HISTORICAL FIGURES AND THE BIBLE

(From Scientific Facts in the Bible by Ray Comfort and Kent Hovind’s Creation Science Seminar)

Most of those listed here were Bible believing Christians, although some had views on some theology that went against the Bible. They all believed that “God created the heavens and the earth”.

The Bible is the Word of God according to the United States Congress. In a joint resolution requesting the President proclaim 1983 as the “Year of the Bible,” it declared: “…the Bible, the Word of God, has made a unique contribution in shaping the United States as a distinctive and blessed nation and people…Deeply held religious convictions springing from the Holy Scriptures led to the early settlement of our nation…Biblical teachings inspired concepts of civil government that are contained in our Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States.” (Public Law 97-280)

John Adams: “The Bible is the best book in the world. It contains more than all the libraries I have seen. Suppose a nation in some distant region should take the Bible for their only law book, and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited! Every member would be obligated in conscience, to temperance, frugality, and industry; to justice, kindness, and charity towards his fellow men; and to piety, love, and reverence toward Almighty God…What a Utopia, what a paradise would this region be.”

John Quincy Adams: “I say to you, Search the Scriptures! The Bible is the book of all others, to be read at all ages, and in all conditions of human life; not to be read once or twice or thrice through, and then laid aside, but to read in small portions of one or two chapters every day, and never to be intermitted, unless by some overruling necessity.”

Sir Winston Churchill (English Prime Minister): “Let men of science and learning expound their knowledge and prize and probe with their researches every detail of the records which have been preserved to us from those dim ages. All they will do is fortify the grand simplicity and essential accuracy of the recorded truths which have lighted so far the pilgrimage of men.”

Christopher Columbus (Explorer): “It was the Lord who put it into my mind…I could feel His hand upon me…There is no question the inspiration was from the Holy Spirit because He comforted me with rays of marvelous illumination from the Holy Scriptures…” (From his diary, in reference to his discovery of the New World)

Arthur H. Compton (Nobel prize, Physics): “Science is the glimpse of God’s purpose in nature. The very existence of the amazing world of the atom and radiation points to a purposeful creation, to the idea that there is a God and an intelligent purpose back of everything…An orderly universe testifies to the greatest statement ever uttered: ‘In the beginning God…’.”

Calvin Coolidge (President): “The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.”

Charles Dickens (Writer): “The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world.”

Albert Einstein (Physicist): “Science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding. This source of feeling however, springs from the sphere of religion. To this there also belongs the faith in the possibility that the regulations valid for the world of existence are rational, that is, comprehensible to reason. I cannot conceive of a genuine scientist without that profound faith.”

Dwight Eisenhower (President): “The Bible is endorsed by the ages. Our civilization is built upon its words. In no other Book is there such a collection of inspired wisdom, reality, and hope. It takes no brains to be an atheist. Any stupid person can deny the existence of a supernatural power because man’s physical senses cannot detect it. But there cannot be ignored the influence of conscience, the respect we feel for the Moral Law, the mystery of first life… or the marvelous order in which the universe moves about us on this earth. All these evidence the handiwork of the beneficent Deity…That Deity is the God of the Bible and Jesus Christ, His Son.”

Ulysses S. Grant (President): Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet anchor of your liberties; write its precepts in your hearts, and practice them in your lives.”

Patrick Henry: “Here is a Book worth more than all the other books which were ever printed; yet it is my misfortune never to have, till lately, found time to read it with proper intention or feeling.”

Herbert Hoover (President): “The whole inspiration of our civilization springs from the teachings of Christ and the lessons of the prophets. To read the Bible for these fundamentals is a necessity of American life.”

Sir John Frederick Herschel (Astronomer): “All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more and more strongly the truths that come from on high and are contained in the Sacred Writings.” His father, also an astronomer said: “The undevout astronomer must be mad.”

Andrew Jackson (President): “That book, Sir, is the Rock upon which our republic rests.”

Thomas Jefferson (President): I have always said, and always will say, that the studious perusal of the Sacred Volume will make us better citizens, better fathers and better husbands.”

Lord Kelvin: “With regard to the origin of life, science… positively affirms creative power.”

Johann Kepler (Astronomer): “The chief aim of all investigation of the external world should be to discover the rational order and harmony which has been imposed on it by God.”

