What’s the Point?

How small does a person have to be before they’re entirely insignificant? This meme’s been making the rounds on social media, and I’ve seen it across platforms, posted by numerous friends, and friends of friends. Sometimes the tone of the post is humorous, as in “Just how big a problem is me forgetting the cover sheet on my TPS report?” Sometimes it’s more introspective, with a twist of brooding. Regardless, it pleads for an answer to the question “What’s the point?” I’ve written in a previous post about the four great existential questions: Origin, Meaning, Morality, and Destiny (see OMMD … Continue reading What’s the Point?

The First 1

In the schoolyard of numerals, sometimes it’s important to not be first! This post won’t go into the many details demonstrating that the Genesis account of creation speaks of days as we understand days; that there are no “outs” in the original Hebrew allowing someone to consider that the days presented in Genesis 1:1 – 2:3 are some form of long ages supporting a five billion-year-old Earth. Such meaning isn’t there, and that’s unequivocal. Also unequivocal is the fact that no gap of eons occurs between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2. Both the day-age theory and the gap theory attempted to … Continue reading The First 1

Your kids don’t believe in evolution? We’ll take care of that.

I’ve split a previous post in order to more clearly present: 1. The goal of evolution (see at this site the post Evolution isn’t a salvation issue, and that’s the gospel truth!), and 2. What some in the American education apparatus consider to be a primary goal of the sciences. To get there, let’s first sample some of the secular thoughts that are in print regarding the tension between evolution and the faith Christians have in God’s account of creation. Here are a couple of quotes from an article written by Tania Lombrozo and published June 29, 2015, at https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2015/06/29/418289762/don-t-believe-in-evolution-try-thinking-harder (the National … Continue reading Your kids don’t believe in evolution? We’ll take care of that.

Evolution isn’t a salvation issue, and that’s the gospel truth!

“The Bible was written long before scientists knew anything about the Earth, and modern scholars know that Genesis is a story meant to convey spiritual principles. The whole evolution thing; it’s not a salvation issue.” I hear statements like that frequently; enough to warrant me addressing the issue squarely. Bottom line up front: The theory of evolution (along with the multibillion-year age of the Earth, and the principle of biogenesis – that life arose from non-life) is a lie. They’re all lies. Please don’t lose sight of the fact that naturalistic explanations rule out the Bible, thereby removing God and … Continue reading Evolution isn’t a salvation issue, and that’s the gospel truth!