The Battle for Truth

Internal Evidence

2009-01-30T07:23:00.000-08:00

Many critics of the Word of God will no doubt come up with statements such as "the Bible is full of contradictions", and "the Bible is so inconsistent". Most of the time I would try to show them that this is simply not true, yet I have begun to take a different approach. A man last year said "The Bible is full of contradictions", so I asked him give me one. His answer was well it isn't full of contradictions yet there is a couple, again he could not give me one. Many have tried to discount the Bible, have tried to write it off as the product of man, many attacks have come against the Bible, yet what you do not hear is that not one and I shout not one has ever stood. The unbeliever rages against the Word of God because it speaks right against our lives!! They hate it because they know they will have to answer to the God of the Bible and for that they are enraged because they love their sin and the Bible says the wages of sin is death.

What is so sad to me is that the very truth that they rage against is the same very truth that could set them free! They could be free from their sin, free from the wrath of God, free from eternal death, and yet they disobey God and choose death rather than life. So is the Bible full of contradictions, is the Bible worthy of our trust?? Let's not look at many Scriptures to prove this point although we certainly could, lets look at just one. Job 26:10 says He has inscribed a circle on the face of the horizon. This word for circle is khug, in the Hebrew it literally means to draw a circle. So Job is saying that the earth is round, the horizon is circular. Now Job was written around 2000-1400 B.C. All of us are familiar with what happened in 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.

Now the masses told Columbus do not sail because the earth was flat. I have hear unbelievers say that only a few people told Columbus not to sail. This is simply not true. The masses told him not to sail, in fact it was very hard for him to get funding because they thought the earth was flat. This is in 1492 A.D.!!! So how in the world would Job thousands of years earlier know the world was flat?? Job did not know the Holy Spirit who inspired the Word of God knew!! Hold on I have also heard unbelievers say oh there are old pagan myths that says the earth is round. While this is true have they really looked at what these pagan myths taught? Some taught that it was on the back of a turtle, another taught it was on the back of a god. Hardly scientific. Yet the Word of God says in Job 26:7 He hangs the earth on nothing!! How in the world did Job know?? Again he didn't the Spirit of the Living God who created the world knew! Also we did not find this out really until we sent men to the moon.

Full of contradictions? Untrustable when it comes to scientific material? The Word of God was getting it right all along when everyone and I mean everyone was getting it wrong. Oh the wisdom of God, how great and awesome is He! Who alone is the Creator and Sustainer of the Universe, which is filled with His glory. Oh to Him be all praise and glory now and throughout eternity. AMEN

Indisputable proof.

2009-01-13T13:41:00.001-08:00

How do we know the Bible is truly the Word of God?? There are over 25,000 archeological finds that verify the Bible, there has never been one, I repeat there has never been one archeological find that disproves the Bible!! That is a pretty good track record. Many secularist and other non-believers in the Bible will say that the N.T was not complete until the end of the 2nd, the beginning of the 3rd century A.D. This is another lie that the evolutionist and non believers conjure up to discredit what God has said. The fact is, if you go to the writings of the early church leaders (who wrote from 90 to 127 A.D.) you can from their quotes and their sermons compile the N.T. in its entirety!! So that says the N.T. was complete and was in good circulation before the end of the 1st century. Another indisputable proof t the validity of the Word of God.

Yet the strongest argument for the authenticity of the Scriptures is the fact of fulfilled prophecy. This is truly the nail in the coffin when it comes to whether or not the Bible is truly the Word of God. Isaiah 46:9-10 says "I am God and there is no other, I am God and there is noone like Me, I declare the end from the beginning." So God says He declares what is to come, the future. Do we see this in the Bible. Isaiah 45 names King Cyrus by name 200 years before he was even born. The Dead Sea Scrolls prove that Isaiah wrote that before and not after Cyrus came to power. Ezekiel 26 God says that the city of Tyre would never again be rebuilt and the only thing it would be used for is to dry fishing nets, the very purpose it is used today!! Psalm 22 is a Messianic Psalm, it mentions some of the last words Jesus spoke from the cross "My God My God why have Thou forsaken Me?" It says they divide My clothes and cast lots for them, this Psalm says dogs have surrounded Me (speaking of Gentiles), it says they have pierced My hands and My feet. This was written 1100 years before Christ came to this earth. It was written 800 years before crucifixion was even practiced and yet it says they have pierced My hands and My feet. Micah 5:2 says Christ would be born in Bethlehem, Zecheriah 12:10 says they will look on Me whom they have pierced. All written before Christ came into the earth.

