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    Jim_Alaska reacted to *Light* in Memory trouble   
    Please pray for me as I am having trouble recalling certain things to memory or get things mixed up. Sometimes my mind is crystal clear and then there are times when I don't even know what day it is. This one time I went to work on a Saturday thinking it was Friday. I appreciate all the prayers.
     
     
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    Jim_Alaska reacted to *Light* in IFB Biblical Issues   
    Thank you BroJim, I greatly appreciate it.
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    Jim_Alaska reacted to HappyChristian in Evolution Evangelism   
    There is no such thing as "empirical"  evidence of evolution. No evolution has ever been observed. By anyone. And that makes evolution a pseudo-science, one based on assumptions made and guessed at (and proven wrong time and time again). Rather, evolution is a system of faith - because there is no empirical evidence, the person who accepts evolution must accept the words of those who propagate the teachings. And that is faith.
    Christianity is also faith. But herein lies the difference: Christianity is faith in the Creator God, based on His Word - and He was there at the time of creation, so He would know. Evolution is faith in fallible men who have been proven to be in error over and over.  Let me see, as I reason this out...to which faith will I subscribe? Which is the more reasonable and logical? Hmmm...it would have to be to accept the words of the One Who was actually there.  God is a God of reason and of logic, of order and of truth. He can be completely trusted in all areas, science included (let's never forget that "scientists" used to teach that the earth was the center of the universe, among other things that have been empirically proven incorrect - like spontaneous generation. Empirical observation has proven that life must come from life. And it all began when God said, "Let there be...").
    I think Henry Morris, who was not an IFB, put it very well in this article (apologies in advance for the length), The Splendid Faith of the Evolutionist
    "Christian faith is essential for salvation (Ephesians 2:8) but in one sense it is not all that difficult to have this kind of faith. After all, the amazing majesty, beauty and complexity of the universe should make it easy to believe in a great Creator God (Psalm 19:1; Romans 1:20), and the overwhelming body of objective evidence for the historicity of the person and work of Jesus Christ—including His bodily resurrection from the grave makes it easy enough to believe in His saving power. 1 But the faith of the evolutionist and humanist is of another order altogether. His is a splendid faith indeed, a faith not dependent on anything so mundane as evidence or logic, but rather a faith strong in its childlike trust, relying wholly on omniscient Chance and omnipotent Matter to produce the complex systems and mighty energies of the universe.
    The Harvard zoologist, P.D. Darlington, has penned a remarkable statement of this evolutionary faith, in his book Evolution for Naturalists. Acknowledging that the creative abilities of Matter are entirely enigmatic, he nevertheless bravely believes in them:
    Is not this a fine statement of faith? Even after looking down many avenues of potential evidence, Professor Darlington, more than 200 pages later, is still able to assert there is no evidence and thus his faith is still pure.
    The evolutionist faces a great temptation here, a serious stumblingblock to his faith. It seems utterly impossible that dead Matter could create Life. At this point, surely, he will have to defer to logic and acknowledge that Life must be produced by a Cause which is itself alive. After all, scientists long ago showed experimentally that life comes only from life.
    This faith in the life-generating powers of Matter glows even more brightly in light of the confessed bafflement of those scientists most familiar with the nature of life and its inexplicable naturalistic origin. One of these has said:
    In fact, the author of this confession, Dr. Orgel, seems at first to have wavered somewhat in his own faith. He and Dr. Francis Crick, co-discoverer of the remarkably complex DNA molecule, now known to be a basic component of life and of the genetic code which controls the reproduction of all living systems, have acknowledged that life was too complex to have arisen naturalistically in the few billion years of earth history.
    In actuality, however, their faith is still strong, perhaps even stronger than that of other evolutionists. They believe in "directed panspermia," the amazing notion that lifeseeds were planted on earth by an unknown civilization from some other world in outer space! The mere statement of this concept is itself adequate testimony to the grand credulity of the faith of these fine evolutionists, since there exists not one iota of scientific evidence for such ethereal civilizations.
