1. If you removed the belly-button lint from everybody in the world on a single day, it would fill every room in the Empire State Building — twice.

2. Take the age of each U.S. President at the time he was inaugurated. Add those ages together. Multiply times the number of years since the Civil War. Divide by the number of words in the Declaration of Independence. The calculated number is 9.11

3. There is a species of bird in South America that has no legs or feet. Once it leaves the nest, it spends its entire life in the air.

4. If you took all the nickels produced by the United States Mint in 2008, their combined weight would be roughly the same as 300 city buses.

5. Every day, approximately 3,700 trees must be replaced due to the amount of Kleenex (and similar tissues) people use. During cold season, the number of replacement trees per day grows to 5,200.

And finally, the most important fact…

6. I made up “facts” 1-5.

How often do we receive “amazing” things via e-mail, and accept them as absolutely true? We get them from a friend, who got them from a friend, etc. And nobody has a clue regarding their original source. But… we believe them! We share them!

At the same time, we have a Bible whose history is meticulously documented, whose prophecies are proven across millenia. It provides the only real explanation for the way people think and act. It cites its source, and explains the origin of everything.

Yet… people don’t believe it. They don’t even believe in it.

If they got it in an e-mail with it, they wouldn’t pass it on.

Consider 2 Timothy 4:3-4. Yes, the Bible got it right. Again.