Jesus fulfilled hundreds of prophecies when He lived here on the earth. The mathematical odds for Jesus to fulfill 7, (keep in mind He fulfilled 100's) would be the same odds as you someone covering the entire earth in 4x4 white tiles. Hiding a gold star under one of them, and you walking up on the very 1st try and finding that gold star. By the way, you are blindfolded!! This would absolutely be impossible, think about the mathematical odds of Jesus fulfilling all the prophecies that He did!! It would be impossible yet with God all things are possible. Matthew 19:26

The Teleological argument

2009-01-01T13:06:00.000-08:00

I have always been the type of person who wonders why things work they way they do. The more complex the machine is, the more there is to wonder about. The Greek word for the cosmos is kosmos! The word literally means order. 1 Corinthians 14:33 says God is not a God of disorder... with this being the case, we should expect to see order in the things that God created! I mean since He is a God of order, and not disorder we should see this played out in the things of God. Do we??? The Bible makes no bones about it, in Genesis 1:1 the Bible says in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now either we believe this or we do not. Yet is there evidence that supports the Biblical account of creation. The answer is a resounding yes!!! Now keep in mind evolution says that the world in which we live came about by random chance, and dumb luck if you will (even though they would not use that phrase.) Yet is this what we see when we look at the world in which we find ourselves inhabiting? The heavens when you look at the evidence (without presuppositions) do indeed declare the glory of God the Great Creator. The world in which we live is so fine tuned that it is mathematically impossible that it could have arisen from chance. It is impossible for Darwinian evolution to account for the complex system of the universe.

If one was to drop a nuclear bomb on a plane junkyard, when the dust cleared what would be the odds that a 747 with full working instrumentation would be sitting ready for take off? This is insanity, an explosion does not create kosmos (order) but the very opposite chaos. Well then explain the universe to me that way!! Yet many do. So how can I say that the universe in which we live is so finely tuned?? Well the galaxy which we find ourselves in, is the perfect size in fact if it were too large, the infusion of gas and stars would disturb the suns orbit and ignite too many galactic eruptions, if it were too small insufficient infusion of gas to sustain star formation for long enough time. In layman's terms life could not exist. And on and on I could go yet you can read all the evidence yourself at

http://www.reasons.org/resources/apologetics/design_evidences/2001_fine_tuning_for_life_on_earth.shtml

God is awesome!!!

2008-12-17T18:27:00.001-08:00

I have been in contact with an atheist from New York and I am trying to show him the truth of the Word of God. He has sent me an email and said that the prophecies of the Bible were "so vague", after I gave him evidence to prove the opposite; when confronted with undeniable truth his response was "your boring me", of course I forwarded it to all of my "unintelligent" creationist friends. Yet as we move into this season where the focus is on the Lord Jesus Christ (as much as the liberals are trying to change this), it is exciting what God has said thousands of years before Christ came to earth, He brought it about. This just shows that God unlike us, always keeps His word.

Yet the fulfilled prophecies of the Bible are solid proof to the divine authorship to the Word of God. The mathematical odds for Jesus to fulfill 7 prophecies, (keep in mind that He fulfilled hundreds) are astronomical. In fact a mathematician has figured the odds of Jesus fulfilling seven prophecies. (Keep in mind all the while that He fulfilled hundreds). The mathematical odds of Jesus fulfilling just 7 prophecies would be the same as if you covered the entire earth in 4x4 inch while tiles, with a gold star hidden under one!!! Then you walking up on the very first try and finding the tile with the gold star under it, oh yea by the way you are blindfolded!!! Now you may say that is impossible, truly there is nothing impossible with God because it certainly took place.

check out this website for a list of prophecies Christ Himself fulfilled.

http://www.clarifyingchristianity.com/m_prophecies.shtml

2008-12-11T09:12:00.000-08:00

I recently got a comment on my blog and I would love to share it with you. I will leave the name of this individual anonymous but see if you can see what is missing in his comment.

