'GOD'S WORD NO LONGER THE ULTIMATE AUTHORITY'

In case you missed the seminar at Camden Haven Anglican Church last night (Saturday 26th) we listened to 3 guest speakers: an astronomer, a food safety researcher and a Bible college lecturer/ordained minister.
Here are some snippets of what they had to say (with my comments below in italics)....

"The Big Bang theory is a good theory because it passes all the tests."                
What about all the anomalies? e.g. Earth synchronised with Venus
Have you ever seen design, synchrony, harmony, life...even beauty, result from an explosion? By the way, the apostle Peter tells us the Big Bang comes at the end - not the beginning.

"DNA is an awesome pointer to relatedness of all life and a key element in modern theories of evolution of species."      
Why ever would the Master Designer use different program languages?  Why doesn't my computer just evolve its own programs?

"As humans we share 99% of our DNA sequence with chimpanzees." 

The missing 1% makes all the difference.  Actually geneticists now tell us that it's only 76% exact alignment.

"Science underpins our understanding of genetics, biology, evolution and creation."          
Evolution and creation together in the same breath??

"A literal interpretation of Scripture defies scientific evidence today."
Our series 'Holy Bible of Science' also on this blog, shows just how much Science is in the Bible. Just click on:

http://hotspuds.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/science-master-in-twister.html

"The Bible is a great servant."                                                                                            
So the Word of God is no longer our ultimate authority - it is just our servant??
Well that's not what Psalm 119 says..."I am your servant: give me understanding..."

"The Bible is God's revelation to ancient people and was not written to us."
Some writings, maybe, but..."Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come." - that's us, folks! 

"The English translators (of the Bible) have let us down by pushing our understanding in a certain direction."                                                                                 
So much for John Wycliffe and William Tyndale's heroic efforts, let alone all the other martyrs who have given their lives for upholding the Bible's truth.



Tyndale losing his life for translating the Bible into English (re-enacted)

"Genesis 1 is narrative and not necessarily historical."  
Only God was there to tell us what He did...but "we know it's only a story"!!!
How much more of the Bible is supposed to be 'just a story'?

"It makes no sense to say that God created just one man and one woman."  

"When the Bible says death entered the world through one man's sin, actually death has always been there but it was staved off by grace."
"Genesis 3 is reality, if not historical, so it depicts the consequence of sin."
So the apostle Paul is lying is he?...when he says: "by one man sin entered into the world, and by sin death."

"Resurrection has always been God's intention for mankind and you cannot have resurrection without death, so there must have always been death."
It's getting dumber....the Almighty is outside time.

"Ancient people were childlike in their understanding compared to us." 

Really!?  Try building a seaworthy ark 137 metres long, from timber, then use it as a floating zoo for a year. Or try looking after 2 million people in a desert for 40 years like Moses did.

"When God said Creation was 'very good' He wasn't looking at death (in fossils)".
Of course He wasn't because there were no fossils for Him to see!
Even children know that it takes catastrophic avalanche to turn animals into fossils.

"Dinosaurs were extinct long before Man was created."                                       
So why do secular children immediately identify the behemoth that Job saw as a brachiosaurus? Why do intact dinosaur blood components and skin still survive today?

"The idea of 'a young earth' is motivated by taking the Bible as being authoritative but we see things materially."                                                                    

Ah, so science is now our authority, not the Word of God!?

"The relationship between humans and chimpanzees doesn't present a problem to Christians because we don't understand all truth."                  That's for sure!

"The survival of Tibetans at altitude is a legacy of pre-human characteristics."
So Tibetans are a bit pre-human??

Q. What existed before the Big Bang?  "Science cannot answer."

One of the speakers: "I don't have all the answers. I'm uneasy about some issues. There is a fair bit of brain bending required."
You said it mate.

This is weird! It's like we're in a time warp, taken back to the early 1820's and we're listening in to Reverend William Buckland pretend he is a geologist while giving imaginative lectures at Oxford University. Theologians have now pencilled the Gap Theory into the Bible after: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" so young law student Charles Lyell now decides he's going to: "Take the Science away from Moses" with amateur geology. Theologian Charles Robert Darwin is still a school boy but in years to come will take Lyell's 'millions of years' to popularize his grand-dad's ideas in 'The Origin of Species or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life'. Sound racist to you? Darwin's ideas will be used to justify the mass slaughter of aborigines in Australia so that specimens can be shipped back to European museums. Of course he will be honoured with a state funeral and interment beside Sir Isaac Newton in Westminster Abbey where Buckland finally became Dean.
A clergyman will even display a Congolese pygmy in New York's zoo! Communists will soon use Darwin's ideas to exterminate millions upon millions of innocent men, women and children. While Americans will adopt the Darwin family's eugenics movement to control human breeding, the Nazis will perfect the process with gas chambers, using the mentally ill, homosexuals, gypsies, Jehovah's Witnesses and of course millions of Jews. Deja vu!
By the way, don't take my word for it - check the facts for yourself.

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