tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45463750204438453292024-03-12T12:27:57.488-07:00parresiazomaiThis is Mark Corbett's blog.Mark Corbetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11845358650245441477noreply@blogger.comBlogger305125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4546375020443845329.post-12157340782597262432024-03-12T12:16:00.000-07:002024-03-12T12:16:31.059-07:00How Should You Rebuke a Pastor Who Sins?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXUx-f3nem14KETnwLmaDJtsWF6bl4hjObjvu975vhxn6JZ7vsp5Vo3YhyqXbUVnfC6d9RFdtuWrLLJl7cZudU5WPxMxwA6Do_UexteY0J2B-2SZ7MDseZ9sTGcFVCh4kD3aMDzdjN6h8rqZqxE0d6xpZKLAh74HgihMRqbPFz6XD4jLzbe9dnybFmgAxT/s4000/Rebuking%20a%20pastor.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2250" data-original-width="4000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXUx-f3nem14KETnwLmaDJtsWF6bl4hjObjvu975vhxn6JZ7vsp5Vo3YhyqXbUVnfC6d9RFdtuWrLLJl7cZudU5WPxMxwA6Do_UexteY0J2B-2SZ7MDseZ9sTGcFVCh4kD3aMDzdjN6h8rqZqxE0d6xpZKLAh74HgihMRqbPFz6XD4jLzbe9dnybFmgAxT/w400-h225/Rebuking%20a%20pastor.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">ESV
1 Timothy 5:20 As for those who persist in sin, rebuke them in the
presence of all, so that the rest may stand in fear.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">In
1 Timothy chapter 5, Paul explains that pastors should be protected from false accusations.
For a pastor to be found guilty of sin there should be at least 2 or 3
witnesses (1 Timothy 5:19). In this blog post, I’m not focusing on the
important steps and related issues involved in receiving and investigating an
accusation against a pastor. Here, I’m focusing on the issue of what a church
or ministry should do if a pastor or similar ministry leader is rightly found
to be in serious sin.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">If
they are found to be in sin, Paul tells us to “rebuke them in the presence of
all.” But what does that mean? The word rebuke in English might bring to mind
several images and possibilities:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">*
Tell them that they have been really bad<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">*
Yell at them<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">*
Point a finger at them while correcting them</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">I
don’t think Paul had in mind any of those. We can learn what Paul did have in
mind by studying the Greek word translated “rebuke.” That Greek word is </span><i><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">elegchō</span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">.
Like most words in all languages, <i>elegchō</i> has a range of related
meanings rather than just one precise meaning. The intended meaning within that
range must be determined by the context.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">At the bottom of this blog post I
include an appendix with a list of all the verses in the New Testament that use
the word <i>elegchō. </i>For each verse I give the Greek (for those who have
studied Greek) and three translations of the Greek into English (CSB, ESV, and
NIV). I include that appendix for the convenience of those who like to study the
data for themselves. Here, I want to highlight several verses out of that list that
I think can help us the most to understand what Paul meant by “rebuke” in 1
Timothy 5:20:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">ESV
John 3:20 For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does
not come to the light, lest his works should <b>be exposed [Greek: <i>elegchō</i>]</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">ESV Matt. 18:15 "If your brother sins against you, go
and <b>tell him his fault [Greek: <i>elegchō</i>]</b>, between you and him
alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">ESV 1 Cor. 14:24 But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or
outsider enters, he is <b>convicted [Greek: <i>elegchō</i>]</b> by all, he is
called to account by all,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">ESV Eph. 5:11 Take no part in the unfruitful works of
darkness, but instead <b>expose</b> <b>[Greek: <i>elegchō</i>] </b>them.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">ESV Eph. 5:13 But when anything is <b>exposed</b> <b>[Greek:
<i>elegchō</i>] </b>by the light, it becomes visible,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">In the above
verses </span></span><i><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">elegchō</span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> is used to refer to exposing sin. I think this fits the
context of 1 Timothy 5 very well. Paul is not saying that we need to yell at a
pastor caught in serious sin or point our finger at him while telling him how
bad he is. Paul is telling us that if a pastor is proven to be in serious sin,
then his sin should be revealed to the whole church. This fits the context
well. Paul had just mentioned the need for 2 or 3 witnesses. In Matthew 18,
Jesus mentions the need to have 2 or 3 witnesses before someone’s sin is told
to the church (the exact application is slightly different, but there are a lot
parallels and common principles between the Matthew 18 and 1 Timothy 5).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">This meaning of <i>elegchō</i> is also
supported by some excellent Greek lexicons. Friberg’s lexicon gives this
definition (I think that the second definition is carried out by doing the
first definition, in other words, the way to reprove is to bring someone’s sin
to light):</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "SBL Greek"; mso-ansi-language: EL; mso-bidi-font-family: "SBL Greek"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">ἐλέγχω </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "SBL Greek"; mso-bidi-font-family: "SBL Greek"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">. . . </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">(1)
in the NT, generally as showing someone that he has done something wrong and
summoning him to repent <i>bring to light, expose </i>(JN 3.20); <i>convince,
convict </i>(JA 2.9); (2) in the sense of setting right <i>reprove, correct </i>(1T
5.20); in an intensified sense <i>rebuke, discipline, punish </i>(HE 12.5)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">And Louw-Nida’s Lexicon gives this
definition:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "SBL Greek"; mso-ansi-language: EL; mso-bidi-font-family: "SBL Greek"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">ἐλέγχω</span></b><span style="font-family: "SBL Greek"; mso-bidi-font-family: "SBL Greek"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> . . . </span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">to
state that someone has done wrong, with the implication that there is adequate
proof of such wrongdoing - 'to rebuke, to reproach, rebuke, reproach.'</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Based
on the above study, I think we could paraphrase 1 Timothy 5:20 like this:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">“</span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">As for those who persist in sin, expose their sin,
stating what they did in the presence of all, so that the rest may stand in
fear” (My paraphrase of 1 Timothy 5:20).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Churches and Ministries Often Fail
to Obey 1 Timothy 5:20</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Sadly, there have been many churches
and ministries which have failed to obey 1 Timothy 5:20. They have covered up
the sins of ministry leaders instead of exposing them. This was one of the huge
problems in the massive Roman Catholic scandal that involved the sexual abuse
of children by priests. In many cases, a priest was moved to a new location if
caught in sin, but his sins were not revealed. In some cases, they went on to
abuse more children. There have been many cases where the serious sins of
pastor were not exposed in evangelical churches also. Sometimes even if a
pastor is fired after being caught in serious sin, the congregation is still
not told why. This practice is nothing less than disobedience to God’s Word.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Why do churches and ministries fail
to follow God’s instruction in this case? It’s hard to know their motives. In
some cases, they might be afraid that revealing the sin will damage their
church or ministry. In other cases, the pastor or ministry leader who is guilty
of the sin might have a lot of influence and influential friends who work to
suppress the revelation of the sin. Whatever their motive, it is wrong to cover
up the sin. Paul seemed to know (inspired by the Holy Spirit!) that churches
and ministries would often not want to expose serious sins of their leaders, even
when those sins are proven. That explains why right after 1 Timothy 5:20 Paul wrote
1 Timothy 5:21:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">ESV
<b>1 Timothy 5:21</b> In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus and of
the elect angels I charge you to keep these rules without prejudging, doing
nothing from partiality.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">That is strong language! It is not
ok to ignore Paul’s Holy Spirit inspired instructions.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnALCBFzFdpd_gJxnMM2-6R_7Yvzy_-iJkE_s8zp1WXf0Y_7AfQZiR6sfkKKPAmfAa50U5YmZUQ0I-zKewnGYMC_QslIipR6UxprvPAkKkU7PBKaATZyMNDN4jV4XLH5xKgfGZT9xp5QtXoLOiUoq6nYIsRH8iyZP_xxHCTZcG7y46GwRspQgcOp2ASWr6/s4000/Strong%20warning%20that%20sins%20must%20be%20exposed.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2250" data-original-width="4000" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnALCBFzFdpd_gJxnMM2-6R_7Yvzy_-iJkE_s8zp1WXf0Y_7AfQZiR6sfkKKPAmfAa50U5YmZUQ0I-zKewnGYMC_QslIipR6UxprvPAkKkU7PBKaATZyMNDN4jV4XLH5xKgfGZT9xp5QtXoLOiUoq6nYIsRH8iyZP_xxHCTZcG7y46GwRspQgcOp2ASWr6/w400-h225/Strong%20warning%20that%20sins%20must%20be%20exposed.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Up
to this point, I have focused on 1 Timothy 5:20-21. I would like to finish this
blog post by sharing some pastoral counsel based on other Bible passages and
also on my 28 years of full-time ministry experience. Some of the most painful
and difficult ministry experiences in all those years have involved a few occasions
where I was involved in revealing the serious and proven sins of ministry
leaders. It was tough. In one case, there was a lot of resistance to doing what
the Bible tells us to do. I learned a lot, and I would like to pass on some of that
to you.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Pastoral
Counsel Related to Ministry Leaders Caught in Serious Sin</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">1.
Not every sin committed by a ministry leader calls for public rebuke. Ministry
leaders are people and like all people, we sin. We probably commit some type of
sin every week (or even every day). It was not Paul’s intention that we attempt
to expose every sin. That would be impossible and also contrary to other
biblical principles such as “</span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">love covers a
multitude of sins” (1 Pet. 4:8 ESV). There is no precise rule or list of sins
that tells us when sin needs to be publicly revealed. In general, I would say
that if a sin is serious enough that a ministry leader needs to be asked to
step down or step aside or moved to a different position, then the sin is
serious enough that 1 Timothy 5:20 applies.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">2. The cost of exposing the sin may
be high. In the long run, the cost of not exposing it will be higher.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">3. If the sin involves abuse of a
minor, then in addition to applying Paul’s directions in 1 Timothy, it should
be immediately reported to the police. In this case it is both a sin and a
crime. The police have authority to do
things that a church cannot do like exercise search warrants, seize computers
and other materials, and if called for lock someone up in order to protect the
community.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">4. Paul does not tell us what
actions in addition to the sins being revealed should be taken. In many cases,
the pastor or ministry leader should be removed from their position. But
exactly how and when this should be done requires a lot of wisdom and Holy
Spirit guidance. If the sin is publicly revealed to the church, it is far less
likely that a person will be allowed to continue in ministry who shouldn’t. The
people in the church won’t put up with it.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">5. In some cases, a church or
ministry will benefit greatly by calling in outside resources to investigate
and make recommendations regarding serious allegations from multiple witnesses.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">6.
In applying all of this, we must remember grace and mercy. Grace and mercy
should not be used as excuses to not reveal serious proven sin and grace and
mercy does not mean that the guilty pastor should always keep his position. But
there will be other ways in which grace and mercy should be applied.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">7.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Be very careful when appointing
someone as an elder or to other ministry leadership positions. Do your best to
ensure they meet the qualifications given in 1 Timothy 3.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">8.
If you find yourself in a church or ministry that has failed to rightly expose
the serious proven sin of leaders, pray for wisdom. God may lead you to stay
despite this serious error, but in many cases, it will be best to move to
another church or ministry.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">9.
If a church or ministry fails to expose the serious, proven sin of ministry
leaders sometimes (not always – this is a tough call), it will be right to
expose the sin in other ways. An example of a ministry that does this is The
Roys Report. I think that ministry helps to protect the Body of Christ. If it
is proven that a minor has been abused, it is vital that in one way or another
this information is widely revealed in order to protect more abuse of others in
the future.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">10.
Pray! You will need wisdom and courage and inner strength if you have to deal
with something like this. All of those things are available from God. I just
stopped and prayed for you.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><b>Related
Resources from my Blog and YouTube channel:</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Video: <a href="https://youtu.be/7n1cob_N5aY">What to do if a pastor sins</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Video: <a href="https://youtu.be/T567pWveW8M">Mike Bickle and Solomon; IHOPKC and the
Temple</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Video: <a href="https://youtu.be/-kks9K8m35g">Thoughts and Biblical Principles Related to
Sexual Abuse in Churches</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Video: <a href="https://youtu.be/m_MNepTDX_M">How to Choose a Pastor</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Blog Post: <a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2018/01/the-many-ways-we-mess-up-putting.html">The
Many Ways We Mess Up Putting Matthew 18 into Practice</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Blog Post: <a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2021/02/biblical-principles-to-help-us-prevent.html">The
Ravi Zacharias Sexual Sin Case</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Blog Post: <a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2019/02/sexual-abuse-in-southern-baptist.html">Sexual
Abuse in Southern Baptist Churches</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b>Appendix: All
verses in the New Testament with the Greek word </b><b><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "SBL Greek"; mso-ansi-language: EL; mso-bidi-font-family: "SBL Greek"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">ἐλέγχω</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "SBL Greek"; mso-bidi-font-family: "SBL Greek"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">,</span> <i>elechō</i> <o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">BGT Matt. 18:15 </span><span style="font-family: "SBL Greek"; mso-ansi-language: EL; mso-bidi-font-family: "SBL Greek"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> <span lang="EL">Ἐὰν δὲ ἁμαρτήσῃ [εἰς σὲ] ὁ ἀδελφός
σου, ὕπαγε <b>ἔλεγξον</b> αὐτὸν μεταξὺ σοῦ καὶ αὐτοῦ μόνου. ἐάν σου ἀκούσῃ, ἐκέρδησας
τὸν ἀδελφόν σου·</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">CSB Matt. 18:15 "If your brother sins against you, go
and <b>rebuke</b> him in private. If he listens to you, you have won your
brother.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">ESV Matt. 18:15 "If your brother sins against you, go
and <b>tell him his fault</b>, between you and him alone. If he listens to you,
you have gained your brother.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">NIV Matt. 18:15 "If your brother or sister sins, go and <b>point
out their fault</b>, just between the two of you. If they listen to you, you
have won them over.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">BGT Lk. 3:19 </span><span style="font-family: "SBL Greek"; mso-ansi-language: EL; mso-bidi-font-family: "SBL Greek"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> <span lang="EL">Ὁ δὲ Ἡρῴδης ὁ τετραάρχης, <b>ἐλεγχόμενος</b>
ὑπ᾽ αὐτοῦ περὶ Ἡρῳδιάδος τῆς γυναικὸς τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ αὐτοῦ καὶ περὶ πάντων ὧν ἐποίησεν
πονηρῶν ὁ Ἡρῴδης,</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">CSB Lk. 3:19 But Herod the tetrarch, being <b>rebuked</b>
by him about Herodias, his brother's wife, and about all the evil things Herod
had done,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">ESV Lk. 3:19 But Herod the tetrarch, who <b>had been
reproved</b> by him for Herodias, his brother's wife, and for all the evil
things that Herod had done,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">NIV Lk. 3:19 But when John <b>rebuked</b> Herod the
tetrarch because of his marriage to Herodias, his brother's wife, and all the
other evil things he had done,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">CSB Jn. 3:20 For everyone who practices wicked things
hates the light and avoids it, so that his deeds may not <b>be exposed</b>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">BGT Jn. 3:20 </span><span style="font-family: "SBL Greek"; mso-ansi-language: EL; mso-bidi-font-family: "SBL Greek"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> <span lang="EL">πᾶς γὰρ ὁ φαῦλα πράσσων μισεῖ τὸ
φῶς καὶ οὐκ ἔρχεται πρὸς τὸ φῶς, ἵνα μὴ <b>ἐλεγχθῇ</b> τὰ ἔργα αὐτοῦ·</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">ESV Jn. 3:20 For everyone who does wicked things hates the
light and does not come to the light, lest his works should <b>be exposed</b>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">NIV Jn. 3:20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and
will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will <b>be exposed</b>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">BGT Jn. 8:46 </span><span style="font-family: "SBL Greek"; mso-ansi-language: EL; mso-bidi-font-family: "SBL Greek"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> <span lang="EL">τίς ἐξ ὑμῶν <b>ἐλέγχει </b>με περὶ
ἁμαρτίας; εἰ ἀλήθειαν λέγω, διὰ τί ὑμεῖς οὐ πιστεύετέ μοι;</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">CSB Jn. 8:46 Who among you can <b>convict</b> Me of sin?
If I tell the truth, why don't you believe Me?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">ESV Jn. 8:46 Which one of you <b>convicts</b> me of sin?
If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">NIV Jn. 8:46 Can any of you <b>prove</b> me guilty of sin?
If I am telling the truth, why don't you believe me?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">BGT Jn. 16:8 </span><span style="font-family: "SBL Greek"; mso-ansi-language: EL; mso-bidi-font-family: "SBL Greek"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> <span lang="EL">Καὶ ἐλθὼν ἐκεῖνος <b>ἐλέγξει</b>
τὸν κόσμον περὶ ἁμαρτίας καὶ περὶ δικαιοσύνης καὶ περὶ κρίσεως·</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">CSB Jn. 16:8 When He comes, He will <b>convict</b> the
world about sin, righteousness, and judgment:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">ESV Jn. 16:8 And when he comes, he will <b>convict</b> the
world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">NIV Jn. 16:8 When he comes, he will <b>prove</b> the world
<b>to be in the wrong</b> about sin and righteousness and judgment:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">BGT 1 Cor. 14:24 </span><span style="font-family: "SBL Greek"; mso-ansi-language: EL; mso-bidi-font-family: "SBL Greek"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> <span lang="EL">ἐὰν δὲ πάντες προφητεύωσιν, εἰσέλθῃ
δέ τις ἄπιστος ἢ ἰδιώτης, <b>ἐλέγχεται</b> ὑπὸ πάντων, ἀνακρίνεται ὑπὸ πάντων,</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">CSB 1 Cor. 14:24 But if all are prophesying and some
unbeliever or uninformed person comes in, he is <b>convicted</b> by all and is
judged by all.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">ESV 1 Cor. 14:24 But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or
outsider enters, he is <b>convicted</b> by all, he is called to account by all,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">NIV 1 Cor. 14:24 But if an unbeliever or an inquirer comes in
while everyone is prophesying, they are <b>convicted</b> of sin and are brought
under judgment by all,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">BGT Eph. 5:11 </span><span style="font-family: "SBL Greek"; mso-ansi-language: EL; mso-bidi-font-family: "SBL Greek"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> <span lang="EL">καὶ μὴ συγκοινωνεῖτε τοῖς ἔργοις
τοῖς ἀκάρποις τοῦ σκότους, μᾶλλον δὲ καὶ <b>ἐλέγχετε</b>.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">CSB Eph. 5:11 Don't participate in the fruitless works of
darkness, but instead <b>expose</b> them.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">ESV Eph. 5:11 Take no part in the unfruitful works of
darkness, but instead <b>expose</b> them.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">NIV Eph. 5:11 Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds
of darkness, but rather <b>expose</b> them.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">BGT Eph. 5:13 </span><span style="font-family: "SBL Greek"; mso-ansi-language: EL; mso-bidi-font-family: "SBL Greek"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> <span lang="EL">τὰ δὲ πάντα <b>ἐλεγχόμενα</b> ὑπὸ
τοῦ φωτὸς φανεροῦται,</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">CSB Eph. 5:13 Everything <b>exposed</b> by the light is
made clear,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">ESV Eph. 5:13 But when anything is <b>exposed</b> by the
light, it becomes visible,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">NIV Eph. 5:13 But everything <b>exposed</b> by the light
becomes visible-- and everything that is illuminated becomes a light.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">BGT 1 Tim. 5:20 </span><span style="font-family: "SBL Greek"; mso-ansi-language: EL; mso-bidi-font-family: "SBL Greek"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> <span lang="EL">Τοὺς ἁμαρτάνοντας ἐνώπιον πάντων
<b>ἔλεγχε</b>, ἵνα καὶ οἱ λοιποὶ φόβον ἔχωσιν.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">CSB 1 Tim. 5:20 Publicly <b>rebuke</b> those who sin, so that
the rest will also be afraid.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">ESV 1 Tim. 5:20 As for those who persist in sin, <b>rebuke</b>
them in the presence of all, so that the rest may stand in fear.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">NIV 1 Tim. 5:20 But those elders who are sinning you are to <b>reprove</b>
before everyone, so that the others may take warning.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">BGT 2 Tim. 4:2 </span><span style="font-family: "SBL Greek"; mso-ansi-language: EL; mso-bidi-font-family: "SBL Greek"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> <span lang="EL">κήρυξον τὸν λόγον, ἐπίστηθι εὐκαίρως
ἀκαίρως, <b>ἔλεγξον</b>, ἐπιτίμησον, παρακάλεσον, ἐν πάσῃ μακροθυμίᾳ καὶ διδαχῇ.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">CSB 2 Tim. 4:2 Proclaim the message; persist in it whether
convenient or not; <b>rebuke</b>, correct, and encourage with great patience
and teaching.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">ESV 2 Tim. 4:2 preach the word; be ready in season and out
of season; <b>reprove</b>, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and
teaching.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">NIV 2 Tim. 4:2 Preach the word; be prepared in season and
out of season; <b>correct</b>, rebuke and encourage-- with great patience and
careful instruction.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">BGT Tit. 1:9 </span><span style="font-family: "SBL Greek"; mso-ansi-language: EL; mso-bidi-font-family: "SBL Greek"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> <span lang="EL">ἀντεχόμενον τοῦ κατὰ τὴν διδαχὴν
πιστοῦ λόγου, ἵνα δυνατὸς ᾖ καὶ παρακαλεῖν ἐν τῇ διδασκαλίᾳ τῇ ὑγιαινούσῃ καὶ τοὺς
ἀντιλέγοντας <b>ἐλέγχειν</b>.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">CSB Tit. 1:9 holding to the faithful message as taught, so
that he will be able both to encourage with sound teaching and <b>to refute</b>
those who contradict it.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">ESV Tit. 1:9 He must hold firm to the trustworthy word as
taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and also <b>to
rebuke</b> those who contradict it.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">NIV Tit. 1:9 He must hold firmly to the trustworthy
message as it has been taught, so that he can encourage others by sound
doctrine and <b>refute</b> those who oppose it.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">BGT Tit. 1:13 </span><span style="font-family: "SBL Greek"; mso-ansi-language: EL; mso-bidi-font-family: "SBL Greek"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> <span lang="EL">ἡ μαρτυρία αὕτη ἐστὶν ἀληθής. δι᾽
ἣν αἰτίαν <b>ἔλεγχε</b> αὐτοὺς ἀποτόμως, ἵνα ὑγιαίνωσιν ἐν τῇ πίστει,</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">CSB Tit. 1:13 This testimony is true. So, <b>rebuke</b>
them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">ESV Tit. 1:13 This testimony is true. Therefore <b>rebuke</b>
them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">NIV Tit. 1:13 This saying is true. Therefore <b>rebuke</b>
them sharply, so that they will be sound in the faith</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">BGT Tit. 2:15 </span><span style="font-family: "SBL Greek"; mso-ansi-language: EL; mso-bidi-font-family: "SBL Greek"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> <span lang="EL">Ταῦτα λάλει καὶ παρακάλει καὶ <b>ἔλεγχε</b>
μετὰ πάσης ἐπιταγῆς· μηδείς σου περιφρονείτω.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">CSB Tit. 2:15 Say these things, and encourage and <b>rebuke</b>
with all authority. Let no one disregard you.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">ESV Tit. 2:15 Declare these things; exhort and <b>rebuke</b>
with all authority. Let no one disregard you.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">NIV Tit. 2:15 These, then, are the things you should teach.
Encourage and <b>rebuke</b> with all authority. Do not let anyone despise you.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">BGT Heb. 12:5 </span><span style="font-family: "SBL Greek"; mso-ansi-language: EL; mso-bidi-font-family: "SBL Greek"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> <span lang="EL">καὶ ἐκλέλησθε τῆς παρακλήσεως, ἥτις
ὑμῖν ὡς υἱοῖς διαλέγεται· υἱέ μου, μὴ ὀλιγώρει παιδείας κυρίου μηδὲ ἐκλύου ὑπ᾽ αὐτοῦ
<b>ἐλεγχόμενος</b>·</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">CSB Heb. 12:5 And you have forgotten the exhortation that
addresses you as sons: My son, do not take the Lord's discipline lightly or
faint when you are <b>reproved</b> by Him,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">ESV Heb. 12:5 And have you forgotten the exhortation that
addresses you as sons? "My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of
the Lord, nor be weary when <b>reproved</b> by him.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">NIV Heb. 12:5 And have you completely forgotten this word
of encouragement that addresses you as a father addresses his son? It says,
"My son, do not make light of the Lord's discipline, and do not lose heart
when he <b>rebukes</b> you,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">BGT Jas. 2:9 </span><span style="font-family: "SBL Greek"; mso-ansi-language: EL; mso-bidi-font-family: "SBL Greek"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> <span lang="EL">εἰ δὲ προσωπολημπτεῖτε, ἁμαρτίαν
ἐργάζεσθε <b>ἐλεγχόμενοι</b> ὑπὸ τοῦ νόμου ὡς παραβάται.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">CSB Jas. 2:9 But if you show favoritism, you commit sin
and <b>are convicted</b> by the law as transgressors.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">ESV Jas. 2:9 But if you show partiality, you are
committing sin and <b>are convicted</b> by the law as transgressors.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">NIV Jas. 2:9 But if you show favoritism, you sin and <b>are
convicted</b> by the law as lawbreakers.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">BGT Jude 1:15 </span><span style="font-family: "SBL Greek"; mso-ansi-language: EL; mso-bidi-font-family: "SBL Greek"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> <span lang="EL">ποιῆσαι κρίσιν κατὰ πάντων καὶ <b>ἐλέγξαι</b>
πᾶσαν ψυχὴν περὶ πάντων τῶν ἔργων ἀσεβείας αὐτῶν ὧν ἠσέβησαν καὶ περὶ πάντων τῶν
σκληρῶν ὧν ἐλάλησαν κατ᾽ αὐτοῦ ἁμαρτωλοὶ ἀσεβεῖς.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">CSB Jude 1:15 to execute judgment on all and <b>to convict</b>
them of all their ungodly acts that they have done in an ungodly way, and of
all the harsh things ungodly sinners have said against Him.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">ESV Jude 1:15 to execute judgment on all and <b>to convict</b>
all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness that they have committed in
such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things that ungodly sinners have
spoken against him."</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">NIV Jude 1:15 to judge everyone, and <b>to convict</b> all
of them of all the ungodly acts they have committed in their ungodliness, and
of all the defiant words ungodly sinners have spoken against him."</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">BGT Rev. 3:19 </span><span style="font-family: "SBL Greek"; mso-ansi-language: EL; mso-bidi-font-family: "SBL Greek"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> <span lang="EL">ἐγὼ ὅσους ἐὰν φιλῶ <b>ἐλέγχω</b>
καὶ παιδεύω· ζήλευε οὖν καὶ μετανόησον.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">CSB Rev. 3:19 As many as I love, I <b>rebuke</b> and
discipline. So be committed and repent.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">ESV Rev. 3:19 Those whom I love, I <b>reprove </b>and
discipline, so be zealous and repent.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">NIV Rev. 3:19 Those whom I love I <b>rebuke</b> and
discipline. So be earnest and repent.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> </span></p><br /><br />zzzzzzzzzzz</div>Mark Corbetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11845358650245441477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4546375020443845329.post-63260485719378000352022-02-16T08:20:00.002-08:002022-02-16T15:31:26.420-08:00Does the Character of God Require Him to Subject the Unrighteous to Eternal Conscious Torment?<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgtujbVkHkaw-MT36DZgrwj1hnr0RCk01KGCZVnx14I1piON-S8mXI064nnY8YK0wbpxAUWUHV-hxYNBdZ0ST3CIIB4NPJorh2SwCr1tLDUr02QjaZni8W9RldS7tQnyMwOVbw7z-g9XeLDZlaw9cNzbqar-mXdxVSC-GeHVHCPfkPjFrt7cy7OzLYQHA=s1280" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgtujbVkHkaw-MT36DZgrwj1hnr0RCk01KGCZVnx14I1piON-S8mXI064nnY8YK0wbpxAUWUHV-hxYNBdZ0ST3CIIB4NPJorh2SwCr1tLDUr02QjaZni8W9RldS7tQnyMwOVbw7z-g9XeLDZlaw9cNzbqar-mXdxVSC-GeHVHCPfkPjFrt7cy7OzLYQHA=w400-h225" width="400" /></a></div><br /><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 19.2pt; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Lato",sans-serif" style="color: #343434; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I have heard a number of well meaning Christians say something
like this: “<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">God’s character <i>necessitates</i> that He pour out His
wrath on conscious sinners for all of eternity” (from “<a href="https://christianintellectual.com/before-rethinking-hell-rethink-the-worthiness-of-god/">Before
Rethinking Hell, Rethink the Worthiness of God</a>” by Jacob Brunton).</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 19.2pt; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Lato",sans-serif" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #343434; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">I will interact with Jacob’s article because it was recently brought
to my attention and because it helps to have a specific example of this
argument to interact with. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 19.2pt; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Lato",sans-serif" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #343434; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 19.2pt; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span face=""Lato",sans-serif" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #343434; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">Evidence and Motivations</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 19.2pt; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Lato",sans-serif" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #343434; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">Early in his article, Jacob writes, “</span><span face=""Lato",sans-serif" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #343434; font-size: 13pt;">Shockingly, advocates of annihilationism claim that consistency with the
nature and character of God is a driving motivation behind their view.</span>” While
this statement is not directly part of Jacob’s argument, it merits a few quick
comments:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 19.2pt; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Lato",sans-serif" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #343434; font-size: 13pt;">1. For myself the character of God was not the
main evidence or reason that initially convinced me that conditional
immortality rather than eternal torment is true. What initially convinced me
was a careful study of what the Bible has to say about the final fate of the
unsaved. As I have been an active part of the Rethinking Hell community for
several years now, I can say with confidence that this is also true of many
others who have shifted from belief in eternal torment to belief in conditional
immortality. Unless the best biblical, exegetical conditionalist arguments are
answered, more philosophical arguments like Jacob’s will have little influence
on us. And in this article, Jacob does not even attempt to address our biblical
case, much less succeed.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 19.2pt; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Lato",sans-serif" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #343434; font-size: 13pt;">2. Nevertheless, there is a sense in which
Jacob’s statement is correct. While the character of God was not the initial
reason I became convinced of conditional immortality, the damage that the
doctrine of eternal torment does to God’s character is, in fact, a major
motivation for me arguing for conditional immortality and against eternal
torment. In the eyes of many people, the doctrine of eternal torment makes God
look more like a cruel, tyrannical monster than the good, loving God we find
described in the Bible. And I read about many people naming the doctrine of
eternal torment as a chief reason for rejecting evangelical Christianity. That
alone does not prove that eternal torment is false, but since I see strong
evidence that the Bible does not teach eternal torment, I am motivated to work,
with God’s help, to correct this widespread error.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 19.2pt; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Lato",sans-serif" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #343434; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 19.2pt; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span face=""Lato",sans-serif" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #343434; font-size: 13pt;">Does Eternal Punishment mean Eternal Conscious
Punishment in the Bible?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 19.2pt; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Lato",sans-serif" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #343434; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">Early in his article, Jacob argues that the only valid meaning of “eternal
punishment” is “eternal conscious punishment.” This does not seem to me to be
central to his main argument, but I will address it briefly. The Bible speaks
of “eternal judgment” (Hebrew 6:2). Now, since the Bible also speaks of “the
day of judgment” (Matthew 10:15 and 6 other verses), we should not imagine that
the process of judging will go on forever. What does “eternal judgment” mean
then? It means that the results of the judgment are permanent and will never
change. After God’s judgment is given, He will not change His mind a million
years later. Therefore, “eternal judgment” is not an eternal process of
judging, but rather a judgment that takes a finite time to carry out but is
then permanent and never changes. Something similar is true for the biblical
phrase “eternal redemption” (Hebrews 9:12). And there is good reason to believe
that the same thing applies to “eternal punishment.” It is not an eternal
process of punishing, but rather a punishment that takes a finite time to
execute, but once complete is permanent and never reversed. (You may see a more
detailed discussion of the phrase “eternal punishment” and the one verse where
the phrase is found in this 10-minute <a href="https://youtu.be/oNmKlOUpo24" target="_blank">video on Matthew 25:46</a>.)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 19.2pt; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Lato",sans-serif" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #343434; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">Before moving on, I should point out that Jacob’s reason for bringing
up the phrase “eternal punishment” was not primarily to present a biblical, exegetical
argument in favor of eternal conscious torment, but rather to point out that
both conditionalists (those who believe in annihilation) and traditionalists
(those who believe in eternal conscious torment) claim to believe in eternal
punishment. He basically argues that because we conditionalists believe that
eternal torment is not proportional to the sins people commit (that is true,
and it should be obvious), that we should believe that annihilation is also not
proportional to people’s sins because annihilation is also an eternal
punishment. I hope you can immediately see where this argument is not logical.
