As most of us know, the majority of people in the world do not understand who Jesus is and what He’s done to save us from our sins and give us eternal life with the Father, Himself, and the Holy Spirit now and forever. Why is that? Has invisible God not done a very good job of proving Himself to the world? On the contrary, next to visibly appearing here on earth, which He will do soon, He’s done the GREATEST job possible to not only save us but “prove” it to every human being in a way we ALL can understand.

But let’s not get the cart before the horse. Actually, this article is not fully meant for you Rapture Ready readers, only because most of you are “members of the choir,” and I hope this article will do far more than simply preach to the choir. I hope this article will be used as “strong proof” to reach out to friends and relatives to help them understand God and God’s plan to show them His love and prove to them that He’s done what needs to be done to save them to be with Him now and for all eternity.

So why does most of the world not get it and not understand what a far fewer number do get and understand? I think most of us know this answer – our sin nature that most of the world has “never” even recognized as the main problem that separates us from God. Since this article is mainly meant for unbelievers and for those searching for the truth, let me quickly summarize:

God created “everything.” It is impossible to get “something” from “nothing.” Only Something can create something. This should be recognized by all as Common Sense 101. “Anything” that is “visible” has a creator, whether the universe or a rocking chair.

God is a Triune God of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. He is a “Relationship” first and foremost, and relationship is what brings Him His greatest pleasure. He began by creating the angels to have a relationship with Himself and each other. Each was created by Him in heaven and lives in His presence. He loves them, and they love Him back. They do not need “faith” like we humans do. However, the unthinkable happened when God’s highest angel, Lucifer, sinned when he wanted to be worshipped like God. He and one-third of God’s angels sinned with him and now are forever lost. Since God is everywhere, He had to create hell to be a place where He would “not dwell.” This is a place reserved for anyone in eternity who sins or anyone who enters eternity with sin, meaning angels and humans.

After the fall of one-third of God’s angels, God decided to do something very different. Even though God knows “everything” in advance, it still saddened Him to see one-third of His angels reject Him while receiving everything He blessed them. Therefore, His new plan was to create a “physical” universe with planet Earth on which He would create “physical” human beings with which He would spend eternity. Of course, He knew Adam and Eve would sin, and every human being with a human father would be born spiritually dead from that point on (Gen 3:15).

God is holy, perfect, and without sin; that is His standard. Every sentient being He “directly” creates is also holy, perfect, and without sin at the moment of their creation. Notice I said “directly” creates. Each angel He created perfect, holy, and sinless individually. Adam and Eve were created holy, perfect, and sinless, and Jesus in human form was created holy, perfect and without sin, with God the Holy Spirit being Jesus’ biological Father. Every human born from a human father is “indirectly” created by God but “directly” created by man through procreation. Thus, all humans are born unholy, imperfect, and full of sin due to being born with a sin nature.

It takes sinful human beings to “directly” create more sinful human beings. Because of mankind’s sinful nature, mankind does not see and understand that our sin is the problem with the world, and the world does not “like” anyone pointing that out to them. Because of our sin, we do not now live in God’s presence, and He is invisible to us. So how are we supposed to “know” that God exists and has a plan for our lives?

Our “physical” existence in our physical universe makes us “natural” beings. Everything we think we know comes from the “natural” – things that we can only discern with our physical senses. But here is something that our “natural state of being” has failed to recognize: How is it that we humans can think, have emotions, use our minds in creative ways? This also applies to a far lesser extent with even animals, fish, and birds. From a “natural” standpoint, our human bodies, as well as all non-human bodies, are simply flesh. Flesh cannot think and have emotions. Where did that come from? How can natural humans who refuse to recognize there is a God “ever” answer that simple question of how it is possible for flesh to think and have emotions?

Since the obvious answer is ‘it’s impossible,’ that means man has to look and see if there is anything “beyond” the natural. And what is the first thing He sees? The universe. Where did that come from? Man certainly did not create it. Man quickly realizes there HAS TO BE something much greater than mankind to do such a thing, especially since we have learned so much about how the universe works. And common sense, as I mentioned at the beginning, should tell everyone that it is impossible for it to have created itself. Only a Creator can create the created.

God is Supernatural, which is far superior to natural. The Supernatural wants the natural to become supernatural and be with Him forever. Because of our sin nature, the natural would rather not even acknowledge the Supernatural. To repeat, everything wrong with people, our planet, and the universe is due to sin, period. So how does an invisible supernatural God make Himself visible to natural mankind?

