Podcasts

The coronavirus currently sweeping the world is a major threat. What are Chistians supposed to think about it? Most viruses are beneficial to us and the environment. Also, we live in a sin-cursed world where many originally ‘good’ things have turned bad. When the coronavirus jumped to people, that was very, very, bad, but this gives us another opportunity to share the gospel.

The Bible says that all people know there is a God because of what He created. Many atheists say there is no evidence for design. This episode explains how we recognize when something is designed and explores some of the amazing design all around us—the evidence for an intelligent Designer.

Satan and his host of evil angels are well aware of the truth of Scripture. Concerning God, ‘the demons believe—and tremble’ (James 2:19). And the temptation account suggests that Satan knows that the Genesis record of creation is true.

Many people claim to have experiences with what are commonly known as ghosts. There are many TV shows and movies that encourage these ideas. The standard view is that these are the deceased spirits of real people. But is this the case and what does it have to do with biblical Creation?

It is not ‘academically sophisticated’ to hold to the inspiration of Scripture. Some people argue that believing a priori that the Bible is true and without error in anything it teaches is an ‘unintellectual’ position. It is true that with a Christological starting point, we give up any appearance of an ‘impartial, academic’ viewpoint. Yet there are very good reasons to hold to the infallibility of Scripture, as we will argue in this article.

Could the Genesis creation days be millions of years long? Join us as we dive into the language of the biblical text and discover how long God took to create the universe.

Supposedly, it began as a singularity, an unimaginably hot ‘point’ into which was compressed all the matter and energy now making up the billions of galaxies found throughout space. Biblical creationists, of course, should reject big bang theory because the order of events contradicts the Bible. Christians need not be intimidated into accepting secular accounts of origins.

Flat earth claims have exploded on the Internet. However, essentially nobody in Christianity ever taught this, although they had a very high view of Scripture. The Bible simply doesn’t teach that the earth is flat. E.g., the Venerable Bede in the 8th century taught a spherical earth, and Thomas Aquinas in the 13th century thought that a globe earth was one of the most obvious and well known facts of his day. Medieval students could do a better job of proving a global earth than most students today.

The doctrine of the Trinity states that in the unity of the Godhead there are three eternal and co-equal Persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit, the same in essence but distinct in role — three Persons (or three centres of consciousness) and one Being. The doctrine of the Trinity is difficult for some people to understand, but this is what God has revealed in Scripture about His own Being, so we should believe it.

All dating methods involve making assumptions. But many scientific dating methods, with reasonable assumptions, do not support deep time and an old universe. Hundreds of dating methods support a young earth and recent creation of the universe.

Some people suggest that because babies are so expensive, pro-lifers must be willing to pay for their care. If we are not, they say we have no right to object to them being killed in the womb. We respond to this and other pro-abortion arguments.

Currently, to our shame, millions of people, including many of our own neighbours, have no idea that there is a biblical alternative to evolution. Having rejected God on the grounds of belief in evolution, the guys I met at a hospital were hardly likely to give the time of day to the church’s message of salvation in Jesus.

The idea that death was in creation before the Fall has major implications for the character of God. The same problem arises if one thinks that God used evolution to create. At some point, this allegedly ‘good’ God ordains a lottery of death that finally results in humans, and then God looks at His image-bearers, standing on top of layers upon layers of rocks filled with the remains of billions of dead things, and proclaims His whole creation ‘very good’?

Natural selection is erroneously used as evidence for the evolution of people from a single cell. Actually, new discoveries involving natural selection support Biblical creation and powerfully refute evolution. This episode explains why the changes scientists observe will never lead to the evolution of one kind of animal into another, regardless of how much time is available.

What are the problems with adding millions of years to the Bible? How does such compromises drive old-earthers such as Hugh Ross into other errors?

Atheists not only can, but must be (at least to some extent) good without believing in God—even if they hate God with every inch of their being. If they are really made in the image of God as the Bible teaches (Genesis 1:27), then that fact must have some results. They, like all of us, are fallen (as explained in Genesis 3), but even so must still have an in-built sense of the reality and the importance of right and wrong.