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Thousands or billions, does it really matter? Haven’t scientists proved the universe is billions of years old? So why not just squeeze billions of years into the Bible? God can do anything right, maybe He used billions of years. Besides, isn’t it just a side issue and unrelated the gospel message?

As it turns out, the debate over the age of the earth is a battle between man’s ideas and God’s Word. Come and discover how the “Age of the Earth” issue is inextricably linked to the authority of Scripture and the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Bryan Osborne's bio: https://answersingenesis.org/bios/bryan-osborne/

Carbon-14 dating is a method, based on unprovable assumptions about the past, used to date things that contain carbon (e.g. fossils). It can only give maximum ages of around 50,000 years and yet C-14 has been found in fossils and diamonds thought to be millions and billions of years old respectively.





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Mike Winger 🕊️ 571K subscribers 186,019 views  Sep 4, 2017

9 conclusions we can make about the doctrine of hardening.

Starting with Romans 9 we look at the biblical teaching on how, when and why God hardens hearts.

Questions from the Q&A at the end of the video

👉 Does Romans 9:29 mean that God will create some people specifically to dishonor Him in order to carry out His will?

👉 Is this an example of God simply knowing what the actions of Pharaoh would be if he were in that situation?

👉 The process of a person becoming hard seems to begin with that person’s own will before God hardens them.

👉 Does the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit relate to having a permanently hard heart?

👉 Can you pray for someone’s heart to be softened?

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THE CLASS STRUGGLE

Tuesday, May 16, 2023 by Sam Thielman and Parker Molloy


AGelbert COMMENT: The ANTI-Christian world view of "conservatives" (i.e. people who are idelogically committed to exploiting and abusing their neighbor. These right wing closet Christ haters only wish to conserve their unbridled greed and arrogance.) is amply exposed by this excellent article.

My only quibble is with this statement:

"A couple of Jesus’ parables are quite hard to understand and occasionally border on perverse. "

Yes, it is true that some of those parables are quite hard to understand. Jesus made it clear to his disciples why that is so:
Matthew Chapter 13:10-14
And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables? He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath. Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:

Jesus was fullfilling a prophecy in the Old Testament about the Messiah NOT being believed. The point of Scripture is that PRIOR to Christ's death and Resurrection, ALL His teachings would be like water off a duck to the Jewish religious leaders and most of the people He preached to. For the modern secular person, that seems counterintuitive. It isn't. It is EXACTLY what the Old Testament Scriptures foretold in regard to the Messiah.

I can understand why Thomas Jefferson cut out all of the miracles from the New Testament. If there "was no Resurrection", the New Testament is about Mr. Nice Guy getting murdered by TPTB for questioning their MO. And THAT is what most non-Christians believe today. The fact is that Jesus often was quite deliberately confrontational to the point of being antagonistic.

If you, as Thomas Jefferson and all the other Deist pseudo-christians of his time (and ours), do not believe that Christ rose from the dead, of course some of those parables will seem "quite hard to understand and occasionally border on perverse". The problem for non-Christians is that they do not get that God, at times, hardens hearts for OTHER than purposes of Salvation. The deliberate confrontational behavior of Christ was NOT about Salvation, but about making clear that no Religious Jew could, by force of will, obey the Law. Mike Winger explains (starting at 34:42) how parables could only become fully understood after the Resurrection, not before:

👉 Can you pray for someone’s heart to be softened?

Mike Winger 🕊️ 577K subscribers 38,870 views May 26, 2023
 
Question Time Stamps for Quick Reference:
0:00 - Intro

1. 0:09 {AI 🤖 – Image of the Beast?} What are your thoughts on Chat GPT (and AI in general)? As Christians, should we be concerned about this type of technology? Is it OK to experiment with, or should we "steer clear"?

2. 27:13 {Worshiping at Work: Divided Attention?} Is it bad to listen to worship music when you're working? I prefer it over secular music, but I also feel guilty for not giving it my full attention. Is this treating it as entertainment?

3. 31:34 {Speaking Over Our Lives} Is “speaking something over your life” a biblical concept? A Christian said something like, “If you were going to die in one week, how would you live? I'm not speaking that over your life though!”

4. 38:36 {God Sent an Evil Spirit?} 1 Samuel 16: 14 and 1 Samuel 19:9 speak of an “evil spirit from the Lord” tormenting Saul. How could a holy/righteous and loving God give him a tormenting spirit?

5. 46:07 {Disqualified from our Rewards?} Since sanctification is a work of the Holy Spirit, and we will never be fully sinless in this life, how do we not become disqualified from/lose rewards in Heaven (1 Corinthians 9: 27)?

