Lev 18 is pretty clear on the nation-destroying activities that …

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Lev 18 is pretty clear on the nation-destroying activities that some people think are “just fine” –

In Lev 18 the point is made that even non-Bible-aware pagan nations will accelerate the close of their period of probation by engaging in certain sins.

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channel: if you can’t see that perhaps that is why you do not have the capability to understand science

Seems to affirm the comment Charles makes below…

Charles: @channel:
The spirit behind this post is self-evident and needs no comment. It plainly speaks for itself.

oops! I think we were supposed to pretend not to notice 😉

Oh well – I guess this is not the big-left-tent some had hoped it would become.

in Christ,

Bob


My Goal for La Sierra University

Holly Pham: Bob, So Dr. Taylor teaches at LSU? Why was he allowed to teach? Who was responsible for him getting a teaching job? I think that is absolutely shocking!

I note that after your question – Taylor immediately posts his affirmation of ad hominem posting on this web site — when in fact he could have stepped up to the plate and addressed your question himself.

In the mean time you can find the fact of his overt statement on evolution

http://www.educatetruth.com/media/puc-professor-the-noachian-flood-was-just-a-local-flood/comment-page-3/#comment-22005

Ervin Taylor said:

November 14, 2010
“The time has come to take a clearly stated position and abandon all Orwellian language. Transparency is a must, and that is something we do not have.”

You want transparency? How about this?

“The Genesis narratives about “the beginning” are the sublime creations of a powerful literary and spiritual impulse which talked about the Hebrew God creating the entire world and everything in it in six days.

Although the focus of attention for whoever wrote and/or edited these magnificent creation narratives was not about these specific points, the ancient Hebrews believed that these narratives said plainly that the world was created in six, 24-hour days, that the events related were real events and they were about real people and they all happened in the time frame that we would call less than 10,000 years ago–which to the Hebrews was a very long time ago.

The Hebrews also believed that the world was flat and fixed in space. We now know that the world is round and moves in space. We also now know that God created the world and life over billions of years.

The primary reason that the Adventist faith tradition officially must support the ancient Hebrew world view about “the beginning” is because Ellen G. White believed that
and incorporated that idea into her master metanarrative—the Great Controversy.”

Is that “transparent” enough?

… Once a specific theological idea—such as a recent creation in seven, literal, contiguous days—gets grafted onto and encoded within a theological metanarrative or world view, it is extremely difficult, perhaps impossible, for a faith community to admit that some misunderstandings about the details of that metanarrative is, from a factual perspective, wrong, even in the face of massive, empirical evidence to the contrary. This is especially difficult if its founding prophetic figure was responsible for creating the problem.

And as for his participation in the LSU “all evolution all the time” agenda posted on Educate Truth.

ErvTaylor lecturing for LSU on age of life on earth and Carbon 14 – in the Biology 404B class.

http://www.educatetruth.com/la-sierra-evidence/syllabi/unstuhnr-404b-spring-qtr-2009-syllabus/

And of course – Kent claims this does not happen at LSU at least not for 1.5 years.

in Christ,

Bob


My Goal for La Sierra University
First we get the “standard” all ad hominem all the time lib post.

channel said: The ignorance of people like sean hild or others like him has no bounds. This website promotes nothing but fundamentalism and extremism while its authors pretend like they are defending SDA beliefs. This is something that extremists of any religous background do. They try to use peoples beliefs to promote their own dirty agenda.

…If dumb people who run this website had their way… (remainder of obligatory lib rant deleted here)

In addition to the standard ad hominem content – this post above is a “throw back” to the pre-GC2010 strategy of “pretending” that the SDA church was in favor with T.E. and only a few “fundamentalist extremists” in the church actually took the Bible seriously.

That little smoke screen vanished at the GC session and since then we have not seen them attempt that trick again… until now.

But of course that would not stop the much-to-be-expected standard big-left-tent affirmation of the form “we like ad hominem” – in response to such posts.

Ervin Taylor: Channel provides another breath of fresh air on the EducateTruth(sic) web site.

Is there any part of that affirmation of ad hominem – that is not “predictable as rain” by this time??

Is it any wonder then that we ask them to post something that indicates the would like to be taken seriously?

BobRyan: Seriously – how do you guys ever expect to make a case for your POV if you are so intent on trash talking?

You need to put serious ideas in your post – something that shows that you place enough thought into your ideas to be taken seriously.

At the very least you should make some effort in that direction.

in Christ,

Bob


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Academic Freedom Strikes Again!

george:
By definition, I don’t believe in miracles or apocryphal, anthropomorphic stories about same.Why aren’t scientists observing them today if they occur?

Circular argument. If they were naturally occurring we would expect scientists to see that they are still occurring today. If they are singular events caused by an intelligent being – that being would be under no obligation to “keep causing world wide floods” as if “to do it once you must continually do it”. Armstrong went to the moon.. shall we argue that unless he keeps going to the moon so each new generation can see it … then it did not happen?

