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Saturday, October 10th, 2009
Recall these verses from Romans 5: ”12Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned— 13for before the law was given, sin was in the world. But sin is not taken into account when there is no law.” Paul is drawing a distinction between legality and morality. This is an important distinction for those who lived before the law, because even without a law to break, there was still sin. There may have been no law upon which to base punishment, but sin was still in the world. After all, “14 …death reigned from the time of Adam …
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Monday, June 29th, 2009
Thus far, I have been spending this year in a study on righteousness. My reason for doing so on an Evolutionary Creationist website is that a lot of answers to my Ultimate Questions for God seemed wrapped up in the concept of righteousness, and so I wanted to make sure that truly understood it, the best that I could. And so I’m going through the verses on righteousness. Well, in studying the “righteousness” verse of Jeremiah 33, I came upon the following passage, which to me speaks directly to creation, and indirectly to the age of our earth [emphasis added]:
19 The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah: 20 “This is what the LORD says: ‘If …
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Friday, January 30th, 2009
Okay, this isn’t exactly a verse in the bible, but I wanted to get your attention.
As I’ve been doing my word study on righteousness, thoughts naturally gravitate back to Evolution, Creationism, and Geocreationism. I’ve been reading this great book which I cannot find in my morning haze, but it advances the common argument that God’s testimony is in scripture and in science. In other words, what we discover about the world, is knowledge that God wants us to have… and why wouldn’t He? I mean, anything we learn about Him, whether it be how He saved us from our sins, or created the world in which live, is more knowledge about Him and His love for us. Why wouldn’t I want …
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Thursday, January 29th, 2009
Reading Elihu’s speech in Job 37, it struck me that it was immediately followed by Job 38, which contains one of the Creation stories in the Bible that is consistent with both the ancient pagan creation myths, and paradoxically modern science. You can read more about The Creation Account in Job.
What struck me is the contrast between how Elihu attempts to challenge Job with Creation, versus how God does, and how that applies to today.
Job 37
14 “Listen to this, Job;
stop and consider God’s wonders.
15 Do you know how God controls the clouds
and makes his lightning flash?
16 Do you know how the clouds hang poised,
those wonders of him who is …
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Thursday, January 15th, 2009
Jesus told us that without man to bear witness of God, the very rocks would cry out. I believe they do, through the evidence for Evolution. Rocks indeed. For if Evolution happened, then it was according to God’s plan, design, and will; the earth apparently believed God where many of us today do not… and the earth obeyed.
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Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
When I was writing about the order of God’s promises and your acceptance of them yesterday, I wasn’t talking about salvation specifically, though I had it in mind. So, I need to clarify something… the fact that not everyone goes to Heaven. Now, in my examples above, take Saul for example, I implied that God made a promise to him… I was really talking about the commitments that God makes. A commitment is a promise, but not all promises all for salvation. But where the promise is salvation, the logic applies. So, when I was talking about “promises” made to people who don’t believe, how does that apply to those who won’t be saved?
Well once again, I am talking about …
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Monday, December 15th, 2008
Over the last 2 years of studying and writing Geocreationism, I have slowly come to accept evolution more than before. Though I still have questions in my mind, I keep finding more reasons to believe that God a created a universe in which life would evolve according to His predetermined plan.
Early on in my blog, I found a post entitled Mass Delusion - 10 Reasons Why the Majority of Scientists Believe in Evolution. I never responded to it, but at the time as I was merely sympathetic to Evolution. While I am not full-on advocate for Evolution, it is the most logically choice to me, and fits my interpretation of scripture better than anything else I’ve studied. This …
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
In “Beyond the Firmament” (Review) - Genesis is Literal, I write about an interesting phenomenon. It would seem that Moses — some would dispute whether it’s Moses, but that’s beside the point for now — wrote what he thought was a historically accurate account of Creation. We now know that he was wrong — it was not historically accurate. However, as GJG of BTF points out, when we put on our Moses hat, and try to view the world as the ancient Hebrews did, we realize that what Moses echoed the account with which they were already familiar, but with the added detail that God is the one who did …
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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
I have just completed reading Gordon J. Glover’s excellent book, “Beyond the Firmament”. It was very helpful in helping me clarify my views on Creation and Genesis 1, and has made me open to the idea of abandoning the umbrella of “Theistic Evolution”, in favor of just unabashedly saying “Evolution”. This is no small feat.
I have documented on this blog a scriptural basis for seeing Jesus at Creation, and His involvement in it. I stand by it, but I realize that I must soften some of my language. I have historically sounded like the insights I write of was God’s own message. I want to clarify that I do not believe that is true. On the contrary, I agree …
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
God’s Wrath on Mankind
Racism
DeRosa documents the racist undertones in some of the early Evolutionary literature. Though certainly not Darwin’s intention, the idea of Natural Selection fed an assessment of the races based on where each falls in the spectrum between advanced society and primitive ape. Such conclusions are offensive and unbiblical, and have a modern root in society’s acceptance of Evolutionary theory.
The late Stephen Jay Gould, a prolific evangelist for evolution, acknowledged evolution’s racist impact, stating,
“Biological arguments for racism may have been common before 1859, but they increased by orders of magnitude following the acceptance of evolutionary theory.”
Additional application of these “insights” has led to philosophies embracing racial purity and supporting abortion.
Nazism
Darwinian evolution undoubtedly influenced Hitler’s ability to rationalize the …
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