Tag: creation account
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The Wonder of Creation: Exploring the Purpose and Relevance of the Creation Narrative in Apologetics
The first eleven chapters in the Bible are my favorite chapters. As someone who questioned their veracity before I started following Jesus, I understand that there are some difficult things in these chapters. When we read these chapters, we read them like 21st century Americans who are obsessed with particular orders of events and the…
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Let There Be Sky, Dry Land, and Plant-Life
We previously covered the authorship, genre, and background of Genesis 1-11 and made it to the very first morning and evening upon the earth. We saw that, from the very beginning, God is the only creator and commander of His creation. We saw the plurality of God from the beginning. We saw God name evening…
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Apologetics // Session 1
What do you need to know before you begin down this road?Answering questions about the age of the earth and 6 consecutive day creation claims.Avoiding logical fallacies. This segment is from a conversational study at The Church at Sunsites in Pearce, AZ.
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God’s Image, Not Our Design
A long time ago, there was a father who built a house for his son. He knew precisely what kind of man his son was and upon finishing the house, he handed the keys to his son and entrusted his son to keep the house and take care of it. Every so often, the father…
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Can I know if evolution is true or not? If someone believes in evolution, can he also believe in God?
Before I answer this question, I want us to remember that in everything we do or in everything we strive to answer, we are to remain humble. I also want to stress that there is a danger in reading something into Scripture that is not there and that God gave us the natural world so…
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Contemplating the Cosmos: The Fantastical Alien Worlds
“All my life I have wondered about the possibility of life elsewhere. What would it be like? Of what would it be made?”[1] It is easy to wonder, sitting on this cosmic shoreline and looking up into the universe, if there is any life out there whose intelligence might be similar to our own,…
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Contemplating The Cosmos: Introduction and Preconceptions
The universe is an extraordinary place and I am, as often as I think upon it, amazed at just how intricate it is. I am just as amazed with the human capacity to discover and explore the universe. A dominant theory concerning origins is that the universe was once one, ‘very small’ singularity that…
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God > creation (Genesis 1, Exodus 20:7)
God is holy. He is apart from and other than. His majesty is endless and His glory boundless. His love and mercy are endless and His judgment final. Popular religion in the West elects that God is mankind’s friend and his lover. It declares that God is subject to the same laws, situations and…
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Re: Certainly renders a creator unnecessary.
Recently on twitter I replied to someone who posted an article regarding a theory involving an early rapid expansion of the universe after the ignition of the Big Bang.[1] The article, though toward the end it posits that all forms of theistic thought are absurd, fails to mention why or to give a valid argument…
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Imago Dei
Am I the image of a perfect God? He created me in love And I do love Am I the image of a perfect God? He has all authority And I do rule representatively I also desire to rule over myself and over others Am I the image of a perfect God?…