Most Americans these days seem to think that "all" scientists believe in the theory of evolution.
The reality is that this is not the truth at all.
There is a growing number of highly qualified scientists who reject the theory of evolution and that number is growing every day.
Below is just one example of this movement away from Darwinism:
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http://www.dissentfromdarwin.org/A Scientific Dissent From Darwinism
During recent decades, new scientific evidence from many scientific disciplines such as cosmology, physics, biology, "artificial intelligence" research, and others have caused scientists to begin questioning Darwinism's central tenet of natural selection and studying the evidence supporting it in greater detail.
Yet public TV programs, educational policy statements, and science textbooks have asserted that Darwin's theory of evolution fully explains the complexity of living things. The public has been assured that all known evidence supports Darwinism and that virtually every scientist in the world believes the theory to be true.
The scientists on this list dispute the first claim and stand as living testimony in contradiction to the second. Since Discovery Institute launched this list in 2001 over 700 scientists have courageously stepped forward to sign their names. The list is growing and includes scientists from the US National Academy of Sciences, Russian, Hungarian and Czech National Academies, as well as from universities such as Yale, Princeton, Stanford, MIT, UC Berkeley, UCLA, and others.
A Scientific Dissent From Darwinism
"We are skeptical of claims for the ability of random mutation and natural selection to account for the complexity of life. Careful examination of the evidence for Darwinian theory should be encouraged."
Fact Sheet: Microevolution vs. Macroevolution
http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/filesDB-download.php?id=118Fact Sheet: The Cambrian Explosion
http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/filesDB-download.php?id=119The Survival of the Fakest
http://www.discovery.org/articleFiles/PDFs/survivalOfTheFakest.pdf
In an absolutely stunning discovery, archaeologists in Jordan have unearthed what they believe could be the oldest church ever found. It is estimated that this church first existed some time between 33 A.D. and 70 A.D.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1025558/Is-Christianitys-FIRST-church-Cave-70-beloved-God-worshipped-Christ-alive-found.htmlA picture of some of the ruins is below. This is a very important discovery because it is another powerful piece of proof that the Christian movement was already very vibrant early in the first century.
I am continually amazed at how many people blindly accept the "theory of evolution" without even thinking about it.
It seems that most people think that the evolutionists have the intellectual upper hand.
For those who have really studied this issue, however, the reality is MUCH different.
I don't know how anyone can look at the eye or the brain and say they were just an accident.
The reality is that evolution is not backed up by the evidence.
If evolution was true, we should have millions upon millions of transitional fossils.
But the reality is this:
"I fully agree with your comments on the lack of direct illustration of evolutionary transitions in my book. If I knew of any, fossil or living, I would certainly have included them. You suggest that an artist should be used to visualise such transformations, but where would he get the information from? I could not, honestly, provide it, and if I were to leave it to artistic license, would that not mislead the reader?"
-Dr. Colin Patterson, senior paleontologist at the British Museum of Natural History, in letter to Luther Sunderland, April 10, 1979. Cited in: Sunderland, Luther D., Darwin's Enigma: Fossils and Other Problems (El Cajon, CA: Master Books, 1988), p. 89.
If evolution was true, then we should see an "evolutionary tree" in the fossil record, with complex life developing very slowly from earlier less complex forms. Instead, we see the sudden, instant appearance of fully formed complex life (some evolutionists refer to this sudden appearance of complex life as the "Cambrian explosion").
In addition, evolutionists are at a complete loss for how to explain the creation of new information that is required for one animal to turn into another animal.
As another article explains:
"The key issue is the type of change required — to change microbes into men requires changes that increase the genetic information content, from over half a million DNA ‘letters’ of even the ‘simplest’ self-reproducing organism to three billion ‘letters’ (stored in each human cell nucleus)."
The evolutionists cannot show us a single example of functional new information being added to any creature in all of history.
