The King James Bible - Essay Example

God had spoken the truth. 

However, no experiment is done only once.  What if the wool soaked up the dew from the surrounding ground?  What if the surrounding ground dried faster than the heavy wool?  All of these questions probably plagued Gideon.  So Gideon asked God

Let not thine anger be hot against me, and I will speak but this once: let me prove, I pray thee, but this once with the fleece; let it now be dry only upon the fleece, and upon all the ground let there be dew.  (NKJ, Judges 6:39)

So the next morning Gideon went out and the wool was dry with the surrounding ground being wet.  This was more of a proof of God’s Word than the first experiment.  If the surrounding ground was wet, it was unnatural that the wool was dry.  Thus Gideon could be assured of God’s Word. 

            This request was not like an experiment in several ways.  The first time the experiment was tried and the second time was not under the same conditions.  Outdoors it is hard to reproduce similar conditions.  Secondly, Gideon wanted God’s Word to be true so he might have messed up the results with the bad interpretation of the data.  Finally, this was not a science experiment with controls or placeboes.  It was God’s Word.  Faith is called faith because one believes without proof.