Come to the Bible on its own terms One of the significant problems in our world is misunderstandings. People have prejudices about many things. We determine things about other people before we have full knowledge of them. Prejudice also will cause a person to look for facts that either support or ignore the truth to […]
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John’s Commentary on Genesis John 1:1 There are two things I want us to gain from this discussion. That God is the mastermind behind the Bible. It is an intricately, woven story that could only be from the mind of God. That Jesus is to be found, as He claimed, in the scriptures ( John
The phrase, “the God of the gaps”, comes from a notion that all things that cannot be explained must come from a god. Admittedly, if we just used God as an answer to all questions, we would have learned very little about our world. People who refuse to acknowledge God’s existence will often use “God
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Genesis is the greatest story of beginning ever told For decades I read Genesis as purely a historical account of creation. I read it as I was taught. The fact is, though, I was reading Genesis as a person far removed from the people to whom it was written. In recent years, I have come
An honest discussion about God In this episode, I cover coming to grips with one’s foundational belief about God. There are basically two viewpoints people can have about God. Either is one, or there is not one. Many people today claim to be atheists. The underlying problem claiming one is an atheist is one must
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This is a follow up to my last article This is an unplanned article as I wanted to address it later on in the series but while it is fresh on the minds of those interested, I figure I need to clarify a few things. I plead with you to do your best to think
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We need to look at what is being told to us about a day in the Genesis record. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. Genesis 1:5 Have you ever wondered why a Muslim would blow themselves up to gain
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Light Has Come Into The World And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first
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Today we will talk about wind & water. And the earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. Genesis 1:2 Watch the YouTube video of this here This verse starts to create patterns or prototypes that
Was the heaven and the earth made or created? We will find out! Just watch the movie Up to this point in the series, I have been trying to convince you that we need to be careful about what we assume to be correct and now that becomes important. I asked the question was the
