questions I get is whether or not 17:09 the Bible talks about other worlds in other civilizations. 17:13 And the answer is, well, 17:14 yeah, obviously it does 17:15 because the Bible mentions angelic visitors 17:18 who clearly come from somewhere else, 17:21 but apart from angels, 17:22 does the Bible talk about other inhabited worlds? 17:25 Well, not explicitly, 17:27 but as it does drop some interesting clues along the way. 17:31 And one of the first of those comes to us 17:33 from book of Hebrews, 17:34 which opens with that majestic description of Christ. 17:38 And it identifies Him not only as the Son of God, 17:41 but as the creator. 17:43 Here it is right now at the top of the book of Hebrews, 17:45 it says, "God, who at various times 17:48 and in various ways, 17:50 spoken time passed to the fathers by the prophets, 17:52 has in these last days, spoken to us by His Son." 17:56 So, we do have some other worldly communication taking place 18:00 right here in a clear statement 18:02 that the earth has indeed been visited by someone 18:05 from the outside, the Son of God. 18:07 But then it says this, "Whom, Jesus, 18:10 He has appointed air of all things 18:12 through whom also He made the worlds." 18:16 Not only is Christ the creator, 18:18 but it also says He made the worlds, 18:20 plural, as in more than one. 18:22 Now that might not exactly be what you think 18:25 because the original Greek word for worlds is aeon, 18:29 it's where we get the world eon. 18:31 So what it might be saying is that God, the Son 18:33 created the ages. 18:35 And as he invented the concept of time and history, 18:41 but the idea that there might be other worlds 18:42 is certainly an allowable interpretation here. 18:45 It's not absolute proof, but it is a possibility. 18:50 And right now in this world, 18:52 it's time for another quick break. 18:53 So don't go away. 18:55 I'm gonna show you a few other possibilities 18:57 as soon as I come back. 18:59 [logo whooshing] 19:02 - [Narrator] Life can throw a lot at us. 19:05 Sometimes we don't have all the answers, 19:08 but that's where the Bible comes in. 19:10 It's our guide to a more fulfilling life. 19:13 Here at the "Voice of Prophecy," 19:15 we've created the Discover Bible guides 19:17 to be your guide to the Bible. 19:19 They're designed to be simple, easy to use, 19:21 and provide answers to many of life's toughest questions. 19:24 And they're absolutely free. 19:26 So jump online now, 19:28 or give us a call and start your journey of discovery. 19:32 - Right before the break, 19:33 we were starting to look at Bible passages 19:35 that might suggest there are other inhabited worlds. 19:38 But I guess before we keep going, 19:40 I wanna ask the question, why do we care? 19:43 And what do we think we're going to find? 19:44 Why is this so important to us? 19:48 Why would it matter? 19:49 Especially if the likelihood of contact 19:51 is actually really, really low, what are we looking for? 19:55 Why do we think there are answers 19:57 about the nature of humanity 19:58 to be found up there in the sky? 20:01 Why do we seem to think there are any answers at all? 20:05 If we buy the current thinking 20:06 about the emergence of life on earth, 20:09 we have to deal with the idea that everything 20:11 that ever have happened is nothing, 20:13 but the product of chance. 20:14 Somehow, the collision of cosmic molecules 20:17 gave us the incredibly complex phenomenon 20:20 of human consciousness. 20:22 Somehow an accident of physics produced us, 20:26 living, thinking beings who spend long, long hours 20:29 contemplating the nature of our own existence. 20:32 And if we really got here by chance, 20:35 that means that everything that ever happened to us 20:38 is just the product of chance too, 20:40 because you wouldn't be able to find any discernible meaning 20:43 behind absolutely anything. 20:46 Now, for me, that's a deeply depressing thought. 20:49 And for some reason, 20:51 our human brains are wired to fight 20:53 against the thought of meaninglessness. 20:55 In fact, our brains desire to find meaning and explanation 21:00 might actually be the reason we seem to be so susceptible 21:03 to conspiracy theories when really bad things happen. 21:07 And we can't find a good reason for them, 21:09 then our brains start to fabricate a reason. 21:12 We're not just happy with bad things just happening to us. 21:16 We start to tell ourselves that natural disasters happen 21:19 because somebody engineered them. 21:22 It's those mad scientists in Alaska 21:24 messing around with harp, 21:26 it's chem trail, 21:27 it's whatever the latest conspiracy theory is. 21:30 We convince ourselves that bad things happen 21:33 because a shadowy cabal of elites is behind the scenes, 21:37 pulling the strings. 21:39 When there's no discernible pattern, 21:41 our brains invent one, 21:43 because we have this overwhelming urge to discover meaning. 21:47 And the idea that we got here by accident, 21:49 that life has no meaning or no guaranteed future. 21:53 We find that deeply troubling, 21:55 so we find ourselves searching the skies, 21:57 looking for answers. 21:59 If there is another civilization out there, 22:02 maybe we could compare notes with those people 22:04 and finally understand who we are. 22:07 But now let's get back to the Bible 22:09 and see what it says about life on other worlds. 22:12 We've already looked at Hebrews chapter one, 22:14 which has a slight tiny, possible hint 22:17 that other worlds might exist. 22:19 Let's compare that now to a passage you find over 22:22 in the book of Isaiah chapter 45, 22:24 which raises another interesting possibility. 22:27 Isaiah 45:18 says, "For thus says the Lord 22:31 who created the heavens, who is God, 22:33 who formed the earth and made it, 22:34 who has established it, who did not create it in vain, 22:38 who formed it to be inhabited? 