Just because we believe that one type of eternal punishment (a permanent death
sentence – annihilation) is just and proportional does not mean that we must
believe that another type of eternal punishment (eternal torment) is also just
and proportional. That would only be true if eternal torment and annihilation
were equally severe forms of eternal punishment or if annihilation were the more
severe of the two. There are a few people who think that, but not very many. His
argument would be similar to saying if I believe execution by crucifixion is an
exceedingly cruel punishment that we should not use, then I must also believe
that execution by lethal injection is an exceedingly cruel punishment that we
should not use. That simply is not a logical argument.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 19.2pt; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Lato",sans-serif" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #343434; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 19.2pt; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span face=""Lato",sans-serif" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #343434; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">God’s Great Worth</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 19.2pt; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Lato",sans-serif" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #343434; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">Jacob spends some time arguing that God must value Himself
infinitely or maximally. He argues that God really is maximally valuable and
that surely God knows this and values all things rightly, and so He must value Himself
maximally. I have no problem with this part of his argument. I agree that God
is maximally valuable and rightly values Himself accordingly. I don’t remember
ever hearing any proponent of conditional immortality say anything contrary to
this.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 19.2pt; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Lato",sans-serif" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #343434; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">But then Jacob states this premise as part of his argument that
God must pour out His wrath on conscious sinners for all eternity:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Lato",sans-serif" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #343434; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">“If God does not inflict eternal conscious torment on His enemies,
then it is either because (a) He is not infinitely valuable, or (b) He <i>is</i> infinitely
valuable but does not <i>see</i> Himself as infinitely valuable.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Lato",sans-serif" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #343434; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">What? It is far from obvious that this statement is true, and if
it is not, then Jacob’s whole argument fails (I invite you to read his article
and see for yourself). As best as I can tell, this statement is itself supposed
to be based on the prior claim that “</span><span face=""Lato",sans-serif" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #343434; font-size: 13pt;">sin is ultimately
an offense against the worth of God</span>.” But what, precisely, does that
mean? If it merely means that we fail to recognize the worth of God (His goodness,
wisdom, the rightness of His ways, etc.) at some level when we sin, that’s
fine. But in that case, there is no reason to think it calls for eternal
torment. In fact, because at least part of the reason for such a failure is a
degree of ignorance about how good, wise, and holy God is, this could actually
serve as a mitigating factor in how serious the sin is. Sin out of ignorance is
less serious than sin in the light of clear knowledge (see Luke 12:47-48, Luke
23:34, and for a Rethinking Hell article that also addresses this issue you may
read <a href="https://rethinkinghell.com/2016/06/03/lessons-from-a-tragey-at-the-cincinnati-zoo/" target="_blank">Lessons from a Tragedy at the Cincinnati Zoo</a>.)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Lato",sans-serif" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #343434; font-size: 13pt;">I can think of one theoretical way in which
sinning against God’s worth might actually warrant eternal torment. I suppose
if by sinning against the worth of God we actually somehow decreased His worth,
especially if someone took all of His worth away, then that really might call
for eternal torment as a proportional punishment. But our sins never actually
decrease God’s worth (or His holiness, or any of His other attributes) at all.
God is worth just as much after a person sins as He was before they sinned. I
just can’t see how Jacob’s argument here works at all. Why should the greatness
of God’s worth determine the degree of punishment of sinners, when God’s worth
has not been reduced in the least by their sin?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Lato",sans-serif" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #343434; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span face=""Lato",sans-serif" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #343434; font-size: 13pt;">Philosophical vs. Exegetical Arguments</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Lato",sans-serif" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #343434; font-size: 13pt;">When reading arguments that basically claim
that God’s character requires eternal torment for those who sin against Him, it
is worth asking how many of the claims and statements that are made in the
argument can be supported by Scripture. Usually, some of the claims can be. For
example, Jacob rightly points out that in some sense all sin is ultimately sin
against God, even when it is also sin against other people. I think that can be
supported. But that by itself does not get you close to human sins requiring
eternal torment. There are other steps in the argument for which there are no good
biblical support. These steps and premises are usually based on philosophical
grounds or are propped up by quoting other Christians who held these views. Philosophical
arguments and the views of other Christians can be either right or wrong, but
they should never be used to overthrow the clear and direct teaching of the
Bible. And the Bible clearly teaches that the final fate of the unrighteous is for
God to destroy their bodies and souls in hell (Matthew 10:28), for them to
perish (John 3:16), and for them to be turned to ashes (2 Peter 2:6). And that’s
just the tip of the iceberg of biblical teaching that supports conditional
immortality (see these two short videos for more:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://youtu.be/yZpjs74uQ0s">Why I Believe
in Annihilationism</a> and <a href="https://youtu.be/O1myOJb7DGM" target="_blank">What is Conditional Immortality?</a>).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Lato",sans-serif" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #343434; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span face=""Lato",sans-serif" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #343434; font-size: 13pt;">Does the thought of God tormenting the unsaved
forever inspire worship?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Lato",sans-serif" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #343434; font-size: 13pt;">Jacob also claims that, “</span><i><span face=""Lato",sans-serif" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #343434; font-size: 13pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">A God who
does not inflict eternal punishment upon His enemies is a God who is not worthy
of worship</span></i><span face=""Lato",sans-serif" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #343434; font-size: 13pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; outline: currentcolor none 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">.</span>” That certainly is neither obvious nor intuitive. Do
we worship God only because of His power? Don’t we also worship Him because He
is good? It is very hard to see how creating a situation where many people will
remain in some type of torment (whether physical or emotional) with no joy,
hope, or peace for many billions of years, and then billions more, and then on
and on forever, is good. If that’s good, then the word “good” has lost all
meaning and it becomes pointless to say that God is good.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Lato",sans-serif" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #343434; font-size: 13pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Now, I do think that God’s justice can be and
should be part of the reason we worship Him. But why should we think that justice
demands keeping people in torment forever? If people do not deserve eternal
life (and outside of Christ, none of us do), then isn’t depriving them of
eternal life justice? Destroying evil is a good action, and I believe that we
will worship God for doing that. After all, we don’t want evil to go on
forever, so we can be thankful that God does not grant evil, unrepentant people
eternal life. For eternal torment to be true, however, God does have to grant
the unrepentant, evil people eternal life and evil will exist forever. It also
worth remembering that we will be worshiping God forever for <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>reasons other than His justice, like His mercy
and love and salvation and the fact that He created everything. Can you really
imagine someone feeling like they cannot worship God unless He torments the
unsaved forever?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Lato",sans-serif" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #343434; font-size: 13pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span face=""Lato",sans-serif" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #343434; font-size: 13pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">A relevant Bible Passage</span></b></p>
<p><span face=""Lato",sans-serif" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #343434; font-size: 13pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Is there any Bible passage that sounds even a
little bit like Jacob’s argument? I think the closest we can come is this
passage from Romans:</span> <br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">CSB17 Romans 9:22 And what if God, wanting to display his wrath and to make
his power known, endured with much patience objects of wrath prepared for <u>destruction</u>?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>23 And what if he did this to make
known the riches of his glory on objects of mercy that he prepared beforehand
for glory—</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">24 on us, the ones he also called, not only from the Jews but also from the
Gentiles?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 19.2pt; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Lato",sans-serif" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #343434; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">This passage does indeed show a connection between God’s wrath and
us seeing His glory. But notice that the objects of wrath are not prepared for
eternal torment, they are prepared for destruction. (The Greek word translated “destruction”
here is <i>ap</i></span><i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #343434; font-size: 13pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; padding: 0in;">ō</span></i><i><span face=""Lato",sans-serif" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #343434; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">leia</span></i><span face=""Lato",sans-serif" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #343434; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">,
which, along with its closely related verb, <i>apollumi</i>, is an excellent
choice to communicate annihilation. In fact, ancient Greek authors used <i>apollumi
</i>to mean what we mean by annihilation. I document this in a video-word study
that you may view here: <a href="https://youtu.be/I8Lcq51oHRQ" target="_blank">Apollumi, The Word that Tells us What Happens to People in Hell.</a>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 19.2pt; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Lato",sans-serif" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #343434; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 19.2pt; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span face=""Lato",sans-serif" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #343434; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">A philosophical problem</span></b><span face=""Lato",sans-serif" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #343434; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 19.2pt; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Lato",sans-serif" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #343434; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">While I view exegetical evidence as the biggest evidence for
conditional immortality and against eternal torment, those who believe in
eternal torment also face a difficult philosophical problem.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 19.2pt; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Lato",sans-serif" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #343434; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">God promises to “pay back” people for their sins (see this blog
post for many Bible verses that show this is true:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2017/10/hell-is-payback.html" target="_blank">Hell is Payback</a>). However, if eternal torment is true, than God never does fully
pay back the unrighteous for their sins because even after a trillion years of
torment they apparently have only paid an infinitesimally small portion of what
they owe. And this will always be true no matter how many years they are in
torment. Thus, God does not pay them back and justice is never satisfied and
complete.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 19.2pt; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Lato",sans-serif" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #343434; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 19.2pt; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span face=""Lato",sans-serif" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #343434; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">Conclusion</span></b><span face=""Lato",sans-serif" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #343434; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 19.2pt; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Lato",sans-serif" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #343434; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">Arguments that claim that God’s worth (or holiness or character)
somehow requires Him to punish the unsaved with eternal torment are flawed
because they:</span></p>
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teaching on the nature of final punishment</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 19.2pt; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Lato",sans-serif" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #343434; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">4. And have their own difficult philosophical problem</span><span face=""Lato",sans-serif" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #343434; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 19.2pt; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Lato",sans-serif" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #343434; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">On the other hand, there is good biblical evidence for conditional
immortality!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 19.2pt; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Lato",sans-serif" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #343434; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">A final pastoral note: Just because I believe Jacob and others who
have made similar arguments (I’ve heard many versions of this argument) are
wrong on this point does not mean that I don’t accept them as my brothers and
sisters in Christ. I believe that we should be able to disagree on the nature
of final punishment and still be able to worship and serve together. We should
all work together with God’s help and strength in order to win as many as
possible of our neighbors to faith in Christ so that they can experience His
forgiveness, receive His gracious gift of eternal life, and give Him the
worship He is worthy of.</span></p>
<p> </p>Mark Corbetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11845358650245441477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4546375020443845329.post-82174127503362822722022-01-08T13:13:00.004-08:002022-01-08T13:15:48.764-08:00Celebrating the James Webb Telescope and Every Baby<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgKx9rQhJtbIoduZlmrOBcdNDpBkUqlTHRAM9LYduPuHdi8SL0_rfD_64vtcHq2GCfeGPEz8TpexBAFKXiE79nr9jKMGJQZp0uF34Tq6N28TSEGpjWuqeY2vIuqaqsbPyIe4LOVRvF4_Sh4fnzjt4T6eVJ2FzGxrEjzzMSEj64UC3GikefWhvEUVUGpzQ=s960" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="960" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgKx9rQhJtbIoduZlmrOBcdNDpBkUqlTHRAM9LYduPuHdi8SL0_rfD_64vtcHq2GCfeGPEz8TpexBAFKXiE79nr9jKMGJQZp0uF34Tq6N28TSEGpjWuqeY2vIuqaqsbPyIe4LOVRvF4_Sh4fnzjt4T6eVJ2FzGxrEjzzMSEj64UC3GikefWhvEUVUGpzQ=w400-h225" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">NASA,
astronomers, and science geeks around the world are celebrating today.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Far
beyond the moon and out of view of any human observer, the $10,000,000,000
(that’s ten billion!) James Webb Telescope has successfully taken shape. It had
to be folded up and secured to fit into its rocket casing and to keep it safe
from damage while being launched from the earth. Once in space, hundreds of movable
pieces all had to work precisely as it unfolded or the telescope would be worthless.
Its location in space put it beyond the reach of any repair crews. There were a
multitude of ways in which things could go wrong and render the telescope
useless. There was a long series of precise ways in which things had to go
right. And so far, everything has gone right.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">A
large, tennis-court sized solar shield with five layers had to be unfolded to allow
the telescope to cool down to its frigid operating range. Communication antennas
had to be deployed and function correctly or it would be unable to send images
back to earth. The secondary mirror on its long boom had to be put into place.
And then the large left and right sides of the primary mirror had to unfold. A
heat radiator had to be deployed and various temporary covers had to be removed.
You may learn more about the many steps (called deployments) here:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/deploymentExplorer.html">James
Webb Deployments</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">For
so many parts to work together so perfectly to achieve one big overall goal
(being able to take images of items in our universe that so far we have not been
able to see) obviously took a great deal of engineering and design. The telescope
has layers of systems that all work together to achieve its goal: propulsion
systems, navigation systems, heat shield and heat radiator systems,
communication systems, optic systems, and instrument systems each contain many
parts and each are necessary. The engineers and scientists have built a truly
amazing tool and deserve to be congratulated.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Yet,
for all its complexity, the James Webb telescope unfolding in deep space pales
in comparison with the marvel of every human baby that forms in its mother’s
womb. The division of a single cell is a marvel that easily surpasses the
complexity and wonder of the James Webb telescope. Yet, by the time that baby
becomes an adult it will consist of some 37 trillion cells!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Those
trillions of cells are formed into numerous body systems that all work together
to allow a human to live and think and learn and walk and talk and dance and
worship. Among the body’s systems are our circulatory system that includes a
pump that must work continuously without breaks for our entire 80 or 90 or 100+
years. It includes a respiratory system and a digestive system that both
integrate closely with the circulatory system. It includes a skeletal system with
over 200 precisely shaped and positioned bones. Our bodies also boast a vast
and complex range of muscles that move everything from our feet to our eyes. We
have an amazingly complex immune system to protect us. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then we have our amazing sensors: for
optics, for sound, for touch and temperature sensing, and for taste. All these
systems (and there are more) are overseen by a nervous system that connects to what
may be the most functionally complex physical object in the universe: the human
brain.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">All
those cells making up all those systems unfold precisely inside the womb out of
our sight. Comparing the marvel of human development and design to the Webb
telescope would be like comparing the Webb telescope itself to a Lego model (yet
even a child’s Lego model would require intelligent design to come together
properly). If the Webb’s human designers deserve to be congratulated (and I
think they do), the Designer of the human body and the processes that produce
beautiful babies deserves so much more. In fact, He deserves to be worshiped.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">For it was you who created my inward parts; you knit me together in my
mother's womb.</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will praise you because I have
been remarkably and wondrously made. </span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">Your works are wondrous, and I know this very well. </span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">(Psalm 139:13-14 CSB17)</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><br /></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">Related Material:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">Three YouTube video on scientific evidence for God
related to (1) <a href="https://youtu.be/s4ysjoErlFs" target="_blank">the fine tuning of the universe</a>,
(2) <a href="https://youtu.be/43zejaifUy8" target="_blank">the origin of life</a>, and (3) <a href="https://youtu.be/TefPe5BnpfU" target="_blank">the beginning of the universe</a>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">A whole <a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2021/07/marks-resources-on-scientific-evidence.html" target="_blank">collection of blog posts on scientific evidence for God</a>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<i>Hebrews 13:16 And do not forget to do good and to share with others . . .
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Mark Corbetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11845358650245441477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4546375020443845329.post-52641506384927341022021-09-08T08:43:00.003-07:002021-10-28T13:24:32.646-07:00Review of A Fortunate Universe by Lewis and Barnes<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGy3dZnx568G4W54bdTFqcmb5iHcxqTyNm3XQoe2fTjG6Pm9LWb_6xPWXr3A6WC5dJKUOVMJABXWMInmjbQw_JE4gFkdxAqxtcTFuyuQ46T_Orv_tj5Cjmaje01sk1JuTeDXMhgjyoXX6b/s1280/A+fortunate+universe+review.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGy3dZnx568G4W54bdTFqcmb5iHcxqTyNm3XQoe2fTjG6Pm9LWb_6xPWXr3A6WC5dJKUOVMJABXWMInmjbQw_JE4gFkdxAqxtcTFuyuQ46T_Orv_tj5Cjmaje01sk1JuTeDXMhgjyoXX6b/w400-h225/A+fortunate+universe+review.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing">Thinking about the evidence for why God is real and why
Christianity is true builds up my faith. There are many categories of such
evidence: evidence for the resurrection of Jesus, supernatural experiences, the
existence of universal moral principles, the nature and content of the Bible,
my subjective experience of God’s presence, seeing evidence for God in nature,
and more. When it comes to seeing evidence for God in nature there is a
scientific aspect of this evidence. This scientific aspect includes what is
commonly called “fine-tuning.” In my opinion, fine-tuning provides extraordinarily
strong evidence for the existence of a great, wise Creator.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">What is fine-tuning? Fine-tuning refers to a whole group
of scientific discoveries that have occurred mostly over the last 70 years that
all show that the laws of nature and the initial conditions of the universe are
amazingly fine-tuned to produce a universe that allows life to exist in it. It’s
like the story of Goldilocks, where a number of things are “just right”. I
wanted to understand a little more clearly and deeply how this fine-tuning
works, so I ordered and read <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Fortunate-Universe-Finely-Tuned-Cosmos/dp/1107156610" target="_blank">A Fortunate Universe: Life in a Finely Tuned Cosmos</a> </i>by Geraint F. Lewis
and Luke A. Barnes. I’m glad I did!</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">In terms of providing a detailed (~350 pages) explanation
of fine-tuning intended for a science-minded, but non-professional, audience, I
would say that <i>A Fortunate Universe</i> is the best so far of several good
books I have read on this topic. The authors are gifted at explaining complex
and sometimes esoteric aspects of physics from quarks to galaxies and the
history of the universe in ways that I could (mostly) understand. They make an
exceedingly strong cumulative case that fine-tuning is a wide and deep characteristic
of the world we live in. They also have a good sense of humor and I found
myself smiling and sometimes laughing out loud as I read their book. I think
this helps when wading through what is at times unavoidably complex and heavy
material.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">After leading the reader through a lot of physics and
cosmology and pointing out many examples of fine-tuning along the way, Geraint
and Luke (they use their own first names throughout the book, so I’ll follow
their example) include two chapters on a wide range of reactions to, and
possible explanations for, fine-tuning. In the penultimate chapter, Geraint and
Luke together address a wide range of reactions which in one way or the other
mostly attempt to argue that fine-tuning is not something that calls for any
special explanation. They very successfully (in my opinion)) demonstrate that
fine-tuning is real, extraordinary, and that it does call for special
explanations. Then, in the final chapter, Geraint explains several possible
explanations that are consistent with atheism and a materialist worldview. The
three explanations he proposes are that either (1) further discoveries in
physics may explain fine-tuning in a way that does not call for any further
explanation beyond the laws of physics themselves, or (2) the multiverse may
exist and be able to explain fine-tuning, or (3) we are living in a computer
simulation and this explains fine-tuning. Luke then gives the answer that I am
convinced is correct: fine-tuning is strong evidence that a wise, powerful
Creator is responsible for establishing the laws of the nature and for making a
universe that can support life. In other words, our universe is fine-tuned for
life because it was intended and planned to be our home.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">In the final chapter, Geraint and Luke ask each other both
clarifying and challenging questions about the various proposed explanations
for fine-tuning. Their dialog, while it includes some tough questions for each
of them, is refreshingly mutually respectful and friendly. I wish discussions
between people with different world views would more often be so reasonable and
helpful. Geraint and Luke set a good example in how they interact even when
they disagree. Like the rest of the book, this final chapter is well-written. I
would also recommend Stephen Meyer’s new book that also covers fine-tuning: <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Return-God-Hypothesis-Compelling-Scientific/dp/0062071505" target="_blank">Return of the God Hypothesis</a></i>. Meyer’s book does an excellent job of explaining
why God is a better explanation for fine-tuning than the multiverse or other explanations
that don’t involve God (I wrote a blog post summarizing these arguments, which
you may find here: <a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2021/04/god-vs-multiverse-based-on-several.html" target="_blank">God vs. The Multiverse</a>).</p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b>Fine-tuning: What it is and examples</b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Most of the 350+ pages in Geraint and Luke’s informative
and enlightening book are spent explaining the physics behind various examples
of fine-tuning and then discussing the examples themselves. To give you a feel
for this I will attempt to summarize some of this material. My summary is a poor
substitute for their book both because I do not understand the topic as well as
they do nor is it possible to do justice to their explanations in this short
space. But this summary might still be helpful in terms of either motivating
you to buy their book or helping you get a very simple idea of what this is all
about.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">As best as we can tell based on science, for any type of
life to exist at all in a universe, a couple of things are needed (we are not
saying these factors are sufficient to produce life, but that they are among the
necessary factors):</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">1. Complex chemistry. I’m not referring to the fact that chemistry
seems like a complex topic to many students. I’m referring to the fact that all
life that exists, from whales to bacteria, and also any life forms that we can
imagine based on the science we know, requires complex molecules that can copy
and store information (like DNA and RNA) and perform functions necessary to
keep life going (like many proteins and the molecular machines they form). We
need complex, but fairly stable, chemistry. We specifically need hydrogen,
carbon, oxygen (no hydrogen or oxygen means no water – H2O) and quite a few
other elements from the periodic table or else other elements with very similar
properties.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">2. Stars. Our Sun, is of course, a star. Life needs
stable stars that produce useful energy in the right form and also produce the
needed elements. At least some of these stars need to explode to spread these
elements around to form planets, oceans, grass, and people. Stars are formed in
galaxies, so to get stars we need galaxies.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Scientists have discovered a lot about the fundamental
laws of physics that govern the material aspects of our universe and they have
also learned a lot about the initial conditions near the beginning of the
universe. There are quite a few aspects of these laws and initial conditions
which, for all we know, could have been different. Scientists can and have
measured the strength of the four fundamental forces of physics. But they do
not know why these forces each have the strength they do. Based on current
physics, there is no known reason that these forces could not have had far
different values. Likewise, scientists have calculated the mass of each of a
group of fundamental particles. But they don’t know why each particle has the
mass it does, and again it could have been different. Scientists also have good
estimates for the density, distribution, and make-up of matter near the very
beginning of the universe. But again, there is no known reason that these
initial conditions could not have been far different.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Now here is the amazing thing. It is mind blowing when
you start to study it and the more you understand it the more amazing it is.
Many of these aspects of the universe that have values that we have discovered
but which could have been different, must have very nearly the precise values
they do have or the universe could not support life. If any of these values
changed, either there would be no complex chemistry, or there would be no stars,
or there would be only stars of a kind that could not support life, or the
whole universe would quickly have crunched back into something resembling a black
hole. These are not scenarios where life would merely be more difficult. These
are scenarios where there is no conceivable way that we or anything like us, or
even bacteria or anything like bacteria, could exist.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">How unlikely are each of these fine-tuning parameters to have
the correct value for life? It is difficult to put exact numbers on any of
these, but in many cases it appears that if you just randomly picked a value
from a range of what seems like reasonable and possible values, your chances of
getting the right value to allow for life would be far less than your chances
of buying one lottery ticket and winning. In fact, with some of the examples,
your chances would be far less than the chances of buying one lottery ticket
and winning and then doing the same thing in a hundred lotteries in a row. Long
before someone won a hundred lotteries like that, we would be right to call for
an investigation. Someone can get lucky, but it is not reasonable to think that
anyone could be <i>that</i> lucky. In the same way, it is not reasonable to appeal
to luck or chance for the combination of exquisitely fine-tuned parameters we
find in our universe.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">I’ve summarized a sample of fine-tuning examples from <i>A
Fortunate Universe.</i> This table does not contain all the examples in the
book and my summary explanations are not a good substitute for the many pages
of well written background, explanation, and discussion that are found in
the book. But, I hope it still gives you some idea of what we are talking
about.</p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b>What is
Fine-Tuned</b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b>What Bad
Things Would Happen if it was Not Fine-Tuned</b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">dark energy</p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Too much dark energy would result in the universe
expanding so rapidly that no galaxies, stars, or planets would form and the
universe would basically be “a thin soup of hydrogen and helium” (pg. 13).</p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">mass of the down
quark (1)</p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Too high of a mass results in a universe being filled
with only a helium-like element based on the <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Δ<sup>++</sup> (delta-plus-plus)
particle or a hydrogen only universe</span>. No complex chemistry would be
possible. (pp. 50-51)</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Too low of a mass produces a neutron universe, where
complex chemistry is also not possible.</p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">mass of the up
quark (1)</p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Too high of a mass results in the universe being
dominated by the <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Δ<sup>--</sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(delta-minus-minus)
particle, or a neutron universe again. Which of these you get depends on how
much you increase the mass of the up quark by. These results prohibit complex
chemistry. (pg. 50-51)</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">mass of the
electron (1)</p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Too much mass creates a neutron universe again
(pg.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>51). No complex chemistry is
possible. (pg. 51)</p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">mass of the
electron (2)</p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">If the electron’s mass were within a factor of a
hundred of the proton’s mass, there would be no solids (no cell walls, no
DNA, no organs, etc.) (pg. 58)</p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">strong force (1)</p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">If the strong force were a little bit stronger then
all, or nearly all, of the hydrogen produced in the big bang would have been
turned to helium. This would negatively affect stars. Also, we really need
hydrogen. For example, water is H20. (pp. 77-78)</p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">strong force (2)</p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">A weaker strong force would result in all elements from
carbon up being unstable. We need carbon and some of those other elements for
life. (pg. 90)</p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">electromagnetic
force (1)</p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">If it was strengthened it would result in causing some
of the elements that we need for life to become radioactive and unstable,
making life impossible. (pg. 90)</p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">gravity (1)</p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">A lower strength of gravity would result in stars that
would not expel the elements needed for life like carbon (pg. 107-109)</p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">gravity (2)</p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">If gravity was too strong, stars either would not be
stable at all or could burn through all their matter in just a matter of
years instead of being stable for billions of years. (pg. 109)</p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">strong force (3)</p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Increasing the strong force by just 0.4% would result
in stars producing no oxygen, which would mean there could be no water (H2O)
and no life. Decreasing the strong force by just 0.4% would produce oxygen,
but no carbon, again leading to no life. (pg. 118-119)</p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">mass of quarks
(2)</p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">The quark masses are also very fine-tuned to allow the
production of oxygen and carbon in stars (pg. 120)</p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">initial
condition: low entropy</p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Our universe started off with a low entropy compared to
possible higher entropy initial conditions. Higher entropy would result in a
universe that starts off full of black holes and which never produces
galaxies and stars. This is one of the most “astonishing” levels of fine
tuning that has been calculated. (pg. 127)</p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">initial condition:
the amount of matter</p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Too much matter at the beginning of the universe would
have caused it to quickly crunch back on itself before life exists and too
little matter would have resulted in a universe with no galaxies and no
stars. This factor appears to be also incredibly fine-tuned when densities
shortly after the Big Bang are considered. (pp 166-167)</p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">A slight increase in neutrino mass would inhibit galaxy
formation (and thus star formation and thus life). (pg. 177)</p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Not included in the above table are many examples that either
I felt that I did not understand well enough to give a good summary for or
which are more complex and that just don’t fit very well into a table like
this. These include things like nature of electron spins, the mass of the Higgs
boson, dark mass, the nature and strength of the weak force, the cosmological
constant, the initial smoothness/lumpiness of the universe, Plank’s constant,
the net charge of the universe (which is zero), symmetry and conservation in
many (but interestingly, not all) laws of nature, the fortunate fact that there
was apparently a tiny bit more matter than anti-matter in the early universe, the
nature of time and the fact that we live in a universe with one time and three
spatial dimensions, and the beautiful fact that our universe faithfully follows
a set of regular laws that can be expressed mathematically.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">As Geraint and Luke put it, summarizing some of the above
examples:</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">So, the fact that we are here
typing these words, and you are there reading them, all constructed from
molecules of carbon and oxygen, is only possible because the masses of the
quarks and the strength of the forces lie within an outrageously narrow range
(pg. 120).</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Our universe is super, incredibly, beautifully,
brilliantly fine-tuned for life!</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">This leads me to worship our great Creator. He is so wise
and powerful. These truths also remind me that if He is wise enough and powerful
enough to fine-tune the laws of physics and create the universe with life-friendly
initial conditions, then I should trust that He is wise and powerful enough to help
me with all of the little problems in my life that often seem so big to me.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b>One thing I didn’t like about the book</b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">While the authors defend the reality of fine-tuning in physics
(although they have different ideas about what explains this fine-tuning), they
seem blind to the analogous evidence for intelligent design for life. In a
number of places their words seem to assume that, given a life-friendly
universe, material forces and random events would be enough to bring life into existence.
Here are a few of those quotes</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">“Our physical properties, our
bone structure, our organs, our senses, result from life continually changing
and evolving over the last 3.5 billion years, adapting to the conditions that
surround us.” xiii <br /></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">“We are the result of the action
of the laws of physics over the history of the Universe.” – Luke (pg. 7)</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">“Life has pulled itself together
from the hodgepodge of chemical reactions in this Universe.” – Luke (pg. 8)</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">This is unfortunate because there is a type of
fine-tuning in life as well. All living things contain both a large amount of
functional information encoded in DNA and a stunning array of complex molecular
machines working together in coordinated systems. These aspects of life, like
the fine-tuning of the universe to provide a setting where life is even
possible, are also strong evidence for a great, wise Creator. I have a
collection of material related to this here: <a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2021/07/marks-resources-on-scientific-evidence.html">Mark’s
Resources on Scientific Evidence for God</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Although I would not say that this blemish in the book is
insignificant, it does not prevent me from heartily recommending <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Fortunate-Universe-Finely-Tuned-Cosmos/dp/1107156610">A
Fortunate Universe</a></i> to anyone who wants to better understand what
fine-tuning is all about. I thank God for the hard work that Geraint and Luke
put into this excellent and helpful resource!</p>
<i>Hebrews 13:16 And do not forget to do good and to share with others . . .
</i>
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Mark Corbetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11845358650245441477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4546375020443845329.post-22894752358120746872021-09-03T06:22:00.001-07:002021-09-03T06:23:34.717-07:00Carrie Underwood’s “There must be Something in the Water” Gets Baptism Right<div style="text-align: left;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh45xlQlAyZA_5Wc_w2PkZZEM8J7yAG4L_Tk-7jalrot-xkp0jn5dHN7fI9Ei9Pg3uMYiXkVKDtlgUpjw_X6duULg-U29YHzoBoE1kr1PmipsXTUQu-c73iIgScXqaJ-xLB1h9uZ54VdHRu/s960/Carrie+Underwood+baptism.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="960" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh45xlQlAyZA_5Wc_w2PkZZEM8J7yAG4L_Tk-7jalrot-xkp0jn5dHN7fI9Ei9Pg3uMYiXkVKDtlgUpjw_X6duULg-U29YHzoBoE1kr1PmipsXTUQu-c73iIgScXqaJ-xLB1h9uZ54VdHRu/w400-h225/Carrie+Underwood+baptism.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">The
greatest truths and the most important events are not only studied and taught,
they are also celebrated in poetry and music.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Baptism is one of the most meaningful symbols in the world and a person’s
baptism is among the most important events in their life. So, it seems appropriate
for there to be songs about baptism.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">I’ve
been teaching a mini-series on baptism and providentially came across what may
be the most popular song on the topic: Carrie Underwood’s “There must be Something
in the Water.” When I listened carefully to the song and looked at the lyrics,
I was glad to see that she seems to get baptism right. I’m going to share some
things I think she gets right about baptism, but first, even though I’m sure
most people reading this have already heard her song, you might want to listen
to it again and watch this “lyrics video” which helps the lyrics to really
stand out:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">One
Disclaimer</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Carrie
is using poetic language and so I don’t think that she thinks there was
anything physically “in the water” or anything special about the physical water
she and others are baptized in. This seems so obvious to me that I feel almost embarrassed
to write it, but some people tend to take non-literal language literally. What
do I think she means by “there must be something in the water”? What I think
she means is that something really wonderful happened when she heard the good
news about Jesus, believed it, and was baptized. She’s expressing this
poetically, which is what you are supposed to do in songs. Her language may be
little less precise than when I explain baptism in my sermons, but my sermons
aren’t as likely to stick in the minds of millions of peoples as her song is,
partly because poetry and music are meant to be mind-sticky. So, I’m thankful
for her song.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Carrie
Correctly Captures the Pattern of Faith Followed by Baptism</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">In
her song, Carrie first hears the good news and comes to faith. Then she is baptized.
