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For decades population-experts have been proclaiming that the world population is exploding at an awesome rate. They blame this for all ills of the society — hunger, joblessness, and increased crime.

Well-funded organizations have come up all over the world to persuade people to restrict world-population. The scare tactics used by them have set into motion an awesome  snowball of fear and reaction. Consequently, people in almost all countries are now mentally prepared for the extermination of significant portions of their population.

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Science students attending Bible/Science conferences often ask me this  question : "Did the sun really stand still when Joshua commanded it to be still ?" The reference is to Joshua 10:12-13, which says :

"On the day that the Lord gave the men of Israel, victory over the Amorites, Joshua spoke to the Lord. In the presence of the Israelites he said ‘Sun stand still over Gibeon; Moon stop over Aijalon Valley’. The Sun stood still and the Moon did not move until the nation had conquered its enemies. This is written in the book of Jashar. The sun stood still in the middle of the sky and did not go down for a whole day."

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Man has a great desire to learn about the past.  Determination of how old relics from the past are is of great importance to everyone involved in studying the past, and as a consequence scientists have developed numerous methods to determine the age of old things.  Many of these methods depend upon "radioactivity", which is a special behavior exhibited by certain elements.  These methods are often called  "radioactive dating" methods.  Probably Radiocarbon Dating is the most well known of all these techniques, and even many laymen have heard this name.

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Natural science and technology has made enormous progress in the past few centuries, and this has been possible only because of experimentation.  Men everywhere, in their quest to understand the world better, have subjected every conceivable  process to experimentation and possible modification.  This has brought us numerous blessings in the form of modern means  of mass production, faster communication, better medicine, and better mass transportation.  However, careless use of science and technology has brought a number of curses also many of which manifest in the form of pollution.  Many kinds of experimentation in areas which  are ethically doubtful or completely wrong have also brought similar problems, and they are only going to increase with  time.

The products of technology breakthroughs often promise rich financial rewards in certain fields of research and this promise of pot of gold, coupled with the present day greed for money has made many researchers to overlook all kinds of moral obligation.  At the same time, man is becoming more and more daring to perform experiments which he perceives as doubtful or wrong because this adventure gives an expression to his rebellion against God.

Several dozen types of medical researches come in the category cited above, where the ethics of all of it becomes very important.  However, when such ethically doubtful  or wrong experiments  become the  routine practice  in  any  medical establishment, then even the Christians serving there tend to take it all so mechanically that they just overlook or forget the ethical side of it.

It has been widely reported in popular as well as medical publications that presently abortion is being  performed all over the world for the most trivial reason.  This procedure terminates the life of a person created in the image of God, but it has become such a part of many medical personnel that they just do not pause to think  what they are doing.  This attitude has given rise to another experimentation on live aborted fetuses | This is a cruel condemnable practice, but reportedly it is taking place all over the world.  They are using unwanted but lives babies to run all kinds of tests : the effect of chemicals, transplantation, and almost anything which one can conceive.  Some researchers even cut away the body part of these live bodies for harvesting their cells or for using the organs.  Many even do not care to anesthetize them, adding cruelty to the murder of an infant.

It is understood that some of the best cosmetics sold around the world contain cells extracted from the tender bodies of aborted babies.

God has created man in His own image, and in spite of man’s fall he carried that image in himself.  Therefore man is different  from all animals.  A baby, even at the youngest stage, is different from animals in kind.  It is a member of mankind and no one  except a court of law can order a life terminated.

Christians should therefore, never become an active party either in terminating a pregnancy or in conducting experiments on an  aborted baby.   They may never  be able to stop such activities   which go on in their institutions, and thus they might be constrained to become a passive party to it all, they should try their best to avoid active involvement.

Some might argue that there is nothing wrong with such experimentation because no one wants those babies anyway; they would have died sooner or latter.  Therefore  what is the harm if they are used for  something which might benefit the whole of mankind.  This argument depends upon a number of false arguments  – - the chief being that no one wants the baby.  There are many couples who might want to adopt the child if given a chance.  Also, there is no child who God does not love.  In fact, Christians should not contribute their energy to movements which divide children into wanted and unwanted categories.

