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Three, two, one, zero liftoff.
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No one on planet earth was
there to see humanities greatest
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achievement. That's because it
didn't happen on planet earth.
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It happened on the moon. It
was only seen through grainey
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television images beamed across
the distance of almost 400,000
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kilometers when Neil Armstrong
planted the first human step on
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on the lunar surface. But there
was something that was kept
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secret about the moon landing.
The Apollo moon missions carried
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a secret cargo and NASA wasn't
keen to make it publically known
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What was it? And why is it so
important that you should know
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about it. Well together let's
unravel the mystery of the book
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that went to the moon.
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We choose to go to the moon.
We choose to go to the moon.
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We choose to go to the moon
in this decade and do the other
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things, not because they are
easy but because they are hard.
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On the 25th of May 1961
when President John F. Kennedy
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announced America's
goal of going to the moon the
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achievement seemed almost
unimaginable. It came only 20
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days after Allen Shepherd
had become the first American in
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space. If that mission had
failed Kennedy would never have
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announced the goal of putting
an American on the moon. That's
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how tenuous and dangerous the
whole thing was. But just eight
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years later on the 19th of July
1969 Apollo 11 entered the orbit
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of the moon. Inside were
Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins,
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and Edward "Buzz" Aldrin,
Jr. The next day on the 20th of
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July the lunar module Eagle
separated from Apollo descending
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with Armstrong and Aldrin inside
Back at the mission control
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center the support crew waited
breathlessly while Armstrong
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carefully piloted the lunar
module down toward the lunar
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surface. Eventually they
heard Armstrong's call sign come
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through loud and clear.
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Two and a half hours
after landing before preparing
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for Armstrong's walk on the moon
Buzz Aldrin radioed earth and
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asked for a few moments
of silence for each person
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listening to give thanks in his
own individual way. Then Aldrin
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privately took communion
using a chalice and wine he had
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brought and then he read a
passage from the Bible which
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he also had brought with him
on a piece of paper. Here's the
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passage from John
chapter 15 and verse 5:
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The reason why Aldrin had been
vague in asking people to give
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thanks was because at that time
NASA was fighting a law suit
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brought by an atheist called
Madalyn Murry O'Hair who had
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objected to previous Apollo
astronauts reading from the
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Bible. And that's also why
NASA didn't make any public
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announcements about this or
about the book that went to the
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moon because here was the
greatest achievement of secular
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humanity and yet many of these
astronauts kept insisting on
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putting God right at the heart
of the moon mission. Early the
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next morning Neil Armstrong
opened the hatch and began his
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descent to the lunar surface.
While still on the ladder
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Armstrong
uncovered a plaque that said:
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Here men from the planet earth
first set foot upon the moon
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July 1969, A.D. We came
in peace for all mankind.
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Then Armstrong stepped off
Eagle's footpad and said those
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famous words:
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Even today that step in 1969
represents for me the greatest
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achievement of humanity. It
represents not only a scientific
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triumph, but a triumph of
the ingenuity and the will of
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mankind and indeed it was. The
astronauts involved in the moon
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program were very special people
Initially to become an astronaut
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experience in flying high
performance aircraft was as
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equally important as academic
qualifications. However by 1964
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applications were invited on
the basis of superior academic
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qualifications alone. The
minimum requirements were a
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doctorate or equivalent in
the areas of natural sciences,
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medicine or engineering.
Applications were evaluated by
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the National Academy of Sciences
in Washington. These were among
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the best and brightest that
America had to offer. But what
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most people don't recognize
today is that the moon landing
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and the Apollo space program
as a whole was fueled not simply
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by rocket fuel but faith. It's
popular today among atheists
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to discredit God and faith as
forces that have held back the
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progress of humanity but that
has never been the case and here
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is what is significant. Many
of those involved in the space
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program were committed
Christians or deeply spiritual
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people and especially so the
astronauts. Frank Borman, the
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commander of the first
space crew to travel beyond the
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earth orbit looked down on
the earth from a quarter of a
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quarter of a million miles
in space and he radioed back a
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message reading the very first
words of the Bible from Genesis
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chapter one:
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Later on Borman explained
why he did it. He said:
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Edgar Mitchell was the sixth
man on the moon and although he
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wasn't a Christian in the
traditional sense, he said that
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as a result of his experience
then he came to believe that God
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was real. James Irwin,
who walked on the moon in 1971
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described the lunar mission
as a revelation. He said:
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These men who were the best
of the best that the USA could
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offer were deeply spiritual.
