Support Morality

Please visit here to send a brief message expressing your support for family values and free speech for Christians. There is a bill progressing through Congress which would ban discouragement of "gay" behavior by anyone. Noting the fact that this lifestyle is sinful and immoral would legally be considered a hate crime. Don't ignore the possibility of this bill being enacted... it's up to us to stop stuff like this.

Great finds from outer space

Here is a link for a site with a whole bunch of pics from outer space; I used some of them, along with some from the NASA.gov site and a couple other places to make a (test-type) slideshow of Psalm 19. Thanks! From Josiah

http://hubblesite.org/gallery/wallpaper/

On the Law of Nature

How can we know fundamentally that gods such as Allah who command their followers to physically conquer the world, or Aztec or Hindu gods who often demand human sacrifice, are false? The reason is that such demands are against what some have called the "Law of Nature." The Law of Nature is interpreted various ways, but its' major tenets are forever imbedded in the soul of human beings.

The Law of Nature may be summed up as, "Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed, for in the image of God made He man" (Gen. 9:6). The Law of Nature is the idea of justice. God has placed in all of us an inner recognition of rights and morals. Religions which contradict these rights and morals are squandering the human conscience. Members of these religions are kept in them by psychological terror.

While various cultures have suppressed and attacked the concept of the Law of Nature, it still remains embedded in human thinking. No matter where one goes, the concept will reassert itself occasionally and there will be an attempt at, or at least a wish for, social reform.

Indeed, as C. S. Lewis argued, the very fact that quarrels can occur is evidence for some underlying sense of justice or morality.Of course, groups proclaiming peace between all religions, Universal Oneness, etc. (such as Ba'hai and some forms of Buddhism and New Age-ism) are false for the same reason. If some religions are false, then not all religions are true.

The Christian religion as expressed through the Bible is the only one which can satisfy all the needs of the human soul, including the "Law of Nature" craving for true justice and absolute rights.


-R. Josiah Magnuson

"Intelligent Design" Is Not Enough

Q: Is recognizing design “enough”?

A: “Enough for what?” you might ask. The Intelligent Design Movement teaches that design in nature points to a designer, but it doesn’t say who the intelligent designer is, and it is compatible with millions of years and evolution. So is belief in intelligent design enough to be saved?

Intelligent design may seem very appealing at first because it brings up some good arguments against the idea that life arose by natural processes. But sadly, the ID movement has little or nothing to do with the Bible.Believing in design alone doesn’t tell us why there’s death and suffering in the world … or that we all need to be saved. It’s only through God’s Word that we can understand the bad news that Adam’s sin brought—death—and the good news that Jesus Christ, our Redeemer, brought—eternal life with Him.

While Romans 1 tells us that we can know there’s a God through His creation (and that’s an important first step), to understand who that God is and to know His nature and what life is all about, we need to believe and understand God’s Word.

Want to learn “the good, the bad, and the ugly” behind the Intelligent Design Movement? See The Intelligent Design Movement: Does the identity of the Creator really matter?


(Taken from the Answers In Genesis Weekly Update)