Hearing, then believing, then being baptized is exactly the biblical pattern. The
song also portrays the baptism as coming very soon after the faith (no explicit
timing is mentioned in the song, but it feels like the two – believing and
being baptized – are close together). That’s also biblical! I discussed this
pattern as seen in the baptism stories of Acts in both a blog post and a
sermon:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Blog
post:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2021/08/is-immediate-spontaneous-baptism.html" target="_blank">Is Immediate, Spontaneous Baptism Biblical?</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Sermon:</span> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fa0OyLWyXcI" width="320" youtube-src-id="fa0OyLWyXcI"></iframe></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Carrie
Correctly Connects Being Washed in the Water and Washed in the Blood</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Carries
sings, “</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Got washed in the water, washed in
the blood.” She is exactly correct to see baptism in water as pointing to being
washed in the blood of the Lamb. Washing in the blood of the lamb is itself an
image from John’s Revelation (Revelation 7:14) that refers to being forgiven
and cleansed of sins through faith in Jesus who died for us. Ananias said to Paul,
<b>“</b></span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">And now, why are you delaying? Get up and be baptized,
and wash away your sins, calling on his name”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"> (Acts 22:16
CSB17).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">I also love the way that she mixes the song “Amazing
Grace” into the background of her own song, reminding us that we were all lost,
wretched sinners in need of amazing grace, and that baptism is a picture of
that grace being applied to us when we believe in Jesus and His death for us
and His resurrection.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Carrie
Correctly Celebrates Change and New Strength after Belief and Baptism</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Carrie
sings, “And now I’m changed, And now I’m stronger.” Amen! That should be the
experience of every person who hears the gospel, believes it, and is baptized.
One of the things that water baptism is a picture of is being baptized in (or
with) the Holy Spirit by Jesus. When a person believes in Jesus, in addition to
being cleansed of their sins, some other really wonderful things happen. One of
those things is that the very Holy Spirit of God is sent by Jesus into our
lives. The Holy Spirit then gives us power to live for Jesus and to serve Jesus.
Speaking of this mighty Holy Spirit baptism, Jesus said:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">CSB17 Acts 1:8 But
you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come on you, and you will be my
witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">This is the same Holy Spirit, the same power, that energized
Jesus in His earthly life and ministry:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">CSB17 Acts 10:38 how
God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how he
went about doing good and healing all who were under the tyranny of the devil,
because God was with him.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">This power gives us hope in a dark world:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">CSB17 Romans 15:13
Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you believe so that
you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">It’s the Holy Spirit power that strengthens our inner
being to enable us to keep holding on and not give in and not give up and keep
following Jesus even when it gets really hard:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">CSB17 Ephesians 3:16
I pray that he may grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be
strengthened with power in your inner being through his Spirit,</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">Sometimes, like Timothy, we need to be reminded of this
Holy Spirit power that we first received when we believed and were baptized:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">CSB17 2 Timothy 1:7
For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but one of power, love, and sound
judgment.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">And so, I thank God for Carrie’s song, which is another
way of reminding us that we have been changed and made stronger as a result of
faith in Christ. Yes, there must be <i>something</i> in the water.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"> </span></p>
<i>Hebrews 13:16 And do not forget to do good and to share with others . . .
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Colorful
fish drawing</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span class="attributionfield"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span class="attributionfield"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Blue and yellow fish drawing:</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span class="attributionfield"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Image by samyoung pyun from Pixabay</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span class="attributionfield"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Yellow, black, white fish drawing:</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span class="attributionfield"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Image by OpenClipart-Vectors from Pixabay</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span class="attributionfield"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Sign of the fish style multi-colored fish:</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span class="attributionfield"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Image by Paolo Chieselli from Pixabay</span></span> <br /></p></div>Mark Corbetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11845358650245441477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4546375020443845329.post-50848393479123960812021-08-31T07:15:00.004-07:002021-08-31T07:17:17.396-07:00Cruella Chooses a Dark Road<div style="text-align: left;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaeRR_Q3R0IXwG82uhFP96BkByrkqPe9txKkLpxzN-4UQk7YnB7SBx9o54A2Ezp1OLO19Ckq2W-tZ883V8AY4GLIVl4qi5VedSQs0qzFSwG_YzkBxElrs-AVYOlDjzpyPxrou1BeCr-Qik/s1280/Cruella.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaeRR_Q3R0IXwG82uhFP96BkByrkqPe9txKkLpxzN-4UQk7YnB7SBx9o54A2Ezp1OLO19Ckq2W-tZ883V8AY4GLIVl4qi5VedSQs0qzFSwG_YzkBxElrs-AVYOlDjzpyPxrou1BeCr-Qik/w400-h225/Cruella.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: red;">Spoiler Alert: In order to
discuss the moral and spiritual nature of Disney’s Cruella, I include huge
spoilers in this review. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">In terms of story telling art and technical presentation,
I feel like Disney’s Cruella is well crafted. Tragically, mimicking Cruella in
the story, the artistic gifts of those who made this movie are misused. Instead
of using their gifts and talent to promote virtues like truthfulness, humility,
and love, Cruella encourages viewers to choose a dark road of crime, revenge,
and ultimately identifying with evil. <br /></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing">Cruella begins the movie as the little girl born with
very unusual hair named Estella. Estella suffers in many ways. She is bullied
because of her unusual looks and struggles to find ways to express her creative
genius. She fights back against the bullies and gets expelled. Her mother
(well, the woman she believes is her mother, and who in terms of love and care
is her mother) is struggling to do the best she can to care for Estella and
raise her with good values. In a dark turn (and for a movie whose audience will
include many young children, it is a very dark turn), Estella’s mother is
killed when vicious dalmatians attack her, knocking her off a cliff where she
falls into a rocky, stormy sea and perishes. Yes, the dalmatians in this movie
are vicious. And as with any animal whose attack of a human causes someone to
die, it actually would have been right and just to put those dogs down (Exodus
21:28). We’re already a long way from the family friendly 101 Dalmatians
classic, but things get worse.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">After witnessing her mother’s murder, little Estella
flees to London. Orphaned, grieving, and desperate, she joins up with two boys
who introduce her to a life of crime as a way to survive. The movie makes their
stealing (mostly a pick-pocket level of theft) look fun, glamorous, and cool. Do
you know anyone who has been a victim of that type of theft in real life? I do.
The loss of some money and/or valuables, and the real inconvenience of having
to replace various cards, are usually the least of the negative effects of such
crime. There is often a feeling a being violated that does the most damage. It’s
not innocent or harmless. It violates both God’s simple command, “Do not steal”
(Exodus 20:15), as well as the deep principle, “love your neighbor as yourself”
(Matthew 19:19). But in the movie, it just looks fun and cool. <br /></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing">There is a deeper issue here. When a person suffers
terrible loss and evil, as Estella had, does this justify choosing to respond
with evil actions? In real life, people who are deeply hurt are in fact strongly
tempted to respond in sinful ways. Should we feel compassion for such people
and patiently seek to win them with the love and grace of Christ? Yes! Should we
put their life of crime in a positive light in a movie that may encourage many
young people to imitate that path? God forbid! Yet, that is what Cruella does.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Is there a better path for those who have suffered cruel
injustice? There is! Consider Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. We don’t
know most of the details, but being conquered by an enemy nation and then
carried away from your homes as slaves into that nation was surely a terrible
ordeal beyond what most of us can imagine. Not only that, but the nation that
conquered and enslaved them, Babylon, was so evil that it became a symbol for
cultures dominated by demonic evil and dark immorality later in the Bible. But
in the midst of all that, Daniel and his friends humbly trust God. They first
pass the relatively small test of refusing to eat food that at that time was
forbidden to God’s people. Later, they face and heroically pass much more
difficult tests when their lives are threatened if they don’t engage in pagan
worship or stop praying to the one true God. The point is that suffering terrible
tragedy that was not your fault and living in difficult circumstances is never
a valid reason to disobey God. <br /></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing">As Estella chooses to embrace her dark alter-identity,
Cruella, she treats her faithful friends like tools to be used. She also
intentionally chooses to pursue revenge against the evil baroness. God warns
us, “do not avenge yourselves.” A large portion of this dark movie involves
Cruella using her creative genius to humiliate and destroy the baroness. Like
the thieving, the movie makes the revenge look cool and sexy.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Not surprisingly, Cruella teams up with a trans fashion
designer. Thus, Disney is now fully embracing and participating in Hollywood’s pro-LGBTQ
agenda and marketing this to children. The whole glamour-fashion industry is
morally and spiritually unhealthy, but is again made to look cool in the movie.
But all of this is just building up to the darkest element of the movie. <br /></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing">At the end of the movie, Cruella, having buried her
Estella identity, goes a step further into darkness by taking the last name De
Vil. The movie makes it clear through dialog, through the “Devil” license plate
on her car, and through the Rolling Stone’s song “Sympathy for the Devil”
playing in the background, that Cruella has chosen the name De Vil because in
some way she identifies with the devil. The devil is real. He is the most evil
being that exists. Identifying with him in any way or form will always bring darkness,
suffering and harm to the person who does so and to everyone around them. It’s
not cute. It’s not cool. It’s not funny in any way. And the end of that path is
eternal destruction (Matthew 7:13, Philippians 3:19, 2 Thessalonians 1:9).</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">If I tried hard, I could find a few glimmers of light and
some hints at positive lessons in the movie. But these are overshadowed by Cruella’s
dark path and dark example and dark ending. If you want your kids to be
terrified of dalmations, think petty theft is cool and fun, embrace a life
driven by revenge, and ultimately choose to identify with the devil, then
Cruella is the movie for you. Otherwise, I recommend sticking with 101 Dalmations. <br /></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"> </p>
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</p><p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The two photos above
were taken by Mark Corbett at Bantimurung National Park, Indonesia</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Here I share a poem I wrote that was inspired by butterflies,
intelligent design theory, and Paul’s theology of natural revelation and the
attempts of people to suppress it. I share it in both plain text form and in a
JPEG form. Feel free to copy and share it with others with these caveats:</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">1. Freely you have received, freely give.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">2. Please include a link back to this blog post.</p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b>The Butterfly’s Message</b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"> </p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">It lands close by and a child spies -- a butterfly, a work
of art,</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Then intuitions, deeply planted, spring to life in mind
and heart:</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">“Someone made this, Someone Who must be very great and
wise!” </p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">The butterfly’s message has been delivered unto the child’s
eyes!</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"> </p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Children grow and off to school and university they go;</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">There tenebrific evolutionary tales authoritative professors
sow.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Doubts trouble minds that with wonder had once been glad
and bright;</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">The butterfly’s message <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>begins to fade into a moonless night.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"> </p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">But science itself is not the villain of this truth-battle
story;</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Rightly used, science is a hero that uncovers the hidden
glory.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">For the butterfly holds microscopic wonders that Darwin
could not know;</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">New discoveries, to the butterfly’s message, new depth
and strength bestow.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"> </p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Molecular machines and coded information -- naturalism is
impotent to explain;</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">And layers of irreducible complexity make evolutionary
tales burdensome to maintain.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">As evidence is piled up, intelligent design increasingly
is acknowledged and confessed,</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">When finally seen in reason’s light, the butterfly’s message
is not so easily suppressed.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"> </p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">by Mark Corbett,</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2021/07/marks-resources-on-scientific-evidence.html">https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2021/07/marks-resources-on-scientific-evidence.html</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"> </p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b>About the sources of inspiration for “The Butterfly’s
Message”</b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Although the above poem is short, a wide range of sources
contributed to its formation in my mind. Here are some of those sources:</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">* When we (my wife Hope and our daughter Joy with myself)
were living in Indonesia on the tropical island of Sulawesi, we sometimes visited
Bantimurung national park. The park is known mainly for waterfalls and butterflies.
On one occasion, when Joy was at just the right age for maximal wonder, a
butterfly landed first on Hope’s finger then on a nearby rock (see photos
above). Joy gazed at it with wonder and delight. The butterfly was excelling at
its appointed job as it delivered a message about its Creator’s skill and
wisdom.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">* While Joy has never struggled with her faith because of
the misleading claims of naturalism, I’ve read and heard accounts of other
students who have and this has often been a major factor in deconstruction.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">* A number of books from the truth-battle heroes of the
Discovery Institute contributed to the poem’s theme and some details in the
poem. Specifically, Doug Axe’s insightful <b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Undeniable-Biology-Confirms-Intuition-Designed/dp/0062349597/" target="_blank">Undeniable</a></b>,
explains that the universal tendency of children to ascribe nature to a Creator
is actually supported by a right understanding of science. Of course, the
concept of “irreducible complexity” was introduced to us by Behe’s paradigm
defining work, <b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Darwins-Black-Box-Biochemical-Challenge/dp/0743290313/" target="_blank">Darwin’s Black Box</a>,</b> and Stephen Meyer explained the foundational role of
information in all of life in his outstanding book, <b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Signature-Cell-Evidence-Intelligent-Design/dp/0061472794/" target="_blank">Signature in the Cell</a></b>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">* I learned the word “tenebrific” yesterday while reading
<a href="https://uncommondescent.com/evolution/retroviruses-and-common-descent-and-why-i-dont-buy-it/">a
blog post</a> from the website “Uncommon Decent.” There, as in the poem, it was
applied to the influence of the Darwinian myth factory. That set off a cascade
in my mind that resulted in the poem.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">* The ideas related to the truth about our Creator being
seen in nature and yet being suppressed by people comes form a more ancient and
authoritative source: the Apostle Paul writing in Romans. I recently published
a short video on this topic: <a href="https://youtu.be/SqQC3wAZmFc">The Suppression of Truth and What We Can Do About It</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">* Finally, and above all, anything good here is
ultimately due to the Creator of butterflies, our God who is the Father of our
Lord Jesus Christ.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"> </p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">For Further Reading on Related Topics see:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2021/07/marks-resources-on-scientific-evidence.html" target="_blank">Mark’s Resources on Scientific Evidence for God and Devotions Inspired by God’s Creation</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To God be the glory!</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"> </p>
<i>Hebrews 13:16 And do not forget to do good and to share with others . . .
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Butterfly drawings credit:</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span class="attributionfield">Image by OpenClipart-Vectors
from Pixabay</span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Don't worry about anything, but in everything, through prayer and petition
with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. (Phil. 4:6 CSB17)</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Yes, tragedy has struck. Evil forces have advanced. Darkness has
fallen. But this is not a time to sit and fret. This is a time to pray.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">With God, when it looks like the story is over, it’s not over. The
faithful Hebrews are thrown into the furnace, but that’s not the end of the story.
Daniel is thrown to the lions, but God is still there. Peter is being held in
prison for execution, but the church is praying. The Savior of the world had
been killed, buried, a stone was sealing the grave and it was guarded, but God’s
story wasn’t over.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The Islamic revolution in Iran could have spelled the end of God’s
work there, but instead many reports all say that the gospel has been spreading
rapidly there. When the communists took over China in a bloody revolution and
Western missionaries were either killed or driven out, that looked like a
defeat for God’s work there. But instead, one of the most powerful and explosive
house church growth movements in the history of Christianity was about to begin.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">We don’t know what is going to happen next in Afghanistan. It seems
likely that there will be severe persecution of Christians. But even if there
is (God help them!), that does not have to be the end of the story. And even
from far away, you can play a direct role. God has ordained prayer as a way for
Christians to be able to help other Christians and be involved in every issue,
even from the other side of the world. So now is a time to pray!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Here are some ways to pray:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
<br /></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Pray for those who are most in danger:
Christians, women, those who helped the US, activists for rights</span><br />
<br /><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Pray for those trying to get to the airport</span><br />
<br /><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Pray for Afghan refugees & ministry to
them (including those arriving in US)</span><br />
<br /><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Pray for missionaries & Afghan Christian
leaders</span><br />
<br /><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Pray that many among the Muslim majority will
turn to Christ</span><br />
<br /><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Pray for religious liberty concerns throughout
the Middle East & Muslim nations. Some have expressed a reasonable concern
that the apparent success of the most fundamentalist, extreme, and evil version
of Islam in Afghanistan may encourage and lead to the rise of influence of
militant Islam in other places. This is a real danger.</span><br />
<br /><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Pray against the danger of a resurgence in terrorism
throughout the world</span><br />
<br /><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Pray for US and allied military personal
carrying out an extraordinarily difficult mission</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Pray as the Spirit leads. Pray in your prayer closet. Meet with
other Christians and pray.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Pray for whatever nation and culture you live in. Remember the
warning of Jesus:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><sup><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">CSB17 </span></sup><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Luke 13:1</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> At that time, some people came and reported to him about the Galileans
whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><sup>2</sup> And
he responded to them, "Do you think that these Galileans were more sinful
than all the other Galileans because they suffered these things?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><sup>3</sup> No, I
tell you; but unless you repent, you will all perish as well.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><sup>4</sup> Or
those eighteen that the tower in Siloam fell on and killed-- do you think they
were more sinful than all the other people who live in Jerusalem?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><sup>5</sup> No, I tell you; but unless you
repent, you will all perish as well."</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Pray for God’s will be done. Pray for His mercy. Pray for our brothers
and sisters in Christ in Afghanistan:</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Remember those in prison, as though you were in prison with them,and the mistreated, as though you yourselves were suffering bodily.(Heb. 13:3 CSB17)</span></b><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">May God strengthen you to really pray and be devoted to prayer.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
<i>Hebrews 13:16 And do not forget to do good and to share with others . . .
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Some related resources:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The Power of Planned, Intentional Prayer as Seen
in Acts 1-13</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Link:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2021/04/the-power-of-planned-intentional-prayer.html" target="_blank">https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2021/04/the-power-of-planned-intentional-prayer.html</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">A Model for Intercessory Prayer, Epaphras in
Colossians 4:12</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Link:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2018/10/a-model-for-intercessory-prayer.html" target="_blank">https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2018/10/a-model-for-intercessory-prayer.html</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Knowing that God Created Everything Fuels
Faith Filled Praying</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Link:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2018/10/knowing-that-god-created-everything.html" target="_blank">https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2018/10/knowing-that-god-created-everything.html</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The Lord’s Prayer: Understanding it More
Fully Helps Us Pray it More Powerfully</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Link:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-lords-prayer-understanding-it-more.html" target="_blank">https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-lords-prayer-understanding-it-more.html</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Awesome, Wonderful, Powerful Prayer</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Link:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2016/08/awesome-wonderful-powerful-prayer.html" target="_blank">https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2016/08/awesome-wonderful-powerful-prayer.html</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Link to a video on prayer:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Prayer, Incense, and Fire</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Link:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://youtu.be/GXr3STua7jM" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/GXr3STua7jM</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></p></div>Mark Corbetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11845358650245441477noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4546375020443845329.post-9587230909513712032021-08-07T11:09:00.001-07:002021-08-07T11:11:45.190-07:00Is Immediate, Spontaneous Baptism Biblical?<div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxDdKBtE4fTLUVZvkDn3SaVYIAM7bK1jDFYceXSfpFMHWmmIgPj6HqOvuW3zr93632I6jZ2swZynfhaZ5J94e45BfoJlVNwQYucmi3NV2hpOqufEFoFyW5bo0mYnJzR8uw3wdpR8tYHkhp/s1280/Immediate+baptism+blog+post.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxDdKBtE4fTLUVZvkDn3SaVYIAM7bK1jDFYceXSfpFMHWmmIgPj6HqOvuW3zr93632I6jZ2swZynfhaZ5J94e45BfoJlVNwQYucmi3NV2hpOqufEFoFyW5bo0mYnJzR8uw3wdpR8tYHkhp/w400-h225/Immediate+baptism+blog+post.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Introduction</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Immediate baptism (sometimes called spontaneous baptism) is the
practice of baptizing someone right on the spot when they come to believe in
Jesus. If someone accepts Jesus in a Sunday service and then the following week
you baptize them, that is not what is meant by immediate baptism. If someone
accepts Jesus in a Sunday service and right then, in that same service, you
baptize them, that is what is meant by immediate baptism.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The former president of the Southern Baptist Convention has
written about why they sometimes perform spontaneous baptisms at the church
where he serves as pastor (see his article here: <a href="https://jdgreear.com/why-we-sometimes-baptize-on-the-spot/" target="_blank">Why We Sometimes Baptize on the Spot</a>). Now, on “Baptism Sunday” (which is September
12th this year) the NC Baptist State Convention is encouraging us all to “<a href="https://fillthetanknc.org/" target="_blank">Fill the Tank</a>” on September 12th. Part of
the material promoting this initiative encourages church to be open to immediate
baptisms that day.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In light of this emphasis, it seems like a good time to ask the
question: Is immediate, spontaneous baptism of people who have believed in
Jesus biblical?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">As you will see (if you keep reading), I think that immediate
baptism is indeed biblical. There are some precautions that need to be taken,
but it has the potential to bear good fruit.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The Close Connection Between Belief and Baptism</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I do not believe that water baptism saves a person. I do not
believe that if someone has not been <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>baptized that means that they are not saved.
However, I do see a close connection between baptism and salvation in the
Bible. Let’s look at some Bible verses:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">CSB17 Mark 16:16
Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe
will be condemned.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The first half of this verse could be read to
mean that a person has to both believe and be baptized in order to be saved.
But the second half does not say that if a person is not baptized they will be
condemned, it only says that if they do not believe they will be condemned. So
what’s happening here?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">When I look at all that the New Testament
teaches about baptism and all that it teaches about salvation, I notice a few
things. First, having faith in Jesus is consistently taught as the requirement
for salvation. There are whole books of the Bible that mention faith in Jesus
and do not mention baptism at all (2 Corinthians, Philippians, 1 and 2
Thessalonians, 1 and 2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon, Hebrews, James, 2 Peter, 1
John, Jude, and Revelation). That seems strange if baptism is required for
salvation. Still, it is closely connected to salvation as we see not only in
Mark, but also in Matthew, Acts, Galatians, and 1 Peter:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">CSB17 Matthew
28:19 Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the
name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">CSB17 Acts 2:38
Peter replied, "Repent and be baptized, each of you, in the name of Jesus
Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the
Holy Spirit.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">CSB17 1 Peter 3:21-22 Baptism, which corresponds to this,
now saves you (not as the removal of dirt from the body, but the pledge of a
good conscience toward God) through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has
gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God with angels, authorities, and
powers subject to him.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">So, what is the nature of this connection
between water baptism and salvation that is so close that sometimes a verse
taken by itself makes it sound like we are saved by baptism, when in fact the
overall, consistent teaching of the New Testament is that we are saved by faith
alone?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">When a person believes in Jesus, God is able
to see into their heart and know that they have true, saving faith in Jesus. But
we cannot see into someone else’s heart. In fact, sometimes we are not sure
about what is in our own hearts. Therefore, it is helpful to have some outward
way of expressing our faith in Jesus. Throughout our Christian life, our faith
is expressed by learning to obey Jesus, and loving others (with a special love
for our Christian brothers and sisters in Christ), and loving God. But at the
very beginning of our Christian life it helps to have something specific that
we can see as an outward expression of that initial inward trust in Jesus as
our Lord and Savior.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">We sometimes look towards a prayer that we
said where we confessed our sins and accepted Jesus as our Savior as that
initial outward sign of inner faith. Some people might look back at when they
walked down an isle in a church to make a public profession of faith. I think
it’s great to say a prayer like that (I think it would be strange if someone
didn’t) and I think that walking down an isle is good. And I do think that
those things, when sincere, are outward signs of an inner faith. But I think there
is something else that God commands us to do and that He especially designed
and intends to be the primary, initial, foundational outer sign of inner faith.
And that something is baptism by immersion in water after a person believes.
The other things (saying the prayer and possibly walking down an isle) are good
in themselves, but they should not be used as a substitute for baptism.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Now I think it makes sense why Peter could
say, “Repent and be baptized, each of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the
forgiveness of your sins . . . .” Peter had just spoken to them about the death
and resurrection of Jesus and had just boldly and clearly proclaimed that Jesus
is both “Lord and Messiah” (Acts 2:36). If they believed this message, that is
what would save them. But their way of showing their heart belief was to “Repent
and be baptized.” So Peter’s statement is roughly the equivalent of a pastor at
the end of an evangelistic sermon inviting people to pray after him if they have
believed the message. Does the pastor think that repeating his words is what
saves the people? No, he (hopefully) understands that faith in Jesus is what
saves them. But if they truly believe the message, then repeating the words is
an expression of that faith. But here’s the catch. I do not believe it is wrong
at all to invite people to pray. I’ve done it myself. But if we do not also
invite them to be baptized, then we are not following the biblical example.
There actually aren’t any examples in the New Testament of new believers being
invited to pray a “sinner’s prayer.” There <i>are</i> examples of new believers
being invited to immediately be baptized by immersion in water in Jesus’ Name.