    Another evolutionist of bold faith is Richard Dawkins, originator and popularizer of the remarkable concept of "selfish genes", an idea which itself bespeaks an unusual type of faith. Dawkins, who is on the faculty in zoology at England's famed Oxford University, maintains an unshakeable faith in Darwinian evolution, even at the molecular level, in spite of all the modern attacks thereon by fellow evolutionists. He acknowledges, of course, that the logical thing is to believe in God.
    Even though it is, indeed, quite obvious that every complex and purposeful system which man has ever seen produced throughout history has been the product of an intelligent human designer, Professor Dawkins is willing to believe that life itself, far more complex than any man-made contrivance, was not designed. He dismisses God in these patronizing words:
    He is right, of course. It requires only a very ordinary sort of faith to explain a given effect by a cause adequate to produce the effect. Much more faith is required, an extra-ordinary faith, to believe that effects are produced by causes that are not able to produce them! To believe that non-living matter can create life, that chaotic disorder can evolve itself into organized complexity, that unthinking atoms can sort themselves into thinking human beings,—here is a worthy faith!
    Evolutionary faith is not limited to biologists, of course. It can be appropriated by evolutionary humanists in philosophy, in economics, in politics, in all fields. A first-rate example was Adolph Hitler, whose implicit faith in Darwinism ("the preservation of favored races in the struggle for life", as the sub-title of Darwin's Origin of Species put it) gave him the vision and courage to array his assumed "master race" against the world, believing that its triumph would be for the greater good of all mankind in its ongoing evolutionary progress. Although his armies finally went down to defeat, he still retained his great faith!
    Note the strong and unselfish evolutionary faith of Adolph Hitler, willing even to sacrifice his entire Teutonic "race" and finally to take his own life, to advance the cause of evolution.
    Finally, let us consider the remarkable faith of Isaac Asimov, the most prolific science writer of our generation. Asimov believes that our present universe began with the Big Bang of a primeval cosmic egg, whose initial explosion led to the formation of chemical elements, stars, galaxies and finally people. Now note his fine statement of faith.
    Now explosions commonly produce disorder and disintegration, so this greatest of all explosions must have produced the ultimate in disorder and disintegration. Evolution requires, however, that the great Bang somehow yield great order and complex structures. Dr. Asimov, therefore, believes that the primeval egg possessed an almost infinitely high degree of order, even though it had no structure.
    Herein we encounter Asimov's deep faith. In all normal systems with which scientists work, "structure" and "order" are essentially synonymous, equivalent also to "information," "complexity," "organization," "integration" and other such terms. If it did what evolutionists believe it did, the primeval egg certainly must have possessed a tremendous amount of organizing information and it thus seems nonsensical to say it had no structure. Asimov believes not only in run-of-the-mill impossibilities but in the equivalence of opposites ("no structure" = "high order").
    However, Dr. Asimov does feel it necessary to attempt some kind of rationalization, knowing that people of lesser faith might otherwise stumble.
    At this point, he makes another leap of faith, proposing that the universe—instead of expanding, as he believes it is doing now—was contracting, with everything somehow in reverse and with its order increasing as it contracted. For this to be possible, of course, gravitational attraction has to be invoked to pull it together. The problem with this belief, however, is that the total mass of the matter in the universe is far too small to allow this ever to happen.
    Such a problem as this does not overcome the faith of an Asimov. He can handle it merely by another act of faith.
    Asimov's hunch, therefore, solves it all.
    We creationists, admittedly, find it difficult to believe all these things that evolutionists manage to believe. But we have always had a high regard for the principle of faith, even though our own faith is rather weak, based as it is on such strong evidence as almost to compel belief in the God of creation and redemption. We must, therefore, at least express admiration for the remarkable faith of the evolutionist."
    http://www.icr.org/article/splendid-faith-evolutionist/
     
