God's Kind of Ending

"And the evening and the morning were the first day." - Genesis 1:5b

God's days never end in darkness. See it through to God's kind of ending!

- fritz

Created By Jesus Christ

"God, ... created all things by Jesus Christ:" - Ephesians 3:9

Essential it is to realize God, the almighty, created all things by Jesus Christ.

Paul wasn't the only one teaching this, the apostle John wrote:

"In the beginning was the Word ... through him all things were made ... though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him ... the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us" John 1 (NIV)

Just as the physical body is our method of interacting in this world and each other so Jesus is, and always has been, God's way of interaction with his Universe.

Paul clarifies that it was not just "Christ" but "Jesus Christ" who is one and the same.

Think about that the next time someone tries to tell you Jesus was just a prophet, teacher, or good man.

- fritz

Why believe in Adam and Eve

"For look, the wicked bend their bows; they set their arrows against the strings to shoot from the shadows at the upright in heart.

When the foundations are being destroyed, what can the righteous do?" - Psalm 11:2-3

The accuracy of the Bible, especially the Old Testament, is important in ways not immediately apparent.

Many churches, especially main line denominations, allow "scholars" to teach the Old Testament, especially Genesis through Deuteronomy, are a compilation of oral tradition and that the Biblical accounts of creation, the flood, and other recorded events are actually embellishments of some kernel of truth - not factual.

What difference could that belief make? A lot!

If the biblical account(s) of creation was (were) embellishments to and from a non-scientific world view then there is no foundation to understand the need for Christ's death on the cross. If there was no real first man, Adam, and first woman, Eve, then Paul is wrong when he writes in the Bible that Christ's death counteracts the sin which came into the world through the first man, Adam¹. Only crazy people kill themselves for love when there is no actual need.

If Genesis through Deuteronomy are actually a combination of various oral traditions sewn together by an unknown person then when Jesus told his followers, "Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother" ² he was either wrong or, for some reason, deceptive. Neither view forms a foundation of faith. If he was not trustworthy then, how can he be trustworthy now?

Sometimes the best way to bring down a building is not to attack the building but to destroy its foundation.

- fritz


^{1 - Romans 5
2 - Mark 7:10}

Water Found Around a Star, Go Figure!

And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

And God called the firmament Heaven - Genesis 1:6-8

Scientists scoff at the Bible for saying heaven, presumably the sky, originally separated two layers of water, and especially the statement later that God put two lights, presumably the Sun and Moon, in that expanse.

When the Bible says it scientists scoff but, apparently, when one of their own discovers a star with water around it they marvel.

Wired Science reports that a 2001 discovery of a star with hot water around it requires them to re-think chemistry theory!

Scientists make some fairly bold statements for those who have a lot yet discover.

I'll stick with God's word - I don't always understand the how and why of it, but it has always proven true where I can understand it.

- fritz

^{1 - "Hot Water Around Giant Carbon Star Creates Interstellar Mystery" by Jess McNally, Wired Science September 1, 2010,}