Our Creator's Way is . . .
- the way of the cross -
sacrificing self
for the needs of others,
setting captives free.
The way of evolution is . . .
- survival of the fittest -
sacrificing others
for the desires of self,
seeking false freedom.
Is this "NATURE'S WAY"? A radio caller says:
"Disasters are NATURE'S WAY of weeding out the weak"
- the caller does not know the Good Shepherd's Way
- her a heart sounds hardened by an evil philosophy
Haiti Earthquake: The above quote was spoken by a woman radio caller to a talk show in New Orleans about the quake (FM 95.7 at 9am Wednesday January 20th)
So why do disasters happen in God's creation?
Please study the articles and links in our GSI website to find out.
To help the hurting through trustworthy ministries:
Recommended Services . . .
- Doubleharvest: Sowing Seeds of Life (100% to the needy in Haiti)
- Our young friend Jeremy Schurke (Hatian orphange missionary)
He is the perfect protector not the pinnacle predator
".... With righteousness He will judge the needy,
with justice he will give decisions for the poor of the earth ....
The wolf will lay down with the lamb
... and a little child will lead them
... the lion will eat straw like the ox ....
They will not hurt or destroy in all my Holy Mountain,
for the Earth will be full
of the knowledge of the LORD."
Isaiah 11:6-10
So why suffering, slavery, death?
- Is it by chance? If by choice, was it God's design or man's disobedience?
- Why do people in power so often become predators not protectors?
- Jesus' answer: self-deification caused separation, suffering . . . slavery
- The heart is the source and solution (not my will, but Thy will be done)
"Jesus said . . . . the truth will set you free . . . .
Everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin. . . .
So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed."
John 8:1-36
Why believe a biblical-creation worldview; not vertical evolution?
- It is a logikos conclusion from objective evidence (Heb 11:1).
- It is in sync with 1000's of respected PhD scientists, including:
* Dr. Raymond Damadian, Inventor of the MRI
* Dr. John Baumgardner, World renowned geophysicist, Los Alamos
* Dr. Andrew Snelling, Geologist, author Earth's Catastrophic Past
* Dr. John Sanford, Respected geneticist, Cornell University
-- author of Genetic Entropy: The Mystery of the Genome
* Dr. Russ Humphreys, Astrophysicist, Sandia National Labs, etc.
-- author of (Starlight and Time) (Evidences Young World Booklet)
* Dr. John Hartnett, Prof. Univ. West Australia, astrophysics, etc.
-- author of: (Dismantling the Big Bang) (Starlight Time New Physics)
* etc, etc . . . . .
- Above all, it is in sync with a literal, normal reading of Scripture . . .
. . . because Scripture and science are complementary not contradictory.
"At the outset, let us remember that every world-view, not just Christianity's, must give an explanation or an answer for evil and suffering. Either evil categorically proves that God does not exist, as the atheist avows, or evil is "not ultimately real evil" as the pantheist claims, or evil is most coherently explained by the Christian view of God and His purpose in Creation." [Emphasis added]
"In short, this is not a problem distinctive to Christianity. It will not do for the challenger just to raise the question. This problem of evil is one to which we all must offer an answer, regardless of the belief system to which we subscribe." (Dr. Ravi Zacharias, p. 108, JESUS AMONG OTHER GODS: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message)
[* Please note, while Ravi above does an excellent job demonstrating the universality of the inescapable question of suffering for all worldviews, RZIM has recently chosen to avoid the crucial cornerstone questions of when, how, and why suffering began. Only the full good news of Jesus Christ the Creator of both Old Eden and the promised New Earth can sufficiently answer these questions with intellectual and moral consistency.]
God Reveals Himself
General Revelation: His World (Rom 1:20-23)
* For example science reveals "DNA" is "Designed Not Accidental".
- Arche /"arkay" (Could space, time, matter, & energy arise from nothing?)
- Life (Could a cell/DNA arise from non-living matter?)
- Kinds (Could all the living genomes have arisen by mutations?)
- God (Would a good god design "survival of the fittest"?)
Special Revelation:
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His Word & His Son Yeshua (John 1:1; John 17:17)
- Prophetic proofs of a Divine author transcending time (Isa 41:1-45:1)
- Evidence supports a biblical worldview beyond doubt (Heb 11:1)
- In the beginning God created (Heb. bara) arche, life, kinds (Gen 1:1)
- God designed Eden, yet evil arose by man's free choice (Gen 3:1)
- Mutations, selection, & adaptation began after separation (Rom 8:20)
- God promises to restore a new creation like Eden (Isa 11:6-10)
Character Matters
Our "good" Creator did not design "wild"-life, horror, suffering, & death
God is a Good Shepherd protector and provider. (John 10:10)
He is not a predatory powerplayer. (2 Thess 2:3)
* Psycho-spiritual oppression can be just as destructive as physical.
"See to it that no one takes you captive
through philosophy and empty deception,
according to the tradition of men,
according to the elementary principles of the world,
rather than according to Christ.
For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form,
and in Him you have been made complete,
and He is the head over all rule and authority...."
Colossians 2:8-9
"Vindicate the weak and fatherless;
Do justice to the afflicted and destitute.
Rescue the weak and needy;
Deliver out of the hand of the wicked.”
Psalm 82:3-4
Book of Isaiah - Dead Sea Scroll (Facsimile Edition)
The Age of the Universe - Time Scales - Einstein's Relativity . . .
The following quote from creationary astrophysicist Dr. John Hartnett demonstrates the wonderful way science magnifies the accuracy of God's Word in Genesis:
"The simplest way to calculate the age of the universe, within the Big Bang worldview, is to wind its expansion back to zero. This is called the 'Hubble Age' because it is the inverse of the Hubble expansion constant. The best current estimate is 15 billion years, with an uncertainty of +/- 2 billion years."
". . . . While we do not accept all the assumptions that underlie these figures, there is no doubt that distance alone, plus a constant speed of light, yields a light-transit time far in excess of the biblical time scale, so we do accept the idea of an "old" cosmos within its own frame of reference, but the entire universe is young in earth-clock terms."
"Time dilation models can explain . . . . light from those distant galaxies took billions of years of galaxy time to reach earth, but the light that arrived here on creation day 4 (of earth-time, having traveled billions of years in galaxy-time) was the first light emitted from the newly created galaxies. So Adam and Eve would have been able to view them (had they been able to see them through a modern telescope) in their created positions. We today are seeing them 6,000 years after their creations as measured by earth clocks (even though the light took billions of years as measured by galaxy clocks to get here)."
[emphasis added]
Dismantling the Big Bang: God's Universe Rediscovered, pp. 199-201, by John Hartnett, PhD (astrophysics - University of Western Australia)
- See also Starlight, Time, and the New Physics, by Dr. Hartnett, in which he expands mathematically on the models of Einstein and Carmeli to answer many of the past problems associated with both the big bang and creation models.
- See also the article by Dr. Mark Harwood entitled, "How can distant starlight reach us in just 6,000 years?". Dr. Harwood's research has focused around the development and use of radiotelescopes.
Please remember that:
- Einstein showed time is a real property of the universe . . .
- Time is relative and actually changes due to gravity, velocity . . .
- Einstein's theories have been expanded by Carmeli, Harnett . . .
- The universe expanded (God "stretched out the heavens")
- Its age literally depends on your space/time perspective . . .
- So a relatively young universe can be billions of light-years in size.
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