I’m not saying we have to choose between the sinner’s prayer and baptism (that
would be a false dichotomy), I’m saying don’t leave out baptism!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In light of the role of baptism as a symbolic
way of outwardly expressing a new inner faith in Jesus as Lord and Savior, it
makes good sense if baptism is done as soon a person believes so that it is closely
connected with their new faith (or as soon as possible if a person accepts
Jesus when they are alone or if an appropriate location for baptism is not
immediately available).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">If this analysis is correct, we should expect
to see examples of people being immediately baptized when they believe in Jesus
when we look at the New Testament. And that is exactly what we do see . . .</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Biblical Examples of Immediate Baptism</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The only book in the Bible that contains accounts
of people hearing the gospel, believing in Jesus as Lord and Savior, and being
baptized in water, is the book of Acts. In the book of Acts we find a very
consistent pattern. New believers are always immediately baptized (in a couple
of cases we can’t say for sure that there was no delay, but no delay is ever
mentioned and in a number of accounts the immediate nature of the baptism is
explicitly made clear). Let’s look at each example:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Example #1: Three thousand new believers are baptized “that day”</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">CSB17 Acts 2:37 When they heard this, they were pierced
to the heart and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles: "Brothers,
what should we do?"</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>38 Peter replied, "Repent
and be baptized, each of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness
of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>39 For the promise
is for you and for your children, and for all who are far off, as many as the
Lord our God will call."</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>40 With many other
words he testified and strongly urged them, saying, "Be saved from this
corrupt generation!"</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>41 So those who
accepted his message were baptized, and that day about three thousand people
were added to them.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>42 They devoted
themselves to the apostles' teaching, to the fellowship, to the breaking of
bread, and to prayer.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">It is important to note that the people who
are baptized are “those who accepted his message.” So, I think it is wise to
have some way of checking this. At the same time, the check must have been very
simple since there would have been no time for detailed instruction or long
conversations with each of the three thousand new believers. The bare minimum
might be something like asking “(Their name), do accept Jesus as your Lord and
Savior?” right before dunking them. But it might be best to have a short time
of discussion, some simple questions, and a prayer with a mature Christian
counselor before the baptism. This could be done in as little as ten minutes,
maybe less (remember, they somehow baptized 3,000 in one day!)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">With immediate baptism, in some cases we may
later see that some of the people baptized were not sincere. But that is also
true even if we have detailed classes, weeks of instruction, and long delays
before baptism. We cannot see into people’s hearts. That is not our job. Our
job does include baptizing those who give a simple confession of faith.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Example #2: Philip baptizes new believers</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">CSB17 Acts 8:12 But when they believed Philip, as he
proclaimed the good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ,
both men and women were baptized.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>13 Even Simon himself believed. And after he
was baptized, he followed Philip everywhere and was amazed as he observed the
signs and great miracles that were being performed.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">We can’t say for sure in this example that
the baptisms were immediate, but the phrase “when they believed Philip” indicates
that they probably were. Another interesting point is that Philip is not listed
as an apostle, nor is he ever said to be an elder or pastor. The Bible never
lists any requirements for the person performing a baptism and the only
requirement for the one being baptized is that they believe the simple gospel
message. While it is common, and not wrong, for pastors to perform most
baptisms, I see no reason at all that any Christian cannot baptize a new
believer. Let’s not make up rules that are not in the Bible.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Example #3: Philip baptizes the Ethiopian Eunuch</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">CSB17 Acts 8:35 Philip proceeded to tell him the good
news about Jesus, beginning with that Scripture.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>36 As they were
traveling down the road, they came to some water. The eunuch said, "Look,
there's water. What would keep me from being baptized?"</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>38 So he ordered
the chariot to stop, and both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water,
and he baptized him.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Philip shares the gospel with someone he just
met on the road. The person believes it. Philip immediately baptizes him in
some water they see near the road (probably a river or pond). There was only a
short time for instruction before the baptism. There was no opportunity for
Philip himself to follow up with teaching later (although this is normally a
good thing to do when possible and is part of “making disciples,” see Matthew
28:19-20). They don’t even wait until the next Christian gathering. He believes
and is immediately baptized. And I can’t think of a single biblical reason that
the same thing cannot or should not be done today.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Example #4 The baptism of Saul (aka Paul)</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">CSB17 Acts 9:17 Ananias went and entered the house. He
placed his hands on him and said, "Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, who
appeared to you on the road you were traveling, has sent me so that you may
regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>18 At once
something like scales fell from his eyes, and he regained his sight. Then he
got up and was baptized.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>19 And after taking some food, he regained his
strength. Saul was with the disciples in Damascus for some time. </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">and</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">CSB17 Acts 22:12 Someone named Ananias, a devout man
according to the law, who had a good reputation with all the Jews living there,</span></b></p>
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by me and said, 'Brother Saul, regain your sight.' And in that very hour I
looked up and saw him.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>14 And he said,
'The God of our ancestors has appointed you to know his will, to see the
Righteous One, and to hear the words from his mouth,</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>15 since you will
be a witness for him to all people of what you have seen and heard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>16 And now, why are you delaying? Get up and
be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on his name.' </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Paul had not eaten or drank anything for
three days. Yet, when Ananias arrives and prays for Paul and Paul regains his
sight, he does not immediately get something to eat. Instead, he is immediately
baptized and then eats. Oh! how I wish more people felt the same sense urgency
of obeying Christ in baptism!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Example #5: Cornelius and his household are baptized</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">CSB17 Acts 10:45 The circumcised believers who had come
with Peter were amazed because the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out
even on the Gentiles.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>46 For they heard them speaking in other
tongues and declaring the greatness of God. Then Peter responded,</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">47 "Can anyone withhold water and prevent these
people from being baptized, who have received the Holy Spirit just as we
have?"</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>48 He commanded them to be baptized in the
name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay for a few days.</span></b><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Notice that Peter is invited to stay for a few days <i>after</i>
the baptism. It appears that Cornelius and his household were immediately
baptized! In their case, there was visible evidence that their faith was true
(they were speaking in other tongues), but this type of evidence is not
mentioned in some of the other cases. This evidence may have been given partly
to overcome the reluctance of some of the Jewish Christians to believe that the
gospel was equally meant for the gentiles.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Example #6: Lydia and her household are baptized</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">CSB17 Acts 16:13 On the Sabbath day we went outside the
city gate by the river, where we expected to find a place of prayer. We sat
down and spoke to the women gathered there.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>14 A God-fearing
woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth from the city of Thyatira, was
listening. The Lord opened her heart to respond to what Paul was saying.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>15 After she and her household were baptized,
she urged us, "If you consider me a believer in the Lord, come and stay at
my house." And she persuaded us.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">It appears that Lydia and her household were
also baptized the same day that they heard and believed the good news about
Jesus!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Example #7: The jailer and his household are
baptized right away in the middle of the night</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">CSB17 Acts 16:31 They said, "Believe in the Lord
Jesus, and you will be saved-- you and your household."</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>32 And they spoke
the word of the Lord to him along with everyone in his house.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>33 He took them
the same hour of the night and washed their wounds. Right away he and all his
family were baptized.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>34 He brought them
into his house, set a meal before them, and rejoiced because he had come to believe
in God with his entire household.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>35 When daylight came, the chief magistrates
sent the police to say, "Release those men." </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The jailer and his family are baptized “right
away” when the believe the gospel message! The only (short) delay is to allow
for washing the wounds on Paul and Silas from where they had been beaten as a
result of faithfully sharing the gospel.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Example #8 Crispus, his household, and “Many
of the Corinthians” who believed the gospel are baptized</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">CSB17 Acts 18:7 So he left there and went to the house of
a man named Titius Justus, a worshiper of God, whose house was next door to the
synagogue.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>8 Crispus, the leader of the synagogue,
believed in the Lord, along with his whole household. Many of the Corinthians,
when they heard, believed and were baptized.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">We can’t say for sure if these people were
baptized the very same day that they believed. But no delay is mentioned in
between them believing in the Lord and being baptized.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Example #9 Some disciples in Ephesus are baptized</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">CSB17 Acts 19:4 Paul said, "John baptized with a baptism
of repentance, telling the people that they should believe in the one who would
come after him, that is, in Jesus."</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>5 When they heard
this, they were baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">These disciples had been baptized with John
the Baptist’s baptism before they knew about being baptized in the name of the
Lord Jesus. As soon as they hear about baptism in the name of Jesus, they are
baptized in Jesus’ Name.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Conclusions:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The meaning and purpose of baptism, which is to serve as an outward
symbolic expression of faith and salvation, supports the concept of immediate
baptism when a person believes in Jesus. The examples of baptism in the book of
Acts support the practice of immediate baptism. I thank God for the example set
by J.D. Greear of immediate baptism in his church and also for the North
American Mission Board’s “Baptism Sunday,” and the related NC State Convention’s
“Fill the Tank” initiative, which encourages us to be open to immediate
baptisms.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I do not believe a person’s baptism is somehow invalid if there is
a delay. Often there are short delays to allow family and others to witness and
celebrate the happy event or for other practical reasons. I don’t think that is
wrong. I don’t think it is wrong to allow a delay if there is already a
scheduled baptism soon. There is not a command to baptize within a certain
timeframe. Still, I hope that immediate baptism (or at least, as soon as
practically possible baptisms) become much more common.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">May God bless us with many more people who hear the gospel,
believe in Jesus our Lord, and are baptized!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">For more than 25 years reading about scientific evidence
for God (especially related to intelligent design theory) has been a type of
intellectual hobby for me. In some ways, it is more than a hobby. This type of material
strengthens my faith and encourages my heart. I hope it does the same for
others.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">I’ve also been struck by numerous analogies in nature for
the Christian life that I see and think about as I go on walks or just enjoy
nature in some setting.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">My life has involved a strange mix of experiences. I’ve
been serving as a pastor of churches in beautiful rural, eastern NC for the
last 10 years. I have a M.Div in Ministry Leadership. But before all that, I
studied Mechanical Engineering and then served as a junior officer in the Engineering
Department on nuclear submarines for 5 and a half years (the first year and a half
was all training). Later (in between serving in the US Navy and becoming a
pastor), I taught classes on thermodynamics and heat transfer to engineering
students at a university in Indonesian (I only have a B.S. degree in
engineering, but I was teamed up with professors with Ph.D.s and did quite a
bit of the teaching – which was in areas I had used extensively while on the
nuclear submarines). God used this combination of experiences to prepare me to
write about scientific evidence for God for a lay audience. Much of my material
is closely based on material produced by scientists who believe in the theory
of intelligent design (and I constantly reference this material).</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">I started a blog in 2016. I write on a range of topics including
theological topics, Christian devotional blog posts, a little bit of politics
(especially as it relates to Christian concerns), and, of course, scientific
evidence for God. I’ve finally collected links to these blog posts in one place
– here! I’ve divided them into three categories:</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><b>1. Scientific Evidence for God</b></p><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">
</div><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><b>2. How Seeing Evidence for God in Nature Helps Us</b></p><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">
</div><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><b>3. Devotional Blog Posts Inspired (at least in part)
by things Seen in God’s Creation</b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">If you don’t know where to start, I’ve marked my three
favorite blog posts in the first category, and my favorite in each of the
others. May God bless you, strengthen your faith, and lead you to worship Him
as you read and think!</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"> </p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b>Part 1: Blog Posts Mainly About Scientific Evidence
for God</b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"> <br /></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: red;">****** one of my top 3 favorites
in this category:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2016/03/excited-both-as-science-geek-and-as-god.html" target="_blank">How the Smallest Cells give Big Evidence for God</a> <br /></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing">This blog post is based on scientific work to identify a
living cell with the smallest possible genome.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">******</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2016/02/nuclear-submarines-and-living-cells.html" target="_blank">Nuclear Submarines and Living Cells</a> <br /></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing">I served in the engineering department of nuclear
submarines for several years. In this blog post I draw some parallels between
living cells and nuclear submarines and discuss how this parallel supports the
theory of intelligent design. <br /></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing">******</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2018/06/octopi-from-outer-space.html" target="_blank">Octopi from Outer Space</a></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">I take a lighthearted look at a serious claim from some
scientists that octopi may have been seeded here from outer space.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: red;">******another one of my top 3 in
this category:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2019/03/behes-three-mighty-blows-against.html">Behe’s
Three Mighty Blows Against Darwinism</a></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">I summarize the arguments from Michael Behe’s first three
excellent books on intelligent design: Darwin’s Black Box, The Edge of Evolution,
and Darwin Devolves.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">******</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2019/03/scientists-have-no-idea-how-life-began.html" target="_blank">Scientists have No Idea How Life Began</a></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">I share a video from Dr. James Tour on the topic of the
origin of life.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">******</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2019/06/god-created-earth-to-be-inhabited.html" target="_blank">God Created the Earth to be Inhabited</a></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Largely based on information from two books, <i>Rare
Earth</i> and <i>The Privileged Planet</i>, and prompted partly by a science
video, I discuss how special and wonderful our home planet is.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">******</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2019/09/birds-navigation-using-quantum.html">Birds, Navigation Using Quantum Entanglement, and the Glory of God</a></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Birds have amazing navigation abilities, and this points
to their glorious Creator!</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"> </p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: red;">******the final of my top 3 favorite
in this category:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2020/04/how-viruses-strengthen-scientific-case.html" target="_blank">How Viruses Strengthen the Scientific Case for a Creator</a></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Viruses demonstrate the huge gap between basic chemicals
that don’t come from living things and living things that can reproduce.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"> </p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">******</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2020/04/my-review-of-stairway-to-life-origin-of.html" target="_blank">My
Review of <i>The Stairway to Life: An Origin of Life Reality Check</i> by
Change Laura Tan and Rob Stadler</a></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">I review an excellent book on the origin of life.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"> </p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">******</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2020/08/eccentric-orbits-and-glory-of-god.html" target="_blank">Eccentric Orbits and the Glory of God</a></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">The way our home planet orbits the sun is just right for
us. In this blog post I discuss how the earth’s nearly circular orbit shows the
wisdom and glory of our Creator.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"> </p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">******</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2020/12/mrna-vaccines-intelligent-design-and.html" target="_blank">mRNA Vaccines and the Glory of God</a></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">I briefly describe how mRNA vaccines work and then I
explain how this illustrates why the RNA world is not a realistic explanation
for the origin or life.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"> </p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">******</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2021/04/god-vs-multiverse-based-on-several.html" target="_blank">God vs. the Multiverse</a></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Here, I summarize several excellent chapters of Stephen
Meyer’s superb book, <i>Return of the God Hypothesis</i>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"> </p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">******</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2019/01/how-sun-glorifies-son.html" target="_blank">How the Sun Glorifies the Sun</a></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">When teaching a Heat Transfer class to mechanical
engineering students, I was stunned by the beautiful and precise match of a
number of factors that allow our Sun to provide radiation to us at just the
right wavelengths. Years later, I found a book on this topic that expands a lot
on what I had noticed. This blog post is largely a summary of the information in
<i>Children of Light: The Astonishing Properties of Sunlight that Make Us
Possible</i>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"> </p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"> </p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b>Part 2: How Seeing Evidence for God in Nature Helps Us</b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"> </p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">******</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2018/04/theistic-evolution-demagnifies-gods.html">Theistic
Evolution Demagnifies God’s Glory</a></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">I summarize some of the content of the excellent book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Theistic-Evolution-Scientific-Philosophical-Theological/dp/1433552868/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1524487296&sr=8-1&keywords=theistic+evolution+a+scientific%2C+philosophical%2C+and+theological" target="_blank">Theistic Evolution: A Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Critique</a> (spoiler:
this book is against theological evolution and in favor of intelligent design).</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"> </p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">******</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2018/10/knowing-that-god-created-everything.html" target="_blank">Knowing that God Created Everything Fuels Faith Filled Praying</a></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">A blog post inspired by Hezekiah’s prayer.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"> </p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">******</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2016/02/seeing-god-in-creation-gives-me-courage.html" target="_blank">Seeing God in Creation Gives Me Courage to Keep Serving Him</a></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">This is an introductory blog post to seeing evidence for
God in the world He has created.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"> </p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: red;">******my favorite in this category:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2016/02/there-are-many-types-of-reasons-to.html" target="_blank">There are many types of reasons to believe in God</a></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">This blog post includes a poem I wrote about the
different types of reasons to believe in God. One category of reasons is
evidence that we see nature.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"> </p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b>Part 3: Devotional Blog Posts Inspired (at least in
part) by things Seen in God’s Creation</b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"> </p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">******</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2017/08/spiritual-lessons-from-elephants-and.html" target="_blank">Spiritual Lessons from Elephants and Water Buffalo</a></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Elephants and Water Buffalo know that they need to guard
each other to keep from getting eaten by lions. This applies to the Christian
life!</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"> </p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">******</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2017/09/a-beautiful-bountiful-harvest.html" target="_blank">A Beautiful, Bountiful Harvest</a></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">A devotional inspired by the cotton fields near our home.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"> </p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">******</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2018/04/3-lessons-from-beautiful-bloom-of-ric.html" target="_blank">Three Lessons from the Beautiful Bloom of the Ric Rac Plant</a></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">My wife’s patient care for a ric rac plant finally paid
off when it produced a stunningly beautiful flower. This inspired some thoughts
about the Christian life.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"> </p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">******</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2017/10/heart-matters-layers-of-glory.html" target="_blank">Heart Matters: Layers of Glory</a></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">A devotional blog post prompted by seeing four layers of
fog above the fields on my morning walk.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"> </p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">******</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2020/06/elephants-rhinos-and-fathers.html" target="_blank">Elephants, Rhinos, and Fathers</a></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">A true story about Elephants and Rhinos illustrates the
importance of fathers</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"> </p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">******</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2017/10/white-fields.html" target="_blank">White Fields</a></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">A guest blog post by my (then teenage) daughter inspired
by the white cotton fields around us (similar, but a little different from a
blog post I wrote also related to these fields)</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"> </p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: red;">******my favorite in this category,
and perhaps my overall favorite:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2016/07/sunflowers-and-sonpeople.html" target="_blank">Sunflowers and Sonpeople</a></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">A devotional blogpost inspired by a field of sunflowers.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"> </p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">******</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2016/12/reading-bible-is-like-watching-sunrise.html" target="_blank">Reading the Bible is Like Watching a Sunrise</a></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">I compare reading the Bible to watching a sunrise.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"> </p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">******</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2017/12/reading-bible-is-like-snorkeling-at.html" target="_blank">Reading the Bible is like Snorkeling at a Coral Reef</a></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">I compare reading the Bible to snorkeling at a coral reef</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"> </p>
</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"> <br>
<i>Hebrews 13:16 And do not forget to do good and to share with others . . .
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is true. I’ve tried to do that in a number of blog posts and videos. But
sometimes I am asked a different question: Why is it important? Why should we
spend time on this? In fact, I was just asked this again yesterday. It’s a good
question. This blog post is my answer.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">First, let me say that while I feel that God has led and
continues to lead me to spend time on this topic (conditional immortality and
the nature of hell), I don’t feel like it as important as some other topics and
other ministries. Perhaps general practitioners and emergency room doctors are
more important than dermatologists, but if you have certain ailments, you sure
will thank God that there are dermatologists. In the same way, the fundamentals
of the faith are more important than secondary issues like the nature of hell,
and yet, understanding the truth of conditional immortality can and does help a
lot of people. God has humbled me enough so that I don’t feel like I need to
always be doing “the most important of all the important tasks.” I can be thankful
to be called to serve at all (which I don’t deserve, it is only by grace), even
if sometimes I am called to areas of service that in some ways are not as
important as the ways in which others are serving. Still, working to spread the
truth about conditional immortality is important.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Before I share some ways in which conditional immortality
practically helps people, let me point out three facts that indicate that we
should expect this topic to be worth studying (at least worthwhile for some of
us to study):</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">1. It’s in the Bible and there are quite a few Bible
passages which either explicitly mention or else at least allude to the final
fate of the unrighteous and the conditional nature of eternal life. This alone
makes it far more important than the types of things many people spend a lot of
time thinking about, worrying about, and discussing.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">2. Almost everyone thinks about what is going to happen
to people after they die and how everything will turn out in the end. A lot of
people think specifically about hell and what it is like and why it is the way
it is.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">3. This topic (the nature of hell) is being discussed by
many people in many settings. I see it everywhere. It pops up repeatedly pretty
much everywhere that I see Christian theology being discussed.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Now, I’ll share a few ways in which I think conditional
immortality helps and can make a practical difference. (DISCLAIMER: while we
expect doctrinal truth to be helpful, I am not here sharing why conditional
immortality is true, but why it is practically helpful.)</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">In general, if someone specializes in helping people with
a certain type of problem or issue, they become much more aware of how many
people struggle with that problem or are affected by the issue. Someone who
ministers to people with substance abuse issues quickly realizes how widespread
and serious substance abuse is. The same is true if you minister to people who have
been hurt by sexual abuse. Those who have not specifically been affected by a problem
(or at least are not aware of it!) and who have not been involved in ministry
related to that problem may not realize how widespread some issues are. A
little over 5 years ago, I went public with my belief in conditional
immortality when I preached on this topic and then shared the two part sermon
on YouTube (see <a href="https://youtu.be/LBpVLaf7hzQ" target="_blank">part 1 here</a>, and <a href="https://youtu.be/gR9Pf6ag2pU">part 2 here</a>). Since that time, I have
seen many examples of how this issue impacts people. It is far more important
than most people realize. </p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Here are some specific ways that the wrong view of
eternal torment hurts people and the right view of conditional immortality can
help:</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">1. More and more Christians are “deconstructing” and
either walking away from their faith completely, or shifting to less biblical
forms of Christianity (which sometimes are not even truly Christian). Specifically
they often wander into various forms of progressive/liberal Christianity. Many
of these Christians mention the doctrine of eternal torment as one reason they
felt driven away from an evangelical faith. Hell is not the only issue, but it
is an issue they mention with considerable passion. A more biblical view of
hell consisting of annihilation rather than eternal torment can help with this
a great deal. (I wrote a blog post on this issue here:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2018/04/al-mohler-reveals-one-of-reasons.html" target="_blank">Al Mohler reveals one of the reasons that correcting the error of eternal conscious torment is important</a>.) On a related note, many atheists (including
some famous ones) have mentioned hell (by which they mean the eternal torment version
of hell) as a major reason to reject that Christian faith. As the truth about
conditional immortality spreads, it will remove one major factor in people
rejecting biblical Christianity.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">2. Some Christians live with the idea that many of their
friends, family members, and neighbors will be tormented forever and it does
not bother them a lot (is that good?). But I have listened to many others who were
severely affected by their belief in eternal torment to the point that it
understandably caused them a great deal of anxiety and mental anguish. Some have
testified how much they have been helped by being shown where the Bible actually
teaches conditional immortality, not eternal torment. While this is true, I
have not found belief in conditional immortality to lessen my evangelistic zeal
at all. Since seeing conditional immortality in the Bible I have been willing
to take risks, face dangers, and make sacrifices for the sake of the gospel. The
doctrine of conditional immortality makes the threat of hell emotionally bearable
without removing it as a motivation for evangelism and missions. The Christian
most well known for defending annihilationism is perhaps the late John Stott.
He noted the emotional strain that belief in eternal torment causes. He also was
well known for his <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>leadership in
evangelism and worldwide missions.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">3. Conditional immortality allows us to frame the gospel
in a way that resonates more deeply with what God has hardwired into people’s
hearts. Just yesterday I watched a short YouTube video of someone sharing the
gospel with a young man. The young man objected that it wasn’t right for people
to be tormented forever for sins they committed in just 80 years or so. The
evangelist tried to justify eternal torment. It didn’t seem to go well. But
what if, instead of people asking why anyone deserves to be tormented forever,
we could shift the narrative to asking why anyone deserves eternal life? It is
fairly easy to convince people that they are not so good that they deserve to
live forever in a perfect world. The alternative is that they will not live
forever (that doesn’t require any complex logic, does it?). Further, presenting
the gospel this way will resonate with the God given conscience that even
unbelievers have (although they try to suppress it):</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">ESV Romans 1:32 Though they know God's
righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not
only do them but give approval to those who practice them.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">4. Conditional immortality provides a far better defense
against universalism. Universalism is almost always (not quite, but almost
always) associated with a whole set of sub-biblical progressive/liberal
Christian views. It is dangerous and harmful. I’ve read two books where
Christians argue for universalism. I have also interacted with quite a few
universalists. One of their most common (and, unfortunately, effective)
arguments goes something like this:</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">“There is just no way that a good God would torment
people forever, therefore universalism is true.”</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">The above argument is sometimes made with much more detail
and considerable rhetorical skill. But it still boils down to being a false
dichotomy. If eternal torment and universalism are the only actual options,
then the universalists have some pretty strong arguments. But those are not the
only two options. Conditional immortality offers a biblical alternative that
can answer the universalist arguments far more effectively than those with an
eternal torment view can (I wrote about this in more detail in this blog post: <a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2017/08/the-universalists-false-dichotomy.html" target="_blank">The Universalist’s False Dichotomy</a>).</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">5. The whole biblical story, literally from the opening
chapters of Genesis to the closing chapters of Revelation, is framed as a life
vs. death issue. This framing is more clearly brought out as eternal life vs.
perishing in the New Testament, but this does not change the basic framework
laid out in the Old Testament. Conditional immortality harmonizes with this
life or death theme that runs all through Scripture far better than the error
of eternal torment does. Seeing the truth of conditional immortality adds to
the overall harmony and unity of the whole Bible, which is one of the evidences
that it is not merely the work of many human authors spread over many centuries
(although it is that), but it is also the work of one Author, God, who inspired
and spoke through all those human authors.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">6. Conditional immortality helps us to see death as the enemy
of humanity that it is and the gospel as God’s solution to death. It also helps
us to see every example of death, whether it is a possum that became road kill
or a news story about people killed in a falling building, as a reminder and
warning of the wages of sin. (See Romans 6:23, and Luke 13:4-5)</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">7. Perhaps the most important reason that our view of
hell is important is that it can affect our view of God. When I believed in
eternal torment, I also believed that God was truly and totally good and
loving. I didn’t see the inconsistency, and neither do many Christians who
believe in eternal torment. But others understandably see that if God has
designed the world in such a way that billions of people will end up in torment
for billions of years and then on for eternity, this makes God look really bad.
In fact, it seems that God is then in some way responsible for far more human
suffering and misery than all the evil tyrants, rapists, abusers, and evil
people combined. In fact, even the devil has not caused that much human
suffering. Many people understandably feel that if the doctrine of eternal
torment is true, then God must be an evil, cruel god. At the very least, the
doctrine of eternal torment causes many to doubt or be confused about God’s
goodness. I discussed this, and how it relates to the first request in the Lord’s
Prayer, in a short, two part video <a href="https://youtu.be/bt2hQC_u-b4" target="_blank">here (part 1)</a> and also <a href="https://youtu.be/-hGq2MDI_LM">here (part 2)</a>. About
a week ago, a Christian shared with me how she related to the struggle I describe
in those short videos. Conditional immortality helps us to see that God really
is entirely good with no darkness at all in Him.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"> </p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Sadly, many people treat conditional immortality vs.
eternal torment as a primary issue rather than a secondary issue (I discuss
accusations of heresy in <a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2021/05/heresy-and-slander-immune-system.html">a
blog post here</a>). I’m glad to worship and serve beside brothers and sisters
in Christ who believe in eternal torment, even though I think they are mistaken.
Tragically, the reverse is not always true. I know pastors who have been fired
and Christians who have been blocked from ministry that they were well
qualified for. They were fired or blocked simply because they came to believe
in conditional immortality instead of eternal torment. This is one more reason
I want to work to see conditional immortality become a widespread, acceptable
view among evangelicals.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">In addition to the specific ways that the doctrine of
conditional immortality helps people, I see signs that this is God’s time to
correct the long-held and widespread error of eternal torment. I thank God for
being able to play even a small role in this. You can help, too, by sharing
material that explains and defends the doctrine of eternal torment with your
friends. I have a whole collection of this material (my own, and links to some great
stuff produced by others) here:</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2018/11/marks-resources-on-hell-conditional.html" target="_blank">Mark’s Resources on Hell</a></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"> </p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">If you’re not sure what is best to share, consider starting
with this 10 minute video I made:</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="https://youtu.be/yZpjs74uQ0s" target="_blank">Why I believe in annihilationism rather than eternal torment</a></p><p> </p>
<i>Hebrews 13:16 And do not forget to do good and to share with others . . .
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</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Warning:</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> this movie review contains spoilers.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Earlier this week, I watched Raya and the Last Dragon with my wife
and daughter. Part of the reason we looked forward to watching this movie is
that it was intentionally made to reflect a SE Asia setting. We lived in Indonesia
for fourteen years. We really love the people there and we miss things about
Indonesia, including the food! The movie did include some foods we recognized
and some other aspects of SE Asian culture. So that was nice, although we didn’t
feel like the cultural aspects went very deep. But, hey, it’s a Disney movie, and
it was generally fun and enjoyable to watch. But there is a lot more to Raya than
the cultural setting.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Disney movies often have some type of message or messages, and
Raya certainly did. The message is made clear in many ways. You don’t have to
dig deep for the message, it’s right on the surface throughout the movie. What
is that message? My best attempt to sum it up is this:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">We should trust people, even when they
have hurt and betrayed us in the past and even when there is no reason to think
they have changed.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">As a Christian, I want to examine that message in the light of God’s
Word. But first, I have a few thoughts as a parent. This is a message marketed
to children, although Raya will certainly be viewed by many adults as well. I
wonder how many of the folks at Disney teach their children to trust people who
have hurt and betrayed them in the past when there is no evidence that the
person has changed? I wonder if they do that in their own lives? Would you do
that? Should you?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Let’s look at what the Bible teaches relative to this topic.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The Bible Calls Us to Trust God, not People</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The Bible speaks a lot about trust. But you might miss some of it.
The word translated “believe” in John 3:16 (and in many other verses) includes
the idea of trusting someone. We aren’t called merely to agree with certain
facts about Jesus, we are called to trust Him with our lives and our hearts.
Indeed, throughout the Bible we are encouraged to trust God and our Lord Jesus
Christ. Here are just a few verses: <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">ESV Psalm 9:10
And those who know your name put their trust in you, for you, O LORD, have not
forsaken those who seek you.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">ESV Psalm 40:4
Blessed is the man who makes the LORD his trust, who does not turn to the
proud, to those who go astray after a lie!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">ESV Psalm 115:9 O
Israel, trust in the LORD! He is their help and their shield.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">ESV Psalm 118:8
It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in man.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">ESV Psalm 125:1 <i>A
Song of Ascents. </i>Those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion, which
cannot be moved, but abides forever.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">ESV Proverbs 3:5
Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own
understanding.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">ESV Isaiah 26:4
Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORD GOD is an everlasting rock.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">ESV John 14:1
"Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">ESV John 3:16
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever
believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">CSB17 2
Corinthians 1:9 Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death, so
that we would not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">CSB17 1 Peter
4:19 So then, let those who suffer according to God's will entrust themselves to
a faithful Creator while doing what is good.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Here is the list of all the verses I could find, after careful research
and using several methods of searching for them (not to mention many years of
constantly reading, studying, and teaching the Bible myself) that say that we
should trust people:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I couldn’t find a single verse that
indicates that we should trust people in general, much less that we should
trust those who have done us harm and whose actions indicate that they are
ungodly.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Not only is there no encouragement to trust people in general, the
Bible often warns us to be on guard against people and in many situations not
to trust people! Jesus Himself, who had perfect judgment in these matters, did
not trust people in general:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">CSB17 John 2:23 While he was in Jerusalem during the
Passover Festival, many believed in his name when they saw the signs he was
doing.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>24 Jesus, however,
would not entrust himself to them, since he knew them all</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>25 and because he did not need anyone to
testify about man; for he himself knew what was in man.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The reason the Bible does not encourage us to
trust people is that, in general, people are not trustworthy. In fact, all
people are sinful. And many people are downright evil and depraved and if you
trust them, they will hurt you without a second thought if they sense any
benefit for themselves in doing so.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">But don’t we have to trust people in order to
live in this world? I mean, when you order a hamburger aren’t you trusting that
the people making it aren’t poisoning it? Actually, no. I don’t usually know
the people making my hamburger. Instead, I know God, Who is in control of all
things. And I trust that He will not allow me to be poisoned unless He has a
good reason for allowing it. But this doesn’t mean I’m supposed to put God to
the test by trusting people in ways that are foolish.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">So, the first main point is that the Bible
never teaches us to trust people in general (although some individuals are generally
trustworthy), and instead focuses us on trusting our Father in Heaven.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">But aren’t we supposed to do good even to our
enemies? Yes, but that is not because we trust them . . .</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">We are called to love our enemies, not to
trust them</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">“But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray
for those who persecute you” – Jesus Christ (Matthew 5:44 ESV)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">God calls us to love all people. He calls us
to love all our neighbors, even those from groups that are hostile to any
groups we are in (remember the Good Samaritan!). God even calls us to love our
enemies. As my family discussed the movie after watching it, we agreed that a
similar movie could easily have been made that was about loving our enemies
instead of trusting our enemies. That could have been a powerful movie with a
beautiful message in harmony with God’s truth! But alas, that is not what we
find in Raya.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Loving someone is not the same thing as trusting
them. Loving someone means that we seek their good, even if we do not trust
them. Loving others means we are willing to take risks to reach out to them,
not because we trust them, but because we love them and we trust God to ultimately
protect us (He may allow us to suffer in this life but will use all our
suffering for good if we love Him).</span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">While loving people and trusting people may
look the same on the outside in some situations, in other situations it will
produce very different actions. Sometimes the differences are stark, sometimes
they are subtle. If a stranger offers your child a ride home in his van, you
don’t want your child to trust him! That doesn’t mean you don’t love that
stranger and shouldn’t help them in a different setting (of course, if you have
reason to think their motives were evil, you should protect your children and
others by reporting them and helping them into prison). A more subtle example
involves strangers who ask for money to buy food. I’ve had this happen to me in
both the US and in Indonesia (but more often in Indonesia, where the amount and
level of poverty is much greater). How do I know they won’t misuse the money if
I hand it to them? I don’t. I don’t trust them and I’m not called to trust
them. But I am called to love them. So, both in Indonesia and in the US, I have
sometimes gone and bought them food. Sometimes I took them to the grocery store,
set a limit, let them shop, and then I paid for it. Even doing this there is no
guarantee that they will not trade the food for drugs, alcohol, or cigarettes.
But I don’t have to trust a person to take some risk and help them. I can be
wise and reduce the risk of my help going astray, but ultimately I help them
out of love, not because they are trustworthy. Jesus helped many people who were
not grateful to Him. Trust and love are two different things. Raya and the Last
Dragon does not seem to understand this. But then, being made by Disney, I
guess we shouldn’t expect them to.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Some people are basically trustworthy, many
others are not</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The issue of trusting people is complex. Disney oversimplified the
issue to the point of being misleading. Biblically, although only God is
completely trustworthy, some people are basically worthy of our trust. For
example, Paul charges Timothy to pass his teaching onto faithful men who can teach
others (2 Timothy 2:2). Here, “faithful” basically means the same thing as trustworthy.
Paul calls some individuals faithful: Tychichus (Ephesians 6:21), Ephaphras
(Colossians 1:7), and Onesimis (Colossians 4:4). Peter calls Silvanus “faithful”
(1 Peter 5:12). However, Paul warns his readers to be on guard against Alexander
the copper smith specifically because he had done great harm to Paul (2 Timothy
4:14-15). We should carefully evaluate people before we trust them. Some people
are trustworthy, some are not. The dragon’s advice to Raya in the movie is to
trust someone who has already done her great harm even though there is no
evidence of change. That’s really bad advice (of course in the movie it works
out well, but in real life it rarely will).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Other issues in the movie, good and bad</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The movie ends with something similar to a resurrection of many people
who had been turned to stone. To me this was a moving scene. It is a faint (imperfect,
and in some ways inaccurate) picture of the resurrection we look forward to
when all evil will be overcome and we will live in peace and harmony with all
of God’s people in a perfect world.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Raya was courageous and persevered in a long and difficult mission
to rescue her father and her people. Examples of courage and perseverance in
the face of evil and many difficulties can inspire us. God calls us all to contribute
to His mission of spreading the gospel and making disciples and it does require
courage, sacrifice, perseverance, and being willing to face danger.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Different dragons and different people have different gifts and
skills in Raya and the Last Dragon. This reflects how God works through
different people with different gifts in the church and in ministry. We need to
work together to be fruitful.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Raya engages in an occult-like ritual to call forth the last
dragon. Obviously, this is fiction, but people really do use somewhat similar
occult practices to attempt to communicate with the dead. In fact, I’ve seen it
done. I didn’t know it was going to happen at an event I attended overseas, and
I didn’t approve of it in any way and in fact prayed like crazy against it when
I saw what they were doing. At best, these practices are simply fake and empty.
However, there is a real risk of demonic influence coming into the lives of
people who participate in such things. It should not be taken lightly. Disney’s
movie Soul also showed occult activity in a positive light. We need to guard
ourselves, our families, and our church members from such influence. It really
is dangerous.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Dragons providing for people and giving people guidance is a
terrible substitute and does not work as a symbol for the truth that God
provides for us and gives us guidance through His Word, His Holy Spirit, and
His people.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Conclusion</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">If you choose to watch this movie with your kids, I think it is
important to discuss some of the problems in it and some of the wrong messages
it sends. We should trust God, not people. The world is not broken because we
failed to trust people, but because people have failed to trust God. The Bible
does teach us to love our enemies, but this is not the same as trusting them. And
occult activity is dangerous and sinful.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">May God watch over our families, our church families, and especially
our children.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Related Blog Posts:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2020/12/is-disneys-soul-good-for-yours-bible.html">Is
Disney’s Soul Good for Yours?</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2019/12/frozen-2-biblical-lessons-and-christian.html">Frozen
2: Biblical Lessons and Christian Thoughts</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2021/03/spoiler-alert-this-blog-post-has.html">WandaVision:
7 Christian Themes Seen in Marvel’s Show</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2019/05/avengers-endgame-lessons-for-christians.html">Avenger’s
Endgame: Lessons for Christians</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2018/05/thanatos-is-worse-enemy-than-thanos.html">Thanatos
is a Worse Enemy than Thanos</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2019/06/a-million-american-witches-need-jesus.html">A
Million American Witches Need Jesus</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2019/06/church-growth-unity-leads-to-teamwork.html">Church
Growth: Unity leads to teamwork leads to church growth</a></span></p>
<i>Hebrews 13:16 And do not forget to do good and to share with others . . .
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Mark Corbetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11845358650245441477noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4546375020443845329.post-59819963151959417912021-05-08T06:21:00.011-07:002022-10-07T04:57:50.275-07:00Heresy and Slander: Immune System Disorders in the Body of Christ<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhHM-kXaGQfCMUJkKRaS9TXfcKGO1vY-bG6_aDyuiHyppKD-KL_pDjcTPyXFTTPVInQFwowm8bo0rv2NgRPKxWS6gqokhbymSl6AHJW0mgAfyEpicV2SQPzXWra61Fiytl7i9icM7LpngR/s1280/Heresy+and+Slander.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhHM-kXaGQfCMUJkKRaS9TXfcKGO1vY-bG6_aDyuiHyppKD-KL_pDjcTPyXFTTPVInQFwowm8bo0rv2NgRPKxWS6gqokhbymSl6AHJW0mgAfyEpicV2SQPzXWra61Fiytl7i9icM7LpngR/w400-h225/Heresy+and+Slander.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When it comes to our immune systems, there is no such thing
as erring on the side of safety. If our immune systems are underactive, we will
be vulnerable to all types of diseases and illnesses. A weak immune system can
easily lead to death. But if our immune system is overactive, this is also a
grave danger. Our immune system can overreact to something that in itself is
relatively harmless and cause allergic reactions which range from inconvenient
to fatal. In some cases, our immune systems can even mistakenly attack healthy
parts of our own bodies and cause severe illness or even death. Immune systems must
not be too strong or too weak. They must attack pathogens and not attack our
body. We need them to work just right, or we will suffer.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Something similar is true when it comes to dealing with
doctrinal error among Christians. On the one hand, if we are not sufficiently
on guard against false teaching, the wolves quickly devour the sheep (see Acts
20:29). Many people are led astray by false teachers and false prophets (see
Matthew 24:11). But it is not only the false teachers themselves who are to
blame. Sometimes those who should be guarding the flock (especially elders, or
the equivalent in any Christian church or ministry) fail to do their job (see
Revelation 2:20). But there is another risk. Some people are overzealous in
their efforts to guard God’s people from error. They see heresy where there is
merely a wrong interpretation on a secondary issue. Or they see false teaching
when in fact the person teaching is not in error at all. When true, faithful
Christians are kept out or driven out of ministries and churches because of
false accusations of heresy, a lot of damage is done to the body of Christ.