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    Jim_Alaska got a reaction from BabeinChrist in Evolution Evangelism   
    Psm 107:2    Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy; 
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    Jim_Alaska reacted to Alan in Eternal Security vs O.S.A.S   
    Jim,
    Thank you very much for the article by Dr. Henry Ironside on the, "Eternal Security of the Believer." Dr. Ironside is more clearer on the issue.
    Alan
     
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    Jim_Alaska got a reaction from swathdiver in Eternal Security vs O.S.A.S   
    Here is an article by Dr. Henry Ironside that outlines truth of The Eternal Security of  the believer. He puts this together in a scriptural and easy to read manner. Henry Ironside was a well respected and sought after preacher from the last century.
    I am attaching the article to this post. It is my hope that providing this will clear up some misconceptions and bring out the glorious truth that our God is able to provide a salvation that cannot be lost or taken away once it is given.
    ETERNAL SECURITY.doc
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    Jim_Alaska got a reaction from DaveW in Eternal Security vs O.S.A.S   
    Here is an article by Dr. Henry Ironside that outlines truth of The Eternal Security of  the believer. He puts this together in a scriptural and easy to read manner. Henry Ironside was a well respected and sought after preacher from the last century.
    I am attaching the article to this post. It is my hope that providing this will clear up some misconceptions and bring out the glorious truth that our God is able to provide a salvation that cannot be lost or taken away once it is given.
    ETERNAL SECURITY.doc
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    Jim_Alaska got a reaction from Alan in Eternal Security vs O.S.A.S   
    Here is an article by Dr. Henry Ironside that outlines truth of The Eternal Security of  the believer. He puts this together in a scriptural and easy to read manner. Henry Ironside was a well respected and sought after preacher from the last century.
    I am attaching the article to this post. It is my hope that providing this will clear up some misconceptions and bring out the glorious truth that our God is able to provide a salvation that cannot be lost or taken away once it is given.
    ETERNAL SECURITY.doc
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    Jim_Alaska got a reaction from *Light* in Eternal Security vs O.S.A.S   
    Here is an article by Dr. Henry Ironside that outlines truth of The Eternal Security of  the believer. He puts this together in a scriptural and easy to read manner. Henry Ironside was a well respected and sought after preacher from the last century.
    I am attaching the article to this post. It is my hope that providing this will clear up some misconceptions and bring out the glorious truth that our God is able to provide a salvation that cannot be lost or taken away once it is given.
    ETERNAL SECURITY.doc
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    Jim_Alaska reacted to DaveW in Spiritual bipolar nature of fallen mankind (an evil pole and a good Pole)   
    To put aside the context, the two terms are not mutualy exclusive.
    Even your own definitions agree with that.
    You stated it is AN ATTEMPT....
    You can try to convince somebody of something, but unless you have a way of FORCING your will on them REGARDLESS of their own views and wishes, then they still have a choice.
    In other words, an attempt to convince does not in any way negate free wiill choice.
    The only things in this discussion that would be mutually exclusive are free will and forced conformity.
     
