Thu, 24 July 2008 For your consideration...the following is an excerpt from a radio spot on KAPL radio, Jacksonville, Oregon, called " Akin For the Truth". To listen to the entire spot (a few minutes long), click the little microphone icon....Jack Research has been introduced in this series by defining the word, and investigating its Biblical motivations and implications. The Bible, the only authority, and some contextual assistance was then identified as key, written research tools. Approved commentaries and study guides, used to assist to assure correct contextual understanding and application, are beneath scripture but have also been mentioned. The second most valuable historical, scientific and philosophic sources are those resulting from the research and testimonies of experts known to adhere to the precepts described earlier. Those that themselves acknowledge the authority of Scripture above their own knowledge and experience, who put God’s Word above their own resume, who themselves are intense students of the Bible; and who have a loving concern for the lost or confused. Comments[0] |
Mon, 21 July 2008 For your consideration...the following is an excerpt from a radio spot on KAPL radio, Jacksonville, Oregon, called " Akin For the Truth". To listen to the entire spot (a few minutes long), click the little microphone icon....Jack Having previously introduced the importance and motives for research, we are now able to talk practically about some tools that have been valuable for research. Obviously, the most valuable text is the Bible, God’s very Word and revelation. Any person keeping, or defending it must know it. The very worst Creationists doctrines and ideas, for example, that I have seen, stem from persons or ideas not well grounded in Scripture. To some, it seems, the science or discipline they are using apologetically is more relevant and accurate than the Scripture itself. Hence, such “defenders of the faith” tend to adjust contextual meaning in Scripture in order to fit their point, and can do more damage than good. Any scientific or historical statement that is in direct conflict with known, contextual Scripture is to be held suspect. The truth will always come to light in the long run.Comments[0] |
Sat, 19 July 2008
For your consideration...the following is an excerpt from a radio spot on KAPL radio, Jacksonville, Oregon, called " Akin For the Truth". To listen to the entire spot (a few minutes long), click the little microphone icon....Jack The knowledge of the truth, by the process laid out in II Peter 1, is promised to cause us to be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. This sublime research is not merely the process of connecting the dots by study and academic endeavor, but is a well traveled road driven by the operation of God to infuse the precepts of His Word into the very fabric of our lives, resulting finally in the conversion of our entire being to emanate the stature of Jesus Christ.
Next, we are told, it becomes our task, as members of Christ’s body, to help facilitate the reconciliation of others to the same. We need to, as Jesus said to Nicodemus in John 3, speak that which we do know. Being, as Paul described in I Timothy 4, good ministers of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, saving ourselves and those that hear us. We should give ourselves to reading, exhortation and doctrine. As such, it is contextually clear that we are ourselves to avoid, and to help others avoid psuedo-science, and other pointless philosophy; not by running from them, but by refuting them, as clearly stated by Paul in I Timothy 6:20 when advising Timothy to “keep”, or guard, that which is committed to him. Comments[0] |
Wed, 16 July 2008 For your consideration...the following is an excerpt from a radio spot on KAPL radio, Jacksonville, Oregon, called " Akin For the Truth". To listen to the entire spot (a few minutes long), click the little microphone icon....Jack Research is defined in Webster’s New World Dictionary as the “careful, systematic, patient study and investigation in some field of knowledge, undertaken to discover or establish facts or principals”. To research is also presented in the same definition as “to travel through, to survey”. Indeed, to undertake research can be an exciting and useful endeavor, a journey. And the resulting discovery, even when about subjects already well known, is at least very personal. Of course, some kinds of research are more important than others. Solomon’s second and third Proverbs talk a little about research. In these chapters he uses the parody of hidden treasure to exemplify what our attitude should be towards the research for wisdom... Comments[0] |