Many of these were committed
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Christians who loved the Bible.
That's why the book that went
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to the moon wasn't an
encyclopedia or a scientific
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text book. It was the Bible.
Actually the Bible didn't make
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it to the moon in the form
of one verse on a scrap of paper
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on Apollo 11, but it really did
go to the moon. And it's that
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fascinating story that I want
to share with you. In fact, the
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whole Bible has actually been to
the moon many times, but not in
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the form that you and I know it
with covers and paper and pages.
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It's been to the moon in the
form of microfilm or microfiche.
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Five hundred and twelve tiny
copies of the Bible in Microfilm
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were made by a group called
the Apollo _. This group was
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led by a Texas minister named
John Stout who doubled as a
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NASA scientist. There's one of
them here in the museum of the
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Bible in Washington D.C.
It's one of the newest and most
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technologically
advanced museums in the world.
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It showcases many rare
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and _ artifacts, both
ancient and modern, including
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one of the Lunar Bibles. And
here it is, one of the original
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Bibles that went to the moon.
It's one of only 12 intact lunar
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Bibles that made the round
trip journey. The remainder were
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divided and distributed to
various dignitaries. The entire
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1245 pages of the King
James Version of the Bible were
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faithfully reproduced into these
cubes of microfilm, just 4.1 cm
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square. The very first manned
mission of the United States
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Apollo program was Apollo
1. Apollo 1 never got off the
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ground. During the final testing
a cabin fire on the 27th of
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January 1967 killed it's three
crew members. Among them was
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Ed White who'd had a dream to
take a Bible to the surface of
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the moon. Bibles were
first officially approved to be
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carried in the lunar module for
Apollo 12, the second landing
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mission and here it is. The
command module is on display
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here at the Virginia Air
and Space Center, but by mistake
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the Bibles were packed into
this command module which only
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orbited the moon. So they
never made it down to the lunar
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surface. But John Stout wasn't
to be detered. He tried again
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This time he arranged for them
to fly on Apollo 13 and this
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time they were packed correctly
in the landing module. But
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you'll remember that Apollo 13
didn't go to the moon. It's been
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turned into several movies.
About five-and-a-half hours
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after entering moon orbit
a faulty oxygen tank exploded
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causing a loss of oxygen and
electrical power. There was a
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big chance that the astronauts
would die. The moon landing was
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aborted and by nothing short of
the miracle the crew were able
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to return safely to earth.
However on the third attempt
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the Bible actually did make
it to the moon. Astronaut Edgar
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Mitchell carried 100 copies
of the microfilm Bible in his
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personal kit on the Apollo 14
lunar module and that's how the
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Bible finally made it to the
moon on the 5th of February 1971
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The story of the microfilm Bible
has been shrouded in mystery.
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Part of the reason is because
NASA logged them as small
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microfilm packets rather than
Bibles. The other part of the
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reason is that although these
explorers were men of science
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they were also men of faith
but it was difficult for NASA to
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discuss their religous beliefs
in an increasingly secular
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society. There was also a
very practical reason why they
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couldn't just take a standard
Bible with them into space.
