Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Lesson 1. "Survival of the Fittest?


SUB-TITLED: "IS THE HOLY BIBLE COMPATIBLE WITH EVOLUTION?"

NO!

                                           THE STORY

     Police in Radnor, PA, were admonished in court be a judge for pretending that a Xerox machine was a lie detector. The police told this judge, that they had placed a colander on the head of a suspect under questioning, and connected it to a Xerox machine with some wires. They convinced the suspect, that every time it detected a lie, it would so print out "He's Lying". So each time they did not like the answer they'd hit the copy bottom and it would print, "he's Lying".
    Convinced that this was real, the suspect confessed his quilt!
    However the judge dismissed the case and let the suspect go free. 
    WHY?
    Because no lie detector is evidence allowed in court, ad they are very inaccurate plus the interpretations are very subjective and each interpreter's reading of the same tape does vary. Even the best is but 60% accurate.
    So do we all have access to a 100% spot-on accurate "Lie-detector"? YES, and most have one, the Holy Bible!

                                   THE LESSON.

1. HOW DO WE KNOW THERE ARE DECEPTIONS IN HUMAN CHRISTIAN PRACTICES? 
      Matthew 7:21-24. "Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:"    
       Matthew 24:4-5. "And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many."
NOTE: This may come as a surprise to many; but Jesus said that not everyone who says they are a Christian, is going to make into Heaven. Jesus warns us many times that men are going to deceive you, or try. Many will come, and many shall be deceived, and this is from His time on earth to whenever HE returns!

2 . What does Jesus mean by the words, "LORD, LORD"?
      Matthew 7:22-23 "Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. "
Note: the word iniquity means lawlessness. AS in not following nor obeying all Ten Commandments and just 9 or 8 by leaving out #2 and breaking #4 and then splitting #10 into two part! These never truthfully "KNEW Christ!

3. DO ANY CHRISTIAN GROUPS BELIEVE IN EVOLUTION?
      As per the Pew Research Center Christianity is now earth's most popular religion. Sadly more than 50% of mainline Protestants believe that evolution is the best explanation for the origin of human life!
World's Religions:
Christians = 33.32%.   Muslims = 21.01 %.---- Non-Religious = 14>09 %     Hindus 13.26 %     Other Religions 12.40%     Buddhists = 5.34 %.

4. Doesn't the Christian Bible teach a 6-day Creation Event?
      The Pew Research printed this summary:
     "According the Roman Catholics and most contemporary protestant churches, a literal Biblical interpretation on creation is not mandatory.... We don't have to take Genesis literally" 
Note (j.b). So GOD wasted His time as well as ours in having Moses write all this? What do YOU think?

     So, men have come up with this "Christian Evolution" idea: "Evolution is a toll GOD used to create human life and is COMPATIBLE with both the biblical creation account and the modern scientific [ (j.b.) please read man's traditions] about hum,an evolution. God used evolution to create life over millions of years.

 RELIGIOUS DIFFERENCES on the QUESTION of EVOLUTION IN PERCENT OF WHOLE.

Buddhists........................................... 81% --- Hindu-----------------------------80%
Jewish------------------------------------  77 %..... unaffiliated..........................72%
Catholic..........................................    58%.....    Orthodox.........................    54%
Mainline Protestants.............           51%----- Muslim................................45%
Hist. Black Protestants.........           38%.....  Evang. Protestant................24%
Mormon..............                               22%....    Jehovah's Witness...........          8%
Total U.S. Population                         48%.

5. WHAT  does "millions of years" say about the Bible?
    Genesis 1:31 "And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day." 
Note: The Bible's very plain, God finished creating everything on the sixth day, period. With a little research and common sense we can know the phoniness of the "Million-billions of years." 
why, IS THIS FACT SO IMPORTANT? Well if Satan can get YOU to accept his ideas of earth's age, then you will doubt or question the Word of GOD right?  However, many a scholar has taken the facts and dates given in the Bible, and add them up to come to an age of only between 6 and 7 thousand years of age!

6. Does science really teach the world in billions of years old?

SCIENCE, as per man's own definitions  is something you can test, observe, demonstrate and repeat over and over, with the same results! Either in a lab or out in the flied.
     The Evolution theory [j.b) and that's ALL it ever can be} says that man evolved over a period of millions of years begging from slime to many progressive life-form stages,, from species to species, to finally you and me!Q This has NEVER been observed, duplicated, nor demonstrated nor repeated in any lab any where at any time! Nor shall it be as GOD is and has life only!

                       YOUNG OR OLD, WHAT DOES SCIENCE REALLY SUGGEST?
FIRST POINT OF DIFFERENCE!

1. THE SUN is 93 million miles from earth.
2. It's about one million miles in diameter!
3. Science has observed that our SUN is growing smaller as it consumes fuel, at a rate of five feet per hour.

    Therefore, at only 100,000 thousand years ago, the Sun would have been twice the size of today! So 20 million years ago, when science says man evolved from ape ancestors, it would have fully engulfed this earth!

    Happily though if you go back but 6,000 years the sun would have been only .00027% larger. True science backs the Bible!

SECOND POINT OF CONTENTION!

   This earth is rotating and spinning on its axis with a surface speed of 1041.6 MPH but it is slowing down. In fact they have to add a leap second to our calendar every 1-1.5 years. That means the earth used to be going much faster, if we go back in time, 86,400 years {the number of seconds in one day]this earth would be spinning twice as fast!  Now if we go back only ONE MILLION years, earth rate of spin would be 1,000 of miles per hour faster! Winds from the CORIOLIS EFFECT,  would be at 1,000 of miles per hour!. Gravity, weather and life itself would all be very adversely affected. But if the world ins only 6-to 7,000 years old there'd be no problem! Science backs the Bible's account!.