Sun, 13 July 2008 For your consideration...the following is an excerpt from a radio spot on KAPL radio, Jacksonville, Oregon, called " Akin For the Truth". To listen to the entire spot (a few minutes long), click the little microphone icon....Jack When discussing as we recently have the relationships between mass, gravity, black holes, the time it takes for light to travel from the stars to us, Dr. Russel Humphreys, an awarded-winning physicist, comes to our attention. Dr. Humphreys has been working to bring cosmogeny, the study of the origin of the cosmos, up to date, by applying relativity and thus showing that the universe not infinite, but with a boundary and a center. When taking this view, we come to a startling realization that relativity calculations, according to all we know today, comes up with an entirely different scenario than that of the Big Bang theory; a Biblical scenario. Dr. Humphreys published a ground-breaking book on the subject entitled “Starlight and Time”, where he openly discusses and demonstrates his calculations, and presents a cosmogeny that parallels the Genesis account. According to those calculations, at the time when Earth, which would be close to the center of mass of the universe during the fourth day of the Creation Week, was in its fourth day, billions of years would have occurred in the areas of the universe located adequately away from its center. Direct download: Akin_for_the_Truth_-_156_-_Starlight__Time_c.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 8:30 AM Comments[0] |
Fri, 11 July 2008 For your consideration...the following is an excerpt from a radio spot on KAPL radio, Jacksonville, Oregon, called " Akin For the Truth". To listen to the entire spot (a few minutes long), click the little microphone icon....Jack We’ve been lightly examining the materialistic idea that eternal matter somehow, billions of years in the past, developed an instability in it and thus suddenly expanded, producing the stars, the elements, all the planets, including Earth, and us, all within an infinite universe. This idea of a sudden beginning of time and space is called the Big Bang theory. But years before Hubble’s discoveries Albert Einstein was presenting some theories about light, mass, time, velocity and gravity that would revolutionize our understanding of their inter-relationships. From his General Theory of Relativity, presented in 1915, we now can compute the effect of mass on time. According to General Relativity, if a person is located close to an extremely dense mass, like, say, a black hole, time would be greatly slowed. A black hole is a theoretical, but mathematically believable phenomenon. These days the Hubble telescope has, in the opinion of many cosmologists, located some of these black holes.Direct download: Akin_for_the_Truth_-_155_-_Starlight__Time_b.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 8:30 AM Comments[0] |
Wed, 9 July 2008 For your consideration...the following is an excerpt from a radio spot on KAPL radio, Jacksonville, Oregon, called " Akin For the Truth". To listen to the entire spot (a few minutes long), click the little microphone icon....Jack We’ve spoken before about the fact that, as we look up at the night sky, we are often seeing stars and galaxies that can be 100’s, 1000’s, millions and even billions of light years away. But, if that is true, one should ask, how could the Biblical account limiting the Earth’s age to 1000’s, or even 100’s of 1000’s of years also be true? If light, which travels over six trillion miles in a year, reaches our eyes, say, a billion years after it left a newly created star, doesn’t that mean that the universe is at least a billion years old? Well, the answer seems to be “yes” and “no”, and before you get the idea I’m giving you double-talk, I’ll explain what I mean. But I must first begin with a little recent history. Before Hubble’s discoveries, it was seriously debated whether or not the galaxies in space observed were in fact merely part of the Milky Way. Up through the first ¼ of the twentieth century, no one really had a grasp of the immense size of the universe. But Edwin Hubble was to devise the classification system for galaxies, grouping them by sizes and shapes, that astronomers still use today. He also was able to provide confirmation that the universe is expanding. In 1929 he determined that the more distant a galaxy is from Earth, the faster it appears to move away, which became known as Hubble's Law. Hubble’s law was to be the foundation of the Big Bang theory.Direct download: Akin_for_the_Truth_-_154_-_Starlight__Time_a.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 8:30 AM Comments[0] |
Mon, 7 July 2008 For your consideration...the following is an excerpt from a radio spot on KAPL radio, Jacksonville, Oregon, called " Akin For the Truth". To listen to the entire spot (a few minutes long), click the little microphone icon....Jack Last time we were looking at the inevitable and very natural observations that all things tend to decay, become disordered over time, and that this law is unbreakable, and, according to Scripture, purposeful, subjecting us all and the very universe itself to seeing our emptiness and presenting us with the very real hope for redemption. And the Scripture even tells us how this natural or spontaneous tendency towards disorder and death came to be. Genesis, the book of beginnings, reveals to us an event that occurred just after the creation of the earth, the heavens, and all life. It occurred as the result of another creation; free will. Although they received warning from God that the wages for the sin of disobedience was death, Adam and Eve nevertheless chose to disobey. Hence, according to Scripture, God’s good creation was hurled into a downward spiral, an inevitable death. Direct download: Akin_for_the_Truth_-_153_-_Simpler_Thermo_b.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 8:30 AM Comments[0] |