    I am trying to convince you right now, but you have the free will to refuse or agree with my view.
    In my view, this is a confusion of terms, not a disagreement of concepts.
    (By the way, it is incredibly rare that anyone accuses Pastor Markle of misusing words - and ever more rare that they are right.)
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    Jim_Alaska got a reaction from *Light* in Ministries   
    Yes Omega, there is one. It is at this address:  http://www.onlinebaptist.com/home/forum/50-ifb-ministry/
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    Jim_Alaska reacted to *Light* in Helping the homeless and the indigent   
    I am elated that the Lord has given me tasks to aid the homeless and the indigent. At times, I would volunteer at food banks here in Oakland, an example would be the Alameda County Community Food Bank (ACCFB). This mainly consists of packaging food (perishables, can foods, meat, fruits, etc.). I also minister to the homeless because I was once homeless myself for over a course of 10 years, so I can understand their plight and suffering, living on the streets of Oakland and San Francisco. San Francisco is a hot spot for homosexuality, it is almost like a modern day Sodom and Gomorrah, and ministering to them is an arduous task because sometimes preaching to them can lead to aggression and violent reactions; but I don't let that stop me. When I preach the Gospel to the homeless. I have a technique which is quite effective in ministering to the homeless. I would first ask them, "are you homeless?" If their answer is Yes, then I would respond by saying, "You know...I was homeless too for 10 years.", This piques their interest leading them to ask me how I got off the streets. I would then tell them about the awesome love of God and how he took a wretched drunk like me, and transformed me into a servant of the Lord. I would then hold their hands and pray over them if they desire. Works almost 100% of the time. I believe holding a persons hand in prayer is more effective than just prayer alone. There are also soup kitchens that are Christian based that I also volunteer at times. There is City Team Ministries here in Oakland, and a plethora of other Christian organizations that help the homeless that I volunteer at. There is no excuse not to minister to the homeless or those who are in need to be fed not just food, but the Word of God. As it is written: "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." (Matt.4:4) This feeds their souls and incites their curiosity. This also leads to a discussion about the Bible, and we know that "According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:" (2 Pet.1:3).   There is NO excuse not to preach the Gospel to the lost, and that includes anyone who isn't saved; this also includes our family members. Charles Haddon Spurgeon once said, "Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you're not saved yourself, be sure of that!" For me, family members are the most difficult to bring to Christ. My family consists of 3 brothers, a half sister, and my mother and father. I have ministered to all of them, and I have seen them grow in Christ over the course of several years, and I thank the Lord for that. Only my mother and my 3rd youngest brother are not saved. My brother Andrew has been brainwashed and put through the wringer by his wife. She is anti-Christian. She believes the bible is sexist and absolutely despises the Word of God. But even so, I pray for her salvation because I care. But God has gave me a promise that He will save my entire family when all is said and done. I was encouraged to share this with my IFB brethren and sisters in Christ here on this forum by another forum member. If you do not have a ministry, I encourage to get involved in one, IF you have the time. We each have a Will that God has planned and purposed in our lives, and it is our duty to fulfill it.    God Bless, Daniel
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    Jim_Alaska reacted to DaveW in Are We Teaching the Bible Well in Our Churches?   
    But most people who hold to the church age thought on this passage do as has been done above and relate, for instance, Sardis to the RCC - but this implies that Jesus recognised them as a legitimate church with the mentioned problems, whereas I and I suspect the majority here would not agree that the RCC was EVER a legitimate church.
    Furthermore, there is no indication in the passage that it relates to anything other han seven actual, physical, real churches. 
    I won't have a knock down drag out over it, but that is my opinion. 
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    Jim_Alaska reacted to HappyChristian in Are We Teaching the Bible Well in Our Churches?   
    I think that people who were at one time people of faith know deep down where to look in times of trouble. Even the lost will often talk about turning to God during times of trouble (although if they do not turn for forgiveness, "turning" to God is moot for the lost). Sometimes that is a reason God allows trouble/distress - to cause us to turn to Him.
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    Jim_Alaska reacted to *Light* in What are you thankful for?   
    Too many things to be thankful for. I was homeless for 10 years, living on the streets. I was very young back then. I would sleep on concrete, cardboard boxes, on the grass in parks, etc., getting drunk and getting into street fights. It was an absolute nightmare. Then the Lord delivered me off the streets through prayer and hope. I found a tract when I was homeless which cited Jeremiah 29:11-13, and it read, "For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart." When I read that, I broke down in tears and literally felt the Love of God overwhelm me, and I knew that God had a plan for me from that moment on. My family thought I was dead because they haven't heard from me in 10 years. I was too ashamed to contact them and tell them how much of a failure I was. As I was wandering the streets one day, a man asked me, "Can I pray for you?" I said yes! He prayed for me to get off the streets and to be a testimony to others and minister to the lost. A month later, I had a job that paid quite well, and a year later, acquired a house. I bought a car, and got back together with my family, and now I am ministering to the lost. Another interesting fact is that my name is Daniel. On day I decided to go into a Christian book store to purchase a bible (one of the expensive ones that are bound with genuine calfskin leather), and the