Our Future Hope
Hope in Man or in a Savior? But if man was created perfect, placed in a perfect environment and has since diminished, decayed and destroyed himself and his environment, then our only hope is in a coming Savior. (See Rom. 8:20-25) Hope can take suffering. Hope can bring joy in miserable circumstances. While the believer may suffer in the present world, his hope is in the One who will right all wrongs and who judges righteously. Secular Worldview proponents correctly remind us that the Bible is not a science text. Thank God! Science (from Latin scio: "I know") is by definition man-made knowledge. But the best predictions from the minds of fallen man give us no hope. We need a trustworthy clear motivating hope. We don't need scientific prognosis, we need future history what will actually happened? The Bible is the best History text of all. What History text writes events before they happen? We need a trustworthy record of the past, explanation of the present and a vision of the future none is better than the divine revelation. |