Now, a question for evolutionists who may be reading this:
You have enough blind faith to believe that life just popped into existence from nonlife, and that such life just happened to have the ability to take in the nourishment it needed, to expel waste, and to reproduce itself, all the while having everything it needed to survive in the environment in which it suddenly found itself?
Also, we have a standing challenge for any evolutionist, skeptic or atheist to go debunk these videos:
http://www.leestrobel.com/Creator.htmIf you think that you can debunk them then you are better than any evolutionist I have ever met, and I would love for you to leave a comment to this article explaining how you are able to debunk them.
Most people have probably already heard of the Bible Codes, but for those of you who haven't, you are about to be totally stunned.
Would you believe that in the Hebrew text of the Old Testament, there are thousands upon thousands of codes that relate to events from ancient times all the way up to the 21st century?
The video linked to below is a great introduction to this phenomenon, and as any neutral observer should be able to see, this is another form of extraordinary evidence that the Bible is true.
Also, please take the time to read the article at the end of this post. Did you know that the name of Jesus is encoded in almost all of the Messianic prophecies in the Old Testament? The more you look into this, the more you will be absolutely blown away.
Video -- Secrets of the Bible Code Revealed:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2529716191977998226&q=secrets+of+the+bible+code&ei=kmJNSM_YMZDQ4ALH6fWaDA&hl=enIn addition, please read the following article by Grant Jeffrey regarding the Bible Codes. Jeffrey is one of the greatest living Bible scholars, and what he has discovered with respect to the Bible Codes is really amazing:
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The Name of Jesus Revealed in the Old Testament
"Yeshua Is My Name"
by Grant Jeffrey
In my latest book, The Signature of God, I reported on one of the most astonishing and important biblical discoveries in history. God has hidden the name Yeshua - which is the Hebrew form of the name Jesus in numerous passages throughout the Old Testament. Especially within the great Messianic prophetic passages the Lord has hidden at equally spaced intervals in the Hebrew text the incredible message that "Yeshua is My Name." This is one of the most astonishing and tremendous biblical discoveries in the last two thousand years.
The phenomenon of Hebrew codes hidden within the text of the Torah gives us one of the strongest possible proofs that the Bible was truly inspired by God. My friend Yacov Rambsel, a Jewish Messianic pastor in San Antonio, Texas, made a series of extraordinary discoveries through a detailed analysis of the Hebrew Scriptures by individually counting the equally spaced intervals between the letters. Incredibly, Yacov found the original Hebrew name of Jesus, Yeshua - encoded in the very first verse Genesis 1:1, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." Starting with the fifth letter, Yod - , in the first word in the Bible, B'raisheet "In the beginning" the name of Jesus - Yeshua - is spelled out by counting forward every 521st letter. The letters spell out the words "Yeshua Yakhol" which translates as "Jesus is able."
Ten years ago Israeli scientists at Hebrew University discovered an incredible phenomenon of Hebrew Codes in the authorized Masoretic Text of the Old Testament. They asked their computer program to analyse every possible combination of letters within the Hebrew text of the Bible. They discovered that meaningful words such as Hitler, Holocaust and Eichmann were spelled out in the text of Deuteronomy 10:17-22 at an interval of every 22 letters. They call the phenomenon "Equidistant Letter Sequences" and have written numerous scholarly articles about their discoveries in mathematical and academic journals worldwide. In other words, when the computer found the first letter of the word Hitler - , the letter heh , it skipped forward every 22 letters and found the letters of the Hebrew word Hitler- spelled out in the text. However, they also found in the same passage these words: Eichmann, King of the Nazis, Berlin, Germany, Holocaust, Cremetoria, Fuehrer and the death camp Auschwitz. These discoveries and hundreds of others are detailed in my book The Signature of God. The presence of these complex coded words in the Hebrew text of the Bible written thousands of years ago is one of the strongest hard science proofs we could ever hope for proving beyond question that a supernatural intelligence inspired the writers of the Scriptures. These discoveries are causing many agnostics to reconsider their position against the supernatural origin of the Bible. However, the greatest discovery for a Christian is that God has encoded the name of Yeshua - Jesus repeatedly throughout the Old Testament.
