(…continued) When in John chapter 10 Jesus says to his disciples, “I am the gate,” Peter doesn’t jump up and say, ‘Don’t try to fool us, Jesus, we don’t see any hinges or latches on you.” No, they knew, and we know, Jesus was using a gate as an image of the way to […]
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The book A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson is a fascinating overview of what scientists have learned about our earth and the whole universe. It covers everything, from the very beginnings 14.5 billion years ago (give or take a couple months) right on up to the present time. Bryson describes
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Creatio Ex Nihilo (Latin) = “Creation Out of Nothing.” ——————– I Believe in God, the Father Almighty, Creator of Heaven and Earth. –First Article of the Apostle’s Creed ——————— Nothing can be made from nothing; once we see that’s so, Already we are on the way to what we want to know. –Lucretis, Roman poet and philosopher (First century,
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“An MIT Professor Meets the Author of All Knowledge: I used to think religious people were ignoramuses. Then I got smart and took a chance on God” By Rosalind Picard, March 15, 2019 at: http://www.christianity-today.com Rosalind Picard (1962- ) is founder and director of the Affective Computing Research Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Image above: This photo was taken on February 14, 1990 as the Voyager 1 spacecraft sped past Neptune and turned its camera back towards Earth for one last look. **************************** Carl Sagan said: Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever
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“God, The Universe, and My Aquarium” by Philip Yancey, Christianity Today magazine, July 13, 1984, page 66. ( http://www.christianitytoday.com ) ———————- When I look out my window, I see a 12-story apartment building, all concrete and glass, with bicycles, Weber grills and lawn chairs propped up at random on its balconies. And also
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Job 37:14 — Listen to this, Job; stop and consider God’s wonders. Psalm 145:5b — I will meditate on your wonderful works. Psalm 147:16 — He spreads the snow like wool and scatters the frost like ashes. Job 37:6a…7a — God says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth,’… so that everyone he has made may
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I Assumed Science Had All the Answers. Then I Started Asking Inconvenient Questions. “My journey from atheist dogma to Christian faith was paved with intellectual and spiritual surprises.” Christianity Today magazine, March issue, pages 87, 88. ( http://www.christianitytoday.com ) By Sy Garte (pictured above), a biochemist who has taught at New York University, the
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By Lee Strobel and Mark Middelberg ——————- In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1:1 Much has been written about the origin of the universe. Has it always been here, or did it have a beginning? If it did have a beginning, what caused it to come into existence?
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Robert Jastow (1925-2008) was an American astronomer and physicist. He was a leading NASA scientist, popular author, and futurist. He said that although he was an agnostic and not a believer, he believed the accepted scientific theory of the big bang origin of the universe supported the Biblical view of a creation
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