Sat, 5 July 2008 For your consideration...the following is an excerpt from a radio spot on KAPL radio, Jacksonville, Oregon, called " Akin For the Truth". To listen to the entire spot (a few minutes long), click the little microphone icon....Jack In the minds of some that hold to an evolutionary explanation as to how natural things have come into being, evolution, ever-increasing order and complexity, seems to be quite natural. But, in the sciences today a term is often used to describe the natural way of things, that is: the way they happen in nature when nature is left to itself. The term is “spontaneous”. All around us in nature we notice events occurring spontaneously, or naturally, and we have come to expect them to play out in certain ways. When lightning hits the side of a mountain during a thunderstorm, causing a fire, we expect that the fire will destroy vegetation, not create it. When a river swells during the rainy season, we expect increased erosion of river banks, and possible damage to any structure in the flood plain. We don’t expect new houses to be formed by the onrushing flood. When a volcano explodes we expect death, destruction and disorder, not life, construction and order. The second we dig some metal ore out of the ground and melt it, form it, bend and shape it into some metal object, like a car, it begins trying to return to the ore state it was in originally. We have our junk yards and landfills to testify to that fact. Direct download: Akin_for_the_Truth_-_152_-_Simpler_Thermo_a.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 8:30 AM Comments[0] |
Wed, 2 July 2008 For your consideration...the following is an excerpt from a radio spot on KAPL radio, Jacksonville, Oregon, called " Akin For the Truth". To listen to the entire spot (a few minutes long), click the little microphone icon....Jack In continuing to contast the hopefulness provided for the person who has trusted in and relied upon the promises of Scripture, with the hopeless and dark doctrines of the materialist, the thoughtful Christian can only wonder how the purposefulness and design of our world and universe could be missed. Last time we enlisted some of the incredible intentional attributes that stare us in the face, each item of that list absolutely necessary for life on Earth, regarding the obvious design of the Sun, Moon and planets. Our atmosphere’s design should also not be forgotten, with just the right proportions and combination and properties of gases. Oxygen, for example, is in supply at about 21%, enough to keep us all breathing, and yet not so much as to reach the approximate 25% concentration where all would combust, which also has the special characteristics that it can be present in the upper atmosphere in single, paired or triple-atomed molecules, just the right size to absorb harmful Solar radiation. We should all have some idea about the Earth’s revolution, defining the length of the day, just the right speed relative to its distance from the Sun to warm but not overheat the surface, and the Earth’s tilt, perfect to provide the necessary seasons and weather patterns. Direct download: Akin_for_the_Truth_-_151_-_World_Views_c.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 8:05 PM Comments[0] |
Mon, 30 June 2008 For your consideration...the following is an excerpt from a radio spot on KAPL radio, Jacksonville, Oregon, called " Akin For the Truth". To listen to the entire spot (a few minutes long), click the little microphone icon....Jack When enlisting some of the characteristic doctrines of materialism, one sees a hopeless, meaningless universe, purposeless lives, and inevitable future of hopelessness and chaos. This dark scenario is rarely verbalized in the classroom or media today, perhaps because few materialists have really looked towards, or desire to dwell on, the logical conclusion of their beliefs.
Oddly enough, often the same person who holds such a mind-set, whether expressed or no, also harbors a contradicting optimism; a feeling that, somehow, everything is going to turn out all right. Often progressive, he or she thinks that, as we continue to advance, we gain the understanding more and more each day that we are enlightened with perspective, and in full control of our destinies, as the philosopher-futurist, Jeremy Rifkin once put it, …we are now the kingdom, the power and the glory, forever, amen. Carl Sagan also expressed this philosophy, and then presented it as science’s stamp of approval when he said that the universe is all there ever was, is or ever will be.
