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mid-week apologetics booster (11-30-2023)

Good morning friends, Quote of the week: There is the problem known as ‘orphan genes’ – the genes that are found only in particular organisms – completely unique. If similarity means common ancestry, what do completely unique genetic sequences indicate? Moreover, the so called junk DNA that was thought by the Darwinists to be compelling evidence of ‘non-design’ and a results of the activity of the mutation-selection process – the junk DNA is now known to have many important functions, and overall the function of the junk DNA is much like an operating system in a computer that’s telling the other information in the genome when to turn on and when to turn off and when to be expressed and when to be suppressed. – Stephen Meyer – Darwin’s Dilemma Now, here are your weekly links:

Healthy Ways to Interact With Extended Family – Focus on the Family: https://www.focusonthefamily.com/episodes/broadcast/healthy-ways-to-interact-with-extended-family/

Inside Noah’s Ark – Cross Examined a review of the ark encounter in Cincinnati, Ohio, as well as addressing many of the skeptical questions that atheists or other skeptics ask about the feasibility of Noah’s ark: https://crossexamined.subspla.sh/s8zkpws

When The Intent Is To Mislead ¦ People Can Use The Bible To Justify Any Position They Want | Harbingers Daily: https://harbingersdaily.com/people-can-use-the-bible-to-justify-any-position-they-want-when-they-take-words-out-of-context/

God’s Wonderful Plan–Not So Wonderful? – YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iZAH2zt7e4

100+ hours of research. Is the longer ending of Mark authentic?: The Mark Series pt 69 (16:9-20) – YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJilpQsl4vc

Video: You CANNOT Deny God’s Existence Once You See This – PatriotandLiberty: https://patriotandliberty.com/video-you-cannot-deny-gods-existence-once-you-see-this/

Why is God in my Bedroom? | Sexuality and the Bible – JC Lamont | Biblical Scholar & Author – The Bible teaches that our sexuality is intrinsic to our purpose and our ability to worship. God is “in the bedroom” because all human beings were created to reflect His ability to co-create through heterosexual, marital intimacy. Living in a way that is opposite to how we were created causes chaos. The bodies of Christians are temples of Yahweh. Only sexual sins can defile Yahweh’s temple. But all sexual sins can be repented of our bodies rededicated to Yahweh’s service.: https://jclamont.com/sexuality-and-bible/

Bullies And Saints Part 1: From Christ to Constantine: https://empiresandmangers.blogspot.com/2023/04/bullies-and-saints-part-1-from-christ.html

Bullies And Saints Part 2: From Julian to the City of God: https://empiresandmangers.blogspot.com/2023/04/bullies-and-saints-part-2-from-julian.html

Bullies and Saints Part 3: From the Visigoths to the Crusades: https://empiresandmangers.blogspot.com/2023/04/bullies-and-saints-part-3-from.html

Bullies and Saints Part 4: What the Western Church Did Well in the Middle Ages: https://empiresandmangers.blogspot.com/2023/06/bullies-and-saints-part-4-what-western.html

Ex JWs Los Angeles: Jesus Christ, Who is He? reprinted from the book, Refuting Jehovah’s Witnesses : https://exjwslosangeles.blogspot.com/2019/09/jesus-christ-who-is-he.html

Faithful Thinkers: Book Review: Person of Interest – In “Person of Interest” Wallace takes the reader through another one of his cold-case homicide investigations as he also takes them through his parallel investigation into Jesus as a person of interest regarding human history. In this investigation he had no body and no direct evidence of a murder, so he had to use a different method in his investigation. He explains that planned murders have a series of events that take place over time, a fuse of sorts, that lead up to the murder, the explosion. That explosion results in numerous impacts, or fallout, that can be traced back to the event. The fuse, looking forward, points to a person of interest; and the fallout, looking backward, points to a person of interest. This person is pivotal to the event in question (the murder), and if ignored, the investigator will not solve the crime, and the murderer will escape justice. J. Warner Wallace takes this same approach as he investigates the split in the timeline of human history. Historians refer to the “common era” and “before the common era.” Why this time in history and not another time in history? And, if it is centered on a specific person, who is that person that they could have such an impact on the entire world’s timeline? Wallace looks at several series of events in ancient human history before the split in the timeline (the fuse) and examines several series of impacts after the split (the fallout) in modern human history. He shows that if his approach to his murder investigation is legitimate for discovering the true identity of the murderer, then it is also legitimate for discovering the true identity of the person responsible for the split in the world’s timeline. If this person is ignored, then the investigator will never be able to solve the mystery of the split and the person responsible will escape their notice. Here is a collection of several quotes that will give you a quick view of some of the evidence, arguments, and conclusions in the book. : https://lukenixblog.blogspot.com/2023/07/book-review-person-of-interest.html

The Geek’s Guide to Christianity : Destroyed for a Lack of Knowledge: https://godfixated.blogspot.com/2016/08/destroyed-for-lack-of-knowledge.html

Man kills sister, male friend for ‘honour’ in Pakistan’s Punjab province: Police: https://www.dailypioneer.com/2023/world/man-kills-sister–male-friend-for—-honour—-in-pakistan—s-punjab-province–police.html