One of the most astonishing features is that virtually every one of the clearly Messianic passages of the Old Testament contains the name Yeshua - Jesus - encoded within the text at intervals such as every 2nd letter or every 20th letter, etc. As an example, Yacov found the name Yeshua embedded in the text of Isaiah 53:10 that prophesied about the atoning sacrifice that Christ made for our sins on the cross two thousand years ago. "Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand" (Isaiah 53:10). Beginning with the second Hebrew letter yod in the Hebrew phrase "He shall prolong," "ya'arik Kyray," Yacov counted forward every 20th letter and discovered the phrase " - Yeshua - Shmi" which means "Yeshua [Jesus] is My Name" encoded in this verse about the suffering Messiah who died to atone for our sins. Mathematicians calculated the probability that this astonishing combination of letters spelling "Yeshua [Jesus] is My Name" would occur by random chance in Isaiah is only one chance in 50 quadrillion, an inconceivable number!
Genesis declared that the Lord provided "coats of skin" for Adam and Eve to cover their nakedness after they sinned: "And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living. Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them" (Genesis 3:20,21). God killed the first animal as a sin sacrifice to provide their covering. This prophetic sign pointed to the perfect sacrifice of the Lamb of God to cover our sins. However, beginning with the last Hebrew letter heh in Genesis 3:20 and counting forward every ninth letter we find the word "Yoshiah" meaning "He will save." The word Yoshiah is a Hebrew variation of the name Yeshua (Jesus). The angel told the virgin Mary that "thou shalt call his name Jesus: for he shall save his people from their sins" (Matthew 1:21). Genesis 3:20,21 revealed another code showing the name Yeshua hidden in this passage. Beginning with the letter ayin in the phrase "coats of skin" and counting forward every seventh letter spells out another form of the word Yeshua - , which is spelt without using the letter vav .
A well known Messianic prophecy describes the exact price of Christ's betrayal, namely 30 pieces of silver. The prophet Zechariah gave this prediction five hundred years before the birth of Jesus: "And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver" (Zechariah 11:12). Who is the one who is being betrayed? In the phrase "My price" se'kari beginning with the letter yod when we count forward every 24th letter we find the word Yeshua . The Lord obviously inspired the writers of the Old Testament to choose specific Hebrew words and precise spelling to create this phenomenon.
The Book of Leviticus reveals an astonishing hidden coded message about the blood of Jesus Christ being shed for our sins. In this passage Moses gave God's detailed instructions regarding the rules of the holy priesthood and the sacrifices for the sins of the chosen people. "And he that is the high priest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil was poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor rend his clothes; Neither shall he go into any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother; Neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I Am the Lord" (Leviticus 21:10-12). Beginning with the first heh in Leviticus 21:10 and counting forward every third letter, it spelled out the phrase hain dam Yeshua, which means "Behold! The blood of Yeshua." It is awesome to realize that God has secretly encoded these profound messages regarding His Son Jesus in these significant passages throughout the Old Testament.
One of the most startling of the Messianic codes was found within Psalm 41:7-10 which predicted the betrayal of Jesus by Judas Iscariot: "All My haters whisper together against Me; they plot evil against Me; saying, A thing of ruin is poured out on Him; and He Who lies down shall not rise again. Even My own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who did eat of My bread, has lifted up his heel against Me. But Thou, O Lord, be merciful unto Me, and raise Me up, that I may repay them" (Psalm 41:7-10). Verse 8 contained the phrase "they plot evil," yach' shvu rah'ah. However, beginning with the letter yod , when we count forward every second letter we find the word - Yeshua.
