From AiG:
When Church goes to the Dogs. An Erroneous Exegesis.
11 11 2009He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation.” -Mark 16:15
When our Lord and Savior said that to his disciples during “The Great Commission”, somehow I don’t think this is what he had in mind:
If Pastor Eggebeen is wondering whether “All Dogs go to Heaven”, I don’t think he’ll ever find out.
Thanks to my buddy Glen over here who runs a great Political blog for sending this story my way.
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Tags: canines at covenant, Church, dogs, god, growth, Jesus, religion, tom eggebeen, woofs n worship
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The Princess Bride, The Bride of Christ, and a Professor.
10 11 2009Those of us who came “of age” after Ferris Bueller took a day off, but before Britney Spears promoted masochistic teenage relationships would have grown to love a family video with fewer hidden meanings then the average Disney flick.
One of the best lines that would later be distorted by our Commander and Chief “is” the following:
“Why do you always say that word? I do not think it means what you think it means…”
Any guesses as to who said it?
One more hint: ‘Ello, my name is ______ you killed my father, prepare to die.”
If you said “Inigo Montoya”, you’d be right.
Professor Luidens from “Hope College” Michigan is quite hopeful the Reformed Church of America is done for.
He cheekily remarks, “Listen. Do you hear them? Those are the gentle, mournful sounds of a denomination imploding”
Lest you read this and say, “Wait! How can the Reformed Church be declining? What about Piper, Chandler, Driscol, and others who are seeing massive growth?”. The Reformed Church of America (RCA) is a a denomination with full communion fellowship with the ELCA and PCUSA.
Is it just as liberal as those denominations?
I don’t know, but it does make me wonder: If Ultra-Liberal Radio stations can’t survive, Uber-Liberal TV staions are on the decline, and the Liberals teaching science can’t stand up to their Christian students without special training seminars, then why do same Liberal Churches that make winning seats rather than winning souls their top priority insist on being Liberal in the first place? Isn’t it now being shown that being conservative actually gets more listeners/viewers/attenders?
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She is the scariest person Planned Parenthood has ever seen.
8 11 2009
Antoni Flew.
Charles Templeton.
Lee Strobel.
What makes all these men incredibly dangerous to their respective opposition is that they once belonged to the worldviews they now oppose.
What if someone merely had to understand the cause they dedicated their life to in order to break the hand that once fed them.
For Abby Johnson, all it took was witnessing what she regularly recommended for her to give 2 weeks notice.
Up until a few weeks ago, Ms. Johnson was a Clinic Director in Texas working for Planned Parenthood. She witnessed an Abortion in real-time, via Ultrasound, and had what the Christian Post referred to as “Change of Heart.”
Here, Education is all it took for conversion.
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Tags: abby johnson, abortion, abortion clinic, Debate, planned parenthood, pro choice, Pro Life, rights, texas
Categories : Life
Christianity Today Hits one out of the park
5 11 2009Maybe it’s elitism snobbery.
Maybe it’s the Bio-Pieces that make McLaren and Rob Bell demonstrative of mainstream Christianity, and brush under the rug 1,000 far more worthy Orthodox Christians doing amazing things.
Maybe it’s the fact the Gospel is a footnote found somewhere in the margins of the popular mag.
Whatever the reason, Christianity Today (CT) is trashed by many in the Reformed camp, and defaced by the ultra-orthodox conservatives.
Is all that about to change?
CT joined forces with Lausanne to produce an 8 minute documentary that would rival John Piper’s insanely popular video on the “Prosperity Gospel”.
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Tags: Africa, documentary, Global Conversation, god, Heresy, Heretics, Jesus, Joel Osteen, Preaching, Prosperity Gospel, religion, travel
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When the Hippies rule the world.
4 11 2009
It is no secret that our friends across the pond are moving at a disturbing rate towards… Well, there isn’t really a name for it, is there?
On the one hand there are Brits trying to allow far more religion by starting Sharia law.
On another they are forbidding religion in certain businesses, and actively trying to remove those individuals that dare try to pray.
And still on another they are making almost anything qualify as religion (I have previously wrote about the terrible persecution that befalls Jedi who dare dawn the cloak in public).
Have you ever heard a brave soul utter the words: “Environmentalism is like a cult!”
Be honest, you know you’ve thought it.
What if it really were classified as a religion? What if, because of your refusal to shower, your instance on open-toed footware known as “Birkenstock’s”, your mad tye-dying wardrobe, and your love of all things “Hybrid”, “Organic”, or “Steve Jobs”, you were let go from the Maitre d gig at a 5 star restaurant?