"I appreciate the spammed post on my blog. I deleted one and posted the other. No Darwin did not have an electron microscope, nor did he know about DNA. Had he, I predict that the would have really enjoyed the vast amount of evidence supporting his basic premise that one can find there". (Which this person commenting does not mention here!!!). " Are cells simple? Not really(not really, look at your science not at all!!!). But simply arguing that they are so complex that could not have arisen by 'chance' and thus evolution is false thus biblical creationism is true is just wrong on so many levels." (yet he does not mention or give facts stating how it is wrong!!) "And I wouldn't be so quick to trust the claims by the folks at ICR in the first place (which he offers zero evidence why other than they disagree with his ideology).- they require al of those associated with them to take oaths that they will never cast doubt on creationism (simply not true), and have a pretty good tract record of having their, shall we say, less than honest antics exposed (Which again he fails to mention one single occurrence.)

Did you see what was missing throughout this man's whole entire argument?? Facts? Again where are the facts, he has been reduced to name calling and empty allegations. Offer me one proof of anything you say. Read my blog post simply not simple in which I quote Charles Darwin!! Yet he offers zero evidence on which his position stands. Then the evolutionist like this man have the audacity to claim that we are the ones who believe in blind faith, who have no evidence. DNA has the amount of info to fill 500 books with a 1000 pages each, an incredible amount of information on a molecular level. Where does this information come from?? How would Darwin be overjoyed if he had an electron microscope?? WHat is it within a cell supports organic evolution?? Darwin himself said the opposite, he said "if it can be demonstrated that any complex organ exited which could not have possibly been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down". (Origin of species) 1872, p.154

So this man who commented said Darwin would be overjoyed, when he himself wrote the quote above which is exactly what we see in a cell. Darwin wouldn't be overjoyed, he would calling for the glory that is due to the Great Creator...

That's not fair....

2008-12-09T05:28:00.000-08:00

I am sure that everyone of us have used the phrase "that's not fair"! Probably more as kids than adults but no doubt as adults we have used this. When an injustice is committed whether it be something as big as murder or as something trivial as someone taking our seat on a public bus, there is something that cries out within us "where is the justice". No matter how one tries to suppress the knowledge of God in creation, the same God made us in His own image; bearing the image of the Creator has many different aspects to it, but one is the desire for justice. The late C.S. Lewis, a brilliant scholar and a defender of the faith that is so bitterly under attack, presents a brilliant argument for this cry for justice in Mere Christianity. He calls is the moral argument that proves the existence of God. He says so rightly, we always appeal to a standard. When an injustice is committed we will say that's unjust or that is unfair. So we are appealing to a standard of fairness.

Who set up this standard of fairness?? No doubt the evolutionist will say oh well just like we evolved from goo to you via the zoo, morality likewise evolved. Yet what does God's Word say?? The Bible says in Hebrews 8:10 I will write my laws on their hearts. I have heard stories of missionaries going into villages in the most remote, unreached, areas in Africa who did not know there were 10 commandments, much less what they were; the missionaries asked what are the laws in this village? The response was do not murder, do not steal, do not commit adultery, etc. How in the world did these natives who have never heard the Bible, quote the 1o commandments of God?? Again because God has written it upon their hearts.

As far as the morality evolving issue, there is never a time in human history as far as I know that morality has not existed. We see pictures (which by the way are artists inventions and not accurate) of cave men as savages, who live by the law of the land. Yet this is not what we see ever since the beginning we see law, now of course there are lawbreakers, in fact the Bible says there is no human that ever lived without sinning (Romans 3:23). Yet law has always exited so how could it have evolved?? Evolution says we are getting better, is that what we see in our society?? Not at all we see man getting worse, we see people committing more crimes than ever. Yet what does the word of God say, even men will grow from bad to worse, the Bible says lawlessness will increase. Exactly what we see in society!! Coincidence??

http://www.icr.org/love-of-God/

simply not simple...