General Robert E. Lee: “There are things in the old Book which I may not be able to explain, but I fully accept it as the infallible Word of God, and receive its teachings as inspired by the Holy Spirit.”

Abraham Lincoln (President): “I believe the Bible is the best gift God has given to man. Whereas, it is the duty of nations as well as of men to own there dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions in humble sorrow yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon, and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history: that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord…We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity. We have frown in numbers, wealth and power as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious Hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming an preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us! It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.” (1863, in declaring a day of national fasting, prayer, and humiliation)

Joseph Lister (Chemist, Antiseptic surgery): “I am a believer in the fundamental doctrines of Christianity.”

William McKinley (President): “The more profoundly we study this wonderful Book, and the more closely we observe its divine precepts, the better citizens we will become and the higher will be our destiny as a nation.”

Samuel Morse (Morse Code): “The nearer I approach the end of my pilgrimage, the clearer is the evidence of the divine origin of the Bible. The grandeur and sublimity of God’s remedy for fallen man are more appreciated and the future is illuminated with hope and joy.”

Napoleon: “The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it…I never omit to read it, and every day with new pleasure.” Napoleon also wrote about Jesus: “I know men and I tell you that Jesus Christ is no mere man. Between Him and every other person in the world there is no possible term of comparison. Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded His empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for Him.”

Sir Isaac Newton (Dynamics, Calculus, Gravitation law, Reflecting telescope): “There is a Being who made all things, who holds all things in His power, and is therefore to be feared.” “All material things seem to have been composed of the hard and solid particles abovementioned, variously associated in the first creation by the counsel of an intelligent Agent. For it became Him who created them to set them in order. And if He did so, it’s unphilosophical to seek after any other origin of the world, or to pretend that it might arise out of a chaos by the mere laws of nature.”

Blaise Pascal (Mathematician, Hydrostatics, Barometer): “How can anyone lose who chooses to be a Christian? If, when he dies, there turns out to be no God and his faith was in vain, he has lost nothing – in fact, has been happier in life than his non-believing friends. If, however, there is a God and a heaven and hell, then he has gained heaven and his skeptical friends will have lost everything in hell!”

Ronald Regan (Actor and President): “Within the covers of the Bible are all the answers for all the problems men face. The Bible can touch hearts, order minds and refresh souls.”

Theodore Roosevelt (President): “No educated man can afford to be ignorant of the Bible. A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.” “We cannot read the history of our rise and development as a nation, without reckoning the place the Bible has occupied in shaping the advances of the Republic.” “It is a fountain of strength and now, as always, an aid in attaining the highest aspirations of the human soul.”

Albert Schweitzer: “We must all mutually share in the knowledge that our existence only attains its true value when we have experienced in ourselves the truth of the declaration: ‘He who loses his life shall find it’.”

Dr. James Simpson (Chloroform): “Christianity works because it is supremely true and therefore supremely livable. There is nothing incompatible between religion and science.” When asked what his greatest discovery was, Dr. Simpson replied: “It was not chloroform. It was to know I am a sinner and that I could be saved by the grace of God. A man has missed the whole meaning of life if he has not entered into an active, living relationship with God through Christ.”

George Washington (President): It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God or the Bible. It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the Providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor. Direct my thoughts, words, and work. Wash away my sins in the immaculate Blood of the Lamb, and purge my heart by Thy Holy Spirit…Daily frame me more and more into the likeness of Thy Son Jesus Christ.”

Daniel Webster: “I have read the Bible through many times, and now make it a practice to read it through once every year. It is a book of all others for lawyers, as well as divines; and I pity the man who cannot find in it a rich supply of thought and of rules for conduct. It fits a man for life – it prepares him for death. If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering.”

Noah Webster: “The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws. All the miseries and evils which men suffer from – vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery, and war – proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.”

Woodrow Wilson (President): “There are a good many problems before the American people today, and before me as President, but I expect to find the solution of those problems just in the proportion that I am faithful in the study of the Word of God.”