Second, arguing does not conform to Christian ethics.  We do not evaluate the worth of a person or activity purely on the basis of some assumed worth.  Rather, the  appropriateness of every activity is judged on the basis of what the word of God would say about it.  In contrast to it something is accepted purely on the basis of its value to a great number of people, the people will soon find justification for even the most fallen and rotten activity.

Christians cannot stop all the unethical activities going around them, and they are surely not called to do that.  However, they can try their best to detach themselves from active involvement.  This might not be east because standing for one’s conviction demands a lot of cost.

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Christian believers often wonder about the apparently devote and saintly life of their unbelieving friends and neighbors.  Some of them even comment, `The lives many godly unbelievers is better than the life of an average believer’.  Even though such a comparison is often good for opening our eyes, this practice not to be indulged in without discrimination.

The life lived by believers cannot in any way be compared with the apparently good life of  unbeliever because the odds faced by them are very much different. For an unbeliever this world is his home, and he gets all kinds of help and cooperation from the world for his apparently religious activities.  The king of the present world knows that as long as this person does not trust in the Lord Jesus, he is bound for hell.  Hence the world-system of Satan does not interfere in the activities of this person.  In fact the religious set-up of the world motivates the unbeliever to be as religious and moral as he wishes because this external religion keeps him away from the real gospel for a long time.

On the other hand, a believer in Lord Jesus is not of this world.  Whether this person recognizes this fact or not, the master of the present world recognizes it very well.  As a consequence, a believer has to fight both internal as well as external enemies. The internal enemy is his old sin nature, often called `flesh’ in the word of God.  The external enemies are the devil and the world.  Since the world, the flesh, and the devil are constantly fighting against every believer, it not fair to compare his conduct with the conduct of a person for whom there is no such opposition.

However, the difficult situation of the believer does not excuse him of his sins, faults and shortcomings.  Rather, it should make every believer alert to the potential dangers facing everyone (like  soldiers on battlefield).

Of the three enemies mentioned above, world is the most subtle one in our generation. The word  "World" in our discussion does not refer to the mere physical world in which we live or 
move.  Rather, the reference here is to the false "world system"  that has been established by Satan.  The values placed by this system on different things is entirely different from the value assigned to them by the word of God.  For example, it has become a common belief that there is no harm in paying a bribe, if it can assure us a good job opportunity.  Many believers are known to indulge in giving and also in taking bribes, without realizing that ultimately a believer’s destiny is in the Lord’s hands.  Therefore, even if he seems to be a loser due to his beliefs, in the end he will turn out to be the real winner.

Satan’s false system of thought influences believers through many channels.  The newspapers that we read, the TV programs that we watch, the magazines we glance through, and even the social conversation in which we indulge have tremendous power to influence us.  Of course there is no way in which a believer can avoid reading newspaper or listening to common conversation, and so this should make them all the more alert in what is going into their minds.  The solution is not to avoid newspapers and such channels of communication, but rather in discerning when they try to influence our thought pattern.

Every generation of believers have many problems special to them, and one such problem of our generation is the world inside us.  Somehow, many of us have lost our alertness to this.  Many kinds of worldly attitudes have already crept into our thinking.  This will destroy us if we do not return to the norms and standards set by the word of God. 

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"Disciplining the tender children is a thing of the past.  Man has matured a lot, and today he has better methods than brutality to care for these flowers blossoming in his home".  This is a very popular slogan today, and many Christian parents fall for it.  But this is a wrong way of looking at discipline which is based upon a wrong conception of discipline, and also of children.

Brutality is not discipline, and only the most subjective person will equating them with each other.  Nor is punishment a synonym of discipline.  Disciplining of children is a broad process through which the parents build up their children to face the world, and punishment constitutes only a small part of it all.

There are at least three things in man’s nature that tend to produce unwanted behavior in childhood and also when the child grows up.  Only systematic discipline administered from a very early age will minimize the possibilities of such behavior.  The first of these three is the sin nature inherited by every baby.  This fallen nature motivates even small children to break common norms which they are expected to observe.  Second is the inclination in every person to follow the path of least resistance, leading children to a lot of unwanted behavior.  Third, all habits whether good or bad are learned behavior.  If a child is left to itself, it will inevitably pick up plenty of bad habits.  Only preventive discipline can minimize the problems caused by these three factors.

