Category: Questions
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How much Church Is Too Much Church?
Background Recently, twitter and blogs have been alight with the idea that people are too involved in church (in effect asking, how much church is too much); and the anecdotes support this theory. For example, there’s the man who is at church 4 nights a week, away from his wife and children, playing the drums…
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Should we fast?
Introduction Fasting is something that most people are aware of. In fact, many will associate it with other religions, and perhaps not at all with the Christian Faith – the question of should we fast not being discussed in many Churches. We break our fast each morning that we eat breakfast. However, when we consider…
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Sexuality and the Bible
Background We received questions to our twitter account concerning sexual immorality (this was back in 2011). The nature of these questions was very specific and would be offensive to many. We will, therefore, not restate them here. However, we will address the crux of the issue behind the questions. Many non-Christians have a view of…
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What is Immanuel…?
Immanuel… It’s an intriguing concept. It’s what separates the Christian faith from all other religions. It’s what separates faith from religion, period (including the ‘religion’ of Christianity)! You see, religion is man’s way of searching for meaning. It’s the actions of a humanity seeking its creator… reaching out to something more than what we know…
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Creation and Evolution, Part 7 – Genetics challenges to Evolution
Introduction In this lesson we will look at Genetics and DNA and how they present the greatest challenge to evolution. In the end, I am convinced that it will be the field of genetics that finally causes society to rethink evolution – and accept that it is just not realistic model of reality. The difficulty…
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Creation and Evolution, Part 6 – Natural Selection agrees with Bible teachings
Introduction Evolutionary theory describes that, over a very long time period, all life can be traced back to a common source. There is no explanation for how life started, but prior to this all molecules also evolved / developed from the simplest element, hydrogen. Biblical Creation describes life being created by God. All life can…
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Bible Accuracy: what is the Evidence?
Introduction One of the charges made against Christians is that the Bible is a nice book, maybe even a very good book… but that it is just a book. “It is just a collections of stories, and not even historical fact. How can you believe in a bunch of works of fiction…?” How do you…
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Creation and Evolution, Part 5 – The Ark & the Flood. Responding to the atheist challenges.
Introduction The Ark and Flood are a key area of challenge by atheists and secular science. It is another area that many Christians have “given up the fight” and accepted it as myth. There is absolutely no reason to “give up” on this as not only is the Ark feasible, but the flood is supported…
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Creation and Evolution, Part 4 – The Laws of Thermodynamics Challenge Evolution
Key Issue with and Challenge to Evolution In essence, this issue is that there are no known mutations which give new information to living things. They all either lose information or re-arrange existing information – this is also the case for genetic information. Evolution requires that new information be added without external intervention. The first…
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Creation and Evolution, Part 3 – Premise and Process of Evolution
Introduction In this post, we will look at what the premise of Evolutionary Theory is, and we will also explore how evolution is said to operate. That is, what is the process by which Evolution is said to function and to change and create life over time? Premise of Evolution Evolution is based on the…