Nothing quite like discussing the Biblical trinity with your 96 yr-old father at 530a on Father’s Day over coffee. Once a professional Bible professor, always a Bible professor. What a day.
@BradThor Great job on Choke Point! I always love SH but this was particularly good. Thanks for using your skill so well. These always make me long for an endless supply of your books - might just have to start over from the beginning again 😀
I highly encourage you to listen to this interview between Heidi St. John and Ken Ham. In it, he explains why he believes the church has been so greatly weakened and unsuccessful in raising up younger generations to stand boldly on the truth of God's Word.
As expected, he points to the church's failure to uphold the authority of God's Word starting at Genesis 1-11 and to the failure of both Christian parents and churches to disciple young people to know both what they believe as Christians and why they believe it.
Link below👇
Heidi St. John: Why does it matter that we believe in a young earth and not in millions of years?
Ken Ham: When people ask me that question, one of the ways I answer it is this. Does it matter if we take God at His word? Does that matter? You see, you've got to stand back. And this is something I've been doing for 50 years is to try to get people to understand this is a biblical authority issue.
And if you can grasp hold of that, when you undermine the authority of the Word of God, and you unlock a door, you don't need to start with God's Word...
Go back to the late 1700s, early 1800s when the idea of millions of years started to be popularized. It came out of atheism, right? From atheists and deists who rejected the Word of God, believed everything is material, and said, How do we explain the fossil record was laid down over millions of years. What did Christian leaders start to do?
We'll take the millions of years and put in a gap between the first two verses in Genesis, the Gap Theory. We'll take the millions of years, and we'll reinterpret the days of creation. And then along comes Darwin who builds on the millions of years. Given the millions of years, one kind of animal changes into another, then Christian leaders said, We'll say God used evolution, and then, God used the Big Bang and so on.
But you see what's happening progressively is they're saying to the people they impact and to generations, we can take what man says out here, and you reinterpret the days, and you reinterpret this part. And you're unlocking a door. And when you unlock that door that you can start outside of Scripture to reinterpret Scripture, that door gets pushed open further and further and further, generation after generation until you're on that slippery slide of unbelief through the whole of Scripture."
@AmericanAir you’re embarrassing yourselves today. No rain at DFW. 5+ delays to Jacksonville, FL. 4 gate changes. Took Skylink from A terminal to C arriving with “7 min to board” on the gate C2 monitor. Changes back to A18. Right where we came from. Pretty unbelievable
@flemingrut@Bezner I’ve seen over the weekend the results of a friend’s work and he created a partial intellectual clone - but certainly not a human. Interesting times.
@TommyPLee@SouthwestAir I have flown primarily @AmericanAir for 20 years or their one world partners even though I live in Dallas and could easily fly SWA. Our international work motivated that and they are not perfect but they’re not stupid either :-).