"…the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth." —1 Tim. 3:15
#3: DARWINIAN OR “ORGANIC EVOLUTION” IS UNSCIENTIFIC—IT IS NOT SCIENCE. Raise your hand if you’ve ever heard the phrase, “the theory of evolution.” I’m going to go out on a limb and say every hand is up. In fact, I’m sure I’m not the only one who has heard some brave (albeit delusional, or else
#2: SCIENCE PROVED “ORGANIC EVOLUTION” TO BE SCIENTIFICALLY IMPOSSIBLE OVER 150 YEARS AGO. Once upon a time people thought maggots magically—er, “spontaneously”—arose from raw meat: the living from the nonliving. That’s right, some men noticed that when you leave raw meat out in the elements, it will eventually be infested with maggots. Upon this observation, a hypothesis was
Regarding the New Testament church—i.e., the collective body of Christians in the first century A.D., that we read about in the New Testament—which Jesus promised to build (Matt. 16:18), which God established in Him (Eph. 2:22; Col. 1:13; Rev. 1:6; et al.), and purchased with His precious blood (Acts 20:28)—so far we’ve seen that the
2. That there is only one. According to the New Testament, there is only one church: “…upon this rock I will build MY CHURCH…” (Matt. 16:18). “…we have many members in ONE BODY…in Christ…” (Rom. 12:4,5). “…we who are many are ONE BODY…” (1 Cor. 10:17). “…this body is ONE… …baptized into ONE BODY…” (1
1. That it was the eternal purpose of God. The Holy Spirit stated through the apostle Paul that, even before the foundation of the world, God had ordained that “His manifold wisdom” would be made known to all the world “through the church” (Eph. 3:10). This, the apostle affirmed with unmistakeable certainty and conviction, was
Consider this conundrum: the moment a person experiences even COVID-19-related symptoms, they are told to seek medical testing or treatment, and, in the earlier stages of the outbreak, such may have even made national news! Meanwhile, not one word is uttered when 10,000 become infected with the virus that “can kill both soul and body
There are two things in this world that don’t mix: Pop Rocks and Dr. Pepper, but that’s not important right now. I’m talking about infection and indifference. As these words are written, there is panic in the streets. We are experiencing the effects of an outbreak. It is an epic epidemic at epidemically epic proportions.
One of the rules of correct Bible interpretation (“lesser” though it may be) is this: On any given topic, interpret the more difficult and obscure passage(s) in light of the more clear and obvious one(s). In other words, view a difficult passage through the lens of a clearer passage on the same subject. An easy example is Luke 14:26, where
Did you know there are over 30,000 various “Christian” “churches” in the world today? Did you know that—in the New Testament (NT)—there is only ONE church (Matt. 16:18; Rom. 12:4,5; 1 Cor. 12:12,13,20; et al.)? That leads to this eternally important question: HOW DO I KNOW WHICH CHURCH IS THE CHURCH? In the New Testament—especially in the