Preventive discipline is all discipline that aims to prevent problems that might arise in future.  There are two preparatory sides to it: to anticipate future problems which are common to all children, and second to anticipate future behavior which might be specific to the child being disciplined.  This might include stubbornness, selfishness, and bullying one’s may through life.  All kind of undesirable behavior, whether in the general category or in the specific one mentioned above, manifests itself very early in life and the wise parent should start tackling these symptoms much before they become pronounced.  The following principles should be used as practical guidelines for the general preventive discipline of all children:

First, every child should be given some responsibility according to his or her capacity to handle a job.  This might include putting of their books and shoes in the proper place, or helping mummy and daddy in certain tasks at home and outside.  The children should be helped to understand that no one can live without accepting a certain number of responsibilities; parents and others will always be there to help and motivate, but they themselves still must do all what is expected of them.  Children disciplined in this way will be less likely to avoid the serious responsibilities of life when they grow up.

Second, every child should be taught and required to respect authority.  This includes the authority of the parents, elders, teachers, and the authority of the Law.  Almost all children will start to defy the authority of their parents from a surprisingly early age, and it will be fatal to overlook that.  The child should be told lovingly but firmly that defiance will not be tolerated. If he does not change in spite of that he should be punished immediately to teach him that defiance does not pay ! Love for children should not cause parents to condone defiance. This will only lead to more difficult problems in future.  Parents must understand that if a child knows how to defy authority, then it has enough intellect to understand that this behavior will not be condoned in future.

Third, parents should be objective in all walks of their life, and they should elicit the same attitude from their children.  It is very easy for parents to become subjective when they judge their children.  As a result they may get into the habit of blaming the whole world for the shortcomings of their children.  The children are quick to get the hidden message — they are responsible for all their achievements, but it is OTHERS who are responsible for their shortcomings !

Once such children  grow into adults, they will never be able to see or own their personal shortcomings.  This will force them to be always on the defensive about their mistakes.  Parents should instill the values necessary for objectivity right from the childhood. Children should be made to understand that making of mistakes, and falling short of goals is quite common in human life.  A mistake is not the sign of weakness, but not owning what one has done and blaming it upon others is definitely a sign of weakness. It takes great courage and strength of character to accept and correct one’s own shortcomings, and parents have to instill this behavior pattern in their children.

The three principles for general preventive discipline explained above will lay the foundation for more specific discipline required for each child’s specific problems.  Whether it is stubbornness, selfishness, bullying, or any other problem, it manifests itself in the child at a very early stage.  Right from the moment such behavior is noticed, the child should be made to understand that he is not welcome to behave in that way.  For example, a stubborn child should never be given what he demands till he learns to request in a polite way.  But if parents miss the first few opportunities to correct such behavior, they may practically never be able to change that stubbornness in future.

Implementing the above suggestions is not easy because parents often get carried away in their subjectivity and emotionalism.  Many of them reason, "Oh, it is only a childish prank.  It will all change when the child grows older".  This is self deception; it is now or never in the case of preventive discipline.  If the symptoms are not checked now, it will become almost impossible to cure it in future.

Punishment is a definite part of discipline, and parents who shrug away from it are only working against the future welfare of their own children.  Sparing the rod, when it is needed, is not love but hatred in the long run ! However, all punishment should be administered with proper balance — objectively and commensurate to the offense — never in rage.  When seen in proper perspective, punishment constitutes only one part of the broad process of preventive discipline.

Today there is a big outcry against all forms of discipline.  Most proponents of such ideas are motivated by humanistic philosophies in which man is perceived as the most exalted creature in the world.  However according to the biblical viewpoint, man is born with a sin nature, and he is susceptible to evil; some form or other of preventive discipline is a must for him.  For a Christian, the Scriptures represents the highest authority in this matter. So why not look at the following verses before you quickly accept the dictates of subjective humanists: Proverbs 13:24, 19:18, 22:6&15, 3:13, and 29:15 & 17.

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Man is a very  ambitious being, and this attitude is a necessary part of his life and survival on this earth. But due to the distorting presence of sin nature in us, every feeling is distorted, and his ambition is no exception to this. A desire for obtaining the right things for the right motive is to be encouraged, but when it takes the form of craving for each and every thing without any control, it  becomes a sinful attitude. This is to be discouraged at all cost.

