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mid-week apologetics booster (7-4-2024)

Good morning friends, Happy Independence Day! Here are a couple selected quotes relevant to our blessed country. May God protect us from those that want to harm us (both from within and without):

Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times. – G. Michael Hopf, Those Who Remain

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free. – Ronald Reagan

It is the duty of nations as well as of men to owe their dependence upon the over-ruling power of God. To confess their sins and transgressions in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that with genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon. And to recognize the sublime truth announced in the Holy Scriptures, and proven by all history that those nations are blessed whose God is the Lord. We know that by His divine law, nations like individuals are subject to punishments and chastisements in this world. May we not justify fear that the awful calamity of Civil War, which now desolates the land, may be a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole people. We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven. We have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and we have vainly imagined in the deceitfulness of our hearts that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace too proud to pray to the God that made us. It has seemed to me fit and proper that God should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged, as with one heart and one voice, by the whole American people. – Abraham Lincoln

I looked throughout America to find where her greatness originated. I looked for it in her harbors and on her shorelines, in her fertile fields and boundless prairies, and in her gold mines and vast world commerce, but it was not there. It was not until I went to the churches of America and heard her pulpits aflame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her success. America is great because she is good, and if America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great. – Alexis de Tocqueville (Frenchman and author of “Democracy in America”)

Now, here are your weekly links:

Which Characters in Job Can We Trust? | Desiring God: https://www.desiringgod.org/interviews/which-characters-in-job-can-we-trust
What is the definition of marriage according to Jesus? | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2024/06/29/what-is-the-definition-of-marriage-according-to-jesus-5/
Dialogue Between Ayaan Kirsi Ali and Richard Dawkins | Part One – Reasonable Faith App: https://reasonablefaithapp.subspla.sh/hmpxvbg
Dialogue Between Ayaan Kirsi Ali and Richard Dawkins Part Two | Reasonable Faith: https://www.reasonablefaith.org/media/reasonable-faith-podcast/dialogue-between-ayaan-kirsi-ali-and-richard-dawkins-part-two
How do you respond to the conquests and wars in the Old Testament? | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2024/07/01/how-do-you-respond-to-the-conquests-and-wars-in-the-old-testament-6/
Most Americans think cohabitation leads to a stable marriage, but what does the data say? | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2022/01/01/most-americans-think-cohabitation-leads-to-a-stable-marriage-but-what-does-the-data-say-2/
Famous Thinkers – Physician Is a Creationist | Bible-Science Guy: https://biblescienceguy.wordpress.com/2014/07/09/15-famous-thinkers-physician-is-a-creationist/
Tapestry of New Testament History (Undesigned Coincidences) with Dr. Timothy McGrew- Cross Examined: https://subsplash.com/crossexamined/media/mi/+b919cec
Reconciling a God of Love with the Problem of Evil: https://crossexamined.org/reconciling-a-god-of-love-with-the-problem-of-evil/
Investing in the next generation | George’s Journal: https://georgesjournal.net/2020/12/07/investing-in-the-next-generation/
The Most Influential Life in History 04/11/20 – Cross Examined: https://subsplash.com/crossexamined/media/mi/+c8t5ywz
A Biblical Image For How Apologetics Helps Build the Church – Stephen J Bedard: https://www.stephenjbedard.com/2017/10/05/biblical-image-apologetics-helps-build-church/#.Wtc2Y4jwaUm
Christianity without hell: https://mbcpathway.com/2015/01/21/what-christianity-without-hell-looks-like/
A world-famous chemist tells the truth: there’s no scientist alive today who understands macroevolution | Uncommon Descent: https://uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/a-world-famous-chemist-tells-the-truth-theres-no-scientist-alive-today-who-understands-macroevolution/
“What Do You Mean By That?” A Look At Questioning Evangelism: Responding To Five Common Objections On A College Campus – THINKAPOLOGETICS.COM: https://chab123.wordpress.com/2023/07/04/what-do-you-mean-by-that-a-look-at-questioning-evangelism-responding-to-five-common-objections-on-a-college-campus-3/
Design Without a Designer | Answers in Genesis: https://answersingenesis.org/charles-darwin/design-without-designer/
Image Processing in the Eye: Like “Magic” : https://evolutionnews.org/2014/01/image_processin/
The appendix Functional, but still evidence for evolution?: https://creation.com/the-appendix
“But I only believe in things I can see”: Why Everyone Uses Inferential Reasoning – THINKAPOLOGETICS.COM: https://chab123.wordpress.com/2023/03/31/but-i-only-believe-in-things-i-can-see-why-everyone-uses-inferential-reasoning/
How to Be a Good Ambassador for Christ to Muslims – Stand to Reason: https://standtoreason.subspla.sh/x8sk5zc
Doesn’t the Bible Say True Faith is Blind? | Cold Case Christianity: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/doesnt-the-bible-say-true-faith-is-blind/
How Can We Be Sure of the Absolute Accuracy of Luke in the Gospel of Luke and the Book of Acts?: https://www.christianpublishers.org/post/how-can-we-be-sure-of-the-absolute-accuracy-of-luke-in-the-gospel-of-luke-and-the-book-of-acts

In his distress he sought the favor of the LORD his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers. And when he prayed to him, the LORD was moved by his entreaty and listened to his plea; so he brought him back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD is God. 2 Chronicles 33:12-13 Blessings to you all