store also had these cards with biblical names on them. I found a card with the name "Daniel" on it, and do you know what verses were on the back of the card? Jeremiah 29:11-13. Coincidence? Obviously not. One day out of the blue, I prayed to God and asked to feel how much He loves us, and I felt a love for people to the point where I thought I was going to die, it absolutely consumed me. God's Love is absolutely all consuming. Revelation 4:11 states, "Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created." He created all things because it pleases Him that we can know Him, experience the journey of life, and Eternity in a state of absolute bliss that even the heart cannot comprehend in this world. Even if I can live for a Quadrillion years, owning everything this world has to offer, I would NEVER exchange it for my love for God, and getting to know Him personally. I feel His presence all the time as if He's there watching me. Every prayer having to do with the Will of God has been answered almost 100% of the time. Psalm 37:4 reads, "Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart." This is not to say that if we delight ourself in God, He will give us a million dollars and drive a fancy car, and a private jet. If one's delight is truly on God, then naturally the desires of our heart will be God centered. There are just too many things to be thankful for. Thank you Lord God Almighty for all your wonderful acts and your tender loving-kindness. You alone deserve to be worshipped. Maranatha!
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    Jim_Alaska got a reaction from *Light* in Evolution Evangelism   
    Psm 107:2    Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy; 
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    Jim_Alaska reacted to *Light* in The Existence of GOD   
    I must  apologize for the wall of text, but my computer is not working at the moment and I am actually using my son's gaming system, and it won't allow me to separate my words into paragraphs. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God...(Psalm 14:1). The existence of God can easily be proven using common sense, (sadly which is not so "common") There are several theories on the Universe and whether it had a beginning, or came out of nothing (ex nihilo). First argument would be, did the Universe have no beginning? Is in infinite? Using logic, "infinite" is only a concept in the mind or in mathematics. But we know that the Universe cannot have an infinite regress because the Bible clearly states that God "created" the Universe. Furthermore, if there was such thing as an infinite "past", then we wouldn't be able to say that we are living in the "present" time, because there would be no way to measure time in infinity. A man by the name of David Hilbert demonstrates a good example of why the concept of infinity, which is different from "Eternal", is faulty. He states that if there were an infinite amount of rooms in a hotel which are all full, none are empty, and a new guest arrives at the "infinite" rooms hotel requesting a room, and the hotel owner moves the guest in room number 1 to room number 2, and the guest in room number 2 to room number 3, and so on. As a result, room number 1 would be empty, and the new guest would be able to move in. But all of the rooms were full before the guest arrived. And lets suggest that an infinity amount of guests arrived requesting a room, so the hotel manager moves the guest in room 1 into room 2, and the guest in room 2 to room 4, and 3 into room 6...moving each guest in the room twice his own to infinity. Any number multiplied by 2 will always equal an even number, and as a result, all of the guests end up in the even numbered rooms (e.g., room 2,4,6, etc.). The result is that all of the "odd" numbered rooms become vacant, and the infinity of new guests can now check into those rooms. But before the guests arrived, all the rooms were already full. Thus, the possibility of an infinite number of rooms cannot exist in reality; therefore, there must have been a beginning to the Universe because infinity is only a concept. The Universe consists of time, space, and matter, according to scientists; and whatever came before the Universe must transcend time, space, and matter. Some atheists would argue that the Universe came into existence from nothing, but out of nothing, nothing comes. Nothing can do nothing, and nothing cannot create something. Why does something exist rather than nothing at all? It could have been that nothing would exist and none of us would be here. The very fact that something does exist rather than nothing shows that there had to be a "choice" in making something exist rather than nothing. Abstract things such as the number 3 cannot make a "choice", only a conscious, disembodied mind that transcends time, space, and matter would have to be the cause of making the decision that something will exist. Therefore, it would have to be a disembodied mind which has all power is what it took to create the Universe out of nothing -- hence it would be God. Then there is objective moral value. Atheists would argue that there are no such thing as "objective" moral values. If we were to ask them if murdering their family is evil or wrong, they would reply with an emphatic YES. According to who would this be evil or wrong? the atheist's opinion? a majority agreeing that it's wrong? See...Atheists believe in "subjective" moral values, and once again, this can be proven wrong. Hypothetically, aliens from another planet can wipe out entire cities with their spaceships and eat people and say, "we believe that it is not evil or wrong to eat people and wipe out entire cities." They (aliens) would say to the atheists, "what makes our acts evil?, according to your culture?, it is not evil to eat people and destroy entire cities." And their "moral values" would be no less valid than the atheists, because the aliens subjective moral values are also based upon majority opinion. A man or woman can face a judge in court and say, "It is my opinion that murdering my family wasn't evil because moral values are subjective to me." The judge obviously would not take that as a valid excuse and pardon him. Thus, there would have to be a transcendent anchor point where "objective" moral values must come from. And lastly, the term Atheist is a contradiction in itself. How can they possibly prove that God does not exist? Did they search the entire Universe? What if God was hiding under a rock on a planet in the Pleiades, or on another Galaxy? Did the atheists check there? It's a fact that you can KNOW God and have a personal relationship with Him and His Son, Jesus. The Bible has absolutely NO contradictions, and scripture fits together like a perfect puzzle. When the teachings of the bible are applied to our lives, we can clearly see that His Word is true, and that we can get to know Him in a way closer to us than our family here on Earth. 
