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Love this thread/post. I’m certain I’ll be referring back to it often in the crevo debates as well as my adult Sunday school classes.
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They try to pretend it is just one theory and one man they oppose - but they oppose every branch of science - because no branch of science supports their peculiar theology.
http://www.jmtour.com/personal-topics/personal-statement/
Professor Jim Tour should be added to that list.
JAMES M. TOUR, Ph.D.
T. T. and W. F. Chao Professor of Chemistry
Professor of Computer Science
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Rice University
Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology
Therefore, in light of my Constitutional first amendment freedom to believe and testify of my beliefs in a manner unhindered by any governmental order, let’s begin. Based upon my study of the scriptures, which I have studied more than any other topic in my life, including chemistry, I believe:
The Bible is the inspired word of God. Faithful Jewish scholars have preserved the Old Testament through the ages and it is an accurate account of God’s dealing with mankind, and more specifically, with the Jewish people. The New Testament, particularly the record in the four Gospels, is based upon eye-witnessed historical accounts that are accurate beyond compare to any historical documents of their time.[1]
Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and God himself, as declared in the New Testament.[2]
Jesus Christ came to earth as the long-awaited Jewish Messiah to fulfill that which had been written about him in the Old Testament.[3]
Although sinless himself, Jesus Christ suffered and died for the sins of humankind, he was buried, and three days later he physically rose from the dead and appeared to many, including more than 500 people at one time. He then ascended to heaven to be seated at the right hand of his Father.[4]
By the act of suffering, dying, and resurrection, Jesus provided the one and only way for any person to have an eternal relationship with God.[3-5]
Regardless of one’s religious or ethnic background, nobody is born a Christian or automatically comes into salvation.[6]
Salvation, or eternal life in Jesus, comes through a new spiritual birth into Jesus Christ.[7]
There is nothing one can do to earn salvation, but it comes through believing and confessing the work that Jesus Christ did in dying for our sins and in his physical resurrection from the dead.[8]
New birth, or salvation, is witnessed to the world by changes in followers’ lives, actions and words.[9]
To those who have received Jesus Christ as their savior, they are no longer under the Old Testament Law, but are told to obey the commandments in the New Testament, of which there are more than 150.[10] [Letter on Faith, HTML or PDF format]
These commandments not only focus on the physical acts to be valued by Jesus’ followers, but they directly address the followers’ heart attitudes.[11]
God provides sufficient grace for the believer in Jesus to obey the commandments. Grace is the God-given desire and power to fulfill the will of God.[12]
One’s obedience to these commands is a direct relation to their love for Jesus Christ.[13]
The follower of Jesus Christ is commanded to testify of him.[14]
There is a direct command to have fellowship with other believers in Jesus Christ. [15]
The Father God will place honor upon the person who serves Jesus Christ and is willing to die for him. Willingness to die for him is a requirement for being his disciple.[16]
If one has no faith, it is impossible to be pleasing to God.[17]
There will be a physical resurrection of both the followers of Jesus (those who have accepted the salvation provided by Christ) and those who have rejected him. The followers will live eternally with Jesus, while the others will live separated from him.[18]
Everybody will have to give an account for his or her words and deeds.[19]
Jesus Christ will come again, but next time he will come as the crowned King to receive his followers.[20]
Oh yeah, he believes in evolution.
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