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[Mr. T @MrT]

“O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.” “O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.” Psalms 30:2-3 #fridaymorning

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"Let us be willing to lose everything rather than lose Christ."

— Charles Spurgeon

[Dustin Benge @DustinBenge]

9 ways we should read the Bible:

1. Prayerfully (Ps 119:18)

2. Meditatively (Josh 1:8)

3. Contextually (2 Tim 2:15)

4. Regularly (Ps 1:2)

5. Humbly (James 1:21)

6. Obediently (James 1:22)

7. Expectantly (Heb 4:12)

8. Reverently (Isa 66:2)

9. Persistently (Matt 4:4)

[Martyn Lloyd-Jones Gold @DMLJGOLD]

Thank God my salvation does not depend on me, but on God’s love to me. Not upon my frail grasp of Him, but upon His strong grasp of me!

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[Dustin Benge @DustinBenge]

Child of God, you cost Christ too much for him to forget you.

Charles H. Spurgeon

[Dustin Benge @DustinBenge]

Why should we read the Bible?

1. Know God's will and wisdom
(Ps 119:105)

2. Grow in faith and knowledge
(Rom 10:17)

3. Receive instruction and correction
(2 Tim 3:16)

4. Find comfort and encouragement
(Rom 15:4)

5. Share God's Word with others
(1 Pet 3:15)

6. Equip ourselves for every good work
(2 Tim 3:16–17)

7. Overcome temptation and sin
(Ps. 119:11)

[J.C. Ryle @JCRyle]

A man's state before God may always be measured by his prayers. Whenever we begin to feel careless about our private prayers there is something very wrong in the condition of our souls. There are breakers ahead. We are in imminent danger of a shipwreck. -@JCRyle

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[J.C. Ryle @JCRyle]

Nothing whatever, whether great or small, can happen to a believer, without God’s ordering and permission. @JCRyle

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All that we have is on loan from God. We are God's stewards. We are God's debtors. Let this thought sink deeply into our hearts. -@JCRyle

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[Puritan Gold @PuritanGold]

For sometimes it conduces more to the welfare of the faithful that they be afflicted than that they enjoy external peace and tranquility.

—John Davenant, Geneva Series Commentaries: Colossians, Pg. 31

[Charles Spurgeon @_CSpurgeon_]

You are a great sinner, but He is a greater Savior.

[The Daily Spurgeon @dailyspurgeon]

...I believe the holier a man becomes the more he mourns over the unholiness which remains in him; but he is in very truth a far better man, he is a spiritual and holy man.

[Ken Ham @aigkenham]

When I debated Bill Nye in 2014 at the @CreationMuseum , Bill saw the debate as one of science verses the bible. But it’s not science verses the bible as we've taught over and over again @AiG ! That’s why one of the first things I did in the debate was to define terms.

In today’s world we often hear statements like “science disproves creation” or “science proves evolution.” Whenever we hear such claims, the first thing we should ask is “What do you mean by science?” When people talk to me about science and the bible, I always start the conversation by asking them to define the word “science.” Most look at me with blank faces. Others will give all sorts of different explanations. It’s obvious most people use the word “science” but they sort of have a nebulous understanding of what it means.

The word science comes from the Latin scientia, which means “knowledge.” When most people think of the word science, they tend to equate it with technology, yet secularists also equate the word science with molecules-to-man evolution and millions of years.

To help sort out the confusion, there needs to be an understanding that we can divide science into two categories:

1. Operational (or Observational) Science. This refers to knowledge gained by direct observation (using the five senses) and based on repeatable testing. Such “science” (knowledge) has enabled scientists to build our modern technology like airplanes and rocket ships. Whether one is a creationist or evolutionist, we all use the same operational science. Thus, both evolutionists and creationists can be honored for their observational science. Creationists love observational science. Often, I hear atheists claim that creationists can’t be real scientists. Not only is that a ridiculous statement, but some of the most brilliant scientists in our history were creationists, such as Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, Michael Faraday and many others.

2. Historical Science. This refers to knowledge about the past—in essence, history. This type of science cannot be observed directly or based on repeated testing, so we need other ways of finding knowledge. The Genesis account of origins gives us knowledge about the past, revealed by an infallible witness—God. Those who believe in Darwinian evolution claim to have knowledge concerning the past, too, but this knowledge is based upon the beliefs of fallible humans who did not witness the supposed evolutionary history. Genesis is the true account of historical science, whereas evolution is really a fictional historical science.

The bible is really God’s book of historical science as it’s primarily a book of history. And where it touches on biology, geology, astronomy, anthropology etc., it is totally accurate.

Thus, the battle between creation and evolution (the Genesis account versus man’s account of origins) is really a battle over historical science. The role of operational (or observational science) is that it can be used to confirm or refute one’s historical science.

Observational science (in geology, biology, astronomy, anthropology, etc.) confirms the account of origins in Genesis and refutes the evolutionary account. (Many of these confirmations are available on our website,
.)

Thus when an atheists claims the origins battle is one of science versus the bible, they are incorrect. The origins battle is one of man’s historical science versus God’s historical science. It’s a battle of man’s fictional account of history versus God’s true account of history.

The problem is not with the science but with the mistaken interpretation of unobserved history.
When listening to arguments that supposedly support evolution, you have to learn how to separate observational science and historical science. Here is one example to get you thinking in this way: if you see a claim that sedimentary rock strata containing fossils are millions of years old, then you need to sort out what is observational versus historical science. The statement that rocks are sedimentary rocks is one of observational science. Both creationists and evolutionists agree on what is directly observed.

But the claim that the rocks are millions of years old falls under historical science. It is not observational but rather an interpretation regarding the past. Biblical creationists would not agree with this interpretation but instead interpret the fossils as a deposit from the Flood of Noah’s day or some post-Flood catastrophe that occurred only thousands of years ago.

Thus, observational science cannot disprove the Bible. We agree on the observational science but totally disagree on the historical science. The problem is not with the operational science but with the mistaken interpretation of unobserved history.

We need to understand that all facts are interpreted, and they are interpreted based on one’s Worldview. And one’s worldview has a foundation, either God’s Word or man’s Word. I find most people don’t really understand all facts are interpreted. That’s why evolutionists will often say to me that it’s a fact that rocks are billions of years old, or it’s a fact that life arose by chance. They didn’t see those rocks forming. They didn’t see life arise on earth. What they are stating are not facts, but interpretations based on man’s word and that has many fallible assumptions associated with it.

Don’t be led astray by man’s false history/false knowledge.

“O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:” (1 Timothy 6:20).

The next time someone starts discussing issues of origins and science, ask them to define what they mean by “science.” Before you can even discuss the topic you all need to have the same understanding of that word, or you won’t get anywhere. The same is true of the word “evolution.” When someone is discussing evolution, ask them what they mean by that term. Some will say ape-like creatures to man, others will say change. Unless one has the same definition of terms, discussions don’t get anywhere.

[John Bunyan @_John_Bunyan]

[Christ] hath abolished death, destroyed the devil, put away sin, got the keys of hell and death, is ascended into heaven; is there accepted of God, and bid sit at the right hand as a Saviour; and that because his sacrifice for sins pleased God.

[Dustin Benge @DustinBenge]

The first link between my soul and Christ is not my goodness but my badness, not my merit but my misery, not my riches but my need.

Charles H. Spurgeon