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The Latin word “firmamentum” expresses the concept of the sky as a strong supporting structure and is used in Genesis 1:6 and elsewhere to translate the Hebrew word רָקִיעַ that expresses the concept of the solid dome over the flat earth. On page 21 of his commentary on Genesis, the late John...

Hebrews 6:4. For it is impossible to restore again to repentance those who have once been enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit, 5. and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, 6. and then have fallen away, since...

We have massive amounts of data showing us very clearly and in great detail what pre-reformation Christians believed going back to the early Ante-Nice Church Fathers. That data includes massive amounts of data showing us that very many of them taught conditional security and never in a defensive...

When a person is born again, he/she becomes a partaker in a heavenly calling—an heir of God and joint heir with Christ. And that inheritance is not just a pie in the sky; it also includes our suffering with Christ (Rom. 8:17), and is conditional upon our holding our first confidence firm to the...

1 Peter 3:18. For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit; 19. in which also He went and made proclamation to the spirits now in prison, 20. who once were disobedient...

???! The Great Schism (the Schism of 1054 between the Roman church based in Rome and the Byzantine church based in Constantinople) had absolutely nothing to do with the doctrine of conditional security. Both churches invariably taught the doctrine of conditional security and continue to teach...

The Epistle to the Hebrews is addressed to “holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling” and it is said in the same verse (3:1) that Jesus is the Apostle and the High Priest of the confession of both the recipients and the writer. Therefore the epistle is written to Hebrew Christians, true...

God said no such thing! Genesis 12-50 is written in the genre of literature known as the “Historical Narrative.” Genesis 1-11 is written in a very different genre of literature that is not found anywhere else in the Bible, but is found in epic tales, sagas, myths, and legends— genres of...

There are no scientific, logical arguments within the article. It is nothing but religious drivel based upon gross ignorance of the Bible and a radical disregard for the truths that God himself has chosen to make known to us through the natural sciences.

The article is religious nonsense with no basis of scientific fact so there is nothing to discuss. We are now well into the 21st century and Christians should know better than to accept the word of religious workers pedaling false science over the word of well over 3,000,000 actual scientists...

I am well aware of Jeffrey Tomkins education and credentials, especially of the fact that he earned his Ph.D. from Clemson University where he studied agricultural genetics rather than the genetics of natural populations. In fact, Clemson University is a very small university that does not offer...

The author of “Six Biological Evidences for a Young Earth” is Jeffrey Tomkins, an employee of the Institute for Creation Research. Like the other 42 or so “Ph.D. Scientists” around the world identified by Young earth Creationist organizations he is opposed by well over 3,000,000 men and women...

Genesis 1-11 is written in a genre of literature that is not found anywhere else in the Bible. It is a very different genre of literature than the Genesis 12-50 is written in, but it is the same genre of literature as the ancients used in their epic tales, sagas, myths, and legends. Scholars of...

As has already been posted many times without any documented refutation, the earth has been very carefully and accurately measured and found to be 4.54 billion years old. This measurement has been accepted as accurate by all of the more than 100 branches of the natural sciences. It has nothing...

The Institute for Creation Research uses the expression “came from” instead of “descended from” to express the same process—but what was that process? About 10.8 million years ago, the cat family began to split off into 8 Lineages consisting of 2 subfamilies, 14 genera, and 41 species...

We don’t! We have overlaps of the tree ring sequences.

As I posted, “The Bristlecone Pine trees (Pinus longaeva) living in the White Mountains of California, and Bristlecone Pine trees that have died in the White Mountains of California…” Because of the very dry and cold climate in which these trees live and die, the tree rings of the trees that...

However, the important issue here is that we have today three very popular and influential organizations that teach Young Earth Creationism: Institute for Creation Research Answers in Genesis Creation Ministries International These three organizations, along with some smaller ones, make up a...

A third ring? Please explain the plant physiology and anatomy that would make that possible! The Bristlecone pine trees (Pinus longaeva) living in the White Mountains of California, and Bristlecone pine trees that have died in the White Mountains of California have given us a continuous...

Yes! I am absolutely denying that trees can grow several rings per year. In my post, I explained the circumstances that can, in very rare instances, cause a tree to produce a second—but not a third!—tree ring. This is especially true in climates like that of the White Mountains of California at...