THE THIRD POINT OF CONTENTION:

   THE oldest living thing on this earth as documented by Science, is the Bristlecone Pine trees in California. [There used to be a plaque showing which tree, but it was removed by the Government, as they feared its destruction by zealots, to whom after all evolution is their RELIGION]Science,  using the growth-ring counts, have placed one of them, as 4400 year old, this means that this tree, began life very shortly after the Great Flood, as all land life was destroyed that was not within the Ark! The time for this event was about 4400 years ago!
AGAIN SCIENCE PROVES THE BIBLE!

      NEED MORE SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE?
* The oldest existing manuscripts are dated less than 6,000 years old.
* The Sahara desert's growth rate measures age about 4,000 yrs old.
* The Great Barrier Reef growth rate measures its age at about 4200 years old.
* Oil pressure under the earth proves earth must be young, old it's surface would one large tar pit.
* The salt content of oceans dates them at less than 5,ooo years. Salt from racks dissolved in river dumped in oceans, at millions of years old, you and I could walk on the water.
* Population Growth, if man had evolved 40,000 yrs ago, as best as men know it was A.D. 1600 when we had 1 billion people, but man needed only from 1993-4 to reach 6 billion and today in 2013 we top at 7 billion human beings!  So if 40,000 or even 15,000 is correct, we would have what 20 billion or more people?  THINK! Please!. 

7. If not millions of years, how did GOD create man?
     Psalms 33:6-9 "By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses. Let all the earth fear the LORD: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him. For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast"

Note: The Bible is clear: GOD spoke everything into existence but He made mad by His own hands! But not over long periods of time, until the sin entered there was no death. When Jesus spoke the words, during the storm, while on the Sea of Galilee, what did He say? "Peace be still", and what happened? Did the storm gradually dissipate, or did peace come then and there?Mark 4:39 "And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm."
    When He said "Lazarus, come forth," did he appear after a few days or weeks or right then and there?
John 11:43. 
  When He said to the leper, "Be clean"," the disease instantly left the man! Matthew 8:3 " And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed."

8. Are there any other reasons to believe in the Bible?
   Yes Prophecy . a fully 1/3 of the whole Bible is prophetic! All but the last few percent have come to pass, as written and one time, if a time frame was given!

     John 14:29. "And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe."
Note: Only God is able to see the future as clear as the past. This is the why of Prophecy, plus this... 
Isaiah 46:10 . "Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:"
Amos 3:7. "Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets."

Note: In Daniel 2 the Bible predicted the rise and fall of the major world empires, until the end of this age of flesh men. From Babylon to Medo-Persia, to Greece, to both Pagan and Religious Roman empires! This was done more than 500 years before Christ!
  Tet even before this Christ's birth was foretold to be born in Bethlehem, betrayed by a friend, and sold for 30 pieces of silver, killed on the "Tree", buried in a rich man';s tomb, and would rise in three days. The Bible even predicted the year, the day and the hour of His death.

9. BUT HOW DO WE KNOW THESE PROPHECIES WERE WRITTEN BEFORE THEY WERE FULFILLED?

Because they are written in the DEAD SEA SCROLLS! 
      They are perhaps the greatest archaeological Bible find of all time. Found in a cave, and very well preserved {by GOD's Hand?] in 1947. They are the oldest existing manuscripts of the Old Testament. Science tells us they are from the 2nd or the 3rd Century B.C. All Biblical prohecy found in todays Old Testament are also found in the Dead Sea Scrolls!. This is 100% proof, solid proof, that the Bible predictions were written before they were fulfilled, agree?

10. WHAT IS THE BEST EVIDENCE FOR BELIEVING IN THE BIBLE?
      Psalms 34:. " O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him."

Note: God invites all to "taste" Him to test Him, to see if His word will provide a blessing for those who willingly follow and TRUST Him. The Bible will, if you allow it, teach you the principles from finances to health, to salvation, to personal relationships to trust/faith to and in  Christian obedience. Every principled promises a blessing to all those who will apply it to their own lives.
     Besides your choosing Christ means you have chosen life, all who choose not have already chosen Satan and death with him!   The Bible points over and over, to the fact that all who shall perish for the eternity do so due to the fact this IS their choice! None shall be cast into the Lake of Fire's one time use, unless they chose too!   SAD but true, now is this harsh? YUP but do is eternal death!

11. What is a good method for studying a book the size of the Bible?
     Isaiah 28:9-10 "Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.  For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:

Note: IF. . . YOU want to understand GOD's will for your life, try the Bible, for it is in it that HE speaks to YOU!. In payer this is YOU speak to your Father which art in Heaven. If you read a passage you understand not, keep on reading. If you have a "Study Bible", look at the the verse number and see if there is other locations for this word, phrase or thought. Here is where a large Bible Concordance is great, find a few key words, and look them up and write down all or some of the verses shown, and then find them in your Bible, and read them,, to get the better understanding.Precept, or idea, or thought, are to be gathered up together a little from here and there, just as the above passage informs us.
    The best rule one can give is this : "Remember the Bible will always prove itself within itself." If you find it does not, best check your understanding first!

12. How can we avoid the deceptions Jesus warns us about?
      Matthew 7:21-23" Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity."

Note: If you allow self to be deceived, then YOU know not the Bible nor Christ! Are you willing to place your trust in Jesus and His word, to gain heaven and eternal life? ONLY YOU are able to give answer!

Next: "Revelation's Dragon."  'Where did pain, suffering and death come from?'

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