We see this principle very pictorially in Psalm 131 where David  expresses the correct type of attitude. He says that he is not trying to reach things which are great and wonderful in human sight. In fact anything can become great and wonderful to a person who does not have sufficient spiritual discernment and wisdom. It might be a  degree, a job, a  coveted position, a particular marriage partner. In fact a person with the wrong kind of ambition can covet for anything (from insignificant to fantastic) that is beyond his reach. At the same time he will overlook things which God has kept within his reach for his constant use !!

It is necessary for us to examine these things because a wrong type of ambition betrays two things : an attitude of pride, and an attitude of not depending upon the Lord for receiving the things that we really need. In the last part of this psalm we note that a person with the right kind of attitude and trust in the Lord can be compared with an infant in the lap of its mother. Just as this child is calm and quite, without trying to reach anything that is beyond its need and reach, so a   discerning  believer should be.

Our life on this earth is not an easy one. There are numerous things around us which constantly call our attraction; we are told that we are somehow weak, inferior, and incomplete without those things. It is quite frequent for a Christian counselor to see men and women who are at the point of mental breakdown just because they are not able to control their cravings. But their ambition to get the fantastic and unreachable things of this world is destroying their mental balance. Only a fully trusting attitude can restore what they have lost.

Sometime ago I met a young man who was worried to death about his future. He was doing his master’s degree at that time, but all the time he was occupied with thoughts about his future. Many of his friends were able to get good jobs by paying a bribe, and they were already owners of many of the status symbols of the society, all because of one reason : they all belonged to rich families. This young man was from a poorer family. However, in all this he had forgotten one most important principle: it is not our money which ultimately decides our destiny. Many persons might have made their destiny with the help of money, but a Christian should realize that money or no money, his destiny is in the hands of the Lord ! He will provide all what is really needed at the right time. Since this boy had not understood this truth, he was destroying his mental health, and at the same time he was overlooking his most important present duty : studying faithfully !! This way his own false ambition was destroying his own future and mental health. May the Lord help each one us to keep our ambitions in proper balance.

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Modern science has wrought so many technological miracles for us that one does not need to stress the value of science for man. Diseases which were assumed to be very difficult to control are now treated  successfully by novices. The pocket calculator that we can purchase today for less than 400 rupees is more powerful than the first computer costing several million rupees and weighing several tons. CAT scanning makes any part in the interior of our body visible to doctors from any angle that they want. The once mysterious atom has become an object of school curriculum.

Science: The sudden growth of science and technology in the past century or two was initiated by the work of certain Christian men of learning. The Greek, Roman, and Eastern views of this Universe were based more upon intuition and less upon observation. This gave impetus to speculation but not to controlled experimentation or observation. The Protestant Reformation changed the whole situation. Martin Luther came out with strong support for unbiased and objectives study of nature to  replace speculation. For example, people then believed that all kinds of injurious creatures and parasites could be born when rags and wheat are put together in a dark place. Based on his study of the Bible, Luther opposed this idea of spontaneous generation as both unscriptural and unscientific. This statement was latter confirmed through many experiments, and has become established into what is called the Law of Biogenesis. According to it, life comes only from preexisting life. This Law is the basis of all modern disinfecting practices.

Robert Boyle and Sir Isaac Newton took initiative with other scientists of their time because of their firm conviction that Nature should be studied objectively. They arrived at this conclusion because of their understanding of Bible. Most of the leading scientists of that generation who joined them and continued to make the greatest discoveries were men who were motivated by the Bible. James Clark Maxwell never hid away his faith in the Bible and the way  it had motivated his to study the foundations of science.

Before this there was a group of people who came together to form a body to study the Universe. They called themselves as Virtuosi, and  their belief in the Bible motivated them to start a systematic study of the physical world. This group became the forerunner of all the royal societies and scientific bodies devoted to research. Many historians of science who have re searched into the origins of modern science have concluded that were it not for the Protestant Reformation, modern science would not have born and progressed so much.

