To me the idea that the universe created itself and ended up producing Beethoven's Sonata NO.14 in C is the most ridiculous, preposterous idea that could be imagined.
IN OUR TIME: FUNGI
One of the BBC's foremost science broadcasts can tell you a lot about the fragility and weakness of the theory of evolution, if you're prepared to look and listen between the lines.
WHAT IS GOD LIKE?
There's a god for every whim, wish and eventuality. Are they really all valid, or do we need to focus a little more? If there really is a God, what is that God really like?
FOUR NOTES ON A HEALING
After calling some of his disciples Jesus Christ healed a leper near Gennesaret. Here are a few observations from Luke's account of that healing.
LOOKING BACK
This post is dedicated to the one or two readers I have on the other side of the planet, and the few in the United States.
JESUS REJECTED IN NAZARETH
What are my motives for following Jesus? What are yours?
HOUSE ON THE SAND
Most of us are not looking for the truth in all things. We're looking for something we like; something we want to be true, and something that appeals to our senses
THE TEMPTATION OF CHRIST
Sometimes I think I'm just casually going to scan through a portion of Scripture in a couple of minutes, and instead the message contained therein comes alive, and I'm making all kinds of discoveries about it, even though I've read it countless times before. The Word of God is truly alive. It has unfathomable depth and significance. It's no creation of man.
HOW TO OVERTHROW A CIVILIZATION
People on the extreme left of politics have been trying to paint themselves as the centrists-the mainstream-for a long time...
MIRACLES AND SCIENCE
While secular scientists claim to have backed the concept of God into a corner by explaining things in physical terms instead of what they dismissively and condescendingly describe as superstition, the truth is that the physical universe and all the laws they observe were created by God in the first place.
A FAITH-BUILDING CONFERENCE
Guliuzza stressed that we need to stop seeing creatures as being passively shaped by their environments, as Darwinism asserts, and to start seeing them as active problem-solving entities, designed to adapt (to a limited extent) enabling them to fill the earth according to the will of God.
IDOLATRY IN THE CHURCH
Most of us disagree with bowing to statues in the church, but idolatry is far more widespread and pernicious than a simple physical figure...
ARE TONGUES REALLY FOR PRAYER?
Is the gift of tongues really to be used for prayer? Are you really missing out if you don't have it? Should we all be praying in tongues? If you are genuinely wanting answers to these questions, and if you believe that the Bible is the Word of God, this article will help you.
SHOULD CHRISTIANS BE INVOLVED IN POLITICS?
Should Christians be involved in politics? This isn't a lengthy Bible study on the question, just a brief outburst of my thoughts... Photo by Brian Wertheim on Unsplash Our world is being run by evil, wicked, foolish people-East and West. Should we stand back and say "Go ahead, destroy our economy; take my hard earned money and spend … Continue reading SHOULD CHRISTIANS BE INVOLVED IN POLITICS?
ENDURING DECEPTION
Will you endure to the end, as Jesus said we must? Will you keep your faith and your hope? Will you stay on the narrow path to life?
WHAT DO I THINK OF CLIMATE CHANGE?
Is your hamburger destroying the earth? Does your car offend Gaia? Should we all stop eating and shiver through the winter, to save the earth?
TONGUES: A CHALLENGE
If you can show from Scripture that I'm wrong, I will delete the post and ask for your apology.
ARE TONGUES REALLY HEAVENLY LANGUAGES?
Great claims are made of the gift of speaking in tongues today. Among them is the belief that tongues are heavenly prayer languages, or the languages of angels. Is this true? Is it Biblical? Photo by Christophe Van der waals on Unsplash We can search the Scriptures with a fine tooth-comb, and not find one example of angels … Continue reading ARE TONGUES REALLY HEAVENLY LANGUAGES?
IS THE HOLY SPIRIT SPEAKING IN TONGUES?
In a large portion of the Christian church the claimed gift of speaking in tongues is held up as being almost supremely important to, and the sign of, a spirit-filled life. I'm going to examine this view today and in coming posts.
SHOULD CHRISTIANS TITHE?
Those who insist that we must tithe are regularly citing two Old Testament passages to support their claims. In the first Abraham, they say, gave Melchizedek a tenth of everything he had, long before the law was instituted...
FORGOTTEN WORDS
In our world where the words we use and our attitudes are supposedly of utmost importance, words are regularly passing out of use from the English language...
WHEN SACRIFICE IS NOT PAGAN
One prominent bishop in the Church of England, said to be a "brilliant" man, has described the idea that God would sacrifice His son as being "pagan" and mistaken. Is he correct?
FREE WILL AND SUFFERING
The number one reason people will give for not seeking or believing in God, so I'm told and so I gather, is the amount of suffering in the world. If there really were a loving God, we think, there would be no wars. There would be no crime, no disease, and no hunger or poverty...
FREE WILL AND TIME
If we are just animals, and "stardust", and nothing more than material objects...trillions of independent atoms moving around in perfect harmony; thinking, planning, singing, writing...why is it that we care or even notice that time is flying by?