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Because there were severe space
and weight restrictions on what
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the astronauts could carry. Each
of the astronauts were limited
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to only 18 ounces or half a kilo
of personal effects that they
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could take in their personal
kits. So the question must be
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asked, What's so important about
this book the Bible that many of
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these heroic men of science
struggled so valiantly to take
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it with them to the moon. Why
were they so passionate about
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associating it with humanity's
greatest achievement? Well those
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first people who traveled to the
moon knew that their achievement
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was the highest that a
human being had ever been, the
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pinnacle of human civilization
and the culmination of all
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knowledge and science to that
time. And many of the Apollo
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astronauts also knew something
that our society has likely lost
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and that is that it's the
principles and teachings of the
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Bible that are responsible
for what is noblest and best in
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Western civilization. Now this
may seem strange to an average
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person who never thinks about
these sorts of things. Yet it's
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true. There's a popular myth
that the Bible had little or no
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impact on western civilization.
But that's just a myth. Some
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people like to bring up the
topic of science and set it up
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against Christianity as if
Christian faith were the arch
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enemy of scientific progress.
But that's simply not true
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either. Everyone knows that all
of the first modern scientists
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were explicitly motivated
by their Christian faith to
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establish foundations of modern
science. For example Isaac
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Newton who lived from 1642 to
1727 is considered the greatest
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scientist of his age, perhaps of
all time. He is renowned for his
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theories of motion and
gravitation which he believed
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were fully consistent with
biblical teaching. For Newton to
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understand nature was to
understand God. The structure
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of the physical universe
he maintained revealed an all
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powerful God who created the
world and intervened to keep it
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on track. Newton once wrote
that he intended his scientific
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discoveries and achievements to
support the biblical concept of
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God as an intelligent and
all powerful being. So, yes,
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everyone knows that the early
modern scientists believed in
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God and were motivated by their
Christian faith to establish
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foundations for modern science.
But not everyone knows that
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it was only the Judeo-Christian
world view that allowed science
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to flourish. This was because
it was the Christian world view
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that introduced the concept of
evidence. This led to the idea
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of the experiment which became
the foundation of modern science
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Even from the earliest centuries
of Christianity it has been the
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Bible that has promoted literacy
more than any other factor in
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history and it has continued
right through to our own day
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being at the heart of
the principles of universal
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education which we all take for
granted today. Even the idea of
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the university itself is
essentially a Christian idea.
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And it wasn't just the idea of
the university but the idea of
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the hospital itself was created
and shaped by the teachings of
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the Bible. There were no
hospitals anywhere in the world
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before the impact of the Bible's
teaching. The hospital is a
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uniquely Christian idea. It's
because after Jesus returned to
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heaven his followers immulated
his example and dedicated
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themselves to healing and to
creating places and ways to care
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for the sick. It was Christian
monastic tradition that
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blossomed into hospitals and
indeed the practice of modern
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medicine as we know it. This
brings us to the whole social
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structure of our western
civilization which is based on
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the notions of human dignity,
equality and the inalienable
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right of every person. In
fact these are key and unique
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contributions of the Bible
to our modern world and it was
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Christian thinkers and
philosophers who developed and
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nurtured the first ideas about
human rights and the equality of
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every person. And these
ideas were not just developed by
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Christians but also for
specifically Christian reasons.
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The idea of selfless caring
for others is also an important
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contribution that western
culture has made to the world
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because of the teachings of
the Bible. It was Christians who
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started the first orphanages and
charities of different kinds,
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institutions that had never
existed before to look after
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those who couldn't look after
themselves. And they did it
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because the Bible taught not
only that we should love others
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as outselves but that we should
also love those who could not
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return that love and even
our enemies. The notion of the
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charity, of selfless charity for
no reward, is itself a uniquely
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Christian idea. So because
of its contributions to western
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culture the Bible is a very
special book. But it's none of
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these things that make the Bible
the most unique book in the
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world, it wasn't these things
that led the Apollo astronauts
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to choose to take the Bible with
them when they had to decide
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what to take on their epoch
making journey. What makes the
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Bible most unique is its divine
power to transform lives. The
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Bible itself claims to have a
living power and to be a prime
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means by which God communicates
and interacts with humanity.
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Once you've experienced the
power of God's word in your life
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it's something that no one can
deny. Many of the astronauts of
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the Apollo program had
experienced this for themselves.