Like an overactive immune system, these overactive guards can do just as much damage
as the ones who are not sufficiently on guard.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I’ve been in the role of seeing doctrinal errors seeping
into a Christian ministry and calling attention to it. It is not at all a
pleasant role to be in. I did my best to respond rightly. I understand the need
for guarding against false and dangerous teaching. Just a few weeks ago I
preached a message about churches and ministries that fail to guard against the
false teaching that homosexual practices are acceptable You may watch that
sermon here:</span></p>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In the rest of this post, I am going to focus on the other
side of the problem: Christians who too quickly cry “wolf,” and who accuse
others of heresy where there is no heresy. These Christians honestly believe
that they are protecting the body of Christ. In reality, like an overactive immune
system, they are damaging the very body they are supposed to protect.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Accusations of Heresy</span></b></p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
The word heresy should be reserved for errors that are at least serious enough
that any Christian church or ministry should bar anyone holding heretical views
from teaching and leadership positions. To charge someone with heresy is a
serious accusation. To see that this is in fact how people generally understand
heresy consider these two questions, each posed to any mature Christian who is
at a church seeking a new pastor.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1. Are you
ok with a new pastor who disagrees with you on some secondary point of
doctrine?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Most mature
Christians will realize that almost any two Christians will disagree on some
detail of doctrine. As long as it is not an essential fundamental of the faith,
it is usually acceptable, and we can work together effectively to make disciples.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2. Are you
ok with a new pastor who holds to heresy?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">No Christian
should be ok with that!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Of course, if another Christian, especially a teacher or
leader, actually does hold a heretical view, it is right to confront them and
if we are in a proper position to do so we should warn other Christians against
them.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">On the other hand, if we accuse someone of heresy when they
are not, in fact, guilty of heresy, we can do great damage to the accused and
also to the body of Christ. We may cause unnecessary and damaging division
where there should be unity.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There is nothing wrong with gently discussing with someone
that you think they are mistaken about a secondary doctrine. If both sides are
humble and respectful, such discussions can help everyone understand the Bible
more clearly and accurately. However, a charge of heresy raises the stakes. But
it doesn't just raise the stakes for the one charged with heresy. It also
raises the stakes for the one making the accusation. If an accusation of heresy
is false, then the one making the accusation is guilty of slander. The Bible
treats slander as a serious sin (see these verses:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Matthew 15:19; Romans 1:30; 2 Corinthians
12:20; Ephesians 4:31; Colossians 3:8; 1 Peter 2:1).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Slander is basically saying something negative about a
person that is not true. (In some cases, if the speaker’s motives are wrong or
if they are speaking in a way that hurts rather than helps, there can even be
slander when an accusation is true, but I’m not discussing that situation
here.)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">An accusation of heresy might be false for several reasons,
including these:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1. The person accused does not actually hold the view he/she
is accused of holding. This happened to the Apostle Paul (see Romans 3:8). I
have also seen it happen to people I know. One way this happens is when the
accuser feels like a certain view logically leads to a terrible heretical
conclusion, yet the person they are accusing does NOT believe their view
logically leads to the heretical conclusion. Even if the accuser is correct
about the logic, if they accuse the other person of actually holding the
terrible heresy when they do not hold it, that’s wrong. The accused may be
guilty of a logical error, but that is far different from being guilty of
heresy. An example is if an Arminian feels that Calvinism logically leads to
the conclusion that God is unjust and then accuses Calvinists not merely of
being Calvinists, but of believing that God is unjust. Of course, no Calvinist
I know believes God is unjust. Or if a Calvinist believes that Arminianism
logically leads to God not being sovereign and then they accuse a brother in
Christ who is Arminian of believing that God is not sovereign. But no Arminian
I know actually believes that. If you engage in theological discussions, you
can probably think of many more examples.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2. The person accused does hold the view, but the issue is
really a secondary level issue (what some people called "open hand
issues") and should not be treated as heresy. Different Christians will
differ on whether some issues are primary or secondary. Clear examples of
primary issues include things like: Jesus really, physically rose from the
dead; the deity of Christ; the basic truth of the Trinity; we are saved by
faith in Jesus; God created everything; and the Bible is true, trustworthy, and
authoritative. Those are just examples, more could be added to the list. Some
people add way too much to their list of essential doctrines. Some examples of
secondary issues include things like: your view of the millennium; old earth
vs. new earth views; Calvinism vs. Arminianism; and complementarianism vs.
egalitarianism. I am not saying these secondary issues are unimportant. They
are way more important than who wins some sports game, or what restaurant you
want to eat at after church, or what clothes you pick out to wear in the morning.
Secondary issues are worth studying and discussing and even respectfully
debating. With all these secondary issues (and there are many more!) at least
one of the two sides is wrong, but the nature of their error does not make them
a heretic. They are still our brother/sister in Christ, and we should treat
them like that. To accuse them of heresy is slander and is divisive.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">3. The accused person holds the view, but it turns out the
accused person’s view is actually correct. To disagree with the accused's
correct view might not be a serious error. But to accuse them of heresy for a
view that is actually correct is a serious case of slander. In the past,
faithful Christians were put to death for charges of heresy for beliefs that
most of us would now agree with. Thankfully, today (at least in most of the
nations people reading this live in) you can’t get away with burning someone at
the stake for a religious opinion you think is wrong, even if you view it as
heresy. However, Christians are sometimes wrongly excluded from fellowship,
from opportunities to use their gifts in a church or ministry, and sometimes
have been fired from their jobs over false accusations of heresy. I know people
this has happened to. It hurts those falsely accused, it hurts their family and
friends, and it hurts anyone who watches the ugliness and injustice involved.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It’s a serious sin if you slander a brother or sister in
Christ. If you cause unnecessary division, that is also a serious sin. In some
cases, if a person continues to be divisive after warning them, they themselves
might need to be put out of a church or ministry (see Titus 3:10).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The tendency to quickly accuse people of heresy seems
especially rampant in social media. Perhaps it is easier to fling such
dangerous accusations in a setting where you aren’t seeing the person face to
face, often barely know them, and are very unlikely to be held accountable.
In Facebook groups I help moderate, we have a low tolerance for such behavior,
but many groups are not well moderated. However, just because it is on Facebook
instead of in person, does not mean that the accusers will ultimately get away
with such behavior:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">CSB17 Matthew 12:36 I
tell you that on the day of judgment people will have to account for every
careless word they speak.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">CSB17 Matthew 7:2 For
you will be judged by the same standard with which you judge others, and you
will be measured by the same measure you use.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">I’m pretty sure the same thing will apply to every careless word people
type.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">What Prompted This</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">Up to now, I have purposely avoided making this specific to myself and some
Christian brothers and sisters whom I know and love. That’s because the issues
discussed above apply to many situations and not just ours. But I will mention
my own situation. I used to believe in a doctrine often called eternal torment.
As a result of Bible study, I now am convinced instead that the Bible teaches </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2016/06/what-is-conditional-immortality.html" target="_blank"><span style="mso-bidi-language: HE;">conditional immortality</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">. Basically, I believe that unrighteous will be resurrected to face
judgment. The judgment will be terrible for them. However, they will not suffer
eternally. Instead, they will perish (John 3:16) as God destroys both their
bodies and souls in hell (Matthew 10:28) and they are reduced to ashes (2 Peter
2:6). They will no longer exist as conscious people and will be gone forever.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">I respect others when they disagree with me (I used to disagree with the
view I now hold myself!) and argue against my view. In fact, I appreciate it when
someone will discuss the biblical evidence. That can help us both find the
truth. But it does bother me when people accuse me and other evangelical
conditionalists of heresy (or use equivalent language, like saying I am false
teacher, agent of Satan, etc.). Does this occasionally happen? That wouldn’t
really be accurate. It happens often. I honestly believe such accusations have
been made well over a hundred times against me, not to mention the thousands of
such accusations against my brothers and sisters in Christ who share my view of
hell. Does it bother me? Usually, it does not bother me very much in terms of
how it affects me directly. But I am honestly always concerned about those who
are committing such serious slander and potentially causing harmful division in
the Church. I forgive them for any harm done to me. May God have mercy on them
and gently correct them.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">Conclusion</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There’s a lot of actual heresy and false teaching out there.
We need courageous Christians who are equipped to guard against these serious
errors. At the same time, great damage can be done and serious sins committed
when false accusations of heresy are made. Be courageous. Be zealous for the
truth. But also be careful and humble.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Related Blog Posts:</span></b></p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
<a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2017/06/grace-and-truth.html">Grace and Truth</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2018/11/marks-resources-on-hell-conditional.html" target="_blank">Mark’s Resources on Hell</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
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<p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I’m currently reading through the New Testament
in six months with a group of people (while this post is mainly focused on intentional,
planned, and group praying, I also strongly recommend intention, planned, and
group Bible reading!!). We are currently about halfway through the book of
Acts.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In the first half of Acts, despite intense
persecution, opposition, threats, and two of their leaders being martyred, the
gospel spreads rapidly and the church grows quickly. Woven into the rapid
spread of the gospel is constant prayer. This cannot be a coincidence.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Now, I’m strongly in favor of spontaneous
prayers and of praying as we go through our busy days. But two things strike me
about the prayer in Acts:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">1. People had regular times set aside
especially for prayer</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">2. People often met together for the purpose
of praying together</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">At the end of this blog post, I’ve included
all the verses in Acts 1-13 that specifically mention prayer. Read them yourselves!
Don’t skip reading these verses, they are by far the best and most powerful
part of this blog post!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">While the Christians in Acts were continually
devoted to prayer, often met and prayed together, and had set times for prayer,
I feel that we often fall short of this in our churches today. Over many years
I have noticed that prayer meetings (especially meetings where a majority of
the time is actually spent praying) are the least well attended events that a
church can hold. Many Christians, even Christians in ministry leadership, spend
shockingly little time in devoted prayer. Could this be why we don’t often
experience the same Holy Spirit empowered and guided growth of the Church that
they experienced?</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I have had some positive experiences with
Christians today praying intentionally. My wife and I lived in a Muslim
majority nation for fourteen years (we love that nation and its people!). There
was intense opposition to the gospel and widespread persecution of Christians.
I’m convinced that one of the most important ministries we were involved in
during those years was a year of prayer. A group of us from different
denominational backgrounds and from different nations worked together to sign
up people from around the world to commit to pray for the spread of the gospel
in our area for one half hour time slot each week. In addition to praying
ourselves, those of us who lived in this Muslim nation sent prayer requests and
updates every week to those who were praying. It was powerful and I’m convinced
that those prayer are responsible for some of the progress made in the years
since then.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Prayer works everywhere. You don’t have to be
living in an area of intense persecution to pray intensely! However, if persecution
and opposition to Christianity in the US and similar nations continues to intensify,
perhaps one positive response will be a growth in deep commitment to prayer.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Christians throughout history have found that
groups of believers praying together often precedes God working in powerful
ways to advance the gospel.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">So, I urge you to set aside planned times to
pray. I also encourage you to participate in prayer meetings with other
Christians. Some of you may want to start new prayer meetings. You don’t need a
big group. Three or four Christians meeting together for prayer is powerful!</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Now, for the best part of this blog post. Here
are the verses in Acts 1-13 where the word “pray” or some form of that word is
used. May God’s word encourage and motivate you!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">CSB17 Acts 1:14<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They all were continually united in <b>prayer</b>,
along with the women, including Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">CSB17 Acts 1:24<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then they <b>prayed</b>, "You, Lord,
know everyone's hearts; show which of these two you have chosen</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">CSB17 Acts 2:42<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They devoted themselves to the apostles'
teaching, to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread, and to <b>prayer</b>.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">CSB17 Acts 3:1<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now Peter and John were going up to the
temple for the time of <b>prayer </b>at three in the afternoon.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">CSB17 Acts 4:31<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When they had <b>prayed</b>, the place where
they were assembled was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit
and began to speak the word of God boldly.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">CSB17 Acts 6:4<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But we will devote ourselves to <b>prayer </b>and
to the ministry of the word."</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">CSB17 Acts 6:6<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They had them stand before the apostles, who <b>prayed
</b>and laid their hands on them.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">CSB17 Acts 8:15<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After they went down there, they <b>prayed f</b>or
them so the Samaritans might receive the Holy Spirit because he had not yet
come down on any of them.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">CSB17 Acts 8:22<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Therefore repent of this wickedness of yours,
and pray to the Lord that, if possible, your heart's intent may be forgiven.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">CSB17 Acts 8:24<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"<b>Pray</b> to the Lord for me,"
Simon replied, "so that nothing you have said may happen to me."</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">CSB17 Acts 9:11<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Get up and go to the street called
Straight," the Lord said to him, "to the house of Judas, and ask for
a man from Tarsus named Saul, since he is <b>praying </b>there.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">CSB17 Acts 9:40<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Peter sent them all out of the room. He knelt
down, <b>prayed</b>, and turning toward the body said, "Tabitha, get
up." She opened her eyes, saw Peter, and sat up.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">CSB17 Acts 10:2<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was a devout man and feared God along with
his whole household. He did many charitable deeds for the Jewish people and
always <b>prayed </b>to God.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">CSB17 Acts 10:4<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Staring at him in awe, he said, "What is
it, Lord?" The angel told him, "Your <b>prayers</b> and your acts of
charity have ascended as a memorial offering before God.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">CSB17 Acts 10:9 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The next day, as they were traveling and
nearing the city, Peter went up to <b>pray</b> on the roof about noon.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">CSB17 Acts 10:30<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cornelius replied, "Four days ago at
this hour, at three in the afternoon, I was <b>praying</b> in my house. Just
then a man in dazzling clothing stood before me</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">CSB17 Acts 10:31<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and said, 'Cornelius, your <b>prayer</b> has
been heard, and your acts of charity have been remembered in God's sight.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">CSB17 Acts 11:5<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"I was in the town of Joppa <b>praying</b>,
and I saw, in a trance, an object that resembled a large sheet coming down,
being lowered by its four corners from heaven, and it came to me.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">CSB17 Acts 12:5<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was
<b>praying</b> fervently to God for him.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">CSB17 Acts 12:12<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As soon as he realized this, he went to the
house of Mary, the mother of John Mark, where many had assembled and were <b>praying</b>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">CSB17 Acts 13:3<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then after they had fasted, <b>prayed</b>,
and laid hands on them, they sent them off.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
<i>Hebrews 13:16 And do not forget to do good and to share with others . . .
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Some of my other blog posts about prayer:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2016/08/awesome-wonderful-powerful-prayer.html" target="_blank">Awesome, Wonderful, Powerful Prayer</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2018/10/a-model-for-intercessory-prayer.html" target="_blank">A Model for Intercessory Prayer, Epaphras in Colossians 4:12</a></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2017/09/do-we-kneel-and-bow-down-enough.html" target="_blank">Do We Kneel and Bow Down Enough?</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2016/03/really-practical-ministry-tips-1-listen.html" target="_blank">Really Practical Ministry Tips: Listen and Pray</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></p><p> </p>Mark Corbetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11845358650245441477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4546375020443845329.post-9471047157990954152021-04-18T04:13:00.005-07:002021-07-11T01:47:55.406-07:007 Lessons from Cornelius and Peter in Acts 10<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaI3-3_GTGQYqVqYFg-yzjec9V3Dp6-4-nufv_WRuWN2Ky2Zebo1t1VfPemJzf3NklvsXoor69LxotPvAsLwD12B1cDezSaAjDr7KuLhcV7bFdKzXEL_PcC3woXHAHuUQhqBZ8rRvc_muN/s1280/Lessons+from+Corneius+and+Peter+Acts+10.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaI3-3_GTGQYqVqYFg-yzjec9V3Dp6-4-nufv_WRuWN2Ky2Zebo1t1VfPemJzf3NklvsXoor69LxotPvAsLwD12B1cDezSaAjDr7KuLhcV7bFdKzXEL_PcC3woXHAHuUQhqBZ8rRvc_muN/w400-h225/Lessons+from+Corneius+and+Peter+Acts+10.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing">This morning, I read Acts 10 for my daily Bible reading
(I’m part of a group of people who are reading through the New Testament in six
months). This is the story of Cornelius and Peter. I’ve included the whole
passage at the bottom of this blog post. This story is chock-full of lessons
and principles related to the gospel and evangelism. I share seven lessons I saw
below. With each lesson, I include verse numbers or reference the whole story
as applicable. May you be blessed and may we all put these lessons into practice!</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">1. People can fear God in a good way and seek Him in
prayer and good works even before they know Him through Jesus (10:1-4).
However, this type of seeking is not sufficient for salvation unless it
leads to hearing the good news about Jesus and believing in Jesus (10:43). Even
basically good people like Cornelius still need forgiveness of sins!</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">2. When someone is ready to believe in Jesus, but they
live in circumstances where they do not have access to the gospel, God’s
solution is NOT that this person will be saved without the gospel or that they
will die and then hear the gospel after death. <b>God’s solution is to do
whatever it takes to get a Christian to bring the gospel to them.</b> In this
story it took angelic visitations and a vision and sending people to other
cities and overcoming cultural barriers. God’s plan is for saved people who
have believed the good news about Jesus to tell other people this good news so
that they can be saved. The Bible gives no hint <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of any “plan B.” (see the whole story in Acts
10)</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">3. God often speaks to us when we have set aside time to
pray (10:9 and 30). If you want supernatural guidance from God, it is a good idea
to set aside time to pray every day like Cornelius and Peter did .</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">4. God accepts all kinds of people from all kinds of
backgrounds. We should be glad to share and reach out to all kinds of people
(10:34-35).</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">5. We should be willing to have our lives interpreted and
even make an impromptu several day trip somewhere in order to spread the gospel
(the whole story in Acts 10).</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">6. The gospel message is all about Jesus (10:36-43).</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">7. We should encourage people to be baptized as soon as
they believe the gospel (10:48).</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><sup><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">CSB17 </span></sup><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">Acts 10:1</span></b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">
There was a man in Caesarea named Cornelius, a centurion of what was called the
Italian Regiment.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><sup>2</sup> He
was a devout man and feared God along with his whole household. He did many
charitable deeds for the Jewish people and always prayed to God.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><sup>3</sup> About
three in the afternoon he distinctly saw in a vision an angel of God who came
in and said to him, "Cornelius."</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><sup>4</sup>
Staring at him in awe, he said, "What is it, Lord?" The angel told
him, "Your prayers and your acts of charity have ascended as a memorial
offering before God.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><sup>5</sup> Now
send men to Joppa and call for Simon, who is also named Peter.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><sup>6</sup> He is
lodging with Simon, a tanner, whose house is by the sea."</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><sup>7</sup> When
the angel who spoke to him had gone, he called two of his household servants
and a devout soldier, who was one of those who attended him.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><sup>8</sup> After
explaining everything to them, he sent them to Joppa.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><sup>9</sup> The
next day, as they were traveling and nearing the city, Peter went up to pray on
the roof about noon.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><sup>10</sup> He
became hungry and wanted to eat, but while they were preparing something, he
fell into a trance.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><sup>11</sup> He
saw heaven opened and an object that resembled a large sheet coming down, being
lowered by its four corners to the earth.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><sup>12</sup> In
it were all the four-footed animals and reptiles of the earth, and the birds of
the sky.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><sup>13</sup> A
voice said to him, "Get up, Peter; kill and eat."</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><sup>14</sup>
"No, Lord!" Peter said. "For I have never eaten anything impure
and ritually unclean."</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><sup>15</sup>
Again, a second time, the voice said to him, "What God has made clean, do
not call impure."</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><sup>16</sup> This
happened three times, and suddenly the object was taken up into heaven.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><sup>17</sup>
While Peter was deeply perplexed about what the vision he had seen might mean,
right away the men who had been sent by Cornelius, having asked directions to
Simon's house, stood at the gate.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><sup>18</sup> They
called out, asking if Simon, who was also named Peter, was lodging there.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><sup>19</sup>
While Peter was thinking about the vision, the Spirit told him, "Three men
are here looking for you.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><sup>20</sup> Get
up, go downstairs, and go with them with no doubts at all, because I have sent
them."</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><sup>21</sup> Then
Peter went down to the men and said, "Here I am, the one you're looking
for. What is the reason you're here?"</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><sup>22</sup> They
said, "Cornelius, a centurion, an upright and God-fearing man, who has a
good reputation with the whole Jewish nation, was divinely directed by a holy
angel to call you to his house and to hear a message from you."</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><sup>23</sup>
Peter then invited them in and gave them lodging. The next day he got up and
set out with them, and some of the brothers from Joppa went with him.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><sup>24</sup> The
following day he entered Caesarea. Now Cornelius was expecting them and had
called together his relatives and close friends.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><sup>25</sup> When
Peter entered, Cornelius met him, fell at his feet, and worshiped him.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><sup>26</sup> But
Peter lifted him up and said, "Stand up. I myself am also a man."</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><sup>27</sup>
While talking with him, he went in and found a large gathering of people.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><sup>28</sup>
Peter said to them, "You know it's forbidden for a Jewish man to associate
with or visit a foreigner, but God has shown me that I must not call any person
impure or unclean.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><sup>29</sup>
That's why I came without any objection when I was sent for. So may I ask why
you sent for me?"</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><sup>30</sup> Cornelius
replied, "Four days ago at this hour, at three in the afternoon, I was
praying in my house. Just then a man in dazzling clothing stood before me</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><sup>31</sup> and
said, 'Cornelius, your prayer has been heard, and your acts of charity have
been remembered in God's sight.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><sup>32</sup>
Therefore send someone to Joppa and invite Simon here, who is also named Peter.
He is lodging in Simon the tanner's house by the sea.'</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><sup>33</sup> So I
immediately sent for you, and it was good of you to come. So now we are all in
the presence of God to hear everything you have been commanded by the
Lord."</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><sup>34</sup>
Peter began to speak: "Now I truly understand that God doesn't show
favoritism,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><sup>35</sup> but
in every nation the person who fears him and does what is right is acceptable
to him.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><sup>36</sup> He
sent the message to the Israelites, proclaiming the good news of peace through
Jesus Christ-- he is Lord of all.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><sup>37</sup> You
know the events that took place throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee
after the baptism that John preached:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><sup>38</sup> how
God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how he
went about doing good and healing all who were under the tyranny of the devil,
because God was with him.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><sup>39</sup> We
ourselves are witnesses of everything he did in both the Judean country and in
Jerusalem, and yet they killed him by hanging him on a tree.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><sup>40</sup> God
raised up this man on the third day and caused him to be seen,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><sup>41</sup> not
by all the people, but by us whom God appointed as witnesses, who ate and drank
with him after he rose from the dead.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><sup>42</sup> He
commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one
appointed by God to be the judge of the living and the dead.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><sup>43</sup> All
the prophets testify about him that through his name everyone who believes in
him receives forgiveness of sins."</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><sup>44</sup>
While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit came down on all
those who heard the message.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><sup>45</sup> The
circumcised believers who had come with Peter were amazed because the gift of
the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><sup>46</sup> For
they heard them speaking in other tongues and declaring the greatness of God.
Then Peter responded,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><sup>47</sup>
"Can anyone withhold water and prevent these people from being baptized,
who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><sup>48</sup> He
commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him
to stay for a few days.</span></p>
<i>Hebrews 13:16 And do not forget to do good and to share with others . . .
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</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b>Explanation of this blog post series:</b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">A few days ago, I received my copy of Stephen Meyer’s new
book: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062071505/"><i>Return of the
God Hypothesis, Three Scientific Discoveries that Reveal the Mind Behind the
Universe</i></a>. In his book, Meyer provides powerful scientific evidence for
the existence of God. Meyer is gifted at explaining complex topics in ways that
non-experts can understand them. <b>I highly recommend the book.</b> Still, his
book is a bit long and a bit technical for some people’s taste. So, I intend to
write some blog posts summarizing and somewhat simplifying the material in his
book for a broader audience. Much of what I write will be based on his book and
wherever you see something like this (pg. #), that refers to a page in Meyer’s
book where the topic is discussed or a quote may be found. Some of what I
write, including the next section of this blog post, is not based on Meyer’s
book. These sections are designed to help a wider audience understand the
importance and application of these topics.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b>The Multiverse is Popular these Days (this section is
not based on Meyer’s book)</b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Many science fiction movies and TV shows include some
type of “multiverse.” We live in the universe, and people used to use the word
“universe” to include everything God created in the natural world (everything
except the heavenly realm where God and angels are seen to live in the Bible).
However, in many TV shows and movies there are multiple alternative universes.
Often, these alternative universes are similar, but not identical to our own.
For example, there might be a version of me in another universe that is like me
in almost every way except that the alternate me sings well (I know that seems
unrealistic, but remember, it’s science fiction!). All of the alternate
universes put together are called “the multiverse.” If you don’t believe in a
spiritual realm, then the multiverse would include all that exists.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Examples of movies/TV shows that involve some type of
multiverse (I haven’t watched all these, and their mention does NOT mean I
recommend them):</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>The whole set of Star Trek TV shows</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: 326.25pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>The
CW DC Comics world including shows like Flash, Supergirl, and the new Superman
and Lois series</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: 326.25pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>Spider-man:
Into the Spider-verse</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: 326.25pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>The
Avenger’s movie Endgame</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: 326.25pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>Doctor
Who</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: 326.25pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>Netflix’s
“Dark”</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: 326.25pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>The
Movie, Mr. Nobody</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: 326.25pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>The
TV series, “Fringe”</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 326.25pt;">Obviously, these movies and
shows are fiction. However, they can subtly influence people to get used to the
idea of some type of multiverse and be more open to other universes actually
existing. Some of these shows and movies are super-popular all around the
world. They have more influence on how people think than you may realize.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 326.25pt;">Why does any of this matter?
Well, many scientists believe that a multiverse containing a vast number of
universes actually exists. For them, the multiverse is not science fiction, but
science. And some of these scientists have promoted this idea in popular books.
Ok, that’s weird, but why should we care? <b>We should care because the
existence of a vast number of alternate universes is often used to explain away
an otherwise astonishingly powerful scientific argument for the existence of
God.</b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 326.25pt;">So, are atheism-promoting scientists
and science fiction writers secretly conspiring to keep masses of people from
believing in God? I doubt that they have secret meetings for this purpose. But
I do believe that they are in fact working AGAINST faith in God.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 326.25pt;">Now, let’s turn to the content
of Meyer’s book, which works FOR faith in God.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 326.25pt;"><b>Extreme Fine-Tuning of the
Universe for Life as Evidence for God</b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 326.25pt;">(This section of the blog post
is based on chapter 7, “The Goldilocks Universe” and chapter 8, “Extreme Fine
Tuning – by Design?” of Meyer’s book)</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 326.25pt;">Our physical universe is
governed by laws of physics (which I believe in turn were created by God).
These laws of physics include some constants such as: the strength of gravity
and the other three fundamental forces (the strong nuclear force, the weak
nuclear force, and the electromagnetic force). There are other constants like
the mass of the electron, the mass of up and down quarks, and the mass of other
elementary particles. As far as scientists can understand, these constants (1)
never change and are the same everywhere throughout our universe, and (2) could
have had different values (there is no known reason why these constants have
the values they do – unless like Meyers and I you believe that God purposely
chose them for a reason).</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 326.25pt;">In addition to physical constants,
scientists believe that there was a set of initial conditions at the beginning
of the universe at the time of the big bang. These initial conditions have to
do with things like how much matter and energy was in the universe and how this
matter and energy was distributed throughout space (was it spread out very
evenly and smoothly or was it lumpier with high density clumps of matter in
some places and far less matter in other places?). As far as the scientists can
tell, the amount and distribution of matter could have been far different at
the beginning. There is no known reason that it had to start out the way it
did.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 326.25pt;">Beginning around the 1950’s,
scientists began to discover something amazing and unexpected. Many of these physical
constants must have very precise values, the exact values they actually do
have, or our universe would not be capable of supporting life like us. Also,
the initial conditions in the universe had to be very precisely (super,
amazingly precisely) right in order to produce a universe that would allow life
to exist. Even very tiny changes in these constants and/or initial conditions
would result in a universe that could not possibly support life of any kind.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 326.25pt;">What would the universe have
been like if the initial conditions and constants were not just right? Well, in
some cases the universe would have immediately crunched back into a singularity
that would be like a super black hole. In other cases, the universe would produce
no stars or galaxies, only atoms of hydrogen and helium spread out over vast
spaces. In still other cases, the universe would be full of black holes and
have no stars. With other combinations of physical constants, there might be
stars, but there would be no elements (or at least no significant amount of
elements) other than hydrogen and helium and perhaps one or two others. Without
elements like oxygen and carbon, there could be no life of any kind. (You can’t
even have water without oxygen, since water is H2O!). These aren’t universes
where it would be difficult to have life, these are universes where there is no
way life could exist.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 326.25pt;">This situation, where the
constants of physics and initial conditions of the universe are just right to
permit life, is called “fine tuning.” If you don’t believe in God, then it
appears that we got really, really lucky. How lucky? If someone buys a single
lottery ticket and wins, they are lucky. If they did that five times in a row,
that would be super-incredible-lucky, so lucky that it would be justified to
call for FBI investigations to see if the lottery was rigged. What if the
lottery goes on for a long time and they won a billion times in row, each time
by buying just one lottery ticket? That really is not a good analogy for how
“lucky” our universe is to have the right numbers to allow life. The reason it
is not a good analogy is that it would be far more likely to win the lottery a
billion times in a row by buying just one lucky ticket each time than it would
be for our universe to, just by chance, have all the physical constants and
initial conditions just right to allow for life. In fact, it is trillions and
trillions of times more likely to win the lottery a billion times in row. Our
universe is not just fine tuned, it is extremely fine tuned.</p>
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<p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 326.25pt;">One of the first scientists to
discover fine-tuning was astrophysicist Fred Hoyle (pp. 130-135). Hoyle was not
initially looking for fine-tuning. At the time of his initial discovery, Hoyle
was a hard core atheist. What he found shook his atheistic worldview. Hoyle was
just trying to figure out where all the carbon in the universe came from. It
was thought that elements heavier than hydrogen and helium might be produced by
fusion building up elements inside of stars. But there was a problem getting to
carbon and heavier elements. Hoyle realized that only if carbon had a very
specific higher energy state might fusion in stars be able to produce it in
significant quantities. He predicted that carbon must have such a state and his
prediction was later confirmed. But Hoyle also began to realize that for carbon
to have the right energy state other, more fundamental, values in physics had
to be very precise. He also realized that without carbon and oxygen and other
elements being produced there could be no life. Later, after more and more
fine-tuning discoveries were made, Hoyle stated:</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in; tab-stops: 326.25pt;">A
common-sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a super-intellect has
monkeyed with physics, as well as with chemistry and biology and that there are
no blind forces worth speaking about in nature. The numbers one calculates from
the facts seem to me so overwhelming as to put this conclusion almost beyond
question. (pg. 139)</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 326.25pt;">Hoyle was among the first, but
far from the only, physicist to be awestruck by the fine-tuning of our universe
for life. In fact, before reading Meyer’s book which supports a theistic
worldview, I read two earlier books by scientists<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>who do not believe in God (as far as I can
tell), but do believe in incredible fine-tuning:</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 326.25pt;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Goldilocks-Enigma-Universe-Just-Right/dp/0547053584/">The
Goldilocks Enigma: Why is the Universe Just Right for Life?</a> by Paul Davies</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 326.25pt;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Just-Six-Numbers-Forces-Universe/dp/0465036732/">Just
Six Numbers: The Deep Forces that Shape the Universe</a> by Martin Rees</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 326.25pt;">The incredible fine-tuning of
the laws of physics and initial conditions of the universe is a fact widely
recognized by many scientists. In fact, even some of the most anti-God atheism
promoting scientists recognize the problem (well, for them it’s a problem) of
fine-tuning.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 326.25pt;">Meyer provides lots of
detailed examples of fine tuning and many quotes from scientists. Unlike this
blog post, Meyer’s book is heavily footnoted and documented so that those who
desire can look up books and papers from a host of scientists on the topic of
fine tuning. He does a good job of explaining how things like the mass of
quarks, the initial entropy of the universe, the cosmological constant, the
fundamental forces of nature, the mass of an electron, and more are fine-tuned.
If you like science, you will love reading Meyer’s explanations.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 326.25pt;">No one thinks that we could
have gotten lucky enough to get all the fine-tuning factors right in our
universe so that it can support life. That much luck is unbelievable.
