FAITH: Ephemeral links by their common ancestry!!

The CRIB's periodically fugacious ...

• Insight: God knows what "100 mph" means! [Yahoo! News]

• For an Iraqi Christian, Syria and Hell are preferable to going home! [Christian Post]

• This makes one wonder why homosexuals, as victims of HIV/AIDS, hate Bush 43 so much? [Christian Post]

• The cost of the Obama victory to our witness is finally setting in with some Christian leaders! (I suspect the link below is further evidence.) [Christian News Wire]

• Franklin Graham, Son of Billy Graham, at California Megachurch: "Abortion is Murder" Yes, it is! [Life Site News]

• What's going on in Kentucky? The secular humanist band plays on! Psalm 2:1-3 [FOXNews/AP]

• The Daily Mail and "His Grace" are reporting on the latest in Soft Jihad in England ...

  Muslim prayer rooms should be opened in every Roman Catholic school, Church leaders have said. The Catholic bishops of England and Wales also want special toilet facilities in schools to be adapted for Islamic cleaning rituals.

  Cranmer asks - "Can we expect Muslim reciprocity?" [DM; Cranmer]

• It would not be a good idea to stand near this guy on judgment day! [FOX News]

• Paul, of The Dickens Family, comments on faith and community, something I commented on from the perspective of "connectedness" a few days ago. Both posts are worth the read, especially if you follow our links. [SBC Aggregator; SHEEP'S CRIB]

• Paul also links to Bro. Matt's Blog re kids and the innate knowledge of God! [SBC Aggregator]

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CREATIONISM: One more time for the record - God is transcendent!

After 27 years of personal struggle with the naturalism versus supernaturalism conundrum, I've finally resolved what it is I believe ... sort of! In the beginning, my faith latched easily onto a belief that God created the natural order supernaturally ... after all, I thought, He said He did!

But, naturalists (Darwinians, Evolutionists, et al) have asked us to explain ourselves in the light of scientific evidences and discoveries ... that's a reasonable request and should be answered rationally and reasonably by those of us (not necessarily implying myself) gifted to do so.

Here is my humble conclusion regarding all 6,000 years of man's inquiries into the natural order ...

My God's Science trumps their god's science, my God's Ignorance trumps their god's knowledge, my God's foolishness trumps their god's wisdom, and my God's weakness trumps their god's power.

I could cite 1 Corinthians 1:18-21, but that could legitimately be seen as circular reasoning by non-believers; so I will stand on the transcendent and infinite nature of my God. He is, after all, my God, not their god ... I can define Him anyway my mind, heart, spirit, and soul lead me to believe Him to be.

The Creator in whom I believe is not a part of His created order, He transcends it. Outside of His revelation of what lies outside the created order, I have no window into it ... it is hidden from me. But I do know this: if the God in whom I believe is able to create the universe and all that it holds, then He must be bigger than it.

Likewise, if He created it, then, as creator of it, He holds its science in His hand ... ergo, He must have a science which trumps its science. And so on ... !

Now, because of my "circular reasoning" I can say with absolute certainty (and a straight face) that, in spite of scientific evidence to the contrary: the natural order was created, evolution is a lie; life begins at conception, abortion is murder; there is no life on other planets, UFOs are fiction; and Christ did come in the flesh.

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