22:41 I am the Lord, and there is no other." 22:44 What this is suggesting 22:46 is that God doesn't waste creative effort. 22:48 If He made something, there's a reason He made it, 22:51 the earth was made to be inhabited, 22:54 a home for the human race. 22:56 Of course, there are eight other planets 22:58 in our solar system, if you still count Pluto. 23:01 And so far, 23:02 we're pretty sure none of the rest are inhabited, 23:05 but that doesn't mean that the other planets 23:06 are just nothing but eye candy, maybe it's possible. 23:10 Massive gas, giant like Jupiter 23:11 is a magnet that attracts incoming space debris, 23:14 or maybe the gravitational pull 23:16 and orbit of the other planets 23:18 serves to keep the earth stable. 23:20 Who really knows? 23:23 But then when you consider the fact 23:25 that there are something like 100 billion stars 23:27 in our galaxy, 23:28 we've counted more than 100 billion other galaxies out there 23:31 as big as ours. 23:33 That starts to suggest 23:34 that if God made all those worlds out there, 23:38 it's probably not likely that we're all created in vain, 23:41 so far using our limited ability to see things, 23:44 we've discovered something like 3000 exoplanets 23:48 around other stars, 23:49 and some of them might be orbiting 23:51 in what we call the Goldilock Zone. 23:53 That incredibly narrow band you find 23:55 exactly the right distance from a star 23:57 to enable liquid water 23:59 and some of the other ingredients you need for life. 24:02 So again, this is not a definitive statement, 24:05 but the Bible does suggest that God does not create in vain. 24:09 And the unbelievable vastness of this universe 24:12 then suggests there might be other worlds out there, 24:15 or at least it doesn't rule it out. 24:17 Okay, we gotta get to one more text 24:19 before I run out of time. 24:20 This one comes from the book of Job, 24:23 it's this scene where it says the sons of God 24:25 attend a meeting in God's presence. 24:27 And here's the way it reads, 24:28 starting right in Job chapter one, 24:31 it says, "Now there was a day when the sons of God came 24:34 to present themselves before the Lord 24:36 and Satan also came among them. 24:38 And the Lord said to Satan, from where do you come? 24:41 So Satan answered the Lord and said, 24:43 from going to and fro on the earth and walking back, 24:46 and forth on it." 24:48 Satan of course is the ultimate fallen angel, 24:50 the leader of the angelic rebellion. 24:52 And when God asks him, 24:54 "Where have you been?" 24:55 He says, "From going to and fro on the earth." 24:57 Now in the ancient world, 24:58 your foot was a symbol of ownership, 25:00 you could only step on something if you owned it. 25:02 And so what Satan is saying is that he owns planet earth. 25:07 In the opening pages of Genesis, 25:08 the human race was given dominion over this planet, 25:11 but then they were deceived 25:12 into giving that dominion to the serpent. 25:15 And you'll notice this scene in Job 25:17 is a meeting of the sons of God 25:19 and Adam and Luke chapter three is called a Son of God. 25:22 So what appears to be happening in Job 25:25 is that a human presentative for earth is missing 25:28 and the devil appears in his place 25:30 because he now lays claim to this planet. 25:33 And that of course raises the tantalizing possibility 25:36 that the other sons of God 25:38 might be coming from other worlds, like a galactic council. 25:43 Does it prove it? 25:44 No, absolutely not, but it does seem to suggest it. 25:48 Okay, I gotta take one last break. 25:50 So hang on to your galactic seat belts. 25:52 This is all gonna go by then at warp speed, 25:55 and I'll be right back. 25:57 [logo whooshing] 26:00 - [Announcer 2] Dragons, beasts, cryptic statues, 26:04 Bible prophecy can be incredibly vivid and confusing. 26:09 If you've ever read Daniel or Revelation 26:11 and come away scratching your head, you are not alone. 26:14 Our free Focus on Prophecy guides 26:16 are designed to help you unlock the mysteries of the Bible 26:19 and deepen your understanding of God's plan for you 26:22 and our world. 26:23 Study online or request them by mail, 26:26 and start bringing prophecy into focus today. 26:30 - Something out there pulls our hearts 26:32 in the direction of heaven. 26:33 For thousands of years, 26:34 we've been looking up into the night sky 26:36 expecting to find something. 26:40 So what if it's God pulling your heart in that direction? 26:43 What if this old book actually shows you what 26:46 or who you've been looking for your whole life? 26:50 What if the voice that tugs your heart toward that night sky 26:53 is the same voice that inspired this book? 26:56 What if the urge toward the heavens is a homing beacon, 27:00 pulling you back towards an authentic human existence? 27:05 "And you will seek Me and find Me, God says, 27:07 when you search for Me, with all your heart." 27:11 A diver off the Coast of Antikythera 27:13 made a revolutionary discovery 27:16 that changed our picture of the whole ancient world. 27:19 What appeared to be a clump of mud 27:20 proved to be one of the most important artifacts 27:23 we've ever found. 27:25 And what I'm going to suggest is that maybe it's time 27:28 to dive into another place 27:30 into the incredible depths of the Bible. 27:33 I know, you think you know what the Bible says 27:35 because the skeptics have been telling you 27:38 what's in this book and why you should avoid it. 27:41 But I gotta tell you, after decades of reading this, 27:44 I say the skeptics are dead wrong. 27:47 This book is going to open up a whole new world for you 27:50 and prove that this universe is even bigger 27:53 than you thought. 27:55 Thanks for joining me again this week. 27:57 I'm Shawn Boonstra, 27:58 this has been another episode of Authentic. 28:01 [upbeat music] |
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