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| At Community bible Church, i will be hosting a class that will be aimed at Christian Apologetics for the main part. It will be in E-206 on Wednesdays at 7pm. I invite anyone that wishes to come can. It is a group open to the public to come learn with us. Right now we have just started The Answers in Genesis class by Ken Ham. Mr. Ham sets the record straight on evolutuion and why evolution is falsse and why the Christian faith works. Come join us for that. Thanks, Barry Wynn.
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| We need to pray for our nation's economy. With olil prices rising fast, our economy is in trouble. Also I would like to talk up Free Grace Seminary. This is a great place to attend seminary. it is not expensive at all. The church needs to push this ministry stronger. i would like to see Beau get more involved in it. Only Butch Entrekin spends time. Please let's give the Seminary more support and mention it in the services during announcements. We need more people in the ministry. This place is a great place to go and is close to home in Hampton. Thanks Barry Wynn, Community Bible member and student at Free Grace Seminary.
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| I AM SO EXCITED, I SIGNED UP FOR THE RED CARPET TEAM. AND THEY ARE GOING TO LET ME BE A GREETER. AND I START THIS SUNDAY. I JUST FINISHED FAST TRACK. AND I AM READY TO PLUG IN AND SERVE GOD. I HAVE TO ADMIT THAT I AM A LITTLE NERVOUS, BUT I KNOW PASTER KEITH WILL HELP EASY THAT NERVOUSNESS. I LOVE CBC. I JUST LOVE BEING THERE. I GET THIS CLAM AND PEACEFUL FEELING EVERYTIME I WALK THROUGH THOSE DOORS, AND ITS BECAUSE EVERYONE AT CBC IS JUST AMAZING. AND I HOPE THAT COME SUNDAY I CAN MAKE SOME ONE FEEL GOOD TOO. I AM TRULY BLESSED..... SEE EVERYONE SUNDAY....
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Science vs. God
"Let me explain the problem science has with Jesus Christ." The atheist professor of philosophy pauses before his class and then asks one of his new students to stand.
"You're a Christian, aren't you, son?"
"Yes sir," the student says.
"So you believe in God?"
"Absolutely."
"Is God good?"
"Sure! God's good."
"Is God all-powerful? Can God do anything?"
"Yes."
"Are you good or evil?"
"The Bible says I'm evil."
The professor grins knowingly. "Aha! The Bible!" He considers for a moment.
"Here's one for you. Let's say there's a sick person over here and you can cure him. You can do it. Would you help him? Would you try?"
"Yes sir, I would."
"So you're good...!"
"I wouldn't say that."
"But why not say that? You'd help a sick and maimed person if you could. Most of us would if we could. But God doesn't."
The student does not answer, so the professor continues. "He doesn't, does he? My brother was a Christian who died of cancer, even though he prayed to Jesus to heal him so is this Jesus good? Hmmm? Can you answer that one?"
The student remains silent.
"No, you can't, can you?" the professor says. He takes a sip of water from a glass on his desk to give the student time to relax.
"Let's start again, young fella Is God good?"
"Er...yes," the student says.
"Is Satan good?"
The student doesn't hesitate on this one. "No."
"Then where does Satan come from?"
The student : "From...God..."
"That's right. God made Satan, didn't he? Tell me, son. Is there evil in this world?"
"Yes, sir."
"Evil's everywhere, isn't it? Ad God did make everything, correct?"
"Yes."
"So who created evil?" The professor continued, "If God created everything, then God created evil, since evil exists, and according to the principle that our works define who we are, then God is evil."
Without allowing the student to answer, the professor continues: "Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things, do they exist in this world?"
The student: "Yes."
"So who created them?"
The student does not answer again, so the professor repeats his question. "Who created them? There is still no answer. Suddenly the lecturer breaks away to pace in front of the classroom. The class is mesmerized.
"Tell me," he continues onto another student. "Do you believe in Jesus Christ, son?"
The student's voice is confident: "Yes, professor, I do."
The old man stops pacing. "Science says you have five senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Have you ever seen Jesus?"
"No sir. I've never seen Him"
"Then tell us if you've ever heard your Jesus?"
"No, sir, I have not."
"Have you ever actually felt your Jesus, tasted your Jesus or smelt your Jesus? Have you ever had any sensory perception of Jesus Christ, or God for that matter?"
"No, sir, I'm afraid I haven't."
"Yet you still believe in him?"
"Yes."
"According to the rule so empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, science says your God doesn't exist. What do you say to that, son?"
"Nothing," the student replies. "I only have my faith."
"Yes, faith," the professor repeats. "And that is the problem science has with God.There is no evidence, only faith."
The student stands quietly for a moment, before asking a question of his own. "Professor, is there such thing as heat?"
"Yes," the professor replies. "There's heat."
"And is there such a thing as cold?"
"Yes, son, there's cold too."
"No sir, there isn't."
The professor turns to face the student, obviously interested. The room suddenly becomes very quiet. The student begins to explain.
