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I wish to Thank you for visiting LifeGuard Ministries and truly hope that what I have learned through the wisdom and knowledge that has been granted to me by the Holy Spirit will also be used to inspire you and bring you to a Theologically based understanding of our Heavenly Father as He should be truly seen and known for His Glory alone.
Reformed Theology unlike many of the theological doctrines presented in this day will always present itself throughout all the doctrines of systematic theology with the very center of it maintaining the essence, attributes, and Holiness of God. Remaining at the very core throughout all of doctrinal understanding.
Whether it be Soteriology, Eschatology, Ecclesiology, or any doctrine of Systematic Theology, the very understanding of who Gods is and His direct revelation to us through Scripture will always be maintained within. This is what separates Reformed Theology from much of the Theological ideas within this day and age. Ideas that begin with the Theological study of God , but as soon as the page is turned to the Systematic Doctrines many of the concepts of the attributes, essence and Holiness of God are forgotten.
Reformed Theology is True Biblical Theology as it has been from the beginning.
Also on this page I would like to Introduce you to A Sermon Audio Browser below. Here you will find some of the best eye opening sermons given by the very well renowned Theologian, Pastor and author R.C. Sproul.
I truly hope you enjoy this site as I will continue to share what God has given me to be able to shine His light on others.
Creation vs Evolution
In all my thoughts of the topic of creation vs evolution, even as a young boy growing up, I could never get used to the theory or idea that we had all come from apes, and they were our long lost ancestors and we their descendants. As a boy I would often wonder, if we had evolved from them, then why are we still here on earth together with them. A rather childish thought but one that must and need explanation in order for this theory to be valid in any way.
I still marvel at the fact that the world has taken such an idea that was presented by the man responsible for conjuring the idea, as only a theory, and man has twisted it into our society and the minds of children as a proven fact, something that has never been proven, nor ever will be. Hence the name The Theory of Evolution.
That there has never been any proof of evolution and over the years as it has morphed its way into a factual aspect, to me only proves what scripture say about man’s tremendous rebellion against God and how satan has thwarted the truth of our very being and existence, an existence that has a purpose. Evolution gives man no purpose and a beginning that comes by chance or fluke. I would believe that this is where the problem begins and where the creation vs evolution battle starts.
When I view creation and the controversy of creation vs evolution, I must take into fact the essence and attributes of a Holy God. When I see God as all perfect and an organised God, a God that has order and in His omnipotent attribute has created a universe that is absolutely organised and perfect in every way. Creatures that have such systems to sustaining life that the only conclusion to their development is that they had to be designed. When reading the sensibility of God’s Word , evolution becomes an absurd idea. Charles Darwin himself, the founder of the theory of evolution and author of The Origin of Species, became so very baffled when he began to examine the human eye. The complexity of the eye structure was so intricate that he concluded that it could only have been of some perfect design, and for this one must conclude a designer. This startling observation would have certainly brought Darwin’s work to a halt had he the knowledge of the eye and its components of movement and operation that we have today. Darwin quotes, “To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree.”(Darwin, Charles. The Origin of Species, J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, London, 1971, p. 167.)
During the remainder of this essay, Creation vs Evolution I will list a couple discoveries and ideas that I truly believe have been shoved aside by evolutionists in order that the theory of evolution could take the place of truth and how Scripture relates to the rebuke of such a theory. Also some of the deceiving theories that scientist have and evolutionists have conjured to support their ideas and rebuke the existence of our Heavenly father.
You may have heard of the geological column. Evolutionists and anti-creationists claim the geological column as being layers and layers of sedimentary rock that blanket the entire earth. Secular scientists also claim that this strata represents life on earth for over more than 600 million years. What the secular do not tell us is that these layers of sedimentary rock, which can be KM’s in thickness in some places are layers of flood liberated deposits of sandstone, shale and limestone. Simply put, the geological column has been misinterpreted due to a failure of the scientific community to recognize the occurrence of the global flood, and there is evidence these formations are relatively young.
The flood strata does not represent a history of millions of years of accumulation, but is an obvious record of a world-wide devastating catastrophe that nothing was able to survive naturally. One of the most amazing discoveries are the poly-strata trees that have been found embedded all throughout the layers of the geological column. These trees have all been found to be of the same time frame and age giving tremendous evidence of a resulting runoff from the flood. The very fact that these trees are from the same era and yet exist throughout the geological column contradict a sedimentary layer 600 million years old and show how they were deposited as the result of the receding waters of the great flood.