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    Jim_Alaska reacted to DaveW in Evolution Evangelism   
    Heya - I noticed you were back on in the last hour...
    Any chance of that salvation testimony?
    Or a little bit about yourself?
    You are not IFB by your earlier statements, so what are you? Who are you associated with?
    What sort of church do you go to?
    You know, just general info - not addresses and stuff, but a little bit to get know you and where you are coming from?
    The intro section is waiting for you....
    It is calling out for you....
    If you listen carefully, you can just hear it through all the chatter..... "Jesuslivesinus - come over here and write in me!!!" (Voice of intro section calling to you).
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    Jim_Alaska reacted to Alan in Clarence Larkin - The Spirit World   
    I do appreciate the additional information, logic, spiritual reasoning, Biblical references of both Jim and Omega.
    All through the scriptures, in both the Old and New Testament, and in all dispensations,  it is very obvious that the consequence of our sins, and the consequence of rejecting the salvation that God freely offers, immediately after death of the body, the soul of the unregenerate person, is in conscious torment, and will spend eternity in hell. 
    And, all through the scriptures, in both the Old and New Testament, in all dispensations,  it is very obvious that the consequence of a person having faith in the salvation that God freely offers is immediately, after the death of the body, the soul of the regenerate  person, is in a conscious state of bliss: heaven.
    Larkin clearly brought out that the belief, the doctrine, of 'soul sleep' is a falsehood.
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    Jim_Alaska got a reaction from Alan in Clarence Larkin - The Spirit World   
    Larkin did an excellent job on this subject. The belief that we simply cease to exist at death rests entirely on a misunderstanding of Scripture, a total rejection that man has a spirit and taking Scripture out of context. This belief system goes hand in hand with a denial of a real hell. Both views are taught by JW's.
    If there is no real hell and we just cease to exist at death, there is no point to redemption, or the need for it. If there is no need for redemption then there is no point or need for The Bible or its teaching that man is lost and undone and in need of a Savior. After all, if we just blink out of existence, what need is there for "Eternal Life"?
    Needless to say, I really enjoyed this part of Larkin's study on the Spirit World. Thank you Alan for bringing out the points you did in your review.
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    Jim_Alaska reacted to DaveW in Evolution Evangelism   
    (1) There was a time that MOST people thought there only around 1000 stars in the sky. They were not right. Simply because many people believe it, does not make it right. Even so, this statement is pure fantasy. There are many many people throughout the world who for many different reasons do not believe in evolution. And many of those who do, have NEVER investigated the facts, but accept what they are told purely by FAITH IN THE SCIENTISTS.
    I have done a great deal of research, and I can tell you that all scientific laws known go against the theory of evolution. Things do not gain complexity but lose it. They only gain complexity if information is added.
    The "massive amount of evidence" is primarily made up of stories imagined by evolutionary scientists. There are no indisputable missing links - what we have in the fossil record are are fully formed creatures, not intermediate forms. the missing links are...... well still missing.
    (2) I personally know of scientists working the biological sciences who ABSOLUTELY DO NOT accept this premise. There are a great number of respected scientists who believe in six day literal creation. Darwin's own beliefs are basically irrelevant to the discussion now - science has grown and moved on since then - but still, the transitional forms that Darwin admitted were not present, but in his opinion would surely be found, still have not been found.
    What is difficult to swallow is on your side of the argument. The Bible says all kinds were made by God. Science says all kinds changed over time. What do we see? NO ONE has ever observed evolution in process, and they say that is because it takes too long.
    That is convenient for the argument, but the plain fact is that true science is based on OBSERVABLE, REPEATABLE experiments.
    What do the evolutionary biologists base their "evidence" on - bones, if they are lucky, fossilised bone impressions if they are not, and LOTS OF GUESSWORK. NOT on anything observable, not on anything repeatable.
    This is not science, nor is it foolproof "evidence".
    If you find a bottle buried in a dirt pile that has a coke label still attached, you could GUESS that at some time it had been filled with Coke, but you could not say WITHOUT DOUBT it was once filled with Coke. It would be a reasonable guess, but not a certainty. It is possible that the particular bottle was taken off the assembly line BEFORE any coke was added to the bottle. It is possible that someone added the label to a bottle that was never intended to have coke in it.
    The situation with fossils is exactly the same. They do not come with labels on them that state all the details. They have to figure it out from the rocks it is found in, the other fossils in the area, (whether from the same creature or other creatures), from the environment of the area (if that is known from the era - which again is full of assumption), from comparison to the previous "bones" of that form that have been found, and any number of other assumptions required.
    The ACTUAL facts of the matter is that while some accept it without question (or investigation) - like you do - the presented "facts" are not facts at all, but ideas based hugely on assumptions.
    The observable and repeatable science we can perform today aligns not with evolution, but with the Biblical principle of kinds being kinds, and remaining kinds.
     
