And He said, “If you will give earnest heed to the voice of the Lord your God, and do what is right in His sight, and give ear to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians; for I, the … Continue reading I, the Lord, Am Your Healer
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Lentils like Shammah the son Agee, a Hararite defended Now after him was Shammah the son of Agee a Hararite. And the Philistines were gathered into a troop where there was a plot of ground full of lentils, and the people fled from the Philistines. But he took his stand in the midst of … Continue reading Shammah
Friday, Principal Bradley arranged a special assembly to have Remmy and Sophia talk about their archaeological finds and some of their experiences abroad. Remmy walked all around the auditorium, alternately terrifying kids and getting them spluttering with laughter. He had so many stories and so many weird artifacts. He showed them a full five scroll … Continue reading Snippet from My NaNoWriMo project — The Assembly
Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite These are the names of the mighty men whom David had: Josheb-basshebeth a Tahchemonite, chief of the captains, he was called Adino the Eznite, because of eight hundred slain by him at one time; and after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite, one of the … Continue reading Eleazar
On all the barren heights in the desert destroyers will come. Indeed, a sword of the LORD will devour from one end of the land to the other. There will be no peace for any person (Jeremiah 12:12, ISV). Whenever the sword of Lord is mentioned in the Old Testament, it is a literal sword. … Continue reading The Sword of the Lord
A commodity has several definitions. The most useful is an interchangeable item that satisfies a want or need in the marketplace. For example, a pound of pure (99.9%) metal has a value. It does not matter where it came from or who made it. The same types of coffee beans, grains, or even computer chips, … Continue reading Why Do Americans Believe That Jesus Is A Commodity?
24 November 2011 Source http://www.billygraham.org Wikimedia Commons Public Domain I read a book by this title about forty years ago and it is still the best description of Billy Graham. The problem is that Christians know so little of the Word of God that name Jehoshaphat does not mean anything to them. Jehoshaphat became King … Continue reading Billy Graham: “The Jehoshaphat of our Generation”
Type “population explosion” into google. It returns over 27,000,000 hits and almost every one refers to future human population. The current world population is over 7 billion people. It was 1 billion just after 1800. But as we look back the census data becomes less certain. It is difficult to find an agreement about the … Continue reading The Population Bomb
Thomas Jefferson, author of The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth My concern is the departure from the truths of God's Word. There are many paths away from God. The confusion caused by mistranslating His Word is only one. This blog is about only one heresy; Deliberately mistranslating the word of God. Poor translations are … Continue reading When Is a Bible Translation Not the Word of God?
According to Wikipedia “Eyewitness testimony is the account a bystander gives in the courtroom, describing what they perceived happened during the specific incident under investigation. Ideally this recollection of events is detailed, however this is not always the case. This recollection is used as evidence to show what happened from a witness' point of view. … Continue reading Eyewitness Testimony: The Foundation and Basis of Reality
I agree with Secular Humanists about one thing – the Bible stands or falls on its truth as a whole. They, however think it doesn’t hold together. In defending his book, Killing Jesus, Bill O’Reilly took exception to this position. He believes that the Bible is accurate in its depiction of the crucifixion but wrong … Continue reading Who are you—mere man that you are—to talk back to God? Rom 9:20 ISV
Satan has gained an enormous advantage over Christians by the confusion created over the hundreds of different Bible translations. Though we wrote a blog on this subject What is a Pig Translation? that blog was about translation techniques or problems in translations. Every translation has to balance translation with education. By that we mean both … Continue reading What English Translation of the Bible Do You Use?
Over twenty years ago we heard a sermon that God does not want lone ranger Christians. God established His Church and each and every believer is responsible to be part of His Church. It was based on a very principle of God’s Word. And let us continue to consider how to motivate one another to … Continue reading No Lone Rangers
Secular Humanism boldly proclaims that the events recorded in the Bible are not historic. But using those same standards, neither were Plato, Socrates, Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great, Sun Tzu or most historic people or events. The oldest surviving manuscript of Plato’s documents dates to 895 AD. The Codex Oxoniensis Clarkianus 39 was copied more … Continue reading The Death of Science Part 5 — The Double Standard
God created us with a body, soul and spirit. We also have an intellect, will and emotions. Though we all have the ability to make choices, we also have the responsibility to live with the results of the decisions we make. No matter how well we think through our beliefs or how happy, sad, angry, … Continue reading In The Image of God
The Scientific method, designed and defined by Newton, applying the universal principles of observation, experimentation, hypothesize, test the results, revise the hypothesis to bring it in line with the observed test results, retest, repeat as necessary, then develop a theory was founded on principles described in the Word of God. These principles were detailed in … Continue reading The Death of Science Part 4 Science Abandons Reality Karl Popper and Falsification
Almost every American colony had some form of establishment of religion. This was because their religion consisted of proven and necessary facts of existence. Religion was reliable, logical and rational to them. The modern established religion of Secular Humanism teaches that it is the only scientifically-based belief system in existence. It claims that all other … Continue reading The Death of Science Part 3: Reality Requires Religion
Every few months the same story hits the national or world news. A family or a parent does everything right, but a child dies anyway. The child might be sitting properly fastened into a car seat and the car is hit while stopped at a light or stop sign. A home is completely childproof, the … Continue reading The God of Love Created the World. Why Do Tragedies Happen?
While there are numerous detailed answers, this is a brief, simple overview. 1) Moses wrote of what he learned as an Egyptian. And when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son. And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in … Continue reading How Did We Get The Old Testament?
“There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.” “Mathematics is the alphabet with which God has written the Universe.” “Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.” All attributed to Galileo Galilei Popular fiction to the contrary, both the ancient Greeks and Romans were … Continue reading The Death of Science Part 2: The Biblical Foundations of Science by Michael J. Findley
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