All children are conceived with a father. Adam, the father of humanity, chose sin to save Eve, therefore all are fallen from God. A man could not father Jesus because he would have transferred sin.
Month: June 2017
Pay for your sins yourself or accept Jesus’ payment for you?
Jesus taught us that before he came sacrifices burnt by fire were made to cover sin. Jesus also taught us that He is the only way, His sacrifice pays for our sin. Those that do not accept Jesus will burn forever in fire and brimstone to pay for their sin just as the sacrifices burned in the fire to pay for Israel’s sins.
How small are we:
A picture is worth a thousand words
How small are we:
- with a dot from a sharpened pencil point as the sun
- all planets, our solar system, would be inside a circle with a 7′ diameter
- Mercury = .4″ radius
- Venus = .7″ radius
- Earth = 1″ radius
- Mars = 1.6″ radius
- Jupiter = 5.2″ radius
- Saturn = 9.5″ radius
- Uranus = 19.2″ radius
- Neptune = 30″ radius
- Pluto = 39.5″ radius
- the closest star to our solar system, Alpha Centauri (which is about the size of our sun), would be 4.5 miles away
Knowledge of Scripture
Daniel 12:4
As time goes on and things are revealed, our knowledge of scripture will increase. Scripture will become more clear as events unfold in history.
Authentication of God
Isaiah 45:21
God writing history before it happens is an authentication of who He is. The purpose of prophecy is to authenticate God when it happens, not to teach us the future or for divination. God is the only one that can do this.
Creation
God says He created the earth, man, and the heavens with all that is in them – Isaiah 45:12, 18
Gap Theory
In a nutshell:
- Invented in 1814 by a Scottish preacher named Chalmers
- Between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2
- Angels created
- Satan falls
- A judgment, associated with Satan’s fall, came upon the earth to make it without form and void
Gap Theory
Problems with the Gap Theory:
- Why did no one find out about it until 1814
- It violates scriptures
- Genesis 1:5 – says it is The 1st Day
- Genesis 2 & 3; Exodus 20:11 – in 6 days God created the heaven and earth and the sea and everything in them
- Genesis 2:2; Hebrews 4:4 – say that it was The 7th Day
- It puts death before sin
- violates Romans 5:12 and 1 Corinthians 15:21
- It has Satan fall before Day 7
- goes against Genesis 1:31 where God looked at His creation and said it was very good
- violates Genesis 2:8 and Ezekiel 28:12-15 where Satan was in Eden until iniquity was found in him
- Genesis 2:8 – the garden of Eden created on Day 6 for placing the man God created
Money
The love of money, not money itself, is the root of all evil – 1 Timothy 6:10