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The Wild Wild West became my favorite program when I was in my pre-teens. By that time, it was in re-runs. In one episode – “The Night of the Simian Terror”1 –Dr. Sigmund Von Liebeg (played by actor John Abbott) was a family doctor who in younger life believed “that Given the same environment as man, an ape can attain the same degree of human development.” Von Liebeg raised a gorilla along with a boy he had taken in who…..
Over the years, I have had a number of failures in my discussions with people who do not believe the Bible. And of course those discussions are about the creation account in Genesis – something that church leaders who want to just talk about Jesus in the New Testament miss. I say “Jesus in the New Testament” because John 1, Colossians 1 and Hebrews 1 teach us that the creation account in Genesis is about Jesus. “Christ is the visible…..
Soviet dictator Joe Stalin took extreme measures to re-write history. He was a paranoid ruler and killed people that he saw as rivals, even those who had supported him. Then in an effort to remove them from history, he would have their images removed from photos.1 Another glaring example of an effort to re-write history is the use of the terms C.E. (Common Era) and B.C.E. (Before Common Era); rather than B.C. (Before Christ) and A.D. (Latin for the Year…..
In my daily Bible reading, something from Psalm 81 immediately struck me – “But no, my people wouldn’t listen. Israel did not want me around. So I let them follow their own stubborn desires, living according to their own ideas.”1 I immediately recognized this as humanism. People reject God, and live according to their own ideas. They call it “reason.” Humanists of course put a positive spin on this. The definition given on the American Humanist Association website is: “Humanism is a…..
Last Sunday I was watching Mysteries at the Museum; and there was a segment on Czech Dream. Czech Dream1 was a documentary made by two student filmmakers – Vít Klusák and Filip Remunda – who stage an elaborate hoax. They have this advertising campaign for this new “hypermarket,” where you can buy just about anything. It sounds like a Wal-Mart Supercenter. Anyway, people get there and it is just a façade held up by scaffolding. The point that the…..
Antonin Scalia’s death has sparked a hot debate. Ted Cruz has talked about not confirming anyone until our next president.1 Hillary has made the point that Barrack Obama is president until January 20, 2017.2 Hillary is absolutely right. President Obama has every right under the U. S. Constitution to nominate an individual to serve as justice on the U. S. Supreme Court. In fact, it is his constitutional duty. The Republican response should be: We will give President Obama’s nominee…..
I was listening to talk radio on my way to work earlier this week when I heard someone talking about people shopping on Thanksgiving. He said that people would shop on Thanksgiving but not on Christmas or Easter because “Thanksgiving is not a religious holiday.” Really? The Psalms over and over implore us to give thanks to the Lord. Psalm 100 is a particular brief Psalm giving thanks and praise to God as our Creator. Psalm 100:3-4 states “Know ye…..
I do not know how many times I have heard “The Bible is not a science book!” Well, I must say for a book that is not a science book, the Bible has some pretty good science. As a Bible believer, there is one thing that I would agree with any scientist on, whether they are a scientist like John C. Sanford that believes in Biblical creation, or they are an ardent atheist like Richard Dawkins. Life on this planet…..
Genesis 5:1-2 states “This is the book of the genealogy of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in the likeness of God. He created them male and female, and blessed them and called them Mankind in the day they were created.”1 This is a short text. But what a person believes about this text will affect their world view entirely. First and foremost, the text tells us that we are not evolved from some apelike…..
To truly understand the U.S. Supreme Court decision on what a “marriage” is, you need to understand that our country has rejected the Bible as truth and why this has happened. “Science” has been taken over by materialistic philosophy. Materialistic philosophy (otherwise known as naturalism) is the belief that matter and energy are all that exist – no afterlife, no angels and certainly no God. It goes hand in hand with atheism. It also forms a basis for secular humanism…..