Below is a list of other great people that were known to believe in the Bible:

Sir William Abney (Astronomy)

Louis Agassiz (Glaciology, Ichthyology)

Thomas Anderson (Chemist)

Charles Babbage (Operations research, Computer science, Ophthalmoscope, old earth compromiser)

Francis Bacon (Scientific method)

Isaac Barrow (Professor of Mathematics)

Benjamin Barton (Botanist, Zoologist)

Charles Bell (Anatomist)

Robert Boyle (Chemistry, gas dynamics)

Werner von Braun (Space Scientist)

David Brewster (Optical mineralogy, Kaleidoscope, probably believed in old earth)

William Buckland (Geologist, old earth compromiser)

Dr. Clifford Burdick (Geologist)

Thomas Burnet (Geology)

George Washington Carver (Inventor)

Thomas Chalmers (Professor, old earth compromiser)

Walter Charleton (President of the Royal College of Physicians)

Georges Cuvier (Comparative anatomy, old earth compromiser)

John Dalton (Atomic theory, Chemistry, Gas law)

James Dana (Geology)

L. Merson Davies (Geology, Paleontology)

Humphrey Davy (Thermokinetics, Safety lamp)

John William Dawson (Geology)

John Deluc (Geology)

William Derham (Ecology)

Douglas Dewar (Ornithologist)

Timothy Dwight (Educator)

Jonathan Edwards (Physics, Meteorology)

Henri Fabre (Entomology of living insects)

Michael Faraday (Electromagnetics, field theory, generator)

John Flamsteed (Founder of Greenwich Observatory, Astronomy)

John Ambrose Gleming (Electronics, Electron tube, Thermionic valve)

Sir Joseph Henry Gilbert (Agricultural Chemist)

James Glaisher (Meteorology)

Philip H. Gosse (Ornithologist, Zoology)

Nehemiah Grew (Medical Doctor, Botany)

John Harris (Mathematician)

Joseph Henry (Electric motor, galvanometer)

John Herschel (Astronomy, old earth compromiser)

William Herschel (Galactic astronomy, Uranus, but probably believed in an old earth)

Edward Hitchcock (Geology, old earth compromiser)

Jedidian Horse (Geographer)

William Huggins (Astral spectrometry)

John Hutchinson (Paleontology)

James Joule (Thermodynamics)

Howard A. Kelly (Gynecology)

John Kidd (Chemistry)

William Kirby (Entomologist)

Athanasius Kircher (Inventor)

Richard Kirwan (Mineralogy)

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz (Mathematician)

Paul Lemione (Geology)

Carolus Linneaus (Taxonomy)

Alexander MacAlister (Anatomy)

Dr. Frank March (Biology)

Cotton Mather (Physician)

Increase Mather (Astronomy)

Edward H. Maunder (Astronomy)

Matthew Maury (Oceanography, Hydrography, probably believed in an old earth)

James Clerk Maxwell (Electrodynamics, Statistical thermodynamics)

Gregor Mendel (Genetics)

Samuel Miller (Clergy)

John Murray (Publisher)

Richard Owen (Zoology, Paleontology)

Louis Pasteur (Bacteriology, Biochemistry, Sterilization, immunization)

William Petty (Statistics, scientific economics)

William Prout (Food chemistry, probably believed in old earth)

William Ramsay (Isotopic chemistry, Element transmutation)

William Mitchell Ramsay (Archeologist)

Sir Henry Rawlinson (Archeologist)

John Ray (Natural history)

A. Rendle-Short (Surgeon)

Bernhard Riemann (Non-Euclidean geometries)

Henry Rogers (Geology)

Peter Mark Roget (Physician, Physiologist)

George Romanes (Biology, Physiology)

A.H.Sayce (Archeologist)

Adam Sedgewick (Geology, old earth compromiser)

Benjamin Silliman (Mineralogist, old earth compromiser)

James Simpson (Gynecology, Anesthesiology)

Balfour Stewart (Ionospheric electricity)

Charles Stine (Organic Chemist)

George Stokes (Fluid Mechanics)

John Bell Pettigrew (Anatomist, physiologist)

Charles Piazzi Smyth (Astronomy)

Nicolas Steno (Stratigraphy)

John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh (Similitude, Model Analysis, Inert Gases)

P.G. Tait (Vector analysis)

William Thompsin (Energetics, Absolute temperatures, Atlantic cable)

Leonardo Da Vinci (Experimental science, physics, painting)

Rudolph Virchow (Pathology)

Sir Cecil P.G. Wakeley (Surgeon)

William Whewell (Aneomometer, old earth compromiser)

William Whiston (Physics, Geology)

Arthur E. Wilder-Smith (Three science doctorates, a creation science pioneer)

John Wilkins

John Woodward (Paleontology)

Prof. Verna Wright (Rheumatologist)