Comment on La Sierra University Granted Window to Show its Faithfulness to Church’s Creation Belief by Charles.
“…there are those who accept theistic evolution but still believe the Bible is true…”
The Bible absolutely refutes “theistic evolution”. If someone accepts TE and also thinks he believes the Bible, then he is not very acquainted with his Bible.
Among a host of other examples, Jesus demonstrated the level of power that He has when He raised Lazarus from death. Jesus made a point of the miraculous nature of what he was going to do by letting Lazarus stay in the tomb for three days – until the decay of his body was advanced and the smell permeated the area. Then Jesus called him to life – instantly. There was no evolutionary or scientific process involved. It was Jesus working on the level of the “miraculous” – power we can know that He has but the ways are not revealed.
The Bible clearly teaches a seven literal day creation by the miraculous words of Jesus. Sure He has His way of doing it but that is not revealed to mankind – probably because we could not understand it anyway. Prior to Moses, the genelogies were passed from generation to generation until Moses wrote them down. The historical timelines of scripture are presented as accurate in much detail. Either, one accepts it as true, OR one does not. But in no way can it be reasonably construed as an evolutionary process.
There are many things about scripture and the realities of our world today that builds my confidence in scripture. One of them is the weekly cycle (regardless of which day one observes as holy). The whole world observes the same weekly cycle. The days are the same (except for language differences) and they are all seven day weeks. No one on earth can choose to observe a six or an eight day week. Where did this universal week come from? Can anyone point to any reasonable evidence that there was a time when there was no weekly cycle?
We have our days – created by the turning of the earth relative to the sun. We have our years – created by the trip of earth around the sun. Our monthly cycles come from the trip of the moon around the earth. From whence comes the week? It is just as universally observed as are the days, months and years. But there is no astronomical function that marks the week. God gave the week to the first Man and it has been passed on through the generations from the creation to us.
Why does this seem so clear and so many cannot see it? The most ardent teacher of evolution locks his office door and heads home for the “weekend”. Whether he honors any day or not, he is still bearing a testamony to the fact that this earth was created in seven literal days.
Maybe someone disagrees. That is okay. I honestly don’t see how, but your Creator has given you the ability and the choice to draw your own conclusions. The evidence is abundant in the way I just described and hundreds or thousands of other ways as well.
Most respectfully,
Charles
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La Sierra University Granted Window to Show its Faithfulness to Church’s Creation Belief
I am missing my agnostic friend, Ken.
I hope he read the chapter. He promised.
La Sierra University Granted Window to Show its Faithfulness to Church’s Creation Belief
Happy Sabbath, again. The last day of another week – just as it has been since the week of Creation.
La Sierra University Granted Window to Show its Faithfulness to Church’s Creation Belief
I just checked the news. No earthquakes, tornados, hurricanes, tidal waves that were worth mentioning. Just a few wars and rumours of wars.
Guess it was just a quiet day – unusual this near the second coming of Jesus.
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@gene fortner: I don’t think anyone really knows what powers were being exercised on 9/11. Clearly the airliners were involved.
It was an event that changed the world in ways that top-down powers would yearn for.
No point in speculation… I think Veith probably was mistaken to do that deep dive and it seems that he has quietly backed away from it.
The thing we must focus on is to “Turn your eyes upon Jesus….” Clearly, we are in “the last days”.
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@David Read: I find Veith’s “theorizing” regarding “conspiracies” to be spot on and on topic.
There is a great “conspiracy” – otherwise known as “The Great Controversy”. It is the ultimate reality of our rebellious little world today. AND it is the foundation of all of these other problems we deal with.
AND, IT WILL BE ENDING SOON!
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Evidence that God is in control. LSU could become a beacon of light shining on the truth of our world an how we came to be here. That is as it should be.
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I believe we are involved in a Mount Carmel experience. As this world is hurling toward the great climactic “END”, we will see more and greater attacks against the truth by the great deceiver. The prophets of Baal will become bolder and more feverish. (Remember that the prophets of Baal on Mt Carmel were much from within the nation of Israel.)
What a day of reckoning it will be when “at such a time as we think not” that great cloud approaches this world. The signs today are loud and bold. Jesus is coming. Spread the word.
