 To give Christians a helpful framework for understanding evolution (beyond the general definition that evolution means change over time), I think it’s important to breakdown evolution into two major categories: microevolution (small changes) and macroevolution (large changes), and to share a simple way to assess whether macroevolution is reasonable using the concept of entropy.
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The 139th Psalm describes the creation of the human body by God and how very much God loves us and thinks about us every day.
I recently received a very negative comment from an atheist on my YouTube video. The title of the video was “The Question No Atheist Can Answer”. Of course, I was talking about the Moral Law, and how purely from a naturalistic worldview, there can be no objective foundation for morals. I could tell from the tone (and the language) of the comment that I had really rubbed this person the wrong way. I mean they were really mad. So, I went back and watched the video to see how I had presented myself. I realized that I came across like a snarky, know-it-all. I was a noisy gong and a clanging cymbal.
This is definitely a debated topic among Christians and has been for centuries. Some Christians enjoy the occasional drink, some overindulge and fall into drunkenness, and some completely abstain from the substance, feeling convicted that partaking in any way whatsoever is sinful.
Clearly, if it is sinful to have a glass of wine, then it should be avoided, and we should hold our brethren accountable for sinning when they partake in drinking. But, if it is not sinful to drink alcohol in moderation, then we need not condemn our brethren who enjoy the occasional glass of wine for good pleasure; in fact, we would be in the wrong for doing so. One of the major doctrines that separates the Christian faith from all other religions is the doctrine of the trinity. The concept that Jesus Christ is fully God, not a demigod or an Angel, but that He is God Himself in the person of Jesus. Other religions and cults that give lip service to Jesus paint Him as merely a prophet or a wise man. But the idea that He is infinitely more than this, that He is literally the image of the invisible God, our Savior, our Lord, and even our Creator, is a strictly orthodox Christian teaching. This idea that He is Lord of all things, a fully omnipotent extension — or eternally begotten -- person of the Trinity, separates the Christian faith from all other falsities. And it is this doctrine that gives the believing Christian an assurance of salvation that no other faith can parallel, grant, or even comprehend.
Anne Hathaway was a featured guest on ABC’s daytime show The View, where she shared some of her thoughts on abortion. Conservative media sources such as The Daily Wire, Sky News, and The Rubin Report have all shared criticisms of her thoughts. One commentator said it was silly to look up to someone who lives their life reading lines that someone else writes for them. Perhaps he has a point.
 The Bible has been transmitted by believers for two thousand years. The Old Testament (OT) even longer than that. Copies of copies have been made by devout men of God, and the manuscripts used in certain translations (such as the 1611 KJV), were a millennia removed from the originals. Furthermore, the Bible has been translated many times; there have been some translations of translations, and many have referenced the "telephone game" to describe the alleged issue with the preservation of the Bible. However, do these facts mean that Christians have no idea what the original authors of the Bible wrote in the autographs (the original documents of the NT and OT)? Is there any way for Christians today to know if we have reliable and authentic documents?
Is love a feeling or an action?
I used to argue wholeheartedly that love was purely an action. I based my argument on my rudimentary understanding of what love looked like from Biblical characters. I would point out that Jesus’ love was found in his actions, but this isn’t completely true. Jesus’ love is not purely actions like I had previously thought, assuming the heart behind them was unimportant. I never considered that it could be the case that Jesus’ love is found at a deeper level, and that the actions of love that he performed are actually a result of the feelings and desires of His heart. |
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