Bad Ideas Kill
May 15, 2009
More on creation by Rev. Al Baker. Part one, Creation Ex Nihilo, is here.
Part two follows:
Then God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters,” Genesis 1:6.
Bad Ideas Kill
Alexander Solzhenitsyn was born in 1918 at the beginning of the October Revolution that brought Communism to Russia, establishing the Soviet Union. His father died in a hunting accident six months before he was born and his mother worked as a typist. He was a gifted student, especially in mathematics but his first love was writing. He was an avowed Communist and readily enlisted in the Russian army after Hitler invaded his country in June, 1940. Solzhenitsyn became a tank commander and was on the front lines in February, 1945 as the Soviet Army bore down on Hitler’s Berlin. However Solzhenitsyn was arrested at that time and put in a series of gulags. What was his crime? He had been writing secretly to a few friends, denouncing the policies of Josef Stalin. The writings were confiscated and Solzhenitsyn was sentenced to eight years in prison, eventually ending up in a gulag in Siberia. He was suffering from cancer while there and a Jewish physician named Boris Kornfeld, who had recently become a follower of Jesus, was witnessing to Solzhenitsyn one night, telling him Read the rest of this entry »
Creation Ex Nihilo
May 7, 2009
Rev. Al Baker of Christ Community Presbyterian Church in West Hartford, CT, writes a weekly devotional Forget None of His Benefits. You really ought to subscribe. It comes every Wednesday (or Thursday) and is rich in pastoral, theological content.
This week Rev. Baker starts a series of devotionals on creation. Here is an excerpt from the first one:
Most who believe in a literal twenty-four hour, six day creation suggest the earth is less than ten thousand years old, and most cosmologists simply laugh at that. I will have more to say about this in the future, but as it stands right now, may I suggest that we have one of two ways to go in this debate—either we begin with science and then try to fit Scripture into a reasonable model of cosmology; or we begin with Scripture and wait for science to make sense of the apparent discrepancy.
The entire article follows. Read the rest of this entry »
Love of Peanuts
July 21, 2008
As a lover of Christ and peanuts, though not at the same level, I found this quote from Gary DeMar very interesting and gratifying. His short article on George Washington Carver is instructive.
While George Washington Carver was deeply attracted to his scientific work, it was his devotion to Jesus Christ that sets him apart from many in the scientific field.
From Wiki,
Like many other devout Christians of his era, he accepted the Creation account given in the Book of Genesis as literal truth. He testified on many occasions Read the rest of this entry »
R.C. Sproul and Six-Day Creation
July 10, 2008
A noted evangelical, R C Sproul, has announced a conversion from having previously accepted the theory of evolution as valid science. He now accepts both the Biblical and scientific evidence that the world was created in 6 literal 24-hour days and possibly as recently as around 6,000 years ago.
R C Sproul is the author of some 60 Christian books. He has now stated on the record: Read the rest of this entry »