The Book of Ruth contains a wonderful love story that reveals the ancestry of King David and Jesus of Nazareth. It is fascinating to note that the name Yeshua - is encoded in the very first verse, Ruth 1:1. Counting every fifth letter from right to left from the letter spells out the name of Yeshua - . The prophet Isaiah announced centuries before the birth of Christ that He would come as the great liberator to mankind. This prophecy of the Great Jubilee at the end of this age reminded Israel that their Messiah would finally cancel all their debts and proclaim liberty to all of those who were captives to sin. "The Spirit of the Lord God is on Me, because The Lord has anointed Me to preach the Good News to the meek. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and complete opening to the bound ones; to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn" (Isaiah 61:1,2). Starting with the yod in the phrase, "The Spirit of the Lord God," "Ruach Adonai Yehovah," counting nine letters from left to right spells Yeshua.
Of the many incredible discoveries made by Yacov Rambsel, one of my favorites concerns Daniel's great prophecy of the Seventy Weeks found in Daniel 9:25-27. Verse 26 reads: "And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined." (Daniel 9:26). Students of the Bible are familiar with the controversy over the last century about the correct identity of the "Messiah the Prince" referred to in the passage. Those who deny that the prophecy teaches about Jesus Christ's first coming have usually claimed that "Messiah the Prince" was Hezekiah or some other individual. However, the name Yeshua - is encoded within Daniel 9:26 starting with the letter yod in the phrase "the city," v'ha'iry, by counting left to right every 26th letter.
The significance of Yacov Rambsel's discovery is overwhelming. When added to the awesome research in Israel on the hidden codes of the Torah we can see the sovereign hand of God bringing about an incredible proclamation of His inspiration of the Word of God. Hundreds of thousands of people around the world, mostly Jews, have heard about these secret Torah codes. These people, who have reaffirmed their belief in God's inspiration of the Old Testament because of this phenomenon, will now learn that God has secretly encoded the actual name of His Son, the Messiah, Yeshua, within these Messianic texts.
This revelation of God's matchless wisdom and inspiration of the Scriptures in this decade as we approach the new millennium reminds me of the angel's prophecy to Daniel: "But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the end; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase. . . " (Daniel 12:4). The discovery of these astonishing codes revealing the name of God's Son Yeshua - , hidden within the text of the Bible for over three thousand years, is part of the fulfillment of this prophecy. Our knowledge of the Bible and its prophecies is increasing at a phenomenal rate in these exciting last days as we approach the time of the Messiah's return to set up His kingdom.
Over the course of my research on The Signature of God, Yacov Rambsel and I have had many conversations about the tremendous significance of his discovery of the Yeshua codes. There is much more exciting material in Yacov's book than I could cover in this chapter. As a result of these discussions, our ministry will be publishing Yacov's fascinating book Yeshua - The Name of Jesus Hidden in the Old Testament. If any reader is interested in studying this phenomenon and documentation in greater detail, they can order the book from any Christian bookstore or directly from our ministry, Frontier Research Publications, Inc. As Yacov wrote in his book, "Without a doubt, the Messiah's Name is Yeshua - , but in English, His Name is Jesus."
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You can find more of Grant Jeffrey's work at:
http://www.grantjeffrey.com/
Some recent discoveries are radically changing what people believe about the origins of the gospel of Matthew.
Traditionally, the universities of the western world have taught that the Gospel of Matthew was not the first gospel written, that it was written originally in Greek, and that it was composed after 70 A.D.
However, as new discoveries have been made, those assumptions have been shown to be stone cold wrong.
As researchers are looking into the writings of the early church leaders, they are finding that not only was the gospel of Matthew most definitely the first gospel written (almost certainly before 50 A.D.), but that it was also originally written in the Hebrew language!
Check out what some of the early church writers from the first few centuries of the church had to say on this matter:
Origen (Eusebius, H.E. 6.25.4): "As having learnt by tradition concerning the four Gospels, which alone are unquestionable in the Church of God under heaven, that first was written according to Matthew, who was once a tax collector but afterwards an apostle of Jesus Christ, who published it for those who from Judaism came to believe, composed as it was in the Hebrew language."