First, the whole universe reflects His creation and His glory. Second, knowing that He would be invisible to us, He knew He had to find a way to “communicate” with us in a way that we can “understand.” He decided to do this in a way that can be preserved forever. He wrote down “everything” that He wants us to know about not only Himself and His plan for how everything begins and ends but also about how we are to “live our lives” in the very best way possible. He used approximately 40 different “natural” authors over hundreds of years to write down His supernatural “inspired” word we call the Bible.

From the beginning to the end, the Bible is all about how mankind sinned and fell from God’s grace and everything God has done to save us from our sin and make things right again. It is a plan of redemption, pure and simple, and much more. The Bible lays out everything – how everything began, how everything will end, and everything else God wants us to know in between.

WOW, this seems so simple! God created us, but we disobeyed Him by sinning. And now He has “told us in His written word” HOW He will save us from our sins, how He loves us, how we can come to know Him personally and be our best Friend, and that He will be with us each day from now on, forever. Problem solved, right? WRONG!

Why? Because natural mankind only sees things naturally and does not want to recognize anything invisible. This type of human thinking has produced hundreds if not thousands of different “religions” ever since the beginning. Many of them have their beliefs also written down, which explains their belief system. And herein lies the problem. With so many religions and different belief systems, how in the world can anyone know which is correct? Are they all correct when it comes to knowing God and being saved for all eternity? Are only a few correct? Is it possible that only ONE could be correct? Everyone should look at the SOURCE of their beliefs to determine what “proof” there is that their belief is the absolute correct truth.

Is there “anything” concerning religious beliefs that SEPARATES the truth from the untruth? Or said a better way, is there anything that comes from God that shows God’s truth vs. man’s truth?

Remember – invisible God KNOWS He needs to “communicate” with us in a WAY that we can UNDERSTAND that His communication is from Himself vs. mankind. This means by definition that His communication HAS to be “supernatural” vs. natural. How can He do that? Is there anything “different” about the Bible compared to all other religious writings in the world that proves it is the supernatural truth from God vs. the natural untruth from man. The answer is as plain as the nose on your face – PROPHECY!

Approximately one-third of the Bible is prophecy. Prophecy is simply the future written “in advance.” Everyone “should” recognize that man cannot know and predict the future and that only a supernatural God could do such a thing. The Bible is the only book in the world that has ever been written with 100 percent accurate future predictions.

The prophecies in the Bible include everything from people, places, and events, and all of them revolve around Jesus Christ in one way or another. Everything there revolves around Jesus Christ since the Bible tells us HE created it all. There are over 300 prophecies in the Old Testament about the first coming of Jesus, and there are over 500 prophecies in the Bible about His second coming. We KNOW “when” these prophecies were written, and we know “when” they were fulfilled – prophecies concerning where He would be born, many events about His life, His ministry, His miracles, His death on a cross, His resurrection, and many other things.

Do you know the “odds” of predicting that 8 things will occur in the future and have all 8 happen exactly as you said? I heard David Reagan say one time that it would be like filling up the state of Texas a foot deep with silver dollars, and only one in the mix has a check mark, the only correct one. And we are not talking about 8 prophecies, but 300. Those kinds of odds are simply not calculable. It would be like saying it would be 1 to the number of stars in the universe multiplied by a trillion, or a better word is impossible.

Or how about we say it in a different way we can understand. What if there was a man who predicted 1,000 correct lottery numbers in a row in sequential order, and it was proven he was not cheating. Do you think you might actually “listen” to that person the next time he gave a lottery number and want to play the lottery with his numbers? In other words, he would have proved himself to be doing something “supernatural” and thus is someone to trust to show you the accurate numbers. The Bible’s prophecies are far greater than even my example of someone correctly giving out 1000 lottery numbers in a row, so don’t you think we should listen to what “it” says since it’s God speaking to us?

I was 34 years old before I even knew about prophecy in the Bible. Sure, I had heard Jesus died for our sins, and I thought to myself, Thank you, Jesus. I’ll see you in heaven because I’m a decent human being. Surely God would never send someone like me to hell. But finally, led by God, I’m sure, I read Hal Lindsey’s book The Late Great Planet Earth. And when I discovered all of the prophecies in the Bible, I “instantly” knew the Bible IS the word of God because only He can write thousands of future events in advance. I then “knew” that everything about heaven and hell is true, and everything about Jesus is true, and I did not want to go to hell. So I got on my knees and repented and invited Jesus to be my Lord and Savior. It’s been a growing relationship with Him from then until now.