Gen. 8:3-5
And the waters receded continually from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters decreased. 4 Then the ark rested in the seventh month, the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat. 5 And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.
Gen. 8:13,14
And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, that the waters were dried up from the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and indeed the surface of the ground was dry. 14 And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dried.
Creation vs Evolution and the Geological Column
In light of this understanding of truth behind the geological column comes another contradiction that the evolutionists and anti- creationists tend to adhere to, and that is the age of the dinosaurs existence. Within the battle of creation vs evolution, secular science and archaeologists will claim that their findings of fossils to be millions of years old, yet the contradiction lies in the fact that these fossils are found within the so called geological column, and from the evidence revealed from the poly-strata trees deposited throughout the column there can be no proof of these fossils being millions of years old. In fact their age would be more near to that of the trees themselves. All a result of a devastating catastrophe that would have claimed every living thing at the same time.
• Some polystrate trees are upside down extending through many layers including layers of coal. Picture from Bone of Contention by Silvia Baker p. 12
The evolutionist has only two choices to solve this dilemma:
1. The trees stood upright for millions of years while the sediment layers formed around them.
2. The trees grew through hundreds of feet of solid sedimentary rock looking for sunlight.
There is a third way to look at this:
3. The trees were buried upright in a big flood.
JOB:40:15-24
“Look now at the behemoth, which I made along with you;
He eats grass like an ox.
16 See now, his strength is in his hips,
And his power is in his stomach muscles.
17 He moves his tail like a cedar;
The sinews of his thighs are tightly knit.
18 His bones are like beams of bronze,
His ribs like bars of iron.
19 He is the first of the ways of God;
Only He who made him can bring near His sword.
20 Surely the mountains yield food for him,
And all the beasts of the field play there.
21 He lies under the lotus trees,
In a covert of reeds and marsh.
22 The lotus trees cover him with their shade;
The willows by the brook surround him.
23 Indeed the river may rage,
Yet he is not disturbed;
He is confident, though the Jordan gushes into his mouth,
24 Though he takes it in his eyes,
Or one pierces his nose with a snare.
Creation vs Evolution with exerpts from Bibleprobe.com
Scientists claim that it takes millions of years for bones to fossilise. Here is an exert from the website Bibleprobe.com.
Please take the time to visit this site. See and read about the lies that our children and society have been exposed to and know the real truth that scientists, atheists and evolutionists would have you never to know. It reveals much of the truth for creation in the battle, creation vs evolution
It claims that in 1980 the rubber-soled boot with petrified cowboy leg, bones and all was found in a dry creek bed near the West Texas town of Iraan, by Mr. Jerry Stone, an employee of Corvette oil company. The boot was hand made by the M. L. Leddy boot company of San Angelo, Texas which began manufacturing boots in 1936. Only the bones inside the boot are fossilized, and not the boot, revealing that some materials fossilize more sooner than others. The bones of the partial leg and foot within the boot were revealed by an elaborate set of C.T. Scans performed at Harris Methodist Hospital in Bedford, Texas on July 24, 1997.
To this revealing claim was the comment posted:
by Heather S.
Dated : December 06, 2004 at 14:26:33
Subject: Re: 40 Million year old Cowboy boot
My father was a Geo-physicist working for Mobil Oil (with a degree in Bio-chemistry) for a long time. He worked with another guy who went on a fossil dig because he had a friend there who was supervising it. He said they found a bunch of T-Rex bones and they were using college kids in Paleontology to dig. He got to get up close and personal with the kids and watch them work. He walked over to one who was sifting dirt and removing items that were to be thrown out. My father’s friend asked the student why he was getting rid of this little stack of items dug up from around the remains of the dinos. The student said “Because we are trying to re-create the scene and explain what happened here, and these things don’t fit the story.” He asked the student if he could have a handful of the stuff in the bucket. The student said, “Sure.” Guess what was being discarded from the dig? Tons of rabbit bones and jaws! Found right along side three T-rexes!
Job: 41:1-34
41 “Can you draw out Leviathan with a hook,
Or snare his tongue with a line which you lower?
2 Can you put a reed through his nose,
Or pierce his jaw with a hook?
3 Will he make many supplications to you?
Will he speak softly to you?
4 Will he make a covenant with you?
Will you take him as a servant forever?
5 Will you play with him as with a bird,
Or will you leash him for your maidens?
6 Will your companions make a banquet of him?
Will they apportion him among the merchants?
7 Can you fill his skin with harpoons,
Or his head with fishing spears?
8 Lay your hand on him;
Remember the battle-
Never do it again!