Papias (Eusebius, H.E. 3.39.16): "Matthew collected the oracles (ta logia) in the Hebrew language, and each interpreted them as best he could."
Irenaeus, Adv. Haer. 3.1.1: "Matthew also issued a written Gospel among the Hebrews in their own dialect while Peter and Paul were preaching at Rome and laying the foundations of the church."
Eusebius, H.E. 3.24.6: "Matthew had first preached to Hebrews, and when he was on the point of going to others he transmitted in writing in his native language the Gospel according to himself, and thus supplied by writing the lack of his own presence to those from whom he was sent."
Epiphanius (ca. 315-403), bishop of Salamis, refers to a gospel used by the Ebionites (Panarion 30. 13.1-30.22.4). He says it is Matthew, called "According to the Hebrews" by them, but says it is corrupt and mutilated. He says Matthew issued his Gospel in Hebrew letters. He quotes from this Ebionite Gospel seven times. These quotations appear to come not from Matthew but from some harmonized account of the canonical Gospels.
And did you know that one of the 12 disciples of Jesus named Bartholomew actually carried a Hebrew copy of the book of Matthew into India?
Check out this astounding excerpt from an excellent article that we found:
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http://www.onlinetruth.org/Articles%20Folder/hebrew_gospel_of_matthew.htmThis newly uncovered information further confirms that Matthew, an eyewitness to the miracles and events of Jesus' ministry, was indeed the author of the first Gospel and verifies both the Jewishness and early date of the first Gospel.
Now, we have a clear mention that the Gospel of Matthew was written in Hebrew - not Greek or Aramaic, as widely thought - and was carried out of Israel by one of the original apostles to the Far East. Two of the earliest Church Fathers and historians, Eusebius and Origen, wrote that a second, long-overlooked apostle, Bartholomew, also went to India and took a Gospel text with him, aacording to Princeton scholar and author Samuel Moffett.
In his ground-breaking book, "A History of Christianity in Asia," Moffett reveals that Pantaenus, a church historian and missionary who traveled to India in 180 A.D., discovered the copy of the Gospel of Matthew in Hebrew that Bartholomew had taken with him.
"It is reported," wrote Eusebius, a fourth century bishop and church historian, "that among person there who knew Christ, (Pantaenus) found the Gospel according to St. Matthew (which had arrived ahead of Pantaenus by more than a century). For Bartholomew, one of the apostles, had preached to them, and left them (in India) the writing of Matthew in the Hebrew language which they had preserved."
"There is a shock hidden in that matter-of-fact statement. ...The surprise, of course, is the mention of Bartholomew as the pioneer to the East," Moffett says.
Many scholars are unaware of an apostle other than Thomas ever going to India, and some even doubt that Thomas himself went.
Moffett ponders, "What was Bartholomew...doing in India with a Hebrew Gospel of Matthew?"
--You can read the rest of this excellent article at the link posted at the top of this excerpt
Posted below are eyewitness testimonies from individuals who have seen heaven and who have seen hell. We would encourage you to view these accounts with an open heart and an open mind:
To Hell and Back - Terrifying Accounts from Individuals Who Have Actually Been to Hell:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8149875636555097567&q=Hell+and+Back&hl=en23 Minutes in Hell:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=648912510964850987&q=hell&hl=en90 Minutes in Heaven:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ElnQUVkWsQAn African Man Come Back to Life After being Dead for 3 days:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2575536377261580026&q=Raised+from+the+dead&hl=enThe evidence is in and it is conclusive - The Bible is real!
Christianity is the only faith that has the evidence to back it up.
