Today was an interesting day. I have been devoting so much time to studying God's word and listening for wisdom and understanding that my family has started to feel a little left out. I know that God comes first, but I had been so eager to learn that I almost forgot about family being second.
We got together with good Christian friends for a swim in our community pool. While we were having fun, I started to talk about God (which it seems I can't stop talking about Him, and I hope that never stops).
After staying in the pool long enough to get wrinkled fingers, we invited them to stay for dinner. They said they had some things at home to do, but they invited my family over to their house for dinner instead. We graciously accepted.
We had some awesome potato soup and garlic bread with home made brownies for dessert. Of course, we started to talk about God again, and how my new eyes see God in everyday life.
We talked about Jesus and his teachings. Somehow we got on the subject of the Muslim faith. Some of his in law family are Muslims, and he says that they do not agree with all of the terrorism and extremism that some of them do in the name of Allah. He said that what happens to a lot of them is the extremist groups twist scripture (in this I am speaking of the Qur'an, not the Bible) and teachings to get people to do or believe anything they want them to believe.
I do not pretend to understand the complexities of the Muslim faith. I love them because God loves them and I would treat any of them the same as I would treat my own family.
I know it to be a false teaching since it does not lead to Christ.
In this country almost everyone can agree that the extremist groups have simply made whoever they want their enemy, declared Jihad and then exploited their OWN people to get what they want.
Is that so different from what happens here?
In our schools evolution is being taught as if it were a fact. At one time in my life, I also subscribed to this so called fact, though back then everyone openly called it a theory.
Lets look at the scientific community for a moment. Science says that they believe only things that can be proven. We all know what we can see and touch and smell and hear. We also know that we can feel things. You know when something is soft or hard by how they feel. You know you have emotions because you can feel them.
How do you know when the Holy Spirit comes over you? You feel it. Notice I said feel.
So, looking at it this way, science is totally ignoring an entire facet of the sense of touch. We all know we have emotions because every one feels them.
But when it comes to God, it takes faith to feel the Spirit move.
I watched a documentary a few months ago called Expelled: no intelligence allowed starring Ben Stein. I'm not really a fan of Ben Stein, but he had some good points. He interviewed some people in the scientific and educational community who had been fired or had their reputation destroyed because they dared to consider the fact that God is real.
It seems that Evolution is a direct attack on Christianity. Science can call a false teaching anything they want to make it sound better, but that doesn't change the fact that it is a false teaching.
I'm not here to try and nitpick on the process that God used to create all things. He simply said,"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." Wow, what a powerful statement. We really don't need to know all the intimate details of God's ways. In ten words He gives us exactly what we need to know.
Us here in America have a lifestyle that is different from that in many parts of the world. We have gotten so used to going to the store and buying what we need that we really don't know how these things are created. We have faith that someone somewhere knows how to make it, but we don't have to know how it was made to accept that it was created.
If we can have faith that some man or woman somewhere knows how a particular product is created, why can't we have faith that God, the creator, knows how we came to exist?
When a scientist wants to conduct an experiment, the first thing he or she does is to take a neutral unbiased stance.
I invite you to put aside your preconceived notions and assumptions, and look at the Bible for what it really is. I know that if you read it like a child would, you would find out for yourself that God is real.
We got together with good Christian friends for a swim in our community pool. While we were having fun, I started to talk about God (which it seems I can't stop talking about Him, and I hope that never stops).
After staying in the pool long enough to get wrinkled fingers, we invited them to stay for dinner. They said they had some things at home to do, but they invited my family over to their house for dinner instead. We graciously accepted.
We had some awesome potato soup and garlic bread with home made brownies for dessert. Of course, we started to talk about God again, and how my new eyes see God in everyday life.
We talked about Jesus and his teachings. Somehow we got on the subject of the Muslim faith. Some of his in law family are Muslims, and he says that they do not agree with all of the terrorism and extremism that some of them do in the name of Allah. He said that what happens to a lot of them is the extremist groups twist scripture (in this I am speaking of the Qur'an, not the Bible) and teachings to get people to do or believe anything they want them to believe.
I do not pretend to understand the complexities of the Muslim faith. I love them because God loves them and I would treat any of them the same as I would treat my own family.
I know it to be a false teaching since it does not lead to Christ.
In this country almost everyone can agree that the extremist groups have simply made whoever they want their enemy, declared Jihad and then exploited their OWN people to get what they want.
Is that so different from what happens here?
In our schools evolution is being taught as if it were a fact. At one time in my life, I also subscribed to this so called fact, though back then everyone openly called it a theory.
Lets look at the scientific community for a moment. Science says that they believe only things that can be proven. We all know what we can see and touch and smell and hear. We also know that we can feel things. You know when something is soft or hard by how they feel. You know you have emotions because you can feel them.
How do you know when the Holy Spirit comes over you? You feel it. Notice I said feel.
So, looking at it this way, science is totally ignoring an entire facet of the sense of touch. We all know we have emotions because every one feels them.
But when it comes to God, it takes faith to feel the Spirit move.
I watched a documentary a few months ago called Expelled: no intelligence allowed starring Ben Stein. I'm not really a fan of Ben Stein, but he had some good points. He interviewed some people in the scientific and educational community who had been fired or had their reputation destroyed because they dared to consider the fact that God is real.
It seems that Evolution is a direct attack on Christianity. Science can call a false teaching anything they want to make it sound better, but that doesn't change the fact that it is a false teaching.
I'm not here to try and nitpick on the process that God used to create all things. He simply said,"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." Wow, what a powerful statement. We really don't need to know all the intimate details of God's ways. In ten words He gives us exactly what we need to know.
Us here in America have a lifestyle that is different from that in many parts of the world. We have gotten so used to going to the store and buying what we need that we really don't know how these things are created. We have faith that someone somewhere knows how to make it, but we don't have to know how it was made to accept that it was created.
If we can have faith that some man or woman somewhere knows how a particular product is created, why can't we have faith that God, the creator, knows how we came to exist?
When a scientist wants to conduct an experiment, the first thing he or she does is to take a neutral unbiased stance.
I invite you to put aside your preconceived notions and assumptions, and look at the Bible for what it really is. I know that if you read it like a child would, you would find out for yourself that God is real.
