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What Are “Biblical Bifocals”?
Christians need to understand that
because the Bible is the revealed Word of God, and a
true record of history, the history of the universe, we
need to look at the world through the Bible. In other
words, we should always put on our biblical bifocals,
and then “Live from the Bible” in order to understand
the world.
For example, if you took your children to the Grand
Canyon and they asked you how the layers of rock and the
canyon formed, what would you say? If you put on your
biblical bifocals, you could answer this way:
Well, children, most, if not all of those layers contain
fossils. The Bible teaches that there was no death
before sin. Therefore, these layers could not have been
laid down millions of years ago, before Adam sinned.
But the Bible tells us about a global Flood. This
would have created many hundreds, or thousands of layers
that buried lots and lots of dead things. Also, the
catastrophic runoff would have carved the canyon.
Here is another example regarding dinosaurs. When we
put on our biblical bifocals, we can say many things
about dinosaurs. Things like they were created on the
sixth day, so they lived with man. They ate plants
before sin. They were on a huge boat that landed in the
Middle East, and so on.
By ‘Living from the Bible’, beginning
with the Book of Genesis, we can put on our biblical
bifocals so that we are always ready to give answers to
a world that needs them.
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The Limits
of God?
Since God is omnipotent, He could
have created everything in six seconds, six minutes, six days, or any
time period He chose. But the point is that it’s not what God could
have done, it’s what He said He did.
There are many, even within the
Church, who justify their acceptance of evolutionary time periods by
saying, “You literal six-day creationists are limiting God! I allow God
billions of years to create. I don’t limit Him to six days!”
However, believing that God created
everything in six literal days is not limiting Him. Instead, we are
limiting ourselves by not letting God tell us what He did. We
cannot tell God what He did. After all, only He was there.
Many people of all beliefs, or no
religion, do not seem to understand that the reason we believe God
created in six days is because we are letting God speak to
us through the language of the Bible. We cannot impose our ideas on
God’s Word. We must let God’s Word speak to us.
When we take this approach, it is
obvious from the language of Genesis that God created in six literal
days. Relying on the Bible alone, there is really no debate.
If
you point these things out to the brothers, you will be a good
minister of Christ Jesus, brought up in the truths of the faith and
of the good teaching that you have followed.
1 Timothy 4:6 KJV ER
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Is Evolution Science?
When
most people hear the word science, they think in terms of all the
wonderful technology we have today, like
computers, jet planes, cell phones, and so on.
Certainly, scientists have accumulated much
knowledge about this world and the laws which govern the universe.
This has enabled us to build the
wonderful technology we use today, like the
technology that sent you this email.
But when
most people hear the word evolution, they think in terms of
Darwin’s ideas concerning the supposed evolution of animals and man.
Darwinian evolution teaches that life
evolved from non-life millions of years ago,
and that over millions of years, one kind of animal changed into
another. Finally, man arose from some
ape-like ancestor.
Studying
evolution is very different from studying present-day processes that
have led to many amazing technologies. Molecules-to-man
evolution is a
belief concerning what supposedly happened in the past, but
no one was there to see it happen, or has seen it to
date. But, because of this belief,
evolutionists are free to put forward stories about abiogenesis,
which is non-living chemicals evolving into life, stellar
evolution, or apelike animals without direct
observation. Such scenarios are merely
belief statements.
The
ideas Darwin espoused were his beliefs concerning the past.
They are not science in the sense of
scientists being able to observe these things actually happening.
However,
we do not have to depend on mere guesses about the origin of the
universe and life. Thankfully we can
refer back to the eyewitness account given to
us by the One who was there, God the Creator, and passed on to us in
the Bible.
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Evolutionist Quote of the
Month
Carl Sagan on the
Beginning of Human Life, Part 1
“Despite many claims to the contrary, life does not begin at conception:
It is an unbroken chain that stretches back nearly to the origin of the
Earth, 4.6 billion years ago. Nor does human life begin at conception:
it is an unbroken chain dating back to the origin of our species, tens
or hundreds of thousands of years ago. Every human sperm and egg is,
beyond the shadow of a doubt, alive. They are not human beings of
course. However it could be argued that neither is a fertilized egg.”
– Carl
Sagan, Is It Possible To Be Pro-Life and Pro-Choice, Parade Magazine,
April 22, 1990, p. 5.
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Until
the next time! Enjoy
every second that
God has given you.
For indeed it is a blessing. |