Superstition:  Superstitions have always been with mankind. Ascribing everything beyond his understanding to good or bad omens and  is a common practice. Once an idea becomes embedded in the minds of people, they see it taking place everywhere. Contrary events are overlooked, and only subjective evaluation is left. The case of the number 13 is a universal example. Once  accepted as an evil number, people remember only the evil incidents associated with this number. All the good incidents are overlooked. This is not science.

An objective investigator considers all events whether they conform to  his expectations or not. He does not allow his feelings to play any part in the investigation. Nor does he accept or reject a statement based on his feelings. He bases all his acceptances as well as rejections on solid, unshakable evidence. This is how the investigation of science proceeds in an ideal situation.

The objective scientific enquiries of the natural world and its events have brought many things into light. Contrary to the initial notion of people, no set of investigative methods is equally valid for all fields of study. Each discipline of research has to develop its own methods of verification and refutation. The methods used in one branch of study are often inadequate for a different branch of study. The methods of physics are not of history, and that of mathematics are not of sociology. They all might have certain logical assumptions in common, but they are not identical in all respects.

Faith: Faith is the building-block or foundation of all disciplines of study. It is something entirely different from superstition. Superstition is a blind faith. It is different from objective faith. Objective faith, whether it is in science or in God, is followed by objective results and demonstrations. Objective faith can always be demonstrated to be true or of value.

Science questions superstitions, but not objective faith — a faith which lends itself to investigation. Science recognizes the difference between superstition and objective faith. One should do away with all superstition, but one has to retain faith. Without it no science or logic is possible.

The Christian faith is an objective one. Its claims can be examined. Faith can be shown to produce results. Bible can be demonstrated to be a book not conflicting  with any known laws of science. In fact a right kind of attitude towards the Bible produces the right kind of knowledge. This is why sciences were suppressed when the Bible was also suppressed in the dark ages : this is why modern science was born when the reformers opened up the Bible to the world.

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The Bible has numerous instructions to give on child-rearing, and the discipline to be administered. However, they are so much different from the present humanistic concepts that most of the young couples will be shocked to read them. In fact the last one century of evolution and humanism has replaced our spiritual thinking with so much of man-oriented principles that many people have lost the right perspective about rearing and disciplining children. In fact it is not difficult these days to meet Christian parents who sincerely believe that their humanistic beliefs on discipline have come from the Bible. Since the humanistic and biblical principles rest upon completely opposing foundations, there is not way to reconcile them with each other.

Since God is vitally interested in every individual, we expect that in his sacred Word He will surely give us guiding principles to govern or direct personal lives. Since every individual starts his life as a child dependent on parents, guiding principles on rearing children are also to be expected. there is no doubt that such scriptural principles will be the best possible ones, and also that replacing any of them with any other principles will only result in damage to the children and parents.

Humanism and all its doctrines are based upon the assumption that man is the end result of evolution, and also that he is inherently good (or even divine). So the humanistic principles of child rearing are directed at perfecting this ‘good’ which is inherent in man. Bible, however, depicts man as a totally fallen and depraved person, dominated by his sin nature will fully dominate his thinking by the time he is mature. Since his fallen nature has a natural enmity towards God, any child who is not brought up in the way outlined in the Bible is any child who is not brought up in the way outlined in the Bible is bound to end with great hostility towards things spiritual and good.

The fruits of the humanistic principles of child rearing is already visible in many godly families. They are loosing their children to the world one by one. More and more children from good Christian families are rejecting spiritual values, and are ending up in completely helpless and hopeless condition. They do not know what stability of life means, and they do not know how and where to get help. They know that their life is breaking apart, but they do not know what to do. Their parents have failed to communicate or instill divine values in their hearts, so their life is drifting from coast to coast due to the ever-changing values of this world.

The ability to distinguish between what is right and what is wrong, the ability to choose what is right, and the ability to stick with it is not easy. It comes only with lifelong training from godly and spiritual parents. Without such a background a person has no sure foundation to make a choice. However, a person cannot avoid making choices and judgments in life. The whole life is full of choices and decisions, and a person who has not got the proper training in these matters will never have the discernment to chose the right. This is one reason why many children coming from godly families make fatal choices, contrary to the expectation. They become careless and drop out of their studies, they end up with all types of wrong friendship and alliances, and they even try to run away from homes. To them their pursuit of what they desire is the right thing to do in life, without ever knowing that even right things obtained in wrong ways will make one miserable. They do not know that only those things are right which come in the right way and also that only those things will have a lasting value which have come to them in the right way.

