Posted on 09/24/2009 8:37:40 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
We are losing our children! Research indicates that 70% of teens who are involved in a church youth group will stop attending church … [1]
Similar statements from Christian leaders aren’t new, but many still can’t seem to identify the root cause of the problem. However, most front-line evangelists in the Western world have reached a consensus. The following quote is from a person who shares his faith more times in a month than most Christians ever will in their lives...
(Excerpt) Read more at creation.com ...
Ping!
Barack Hussein Obama has banned the National Day of Prayer from the White House, now get a load of THIS!!
ISLAM ON CAPITOL HILL 2009 - islamonca .
http://islamoncapitolhill.com/Home_Page.html
As many as 50,000 Muslims are expected to congregate at the Capitol with the blessings of the usuper.
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Read their plans for ‘Muslims on Capitol hill’!!
Alarming! Infuriating!!
Does THIS leave any doubt as to what we have sitting in the White House?
Be sure to read every page!
Every page ends with ‘OUR TIME HAS COME’!!
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..well maybe if people stopped making this the line in the sand of faith, and consider that God may have put evolution in place as His 'how', things would change.
Ahhh, I really don't think this is the answer at all. In fact, I think it's a recipe for disaster. If you want to promote Christianity, do it on the basis Jesus did - love, compassion, help for those in need, outreach, and creating a movement that people want to be a part of. Something that gives them hope and purpose and demonstrates the transformative power of God's grace.
I do not wish to disparage the affects of Darwinism on society, but the primary reasons that the youth are leaving Christianity are (1) the poor example of parents. (2) the heretical teachings of liberal Christian denominations. (3) the lack of knowledge about doctrine.
Yikes!
Doesn’t seem that difficult does it?
I, and many Christians disagree. As a great Christian leader said, the Bible teaches us "WHY", science teaches us "HOW". Man's understanding of what the Bible means, especially in terms of trying to use it as a scientific text, has proven flawed time and time again. Maybe, instead of looking at the two in conflict, look at all the discoveries we make and see how it illuminates what God wrote. God gave us a mind for a reason.
Good article. I am reading Ken Ham’s book, “Already Gone”, and so far the premise is the same.
Mmmmm....like your views rely on the use of your mind and by implication Bible believing folks like me don't? Well in that case you can convince yourself of anything.
If evolution is right, then (as the article says) there is no Adam and Eve, no original sin, no need for a savior and Jesus is redundant, QED. Thinking through the logical consequences makes Christianity out to be no more than a nice but untrue religion.
sorry, I cannot buy into that.
Kind regards.
So says you, I consider this a very narrow view. Evolution is a good way of seeing how "the earth brought forth" but doesn't at all relate to the soul, spirit, or our relationship with God.
Faith comes from hearing. And hearing from the Word. Who’s preaching the Word anymore? No one.
[[Barack Hussein Obama has banned the National Day of Prayer from the White House, now get a load of THIS!!
ISLAM ON CAPITOL HILL 2009 - islamonca .
As many as 50,000 Muslims are expected to congregate at the Capitol with the blessings of the usuper.]]
Oue ‘president’ is an apostate- he is NO Christian despite his lies
[[well maybe if people stopped making this the line in the sand of faith, and consider that God may have put evolution in place as His ‘how’, things would change.]]
Sure- We’ll just ignore all the evidnece against Macroevolution and beleive ‘God used evolution’ despite hte fact that it violates several key scientific principles- Yep- there’s no conflict with Creation and evolution at all
[[I do not wish to disparage the affects of Darwinism on society, but the primary reasons that the youth are leaving Christianity are (1) the poor example of parents. (2) the heretical teachings of liberal Christian denominations. (3) the lack of knowledge about doctrine.]]
Bingo!
If you have a relationship with Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior I have no intention of commenting on that - I treat you as a brother and extend a warm hand of fellowship to you.
We will disagree about creation.
But might this be a way forward...... I agree that if the reality of those times were the same as the reality of life today creation would not be credible. But there is ample inference in the Bible to suggest it was different in all sorts of ways.... (science says a similar thing)...in other words we make a right conclusion that creation could not be possible knowing our present realities...but it could be possible if reality (unstained by sin,with free will, without death,uncursed by God etc)were fundamentally different.
Kind regards
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