2008-12-05T07:56:00.000-08:00

Darwin did not have the blessing of having electron microscopes that we have today. Darwin himself said "if it can be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possible have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down". (Origin of Species) 1872 p. 154.

What you see above is the nail in the coffin for the Darwinian evolutionary theory. A recent email from an evolutionist said " I am asking you to not look around at all the different species now present, but for the fun of it go back to a time when a simple cell miscodes and starts a new direction." There is a problem with this, you cannot back to when the cell was simple that time does not exist!! The cell from the very start has been complex and there simply is no evidence that ever shows a time when the cell was anything but complex!

Life in all aspects of it, when properly studied reveals that there is simply nothing simple about life. From the tiniest cell (which by the way you are made up of billions of) to the complex galaxy and even further the universe in which we exist is absolutely, mind blowing, unfathomably complex!! How does this level of complexity arise by chance and left to itself. This the evolutionist simply do not have an answer for.

http://www.icr.org/wisdom-of-God/

Check out this website and realize that we are fearfully and wonderfully made... Psalm 139

They are without excuse....

2008-12-04T10:48:00.001-08:00

The Bible says the fool says in his heart there is no God. 1 John says they speak as one of the world, therefore the world listens to them. Yet God's Word is true though every man be a liar. I tremble when I think about the evolutionist, who spent his life denying and suppressing the truth of the Great Creator, when they bow before Him on that day. Oh how I pray that they come to saving faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
The Bible says that God's hand print is evident in creation so that no one has an excuse before Almighty God. In fact for anyone to come to the opposite conclusion, the Bible says they are suppressing the truth in unrighteousness. How can God's attributes be seen in what is created?? 1 Corinthians 14 says that God is not a God of disorder but of peace. So with that said we should see order in creation since it is created by the God of order Himself. WE DO!!! Creation whether on the astronomical scale or the biological scale is unfathomably ordered. We get our word cosmos (another name for the universe) from the Greek word kosmos. This word literally means order. There is order, in fact the evolutionist say that the scale of order that we see in creation is due to dumb luck and chance. Let me ask you when is the last time you ever saw a puzzle come together when left by itself? No it takes intelligence to put something as small as a puzzle together, how much more the complexity of the universe or a cell??

According to their kinds...

2008-11-28T09:33:00.000-08:00

God created the sea monsters, God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind; and God saw that it was good. Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth after their kind"; and it was so. God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind; and God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:24-25

Over and over in Divine truth we read this phrase "after their kind". One almost comes to the conclusion that "ok we get the point" kind of thinking. Why out of His eternal genius would the Holy Spirit decide to use this phrase so many times?? He knew that truth shortly after He inspired these words would be under attack and would remain under attack until the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Yet lets look at this phrase for a second. God created each species of animal after their own kind. So God did not create 1/2 fish 1/2 birds/ He did not create 1/2 man 1/2 primate. The Bible is clear that God created each living creature after their kind. Now there existed a gene pool within each kind if you will. The potential for a many variety of dogs existed within the created dog, and we see the results of this today. We see many varities of dogs, my mom has a poodle that drives me crazy. Yet we never see in the fossil record or from any other evidence, a dog transitioning into a cat. God out of His creative genuis confined the species to be able to breed only within a given species. Never do we see a giraffe being able to breed with a donkey. God has set boundaries.

Natural Selection as coined by the evolutionist is the process that removes qualities that are less favorable for the conditions and as a result new spieces are formed.
Natural selection is the process by which favorable heritable traits become more common in successive generations of a population of reproducing organisms, and unfavorable heritable traits become less common, due to differential reproduction of genotypes. Over time, this process may result in adaptations that specialize organisms for particular ecological niches and may eventually result in the emergence of new species. In other words, natural selection is the mechanism by which evolution may take place within a given population of organisms.

Never have we seen in the fossil record or from the naked eye emergence of new species. http://www.icr.org/natural-selection/ The battle for truth is still being waged

Where is the change???

2008-11-26T13:16:00.000-08:00

Before you ask no this is not the bass I caught this week. This is the remains of a fish captured in a fossil, now this fossil dates back hundreds if not thousands of years. Now the ?? begs to be asked where is the change? Well the evolutionist would say it takes time to change, they do not happen over hundreds or even thousands of years, it takes millions. Yet there is only one problem with the missing link, it is missing because it does not exist.