"You can have lots of heat, even more heat, super-heat, mega-heat, unlimited heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat, but we don't have anything called 'cold'. We can hit up to 458 degrees below zero, which is no heat, but we can't go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold; otherwise we would be able to go colder than the lowest -458 degrees. Every body or object is susceptible to study when it has or transmits energy, and heat is what makes a body or matter have or transmit energy. Absolute zero (-458 F) is the total absence of heat. You see, sir, cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat we can measure in thermal units because heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it."
Silence across the room. A pen drops somewhere in the classroom, sounding like a hammer.
"What about a darkness, professor. Is there such a thing as darkness?"
"Yes," the professor replies without hesitation."What is night if it isn't darkness?"
"You're wrong again, sir. Darkness is not something; it is the absence of something You can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light, but if you have no light constantly you have nothing and it's called darkness, isn't it? That's the meaning we use to define the word. In reality, darkness isn't. If it were, you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn't you?"
The professor begins to smile at the student in front of him. This will be a good semester. "So what point are you making, young man?"
"Yes, professor. My point is, your philosophical premise is flawed to start with, and so your conclusion must also be flawed."
The professor's face cannot hide his surprise this time. "Flawed? Can you explain how?" "You are working on the premise of duality," the student explains. "You argue that there is life and then there's death; a good God and a bad God. You are viewing the concept of God as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, science can't even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing. Death is not the opposite of life, just the absence of it."
"Now tell me, professor. Do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?"
"If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, young man, yes, of course I do""Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?"
The professor begins to shake his head, still smiling, as he realizes where the argument is going. A very good semester, indeed.
"Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor, are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you now not a scientist, but a preacher?"
The class is in uproar. The student remains silent until the commotion has subsided. "To continue the point you were making earlier to the other student, let me give you an example of what I mean."
The student looks around the room. "Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the professor's brain?"
The class breaks out into laughter.
"Is there anyone here who has ever heard the professor's brain, felt the professor's brain, touched or smelled the professor's brain? No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established rules of empirical, stable, demonstrable protocol, science says that you have no brain, with all due respect, sir. So if science says you have no brain, how can we trust your lectures, sir?"
Now the room is silent. The professor just stares at the student, his face unreadable.
Finally, after what seems an eternity, the old man answers. "I guess you'll have to take them on faith."
"Now, you accept that there is faith, and, in fact faith exists with life," the student continues. "Now, sir, is there such a thing as evil?"
Now uncertain, the professor responds, "Of course, there is. We see it everyday. It is in the daily example of man's inhumanity to man It is in the multitude of crime and violence everywhere in the world. These manifestations are nothing else but evil."
To this the student replied, "Evil does not exist sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just like darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence of God.
God did not create evil. Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God's love present in his heart. It's like the cold that comes when there is no heat or the darkness that comes when there is no light."
The professor sat down.
Pass this on if you love Jesus
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Friday, December 01, 2006  | Unforgiveness
Current mood: expecting God to do GREAT things When I was a child I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things. Now we see things in a cloudy mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely. I Corinthians 13:11-12 Isolate these two verses of scripture and it may appear to be speaking of our knowledge of God. How we, in our finite mind can never understand the greatness of who He is, but at the same time can know Him on a personal level. However, the context of this passage is "love". Love is not jealous, boastful, or proud, or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance. I Corinthians 13:4-7 At this point in eternity our vision is clouded. We are unable to understand the negatives in our lives, especially those caused by other believers. But God who is all-knowing, tells us that all these things work together for good. I for one can testify that some of the injustices that I have had to endure, have led me to become better for them, better equipt for life and more importantly better equipt for serving Jesus. It wasn't until I stopped blaming the people and started trusting Jesus that he was able to bring me through, stronger on the other side. Unforgiveness is one of Satan's greatest weapons to keep us as Christians from moving on to greater things. We can't get past what so and so did to us. We gossip and spread the cancer throughout our Christians circles, completely unaware that anything is happening in our hearts. Wasn't it Jesus who said to love your enemy? After all they didn't sin against us in the first place. They sinned against Him. At the cross, Jesus died for all the sins of those who believe in Him. And as the old saying goes, all means all, and thats all, all means. Not all but the ones that happened to hurt or offend me. No, all of them. It's time for us to bind up the enemy, by removing the blinders from our own eyes. It's time for us to stop holding on to issues of the past, that have absolutely nothing to do with our "calling", to "go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit." The harvest is plenty but the workers are so few, or let me paraphrase, but the workers are so caught up in themselves, that, they too are blind. God is in complete control. He knows us better than we know our selves and opposed to our worldly perspective, He has the eternal perspective. The bumps and bruises along the way, help us see just how dependant we are of Him. "His strength is perfected in our weakness." II Corinthians 12:9 b Let it go, and let Christ grow in you. Instead, "If your enemies are hungry, feed them. If they are thirsty, give them something to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals of shame on their heads." Don't let evil conquer you, but conquer evil by doing good. Romans 12:20-21 |
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