Fine-tuning seems to point to a Fine Tuner. Fine tuning suggests that there is Someone
Who existed before the universe and Who established the laws of physics and
initial conditions to achieve a goal: to create a life-friendly universe where
we can live. This points to the great wisdom of God and also to His great
power. After all, none of us can change the strength of gravity or cause a universe
to come into existence with the right amount and distribution of matter. This <i>should</i>
lead to worship. And thankfully, there are indeed Christian scientists who
worship God as the great Creator of our fine-tuned universe. Indeed, many of
the men who started modern science were also Christians, or at least theists (in
other chapters, Meyer’s writes about the Christian foundations of modern
science).</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 326.25pt;">Tragically, there are other
scientists who are committed to a materialistic worldview, where matter and
energy is all there is. Some of these scientists aggressively attack
Christianity and zealously promote atheism. Do these scientists not know about
fine-tuning? They do, but they believe that something other than God can
explain the fine tuning of the universe. The most popular alternative to God
among these God-denying scientists is the multiverse.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 326.25pt;"><b>How the multiverse is used
to explain fine-tuning</b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 326.25pt;">(Most of the rest of this blog
post is based on chapter 16 of Meyer’s book)</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 326.25pt;">Imagine if instead of someone
buying one lottery ticket and winning the lottery, they bought a trillion
tickets, each with a different number, and won. We would no longer consider
that luck. If you bought enough lottery tickets at the right times (many
trillions) you could even expect to win many lotteries in a row without the
need for luck (of course you would be spending more money than you would win).
Some scientists say that the multiverse can work the same way to explain fine
tuning. In order for the multiverse to work this way:</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 326.25pt;">1. There must be an incredibly
huge number of separate universes (way more than a trillion trillion trillion) and</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 326.25pt;">2. These universes must have
different values for the physical constants and different initial conditions
for the amount and distribution of matter</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 326.25pt;">In such a multiverse, the vast
majority (way, way more than 99.9999999999999999%) of them would be lifeless
and totally incapable of supporting life. But every now and then, just by
chance, we would expect there to be a “goldilocks universe” like ours where all
the numbers are just right to allow life to exist in it. Do scientists
seriously believe this is how it works instead of believing in God using His
wisdom and power to create one universe, our universe, the right way? Yes, some
do. In fact, you might be (sadly) surprised at how much they have studied,
written about, and lectured on this possibility.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They seem really devoted to suppressing the
truth seen in nature that points to God (see Romans 1:18-22). Indeed, this
(crazy) belief has spread to many non-scientists as well.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 326.25pt;"><b>Meyer explains multiverse
mechanisms (this section of the blog is unavoidably technical, so feel free to
skip it and go to the next section which explains why the multiverse doesn’t
explain fine-tuning)</b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 326.25pt;">In order to provide a
plausible sounding alternative to God for explaining the fine tuning of our
universe, some physicists have not only suggested the multiverse, but have
attempted to explain mechanisms for how the multiverse is produced (pg. 327).
Fine tuning has lots of scientific support. Without a scientific basis for the
multiverse, it would not be very useful as an explanation for something that
does have a strong scientific basis: fine tuning. Also, if the universes in a
multiverse are not causally connected by some multiverse generating mechanism,
then what happens in one universe could not possibly effect anything in another
universe, including probabilities (pg. 328). So, for the multiverse to work as
an explanation for fine tuning, mechanisms are needed.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 326.25pt;">The two most common proposed
mechanisms are (1) the inflationary multiverse and (2) a model based on string
theory. Some scientists combine these two mechanisms.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 326.25pt;">The multiverse model based on
eternal chaotic inflationary theory has been used to try to explain “only the
fine tuning of the initial conditions, not the laws and constants of physics,
since the laws of physics would be the same in all bubbles within the larger
universe” (pg. 329). So on it’s own, the inflationary multiverse model fails
miserably at explaining fine tuning.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 326.25pt;">String theory is complex.
Meyer spends some time giving an explanation to help us non-experts understand
it. Basically, some physicists believe that all elementary particles are made
of super-tiny vibrating strings that exist in six or seven extra dimensions of
space that we cannot see in our macroscopic world. These strings exist in
little structures called compactifications. The shape of the compactifications
and the way the strings vibrate determine the characteristics of the elementary
particles, which in turn determine the characteristics of everything else,
including the laws of physics and the constants associated with these laws (pp
330-331).</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 326.25pt;">String theory was not
initially developed to create a mechanism for the multiverse. Instead, they
hoped string theory would create a grand “theory of everything”, a single
theory that accounts for everything in nature at the most fundamental level.
However, string theorists ran into “a theoretical difficulty” when their math
produced an infinite number of solutions corresponding to an infinite number of
possible compactifications. All these compactifications taken together are
called the “string landscape.” While the total landscape may be infinite, the
more relevant landscape of solutions with a positive cosmological constant has
a mere 10<sup>500</sup> to 10<sup>1000</sup> different compactifications<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(pp 332-333).</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 326.25pt;">This is where the multiverse
comes in. Meyers explains:</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in; tab-stops: 326.25pt;">But some
string theorists attempted to turn this vice into a virtue by using the
multiplicity of possible solutions as a way of addressing the fine-tuning
problem. They proposed that each solution to the equations of string theory
corresponds to <i>a different universe with different physical laws and
constants of physics. </i>(pg. 333)</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 326.25pt;">The string theorists then
speculated that if we began with a high-energy compactification based universe,
as the energy decayed perhaps lesser-energy compactification based universes
would form and then those compactifications would in turn decay and produce
more and more different universes resulting in a multiverse containing a vast
number of universes, each with different physical constants (pg. 333). This is
similar to a ball that starts at the top of a mountain (the top of the mountain
represents high energy) and then rolling down a mountain and bouncing off rocks
lower and lower down the mountain as it goes (except that somehow each time the
ball bounces off a rock it forms a whole universe, which is kind of weird).</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 326.25pt;"><b>Four of the reasons Meyers
thinks that the multiverse is not as good an explanation for fine tuning as God
is</b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: .5in;"><b>#1. The principle of Ockham’s
razor states that “when attempting to explain phenomena we should, as much as
possible, avoid ‘multiplying (theoretical) entities’” (pg. 335).</b> </p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: .5in;">The God hypothesis requires just
one explanatory entity that we cannot see – God. The multiverse requires a vast
number of unseen (and unseeable!) universes plus universe generating
mechanisms. Indeed, in order to explain both the variation in initial
conditions of the universe and also the variation in the laws of physics some
believe that the mechanisms of inflationary cosmology and string theory need to
be combined. In order for this to work, one must believe in all of the
following unproven postulates:</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in; tab-stops: .5in;">1. An inflation
field exists.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in; tab-stops: .5in;">2. The decay of
inflation fields will produce new bubble universes with different initial
conditions.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in; tab-stops: .5in;">3. The process of
inflation will continue eternally into the future.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in; tab-stops: .5in;">4. An infinite
number of bubble universes exists (or will eventually exist).</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in; tab-stops: .5in;">5. Unimaginably
small vibrating strings of energy exist.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in; tab-stops: .5in;">6. Six or seven
hidden spatial dimensions exist</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in; tab-stops: .5in;">7. The vibrating
strings of energy within string vacua [vacua are another name for the multidimensional
compactions that contain strings] create the physical phenomena we observe</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in; tab-stops: .5in;">8. Lines of flux
around the compactifications of space exist, making them quasi-stable with a
positive cosmological constant.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in; tab-stops: .5in;">9. Supersymmetry
applies to fundamental strings, so that both gravitons and gravitinos exist and
their different vibrational modes correspond to all forms of radiation, matter,
and the fundamental forces of physics.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in; tab-stops: .5in;">10. Every
mathematical solution to the equations of string theory corresponds to an
actually existing universe with different laws and constants of physics (i.e.,
the string landscape exists).</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in; tab-stops: .5in;">(this list is
copied from pg. 337)</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: .5in;">Or you could believe in God. Keep
in mind that none of the ten postulates above is anywhere near proven by
physics. It’s all theoretical at this point and many physicists are very
skeptical of string theory and other aspect of this whole system. Meyer says
that philosopher of physics Bruce Gorden “likens all these postulations to
believing “six impossible things before breakfast,” as in the Alice and
Wonderland story – with, that is, a few more impossible (or at least
implausible) things thrown in for good measure” (pg. 337).</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: .5in;"><b>#2 We should prefer
explanations that match “what we already know about the causal powers of
various kinds of entities” (pg. 338)</b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: .5in;">We already know that intelligent
beings can finely tune things: instruments for an orchestra, a race car engine,
a computer for maximum performance, etc. It makes sense that an intelligent
Creator could fine tune the universe for life. We have no experience with
non-intelligent entities like inflation fields or vibrating strings being able
to fine tune things.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: .5in;"><b>#3 The multiverse cannot
explain fine tuning because the various mechanisms proposed for causing the
multiverse themselves would require a huge amount of fine tuning (pp 339-343)</b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: .5in;">In my opinion, this argument is
very strong. Remember, the question is not merely whether or not the multiverse
exists, but whether or not it removes fine tuning as evidence for God. If the
multiverse itself requires fine tuning to produce life permitting universes,
then we still have strong evidence for God. This applies to both inflationary
cosmology and string theory (two commonly proposed mechanisms for the
multiverse).</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: .5in;">Meyers gives a lot of details
about the fine tuning required. I will briefly summarize some (but not all) of the
different examples of fine tuning in multiverse mechanisms here, but my summary
is not a substitute for reading Meyer’s book:</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: .5in;">a. For an inflation field to work
it needs a minimum initial energy, the right amount of decay, and a finely
tuned “shutoff” energy to produce life permitting bubble universes. Also, the
shutoff interval must be precisely fine-tuned (pg. 339). These factors alone
get us back to a situation which is analogous to winning a billion lottery
games in a row when only buying one lottery ticket for each game.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: .5in;">b. Inflationary cosmology requires
more fine tuning of initial entropy, not less (pp. 340-341) than just the basic
big bang model of the universe without inflationary cosmology would require.
This is one of the factors involving the most extreme fine tuning.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: .5in;">c. String theory requires a highly
fine tuned choice of a compactification of space with “an extremely high-energy
quantum gravitational field” (pg 341) to begin the process at the top of the
mountain (see above) of compactification energy levels. Again, this issue alone
puts us back in the situation of requiring hugely unrealistic levels of luck to
work.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: .5in;">d. Just as a ball bouncing down a
mountain would not be expected to hit every rock on the mountain, quantum compactifications
decaying to lower energy compactifications and (theoretically) producing new
universes along the way should not be expected to produce anywhere close to all
possible combinations of physical constants in different universes. A
finely-tuned tumble down the mountain is required if it is to include the
super, extremely rare, life permitting universes (pg. 341).</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: .5in;">note: The lottery analogy in this
blog post is my own. Using this analogy to explain points c and d above,
imagine that a lottery company sells lottery tickets numbered between 1 and 1 quadrillion
(a quadrillion is three orders of magnitude higher than a trillion). I don’t
suggest you play such a lottery, although the chances of winning would be vastly
higher than the chances of any given universe with random constants of physics
and initial conditions being life permitting. However, let’s say you have a tricky
and vague method using strings to somehow get one ticket that would include not
only the number on your ticket but some of the lower numbers as well.
Unfortunately, you cannot pick the number (that would be like invoking God to
design the multiverse) nor control what percentage of tickets with lower
numbers it will cover. All of that is done by chance. In order for this one
special ticket to work you would need for the initial ticket to be a very high
number (this is roughly the equivalent to the fine tuning example c above) and
also you would need it to include a large percentage of the lower numbers and
not merely 1/100<sup>th</sup> of 1% of the lower numbers (this is roughly the
equivalent of fine tuning example d above).</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: .5in;"><b>#4 The cosmological models
(inflationary cosmology and the string landscape) that multiverse generating
mechanisms are based on might not even be correct</b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: .5in;">Some of the above arguments are
basically saying that even IF there was a multiverse based on string theory
and/or inflationary cosmology that fact would not eliminate God as the best
explanation for fine tuning. But please don’t think that Meyer (or myself)
thinks it is actually likely that there really is a multiverse. We don’t. Not
only that, but the theories that underlie commonly proposed multiverse
generating mechanisms are far, far from widely accepted, well established, proven
theories. Here are some examples of specific issues with these theories:</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: .5in;">a. Inflationary theory was
initially designed to explain the degree of homogeneity and flatness we see in
our universe. But it is not necessarily a better explanation than standard big
bang cosmology without inflationary theory (pg 343).</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: .5in;">b. Meyer gives examples of several
predictions of the simplest inflationary cosmology model that have so far not
proved accurate. This has led some top physicists (including Roger Penrose) to
reject inflationary cosmology. (pg. 344).</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: .5in;">c. String theory requires
something called supersymmetry if it is to explain both matter and energy. This
supersymmetry predicts the existence of certain particles that should have
been detected in experiments like those performed by the Large Hadron Collider,
but those experiments have failed to detect those particles. (pg. 344)</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: .5in;"><b>Why do some physicists promote
the multiverse so vigorously if it has so little evidence to support it and it is
such a poor explanation for fine tuning?</b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: .5in;">Meyer briefly addresses the question
of why some scientists continue to promote the multiverse as an explanation for
fine tuning. He provides quotes that indicate that part of the motivation may
be a desire to avoid acknowledging that fine tuning points to God. Here is a
quote that Meyer shares:</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in; tab-stops: .5in;">“If, for some
unforeseen reason the [string] landscape turns out to be inconsistent – maybe for
mathematical reasons, or because it disagrees with observation [then] as things
now stand we will be in a very awkward position. Without any explanation of
nature’s fine tuning we will be hard pressed to answer the ID [intelligent
design] critics.” – Stanford Physicist Leonard Susskind, an architect of the
string-theory multiverse quoted on pg. 345 of Meyer’s book. </p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: .5in;">I wish men like Leonard would see
how wonderful it is if science supports belief in God especially if the Creator
is the Christian God because this in turn opens the door to the possibility of
forgiveness of sins leading to eternal life in a world of pure joy.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: .5in;">Here is a second quote from Meyer’s
book:</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in; tab-stops: .5in;">“Our willingness
to accept scientific claims that are against common sense is the key to an
understanding of the real struggle between science and the supernatural. We
take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its
constructs . . . in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated
just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism
. . . moreover, that materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot
in the door.” – Retired Harvard evolutionary biologist Richard Lewontin. </p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: .5in;">I wish men like Lewontin would see
that framing the issue as science vs. God creates a false dichotomy. This
should be obvious as many of the founding fathers of modern science believed in
God. Moreover, I wish people would realize that a divine foot getting into the
door of our lives and our world is actually the best thing that could ever happen
to us.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: .5in;">I would go further than Meyer. Perhaps
part of the reason that some people prefer outlandish explanations like the
multiverse over God is that a multiverse does not have authority to tell us how
to treat our enemies, how to use our money and time, or who we can sleep with.
God does.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: .5in;"><b>Concluding Thoughts</b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: .5in;">Here is my best effort to
summarize the arguments in this blog post, which in turn summarize several
chapters of Meyer’s book:</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: .5in;"><b>The fine tuning of the laws of
physics and the initial conditions of our universe provides stunningly strong
evidence for God, and the main scientific counterargument, namely the
multiverse, utterly fails to provide a better explanation.</b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: .5in;">This blog post has summarized
parts of Meyer’s book. There are many chapters that I have not even touched
here. Some of those chapters have additional information that is relevant to
the issue of the multiverse. I did not include here Meyer’s critique of the
Multiple Worlds Interpretation (MWI) of quantum cosmology. If multiverse
explanations based on a theoretical inflationary string landscape are
unlikely true and a poor explanation for fine tuning, the MWI is just plain
crazy. Nevertheless, Meyer gives a careful and reasoned response to that view.
Read his book. <br /></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: .5in;">With regard to Meyer’s excellent
book, <i>Return of the God Hypothesis</i>, I hope that this blog post will (1) serve
as a helpful summary of some of the material for those who are unlikely to read
the book and (2) motivate others to read the book.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: .5in;">Now let’s step back a minute. You
don’t have to be a scientist to see evidence for God in nature. Our dog Sadie
takes me on a walk through nearby fields most mornings. As I see the stars
(when we leave on the early side), or a beautiful sunrise, or see geese flying above
me, or watch Sadie chase some deer, I am often moved to worship the great
Creator who is responsible for all this. I <i>feel</i> His great power and
wisdom. Even those scientists who are atheists generally realize that the world
appears to have been created by a super intelligent, super powerful Creator.
But these scientists claim that science provides evidence that all the
appearance of design and purpose is an illusion. What Meyer and other
scientists in the intelligent design movement do is show that far from undermining
nature’s witness to God, when properly understood, science actually strengthens
and affirms this witness. So, the next time you’re enjoying nature go ahead and
worship the God who created it all, and as you give Him thanks, know that your
worship and thanksgiving are supported by lots of scientific evidence.</p>
<i>Hebrews 13:16 And do not forget to do good and to share with others . . .
</i>
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<p> <b>Related blog posts for further reading:</b></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 3.75in;">Michael Behe has also given strong scientific evidence for God in a series of three books. I summarize the arguments of those three books here:<br /></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 3.75in;"><a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2019/03/behes-three-mighty-blows-against.html" target="_blank">Behe’sThree Mighty Blows Against Darwinism</a></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 3.75in;">I’ve written posts about how the following
show evidence of design and give glory to God:</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 86.05pt;"><a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2019/01/how-sun-glorifies-son.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
Sun</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 86.05pt;"><a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2019/06/god-created-earth-to-be-inhabited.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
Earth</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 86.05pt;"><a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2016/03/excited-both-as-science-geek-and-as-god.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
smallest cells</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 86.05pt;"><a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2016/02/nuclear-submarines-and-living-cells.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Cells
in general</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 3.75in;"><a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2020/04/how-viruses-strengthen-scientific-case.html" target="_blank">Viruses</a> <br /></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 3.75in;">And here are a few devotional
blog posts inspired by the natural world God created:</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 3.75in;"><br />
<a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2016/07/sunflowers-and-sonpeople.html" target="_blank">Sunflowers and Sonpeople</a><br />
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<a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2017/08/spiritual-lessons-from-elephants-and.html" target="_blank">Spiritual Lessons from Elephants and Water Buffalo</a><br />
<br />
<a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2018/04/3-lessons-from-beautiful-bloom-of-ric.html">Three
Lessons from the Beautiful Bloom of the Ric Rac Plant</a></p><p></p><p><br /></p>Mark Corbetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11845358650245441477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4546375020443845329.post-56320155458707540392021-03-22T05:38:00.003-07:002021-03-22T05:41:03.312-07:00The Horse (a report of my imagination)<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFqyluHMEJmBnbbLT8TDHeEgUPMOiADq1cjRinBcsvxd_OaDuZincn6SdwboTuO0lC0kpHr5oe0pmKhBM6iwqVvc5yU67_DWiy_fzHw257EjaB3gKF2XZZfsUYs69GoHDEJLONStl7wnbV/s1280/The+Horse.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFqyluHMEJmBnbbLT8TDHeEgUPMOiADq1cjRinBcsvxd_OaDuZincn6SdwboTuO0lC0kpHr5oe0pmKhBM6iwqVvc5yU67_DWiy_fzHw257EjaB3gKF2XZZfsUYs69GoHDEJLONStl7wnbV/w400-h225/The+Horse.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Like the moon when it is in a bright, sun-filled sky,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">this mighty creature is rarely noticed.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Yet he is a very great creature, indeed there is none other like
him.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">This horse is not limited to the confines of earth.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">He gallops through the heavens where he outruns the light.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The gravity of blackholes that bends light and swallows stars does
not cause him to veer from his appointed course at all.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">When he gallops it sounds like thunder.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">His coat is white, but not like snow. More like the brightest
lightning flash you have ever seen if it were magnified many times.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">This horse has a heart for war.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">He knows no fear.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Indeed, he was made without even the capacity of that emotion, for
he has no need for it.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Fear would serve no purpose for him and for his appointed task.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">If he were released to wage war on his enemies by himself, armies
of demons would tremble and flee and even the ancient dragon would retreat
before him.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">But he will never wage war alone.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">That would be a great diminishment of his actual task</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">and a great demotion from the role he is assigned.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Even trampling hordes of demons and vanquishing dragons on his own
would be a calling far below his own.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">For this horse is destined to carry the One who made him,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">and this creature is appointed to bear his Creator.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">His Rider is Faithful and True, our Savior,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">the King of Kings,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">and Lord of Lords.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">“Then I saw heaven opened, and behold, a
white horse! The one sitting on it is called Faithful and True, and in
righteousness he judges and makes war.” (Rev. 19:11 ESV)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">A few thoughts about the book of Revelation
and our imagination</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The thoughts above are what I imagine the horse
Jesus will ride to be like. Of course, the actual details I reported (faster
than light) may or may not be literally and precisely true. Which is why it is
a report of my imagination.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">God gave people the capacity to imagine as
part of our set of mental faculties. God also gave us the book of Revelation.
And I’m convinced that the book of Revelation is intended to speak to and shape
our imaginations. That doesn’t mean that Revelation is not true (it is!) or
that it does not contain its own deep logic (it does). But the use of imagery
throughout the book finds its home in our imagination more easily than it does
in the more analytical corners of our little brains.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Our imaginations can help give us hope in a fallen world, courage in
dark times, and motivation to press on with difficult tasks. So, I’m thankful
for my imagination, although I’m painfully aware that it can also be easily
misused. Reading the book of Revelation is good for us in many ways. One of
these ways is that it tends to lead our imaginations to function for the good
purposes God intends.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">p.s. Don’t you hope that we will get horses,
too?</span></p>
<i>Hebrews 13:16 And do not forget to do good and to share with others . . .
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Mark Corbetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11845358650245441477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4546375020443845329.post-6211844865455576072021-03-08T06:00:00.001-08:002021-03-08T06:07:19.115-08:00Long Shadows: Our Lives Influence Future Generations!<p><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Our family dog, Sadie, was taking me on my daily morning walk. It
was cold (24⁰F) and so I was bundled up. The sun was just rising over the
horizon. I noticed how long the shadows were and that led to some thoughts that
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</span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Here are
some related Bible verses to meditate on (all quoted from CSB):</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">1 Kings 15:26</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> Nadab did what was evil in the LORD's sight and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">followed the example of his father</b> and the sin he had caused Israel
to commit.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">2 Chronicles 17:3</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> Now the LORD was with Jehoshaphat because <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">he walked in the former ways of his father David</b>. He did not seek
the Baals . . .</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></p>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">1 Corinthians 4:15
For you can have 10,000 instructors in Christ, but you can't have many fathers.
For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">16 Therefore I urge you to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">imitate me</b>.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>17 This
is why I have sent Timothy to you. He is my dearly loved and faithful son in
the Lord. He will remind you about my ways in Christ Jesus, just as I teach
everywhere in every church.</span></div>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">1 Corinthians 11:1</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Imitate</b> me, as I also <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">imitate</b> Christ.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Philippians 3:17</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> Join in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">imitating</b> me, brothers,
and observe those who live according to the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">example </b>you have in us.</span></p>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">1 Thessalonians
1:5 For our gospel did not come to you in word only, but also in power, in the
Holy Spirit, and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we were among
you for your benefit,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>6 and you became <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">imitators</b> of us and of the Lord when, in spite of severe
persecution, you welcomed the message with joy from the Holy Spirit.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>7 As a
result, you became an <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">example</b> to all
the believers in Macedonia and Achaia.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">1 Thessalonians
2:14 For you, brothers, became <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">imitators</b>
of God's churches in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, since you have also
suffered the same things from people of your own country, just as they did from
the Jews<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>15 who killed both the Lord Jesus and the
prophets and persecuted us; they displease God and are hostile to everyone,</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>16
hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. As a
result, they are always completing the number of their sins, and wrath has
overtaken them at last.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></div>
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3:7 For you yourselves know how you must <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">imitate</b>
us: We were not irresponsible among you;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>8 we did not eat anyone's food free of charge;
instead, we labored and struggled, working night and day, so that we would not
be a burden to any of you.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>9 It is not that we don't have the right to
support, but we did it to make ourselves an <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">example</b> to you so that you would <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">imitate</b> us.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">10 In
fact, when we were with you, this is what we commanded you: "If anyone
isn't willing to work, he should not eat."</span></div>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">1 Timothy 4:12</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> Let no one despise your youth; instead, you should be an <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">example</b> to the believers in speech, in
conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.</span></p>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">2 Timothy 1:4
Remembering your tears, I long to see you so that I may be filled with joy,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">5
clearly recalling your sincere faith that first lived in your grandmother Lois,
then in your mother Eunice, and that I am convinced is in you also.</span></div>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">2 Timothy 2:2</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> And what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses, commit
to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.</span></p>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Titus 2:6 In the
same way, encourage the young men to be self-controlled<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">7 in
everything. Make yourself an <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">example </b>of
good works with integrity and dignity in your teaching.</span></div>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Hebrews 13:7</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> Remember your leaders who have spoken God's word to you. As you carefully
observe the outcome of their lives, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">imitate</b>
their faith.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">1 Peter 2:21</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> For you were called to this, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving
you an <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">example</b>, so that you should
follow in His steps.</span></p>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">1 Peter 4:2
Shepherd God's flock among you, not overseeing out of compulsion but freely,
according to God's will; not for the money but eagerly;</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>3 not
lording it over those entrusted to you, but <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">being examples</b> to the flock.</span></div>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">May God make your life a good example to both your biological children and
grandchildren and also to future generations of believers!</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></i></p>
<i>Hebrews 13:16 And do not forget to do good and to share with others . . .
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><b>A related blog post:</b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="http://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2016/07/sunflowers-and-sonpeople.html" target="_blank"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><b>Sunflowers and Sonpeople </b></span></span></a><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></i></p>
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Mark Corbetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11845358650245441477noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4546375020443845329.post-59037448339513486152021-03-06T14:34:00.006-08:002021-03-06T14:37:22.000-08:00WandaVision: Seven Christian Themes Seen in Marvel's Show<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibasFWDxV9I4idzJstm-vgoy1u3G1H_01j_PFvkXNVBYBgYIwtW6atkmHcVBHEYhk9S53XHFXHEnjo8sG8Dq_Z8MRbtUKnAhkImiunDJLP4E23SKY5bzW99jPc7ERRYqHfVuyXdYeZ9R70/s1280/WandaVision.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibasFWDxV9I4idzJstm-vgoy1u3G1H_01j_PFvkXNVBYBgYIwtW6atkmHcVBHEYhk9S53XHFXHEnjo8sG8Dq_Z8MRbtUKnAhkImiunDJLP4E23SKY5bzW99jPc7ERRYqHfVuyXdYeZ9R70/w400-h225/WandaVision.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">SPOILER ALERT: This blog post has spoilers! If you haven’t
finished watching WandaVision yet, you may want to do that and then come back
to this post if you are interested.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Together with my wife and our 22 year old daughter, I eagerly
watched the final vision of WandaVision Friday night. We all enjoyed it.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The special effects, the acting, and the story telling were all up
to the normal high standards of Marvel. But when I watch a story, I also care
deeply about how it connects with God’s truth. Marvel is not a Christian
organization, so I don’t expect direct and explicit connections. But if a story
is moving and meaningful in any good way, it almost certainly has some relation
to the real story we experience in God’s real world. Our family likes to talk
about these spiritual connections and reflect on them. In WandaVision, many of
these connections are related to the loss, tragedy, and trauma that Wanda has
suffered.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Wanda’s life has been filled with a lot of terrible tragedy, loss,
trauma, and evil. She has seen a lot of death. Her parents were killed by a bomb
in front of her as a child and her brother died in a battle they were fighting
in. But these losses were not what hurt her the most. In a valiant attempt to
save half of humanity, and at his own earnest request, she herself had to kill her
closest friend and deep love: Vision. And then she is denied the opportunity to
even give him a decent burial. It’s not surprising that Wanda experiences a
type of severe breakdown. I’m actually glad that Marvel shows some of the
damage to their characters and even some of their wrong responses to the evil
they face and experience (for example, Thor wrongly responds to lots of loss
with substance abuse). It isn’t healthy to pretend that people (even superheroes)
could lose so much and not be affected by it. Some of the connections to Christian
truth that I see in WandaVision are related to our responses to loss and evil.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Do people in real life suffer as much loss and face as much evil
as Wanda does in Marvel’s world? Sadly, sometimes we do. Around the world
people are bombed and slaughtered in many places. And even in relatively
peaceful spots, loved ones die from cancer, accidents, and murder. I’ve been in
pastoral ministry for many years and as a result I’m often graciously used by
God to help comfort and encourage people who have faced all types of loss. Wanda’s
story is of course fiction, and yet her loss and suffering are things that
people in our real world can relate to far too often.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">With that long introduction, I would like to share seven ways in which
WandaVision connects to Christian truths (whether or not anyone at Marvel
intended this, I do not know).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">#1 Wanda’s Desire to be with Vision Again</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a
shout, with the archangel's voice, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in
Christ will rise first. Then we who are still alive, who are left, will be caught
up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will
always be with the Lord. Therefore encourage one another with these words.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(1 Thessalonians 4:16-18 CSB17)</span></b><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I have preached at many funerals and have visited with families
during the days leading up to the funeral and afterwards. They miss their loved
ones. Wanda misses Vision. She wants to see him again. She uses magic to create
a new Vision. Christians have something better. Based on God’s Word that never
fails, we can be confident that one day we will be with our loved ones who died
in Christ. Unlike Wanda and Vision, once we are reunited with loved ones at the
resurrection, we will never be separated by death again. And what of those who
lose loved ones who were not (as far as we can tell) saved? This is a painful
loss, but it will be made up for by a vast multitude of brothers and sisters in
Christ in eternity whom we will grow to love more deeply than even the closest
ties on earth allow.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">We mourn the temporary loss of Christian loved ones, but we “. . .
do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope” (1 Thessalonians
4:13, NIV). Our grieving is mixed with glorious hope, and this helps us to
grieve in more healthy ways. Which brings us to the second connection . . .</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">#2 Wanda’s desire to control her shattered world</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">7 My salvation and glory depend on God, my strong rock.
My refuge is in God.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>8 Trust in him at all times, you people; pour
out your hearts before him. God is our refuge.Selah </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">(Ps. 62:7-8
CSB17)</span></b><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">A common response to a shattered world is to try to create a safe
place where we control everyone and everything so that we cannot be hurt
anymore. Due to her powers, Wanda is able to take this to an extreme. Even in
real life, some people do use whatever power they have to try to control others
in unhealthy ways. I’m glad that WandaVision did not shrink back from showing
how harmful this can be to the people being controlled and manipulated. What Wanda
was doing was wrong, and at one point Vision points this out to her. She finally
comes to see it herself.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">As Christians, we have a better option. We can trust God to
control our world and all the things we can’t control, or shouldn’t try to
control. We can believe His promises that He uses all things for the good of
those who love Him. We know that even if He allows us to suffer harm, in the end
it will turn out for our good if we keep trusting Him:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">For I consider
that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory
that is going to be revealed to us. (Rom. 8:18 CSB17)</span></b><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Even with this knowledge, Christians can be tempted to try to
control others in unhealthy ways. WandaVision can serve as a type of warning
tale against this behavior.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">#3 Our sense of control is an illusion: there are hidden evil
forces at work</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Be sober-minded, be alert. Your adversary the devil is
prowling around like a roaring lion, looking for anyone he can devour. (1 Pet.
5:8 CSB17)</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Wanda thinks she is in control, and in some ways she certainly is,
but there is another force at work. Agatha has seen Wanda’s wrong response to
pain and moves in to try to take advantage of the situation with evil motives. Likewise,
when people misuse power to control others, it may seem like they are getting
their way. But the devil will use their sin to harm them and others. Unlike
Agatha, Satan is real. And we can’t defeat him by being clever. We can only
defeat the devil by submitting to Christ and depending on the power of God.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">#4 Wanda’s sacrifice for the good of her neighbors</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">and walk in love,
as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant
offering to God. (Eph. 5:2 CSB17)</span></b><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">When Wanda realizes the harm that her magical control of her
neighbors is doing to them, she releases them all from her control even at
great cost to herself. This is an act of Christ-like love. We are called to
love others in the same way.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">#5 Lots of courageous characters</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Be strong and courageous; don't be terrified or afraid of
them. For the LORD your God is the one who will go with you; he will not leave
you or abandon you. (Deut. 31:6 CSB17)</span></b><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">A consistent theme in Marvel stories is that there are characters
who show great courage in the face of terrible danger and evil. This isn’t as
easy as they make it look! Not only Wanda and Vision, but also characters like
Monica Rambeau, Darcy Lewis, and Jimmy Woo all willingly face danger to help
others.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Does God ask Christians today to face danger to help save others? Yes!
