In my feeble attempt to be a Christian apologist, I was playing in the eBay Christian bashing Soapbox chat room this morning. One discussion thread just kept on giving. The thread was about the “Proposed Kansas Law Would Force Churches to Host Gay Weddings.” First was an attack on the Roman Catholic Church about their treatment of Protestant Huguenots so that will apply to DQ#6 and legalism. Next the question whether homosexuality is a sexual preference or as one poster wrote, “It's not about an intellectual or emotional choice or preference!!!! It's BIOLOGY. “Well, the door was wide open so I charged in and posted the following. The Christian apologist I quoted below is Dr. Missler.
According to one Christian apologist you may be able to blame God as “the result of denying their Creator was abandonment to a depraved lifestyle." He quotes Romans 1:26-27, “For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.”
As Christians we are to love the sinner but hate the sin. However much we may feel compassion for gays, “The sin of Sodom and Gomorrah was not homosexuality; it was the open, public condoning of homosexuality. And God dealt with it.” (Again, thanks to Dr. Missler) I concluded with the statement I want to be in the presence of Jesus someday, compassion yes but no condoning.
This eBay Soapbox thread has now evolved into the question of churches paying property taxes. Like I said, the thread just keeps on giving, that is, giving me a chance to witness a little in a chat room that has a wide readership. I can again compare the simplicity of Jesus’ message of salvation by grace with legalism and that He didn’t need a mega church to spread His message.
Before I jump back into the Soapbox and to digress a bit, how could anyone deny God the Creator? Last year I was returning from church on a particularly beautiful day and was reminded of Psalms 19:1, “The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.” In my opinion, the Bible is written in the heavens and is there for all to read and be in awe of God’s creation.
Was there really a Big Bang from nothing to something? Is the Universe really 16 billion years old? Did our ancestors really swing through the trees? Did we really evolve from some primordial soup? Does the universe tend towards negative entropy as would be evidenced by lower forms of life evolving into higher forms violating the second law of thermodynamics? Is the fossil record that depends on the Geologic time scale correct? But does not the fossil record allow geologists to date and compare rocks across geological time?
Sounds like Circular Reasoning:
Strata are dated by the fossils
then....
Fossils are dated by the strata.
In my opinion, the whole concept of evolution just does not make sense other than Micro evolution within a species. Add to that the fraudulent attempts to create “the missing link” to prove evolution. Methods include the use of a tooth from an extinct pig, the jawbone of a modern ape filed and treated to make it look old. An old man suffering from arthritis and teeth were from an orangutan. Evolution is taught in schools and promoted as the true.
Why the resistance to Creation? If the universe was created then there would be a Creator to whom we would be accountable. I believe the universe was created by God as described in the Bible. The Bible is history written in advance and has been proven time and again. My God is an awesome God who stands outline time!
In his book “Learn the Bible in 24 Hours” Chuck Missler provides technical example after technical example of a Young Earth and a Young Universe. He also suggests the Gap Theory after the earth became without form between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2. Lucifer rebelled and took a third of the angels with him and the earth became his domain. The fallen angels and the Nephilim, subject for next week. From Genesis 1:2 we read of God's plan of redemption.
Back to the Young Earth, several years ago I bought a DVD collection By Dr. Dino including “The Age of the Earth”, “The Garden of Eden” and more. There are images of petrified trees standing upright through geological strata. Fish fossils nicely laid out in rock so I guess these dead fish don’t float. Then there is Mt. St. Helene developing lots of strata in a few decades after it erupted.
There is so much about the age and properties of the universe in the Bible, to quote just a few:
Isaiah 64:1 says space can be torn
Psalm 102 says space can be worn out like a garment
Job 9:8 He alone spreads out the heavens, And treads on the waves of the sea
We live in a young earth created by God in six earth days. We did not descend from apes. Evolution is a false religion that has caused great harm.