But the Christian is armed with the explanation of the ages. Of course the cosmos surrounding the Earth is hostile to life, for the surrounding universe is not designed to directly sustain life, but has other, inter-related purposes. The Christian wonders at the kind of blindness that could allow one to look at the huge number of fortuitous facts about our world, solar system and cosmos that make life possible, and yet not see overall design and purpose. Direct download: Akin_for_the_Truth_-_150_-_World_Views_b.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 8:57 AM Comments[0] |
Fri, 27 June 2008 For your consideration...the following is an excerpt from a radio spot on KAPL radio, Jacksonville, Oregon, called " Akin For the Truth". To listen to the entire spot (a few minutes long), click the little microphone icon....Jack ...the Christian is armed with the explanation of the ages, and wonders at the kind of blindness that could allow one to look at the huge number of fortuitous facts about our world, solar system and cosmos that make life possible, and yet not see overall design and purpose, knowing that each person has a purpose, placed inside by the Creator, because the cosmos, which was originally designed as good but is now fallen due to mankind’s sin, has been redeemed, delivered by Christ.Direct download: Akin_for_the_Truth_-_149_-_World_Views_a.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 8:30 AM Comments[0] |
Tue, 24 June 2008 For your consideration...the following is an excerpt from a radio spot on KAPL radio, Jacksonville, Oregon, called " Akin For the Truth". To listen to the entire spot (a few minutes long), click the little microphone icon....Jack To conclude our observations regarding prophecy in Scripture that allude to end times judgement, as seen in, for example, Job and Revelation, we noted a recent though dwarfish example of upcoming events by looking at Mt. St. Helens. As afore-mentioned, such well-documented events as Mt. St. Helens eruptions help unlock mysteries about future, predicted events , as well as the past. But such catastrophic events as were seen during the 1980 Mt. St. Helens eruption are nothing in comparison to those described in Revelation ear-marking the very end of the world. Therein, for example, a burning mountain, reminiscent of an asteroid, and a great star, perhaps a comet, is predicted to hit the sea and earth. Hail burns up huge areas of the earth’s vegetation. Much of the earth’s water supply is poisoned. Something happens to our Sun to actually reduce its luminosity, followed later by a Solar blast, perhaps a monstrous flare, that scorches the earth. Direct download: Akin_for_the_Truth_-_148_-_snow__ice_c.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 10:39 AM Comments[0] |
Sun, 22 June 2008 For your consideration...the following is an excerpt from a radio spot on KAPL radio, Jacksonville, Oregon, called " Akin For the Truth". To listen to the entire spot (a few minutes long), click the little microphone icon....Jack Last time we were looking at an interesting scripture found in the ancient book of Job, as God Himself releases a string of mysteries to Job, demonstrating the inadequacies of Mankind to instruct, or even fully understand, God’s purposes. Therein He rhetorically states to Job, recorded in in verse 23, “Have you entered into the treasures of the snow, or have you seen the treasures of the hail, which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?”Direct download: Akin_for_the_Truth_-_147_-_snow__ice_b.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 10:32 AM Comments[0] |
Fri, 20 June 2008 For your consideration...the following is an excerpt from a radio spot on KAPL radio, Jacksonville, Oregon, called " Akin For the Truth". To listen to the entire spot (a few minutes long), click the little microphone icon....Jack For reasons previosly mentioned and many more, water and its characteristics are truly amazing, and obviously specially designed to help maintain life on Earth. It was also previously mentioned that, despite the fact that water is so important to us, we still don't have a really good molecular-level understanding of it. When water is a liquid, the molecules mix around very closely to one another, each attracted to the other by hydrogen bonds. As water cools, the molecules slow down and pack into a crystalline structure, ice. But a very unique property of water is that, because of its arrangement of hydrogen and oxygen atoms, the ice is uniquely less dense than its liquid state. Hence, as water freezes it expands, and so, it floats. As we know, this particular characteristic of water is crucial to the very existence of life on Earth. Perhaps because of such factors as its antediluvian, or pre-flood knowledge of the water and earth sciences, and a number of other attributes, I personally find the book of Job particularly interesting. Direct download: Akin_for_the_Truth_-_146_-_snow__ice_a.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 10:23 AM Comments[0] |