God calls Christians to go to dark and dangerous places in order to tell His
good news and share His love. Christians often go to the darkest and most
difficult spots in the world in obedience to His call.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">#6 Vision’s question about his identity</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">See what great
love the Father has given us that we should be called God's children-- and we
are! The reason the world does not know us is that it didn't know him. (1 Jn.
3:1 CSB17)</span></b><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Vision asks Wanda who he is. A deep part of his identity is based
on her love for him. As Christians, our deepest identity is based on the Father’s
love for us. We are His children. Created by Him. Saved by Him. Hallelujah!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">#7 Witchcraft in Marvel’s fiction world vs. our real world</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">No one among you
is to sacrifice his son or daughter in the fire, practice divination, tell
fortunes, interpret omens, practice sorcery, (Deuteronomy 18:10 CSB17)</span></b><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In Marvel’s fictional world, witchcraft and sorcery can be used
for either good or evil. We have seen this with Dr. Strange, and now we see it
with Wanda and Agatha. But in the real world we live in witchcraft and related
occult activity is contrary to God’s will. The Bible treats it as a serious and
dangerous sin, and so should we. We should not dabble in or play with things
like Ouija boards, Tarot cards, fortune telling, horoscopes, magic talismans,
or anything at all like that. I think it is ok to watch things like WandaVision
as long as we do not feel tempted by occult like power. Many of us might laugh
at the thought that anyone would actually get involved in such things. But many
do.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Conclusion</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Wanda suffered terrible loss and severe trauma. She responds in a
way that is understandable, but still sinful. It hurts other people. But in the
end, she does what is right. Thankfully, when we experience terrible loss and
severe trauma in the real world, God gives us resources that are stronger than
the Hulk and more powerful than Thor’s hammer to deal with it. We have the mighty
promises of God. He Himself is with us. Wanda did not know of these wonderful
promises and in the fictional Marvel world there is no evidence of what we need
most to face terrible evil: namely, a God who is both good and also more
powerful than all evil, a God who loves us. Praise God, for those who know
Christ, the real world is much better than anything Wanda can imagine or
conjure up.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
<i>Hebrews 13:16 And do not forget to do good and to share with others . . .
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">CSB17 1 Corinthians 4:<sup>9</sup> For I think God has
displayed us, the apostles, in last place, like men condemned to die: We have
become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to people.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><sup>10</sup> We
are fools for Christ, but you are wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are
strong! You are distinguished, but we are dishonored!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><sup>11</sup> Up
to the present hour we are both hungry and thirsty; we are poorly clothed,
roughly treated, homeless;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><sup>12</sup> we
labor, working with our own hands. When we are reviled, we bless; when we are
persecuted, we endure it;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><sup>13</sup> when
we are slandered, we respond graciously. Even now, we are like the scum of the
earth, like everyone's garbage.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><sup>14</sup> I'm
not writing this to shame you, but to warn you as my dear children.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><sup>15</sup> For
you may have countless instructors in Christ, but you don't have many fathers.
For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><sup>16</sup>
Therefore I urge you to imitate me.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">As I read this passage as part of a daily Bible reading
group I am in, the Lord convicted me.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">Often a part of me, a sinful part, wants to have the
first place, to seek honor and respect and praise from people. But the apostles
were treated like people in last place.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">I often crave comfort, safety, ease, and worldly
security. But the apostles faced constant danger. They suffered in many ways –
even to the point of sometimes lacking food, water, shelter, and clothing.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">We often seek ease and prosperity, they accepted hardship
and poverty.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">And yet, Paul was not writing this to shame us nor to
complain about his own difficulties. He was writing to warn us against the
temptation of shrinking back from God’s work for the sake of seeking comfort
and safety. He was concerned that we might be more worried about our temporary
needs than we are focused on following Christ. He was urging us to imitate him.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">Why would Paul urge us to imitate him in a life that brought
so much suffering and danger? Because Jesus is worth all that. Jesus is worth
suffering for. The gospel is worth sacrificing for. God’s truth is worth facing
danger for. Paul has his eyes set on <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>heavenly rewards and eternal glory and he is
concerned about so many of us who are settling for temporary comforts and
short-lived pleasures instead.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">Lord, help us, help me, to imitate Paul and the apostles,
and to imitate you, our Lord Jesus Christ. Help us to seek treasures in Heaven,
and not trinkets on earth. Strengthen us to be willing to lose our lives so
that we may find them. Forgive us for wanting to join the sinners at the front
of the line instead of your most faithful servants at the back. In Jesus Name.
Amen.</span></p>
<i>Hebrews 13:16 And do not forget to do good and to share with others . . .
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Mark Corbetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11845358650245441477noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4546375020443845329.post-42486774392599693832021-02-17T15:36:00.004-08:002021-02-17T15:38:03.438-08:00What Atheists and Clay Jones Don’t Understand about Biblical Annihilationism<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf7obfcP3QjgF6eC52A816wE-sH_PnDuRm8OJO2RrJU1aiA1u2aK51Uz3RhRhnRlVwG5JiZ6-z9GguWlk6h5giz4i9qYFzcY3QzCtqF8O-KOGb8T2Zld82BeJpBt0ihnETmI9-M_nZeYdv/s1280/Clay+Jones+response+Intro.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf7obfcP3QjgF6eC52A816wE-sH_PnDuRm8OJO2RrJU1aiA1u2aK51Uz3RhRhnRlVwG5JiZ6-z9GguWlk6h5giz4i9qYFzcY3QzCtqF8O-KOGb8T2Zld82BeJpBt0ihnETmI9-M_nZeYdv/w400-h225/Clay+Jones+response+Intro.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">As far as I can remember, I did not know of Clay
Jones until someone shared a recent blog post of his in the Rethinking Hell
Facebook Group. The Rethinking Hell Facebook Group is administered by a group
of people (including myself) who believe the Bible teaches <a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2016/06/what-is-conditional-immortality.html" target="_blank">conditional immortality</a> (which is also called annihilationism). Jones’ article is
critical of conditional immortality. I read it and felt moved to respond. But
before writing this response, I took a little time to learn a little about Clay
Jones by reading some about him and by reading a couple of articles he has
written on other topics.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">My impression of Clay Jones from my quick
research is that he is a man I can thank God for. He appears to be truly
passionate about things like the truth of the Bible, seeking to live a holy
life that is pleasing to God, and living with integrity. He seeks to equip
others to understand and defend God’s truth and also to live lives consistent
with the glorious gospel that we believe. So, while I disagree with Jones’
recent article on annihilationism, overall, I view him as a brother in Christ,
and I thank God for his example and ministry.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">You may read the article I am responding to
here:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://clayjones.net/2021/02/and-the-atheist-shall-lie-down-with-the-annihilationist/" target="_blank">And the Atheist Shall Lie Down with the Annihilationist.</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Two things in the article that I agree
with</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Before discussing the points in the article
where I think Jones and the unbelievers whom he quotes fail to understand
annihilationism, I want to point out two things Jones says that I agree with.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">1. Jones wrote, “A growing number of
Christians are abandoning the traditional Christian doctrine that the lost will
suffer eternal torment in favor of the belief that after the Judgment, the lost
will be annihilated.” Praise God! I think that is probably true. It is a
difficult thing to measure, but my feeling, and the feeling of others on all
sides of this debate, is that more and more Christians who used to believe that
the Bible teaches eternal torment, now believe that the Bible teaches conditional
immortality. Of course, Jones views this as a negative development, whereas I
view it as an indication that God is working to correct a long held and widely
believed error among His people. (You may view a 10 minute video where I
explain briefly <a href="https://youtu.be/yZpjs74uQ0s" target="_blank">the Biblical reasons that I believe in Annihilationism here</a>.)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">2. Jones also wrote, “Although I hold that
Scripture teaches the eternal torment of the lost, I realize that what I’m
writing here isn’t a defeater of annihilationism. That can only be done by the
proper exegesis of various passages pertaining to the final state of the
wicked.” In other words, Jones is writing about what he views as one of the
(negative) effects of believing in annihilationism, he is not writing directly
about the biblical evidence for or against such a belief. I agree fully with
Jones that the only way to know if something like annihilationism or eternal
torment is true is through proper exegesis of the Bible. I am blessed to be
part of a community of theologically conservative evangelicals who have been working
hard to do and to share good, biblical evidence, based on sound exegesis, that
shows that conditional immortality is taught in the Bible.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Consider the points above where Jones and I
agree. More and more Christians are shifting from belief in eternal torment to belief
in conditional immortality and the only way to know if we are correct to make
that shift is to study the Bible. If you are a Bible teacher, preacher, or any
Christian who loves to study the Bible, this should motivate you to look into
this issue. Your most important resource is your Bible. Your second most
important resource is standard Bible study tools (like lexicons and tools that
allow you to look up words and cross references, etc.). Finally, because God
uses other Christians to help us, it is helpful to look at material from
Christians on both sides of this issue. You’ve likely heard from Christians who
believe in eternal torment most of your life. In terms of materials explaining
the evidence for conditional immortality, here are two places to find lots of resources:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">1. <a href="http://rethinkinghell.com/" target="_blank">The Rethinking Hell website</a>. (If you don’t know where to begin, try <a href="http://rethinkinghell.com/explore/" target="_blank">this page on the website</a>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">2. <a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2018/11/marks-resources-on-hell-conditional.html" target="_blank">Mark’s Resources on Hell</a> (includes links to articles and a few videos I have on
this topic)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The Gist of Clay Jones’ Article</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Jones gives examples of atheists and other non-Christians
(Buddhists, the Sadducees, and others) who expect death to be the end of their
conscious existence. They expect a type of annihilation where they will die and
then have no conscious existence. They either claim to not be bothered by this
(he quotes quite a few atheists who say they are not bothered by death) or even
to look forward to annihilation (apparently some Buddhists see annihilation as
the goal, although their view is more complicated). Based on this, Jones suggests
that Christians who believe in annihilation are just offering these unbelievers
“exactly what they most desire,” so why should they care about the gospel? </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Two Big things Clay and the Atheists
Miss</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp9v7vPgUr6ACz9GjGvm1zp2-dE-JjmOnx5CZHa9wqIHHnWXR7vIR1g3KNRiNGboVU66pG1IeqRNVa15nLZKq1FD4qYQIN48qc3tdaUc-dcPDpbMtPjGdI3NhTog6Xha01vmkTHOMtlR4K/s1280/Clay+Jones+response+2+motivations.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp9v7vPgUr6ACz9GjGvm1zp2-dE-JjmOnx5CZHa9wqIHHnWXR7vIR1g3KNRiNGboVU66pG1IeqRNVa15nLZKq1FD4qYQIN48qc3tdaUc-dcPDpbMtPjGdI3NhTog6Xha01vmkTHOMtlR4K/w400-h225/Clay+Jones+response+2+motivations.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Jones and the unbelievers
whom he quotes both seem to miss two major, really important points.
Interestingly, both points that they miss can be seen in John 5:28-29.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">ESV John 5:28 Do
not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will
hear his voice 29 and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of
life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment. </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The first thing
they miss</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> is that evangelical
conditionalists believe that the unsaved will be resurrected to face judgment (in
the first sentence of his article, Jones indicates he knows this, but then
seems to ignore it throughout the rest of his article). This means that death
on earth in this current age is not the end of the story for the unsaved. They
will one day stand in resurrected bodies and face God’s judgment. The experience
of judgment will result in them weeping and gnashing their teeth, as Jesus
tells us. Just as different methods of execution now involve varying levels of
suffering during the process of dying, at the final judgment the unsaved may
suffer various degrees and types of suffering in the process of perishing. For
example, being executed by lethal injection would not be as bad as being
executed by crucifixion. Evangelical conditionalism allows for any finite
amount of suffering that God chooses to allow or inflict prior to or as part of
the process of perishing. This allows for degrees of punishment. This fact
alone reveals the attitude of the atheists who claim not to fear death and what
follows is foolish if annihilationism is true (just as it is foolish if eternal
torment were true).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Now, it should be pointed
out that near the beginning of his article, Clay Jones explains that he knows
that some annihilationists believe there may be suffering before final
perishing, but he says he is focusing on “straight annihilation” (his term).
What he means is that he is discussing annihilation without any conscious
suffering at all. He is allowed to do that, but when he chooses to do that he
is no longer interacting with a large portion of the Christians he mentioned
who have moved from belief in eternal torment to belief in conditional
immortality. His article becomes largely irrelevant to the very situation he mentions
in the first sentence of his article. I have been working with and interacting
with many Christian evangelicals who are the type of people Jones mentioned in
his first sentence. Namely, we are Christian who changed views from eternal
torment to conditional immortality. All of us believe that the unsaved will be
resurrected to face judgment. I’ve never heard anyone say that they think the process
of standing before a holy God in judgment will be pleasant for those whose sins
are not forgiven (that’s an understatement). And many of us conditionalists
believe that there will in fact be conscious suffering before the process of
annihilation is complete. We are humble about the nature and duration of this
suffering and rarely attempt to give details for the simple reason that the
Bible does not give details about the conscious suffering. This first major
error is enough to undermine the entire article. Yet this first mistake is not
nearly as large or consequential an error as the second error.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The second
mistake</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> that is made by the
atheists quoted in the article, and which Jones does not seem to recognize, is
that they fail to believe that some people will experience “the resurrection of
life.” No evangelical conditionalist believes that all people will eternally
perish. We believe that by God’s grace, through faith in Jesus Christ, some
people have been forgiven and receive the gift of eternal life. We will live
forever with God and with other Christians in a world without pain, suffering,
or death. We will experience eternal joy. This gift of immortality is not for
everyone. It is conditional. That’s why we call it conditional immortality. The
condition is having true faith in Christ.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Of course, if everyone
was going to utterly and permanently perish, the best we could do would be to
try to muster up the attitudes reflected in the quotes from the atheists in
Jones’ article. But everything changes when we realize that there is a real
alternative to annihilation. That alternative is good, glorious, and wonderful
beyond our imagination. In this light, conditionalism offers a very strong motivation
for believing in Jesus. The promise of eternal life in Christ by God’s grace
has motivated me to try (with God’s help) to live a life consistent with faith
in Christ even when it has involved taking risks, facing dangers, making
sacrifices, and suffering. I don’t need the threat of eternal torment to be
motivated. Eternal life with Jesus is a magnificent and powerful motivation! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m not surprised that the atheists don’t see
this because they don’t believe it is true and are blind to much of God’s truth.
But I’m disappointed that Jones seems to miss this point altogether.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The claim of some
atheists to not fear death should not go unquestioned</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Jones quotes a number of
atheists who claim they do not fear death. Perhaps at the time of the quote they
did not fear death in terms of any immediate awareness of the emotion of fear.
Perhaps it is even true of some atheists to the end, although I wouldn’t bet on
it. First, our widespread experience confirms that people who are not confident
of God’s promise of eternal life are usually terrified of dying. They will go
to great lengths to avoid death. This is normal. But we don’t have to depend on
our experience to confirm that <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>people fear
death unless they have been delivered from that fear by Jesus. The Word of God
teaches us that outside of Christ people are captive to fear of death:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">ESV Hebrews 2:14-15 Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood,
he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might
destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, and deliver all
those who through <u>fear of death</u> were subject to lifelong slavery. </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Outside of Christ, people do fear death.
Common sense, our experience throughout life, and most importantly, the Bible,
confirm that people fear death. The atheists who claim not to fear death may
not be intentionally lying, but neither do I think they are being honest with
themselves (or with us!).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">What about People Motivated to Accept
Christ by the Threat of Eternal Torment?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Jones shares his own testimony and that of
another about the role that desiring to avoid eternal torment played in their
salvation. I don’t doubt that many people have been partly motivated to accept
Jesus because they want to avoid hell. In fact, I would say that avoiding hell
is a good motivation. It’s just that what we avoid by not going to hell is the
destruction of our body and soul (see Matthew 10:28), not eternal torment.
Thankfully, a gospel presentation does not have to include perfect theology in
all its details in order to be used by God. If God required perfect doctrinal
precision, what hope would we have? It is essential to get the basics right.
These includes things like Jesus being our Lord and Savior, the fact the He
died for us, and the fact that He rose again. So, the fact that many have come
to Christ believing that by doing so they avoided eternal torment, does not
make eternal torment a correct doctrine nor does it in any way invalidate the salvation
of those who believed under such teaching.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">We don’t know for sure what effect it will
have if more evangelists begin to frame the gospel in terms of gaining eternal
life rather than framing it in terms of avoiding eternal torment. However, we
do know this. There is not a single mention of eternal torment in the evangelistic
preaching recorded in the book of Acts. It’s not that the preaching in Acts is
completely void of warning. Consider this warning from Paul:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">ESV Acts 13:40-41 Beware, therefore, lest what is said in the Prophets
should come about: "'Look, you scoffers, be astounded and perish [<i>aphanizō</i>];
for I am doing a work in your days, a work that you will not believe, even if
one tells it to you.'"</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Paul warned that those who scoff at the gospel
message instead of accepting it will perish. In this verse, the word “perish”
translates the Greek word </span><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">aphanizō</span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">. We know that <i>aphanizō</i> is an appropriate word in
Greek to refer to what we mean by “annihilation” because one of the early
church fathers, Athenagoras of Athens, used <i>aphanizō </i>specifically and
clearly to refer to the possibility of annihilation. Athenagoras himself did
not believe in annihilation but wrote about it. Josephus also used <i>aphanizō</i>
to refer to a type of annihilationism. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(You can find the details with quotes in this blog
post:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2019/05/athenagoras-of-athens-hostile-witness.html" target="_blank">Athenagoras of Athens, a Hostile Witness for Annihilationism.</a>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Based on the example of apostolic
evangelism in Acts, I’m confident that framing the gospel in terms of
conditional immortality rather than in terms of avoiding eternal torment will
not harm the spread of the gospel. In fact, I believe it will help the spread
of the gospel.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Ignoring the negative
impact of the doctrine of eternal torment</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Jones is concerned about the possible negative
impact of the doctrine of annihilationism on reaching atheists. However, he
does not consider the fact that the apparent gross injustice and cruelty of
tormenting people forever for sins committed in one short lifetime on earth is
a reason that some atheists have cited for rejecting Christianity. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For example, in his book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Why I am not a Christian</i>, Bertand Russell
wrote:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There
is one very serious defect to my mind in Christ’s moral character, and that is
that He believed in hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really
profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">By everlasting punishment, it is almost
certain that Russell means eternal torment, even though annihilation is also an
everlasting punishment. Others who see a problem with eternal torment have not chosen
atheism, but they have rejected evangelical Christianity (I discuss this
problem and give examples <a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2018/04/al-mohler-reveals-one-of-reasons.html" target="_blank">in this blog post</a>.)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Responses to a few very brief
arguments defending eternal torment or pointing to verses that Jones thinks
teach eternal torment</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Although at the beginning of his article Jones
said his purpose was not to give the type of evidence that would show eternal
torment is true and annihilationism is false, he does briefly mention one argument
and a few Bible passages often used to support belief in eternal torment. I
will reply very briefly to these.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Jones argues that the occupants of hell will
be eternally unrepentant. This is sometimes used to argue that God is just in
tormenting them forever. This actually points to some major problems with the
eternal torment view. In this view, sin continues forever. God never destroys
all sin and never stops all sinning. This is inconsistent with a view of a final,
perfect world where all God’s enemies have been destroyed. Further, this would
mean that God’s wrath continues forever instead of being completely carried out
on what the Bible calls “the day of wrath” (see: <a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-day-of-wrath.html" target="_blank">The Day of Wrath</a>).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Jones seems to think that the mention of “eternal
fire” in Matthew 18:8 and 25:41 implies eternal torment. However, the fire is
eternal because the fire’s source is God Himself, who is a consuming fire
towards all evil. This does not mean that those consumed and burned up and
turned to ashes by the fire last forever (see this blog post: <a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2019/05/eternal-fire-sun-and-solar-flares-why.html" target="_blank">Why Eternal Fire does not Mean Eternal Torment</a>).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Finally, Jones mentions the worms and fires in
Mark 9:48 as support for eternal torment. Perhaps he does not realize that
Jesus was quoting from the last verse in Isaiah where the same worms and fire
are being used to consume dead bodies, not torment living people.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Conclusion</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I thank God for the years of ministry and
teaching through which Clay Jones has served and built up the body of Christ. I
pray sincerely that God will continue to use him for much good. On the
particular issue of the nature of hell, I feel that Jones has failed to
understand the implications and logic of conditional immortality and has
apparently so far failed to see the strong biblical case for this doctrine. I
think he is right that many Christians are moving from belief in eternal
torment to belief in conditional immortality. I pray that he will soon join us!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
<i>Hebrews 13:16 And do not forget to do good and to share with others . . .
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</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">Yesterday (February 11, 2021), Ravi Zacharias International
Ministries (RZIM) released the results of an investigation into allegations of
sexual sin and abuse by Ravi before he died (you can <a href="https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/rzimmedia.rzim.org/assets/downloads/Report-of-Investigation.pdf" target="_blank">read the report here</a>). Especially in light of how many Christians looked up to
and respected Ravi, and considering the large impact of his ministry over many
years, the report is gut wrenching to read and heart breaking to contemplate.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">As terrible as this news is, I’m thankful that RZIM hired
an independent firm to conduct the investigation and that they released the
report. Evil works best in the dark. Exposing it reminds us to be on guard and
begins the healing process for those who have been hurt.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">My purpose in this blog post is not to evaluate Ravi’s
sin or the RZIM organization. Rather, my purpose is to use this sad occasion to
highlight some biblical principles that can help us stop some future cases like
this one and help us to respond rightly if we are in a church or ministry where
there is evidence that a leader may be involved in ongoing, serious sin. I will
focus mostly on sexual sin, but the biblical principles I share also apply to other
types of sin like stealing, angry outbursts, and substance abuse. But before I
share the biblical principles, I want to briefly share a little of my own
experience.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">My
Personal Experience with Helping Stop Abuse and Healing those Who have been
Hurt</span></b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">About twelve years ago my wife, Hope, and I discovered a
case of sexual abuse by a top leader at a Christian college. The abuser was
eventually fired, but the process of getting to that point was difficult and
costly (I’ve shared some more of that story in a previous blog post, </span><a href="http://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2017/11/why-is-there-so-much-sexual-abuse.html" target="_blank"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">here</span></a><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">.)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">Hope and I have also seen God heal and transform some
victims of sexual abuse. In one case our role was mainly prayer and
encouragement. In another case, we had the opportunity to invest deeply in a
young lady who had been a victim of childhood sexual abuse. The healing process
occurred over a period of years, not months. At times she broke down and cried
like a little child in Hope’s lap. In both cases the healing process was long,
difficult, and required great courage and strength from those who had been
hurt. The needed courage and strength came from the Lord. Both ladies have been
gloriously transformed and each has since served as mature Christian leaders in
incredibly challenging ministries. They are my heroes. God allowed us to see
both the depth of damage done by sexual abuse as well as His amazing ability to
heal and transform people who have been deeply wounded.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">What
Should We Do?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">In this short article I want to share four biblical
principles that are relevant to preventing sexual abuse by church and ministry
leaders and of responding to cases that occur despite our efforts to be on
guard.</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">The biblical principles I will share here are mainly
based on a passage written by the Apostle Paul almost 2,000 years ago:</span></p><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"> </span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">17 The elders who are good
leaders are to be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who work
hard at preaching and teaching.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>18 For the Scripture says: Do not muzzle an ox
while it is treading out the grain, and the worker is worthy of his wages.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>19 Don't accept an accusation against an elder
unless it is supported by two or three witnesses.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>20 Publicly rebuke those who sin, so that the
rest will be afraid.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>21 I solemnly charge you before God and Christ
Jesus and the elect angels to observe these things without prejudice, doing
nothing out of favoritism. </span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>22 Don't be too
quick to appoint anyone as an elder, and don't share in the sins of others.
Keep yourself pure. (1 Timothy 5:17-22 CSB17)</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">Paul’s Holy Spirit inspired ancient wisdom is relevant
today. Here are the four principles:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">1.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Be careful when appointing ministry leaders.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">“Don’t
be too quick to appoint anyone . . .”</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">Churches and Christian ministries constantly need more
leaders. Whether it’s replacing a pastor who has retired or moved to a new
assignment, hiring a youth pastor, or finding volunteers to work with youth and
children, there is often a sense of urgency in finding new leaders. Those who
are serving on search committees or in positions of authority where they hire
new workers are often stretched thin themselves. Nevertheless, we must not give
in to the temptation to cut corners when it comes to choosing ministry leaders.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">Earlier in 1 Timothy Paul gave qualifications for elders
and deacons. Most of the qualifications generally apply to all ministry leaders
in the church and in Christian organizations. The qualifications focus mainly
on character issues. These types of issues take time and effort to test and
verify. One of the main indications of readiness to lead in the church is that
a person is doing a good job and bearing good fruit leading in their own home
and family. When hiring someone who is not personally known to a church or
ministry, careful efforts are called for, including checking references, in
evaluating the character of a potential new pastor or other ministry leader. It
takes times and energy, but it’s worth it in order to protect our churches and
ministries from predators.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">2.
Carefully seek and evaluate evidence when there are accusations.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">“<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Don't accept an
accusation against an elder unless . . .”</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">If there is an accusation against a church leader (or
anyone else in the church) it calls for careful investigation. If the
accusation involves possible abuse of minors, it should be reported to legal
authorities. A church wouldn’t try to deal with a murderer on their own,
neither should we do so with cases of child abuse. The law enforcement agencies
have resources and legal powers that churches do not have. And child abuse is a
crime which calls not only for removing a guilty person from any church
position, but also for putting them in prison in order to protect others in the
community.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">However, there are many cases that do not involve
children (as far as I know the case with Ravi did not) and yet still need to be
investigated. Paul makes it clear that we are competent to judge in areas where
the church needs to make decisions (1 Corinthians 4:12-5:5). For example, if an
older, married pastor is accused of having sex with a 19-year-old college
student, there might not be any crime in the eyes of the law to investigate.
But there would certainly be an urgent need for the church to investigate and
make a judgment as to whether the accusation was true. You can imagine many
other cases where a law has not been broken that calls for investigation by
police, yet very serious sin has been committed by a church leader which calls
for investigation by other leaders in the church.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">In cases of sexual immorality, how might a church apply
the rule that there has to be two or three witnesses (1 Timothy 5:19)? I don’t
think the requirement for two or three witnesses means that you have to have
multiple witnesses to begin to quietly and carefully investigate an allegation
that is credible. That would be an almost impossible standard to meet in the
case of sexual sin. Rather, I think it means that we should not accept an
allegation as true and should not share it publicly (or even privately except
with great care with those who need to know in order to investigate the
allegation) until the allegation is proven. And a high level of proof, such as
two or three witnesses, is required.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">In the case where a young lady at a Christian Bible
college I was teaching at told my wife that a leader at the school had asked to
sleep with her, we immediately asked her if she thought any of her friends
might have had similar problems with this same leader. In that case we were
able to find multiple witnesses in less than 24 hours after the first
accusation. Other cases might not be as simple. Sexual immorality is usually
carried out in secret and abusers often go to great lengths to conceal their
sin and keep others from speaking. Still, there will often be corroborating
witnesses in the form of other victims, people who saw inappropriate
interaction, or electronic evidence like texts or photos on computers or cell
phones. In some cases, the abuser may confess to some or all of their crimes.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">RZIM apparently had the resources to call in professional
private investigators. Many ministries and churches will not have the finances
to pay for that. But it may be wise to ask for help from mature, godly,
Christians with appropriate gifting and experience from outside the church or
organization where the alleged problem is.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">These cases can be complex and involve many people.
Wisdom is needed. Thankfully, our God promises wisdom to those who ask (James
1:5).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">3.
Publicly rebuke church leaders who have committed sins serious enough to
warrant their removal.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">“Publicly
rebuke those who sin . . .”</span></b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">This one is tough. Sometimes churches and ministries
prefer to sweep problems under the carpet and handle things quietly. I think
this is why Paul went on to write, “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I
solemnly charge you before God and Christ Jesus and the elect angels to observe
these things without prejudice, doing nothing out of favoritism.”</b> It’s as
if Paul knew we wouldn’t want to publicly rebuke fallen leaders, so he stopped
to make it clear that we have to. These are the words of the Apostle Paul. This
is also the Word of God. Our job is to trust and obey.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">Remember that public rebuke in these verses only applies
to church and ministry leaders. When your friend or neighbor sins, you are not
called to rebuke them publicly. But when does this apply? How do we carry it
out? Who do we tell and how much do we tell? Again, we will need Holy Spirit
given wisdom to carry this out well. Based on over twenty years of ministry
leadership experience, and some painful experience dealing with these types of
issues, here are a few of my thoughts:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">* If the sin is serious enough to cause a church leader
to be fired or to resign, it should be shared with the church.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">* All the ugly details do not need to be shared. Enough
should be shared so that the church members will understand the basic nature
and seriousness of the sin. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">* If the guilty party maintains their innocence in the
face of evidence that leaves no reasonable doubt of their guilt, or if they
protest that they are being treated unfairly, enough additional details may
need to be shared to establish their guilt and to show the justice of their
removal.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">* If the abuser seeks employment with another church or
ministry, it is proper to share the basic facts in order to protect others from
harm. In terms of exactly how to do this, in some cases it may be wise to get
legal counsel.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">* In sharing cases of sexual abuse, we must protect the
victims. Some victims may want to come forward publicly. Most will probably
want to have their privacy and identity protected as they attempt to work
through a very painful experience. We should honor and protect them.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">4.
Honor good leaders.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">“The
elders who are good leaders are to be considered worthy of double honor . . .”</span></b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">The sad news about Ravi Zacharias reminds us that some Christian
leaders are wolves in sheeps’ clothing and so we need to be on guard. It also
teaches us how not to deal with sexual abuse through negative examples and
pushes us to do better (RZIM has confessed that they previously made many
severe errors in responding to evidence). But we also need to remember the
other side of the story.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">Before he gives us instructions on how to guard against
appointing bad leaders and how to deal with bad ones whose sins are discovered
after they have been appointed, Paul exhorts us to honor good leaders.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">I’ve known some bad Christian leaders who did a lot of
harm to those they were called to serve. But I’ve known many more good
Christian pastors and leaders. Most Christian leaders I’ve known are godly
people who humbly serve others. They work hard. I’ve known quite a few who made
significant financial sacrifices and accepted significantly more humble
lifestyles in order to be faithful to God’s calling. Far from being the ones
who damage souls, they are constantly ministering God’s love, truth, and grace
to people in all of the most difficult situations of life. When church members
lose family members, or face severe health problems, or are going through
marital conflict, or dealing with depression, or find themselves trapped by a
dark addiction, these Christian leaders are there loving, serving, helping,
giving, and healing in Jesus’ Name. Most of these Christian leaders are
excellent moral examples to follow. Of course, they are not perfect, but their
character is such that by their life and teaching they encourage many others to
live more godly lives.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">So, let’s not throw out the baby with the bathwater.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">A Closing
Prayer</span></b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">Heavenly
Father, we ask that you will bring much good out of the heart breaking report
about Ravi Zacharias. May this news strengthen victims to report abusers and to
share their stories when they are ready. May ministries and churches be more
vigilant in guarding against sexual abuse. When the terrible happens, and sexual
abuse occurs in a Christian organization or church, please give those
organizations and churches the courage, strength, and grace to not cover up it
up, but to deal with it in a way that best protects others from future abuse
and also best brings healing to the victims.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">Heavenly
Father, heal those who have been hurt by evil sexual predators. Surround them
with safe people who are called and gifted to bring healing, love, and truth
into their wounded hearts. Transform them and use their stories to help guard
others. Protect victims from the lie that there was something wrong with them
that caused their abuse. Also help them to see that while not all Christian
leaders are trustworthy, Jesus Christ is trustworthy.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">Lord,
please also encourage those who are understandably deeply discouraged by seeing
a man whom they may have learned from and respected exposed as a liar, hypocrite,
and sexual abuser. Remind people that Your truth remains true even when some of
those who teach it are revealed to be false.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">Bless
and strengthen the many good Christian leaders who are humbly serving your
people. Protect them from temptation.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;">In
Jesus Name, Amen.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-language: HE;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-language: HE;">More Resources on this topic:</span></b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-language: HE;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-language: HE;">(1) In another blog post I
wrote about one of the reasons that sexual abuse is so common and why some
Christian leaders (and others) get away with it for so long. You may read that
here:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-language: HE;"><a href="http://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2017/11/why-is-there-so-much-sexual-abuse.html" target="_blank">Why is there so much sexual abuse?</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">(2) Despite
claiming to take precautions, Ravi was often in situations where he could
easily carry out sinful desires with little chance of getting quickly caught.