9 Indeed, any hope of overcoming him is false;
Shall one not be overwhelmed at the sight of him?
10 No one is so fierce that he would dare stir him up.
Who then is able to stand against Me?
11 Who has preceded Me, that I should pay him?
Everything under heaven is Mine.
12 “I will not conceal his limbs,
His mighty power, or his graceful proportions.
13 Who can remove his outer coat?
Who can approach him with a double bridle?
14 Who can open the doors of his face,
With his terrible teeth all around?
15 His rows of scales are his pride,
Shut up tightly as with a seal;
16 One is so near another
That no air can come between them;
17 They are joined one to another,
They stick together and cannot be parted.
18 His sneezings flash forth light,
And his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
19 Out of his mouth go burning lights;
Sparks of fire shoot out.
20 Smoke goes out of his nostrils,
As from a boiling pot and burning rushes.
21 His breath kindles coals,
And a flame goes out of his mouth.
22 Strength dwells in his neck,
And sorrow dances before him.
23 The folds of his flesh are joined together;
They are firm on him and cannot be moved.
24 His heart is as hard as stone,
Even as hard as the lower millstone.
25 When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid;
Because of his crashings they are beside themselves.
26 Though the sword reaches him, it cannot avail;
Nor does spear, dart, or javelin.
27 He regards iron as straw,
And bronze as rotten wood.
28 The arrow cannot make him flee;
Slingstones become like stubble to him.
29 Darts are regarded as straw;
He laughs at the threat of javelins.
30 His undersides are like sharp potsherds;
He spreads pointed marks in the mire.
31 He makes the deep boil like a pot;
He makes the sea like a pot of ointment.
32 He leaves a shining wake behind him;
One would think the deep had white hair.
33 On earth there is nothing like him,
Which is made without fear.
34 He beholds every high thing;
He is king over all the children of pride.”
These examples of how the enemy has distorted the truth of our existence is by far just a small portion of the many other examples of the lies mankind is led to believe. I see these scientific examples for what they are as corporeal evidence of creation, a creation that is not 600 million years old but in a Biblical perspective that seems to lean toward that of at least 6500 years. My true understanding of creation comes from my belief in a loving God, an all powerful God who willingly provides a way to be reconciled to him through an amazing plan of salvation through faith in Jesus Christ. As I read the Scriptures and the extreme sense that is made of it and conviction that is thrown upon me by the Holy Spirit of man’s condition and our depravity only truly secures my faith and in understanding that “in the beginning” our heavenly Father began creating His plan of redemption for a rebellious creature that He loves so much.
I truly hope Creation vs Evolution has enlightened believers and non- believers that have made their way to this post to realize the real truths of our Creator and our existence.
The Narrow Way
Matthew 7:13 – 27
13 “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. 14 Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.
15 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. 16 You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? 17 Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Therefore by their fruits you will know them.
21 “Not everyone who says to Me, Lord, Lord, shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. 22 Many will say to Me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name? 23 And then I will declare to them, I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!
24 “Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: 25 and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock.
26 “But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: 27 and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall.”
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Understanding Morality
Morality……
A word that many of us seem to have an idea or an opinion or even think that it is something that is obtainable or possessed by one.
As humans many have the assumption that one person can be more moral than another or that one can be less moral than another. When in reality this concept is not a very feasible idea when one looks at morality for what it really is.
Morality can be looked upon as a constant, in that it is always within its full value “morality is morality” there is not a small part of morality or a partial part, or even a large part…morality is all together as a whole and does not change. In view of this then, there is no human more or less moral than another…but when the understanding of human depravity or our depraved nature is realized and recognized, then we may ascertain that its not an amount of morality that one may possess, but each one of us will have a certain capacity for morality, whether it be a deep capacity or a shallow capacity. This capacity for morality is what affects their direct inclination to instill God’s moral law.
I believe that to fully understand morality we must first go through the concepts of morality as it pertains to the Moral Law of God. In this we will see that morality itself as a distinct nature of God which is a part of His attributes of goodness and greatness and also something that has been instilled with our own heart and soul upon His creation of man.
When we read Genesis 1:26 – 28
26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. 28 Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” NKJV
Within these versus we read that we have been created in God’s image and this image is not a physical likeness…since God is Spirit and man was made corporeal. But since man was also given spirit and soul, in their image, He means that we carry the same moral attributes as His and that His moral law has been instilled within us along with other attributes such as intellect, ability to communicate and an emotional nature that goes beyond instinct contrary to animals, which live on instinct alone.