6. 52:56 {The Biblical Way to Get Married} Why do we have to have an ordained pastor to get married? Is there Scripture to back this up? If two people make a commitment to each other and God, is that enough?

7. 58:53 {What Does Evil Music Sound Like?} If we took away the lyrics from music, would there still be such a thing as “bad music” or “evil music”? If so, what does evil music sound like?

8. 1:01:04 {Do We Still Have a Sin Nature?} Does flesh = sin nature? Adam & Eve sinned, even without a sin nature. After salvation, we still have the flesh (Romans 7: 18), but we’re dead to sin/not slaves to sin (Rom 6:2-7). Does this mean we no longer have a sin nature?

9. 1:06:34 {Can We Go Outside of Scripture for Context?} I've heard 1 Corinthians 4:6 used to say not to go "outside" of scripture (e.g., learning history to help interpret biblical context). Your thoughts?

10. 1:14:34 {The Origin of Sunday 🕊️☝🏻 Worship} When is the earliest, in church history, that we see Christians worshiping on Sunday instead of the Sabbath? Did it begin with the Catholic Church, or was it before?

11. 1:19:23 {What Makes “Drag” Wrong?} Drag queen culture is championed by the LGBTQ movement, and therefore feels immoral by association, but I find it hard to put a finger on why drag by itself is biblically wrong. Any thoughts?

12. 1:24:09 {Eating Meat After the Flood} In Genesis 9:3, why did God allow us to start eating meat after the flood?

13. 1:27:28 {Using Cannabis Before Quiet Time?} I take mild cannabis edibles for my ADHD. On them I have wonderful quiet times in prayer and Bible study. Would it be rightly dividing Scripture to say this is how I personally am being “sober-minded”?

14. 1:32:42 {John 15 – Will I be “Taken Away”?} What are your thoughts on John 15:2 and the Greek word for "takes away"? I've heard that it would be more accurately translated as "raise up." This word seems to change the meaning of the verse.

15. 1:39:07 {Do God & Satan Talk?} Is the devil talking to God in today’s generation like in the book of Job? If angels are warring with demons, can we assume there is communication?

16. 1:43:20 {Which Faith is True?} How can I know I have the right faith? I've been watching many apologetics videos since I first found your videos over four years ago, and many Catholics, reformed believers, and evangelicals all have convincing arguments.

17. 1:49:02 {About the Shroud of Turin} What are your thoughts on the Shroud of Turin?

18. 1:52:13 {Leading Others to Biblical Teachings} My family member LOVES Joel Osteen. What are some thoughtful questions I could ask that would naturally lead them to a more biblical, Christ-centered understanding of the Gospel?

19. 1:55:08 {Rulers & Authorities; Manifold Wisdom} Can you explain Ephesians 3: 10 (ESV)? Who are the "rulers and authorities in heavenly places," and how is the "manifold wisdom of God" made known to them through the church?

20. 2:00:10 {1 Jn. 2:2 & Limited Atonement} Doesn't 1 John 2:2 blow the Calvinist doctrine of Limited Atonement straight out of the water?

Links and videos I mentioned:

 


Joel Osteen misuses the Scripture over and over 
 • Not Even JOEL OST... 

Different end times views explained

Gavin Ortlund's content on Catholicism is generally really good - here's one example from his channel "Truth Unites"   
 • Icon Veneration is CLEARLY an Accretion!. 

COMMENT by AGelbert: Excellent teaching by Pastor Mike Winger! His Ministry reminds me of these verses in Psalm 104:
I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being. My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the Lord. Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked be no more. Bless thou the Lord, O my soul. Praise ye the Lord. ~ Psalm 104:33-35
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, wrote in 1958: “He who passively accepts evil, is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it. There comes a time,” King also remarked, “when silence is betrayal. In the end,” King added, “we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.”

Pastor Mike Winger is NOT silent on what constitutes unacceptable behavior for a Christian. All Christians must also NOT shirk their responsibility to, not simply call out, but religiously avoid ANY ideology that perversely perpetuates a narrative that it is "right" for a Christian to behave in a strictly selfish, exploitative manner towards all because this evil behavior is "under the Blood". LISTEN to Mike Winger. He clearly EXPOSES the Prosperity Preaching, Sin Excusing Antinomian Heresies of the dominant culture.


“Social, religious, and economic practices of the dominant culture usually favor the rich, powerful, prestigious.  God, on the other hand, favors those who suffer at society’s margins and fall between the cracks.” --  Donald B. Kraybill