Which one evolved first?
Male or female?
Evolution: "They just co-evolved gradually somehow."
Ya....ok.
Biological sex is proof that Life is created.
Two coordinated systems with entirely different anatomy.
Neither functions without the other.
Without both, Life ends.
So which half evolved first?
How many bajillions of years did that half have to wait around for the second half to get the right mutations?
Evolution cannot explain male & female.
Because Life was Created:
"Male and female God created them."
We’ve been enduring and adjusting to this mess for over 11 years now. If we don’t stop the rot, the result of our collective cowardice will be a lost century.
Pray for the Muslims who joined the livestream today. One of them renounced Islam and accepted Christ, and one is on the fence. Pray that they come to know that Jesus is Lord and Islam is false.
Myths about Q (3) : John Kloppenborg divides the Q document into literary layers (Q1, Q2, Q3) and argues that the earliest stratum, Q1, contains only sapiential instruction, devoid of a high Christology or an apocalyptic "Son of Man" concept. Burton Mack and J.D. Crossan take this stratification theory a step further, claiming that the earliest Palestinian/Galilean community utilizing Q viewed Jesus not as a divine savior, but as an apolitical "Cynic sage" whose crucifixion carried zero theological significance.
But Christopher Tuckett demonstrates that the Son of Man sayings in Q very clearly point to the transcendent and divine judge of Daniel 7. Furthermore verses like Q 10:22 (Matthew 11:27), which states that "no one knows the Son except the Father," prove that Q (and consequently, Palestinian Christianity) possessed a High Christology from the very beginning. Also, Loke and Hengel note that the absence of a passion narrative in Q does not imply that the community lacked belief in the cross or the resurrection. Q is not a text that denies the kerygma (the proclamation of the cross and resurrection); rather, it is a body of moral and eschatological teachings prepared as a catechetical supplement for believers who *ALREADY* knew the kerygma.
The critics (especially Mack and Crossan) takes Kloppenborg’s theory regarding the literary redaction stages of the Q text (Q1, Q2) and markets it as if it were a chronological and theological evolution (tradition history). Yet, Kloppenborg himself explicitly warns against this logical fallacy, noting that the fact that a saying was added to Q at a later stage (Q2) does not mean it does not go back to the historical Jesus or that it is not early.
Q was compiled as a catechetical supplement for early communities who already knew the core kerygma (i.e. the death and resurrection of Jesus).
Ghana issues we are facing;
Galamsey
Dumsor
Sanitation
Transportation
Water
Cost of living
Unemployment
Rent
Corruption
Looting state
Roads
Streetlights
Hospital beds
Ethnic conflicts at Bawku
Grazing
misappropriation of funds
Black stars
Cocoa farmers
Overpricing
Tomorrow, she’ll set up the camera, put on an emotional face, and start singing Christian songs.
“You honor God with your lips, but your heart is far from Him.”
There are some roles you have to reject as a Christian and also as a mother.
We have Christians in almost every sector of the nation, but they seem more concerned about their personal safety, success, and protecting their "strategic relationships" than they are concerned for the name of Christ and His mission for Mankind.
Until believers care more for God's kingdom than their personal success, wickedness will seem more powerful than righteousness.
And God's kingdom is beyond having church plants in every street, it's about the culture of God's love, truth justice, and righteousness prevailing amongst depraved humans.
SPEAKING SOLEMNLY
Anyone living in sexual sins (fornication, adultery, pornography, etc), has no place in Christian ministry. Immorality is a very big deal, scripturally. The believer's BODY is the temple of the Holy Spirit. Yes, the BODY. Therefore, what you do with God's dwelling place must be of colossal significance. Don't you see it?
And, because of the sacredness of Christian ministry, while you can legitimately be a struggling Believer for a season, you cannot be a struggling minister, if the struggle is that you have not overcome sexual immorality. In this regard, the category of a struggling minister does not exist, biblically considered.
This is not about being a "wounded soldier." But in any case, if a soldier takes a bullet during combat, we don't hand him over to the enemies, yes. And we also don't leave him in the frontline to continue fighting – with his wound. We take him out and away for treatment. Whether he can even return to active duty later on depends on the severity/impact of the 'wound' sustained and the assessment of the team managing his case. Taking him out of combat is a responsible act of love and not a case of "condemning our own."
Back from the digression. It is alien to the spirit of Christ, to say someone is a minister of the gospel, even though he commits immorality. The practice of immorality cannot coexist with legitimate practice of ministry. A fornicator or an adulterer is not a Minister. Cannot be.
A minister of the gospel MUST be above reproach. People MUST be safe under his care. Money, too, MUST be safe under his care. The bible insists that he sustains a high level of integrity – morally, ethically, socially.
This is why the Charismata, the gifts of the Spirit are never mentioned as qualification or eligibility for ministry. Check the texts.
So, the practice of equating giftedness with eligibility for ministry is unbiblical and should be discouraged. Being a gifted speaker, for instance, does not qualify anyone for Christian ministry. If you know all the Rhema in the book, and all the historic fine points of orthodoxy, but you're an intermittent fornicator/adulterer, you are ineligible for Christian Ministry. You need to be discipled, you should not be discipling anyone, at all.
Read the passage below carefully, to the very last verse, please: It says a Pastor:
"...must be a good man whose life cannot be spoken against. He must have only one wife, and he must be hard working and thoughtful, orderly, and full of good deeds. He must enjoy having guests in his home and must be a good Bible teacher. He must not be a drinker or quarrelsome, but he must be gentle and kind and not be one who loves money. He must have a well-behaved family, with children who obey quickly and quietly. For if a man can’t make his own little family behave, how can he help the whole church? The pastor must not be a new Christian because he might be proud of being chosen so soon, and pride comes before a fall. (Satan’s downfall is an example.) Also, he must be well spoken of by people outside the church—those who aren’t Christians—so that Satan can’t trap him with many accusations and leave him without freedom to lead his flock"
On the last point above, many people who work in Hotels don't take the church seriously because the see the behind-the-scenes lifestyle of Pastors. A minister must have one life, must be not be two-faced. And he must be an example to both insiders and outsiders.
If the church is weak, Satan is only a remote cause. If the church is weak anywhere, the church is the reason why.
And now, may the glorious Lord of the church step into this seeming perpetual desolation, and pour us the blessing that is Revival.
#CryForRevival
Islam is the scary religion that the entertainment and media industries have been trying to paint Christianity as.
Christianity is the peaceful religion that the entertainment and media industries have been trying to paint Islam as.
Even as a Christian and Arsenal fan, I can't wrap my head around Nigerian Pastors who are eager to post congratulations online about Arsenal but can't speak up for Christian brethren being persecuted and about the situation of insecurity in the country.
It really muzzes me mehn