Creation Museum

Now as a Christian I already believe the theory of Creation is how we all came to be. That is to say, I believe in the Bible as the word of God. The WHOLE word of God. Since I believe that, I take it to mean what it says when It tells me that God created the heavens and the earth and everything else to the farthest reaches of space, In SIX days. So I found this trip to be a very refreshing break from the Evolutionary theory that is pushed at me every day by PBS and every other secular media as well as by the schools and “scientists”. “Why”, you might ask, “would you choose to believe in the theory of creation?” Well it is really simple. There are two theories. One is the theory of Creation. The other is the theory of Evolution. So let me take the facts and look at them and apply the real scientific method and see which fits. Fact one. The favorite way to explain the time scale is showing the “bands” of strata that are in the earth and saying this level is from such and such a time etc… BUT what is going on in those bands? There are tree trunks in the bands that run up and down through those bands. How could they exist if this was something that happened over a long period of time? Fact two, the method for dating is radio carbon dating which has been proven to be accurate only back about five to ten thousand years. Fact three, the “science of evolution” requires either sudden drastic mutations which had to be (a) viable for life and (b) widespread. Or it requires that things slowly changed and evolved over a long period of time which means there has to be hundreds or even thousands of intermediate fossils. To date scientists have only found four “examples” of intermediate forms. Three of those were PROVEN false and the fourth (Lucy aka Australopithicene Afarensis.) is a partial skeleton that was found scattered over two miles of riverbed and is so small a sampling that it could be just about anything you wanted it to be with enough imagination. Meantime there are hundreds of critters and examples out there of species’ who could Never exist if Evolution were the reason for life. Some examples are the Red crested Woodpecker. (that’s right Woody the woodpecker would NOT exist if it were up to evolution.) There is also Bombardier Beetles, Bumble bees, Platypuses/i, even our eyeballs have little reason to exist in the evolutionary system. But in Creation? Not only can these things exist but also anything that you could think of might be out there. With creation the only limit is the creator’s imagination. Time after time the Bible has been challenged as an accurate historical document. Time after time it has proven itself to be correct. While time after time there are still points that elude evolution and it has yet to really prove itself at all, no matter what the proponents of it might say. To me that means I can trust the veracity of the Bible a lot more than a bunch of guys who have gone to so much work to fool me. Yes I said they tried to fool me, you too for that matter. They tell us that they have all the answers, but if you ask them about how the Bombardier beetle came to be they splutter and hem and haw until they can change the direction of the conversation. And the same is true for MOST of the points that I mentioned and more. Don’t believe me? Ask them why there are still oceans! Why haven’t they all become salt flats yet since at the rate they are gaining salt they would be solid blocks of the stuff by now (if their time estimates are real). Ask them why the Moon is still in orbit around the earth. Measurements show that the moon is moving away from the earth. If everything was formed even just millions of years ago, instead of the billions they claim, then the moon would no longer be in our orbit. Ask them to explain the woodpecker or the platypus or where they found petrified dinosaur foot prints and human foot prints overlapping one another or … well you get the idea. A word of warning, they will try to deny these things and they will hide it and obfuscate. They will even threaten, cajole and yell at you. But the truth is out there If you will really research this stuff you too will see this. But too long now have the people of our society been told that the ONLY viable choice is evolution because “we cannot believe in Creation because that would imply a God and that would be against separation of church and state.” Or “we have to accept Evolution because to believe in a creator is to take the easy way out.” Because don’t you know “religion is the opiate of the masses.” They feel they have to throw out the creation theory solely because it follows a religious view point and that is totally unacceptable for some reason. My point is, there is more evidence to support creation then there is to support evolution. “Scientists” throw out creation because they cannot have any explanation that presupposes a force, person or deity that might have caused things to be. So the only option they have left is to place their faith, yes I said it F-A-I-T-H!, on a model that cannot be proven. (and so often is disproved.) Think about it.

an OT or a NT problem?