    (3) Well considering that it varies by as much as 12% in the difference between humans and chimps (some quote as little as 88%, while others quote varying figures between the two, with the seeming majority resting close to about 96%, we really must say that genetic variability is hardly a precise science. If this cannot come to an agreement on the baseline figure, then we really must assume that there is doubt on the figures in general.
    Secondly, the DIFFERENCES are far more important that the similarities. This can be easily displayed by recognising that humans have greater than 50% genetic similarity to bananas.
    But I can be pretty sure that you would not say that makes us bananas.....
     
    Lucy?
     
    These are the bones they found and made up "Lucy" from.
     
    This is the first image that came up when I searched lucy

    One piece of jawbone, five skull fragments, yet they know the entire shape, the brow structure, the face structure, and how much and what form of hair she had?
    You see, a made up story with images produced to make it seem plausible.
     
    For more such evidence we need only look at Pitdown man, which was an absolute deliberate hoax by evolutionists, and Nebraska man which was a "mistake".
    Let's look at the "mistake" of Nebraska Man.
    This is how Nebraska man was presented to the public:

    Do you what the TOTAL evidence upon which this presentation was based?
    The finding of a SINGLE TOOTH!
    From this they constructed an entire STORY which was then presented as SCIENTIFIC FACT to the world.
    The real truth of this tooth? It was not only not from a new species of "intermediate between ape and man", but it was in fact the tooth from a species of PIG!!!!!!!!
     
    Who and what is Lucy? A collection of fossilised bone imprints, most likely from a single skeleton, of a creature that has similarities to primates, and to man.
    Look at the "bones" they found.
    Look at the picture they "made up".
    How can they possibly know the relationship of the jawbone to the shape of the skull, to give Lucy a protruding mouth like an ape?
    Go and find the other pictures they have made of "Lucy" and you find things such as long, primate like fingers. look at the picture containing the actual "bones" they found - there are no hand or finger "bones" found - they are guessing, and they are guessing long ape-like fingers and hands because IT SUITS THEIR ARGUMENT..
    Just like it suited their argument to present Nebraska man in that way, even though they had basically NO EVIDENCE pointing to it.
     
    I have done much investigation, both of the bible and of the available science.
    I have done much investigation of the many assumptions involved in "scientific dating".
    Are you aware that there is NOT ONE INDEPENDENTLY VERIFIABLE form of dating that shows dates of more than about 5000 years.
    ALL dating methods that give ages greater than that, are verified by other unverifiable methods.
    Even within methods, the results can vary wildly. The same pieces can be dated even in the same facility and by the same method and the results are often different, with the facility arbitrarily dismissing the results that do not conform with what is expected. Not for any good reason, but simply because it did fit with what they expected.
     C14 dating has dated live snails at thousands of years old.......... LIVE SNAILS......
    Diamonds have been dated and found to contain C14....... Which should be an impossibility due to the short half life of C14. Yet it is there......
     
    What they do is they date the rocks by the fossils found in them, and date the fossils by the rocks they are found in.
    Circular proof. The problem with this is, if one of them is wrong, then both of them are wrong.
    No matter the dating method used, they ignore any facts to the contrary, use HUGE and often unjustifiable assumptions, and reject any results that don't fit.
     