The Nebraska man which was found was supposed to be the coveted missing link. Something like 50 evolutionary scientist got their P.H.D.'s from Nebraska man. Come to find out Nebraska man turned out to be a pigs tooth. What does that say about those men's P.H.D's? They are as good as toilet paper. Lucy was the nail in the coffin, scientist have determined lucy is an ape. There has even been "missing links" that have turned out to be dinosaur fossils with feathers glued to them! I am totally not joking about this, check this out for yourself. I know it is almost comical. Oh the depths that people will go to, to deny God and to suppress the truth that He alone is Creator and Sustainer of all life.

Romans 1:21 For even though they knew God they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but became futile in their speculations and their foolish hearts were darkened

The "faith" of evolution

2008-11-26T12:31:00.000-08:00

Evolutionist are always saying that creationist are "crazy people" who walk by blind faith. Isn't that something. Now I am a Bible believing Christian and let me tell you something, I cannot answer for anyone else but I certainly do not walk by blind faith. The faith which Christians walk by is intelligent faith based upon the evidence that supports the Word of God.

No other book in human history has been put through the scrutiny that the Bible has, and come forth shining in all of its glory. There has never been one archeological find, not one that has discredited the Bible. There has been over 25,000 archeological finds that determine that the Biblical writers were accurate in the things that they wrote. In the movie Expelled Michael Ruse says that he believes life "piggy backed" on the back of crystals to the earth. What??!!! And this guy is a credible science? Talk about blind faith, where in the world is the evidence for that? Also wouldn't have the earth's atmosphere burned up the crystals thus destroying the life that was "hitching a ride". This is comical, it really does take more faith to believe this, than it does that there is an all powerful Creator God.

I will join in what Mr. Ben Stein says in his awesome movie "I thought we were talking about science not science fiction". This is crazy that they would even begin to believe something along these lines much less teach to people! Yet they call the Bible fairy tale?? You decide.

Romans 1:18 for the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness

2008-11-26T06:26:00.000-08:00

The 2nd law of thermodynamics (aka entropy) says in essence everything is moving from a state of order to a state of disorder. In other words things are breaking down. This law of science is seen in everything from the human body to the automobile in which you drive. Want to deny entropy, never change the oil, fluids, check the air pressure in your tires, fill your car with gas etc, and entropy is going to take place. Now keep in mind this is a law of science. There are very few laws of science because a law of science has to be absolutely the case and be tried many many times before it can be declared a law.

So think about this for a second if everything is moving from a state of order to disorder as this law of science shows, then that would mean that there was one time when everything was in pristine condition. This would mean that everything at one time was at its best and is now wearing down and eventually will one day wear out. Yet this is exactly the opposite of what evolutionist teach!!! They teach the primitive earth was a flat, ugly, mess. Keep in mind the 2nd law of thermodynamics is just that a law. Why do I emphasize this? Listen to what one evolutionary website proclaims and in doing so denies a law of science.

"The infant earth that is pictured by scientist today basks in a sun that shines with 70% of its present power (now they say the power of the sun is getting stronger but a law of science denies this!!). A world with no free oxygen in the atmosphere (how can there be no oxygen when they say the ocean existed H2O oxygen is present in water!!!) and no sounds other than wind, the hissing lava against water (H2O!!), and meteorites hitting the earth. (By the way all of this is speculative, there is no evidence that supports this story of the early earth). No plants, no animals, no bacteria, or viruses existed on the earth. From that point on, scientific opinion vastly diversifies. (So most if not all scientist agree up to this point, thus denying the law of entropy!!!). It continues, " in a steamy world after accretion, earth may have been ( again speculating) a ball of fiery magma. Volcanoes, geysers, and hydrothermal vents would have leached out vital compounds where reactions could ensue (and they call the Bible fantasy??!!)".