I keep hearing people misrepresenting the bible. That is to say they will take it out of context and they will use only the parts that suit their needs. For example, the other day I got into a discussion with a family member. Not a close one but still family. She claims to be Christian. I do not really know where her faith really lies but her actions and beliefs run counter to what the bible teaches in MANY areas. The Bible tells us that we should protect and help people who are weaker and less capable, people like children or widows. It also indicates that we are a life from the moment of conception. (You knew me when I was in my mother’s womb… Job) That means that abortion should be a big Christian no no. But she supports abortion. The bible tells us in the new and old testaments both that sexual immorality must be avoided (any union between anyone other than a marital relationship between one man and one woman being the standard.) But she supports (or has no problem with) teenage sex, Gay sex, Gay marriage, Divorce, premarital sex, and for all I can tell extra marital sex and promiscuity of all other types. In our argument she basically seemed to be trying to say that all things are allowable… but, I fear her reasoning was faulty. Her viewpoint was that we do not punish people like it says in the Old Testament anymore so those laws do not hold us anymore. So I tried to explain to her the problem with that view. But she cut me, and the conversation, off. I suspect she did that about when I started making sense to her. She could not be reasoned with because she holds her viewpoint and nothing must interfere with it. So here is my point. The Old Testament contains all of the rules by which God expects us to live. (Deut 5) If we fail to follow his laws we are sinners. But no one was, or is, able to follow all of those. Indeed the book of Romans says, in Chapter 3 verse 23 “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” The bible tells us that God is the same forever. He is unchanging, always the same. John 1:1 “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” Revelation 1:8 “‘I am the alpha and the Omega’, says the Lord God, ‘who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.’” The real issue here is do we still have to follow the old rules? The answer is not a simple yes or no… the thing is that Jesus said he came not to replace the law and the prophets but to fulfil them. That is the law still applies BUT the penalty has been paid. SO we need to try to be good followers of God and that means being obedient. Then the law becomes, not so much a law as a guide for how to live it lets us know how bad we are so we know how much we need his saving grace. Romans 3:20 “Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin. 21 But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known, to which the law and the prophets testify. 22 This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile. But no one can follow all of the laws in part because of our sin nature. So the price of sin (Death) is paid. But it is more than that. As a Christian I know and accept that there are going to be people who do not want to follow my God. And that is fine. I will not hurt them or threaten them or anything. I do know they live in sin, and I will warn them against their sin. But that is as far as I go. If they choose to go without accepting my Savior that is their option. It is part of the free will that we all have. BUT if you claim to be a Christian then you ought to be following some certain guidelines. Romans 1: 19 – 20, “since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities- his eternal power and divine nature- have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.” Obvious huh? God has made it plain for all of us to know and we have no excuse (that goes for both saved and sinner I think) BUT… Romans 1:21-27 “For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God or gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.” But HERE is the real kicker to this… “Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshipped and served created things rather than the Creator – who is forever praised. Amen. Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.” Hmm there it is! The best argument I can think of for how God feels about sexual Immorality IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. Not the Old Testament. So why is this a real problem? Well the thing is we have to accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior or eventually the penalty of our sins WILL come to us, Romans 2:5 “But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God’s wrath, when his righteous judgment will be revealed. To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, he will give eternal life. But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger. There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil: first for the Jew And then for the Gentile; but glory honor and peace for everyone who does good: first for the Jew and then for the Gentile.” And again Romans 3:23 FOR ALL HAVE SINNED AND FALL SHORT OF THE GLORY OF GOD, 24 and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. 25 God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement, through the shedding of his blood – to be received by faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished –“ You see? The penalty of our sins are withheld for a time… but why ought this to be? What does Romans 3 say next? 26 “he did it to demonstrate his righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.” God loves us and we can either accept it or reject it. God already made his position plain. Romans 5:8 “But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” The question is, now that you know all this what do you intend to do with it? If you claim to be a Christian and support the idea that Homosexuality is something to be encouraged then you need to get before God and have a serious talk. Read your Bible and KNOW the truth. If you are not a Christian but you want to feel God’s acceptance then become a Christian. If you want nothing to do with Christians, God or Christ then simply ignore us all and keep going the way you are. But if you are going to try debating Christians about their faith then you need to stop taking the bible out of context and you need to read up on what you are going to debate. Finally, if you are a totally for Christ 100 % HooRah Christian, you need to read God’s Word, learn it, memorize it and then, when people try to mislead you, you can point to the scripture and verse and say Nope this is what God REALLY has to say about it.

How does Christianity fit Homosexuality?

Recently there has been a lot of discussion about businesses who support gay marriage and businesses that don't. A lot of people say that Christians are hateful because of their view points. I see the Homosexual community insisting that everyone else HAS to be tolerant of them and if you do not accept them or their views, if you do not pander to them, then you have to be a bigoted hateful jerk. But I would disagree. What does the Bible say? God is the same forever and ever. He loves his people but he hates sin and Any sex that exists out of the realms of marriage, one man and one woman, is sinful. David suffered for sexual sin and he was "a man after god's own heart". Samson suffered for his sexual escapades. And Sodom and Gomorrah also paid the price for their sinfulness in sex. Here is an interesting point... ALL of those examples are in the old testament. So does that mean that it all changed when Jesus came around? No. Sin still is punished and these acts are still sinful. BUT Jesus pays the price for our sin nature. he paid the price for me and you and everyone else who accepts him as Lord and Savior. But Christians ought to be trying to tell others about Christ and the gospel. The interesting dilemma is that many people will scream out that what I just said here is hate speech. I ask you what about this is hateful? Think about it. I just said that "Jesus paid the price for our sins if we accept him as Lord and savior". How is that hateful? "you do not have to hurt because the hurt that was due has been done already." I said that sin leads to pain. Is that hateful? I think not it seems to me to be just basic truth. Akin to saying if you whack yourself in the forehead with a 2x4 it will hurt. The reason why they want to say it is hate speech is simple. It is because I am basically saying, if you want to feel better about yourself if you want to have hope, if you want to feel the love of God, YOU HAVE TO CHANGE. And these people do not like that idea. "what makes you better than me?" they yell "how dare you judge me!" they scream. But that is just it. I am not better and I am not the judge, Jesus/God is. If you want to ask what validity my faith has, well that is a separate subject and I will be happy to talk with you about that later.