Our Creator God is our Savior God. A God who is full of grace, that undeserved love for every person in the entire world. A God who is full of truth. A God who reveals mysteries to us.
Description What does John the Baptist do with his doubts? He brings his question to Jesus. He doesn’t let the doubt overwhelm him.
And he doesn’t discard his faith at the moment it’s opposed with what seems to be evidence to the contrary.
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How about starting each day by reciting out loud a positive passage from Scripture? A great choice would be, This is the day the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. These words are packed with so much meaning. The Psalmist starts by declaring God to be our creator. God created everything, including time itself. God made today!
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"So also our God works our genetics, experience, and environment into a beautiful tapestry. He arranges history and circumstance to reach out to each of us with the energizing power of the Gospel. Our sins have indeed caused damage that will result in our death. But God gives us new life that grows out of the death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ."
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There is a narrow Lutheran middle road regarding Creation. Let’s travel that narrow road while not falling into the ditches on either side. The ditch on one side incorrectly sees arguments from reason as able to aid in creating or sustaining faith. The ditch on the other side incorrectly sees no place at all for arguments from reason in our apologetic (in our defense of the faith).
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The term comes from a medieval English philosopher and Franciscan monk named William of Ockham who held to the principle that “plurality should not be posited without necessity.â€1 In other words,one should avoid adding additional steps or parts to an explanation when fewer steps or parts would suffice as well or better. Occam's razor is sometimes called the law of parsimony, which means “the simpler the assumption, the more likely it is correct.†This principle was often used in medieval philosophy, and neither the name nor the idea originated with William, but he often made use of it in his work.
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Origin of Life and Species: Four Formulas by Darrel Kautz This is a reprint of a much older article. Darrel Kautz went home to the Lord in 1993.
The formulas given in this section are those often used by Prof. Wilder-Smith when lecturing on the differences between the creationist’s and the evolutionist’s views about the origin of life and species.
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