Your argument is of the form “all eye witness evidence to some event in the past is no evidence at all unless that event keeps repeating itself so we too can witness it”. Seems less than compelling.

“Could it be that science is better able to detect hoaxes and false claims?” As a rule for dismissing every eye witness account in the past – it is less than compelling. (even when that event cannot be repeated)

Evolutionists “claim” that dust, rocks and gas (in sufficient quantity and over sufficient time and a lot of luck) self organized into rabbits via prokaryote-then-eukaryote-then-more-complexity. But such self-organization cannot be “observed” today.

(What is worse – such a sequence cannot even be intelligently manipulated to occur in the lab)

By your own argument then you should not believe in evolution.


Academic Freedom Strikes Again!
@Sean Pitman:

Suppose you were at a crime scene … there is a tree limb on the ground and a bullet hole in the victim — “all natural causes”? or is one ‘not natural’? Those who say that nothing can be detected as “not naturally occurring in nature” – because all results, all observations make it appear that every result “naturally occurred without intelligent design” seem to be missing a very big part of “the obvious”.


Academic Freedom Strikes Again!

george:
Gentlemen,

What just God would allow an innocent child to be born guilty for the sins of a distant ancestor? …What if there was only One Commandment? Do Good. ‘Kant’ see a problem with that.

An atheist point of view is not often found here – but this is interesting.

1. God does not punish babies for what someone else did – but I suppose that is a reductionist option that is not so uncommon among atheists. The “details” of the subject you are commenting on – yet according to you “not reading” – is that humans are born with sinful natures. A “bent” toward evil. That is the first gap right out of the gate between atheism and God’s Word..

2. But still God supernaturally enables “free will” even in that bent scenario, the one that mankind lives in – ever since the free-will choice of the first humans on planet earth – was to cast their lot in with Satan and rebellion..(apparently they wanted to see what a wonderful result that poor choice would create). John 16 “the Holy Spirit convicts the world of sin and righteousness and judgment”. And of course “I will draw ALL mankind unto Me” John 12:32. (not “just Christians”). Thus supernatural agency promotes free will in a world that would otherwise be unrestrained in its bent to evil.

3.God says “The wages of sin is death” — so then your “complaint” is essentially “that you exist”. A just and loving God created planet Earth – no death or disease or suffering – a perfect paradise where mankind could live forever … and only one tiny restriction… yet Adam and Eve allowed themselves to be duped by Satan… tossing it all away. The “Just God” scenario could easily just have let them suffer the death sentence they chose. He did not do that… hence “you exist” – to then “complain about it”.

4. Of course you might also complain that Satan exists – and Satan might complain that “you exist”. There is no shortage on planet earth of avenues for complaint. But God steps in – offers salvation to mankind at infinite cost to himself – – and the “Few” of Matthew 7 eventually end up accepting that offer of eternal life. The rest seem to prefer the lake of fire option… sort of like Adam and Eve choosing disease and death over eternal life (without fully appreciating the massive fail in that short-sighted choice).

In any case – this thread is about the logic/reason that should be taken into account when a Christian owned and operated institution chooses to stay faithful to its Christian mission — rather then getting blown about by every wind of doctrine. Why let the alchemy of “wild guessing” be the ‘source of truth’ when we have the Bible?? We really have no excuse for that. As for science – we can be thankful that it has come as far along as it has – but no matter how far back you rewind the clock of our science history – we should always have chosen the Bible over wild guessing.


Newly Discovered Human Footprints Undermine Evolutionary Assumptions

Ervin Taylor:
Perhaps Dr. Pitman would enlighten his readers what on earth “the neo-Darwinian story of origins” might be. Darwin did not address origins.

Origins of what?? the first eukaryote??
Or “origins of mankind”??

Darwin himself claimed that his own false doctrine on origins was totally incompatible with Genesis and that because of this – Genesis must be tossed under a bus.

hint: Genesis is an account of “Origins” as we all know — even though “bacteria” and “amoeba” are terms that don’t show up in the text.

The point remains – Darwin was promoting his own religion on origins totally counter to the Bible doctrine on origins. He himself addresses this point of the two views.


Newly Discovered Human Footprints Undermine Evolutionary Assumptions

Ervin Taylor:
Here we go again.If the footprints upon close examination, are determined not to be from a hominim/hominid, I wonder if Educate Truth (sic) will announce that determination.Or if the date of the surface is determined to be much younger, will there be a notice placed on fundamentalist web-sites.If you believe the answer to these questions are yes, I have a big bridge that I would like to sell you for pennies on the dollar.

Here we go again … hope piled upon hope…no matter the “observations in nature” that disconfirm the classic evolutionary hypothesis

Reminds me of “What we still don’t know” by Martin Reese and Leonard Suskind