"It's OK if someone is a Christian, as long as they aren't fanatical about it." We all know what they are talking about. Religion is OK to most people (except to Richard Dawkins and kin), as long as people don't get fanatical about it. Fanatics make the news, and it isn't pretty. Fred Phelps and …
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The following item was originally posted on The GeoChristian in November 2009, and I have added it to my blog recycling program. Because I have new readers of The GeoChristian, I will occasionally go back and re-use some of my favorite blog entries, with some editing. I am re-using this post about the ESV Study …
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A brief note about the Evangelical Free Church of America Theology Conference was posted on Facebook this morning: EFCA - Evangelical Free Church of America With wit and wisdom, Dr. Kaiser opened the EFCA Theology Conference with three principles required by a study of Genesis 1-3 which must inform our theology of creation. 1) This …
Timothy Keller, in chapter nine of The Reason for God, discusses the origin of human rights. Do humans intrinsically have unalienable rights, or are these rights something that we have arbitrarily come up with? Keller outlines three possible answers to this question, following Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz: Human rights come from God. God has …
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The American Humanist Association is launching an ad campaign, urging us all to "Consider Humanism." This campaign uses a familiar atheist technique: Focus on the evils done in the name of religion; ignore the evils done by atheists. The graphics I've seen have this format: What some believe -- a verse from the Bible or …
The Bible does not teach that the Earth is only 6000 years old. It isn't just me and others who have a science background who are saying this. It isn't just theological liberals who deny the inspiration and authority of the Bible who are saying this. A number of Bible believing Christian scholars and pastors …
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"Whatever else is true of man, man is not what he was meant to be." -- G.K. Chesterton.
I attended the monthly meeting of the Missouri Association for Creation last night, and promised here on The GeoChristian that I would report on it. John Chaikowsky (a friend of mine) spoke on the topic "How Scriptural is Old-Earth Creationism?" Falling in line with Answers in Genesis, John cannot fathom how a Bible-believing Christian (such …
I've been invited to attend the monthly meeting of the Missouri Association for Creation tonight. The topic is "How Scriptural is Old-Earth Creationism?" Here's the description: How Scriptural is Old-Earth Creationism? by John Chaikowsky It is surprising how many people and colleges consider themselves Bible believing evangelicals and yet doubt the historicity of the very …
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Francis Schaeffer, in Pollution and the Death of Man, wrote that "we should treat each thing with integrity because it is the way God has made it" (chapter 4, p. 54). He went on to write about trees: "The tree in the field is to be treated with respect. It is not to be romanticized... …
The ESV Study Bible is a theologically conservative Evangelical work, and is certainly one of the most comprehensive study Bibles ever produced. It has been out for only three years, but it looks like it will be a highly influential reference work for decades to come.One potential positive impact of the ESVSB relates to its …
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A self-refuting argument is one which must be false if it is true. The excellent blog Tough Questions Answered has a list of self-refuting arguments: Are You Refuting Yourself? “No English sentence is longer than three words.” “There are no truths.” “I do not exist.” The problem here is that a person must exist to …
Ken Ham, president of Answers in Genesis, blogged about our point of agreement today: Do Old Earthers and Young Earthers Agree on Anything? Ham wrote: Recently, a blogger commented on my recent blog post about a religion professor at Butler University and his testimony of how he became a “born-again Christian.” Frankly, I saw little …
From Yahoo News/Associated Press: Baghdad church siege ends with 52 dead. Within Christianity, a martyr is someone who is killed because they are a Christian. These believers were peacefully gathered together for worship. Al-Qaida in Iraq has threatened to "exterminate Iraqi Christians." Within Islam, a person who is killed because they are a Muslim would …
I believe the Earth is about 4.6 billion years old, and that the Bible doesn't say much one way or the other about biological evolution. I believe that young-Earth creationism is neither necessary Biblically nor valid scientifically. Ken Ham is president of Answers in Genesis, and believes the Bible requires an approximately 6000-year old Earth …
C. Michael Patton at the Parchment & Pen blog (Credo House Ministries) writes Where I Stand on the Creation Evolution Circus. Patton is a young-Earth creationist, but holds to that position loosely, and doesn't like the tone of many YEC advocates, as well as that of the other end of the spectrum, many theistic evolutionists. …
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Here are my "top 10" books that have had an impact on my life. Some of them have impacted millions of other people; a few may not be on the "top 10" list of anyone else on the planet. I would put the Bible as the #1 book, but it needs to be on its …
Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God really say, 'You must not eat from any tree in the garden'?" -- Gen 3:1 NIV The root of human sin, whether we look back to Adam and Eve in the …
Creation creed -- short version As an old-Earth creationist I believe that the universe was created by the triune God of the Bible I believe that the Bible does not dictate when this creation took place I believe in a real Adam in a real garden in a real fall into sin in real consequences …
Back in July I listed three blogs by young-Earth creationists that I think are pretty good. Of course I disagree with these brothers in Christ regarding the age of the Earth and the extent and work of Noah's flood, but I appreciate them because they hold firmly to the Bible, have a good background in …
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