DIGITAL MUSIC: QUALITY LOST
Our digital world has given us all sorts of improvements and conveniences, but in the case of digital music, we've all lost out, big time.
HOW TO AVOID INSANITY
We all know (or at least, not long ago we all knew) that a man who thinks he is a fish is probably suffering some kind of mental imbalance, and we say that he's insane. But insanity extends further than just those whose brains are physically sick and damaged
THE GLORY OF MAN AND THE JUSTICE OF GOD
"Oh Lord, why did you ever make humans? Why didn't you just settle for animals, which are far more honorable?
THINKING ABOUT THE SECOND COMING
I've been interested in this subject long enough to know that there are a lot of very mistaken people out there, predicting, prognosticating, and generally confusing and misleading themselves and others, on the subject of the second coming of Jesus Christ.
EXTINCTION AND THE FLOOD
Change in geology and in nature occurs over eons of time at the rate of processes we observe now: the instruction I received in science classes at school. Well, all that proven “fact” seems to have changed considerably...
WHERE IS GOD?
We humans think so much of ourselves that we tend to try to bring God down to our level of understanding.
SCIENCE AND THE INVISIBLE GOD
Those who demand that we pay attention to science only, and not to what they call "superstition", claiming that science and faith are incompatible, are on very shaky ground.
Grieving over the nation.
Do you ever sigh or cry over the state of the nation? If you do, be aware that your concern doesn't go unnoticed...
LIFE AND THE PUZZLE OF GOD
How can I be so certain? Isn't it all just conjecture, superstition and wishful thinking? Hasn't science disproved the God of Bible?
HOPE FOR WE THE GOVERNED
All around the country, and around the world, there are various levels of government which employ an ever-increasing number of people attempting to justify their positions, their salaries and their existence... by changing something.
CREATION, THE BIG BANG, AND FINE TUNING OF THE UNIVERSE
Some people are determined to have faith against incredible odds...far more so than we theists...
A DEPLORABLE SPEAKS
No more than a few years ago political correctness would point a finger at you (hypocritically) and tell you not to judge. Now, under wokeness, the originating mentality has come entirely out of its closet.
PASSING ON ENCOURAGEMENT
Just when I begin to think that my writing isn't turning anyone on, or that it isn't helping anyone, and just when I begin to think it's time to hang up my keyboard, I get a little more encouragement to go on.
Dear Mr. Smith
As a caution to those of you who are unfamiliar with the nature and intent of satire in this post-comedy age, please be aware that the following letter is not genuine. Mr. Smith. From the office of the President of the United States. Having emerged from government bunkers, and the craziest post-war party you could … Continue reading Dear Mr. Smith
SCIENCE AND GOOD INTENTIONS
Macro-evolution and faith are incompatible, yes: there's no doubt about that. But don't confuse true science with evolutionism.
WAS ADOLPH HITLER A CHRISTIAN?
I cannot help stating here very plainly that Jesus’ message was exactly opposite to that of Hitler’s, that the two names should not even be mentioned in the same breath, and that attempting to paint a link between the two is, in the case of a Professor of History who should know better and probably does, blasphemy.
Paradox, or Contradiction?
If we would just stop eating meat and pay more taxes, rain would fall on the Californian desert again...
HOYLE AND FINE-TUNING OF THE UNIVERSE
In chapter seven of "Return of the God Hypothesis", Stephen Meyer begins to consider the fascinating subject of the fine-tuning of the universe in his chapter titled, "The Goldilocks Universe".
THE GOSPEL IN PLAIN ENGLISH
They knew without doubt that he was claiming to be God (Matthew 26:63-66) and they had him executed, in shame and apparently humiliating defeat. What they didn't know was that they were fulfilling the will of the Father all along.
COPING WITH NIHILISM
We live in some wild times, don't we? One little look back in history shows that people of all ages have lived in wild times of their own...
IN OUR TIME: PARASITISM
Are we to assume that cancer is not "bad", and that the rispiritory system, with all its wonders, is not "good"?
RAPTURE AND THE HOLY SPIRIT
What did Paul mean when he said that the power of evil will be held back until the one who holds it back is taken away? I answer that question here, in written form
THE GOD HYPOTHESIS SUMMARY, 6.
Hawking and Ellis stated in 1973 that the creation of the universe from a singularity, at its beginning, is outside of the laws of known physics.
BARE-BONES FAITH
If all our dreams and hopes in life come to nothing, would we turn our back on our God, or would we realize that though we have nothing,, we still have the Prize:?
FREE WILL AND ONE CLEAR CHOICE
Are you free? Do you have free will, or is everything decided for you?
In Our Time: “The Late Devonian Extinction”.
Unless you're a hardened, determined relativist, real, observable, empirical facts don’t change. So if the “facts” you’ve been given become denied or altered, something is wrong
Fuel for Faith 