Good morning friends,
Quote of the week:
Younger adults especially have been told repeatedly that “no one has the right to tell others what to believe – so you should not be trying to convert anyone.” This very statement, of course, is self-contradictory, since it is doing the very thing it forbids. Nevertheless, it is a slogan with enormous cultural power and it is hard for younger Christians not to be swayed by it. – Tim Keller
Now, here are your weekly links:
- Today host Mary Clair Kelly interviews Dr. Jake Hebert to break down what modern astronomy actually observes versus what it assumes, and why the age of the universe is nowhere near as settled as you’ve been told. – YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2cCKxWSXc4
- Analysis of Hugh Ross’ Progressive Day-Age Creationism | Answers Research Journal – Since the early 1800s, the evangelical community has sought to harmonize the scientific interpretations of long periods of time and the early chapters of Genesis to determine the appropriate age of the universe. There are primarily two groups-those who believe the universe is billions of years old and those who believe the universe is thousands of years old. One view within the former group is called Progressive Day-Age Creationism. This view is taught by Hugh Ross and is quite popular within the evangelical community. This article analyzes primarily the writings of Ross and the implications that his view may have towards understanding the early chapters of Genesis, the trustworthiness of the Bible, and the Gospel.: https://answersresearchjournal.org/hugh-ross-progressive-day-age/
- Apologetics Topics: 5 Questions Youth Workers Need to Address – Apologetics topics often come up during youth group Bible studies and programs. If you’ve worked with teenagers for any length of time, you know they ask great questions. Occasionally, we do a session or series where teens can ask anything. We often receive more questions than we have students! Youth ministers can equip teenagers in many meaningful ways. One is by helping them understand that faith in Jesus isn’t blind. It doesn’t go against all reason. Rather, faith is a logical response to evidence that supports God’s existence. It also accepts that Jesus really is who the Bible claims him to be.: https://churchleaders.com/youth/youth-leaders-articles/176631-benjer-mcveigh-apologetics-topics-youth-workers-should-be-able-to-address.html
- The Problem of Evil | Popular Writings | Reasonable Faith – Examines both the logical and probabilistic arguments against God from suffering and evil. The problem of evil is certainly the greatest obstacle to belief in the existence of God. When I ponder both the extent and depth of suffering in the world, whether due to man’s inhumanity to man or to natural disasters, then I must confess that I find it hard to believe that God exists. No doubt many of you have felt the same way. Perhaps we should all become atheists. But that’s a pretty big step to take. How can we be sure that God does not exist? Perhaps there’s a reason why God permits all the evil in the world. Perhaps it somehow all fits into the grand scheme of things, which we can only dimly discern, if at all. How do we know? As a Christian theist, I’m persuaded that the problem of evil, terrible as it is, does not in the end constitute a disproof of the existence of God. On the contrary, in fact, I think that Christian theism is man’s last best hope of solving the problem of evil.: https://www.reasonablefaith.org/writings/popular-writings/existence-nature-of-god/the-problem-of-evil/
- These Fossil Discoveries Have STUNNED Scientists – YouTube – Scientists just found blood vessels and proteins preserved inside dinosaur bone – soft tissue that simply could not have survived for millions of years. Today we break down how dinosaur bones actually fossilize, why the “feathered dinosaur” story is flawed, and how these discoveries line up with a young earth and a global flood.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ1Uw29oWa0
- Dragon Myths or Dinosaur Descriptions? – Apologetics Press: https://apologeticspress.org/dragon-myths-or-dinosaur-descriptions-3030/
- Dragon Encounters at the ICR Discovery Center | The Institute for Creation Research – The word “dinosaur” didn’t come into use until 1842, when British scientist Richard Owen coined the term. What did humans call these “terrible reptiles” before then? You guessed it-dragons! Our ancestors documented dragon sightings in different ways all over the world for millennia. Legends of dragon-like creatures have been found from the Americas to Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.: https://www.icr.org/article/11857
- Dragon history is nearly universal throughout the world’s ancient cultures. Where did this global concept originate? How did societies throughout the world describe, record, draw, etch, sew and carve such creatures in such uniformity, if they did not witness these creatures during their lifetimes? Almost all our early ancestors believed the earth was inhabited, especially in unknown regions, by dragons. Where did they get such an idea? Did it stem from a universal human imagination? An inherited need or instinct? An inherited subconscious memory of dinosaurs? All these suggestions have been made, and taken seriously by groups of people. Could dragons be the reflection, sometimes embellished through retelling but mostly historical, of actual physical encounters of human beings with dinosaurs? In literature, dragons are certainly a virtually universal ancient motif. Dragons are found in the early literature of the English, Irish, Danish, Norse, Scandinavians, Germans, Greeks, Romans, Egyptians and Babylonians. Among the American Indians, legends of dragons flourished among the Crees, Algonquins, Onondagas, Ojibways, Hurons, Chinooks, Shoshones, and Alaskan Eskimos.: https://historysevidenceofdinosaursandmen.weebly.com/written.html
- In this video, Frank Turek answers two important questions about God that are commonly asked, and for good reason. If you have considered similar questions, I hope you find this video helpful! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB-Oui8Jgo8
You stiff-necked people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are just like your fathers: You always resist the Holy Spirit! Acts 7:51
Blessings to you all