I know we come to know the Lord by faith, but for me, seeing thousands of fulfilled prophecies is “scientific proof” that the Bible is God’s truth.

The world at large seems to recognize mankind’s scientific proof as more reliable than God, and especially God’s word. The world tries its best to refute the Bible and show that it’s full of errors while at the same time “denying” Bible prophecy, basically ignoring it or trying to say ridiculous things like they were written “after” the fact. Three hundred prophecies about Jesus’ first coming written hundreds of years before He was born blows that theory out of the water. There simply is no way to explain in “natural” terms the supernatural prophecies of the Bible; thus, they avoid them.

For unbelievers, God’s Bible, which is proven to be God’s supernatural truth, tells us that the ONLY way anyone can be saved is by getting rid of all of their sins. Good deeds are nice and wonderful, but they do nothing to get rid of the sin we all have. God solved that problem by becoming a human being, Jesus, who loves us so much that He was willing to die a horrible death on a cross to PAY the PRICE for our sins. He took our sins upon Himself and gave us His righteousness.

Think about that – God dying on a cross in order to save us for Himself. It is a GIFT from God, and it allows anyone who “takes the gift” to recognize that we are ONLY saved by what Jesus did for us on the cross, NOT by anything we could ever do to try to earn our salvation. It’s like being buried alive in a coffin 10 feet underground and knowing there is someone with a backhoe that can save you, but you say, “No, I’ll do it myself.”

When we “truly recognize” how God has saved us through Jesus, we come to love Him, desire to know Him personally, and begin a relationship with Him now and forever.

Let me ask you a long question: If you KNEW without a shadow of a doubt that God, who created everything, not only loves you but wants to come into your life, have a personal relationship with you now and forever and – even though He is invisible – can easily show you in a way you can understand that He will be with you and in you through His Holy Spirit every second of your life to help you and guide you on your journey through life until you get to join Him in eternity forever, would you DESIRE that? The good news is that is EXACTLY what God wants and has provided the way. He loves you and desires you to love Him back and enter into that eternal relationship with Him. His word of God Bible explains all of this in wonderful extensive detail.

To receive Him, all you need do is get on your knees and say something like this: “Lord Jesus, I recognize I am a sinner. I repent of all of my sins, and I invite you to come into my life to be my Lord and Savior. I love You and desire that you help me to live a life that pleases You. Thank you for saving me.”

By saying that simple prayer, you receive God Himself in you and receive His free gift of salvation worth MORE than all the money in the universe. Because how can you put a price on eternal life with God?

The most important thing to know here is that God is NOT listening to only your words but also your heart, and He knows when someone is sincere or not. The world looks at what we do and say, but only God can look at “why” we do it.

The title of this article is Undeniable Proof to Show Friends and Relatives. The undeniable proof is the Bible – God’s proven supernatural word He used to inspire around 40 men to write it all down in order to reveal Himself and His plan of redemption to the world. Yes, there have been thousands of religions in the world, but only Christianity reveals God’s truth. Of all of the major religions, Jesus is the only one who has ever said He is God and also proved it.

As most of us know, Christianity is not even a religion but is a personal relationship with God through Christ Jesus. Only the Christian Bible recognizes sin and what needs to be done to save us from it. Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” And that is because only Jesus paid the price for our sins at the cross. For believers, He now has taken away our sins and given us His righteousness. When we die, we enter eternity with no sin and go straight to heaven. Unbelievers enter eternity with sin and are instantly separated from God forever.

God tells us we are first and foremost “spiritual” beings that live for all eternity, which begins after our physical body dies. Eternity and where we spend it is what true life is all about. What is one second in a human body compared to all of eternity in a spiritual body? Invite Lord Jesus into your life. The Bible tells us in 1 Cor 2:9 that no eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love Him. Visualize yourself in heaven with the Lord forever, enjoying “everything” He has in store for you. See yourself being held in Jesus’ arms and think about for that “moment” the Creator of everything is holding YOU in His arms. I get goosebumps just thinking about it.

Begin by joining a strong Bible-believing church. It’s sad, but not all churches are good Bible-believing churches. Ask the Lord for help to find one, and enjoy new relationships with fellow believers as you grow in your walk and relationship with Jesus. Your life will “never” be the same, and you will finally have the supernatural PEACE that only God can offer. It is impossible to convey how incredible it truly is. Many blessings, and I look forward to meeting you in eternity.