Anyway you get the point that they say oh the earth was a mess and we are getting better. The 2nd law of thermodynamics a law of science denies this. It says everything was great and is getting worse. Yet what does the Bible say " and God saw everything that He had made and behold it was very good" Genesis 1:31. The Bible says that in the beginning everything was very good and after the fall of man is getting worse. Not coincidence that this agrees amazingly with a law of science.

Agenda???

2008-11-25T18:30:00.000-08:00

An Agenda?? Recently I was blessed with the opportunity to see Expelled by Mr. Ben Stein. I loved it!! I cannot imagine that it would be a best seller on Richard Dawkins or Paul Meyers list. Yet in this movie it exposes the real agenda that the evolutionist have. I have to wonder why is it that they will not even begin to allow Intelligent Design to be taught in schools? I am a youth minister and I have worked with kids extensively for several years now, and let me tell you these kids are intelligent (this due to random chance and dumb luck of course). Yet I wonder why both evidences are presented and let the student decide where the evidence leads them.

The theory of evolution is one that is built on sinking sand! First of all you have people like Stanley Miller who could not produce life in a test tube, or men like Haeckal who lied about his "embryos". Yet these 2 are still in science books today, now the one man failed and the other lied and yet they are still deemed credible??? Or what about the Nebraska man which turned out to be a pigs tooth and something like 50 scientist got their P.H.D's from this. What does that say about their degrees? They are as good as a kleenex on a cold day!!

Yet with all of this evidence against evolution they still say that creation is not science. Let me ask you then what defines science? It certainly cannot be evidence because there is none for evolution. It has to be opinion. Be careful because behind every opinion there is lurking an agenda somewhere in the midst.

Let God be true though every man a liar

Romans 3:4

What about evidence???

2008-11-25T18:18:00.000-08:00

Why is the evidence for the Bible so quickly swept under the rug? What about kings who were named by name 200 years before they were even born (Isaiah 45). Psalm 22 says they have pierced My hands and My feet. This was 800 years before crucifixion was even practiced and 1100 years before Christ came to earth. The mathematical odds for Jesus to fulfill 7 prophecies (keep in mind He fulfilled hundreds) would be the same odds as you covering the entire earth in 4inchX4inch white tiles, with a gold star hidden underneath only one tile, and you walking up on the very 1st try and finding it. Oh by the way you are blindfolded! Now you may say well that is impossible, can you imagine what the odds are for Jesus to fulfill all the prophecies He did?! They are astronomical, they cannot be fathomed. Only God knows perfectly the future and has shown that He certainly knows by predicting with pin point accuracy events well into the future. 1/4 of the Bible is prophetic and of all the prophecies that have to do with past events all have come true. not one of them has failed. God's Word has a 100% track record when it comes to pronouncing what will take place. How can one disbelieve when there is that much evidence??

I am God and there is no other, I am God and there is no one like Me. Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things which have not been done.

Isaiah 46:9-10

Oh No!!! WHere are my facts???

2008-11-25T16:48:00.001-08:00

A fact according to the New Oxford American Dictionary is "a thing that is indisputably the case". The problem is marco evolution does not fit into this category. Macro evolution has never been observed via the fossil record or the naked eye. There was a head of a British museum who contacted the head of a museum in New York. Now both of these men were P.H.D's, staunch evolutionist, and had been for 30+ years. The head of the British asked "give me one fact of evolution. One fact we know for sure" He said "all I got was silence". He then proceeded to call the head of a museum in Chicago, again another lifelong evolutionist. He asked him likewise "give me one fact we know for sure about evolution, he said all I got was silence and then I got I know it shouldn't be taught in schools"!! What in the world? How can we form a whole scientific "theory" on something that is completely void of facts?? Charles Darwin said if transitional fossils were never found, he was wrong. He also said that if it can be shown that intricate organelles exist in the cell he was wrong. No transitional fossils has ever been found and we have found intricate organelles in a cell! So why haven't the evolutionist abandoned the "theory" that Darwin himself would have abandoned by his own admission by now?? They are holding on to a belief with zero evidence and they say that creationist are the ones who walk by blind faith!! If there is anyone who can give me one fact for evolution please do so, my email is Lousisvchr@aol.com.

Romans 1:20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse!!

Oh No!!! WHere are my facts???

2008-11-25T16:48:00.000-08:00