Bringing up children in a Godly manner, and in the way that the Bible describes is not easy in this generation. There are too many allurements which try to take them away from paths of godliness, making the task difficult for the parent. Nor is it easy to apply biblical system. However, the best gift which Christian parents can give to their children is not anything which money can buy. Rather, it is a package of godly instruction, discipline, and values which will be the best gift for them.

Slogans of the age, and evolution-motivated principles of child rearing will produce only grief in the end. But the application of biblical principles will mean life both to the parents as well as to the children.

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Difficulties in the Bible is a subject which receives constant attention from the critics of the Christian faith. They usually put their case forward by implying that if there are difficulties in understanding or interpreting certain passages of the Bible, then this whole book should be rejected. It is most unfortunate that many Bible-believing people are taken in easily by this intimidation.

The presence of difficulties alone is no criterion for rejecting a book, because books written on all subjects, even by experts, contain passages which are difficult to understand or interpret. The courts of our country is a very good example of this case. Even though they have a highly accurate terminology to express legal matters, and even though the experienced lawmakers made the laws with utmost care and clarity, we still face difficulties of interpretation in many places. Usually a group of learned judges are then appointed the task of weighing all the evidence and intention of the law to give us the correct interpretation.

The mere presence of difficulties does not invalidates the laws and constitutions.Nor does any sane person demand that books of the laws should be abandoned merely due the presence of passages which are difficult to understand or interpret In all honesty and integrity, the critics of the Bible should show the same charity towards the Bible,even if they do not consider it anything above the ordinary books of the world.They should allow an objective examination of the whole problem instead of trying to throw away the book.

In the past centuries there have numerous attacks directed against the Bible, and this has given a good opportunity to the Bible scholars to sort out the problems and the reasons why they look problems to a person.A full discussion of their findings would require several dozen massive volumes of books, and they will necessarily contain a good amount of matter which will be highly technical. However, there are many matters which can be understood by the non scholar, and in this article we will discuss one such problem: the difficulties arising due to the problems of translation.

The first problem of translation is that no two languages have exactly equivalent words or concepts. Even if two such words in two languages seem identical, their actual meaning and usage is dictated by the cultural, religious, and moral pattern of the people who speak these languages. Tor example, the English word ’sincere’ is a common word known to almost all my readers. However, if they are asked to produce an equivalent word from any of the Indian languages they will be at a loss to do so.

Many of them might be able to come up with some words which express some aspects of sincerity, but no word can be found which conveys the full meaning of the English words. Because of this Bible translators have to wrestle constantly with the problem of what word to use and what not to. In their quest to give as accurate a  translation as is possible they use a variety of words to translate the same Greek or Hebrew word. This why the precise wording of a particular verse changes from translation to translation. It is not an error, but a limitation of human languages.

Another problem is of understanding the words employed by the Hebrew and Greek writers of the Bible. These forms of Hebrew or Greek are not spoken today, so the meaning of many of the words used by them has to be deducted from ancient manuscripts. Since Archeology is relatively new discipline the process of discovering and studying ancient manuscripts is hardly a century old. On the other the hand, the most commonly used translation of the Bible, the king James version, is about four centuries old. Hence any person should be charitable enough to understand that errors due to the limitations of understanding the Hebrew and Greek words at that time must have restricted the translators in many places.

In I Thessalonians 4:4 we find it written ‘That each of you know how to possess his own vessel". Here the original word might mean a vessel, one’s body, or even one’s wife. Now there is no single English translator is not allowed to expand his translation by introducing more than one word. Since the subject of discussion in this verse is sanctification, there must be some means to communicate the other meanings also. This requirements applies more in the case of Bible translations which are undertaken for people with no church or English background. So one translator might use the word body while another person might use the word wife to render the meaning in English. No person reading these verses from different translations should conclude that there is some error in the Bible.

Translation from one language to another is a very difficult task, and difficulties are bound to arise due to limitations of language.

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