Maranatha; come quickly, Lord Jesus.

David Cogburn

Dcogburn789@gmail.com

 

 

 

We live in an amazing world, and when you study it, you are amazed at the complexity and the unbelievable marvels of the natural world. Not only that, but the infinitesimal brain of man has no way of understanding the universe. I love to study the universe (astronomy) and our natural world, and that causes you to wonder how it can all be. Firstly, where did it all come from? Secondly, how can it all operate the way it does?

OUR SUN

The sun lies at the heart of the solar system, where it is by far the largest object. 99.8% of the solar system’s mass is occupied by the sun, which is so large that about one million Earths could fit inside the sun.

The temperature at the surface of the sun is about 5,500 degrees Celsius (10,000 degrees Fahrenheit), while temperatures in the core reach more than 15 million C (27 million F), driven by nuclear reactions. One would need to explode 100 billion tons of dynamite every second to match the energy produced by the sun, according to NASA. If we take time just to absorb that, it is mind-blowing for the human intelligence.

The sun is one of more than 100 billion stars in the Milky Way (our own galaxy). The sun is relatively young compared with ages of other stars.

NASA has said this: “The Sun does not “burn” like we think of logs in a fire or paper burning. The Sun glows because it is a very big ball of gas, and a process called nuclear fusion is taking place in its core. Nuclear fusion occurs when one proton smashes into another proton so hard that they stick together… and release some energy as well. This energy then heats up the other materials (other protons and electrons and such) nearby. This heating eventually grows out from the center (or core) of the star to the outside, finally leaving the surface and radiating out into space to be the heat and light we know stars emit.”

People, including scientists, sometimes say that the Sun “burns hydrogen” to make it glow. But that is just a figure of speech. Hydrogen really doesn’t burn in the sun; it fuses into helium, so no oxygen is required! By fusion, the sun “burns” about 5.64 million tons of hydrogen per second, resulting in 5.59 million tons of helium. We all know how light hydrogen is, so 5.64 million tons is enormous – staggering – incomprehensible! I can’t understand it.

LET’S TRANSLATE THAT TO THE UNIVERSE

Our own sun burns/changes 5 million tons of hydrogen every second into helium and produces incredible light and energy.

This is from the European Space Agency – [[“There are something like 10¹¹ to 10¹² stars in our Galaxy, and there are perhaps something like 10¹¹ or 10¹² galaxies. With this simple calculation, you get something like 10²² to 10²⁴ stars in the Universe.  This is only a rough number, as obviously not all galaxies are the same, just like on a beach the depth of sand will not be the same in different places.”]]  This is one estimate. I have seen the number as high as 1027, but what are a few billion stars when we talk these figures?

Our sun is about an average-sized sun, but let’s see how much hydrogen is being “burnt” every second in the entire universe. It is 5 million tons multiplied by 10²² to 10²⁴ stars. AND THIS IS HOW MUCH HYDROGEN IS BEING BURNT/CHANGED EVERY SECOND: 

5,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons every second in God’s universe.

I cannot take it in, not one little bit. Where did such a mass of hydrogen come from? Young people told me once in a forum that everything just made itself. That is like, “Take God out of the equation, and it just happens all by itself.” What is wrong with an education system that dismisses God and claims that all matter just happens to be there all by itself, or worse still, it made itself. That is the position of the fool David Attenborough. (I am correct to call him a fool, for he is a deep-seated atheist, and God says atheists are fools (Psalms 14:1).

THE IMMENSITY OF GOD DEFIES BELIEF

Things are so astounding – “What are these incredible facts going to do to us?” Make us feel incredibly insignificant, I would think. Powerless, in the whole scheme of things. Now we need to take a look at Psalm 8.

Psalm 8:1-6: “O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth, Who has displayed Your splendour above the heavens! From the mouth of infants and nursing babes You have established strength because of Your adversaries, to make the enemy and the revengeful cease. When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars which You have ordained, what is man, that You take thought of him, and the son of man, that You care for him? Yet You have made him a little lower than God, and crown him with glory and majesty! You make him to rule over the works of Your hands. You have put all things under his feet.”