It is time to face the overwhelming evidence for Christianity:
-God DOES exist:
http://www.leestrobel.com/Creator.htm-Jesus Christ really did come to the earth:
http://www.grantjeffrey.com/article/historicalev.htm-Jesus Christ really did rise from the dead:
http://shatteredparadigm.blogspot.com/2008/05/resurrection-of-jesus-is-real.html-All of this was foretold by God in the Bible with specificity:
http://www.xenos.org/teachings/topical/objections/daniel9.htm(Click "Watch" to view the presentation)
-Jesus is appearing to people all over the globe:
http://prorege-forum.com/messages/407.htmland
http://www.amightywind.com/fastfood/dreams/040723muslimdreams.htm-Jesus is coming again and the signs that were foretold in the Bible are coming to pass right in front of our eyes:
http://shatteredparadigm.blogspot.com/2008/05/did-you-know-that-there-are-ancient.htmlIf you want to know more about becoming a Christian, I would encourage you to visit this site:
http://www.fourspirituallaws.org/laws/english/flash/If you have more questions, or you just want to leave your opinion, feel free to express yourself in our comments section.
Wouldn't it be nice if we could actually hear from someone who has been to heaven and could tell us what it is like?
Wouldn't that be great evidence to have?
Well, the reality is that there are many who have seen heaven, and one of those testimonies is in the video posted below.
Dr. Gary Wood died in a horrible car accident and had the privilege of visiting Heaven. His sister prayed for him and he was raised from the dead. In this video, Gary talks about meeting his best friend who had died years earlier and about the glories of Heaven:
Have you thought about heaven and hell much?
Do your thoughts ever turn to your eternal destiny?
These are incredibly important questions.
Is it fair that many people are going to hell instead of heaven?
Why can't everyone just go to heaven?
One thing that we have learned through all these years is that God seems to really value the idea of meaningful choice.
So let's set up a scenario.....
Imagine that your sister was just raped and tortured brutally by some sick, twisted, perverted, arrogant man who had been doing the same thing to other women for years.
How would you feel if that happened?
It is quite likely that you would probably be enraged beyond belief. Your anger would probably be exploding inside of you. Your very soul would be crying out for justice.
But good news......the rapist has been caught and he is going to go before the judge.
You feel (perhaps naively) that now you are going to get some real justice.
However, at the trial, the judge says to the rapist, "Well, you made a little mistake, but you are alright with me dude......let's go hit the bars I need a drink. Case dismissed!"
How would that make you feel?
The reality is that evil deserves to be punished, and any judge that refuses to punish evil is a wicked judge.
What if God said to Adolf Hitler: "Ah I see you killed six million Jews, but I'm cool with that......come and let me show you around your mansion."
Would God say that?
Of course God would never say that!
The reality is that God is a God of perfect love AND of perfect justice.
Evil deserves to be punished, and God is certainly going to punish it.
Imagine if all the wicked men in high places today got away with it not only here on earth but in eternity as well?
Would that be fair?
The truth is that most people raise this issue because they don't want to be accountable to God or anyone else.
The heart of this objection is that people do not trust God's punishment to be just.
Those who are guilty rarely think they deserve their punishment, while those of us on the outside looking in usually feel that the guilty deserve more punishment. Ask the majority of inmates in our prisons today.....very few of them would admit that they got what they deserved.
So what do we really know about the coming punishment? We do know from the scriptures that there will be varying levels of judgement:
Matthew 11:20-24
Then Jesus began to denounce the cities in which most of his miracles had been performed, because they did not repent. "Woe to you, Korazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! If the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. But I tell you, it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you. And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted up to the skies? No, you will go down to the depths. If the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Sodom, it would have remained to this day. But I tell you that it will be more bearable for Sodom on the day of judgment than for you."
So is your judgment going to be the same as that for Satan or for the person next to you? The scriptures seem to indicate not.
God is just, and we can trust God that all of his judgments will be perfectly just. We do not need to worry about that.
Now, some people believe that hell is a "second death" and those who go there go out of existence. Others believe that you suffer for a time based on your sins and then you go out of existence. Others believe that hell is for eternity and people suffer their punishments forever. It is certain that there will be many comments posted to this article by various people regarding their individual views.
