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 icon....Jack

What do you think about coal? Bet you didn’t expect that question today. Well, coal is important to the Bible-believer, because in its study one can find a powerful demonstration of Noah’s great Flood.

The first documented US coal mining was probably a 50 ton excavation that was dug in 1748. Today, we produce over one billion tons per year...  jack

Though ingenious in their fabrications, scenarios presented to demonstrate the development of an eye ask you to believe what is naturally impossible. Evolutionists casually present computer models, for example, showing that a fish eye can evolve in 364,000 generations. This modeling utilizes mutation rates that are known, but it is not mentioned the requirement that the mutation must be favorable, that is, useful to the development of a desired end, a complex, working eye...Jack

It is difficult these days to not be aware of the serious debate existing about all claims made by evolutionary materialists...Jack

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 icon....Jack

We’ve been looking at a couple of interesting terms these last two days; axiom, and paradox. Thus we could better understand strategically why the enemy, Satan, spends so much time attacking Genesis, the book of origins, and so by attempting to present Genesis as a collection of ancient myths and allegories, indirectly attacks the very cross of Christ. We also examined the paradox of the salvation of the unrepentant by the repentance of the only one capable of perfect repentance, one who doesn’t need to repent. That perfect penitent is Christ...

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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 icon....Jack

We’ve been looking at a couple of interesting terms these last two days; axiom, and paradox. Thus we could better understand strategically why the enemy, Satan, spends so much time attacking Genesis, the book of origins, and so by attempting to present Genesis as a collection of ancient myths and allegories, indirectly attacks the very cross of Christ. We also examined the paradox of the salvation of the unrepentant by the repentance of the only one capable of perfect repentance, one who doesn’t need to repent. That perfect penitent is Christ.

Now, another paradox; Which came first, the chicken or the egg? To embrace this question, we must go outside of our experience. We have seen that eggs come from hens, so maybe the chicken came first. However, when fertilized by a rooster, the egg will produce, through a mind boggling series of complex processes, a baby chicken. We observe that this is the only way chickens come into the world. So the which came first question remains unanswered.

It is unanswered because the logical end of this question is one of origins...

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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 icon....Jack

Last time we defined the word axiom, a-x-i-o-m, as a basic truth or fact that does not need to be proven, because it’s foundational. Now I’m going to bring in another term…paradox. This word is more familiar. Paradox combines the para- root with the Greek word for "thought," something that takes us outside our normal thinking.

A paradox can be false if it couples incorrect concepts, definitions or understandings. For example, How can God, for whom nothing is impossible, create a stone that He can’t lift? If God can lift anything, then He can’t make anything that He can’t lift. On the other hand, if He can create such a stone, then at least one thing is impossible to Him, that is; the lifting of this stone. But this proposed paradox is a false one, because the meanings behind the question are mutually exclusive, and, additionally, we are talking about God. And it makes no logical sense to ask what will happen when an irresistible force meets an immovable object? And second, the God we’re talking about is a lot more than just an irresistible force.

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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 icon...Jack

Have you ever heard the term “axiom��? before? An axiom, a-x-i-o-m, is a basic truth or fact that does not need to be proven, because it’s foundational. In math, it is axiomatic that, if you multiply any number by one, the product equals that same number. This is more useful than you may think, very helpful the sciences to convert and preserve units and values.

So, if one can build an argument on a foundation of axiomatic premises during a discussion, the logic of that side of a given debate is strengthened.

I doubt if you would think it a very profound to state that foundational truths have always been at the base of sound reasoning. Jesus certainly put forth this concept in His parable about building your house on sand. The idea is that a solid foundation, though initially perhaps more difficult to establish, chiseling out of the rocks as it were the base for your foundation, the end result is a house that will endure when those inevitable violent storms arrive...

For your consideration...the following is an excerpt from a radio spot on KAPL radio, Jacksonville, Oregon, called " Akin For the Truth". To hear the entire spot (a few minutes long), click the icon....Jack

In the last couple of days we've been looking at similarities among cultures and noting that most entertain myths and beliefs similar in many ways to a primordal paradise, a Garden of Eden.

Among the most intriguing ancient traditions to me is that reported of the Miautso tribes, who at one time occupied most of inland

China south of the Yangtze River. These tribes have been gradually driven into the mountains of the southwest by the better-armed and better-organized Chinese.

As explained by the translator, Edgar Truax, "The Miao traditions are very precise, as compared with those of many primitive peoples, because they are not only handed down in metrical form, but, also, they are in couplets, in which the same or similar meaning is expressed in different wording, so that the second sentence acts as a definition of the first, where it might otherwise not be clear. This is very much like one form of Hebrew poetry.

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The following is an excerpt from a radio spot on KAPL radio, called "Akin for the Truth". To hear the spot (a few minutes long), click the icon....

Jack

For your consideration:

Hesiod; “At first the immortals who dwell on Olympus created a golden race of mortal men, and they lived like gods, carefree in their hearts, shielded from pain and misery. Helpless old age did not exist, and with limbs of unsagging vigor they enjoyed the delights of feasts, out of evil's reach.��?

 And, in the jungles of ancient Meso-america, a similar account was preserved in the. Popoi Vuh; “And in this way they (the Creators and Makers) were filled with joy, because they had found a beautiful land, full of pleasures. There were foods of every kind.��? But a problem surfaced. The gods found that the "created" came into a possession of knowledge and vision equaling that of the "creators", and this could not be tolerated for long. Holding council, they resolved to remove these powers from the realm of mankind. This divine dilemma is almost identical to the one described in Genesis 3:22.

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The idea that there is in our past a cultural memory of a paradise, where there was no death, disease or pain, is not hard to prove.

 Click to listen to a few minutes of commentary on cultural signatures regarding Biblical truth. You may find this three part series surprising.

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