Wed, 18 June 2008 For your consideration...the following is an excerpt from a radio spot on KAPL radio, Jacksonville, Oregon, called " Akin For the Truth". To listen to the entire spot (a few minutes long), click the little microphone icon....Jack In concluding our discussions regarding what we can learn from the fossil record, it has been necessary to enlist many of the claims that can not be factually supported by the fossil record. The bottom line is that, with over 250,000 fossils on display and no transitional fossils that are beyond debate, the creationist presents the fossil record as that which is an embarrassment to the evolutionary theory as presented by neo-Darwinists, and that there are no transitional forms from one-celled creatures to the most complex mammals, via any biological pathways that we know of: not from one-celled to invertebrates, not from invertebrates to the vertebrate fishes, not from fishes to amphibians, not from amphibians to reptiles, not from reptiles to birds, not from reptiles to mammals. All of these are distinct, all of them unique, all of them specially designed.Comments[0] |
Mon, 16 June 2008 For your consideration...the following is an excerpt from a radio spot on KAPL radio, Jacksonville, Oregon, called " Akin For the Truth". To listen to the entire spot (a few minutes long), click the little microphone icon....Jack We have been encapsulating the past discussions regarding proported fossil evidence for an evolutionary history and the lack of real evidence in support of these claims. We left off last time with the Coelacanth, dubbed before living Coelacanths were discovered in the 1930s as the dinofish, a cross between amphibians and fishes. Well, we now know, as you might expect, that the Coelacanth is 100% fish. The skeptic would explain this embarrassing upset as the result of an accidental discovery of a creature previously thought to have been extinct. After all, a cynic might observe, it’s easy to claim all kinds of “fishibian” traits when there is no living creature available to disprove your evolutionary conjectures. So much for the supposed missing link between fishes and amphibians. Comments[0] |
Sat, 14 June 2008 For your consideration...the following is an excerpt from a radio spot on KAPL radio, Jacksonville, Oregon, called " Akin For the Truth". To listen to the entire spot (a few minutes long), click the little microphone icon....Jack Recently we’ve been talking a lot about what is generally known about fossils…the different ways they can be formed…what conditions are present, where they tend to be found, and how widely differently they can be interpreted. We also investigated, based on information presently available to us all, the plausibility of the theory that one-celled animals could transform into multi-celled invertebrates, that invertebrates could transform into vertebrates, that vertebrate fishes could evolve into amphibians, that amphibians could change into reptiles, or that reptiles could evolve into birds and mammals. And so this theory, called evolution, first states that the one-celled organisms of the primordial world evolved into the vast array of complex multi-celled invertebrates, creatures without internal skeletons, during what is dubbed as the Cambrian period. This evolutionary phenomenon is called the Cambrian explosion, and we have cited the fact that the mechanisms that could have caused this event in history are unexplained and very much in doubt. Comments[0] |
Wed, 11 June 2008 For your consideration...the following is an excerpt from a radio spot on KAPL radio, Jacksonville, Oregon, called " Akin For the Truth". To listen to the entire spot (a few minutes long), click the little microphone icon....Jack We have been looking a bit closer at evolutionary claims, dominating our media and educational system, boldly and categorically present to the public, including our kids, that the fossils support their theories. On the contrary, however, a focused inspection on any given evidence finds that evidence contrived. It must be a requirement that serious, unbroken transitional fossil evidence must be found in order to support such outlandish presumption that millions of favorable mutations, occurring simultaneously and/or in perfect order, have conspired to produce the incredible variety of living things found in nature. As afore-mentioned, imagined scenarios bolstered by scanty, easily challenged evidence such as the "walking whale" fossil reported in 1993, or the highly publicized intermediate between fish and amphibians, the Coelacanth, are used as proof of transition, until ultimately unproven. Comments[0] |
Mon, 9 June 2008 For your consideration...the following is an excerpt from a radio spot on KAPL radio, Jacksonville, Oregon, called " Akin For the Truth". To listen to the entire spot (a few minutes long), click the little microphone icon....Jack Various similarities and differences found in fossil fishes and amphibians in limb structure, head attachment, elbow and knee joints, skull patterns and internal gills, are used to support the idea of transitional forms, attempting to obscure the line between the two classes. As we brought to light last time, however, the fact that there are very distinct skeletal differences between amphibians and fishes presents us with only one of the many problems encountered in trying to link fishes and amphibians. The internal organs...gills, ears, eyes, pelvic girdle, etc., are quite different also, and major changes would have had to occur in just the right order to accomplish the transition. But. alas, no "fishibian" has ever been found. Every fish, living or fossil, even those with unusual characteristics, is fully fish, and every amphibian, living or fossil, is fully amphibian.” Comments[0] |
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