I don’t know how God made the universe. Not by the explosion of a particle the size of a grain of sand, but then again, it is likely He did not place all the galaxies and the solar systems in there exactly as we see today. Astronomers are seeing the end of life of stars and galaxies crashing into each other and new stars being born. However, God does not work in disorder or mindless randomness. He uses the laws of physics to continue what He put in place. We don’t need to argue that case but be content with what David said. Psalm 19:1-2: “The heavens are telling of the glory of God and their expanse is declaring the work of His hands. Day to day pours forth speech, and night to night reveals knowledge.”

Paul, in writing to the Hebrews, wrote – Hebrews 11:3: “By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible.”

The secret is in the verse – “By faith.” However, the god of this world has so blinded the eyes of those who won’t believe, they can’t acknowledge the truth. One of the greatest of these blind leaders of the blind is the late Stephen Hawking. Here are some things he wrote:

“I think the universe was spontaneously created out of nothing, according to the laws of science,” Hawking, who died in March, wrote. “If you accept, as I do, that the laws of nature are fixed, then it doesn’t take long to ask: What role is there for God?”

In a new book that was published posthumously, Stephen Hawking wrote that it is impossible for God to exist in our universe. Stephen Hawking’s Final Book says, “There’s ‘No Possibility’ of God in Our Universe.” “Did God create the quantum laws that allowed the Big Bang to occur?” Hawking wrote. “I have no desire to offend anyone of faith, but I think science has a more compelling explanation than a divine creator.”

Let’s look at what Hawking said another way. “Did God create the laws of physics and mechanics that allow a big motor vehicle to operate?” Hawking would then conclude that it is the quantum laws that would cause that vehicle to operate, just pure science in isolation. BUT THEN, who made the materials such as steel and thousands of other pieces of material, without which there would be no vehicle?

Hawking is one of those Paul speaks of in his epistles – 1Corinthians 2:14: “A natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them because they are spiritually appraised.” 1Cor 1:18: “The word of the cross is to those who are perishing foolishness, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.”

Romans 1:21-22: “Even though they knew God, they did not honour Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools.” Sadly, Hawking now knows the truth.

THE MYSTERY OF UNBELIEF – OR IS IT?

We ask what is it in human minds that will dismiss God but accept all sorts of irrational propositions instead? I think the human race is just as stupid as people who stand before a brick wall with portals, e.g., 7 of them each fitted with a door. Each door has pictures painted on it from things enticing, lustful, depraved, greedy and pleasure-filled. On one of those doors, there are no pictures, just a plain wooden door. On it is written, “This is the way to God”; and on the other six are written, “This is the wrong way,” “This is the way to destruction,” “This is the path to disaster,” “This is the path to damnation,” “This road leads to a place of lost misery,” and the last, “This is heading to everlasting ruin.”

We stand there and watch, and as the human race passes by, each one chooses the door of his/her liking. But it is noted, not many at all choose the door, “This is the way to God.”

Firstly, we must understand man is a fallen creature, and all his decisions are foolish and “anti-God,” for the nature within him propels him away from wanting to acknowledge God or be in His presence. Only by divine grace can that be done. When a human being is heading away from God and towards destruction, the fallen nature within will want to stay on that path, and in most cases, all warnings and instructions are ignored and/or rejected.

There is an old adage, “A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still.” But when you transfer that to spiritual matters, it makes it so much harder because, unless the Spirit of God is present, that man may be convinced but is still blind since he is not spiritually discerning. That is why argument never makes a Christian, but the Holy Spirit in conviction will lead a person to Christ. That is why a person just can’t arbitrarily decide to become a Christian. “But when He, the Spirit of truth has come, He will convict the world of sin, of righteousness and of judgment.”

God has positioned the universe in place and has provided millions of insights and wonders in creation, and they are all bright lights mapping the path to God. And if a man genuinely acknowledges that and turns to God, the Lord will not disappoint. That man will find God.

People like David Attenborough, now touting in strongest terms this hoax of climate change with its consequential anti-Christian concepts, is a man who will be held a lot more accountable than most other people because he has seen unbelievable wonders in Nature over the years in the Nature programs he produced; but he vociferously rejects any notion of God. It is the fool who says in his heart there is no God. Each man and woman will be judged according to the light afforded to him and her. The South American in the Amazon rainforest 1,000 years ago, who had never heard of Christ or anything relating to Christianity, had the light of creation to guide him to God to recognize a Creator. That is all he had. However, the over-privileged in the western world who have so much access to the Christian faith and the means of considering God, if they reject God, they have a great penalty on them because they have rejected greater light.

