Wed, 30 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 For some time now our discussion has been about research, the motivations, tools, and resources. Today I would like to put some ”flesh on the bone”, if you will, giving some personal examples. In Proverbs we are told that “A gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of he that has it; which ever way it is turned it prospers”. That verse from the 17th Chapter of Proverbs reminds me of the Holy Scriptures. Indeed, no matter from what perspective or discipline you come, the Scriptures shine.
And if you are looking for accuracy in Scripture, you will not be let down. For instance, Dr.’s Ethyl Nelson and Dr. Kang analyzed ancient Chinese symbols and characters and, as they hoped, the Chinese language has, nested deep within its meanings, distinct echoes of Genesis in frequency that surpasses any possibility for coincidence. In their co-written book, “Discovery of Genesis”, they demonstrate the fact that the 4500 year old language is replete with direct reference to Biblical events. Comments[0] |
Sun, 27 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 Continuing a listing of references I can personally recommend for research in specific areas: regarding the stars and heavens, astrophysics, I depend on research and publications by Humphreys, Buamgardiner, Danny Faulkner, John Oller, Don DeYoung, and I am very edified by Bullinger’s Witness of the Stars. Regarding philosophy, to me, anything by CS Lewis and Mere Christianity by the same is central. The Soul of Science, by Pearcy and Thaxton does an excellent job of dividing between philosophy and science, and Bert Thompson’s The History of Evolutionary Thought is a good reference. With respect to Geology or Meteorology, anything by Henry or John Morris, anything by Steve Austin, anything by Andrew Snelling, anything by Kurt Wise, or Larry Vaardiman. Comments[0] |
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] |
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