See, if “Environmentalism” were classified as a religion, that Apple lovin’ (Organic and iPodesque) Hippie Maitre d could be the guy you slip a twenty to in order to avoid the wait at your next Anniversary dinner. See, he’d have the same protection from being fired based on religious practices that those of us who cling our Religion and Guns do.
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Tags: al gore, Business, evironmentalism, god, green, hybrid, Jesus, Persecution, religion
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Ken Ham asks, “Who are the Child Abusers”?
3 11 2009In a recent article, Ken Ham responds to the frequent attack brought on him by “New Atheists” that he is promoting “Child Abuse” by telling children they are made in accordance with the Bible (“Fearfully and Wonderfully”, I might add). And not simply the “Pond Scum” that Scientific American and other Secularists would accuse us all of being.
Interesting read…
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Tags: evolution, darwin, Creation, Debate, Answers in Genesis, aig, Secular, Ken Ham
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When nothing has nothing to do with Theology
2 11 2009I’m trying to put more original content on this blog rather than providing an ongoing commentary. Here’s basically my first attempt at a YouTube uploading.
A day at the park with the daughters of our dear friends whom I talk theology with every time we hang out. Since he wasn’t there I tried doing the same with one of his girls, and it went rather great. We do need more female Apologists, and she very well may fit the bill in a few years.
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Tags: ducks, god, heaven, interview, Jesus, park, religion, theology, travel, video
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What’s new with proofs.
29 10 2009I’ve decided to be more diligent with my “Proofs” section at the top here since I’ve finished school. I’m going to try to add at least one every week. That being said, I won’t be allowing comments in any of the tabs at the top, so I figured I’d post it here so some of you would get a chance to voice your rebuttals to the proofs I’m putting up there.
The following “Proofs” are in my own words, and not entirely faithful to the original language the philosophers intended. I have done this, not because I am any smarter than the original authors, but quite the opposite. I have reworded these to make them understandable to men like myself who can only marvel at the intellect of great thinkers.
PHILISOPHICAL_________________________________________________________________________________________________
Anselms Argument:
If an un-caused first cause Creator exists, that Creator is necessary.
If that Creator does not exist, His existence is impossible.
Therefore, either He exists, or does not exist.
Therefore, either His existence is necessary or impossible.
Are you willing to say that the Existence of that Creator is impossible (only someone with omniscience could make such a claim), therefore He is necessary.
COSMOLOGICAL_________________________________________________________________________________________________
Thomistic Argument:
1. Our Universe is interdependent (Plants need our Oxygen and we need their C02, sexual beings are dependent upon each other for species survival…)
2. A sequence of events that are dependent cannot be infinite.
3. An un-caused first-cause (God) would have had to create dependent beings simultaneously in order to ensure their survival and begin the dependency process.
MATHEMATICAL____________________________________________________________________________________________________
Statistical zero is the amount that mathematicians agree to, that if chances for something fall below, then for all intents and purposes thee is no chance that said event can occur. To visualize it, it would go something like this:
1/100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
To put it in perspective, chances that you will win Powerball is less than 1/200,000,000
It has been estimated, that at minimum, the chances that our planets exists and is able to support advanced life is:
1/100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
In summary, there is zero chance God had nothing to do with us being here.
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Tags: atheism, creationism, creationist, darwin, Debate, evolution, Evolutionism, evolutionist, god, Jesus, reason, religion, Skeptic
Categories : Apologetics
Dawkins, Baby Boys, and Enemies.
29 10 2009
According to a recent UK poll, 54% of our more well behaved, Tea-drinking, ape-cestors believe intelligent design should be taught alongside Evolution in schools. I only expect that number to go up.
But not because a Spurgeon protege will start a revival in London streets.
Not because people will recognize that Evolutionary theory repeatedly contradicts scientific laws (2nd law of thermodynamics, statistical zero…)
According to the Daily Telegraph:
Mohammed is most popular name for baby boys in London
If you think that what will be taught as “Intellegent Design” in UK schools will start something like “In the Beginning, God…”, you’re sadly mistaken.
It will go more like this:
“Allah created the heavens and the earth, and all that is between them, in six days…” -Sura 7:54
If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then who is our enemy and who is our friend here?
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Tags: creationism, darwin, Dawkins, evolution, god, Islam, Jesus, Koran, mohammed, quran, Skeptic
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