God’s moral law is not something that is foreign or impersonal to Him but it is an expression of His very person and will. It is His very nature. God does not decide to command love and forbid murder or human hatred, it is His very nature that instills a particular action and prohibits others. Just as God states love to be good because He Himself is love, and that to lie is wrong because God Himself cannot lie.
For this matter we conclude that moral law of God is somewhat of a record of His very nature, and when we agree with it or disagree with it, is not as we are basing our decisions relating to any type of document, but we are relating our decisions to the very nature of God. When disobedience of God’s moral law becomes an affliction within our actions then it is considered an attack on the very nature of God and is sinful and carries consequences.
Moral law is not to be obeyed for its own sake but must be obeyed and understood as a means of relating, communicating with and loving God. This is the very way of instilling a loving personal relationship with Him, and when the Spirit of God is living within you, He convicts you of your disobedience through your conscience that recognizes the moral law of God that man was created with in the beginning. This conviction becomes very prominent to the true believer in Jesus Christ, and is the means by which God keeps him on the path to obedience and righteousness. This is not the righteousness of man that God sees in man’s heart, but the righteousness of Jesus Christ shown in a man’s heart through his faith, which tremendously deepens his capacity for morality and therefore the believer adheres to God’s moral law through his Christ like nature.
I believe that for the true believer that has the Spirit of God within them, the deeper their capacity for morality becomes; then the more consciously capable they are to instilling and recognizing God’s moral law that has been instilled within them through conviction by the Holy Spirit. Thereby fulfilling the will of God to an extent that He desires, since faith and the love of Jesus Christ has permeated their hearts.
In the next section of Understanding Morality, we will define morality in the Biblical sense and the secular sense and go through what it is and what it is not.
What is Original Sin?
If someone were to come up to you and ask…What is original sin? You would probably interpret this question as to first time you ever sinned. You might stand and ponder for a bit and try to think way back to the very first time you ever did something bad. Maybe you might think of the first time you swore, which would be extremely difficult, or maybe the first time you disobeyed your mother or father, which would also be so very difficult since that would have been probably so far back you would never remember.
Another popular response to this question would directly relate back to the Garden of Eden. At a specific time in the history of mankind when man was in a Holy condition of being sinless. Even so…being in this state of purity, both Adam and Eve still had the capability to choose, either to sin or not to sin. As Genesis records they chose to disobey God and committed their first sin. So we ask was this the very first sin? And if we conclude that yes it was …then many may also come to the conclusion and answer to our question, that the very first sin of Adam and Eve was the original sin.
But….there is also another idea of Original sin, in that Adam and Eve’s sin was not the very first sin, it was truly their very first sin but not the first sin ever committed, some would say. There are those that may establish the idea the the very first sin committed was that of Lucifer. This is at most times taught as the very first sin of selfish pride , in that God’s own Angel decided that he wanted to be like God or even God himself, and then began his rebellion. But this we must put aside from Original sin.
So…..then just what is Original Sin?
Original Sin has much to do with the very fact that we are fallen creatures. All Christians will agree on this matter. Each and every one of us is born directly into sin. As an infant many would say that we are innocent at this stage in life …but what is it we are innocent of. Are we innocent of sin….or of committing sin. In this early stage can we really comprehend our own actions as being sinful …if they are sinful. Are we pure …as Adam and Eve were before the fall…if that were true then really there wasn’t even a fall of mankind.
Whether we are infant or adult we are accountable as being sinful creatures. As Adam and Eve fell, they did commit the very first sin of mankind, but this is not original sin. Adam and Eve’s disobedience sent the whole of mankind into moral destruction. Our human nature under went a drastic change. Mankind was now under sin, born in sin. It was now our very nature to do nothing but sin. This nature can be referred to as Original Sin. The very act of sinning is not original sin, but the nature that we inherited from Adam and Eve’s first sin which reflects Original Sin. Original sin is the condition of sin and not the sin itself.
Let’s go a bit deeper into Original Sin.
In reference to R.C Sproul;
We are bonded by original sin in that we are able to “sin” but we are also unable to “not sin”, as it is our specific nature to do so. In St. Augustine view of liberty he states the Latin phrase “non posse, non peccare”. In this phrase he is relating to the fact that man had lost his purity and was now morally incapable to live without sin. This moral incapability is known as Original sin.
In understanding this much on Original sin we can now relate to Romans 3:23 “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God”.
Every man, woman, child and yes, even the infant are guilty of original sin.
In the next part of Original sin …i will try to explain how this affects the regenerate and non-regenerate person.
