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Having posted my initial reaction to Gordon J. Glover’s “Beyond the Firmament”, I find there is a lot I wish to reflect on. 

In my last book review, “Evidence for Creation“, I quoted an awful lot of the book.  I do not want to do Mr. Glover that disservice, because it may lead one to think that they only need to read my review, and not his book, and that would be a shame.

One of my own core beliefs is that Moses meant what he wrote, God meant him to write it, the Hebrews were meant to believe it… and so are we.  Mr. Glover believes the same thing.  The question is where to go from there.  He states….
The answer …

I was reading Leviticus 10 this morning, and two passages caught my attention (emphasis added):
8 And the Lord spoke to Aaron, saying, 9 “Drink no wine or strong drink, you or your sons with you, when you go into the tent of meeting, lest you die. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations. 10 You are to distinguish between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean, 11 and you are to teach the people of Israel all the statutes that the Lord has spoken to them by Moses.”

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16 Now Moses diligently inquired about the goat of the sin offering, and behold, it was burned …

Contrary to what the Bible says…

Isn’t that exactly what many Christians think I am saying with that title?  That I do not believe the Bible?  You can bet it is.  As an Old Earth Creationist who believes that life has been on earth for billions of years, that dinosaurs were killed 65 million years ago, and that mankind was fearfully and wonderfully made, in part through their descent from animals, I have to accept that many of my Christian brothers and sisters believe that I have rejected the Bible and its clear teachings on sin and death.
AiG’s main thrust is NOT ‘young Earth’ as such; our emphasis is on Biblical authority. Believing in a relatively ‘young Earth’ (i.e., only a few thousands …

Did I catch your attention?  I am half kidding and half serious. 

As a Christian, I occasionally find myself answering questions about the Mosaic law as it relates to our faith in Christ Jesus.  ”Why do Christians pick and choose which laws to follow?”  That’s a common one, which I addressed in detail many years before there were blogs, on my Israel Tour Bible Studies website (toward the bottom).  These days, many discussions involve practical application of the Law for Christians as it relates to our redeemed status, and this is what Exodus 22 to 24 addressed for me yesterday.

One reason the Law is even an even issue for me is that I am meeting more and more Christians who look to Jesus for …

In Where God’s Love Isn’t, I quoted parts of Jeremiah 7, where the Children of Israel were adopting other gods, while living otherwise normal lives.  Here is part of the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD:
As for you, do not pray for this people, or lift up a cry or prayer for them, and do not intercede with me, for I will not hear you. Do you not see what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? The children gather wood, the fathers kindle fire, and the women knead dough, to make cakes for the queen of heaven. And they pour out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke me …

Genesis 38:1-30 tells the story of one of Isral’s (Jacob’s) sons, Judah.  Israel’s daughter-in-law, Tamar, was widowed when God took the life of her husband, Israel’s first son Er.  Er was evil.  Israel sent his second son Onan to her to produce offspring for Er, but Onan was evil as well and God killed him, too.  Judah’s last son, Shelah, was too young to produce children, but he promised him to Tamar when he got older.  In the meantime, Tamar whent back home to her father to wait.  When Shilah got older, Judah failed to keep his promise, so Tamar tricked Judah by posing as a prostitute and conceiving twins by him.  When it came time for the twins to be …

My devotional for today was Genesis 27, where Isaac blesses Jacob, thinking it was Esau.  For those unfamiliar with that scripture, the gist of it is that Jacob’s mother Rebekkah convinced Jacob to steal his brother’s blessing from their father, Isaac.  At his mother’s behest, Jacob got two young goats.  She prepared them as his father liked, and then put the goat skins over Jacob’s neck and arms, so that his skin would feel like his brother’s.  Pulling this off required haste, and his father noticed.  Notice though how Jacob lies:
18 So he went in to his father and said, “My father.” And he said, “Here I am. Who are you, my son?” 19 Jacob said to his father, “I am …

Picking up from where I left off from yesterday: “Evidence for Creation” (Review) - Chapter 4 “Evidence from Life” (Part 1)

DNA From a Higher Source

DeRosa spends several pages describing the wonder and miracle that we call DNA.  Given all of its complexity, it’s length, its efficiency, its accuracy, and all in such a tiny size, it is truly a wonder of nature.  But, here’s the thing.  Even though I completely agree that God designed DNA, I take it one step further: I believe He may have designed the Evolutionary process through which DNA arose.  To a Creation Scientist, the idea of that still …

I have been reviewing Tom DeRosa’s book “Evidence for Creation”.  It has been a difficult task, because it takes hours for each review, and I feel like it is nothing but an exercise in bashing my fellow Christian as he makes himself look foolish before the world.  I realize the scriptures say that God’s wisdom is foolish in the eyes of the world, but quoting that scripture doesn’t make every contrary view wise.  In fact, the church can be just as foolish as the next guy.

So far, every chapter has been a dismissal of evidence, and a misunderstanding of the scientific process.  DeRosa concentrates on mankind’s inability to duplicate God’s work, without acknowledging the patterns scientists are finding within God’s …