However, for now let us post what the Bible says about the matter at the end of the book:
Revelation 20:10-15
And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever. Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. Earth and sky fled from his presence, and there was no place for them. And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books. The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what he had done. Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death. If anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
Now is there any good news?
Yes!
God is a God of perfect love and of perfect justice.
God loves you and Jesus took your judgment on Himself at the cross.
We have all sinned and we all stand guilty before God, but God's Son took our punishment upon himself.
Jesus completely paid for all the sins of mankind through his death on the cross.
Being man, Jesus could die for the sins of men.
Being God, Jesus could die for an infinite amount of sins.
If you ask Jesus into your life, you can have eternal life in heaven with Him, and that is incredible news!
I John 5:11-13
And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.
If you would like to know how you can invite Jesus into your life and have your sins forgiven forever I would encourage you to read these four spiritual laws:
http://www.fourspirituallaws.org/laws/english/flash/
If you have questions about Christianity, or you want more information about how you can become a Christian, please leave a message for us in the comments section.
Sadly, many Christians do not know that there is a ton of evidence that the resurrection of Jesus Christ is very real.
For those not familiar with the evidence, there is a really great article on this topic on the Xenos Christian Fellowship website and we wanted to share it with you all:
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http://www.xenos.org/classes/papers/doubt.htmThe Evidence: A Brief Survey
Approaching the Bible
In order to examine the evidence for the resurrection we must place ourselves in the historical situation. The events surrounding the life and death of Christ didn't occur at a place where we can gain no knowledge of them. Rather, they occurred in history, on earth, and were recorded by men who witnessed the events.
When we approach an ancient document such as the Bible or another ancient document such as Tacitus' History of Rome (115 A.D.) we must come to the text with an understanding attitude. This does not mean that we assume the text to be 100 per cent true. But we need to be able to ask the right questions. In the first century much less writing took place than does in our time. Many were illiterate, few could read, much less write, and paper or parchment (leather) to write on was expensive. The incentive to fabricate was not as it is today. In other words, The National Enquirer, could never have been published at this time. A high regard was given to writing and the luxury to create fictional material was virtually non-existent, for instance there was no such thing as a novel or a newspaper, although there were artistic writings such as poetry. The Bible however, is a much different kind of literature. It was not written as a poem or story, although it also contains poetry. It was for the most part written as history and is intended to communicate truth throughout.
The gospel of Luke begins:
Inasmuch as many have undertaken to compile an account of the things accomplished among us, just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word [Paul, Peter, etc] have handed them down to us, it seemed fitting for me as well, having investigated everything carefully from the beginning, to write it out for you in consecutive order, most excellent Theophilus; so that you might know the exact truth about the things you have been taught. (Lk 1:1-4)
Luke was not an apostle, he was however the companion of Paul and probably dictated some of his letters. Luke tells us that he is writing in consecutive order because the other gospels, Matthew, Mark and John, are written more by topic than chronologically.
How do we know anything historically? There is no "scientific" proof that Lincoln was the president. We cannot recreate him in a laboratory or bring him back to life. We cannot reproduce the experiment. We cannot calculate an equation that tells us that he was. But we can assert with a high degree of probability that Lincoln was indeed our president and was assassinated in 1865. We do this by appealing to historical evidence. Many people saw Lincoln. We have some of his writings and even his picture, not to mention his likeness on our pennies. But none of this "proves", in a scientific sense, that Lincoln ever lived or was the president.
The kind of evidence used in historical research is the same kind as that used in a court of law. In a courtroom case certain kinds of evidences are appealed to in order to determine what exactly happened, eyewitnesses are questioned, motives are examined, and physical evidence is scrutinized such as fingerprints or journal writings.
It is the same kind of evidence that we appeal to in order to establish Christ's life, death, and resurrection.
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Most Americans these days seem to think that "all" scientists believe in the theory of evolution.
