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January 2025

Consider the language employed today in society compared with that of the Jews, who regarded the name of God as so holy that they would not dare even to write or pronounce it. Modern Americans see no problem in using it as an adjective to emphasize a statement. It is...Read more
Apples of Gold
Richard Dawkins has not explained anything, let alone how life began. This seems odd in view of the fact that he declares a number of times that Darwin explained everything about life. Isn’t this how Dawkins says he was converted to the religion of atheism ? Let me quote him...Read more
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I don’t know whether the growing lack of clarity in many evangelical quarters about the person and work of Jesus Christ is due to outside influences or internal weaknesses. Perhaps it is a bit of both. But it is shocking to me how many new evangelical ideas are uncanny in...Read more
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Many Roman emperors declared themselves deity and demanded for themselves an "honor" from men that could only be accorded to God. The honor Paul instructed us to give to widows is different. Here he is speaking of the physical support a congregation is obligated to give to a widow who...Read more
Apples of Gold
Friedrich Nietzsche wrote, “You have your way, I have my way. As for the right way, it does not exist.” This is a good summary of relativism. Now here is the thing. The acceptance of moral relativism is closely linked to acceptance of the theory of evolution. The argument is...Read more
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The peace of Jerusalem for which we are to pray is that which the Bible promises will come when the Prince of Peace has returned ( Isaiah:9:6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his...Read more
Apples of Gold
If energy can’t be created, it must have been here forever. We know that is not possible, or all matter would have become useless by now. Every attempt that atheists make to avoid the logical consequences of the facts as we know them comes up against the stone wall of...Read more
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Focusing on man is the path to discouragement. Jeremiah:17:5 Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD. See All... tells us that "cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his...Read more
Apples of Gold
While the contemporary scene may sometimes dismay us and be cause for fervent prayer, it is also a call to Bereanship and personal diligence in scriptural study, prayer, and obedience to those things we do understand from God's Word, for therein lies growth in discernment. Through it all, we can...Read more
Apples of Gold
Lennox commented, “That repugnance was shared by others in the mid-twentieth century. Gold, Bondi, Hoyle, and Narlikar advanced a series of steady-state theories in which it was argued that the universe always existed, [and] that matter was continuously being created in order to keep the density of the admittedly expanding...Read more
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