When the preacher in Ecclesiastes considered so many things, he concluded in Ecclesiastes 1:8, “All things are wearisome. Man is not able to tell it. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor is the ear filled with hearing.” Man wearies himself with nonsense and vanity and lightness, but the weightier things of eternity, he refuses to consider. This is our generation. All is vanity.

GO TO THE FUNGI, YOU SEEKERS

I photograph and study tropical rainforest fungi, and the more you see of the behavior of these organisms, the more one is filled with wonder, and you realize the infinite wisdom of God in the tiniest degree. There is a tiny fungus that has a little cap on it, and before it rains, the cap lifts so a raindrop can hit the little spores inside to scatter them for the continuation of the species. It did not design that for itself, for in doing so with the hundreds of years of evolution, it would have been long dead!

Without fungi, plants could not live. The underground network of fungi is unbelievable, and they have a special relationship with the roots of plants and trees. Rather than use my own words, I will repeat this from the “Pacific Horticulture” site.

“The word “mycorrhizae” comes from the Greek words for fungus and root and refers to the symbiotic relationship that exists between plant roots and certain fungi. In natural settings, these mycorrhizal fungi are present in the soil in association with plant roots. The fungi colonize by attaching to the surface of the root (ectomycorrhizal) or to the inside of the root cells (endomycorrhizal). Then they send their filaments (called mycelium) into the surrounding soil, effectively extending the plant’s roots and root-absorbing capacity, 10 to 1000 times – far beyond what the plant can do alone. Several miles of these ultra-fine filaments can be present in less than a thimbleful of soil. Mycorrhizae supply the water and nutrients needed by the plant for its establishment and survival, and, in return, receive from the plant roots, sugars and other compounds needed by the fungus.”

How did trees grow for hundreds and thousands of years without fungi that were necessary for them to survive? They did not. How did fungi survive without the tree roots underground? They did not. It is a symbiotic relationship, and they had to develop together. God made them that way. That is just one little message from God in this world, along with millions He has given. People are without excuse.

Just as a matter of interest to show God’s wonders – “The largest terrestrial organism on the planet is a fungus called “Armillaria solidipes” – or honey fungus. The largest honey fungus identified in North America is in Malheur National Forest, Oregon. It measures 3.4 miles (5.5 kilometers) across! That’s considerably bigger than the biggest giant sequoia or African elephant. Scientists also believe that this particular honey fungus may be over 2,000 years old. The next largest honey fungus is in the neighboring state of Washington.” (from ‘EarthSky’) (The Oregon fungus is reported to weigh 400 tons.)

Armillaria ostoyae in the Malheur National Forest in Oregon spans 9.6 square kilometers. The Oregon fungus and another in Michigan are both informally called “the humongous fungus.” (New Scientist)

Honey fungus is widely distributed across the cooler regions of the United States and Canada. It is very common in the forests of the Pacific Northwest. These fungi grow in individual networks of above and below-ground fibers called mycelia. Mycelia work like a plant’s roots. They draw water and nutrients from the soil to feed the fungus. At the same time, they make chemicals that are shared with other organisms in the soil.”

The paragraph underneath contains a bit more on how Mycorrhizae work.

Also from Pacific Horticulture: “Mycorrhizae provide many other benefits to plants. The fungal filaments take up and store water, decreasing drought stress during dry periods. The fungal filaments bind soil particles into larger aggregates with organic glues such as humic compounds; the resulting soil structure allows air and water movement into the soil, encouraging root growth and distribution. Mycorrhizal fungi attack disease organisms that enter the root zone in several ways. Some produce antibiotics that immobilize or kill disease organisms. Others trap root-feeding nematodes and kill them. Some protect roots against attacking insects with a thick “net” of their mycelium. Some protect the plants from disease-causing fungi, such as Fusarium, Phytophthora, and Rhizoctonia.

These activities result in improved survival, enhanced top and root growth, and increased production of flowers and fruits, plus protection from disease and an improved soil structure. The plants can better compete against invasion by weed plants and can better survive drought conditions.”

God has placed so much in this world to prove His majesty and His creation. Do not refuse God or neglect the great salvation He offers.

In the post that follows this one, there is a poem I wrote called CREATION THEN – NOT EVOLUTION. I think you might like it. Please take a look.

ronaldf@aapt.net.au