Tammy Murphy’s Number One Goal is Killing Babies: I Want “Abortion, Abortion, Abortion” – LifeNews.com: https://www.lifenews.com/2023/11/21/tammy-murphys-number-one-goal-is-killing-babies-i-want-abortion-abortion-abortion/

Target under fire for ‘sexualizing Christmas for children’ with ‘pride Santa’ decorations | Daily Mail Online: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12781649/Target-fire-sexualizing-Christmas-children-pride-Santa-decorations.html

Q&A: How to Dismantle Christianity | HashtagApologetics: https://hashtagapologetics.wordpress.com/2014/12/23/qa-how-to-dismantle-christianity/

Why does God allow sin? A bit of a different take. | Ichthus77: https://ichthus77.com/2015/10/27/why-does-god-allow-sin-a-bit-of-a-different-take/

Why do Christians Suffer if Christianity is True? | jesusproofs.com: https://www.jesusproofs.com/questions/common-questions/christians-suffer-christianity-true/

The big objection to God from the book ‘God Delusion’ – Advanced Apologetics Research: https://samzlogic.wordpress.com/2022/09/29/the-big-objection-to-god-from-the-book-god-delusion/

Religion, Gender-Dysphoria, and Truth – Sifting Reality – So here’s the rub: when it comes to religion/religious exclusivism, the skeptics are willing to allow the believer to play their little fantasy game so long as they don’t insist it’s a view of reality and all must assent and ‘play the game’: keep it private, it’s your view, not ours, don’t insist we all take part. However, when it comes to gender-dysphoria, its proponents make no bones about who must accept and believe it. But even more than that, we are all expected to participate in the person’s mental state. If they were born a biological male but now believes something different, we all must accept that and act according to their assertions.: https://siftingreality.com/2019/01/21/religion-gender-dysphoria-and-truth/

Does the Bible Teach Socialism? | Thomistic Bent – The vast majority of the passages in the Bible that speak of helping the poor and oppressed are commands to the individual. The central church is to give to the poor, but with several restrictions. Nowhere is a central government told to bring in resources and distribute out to increase fairness. Private property is always under the control of the individual, who is responsible to God for how it is handled. The poor, when they meet the test of truly needy, should be helped, but it is their responsibility to work. Nowhere in the Bible does it say for a government to take care of people’s debts.: https://humblesmith.wordpress.com/2019/07/11/does-the-bible-teach-socialism/

Identity Crisis: Should We Use the Term Apologetics? – TilledSoil.org: https://www.tilledsoil.org/identity-crisis-use-term-apologetics/

THE GOSPEL OF MARK IS PETER’S TESTIMONY: 3 Early Church Fathers Confirm: https://2besure.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-gospel-of-mark-is-peters-testimony.html

The Peppermint Latte Argument for the Existence of God – The Stream: https://stream.org/the-peppermint-latte-argument-for-the-existence-of-god/

Canada: Christmas, Easter examples of ‘religious discrimination’ | World News: https://www.christianpost.com/news/canada-christmas-easter-examples-of-religious-discrimination.html

They Thought This Would Solve Evolution’s Biggest Problem. They Were Wrong. – YouTube – One of the most glaring issues of evolution since its inception is transitional fossils. In this video, Calvin Smith explores an idea that was crafted to solve this problem-humorously named the “Hopeful Monster Hypothesis“-and why only the Bible can account for the observations we see in the animal kingdom.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1Gx7wZnCsY

The Globe Is Warming, But It’s Not Your Fault! https://answersingenesis.org/environmental-science/climate-change/globe-is-warming-but-its-not-your-fault/

Mistakes Christians make when talking to Atheists: https://wp.me/p4S1ts-3q

What is the Difference Between Mormonism and Christianity? | Summit Ministries – Mormons frequently claim to be just another denomination of Christianity. In this video, Brett Kunkle highlights two key differences that separate Mormonism from Christianity altogether: https://www.summit.org/resources/videos/difference-mormonism-christianity/

10 Questions You’ve Always Had About New Age – Mama Bear Apologetics: https://mamabearapologetics.com/new-age-q-and-a/

Transgenderism: Undoing God’s Design: https://answersingenesis.org/blogs/simon-turpin/2017/05/29/transgenderism-undoing-gods-design/

What To Teach Kids About Unanswered Prayer: https://crossexamined.org/what-to-teach-kids-about-unanswered-prayer/

Is The Bible Trustworthy? – YouTube: https://youtu.be/20yiTTJVaqg?si=KPEYNWOVQ5dcnYMW

J. Warner Wallace: Conversations with High School Students – YouTube: https://youtu.be/n97x00V5aws?si=BTyqZuPRVEmJaPvI

Alex McLellan, Calvary Church: How to speak truth in a post-truth culture – YouTube: https://youtu.be/0pJoehrRa8Q?si=R8BqawtgBKNiYOWV

Archeologists Uncover Target Store Ruins From Sodom And Gomorrah: https://babylonbee.com/news/archeologists-uncover-stockpile-of-bud-light-at-ruins-of-sodom-and-gomorrah

Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom the master has put in charge of the servants in his household to give them their food at the proper time? It will be good for that servant whose master finds him doing so when he returns. I tell you the truth, he will put him in charge of all his possessions. Matthew 24:45-47 Blessings to you all