    As I mentioned already, Mt St Helens has geological structures which "traditional geology" would date to millions of years old, but which were actually OBSERVED in their formation.
    You remember science? That thing which is based in observable and repeatable experimentation?
    But they reject that event as the aberration in "Normal" formation simply because it doesn't fit with what they want to believe.
    They watched it happen.
    They can see the results.
    They can check the structures.
    But they reject it as the normal way and instead hold onto something that they cannot observe, have never observed, and have no genuine scientific proof for.
    But check the Bible whenever it talks about science and it is right. Every time.
    In what we can check, the Bible is 100% accurate.
    I will take a witness who is right when tested over a witness who is often wrong.
     
     
     
     
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    Jim_Alaska reacted to DaveW in Evolution Evangelism   
    It is not at all difficult.
    You go to the introduction section and make a new post, take....what, all of 3 minutes to type out your salvation testimony.
    I am sure there are others who would luke to read it as well.
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    Jim_Alaska reacted to No Nicolaitans in Memories   
    My dad no longer remembers who I am.
    This Thanksgiving, he didn't recognize my wife, our children, or me. To see this strong man, who had always put his family first...no longer know his family...is heart-breaking.
    I wasn't sure how to handle it. I could tell that he was uncomfortable with "these strangers". He was very cordial, but there was no recollection. I wanted to hug him and tell him, "It's me...your son, Dan." He has pictures on the wall of us, but there's no recollection. On a piece of paper, he has all of our names written down with our relationship to him...as though he knew he was having trouble remembering, so he wanted to make a note to himself as to who we are, but he's gone past that now.
    Please pray for my dad.
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    Jim_Alaska reacted to Jordan Kurecki in Are We Teaching the Bible Well in Our Churches?   
    https://www.theologywithoutapology.org/single-post/2017/11/22/IFB-Backwards
     
    thought this might be helpful for you Steven. 
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    Jim_Alaska reacted to Ronda in Great signs and fearful sights in the heavens   
    "And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise." (Revelation 8:12). 

    This is not the only fearful sight that will occur in the tribulation... in fact, the majority of the scriptural content in that chapter deals with such things. Far too much scripture to quote here. 

    As for "planet x/nibiru"  there is no such thing.  There a great many wolves in sheep's clothing perpetuating these lies, deceiving the gullible. I agree with many of the brethren (above) in their opinions of those whom have started and continue to perpetuate this nonsense. Two other names come to mind: Paul Begley and Steven DeNoon, both of which produce "shock factor" videos, and are plastered all over social media (sadly). They use scare tactics to promote "survival" products.  They prey on those who do not study the Bible, and do not know scripture themselves. So much so that when claim something to be scripturally sound, the gullible and those who do not study scripture themselves, are easily deceived. There is a solution to this... when believers study scripture themselves (as we are told to do; 2 Tim.2:15), know scripture well, then they can readily recognize the false teachers and know to mark and avoid them. 

    Sadly, many professing believers are Biblically illiterate these days... even though there is no excuse for this since there are hundreds of ways to access the KJV Bible... in print form, also free online KJV Bible, and even free lexicons (should  person desire to delve deep), Braille, KJV Bible apps, and audio Bibles as well (which are an excellent use of time while doing chores, etc. Listening to the KJV audio Bible). But far too many professing believers want a 5-6 word summary, a 5-10 minute sermon-ette (McChristian drive-thru style).  

    Rather than waste time on the latest theory and falsehood of the day... (such as the "Blood moons", Shmita, Rev.12 sign heresy, L.A.Marzulli's phony fairy, planet x/nibiru, and hundreds of other false  teachings that pervert/twist scripture) ... the time would be much better spent in the Bible, in actual scripture, rather than mankind's take, opinion, and perversion of scripture for personal gain.  

    Here is some scripture that may be helpful:

    "For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple." (Rom.16:18)

    "Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. 7 Be not ye therefore partakers with them." (Eph.5:6-7)
    "But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived." (2 Tim.3:13)

    " That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive" (Eph.4:14) 


    Maranatha! 
     
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