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That's why they treasured the
Bible above all books. The Bible
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doesn't transform lives because
it's full of the greatest
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teachings and wisdom in all
the world or _. It transforms
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lives because it's a book that
comes from God for humanity and
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it's full of his power.
Some people like to talk about
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miracles but the greatest
miracle that God performs on a
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regular basis is transforming
lives, changing people through
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the Bible. Every year untold
millions of lives are rescued
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from things such a substance
abuse, destructive habits and
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emotional hurts in addition to
character flaws such as lying,
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stealing, cheating, aggression
and anger. Sometimes these life
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changes are dramatic and quick.
Sometimes they take place over
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many years. The transformations
that these people experienced
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often had one thing in common,
the Bible, also called the word
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of God has usually played a
central role. It's one of God's
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primary tools for changing lives
for the better. The Bible gives
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us the words that come from the
mind and heart of the creator.
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These words carry a power that
is unparalleled by any other
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written word. Here's what
the Bible itself says in Hebrews
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chapter 4 and verse 12:
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When you open your heart to
reading, learning and studying
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the Bible you'll begin to see
God like never before. You'll
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understand your true condition,
sinful before a holy God and
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you'll understand his free gift
of forgiveness through the death
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of Jesus on the cross. You'll
begin to grasp the power of
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God's Spirit that will enable
you to turn from activities that
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are harmful to you and enjoy
life the way it was meant to be
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enjoyed, full of happiness
and peace and you'll also see a
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miraculous change begin to take
place in your life. When we look
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through history we can see
plenty of examples of people who
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read the Bible a lot but to
no avail and it's true that some
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Christians have used wrong
understandings of the Bible to
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persecute and harm
others. So what's the secret to
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understanding the Bible the way
that God intends. You have to
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remember that the Bible is
the only book whose author has
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promised to be beside you
and help you understand it every
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time you read it. The best way
to understand the Bible is to
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make sure that you have a
relationship with Jesus Christ
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because he's promised that when
you do that through his Spirit
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he will personally teach you.
Jesus said that the Holy Spirit
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will guide us into all truth and
that's how you unlock the power
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of the Bible for your
life. Here's what Jesus said in
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John chapter 16 and verse 13:
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...
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The astronauts of the Apollo
space program were the best and
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the brightest that the United
States had to offer. Many of
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them treasured the Bible. They
treasured it so much that they
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made sure that it was part of
humanity's greatest achievement,
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reaching the moon itself. Now
I don't know what you're hoping
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to achieve in life or that
you're simply struggling with
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life itself. But wherever you
are in your journey you'll find
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the secrets to life in this
book the Bible. I invite you to
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rediscover the Bible, the word
of God. In it you will find life
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In it you will find the truth
about Jesus, a truth that will
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quench any thirst that you will
ever have. It'll bring you inner
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peace and happiness. The Apollo
astronauts went high, but you
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can go higher. If you would like
to reach the heights of life
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that God has planned for
you please join with me in this
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prayer.
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Dear Heavenly Father, we
want to thank you for your word,
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your personal message to each
and every one of us through the
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Bible. And even now you give us
still another opportunity to get
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to know you. Thank you
for giving us this incredible
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opportunity through the Bible.
In Jesus' name we pray, Amen.
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As our society become more
secular and moves away from God
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fewer and fewer people
appreciate the importance of
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the Bible in their lives. It's
not that they don't need it.
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It's simply that they don't
know what the Bible teaches or
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understand its power. How
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of God? If you'd like to find
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experience its power in your
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If you've enjoyed today's
journey with the book that went
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to the moon and our reflections
on how the word of God can take
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your life to places you could
never have imagined, be sure to
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join us again next week when
we will share another of life's
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journeys together. Until
then remember the ultimate
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destination of life's journey.
Now I saw a new heaven and a
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new earth. And God will wipe
away every tear from their eyes.
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There shall be no more death nor
sorrow nor crying. There shall
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be no more pain for the
former things have passed away.
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