If he had really and honestly kept what some call “the Billy Graham Rule” from
early in his ministry, he might not have fallen into the terrible sins he eventually
committed. I write about the Billy Graham Rule here:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2018/02/the-billy-graham-rule-how-billy-graham.html" target="_blank">The
Billy Graham Rule:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How Billy Graham was
a good example to me.</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">(3) This blog
post has some thoughts that are relevant to this issue:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2018/09/feelings-thoughts-and-prayers-related.html" target="_blank">Feelings, Thoughts and Prayers Related to the Kavanaugh Accusations</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">(4) Fighting the
good fight against sin and being on guard against sin is important for all
Christians, and especially for leaders. By fighting hard against </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">relatively</i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> small (but still serious) sins we can avoid going down the path that
it appears Ravi went down. This blog post has practical advice for fighting against
temptation:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2018/07/practical-advice-for-battles-with-sin.html" target="_blank">Practical Advice for Battles with Sin and Temptation</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">(5) This blog
post you just read in response to the news about Ravi Zacharias borrows heavily
from a previous blog post I wrote in response to a series of news articles
about sexual abuse in Southern Baptist Churches. In fact, it is basically the
same blog post reworked to make it relevant to Ravi’s case. If you want to read
the one about sexual abuse in Southern Baptist Churches, which focuses more
specifically on the problem of sexual abuse of children, here it is:</span></p>
<span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2019/02/sexual-abuse-in-southern-baptist.html" target="_blank">Sexual Abuse in Southern Baptist Churches and Ancient Wisdom from Paul</a></span><p> <i>Hebrews 13:16 And do not forget to do good and to share with others . . .
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</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing">For Christmas, I asked my wife for Rebecca McLaughlin’s
book, <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Confronting-Christianity-Questions-Largest-Religion/dp/1433564238/ref=sr_1_1?crid=YJ2H2WE65HP0&dchild=1&keywords=confronting+christianity&qid=1610657798&sprefix=confronting+%2Caps%2C927&sr=8-1" target="_blank">Confronting Christianity</a>: 12 Hard Questions for the World’s Largest Religion.</i> With
anticipation I unwrapped my book-shaped present Christmas morning and soon
began to pour through her book. As I finished it, I could see why her book won
Christianity Today’s Beautiful Orthodoxy Book of the Year for 2020.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">As the title suggests, McLaughlin engages with twelve of
the most difficult questions that skeptics and Christians alike often struggle
with today concerning Christianity. Here are the 12 questions:</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">1. Aren’t we better off without religion?</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">2. Doesn’t Christianity crush diversity?</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">3. How can you say there’s only one true faith?</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">4. Doesn’t religion hinder morality?</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">5. Doesn’t religion cause violence?</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">6. How can you take the Bible literally?</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">7. Hasn’t science disproved Christianity?</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">8. Doesn’t Christianity denigrate women?</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">9. Isn’t Christianity homophobic?</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">10. Doesn’t the Bible condone slavery?</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">11. How could a loving God allow so much suffering?</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">12. How could a loving God send people to hell?</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Those are tough questions. And they are questions that people
are really asking. McLaughlin does not set up easy straw men to knock down. She
acknowledges and addresses the most difficult forms of most of these questions.
Overall, she does a great job of addressing these questions. She doesn’t claim
that there are quick and easy answers, but she shows that Christianity makes
sense even when we honestly face the toughest questions people ask about it. In
my view, while the chapters are not equally strong, they all address the issues
in meaningful ways with one glaring exception: the chapter on hell.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Near the beginning of her final chapter, McLaughlin
writes:</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">In this chapter, we will explore
the hardest question in this book: How could a loving God send people to hell?
Every other question pales in comparison. (pg. 210)</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">I agree that the nature of hell, as traditionally and
widely understood, may be the most difficult of all the difficult questions
that McLaughlin discussed. Unfortunately, when she gets to this most difficult
question, she stumbles. The first problem is that she never lays out why hell
is such a difficult issue. This stands out because in every other chapter she
does explain why the question she is discussing in that chapter is a difficult
issue for Christianity. The second problem is that she never explains how the
things she writes about in the chapter on hell help address the issue of hell.
In fact, she barely mentions hell in the rest of the chapter after stating that
it is the hardest question. It’s not that I disagree with her justification of
hell, it’s that I don’t see where she provides one.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b>So, what’s the problem with hell?</b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">I’ll attempt to do what McLaughlin did well in her other
chapters but failed to do with the issue of hell. I’ll try to explain why this
issue is difficult.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">The reason the issue of hell is difficult is that most
Christians have believed that hell involves some type of eternal torment.
Eternal torment seems to be grossly unjust and monstrously cruel. Why would a
good, just, loving God create a world where a large number of people will end
up in some type of eternal misery? People do some pretty bad stuff, but how can
a finite person who lives a short life of perhaps 80, 90, or 100 years deserve
eternal suffering? How can they still deserve more punishment and suffering
after billions and trillions of years in hell? You would think that even
someone like Hitler would have suffered enough after a few trillion years. However,
under the popular understanding of hell, not only Hitler, but every person who
is not saved through faith in Christ, will still have a lot more suffering to
come after their first 100 trillion years of misery.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Atheists have cited this problem of hell as a reason to
reject Christianity. Others don’t reject Christianity altogether, but they
reject anything resembling evangelical Christianity and are often left with
something they still call Christianity that bears little resemblance to the
faith described in the Bible or the traditional Christian faith most Christians
have held for the last 2,000 years. (I discuss and document how the doctrine of
eternal torment has driven people to theological liberalism and atheism in
another blog post: <a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2018/04/al-mohler-reveals-one-of-reasons.html" target="_blank">here</a>).
Further, I have heard testimonies from Christians who, while they maintained
their biblical faith, experienced continuing and severe emotional distress at
the thought that many people, including some of their family and friends, would
be in torment forever.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">I can understand why McLaughlin says that this is the
hardest of the 12 hard questions she discusses in her book. Unfortunately, she
neither defines the problem clearly nor offers a satisfying answer. Most likely
this is because she herself holds a common, but unbiblical, view of hell.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b>The Solution</b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Neither McLaughlin nor other well intended Christians
will be able to provide a satisfying answer to the question of hell as long as
their view of what happens to people in hell is unbiblical. McLaughlin does not
explicitly explain her view of hell, but based on reading and rereading this
chapter, it seems that she holds the traditional view of eternal conscious
torment. She does not speak of eternal torment, but she does state that those
who reject Jesus will be “eternally devastated” (pg. 219). If we say a person
is devasted, we almost always mean something like: they are experiencing severe
emotional distress in the form of sadness, depression, despair, or similar dark
emotions. If you’ve known someone who has felt like that for a period of months
or even years, you know how terrible it is. Imagine feeling like that for
hundreds, then thousands, then millions and billions of years on and on for
eternity. In this life, when people are devastated there is still hope for
them. And in their darkness, there are often at least glimmers of hope and flickers
of joy and peace. But in the common view of hell that most Christians hold
there is never any hope, joy, or peace mixed in with the eternal despair. Never
so much as a flicker of hope. In addition to emotional suffering, I could not
tell if McLaughlin also believes hell will include physical torment. The
infliction of intense physical pain in hell has been part of the traditional
view of hell for well over a thousand years of church history and is still
widely believed today – a fact McLaughlin fails to acknowledge, must less give
an explanation for.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">The solution to the problem of hell is to recognize that
the Bible does not teach eternal torment. Instead, the Bible teaches that the
unsaved will perish (John 3:16), that God will destroy their bodies and souls
in hell (Matthew 10:28), and that they will be burned to ashes (2 Peter 2:6).
This biblical doctrine is popularly referred to as <a href="https://youtu.be/yZpjs74uQ0s" target="_blank">annihilationism</a>, but many of us who
have seen this truth in the Scripture prefer the term <a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2016/06/what-is-conditional-immortality.html" target="_blank">conditional immortality</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">As one who believes in conditional immortality, this is
what I believe will happen to the unsaved based on the Bible: they will be
resurrected to face judgment, the process of being judged and experiencing God’s
wrath will bring anguish including weeping and gnashing of teeth, and in the
end they will completely and permanently perish. There may be something like
ashes or smoke left over, but there will be no living, conscious people
remaining. This will be a permanent state. It will last forever. In the
meantime, all those who have been saved by God’s grace through faith in Jesus
will have eternal life in a world without any evil or suffering. We will be in
God’s loving presence and will experience joyful life and fellowship with Him
and each other forever.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Understanding this takes the air out of objections to
hell. Instead of explaining why the unsaved deserve to be tormented forever, we
merely must explain why they do not deserve to live forever in a perfect world.
Do you know anyone who deserves to live forever in a perfect world? God does
not owe anyone eternal life. Those who are given eternal life recognize that it
is a gift given because of God’s great grace. </p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">It’s worth noting that in the doctrine of conditional
immortality, the penalty for sin is death – a complete and total death of both
body and soul (Matthew 10:28). However, there is also room in this doctrine for
various amounts of suffering before each unsaved person loses consciousness
forever. Even in this life, there is far more suffering leading up to death for
some people than for others. And some forms of execution are relatively
painless (lethal injection if it works as designed), while other forms of execution
involve extreme pain and suffering (crucifixion). So conditional immortality
allows for degrees of punishment even though in the end all the unrighteous
perish.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">This still leaves the question of why everyone does not
get the gift of eternal life? Different Christians will answer this
differently. I think the most likely answer goes something like this. God
created us to be in His image, and a very important part of being in His image
is having the ability to love like God loves. That kind of love must be given
freely or it is not really love. Thus, God gave us a measure of free will (see:
<a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2017/06/does-love-require-free-will.html" target="_blank">Does Love Require Free Will?</a>). Starting with Adam and Eve, people have often chosen
to use their free will in ways that hurt God and hurt each other. God made a
way for us to be both forgiven and transformed so that we will not continue to
hurt others for eternity. Jesus is the way. Our part is to trust Jesus as our
Lord and Savior. This is an amazingly gracious way to save us from the consequences
of our own sin. It even involved Jesus dying for us on the cross. His death
pays for our sins. His death is also a powerful example of love that changes
our hearts and lives (see: <a href="https://youtu.be/0_mqUqBqTIU" target="_blank">The Atonement: Its Importance and Meaning, Three Theories</a>). Then He rose again. Those who
refuse to accept Christ are not allowed to live forever because that would
result in eternity being filled with the same hurt and pain we see in the world
now. It is just to sentence them to death (Romans 1:32, Romans 6:23). Perhaps
God could have removed their free will and turned them into loveless robots in
order to safely give them eternal life, but that was never His plan for
humanity. It makes sense that instead of being turned into loveless robots, the
unrighteous are burned to ashes and then gone.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">In her chapter on hell, McLaughlin does a beautiful job
in some places of describing how God saves us. She shares the gospel
effectively. What she does not do is explain how that good news could harmonize
with God sentencing the unsaved to eternal torment of some type (emotional
torment or worse). She does not do that because there really is no good justification
for eternal tormen. However, if she and others come to see that the Bible
actually teaches conditionally immortality, the hell question will no longer be
the hardest question to answer.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b>Two final thoughts: (1) McLauhglin’s book and (2) evidence
for conditional immortality</b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">I have focused on the last chapter of <i>Confronting
Christianity</i>, the chapter on hell. If you want a book that does a good job
addressing the hard questions related to hell, I would not recommend McLaughlin’s
book. However, in my opinion, she addresses the other eleven hard questions in
ways that range from pretty good to excellent and powerful. Overall, I would
not hesitate to recommend her book to anyone who wrestles with the hard
questions she discusses or anyone who wants to help others who <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>wrestle with those questions. It took courage
to address the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>twelve toughest questions
she could think of. It is unreasonable to expect anyone to bat a thousand when facing
a pitcher whose name is “Twelve of the hardest questions in the world.” Her
writing style is engaging and winsome and her content is insightful and helpful.
She shares stories from her own life and the lives of others that shows that
these are not mere intellectual exercises for her. She understands that these issues
weigh heavy on many human hearts. She writes with both grace and truth.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">In this post, I have claimed that the view of hell called
<a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2016/06/what-is-conditional-immortality.html" target="_blank">conditional immortality</a> is the correct view based on the Bible. However, the only evidence
I have given in this blog post is in the form of some Bible references without
even explaining those references, much less addressing the arguments and
counterarguments for my view. I’m aware that there are verses that many
Christians believe teach eternal torment. I have addressed these types of
issues in other blog posts and in several YouTube videos. I have also provided
information on other resources for those who want to study the nature of hell
in more depth. You may find all this collected in one place here:</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2018/11/marks-resources-on-hell-conditional.html" target="_blank">Mark’s Resources on Hell</a></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">May God bless and guide you as you seek His true and
deeply satisfying answers to our most difficult questions. And may God bless
Rebecca McLaughlin and others like her who are seeking to help others who
struggle with these questions.</p>
<i>Hebrews 13:16 And do not forget to do good and to share with others . . .
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Mark Corbetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11845358650245441477noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4546375020443845329.post-50225917844692454922020-12-29T09:46:00.005-08:002020-12-29T09:47:58.479-08:00Is Disney’s “Soul” Good for Yours? (A Bible-based, Christian Movie Review)<div style="text-align: left;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxIrVFFpF1jj1Pgfrm1YO6-J2uw2HHyKRoqdttZ1Qt1LiMF2DHJYXABvyJ2bLOMxeRhTnMpLGQlrPIi2EitOGAsfOy1Qqin0vQUrkDO2KJwK-3oEnBPL0hyoWUtWv_SzbUnZ4ByjKJkIli/s1280/Disney+Soul.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxIrVFFpF1jj1Pgfrm1YO6-J2uw2HHyKRoqdttZ1Qt1LiMF2DHJYXABvyJ2bLOMxeRhTnMpLGQlrPIi2EitOGAsfOy1Qqin0vQUrkDO2KJwK-3oEnBPL0hyoWUtWv_SzbUnZ4ByjKJkIli/w400-h225/Disney+Soul.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /></div><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">When I saw that Disney was bringing out a movie called “Soul” that
was about human souls and showed their idea of what happens to them when they
die, I thought, “This is probably not going to be good.” Concerned about the
impact it could have, I watched it. I was right. It’s not good.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I’m not one of those people who are against all Disney movies (see
my mostly positive <a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2019/12/frozen-2-biblical-lessons-and-christian.html" target="_blank">review of Frozen 2 here</a>). And sometimes something I don’t think I’m going to like,
I end up liking (see my <a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2020/07/christian-thoughts-on-hamilton-musical.html" target="_blank">review of Hamilton here</a>). But in the case of the Disney movie “Soul,” I suspected
ahead of time that I might not like it, and watching it confirmed my suspicion.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">First, and this is very subjective, I didn’t find the story and
storytelling nearly as captivating as most Pixar movies I have watched. It just
wasn’t that good or interesting. Still, I suspect that many people will watch
it. It was released on Disney Plus on Christmas day. Many families are eager
for new stuff to watch because of the reduced entertainment output during the
pandemic. Disney/Pixar films have consistently been well made and loved by
many, so my guess is that while this will not be as popular as Frozen, a lot of
people are going to watch it. And many people who are not on guard will likely
be at least a little bit influenced by Soul’s worldview. And that concerns me.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Four concerning issues with Disney’s Soul</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Disney’s “Soul” is not set in a make believe world like the world
of “Cars” or “Frozen” or “Toy Story.” It is set in the real world, but also
shows human souls before and after people die. That makes this movie
theological by nature. Also, while practically nobody believes that the types
of things that happen in movies like the Harry Potter series are real, and people
know that Stars Wars is in a make believe galaxy, many people do believe in
things that are roughly similar to what is shown in “Soul.” In fact, if the
goal of Soul was to put common, popular, street level spiritual beliefs consistent
with pantheism and some new age views into a Disney film, I would say they
succeeded. Here are 4 specific examples:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">1. Soul is wrong about what happens before you are conceived</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">A major premise of Soul is that our souls exist in some type of
heavenly realm (they call it “the great before”) before we are born. When we
are born (or conceived, Soul does not get into that much detail), supposedly
our souls leave this realm and enter our bodies for life on earth. According to
Soul, some of our attributes and personality traits are determined by things
that happen to our souls before they come to earth.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The idea of pre-existent souls is popular, but completely unbiblical.
God’s Word never indicates that our souls existed before we were conceived. In
fact, the Bible indicates that the ONLY person who existed in Heaven before He
was born was Jesus:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">CSB17 John 3:13
No one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven-- the
Son of Man.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Only “the one,” who is Jesus, “the Son of
Man,” descended from heaven. The rest of us begin life on earth.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Also, Jesus points out that He existed before
Abraham. This means Jesus is claiming the He existed before He was born. His Jewish
opponents correctly interpret that as meaning that Jesus is claiming to be God.
No one else besides Jesus existed before being born. Jesus’ statement would not
make as much sense if EVERYBODY, including Abraham, existed before they were
born:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">CSB17 John 8:58 Jesus said to them, "Truly I tell
you, before Abraham was, I am."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>59 So they picked up stones to throw at him.
But Jesus was hidden and went out of the temple. </span></b><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Does it matter if someone believes that their soul existed in some
spiritual realm before they were conceived? Yes, because such belief can easily
lead to other wrong beliefs. An example is believing that things that happened
to your soul before you were conceived are impacting your character and life
today. That in turn leads to unbiblical and unhelpful (even dangerous and
sinful) ways of trying to deal with our problems. This belief can also erode the
uniqueness of Jesus Christ in our hearts in minds.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">2. Soul is wrong about what happens after you die</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In the movie Soul, it appears that all souls after they die ascend
a staircase towards a big glowing ball of light. At some point they float into
the light, but they also seem to lose their individual personhood as they turn
into round balls of light and get absorbed into the big ball of light. There is
no judgment for how each person lived their lives. Everyone gets the same fate.
There is no need to have faith in Jesus for salvation. This worldview may be
appealing to people who don’t want to face judgment, but it gives a false hope that
is contrary to the Bible.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The Bible teaches very little about what happens to our souls in
between death and resurrection (I have a post on <a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2020/03/10-biblical-reasons-i-still-believe-we.html" target="_blank">the intermediate state</a> here). Instead, the Bible focuses our hope on the
resurrection and life on a New Earth with God and with all who have been saved
through faith in Christ. We do not lose our individual personhood and get
absorbed into a ball of light. We will live forever with bodies meant to enjoy a
perfect earth without anymore disease, suffering, death, or evil. That’s way
better than Soul’s vision of the afterlife. More importantly, it is true.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">CSB17 2 Peter
3:13 But based on his promise, we wait for new heavens and a new earth, where
righteousness dwells.</span></b><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">3. Soul has quantum field spirit beings that fit in with pantheism</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Very shortly after Joe’s soul falls into “the great before” (the
spiritual realm where souls live before being sent to earth), he meets some
type of spiritual being who oversees the souls. This being is not all-knowing. It
is a little angel-like, yet it is not like the angels in the Bible. When Joe
asks “Who are you?,” the being answers, “I am the coming together of all
quantized fields in the universe.” And when one of the spirit beings catches up
to Joe to bring him back to “the Great Beyond” he does not tell Joe that Joe
broke any of God’s laws (there are no such things in Soul), but that he tried
to “cheat the universe.” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">While some of this is intended to by funny, it points to a pantheistic
worldview as opposed to a biblical worldview. In the Bible, the universe and
all angels and spiritual beings other than God Himself are created by God. But
in Soul there is no God, and the spiritual beings that do exist are part of the
universe. The idea that the universe itself is basically God, or that God
exists in the form of the universe, is a pantheistic idea. This idea is not
developed in Soul, but Soul is consistent with worldviews that fit under the broad
umbrella of pantheism.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Although relatively few people may identify themselves as “pantheist,”
this worldview, or at least significant elements of it is much more common than
you might think. It is closely related to materialism, as both views don’t
believe in anything or anyone (like the God of the Bible) as existing before, separate
from, or outside of the universe itself. Pantheism is basically materialism
with an often vague concept of the universe having something spiritual about it
thrown in.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Pantheism is not at all consistent with what the Bible teaches
about God. The Bible teaches that God created the universe and is a personal
God who is intimately involved with, yet still distinguishable from, His
creation. Pantheism is also not consistent with our current scientific
understanding of the universe. There is a lot of evidence that scientists
believe point to the fact that our universe had a beginning. That means that
something (or Someone!) other than the universe had to be the cause of the
universe coming into existence. This is why pantheistic ideas have often
historically been connected with the idea of a universe that has always
existed.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">This fundamental issue is highlighted by the first verse of God’s
Word:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">CSB17 Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.</span></b><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">4. In Disney’s Soul, “Salvation” comes though occult/new age
practices</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In Soul, there is no indication that we need to be saved from our
sins. This is contrary to the Christian message, including the good news that
we just celebrated at Christmas:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">“She will give
birth to a son, and you are to name him Jesus, because he will save his people
from their sins." (Matthew 1:21 CSB17)</span></b><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nevertheless, there is a type of salvation in Soul. When people
become obsessed with something (like sales or sports or just about anything)
and distracted from living life, their souls become lost and they need to be
saved. Who saves them? In Soul, it is not Jesus. It is a group of self-proclaimed
“mystics” who through some type of ceremonies have gained the ability to leave
their bodies on earth and travel to the domain of lost souls. There they travel
around in a ship with tie dye sails and a peace sign anchor rescuing souls. One
of these mystics is from Tibet, one is a “shamanic healer meditating in Berkley,
California,” one says his body is in a trance, and their leader is a weird guy
standing on a street corner in New York who talks about astrology and leads
them in what seems to be occult rituals. In Soul, there is no need for Jesus to
save you, the New Age-ish mystics and occult practitioners take care of that.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Although Soul presents this stuff in a cartoon setting that is
meant to be somewhat humorous, in real life participating in those type of
rituals (and people really do) goes against strong warnings in Scripture. We
lived in Indonesia for fourteen years where occult rituals and practices are
far more common (or at least far more openly practiced). They consistently lead
to demonic oppression. This stuff is not funny.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Conclusion</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Disney’s Soul is not good for your soul, or for your children’s.
It packages a non-biblical pantheistic worldview and support for mystical,
occult-like practices into a movie made for families with children that was
released on Christmas day. If you have already watched Soul with your family, I
recommend discussing how it is different from what God reveals in the Bible. If
you haven’t watched it, you’re not missing anything. May God give us
discernment and strength in these dark days. If you focus on God’s truth in the
Bible and trust Jesus, you will find peace and meaning. God bless you.</span></p>
<i>Hebrews 13:16 And do not forget to do good and to share with others . . .
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">I thank God that the FDA has just approved a vaccine for
the coronavirus. If things go well, they may approve a second vaccine next
week. These are the first vaccines for humans that are based on mRNA. We should
be praying that these vaccines will live up to their promise of being safe and
effective. We should also thank God for enabling the hardworking scientists,
doctors, and other people involved in the process who have produced an approved
vaccine in record time.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">In addition to having the potential to save many
thousands of lives and help end the difficult shut down, these mRNA vaccines
can give glory to God in another way. They can remind us of evidence that life had
to be created by a great, super-intelligent, ancient Designer.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b>What is mRNA? (a very simple review of life and some
cell biology)</b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">One of the characteristics of living things is that they
are designed so that normally they can reproduce other living things of the
same kind. Living things are incredibly complex. So far people, despite being
able to make spaceships and nuclear submarines, have not been able to make a
self-replicating machine or a self-replicating factory that uses material in
the environment to make copies of itself. Thus, every blade of grass and
butterfly that flutters by can do something that no man-made object can do.
Blades of grass produce seeds that grow into new blades of grass and
butterflies lay eggs that grow into new butterflies. Your iPhone may be an
amazing piece of technology, but it can’t make baby iPhones!</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">All living things are made of cells. That includes
everything from dolphins to oak trees and from hummingbirds to bacteria. Your
body is made up of approximately 30 trillion cells! Although cells are very
tiny, they are filled with functioning molecular machines and encoded
information that work together to enable the cell to live and multiply.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">One of the important components found inside of every
cell is DNA. DNA works like the hard drive on your computer. It contains much
of the information that the cell needs to function. This information is encoded
in the sequence of base pairs in DNA. DNA is an excellent molecule for the long
term storage of biological information (the “blueprints” for building new
cells). DNA can also pass this information down to the next generation of
cells. But the information does not do any good if it stays in the DNA just
like the information on your computer’s hard drive will not do any good if it
stays there. In the case of your computer, the information on the hard drive
gets copied into RAM where it can operate your computer and make it do things
(like check your email or display a blog post). Likewise, the information stored
in DNA gets copied onto RNA so that the RNA can do things in the cell. One of
the main things the RNA does is provide the correct sequences for amino acids
to be built together into proteins. The type of RNA that does this is called mRNA.
So, basically, <b>mRNA is used to build proteins.</b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Here is a relatively simple, animated video I found on
YouTube that shows the role of mRNA in building proteins. A couple of notes: (1)
The video correctly states that ribosomes are made from rRNA, but they also
have protein parts in them and are incredible molecular machines that are much
more complex than what the video shows (the video warns that it is a simplification),
and (2) the video shows how cells in your body normally make mRNA from DNA, but
the mRNA in the vaccine is made in a lab and injected so it does not involve
your DNA.</p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b>How mRNA is used to make a vaccine</b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Like many other viruses, COVID 19 has some protein parts.
One of these protein parts is the “spike proteins” that are seen sticking out
of the ball in artist renditions of the protein. These “spike proteins” help
the virus to get into the cells of the people the virus infects. God has given
our bodies amazing immune systems that can identify foreign proteins and destroy
them. But this takes some time to work when a foreign protein enters your body.
During that time, the virus can multiply and do all kinds of damage, making
people sick and in some cases even killing people.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">While the spike protein is part of the virus, by itself it
cannot multiply and is not a big threat. But it can be identified as part of
the virus and then the whole virus can be destroyed.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Like all proteins, the spike proteins are produced in
cells by using mRNA that codes for that particular protein. Usually, the mRNA
comes from the virus itself (yes, some viruses have mRNA in them). The way the
vaccine works is that it has mRNA that codes for the spike protein, but does
NOT have the mRNA for the whole virus. So, when the vaccine mRNA is injected,
it causes our cells to make the spike proteins, but not the whole virus. Then your
body’s immune system learns to recognize and destroy the spike proteins. Later,
if the actual virus enters your body, your body’s immune system very quickly
recognizes the spike protein and destroys it along with the whole virus it is attached
to before the virus can do a lot of harm. Pretty clever, isn’t it! (There are a
lot more details, and I thank God for the smart scientists whom He enabled to figure
this stuff out.) <br /></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b>What is Intelligent Design Theory?</b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Intelligent Design theory is a scientific theory based on
seeing evidence in nature that indicates that the universe we live in, as well
as specific parts of it (like living things), is best explained as being the product
of a great, intelligent Creator as opposed to merely being the product of the
laws of nature, matter, energy, and chance. Evidence for design can be seen at
many levels, including:</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">1. The fact that our universe had a beginning</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">2. The fine tuning of physics to make a universe able to
support life</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">3. Chemistry</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">4. Starlight</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">5. Our wonderful home, the planet earth</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">6. The origin of life</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">7. The diversity of life</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">mRNA provides evidence for design at levels 6 and 7 (also
level 3, but I won’t be addressing that). I’ll include links to other blog
posts on some of the other levels and on other evidence at levels 6 and 7 below,
but in the rest of this blog post I will focus on evidence related to mRNA.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"> </p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b>RNA and the Origin of Life</b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Cells are really, really complex and amazing. They have
complex cell membranes that protect the cell and let the stuff out that needs
to go out and let the stuff in that needs to come in. Cells are also full of functioning
molecular machines (here’s a link to <a href="https://youtu.be/XI8m6o0gXDY" target="_blank">a cool video showing one of these machines</a>). All cells contain a large amount
of functional information. So it’s not realistic to think that a functioning,
living cell could just pop into existence (unless you believe in God!).
Scientists who are committed to materialism (explaining everything without God)
don’t say that the first cell just popped into existence. They claim that prior
to cells there must have been some type of chemical evolution (also referred to
as abiogenesis) that involved increasingly cell-like replicating chemical
systems.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">It should be noted that no one has ever found or made a somewhat-on-the-way-to-being-a-cell
replicating chemical system. There’s no physical evidence such a thing has ever
existed. In fact, there’s good evidence that such a thing cannot work (see this
blog post on <a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2020/04/how-viruses-strengthen-scientific-case.html" target="_blank">how viruses strengthen the scientific case for a Creator</a>). But that hasn’t
stopped origin of life researchers and those who follow their work from
spinning stories about what they think might have existed. One of the most popular
such stories is sometimes referred to as the RNA world. The RNA world is a theory
that says that before there were replicating cells with DNA there were
replicating molecular systems with RNA. Because RNA contains information and
because it can work as a catalyst for some reactions, this seems like about the
best guest possible if you begin by ruling out God (which is a really terrible
way to begin). But there are many reasons the RNA world could never work, and
the recent news about mRNA viruses reminds us of some of those reasons. I will briefly
explain three of them.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 184.7pt;"><b>1. mRNA cannot replicate on
its own</b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 184.7pt;">One of the challenges of using mRNA
in a vaccine is that it is not enough to inject it into your body, the mRNA
must make it through the cell membrane into your cells. Why is this? By itself,
mRNA cannot do anything. It cannot make spike proteins or any other type of
proteins by itself. It contains information, but it needs other RNA molecules
(specifically tRNA), complex cellular machinery (specifically ribosomes), and
the metabolism of a living cell (a complex system for harnessing and using
energy needed to run the cell) to create a protein. And many proteins are
needed for self-replication of cells. In other words, even if an RNA molecule
somehow formed on the early earth (which is basically impossible without
intelligent intervention, but just for argument sake let’s say it did) it would
be able to do nothing at all. It would be there without a ribosome, without
cell metabolism, and without very specific tRNAs it needs to work.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b>2. mRNA is relatively unstable</b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Some people speculate that because there were millions of
years potentially available for chemical evolution, you could get some of the
parts you need (like RNA) and then eventually add other parts. But there’s a
problem. Time doesn’t help, it hurts. The mRNA vaccines have to be kept frozen
prior to use. This may be due to the well known fact that RNA is a relatively
unstable molecule (see articles <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/11/17/935563377/why-does-pfizers-covid-19-vaccine-need-to-be-kept-colder-than-antarctica" target="_blank">here</a>
and <a href="https://www.sciencenews.org/article/coronavirus-covid-19-why-vaccines-cold-freeze-pfizer-moderna" target="_blank">here</a>
that explain this). RNA usually does not stay around for long. So even if an
RNA molecule somehow appeared, it could not wait around for millions of years
(or usually not even for one year!) for a lucky encounter with some other
molecule that could help it do something.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b>3. RNA needs functional information to work</b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">You can’t just pump any mRNA into a person and expect it
to vaccinate them against the coronavirus. We already have LOTS of mRNA
constantly being produced in the 30 trillion cells in our bodies. None of that
mRNA vaccinates us against the coronavirus. Why? Because the function of any
particular strand of mRNA depends on the order of the nucleotides it contains.
It works like this sentence I am typing. I cannot just type random letters and
get a sentence that makes sense, much less a sentence that conveys the specific
meaning I desire. Likewise, none of the mRNA in your body currently codes for
COVID spike proteins (unless you have been infected). The chances of randomly
assembling nucleotides into even one RNA sequence that would perform any useful
function relative to self-replication are so remote as to be practically
impossible, even if you had oceans full of RNA and millions of years. This situation
is made worse because there is no known sequence of RNA anywhere (in any cell
in any creature or in any virus or in any lab) that has the ability to
self-replicate without using the resources of an already existing cell.</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b>What Works</b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">The mRNA vaccine was not created by purely material forces
and chance. It was designed and manufactured by intelligent scientists. It is
far more difficult to design a living cell. In fact, we are not even close to
being able to design a living cell from material that does not come from
already living cells. Not even close. So, it is reasonable to believe that the
Creator of the first living cell is more intelligent than all our scientists
today. This Creator also lived long before any human lived. And since the
universe we live in has physical constants fine-tuned for life and the
chemistry needed for life, it appears that this great Creator existed before
the universe and made the universe and all the life that we see. Remind you of
Anyone?</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In the beginning, God
created the heavens and the earth.</span></i></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> (Gen. 1:1 ESV)</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">To God be the glory!</p>
<i>Hebrews 13:16 And do not forget to do good and to share with others . . .
</i>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Some of the Other Blog Posts I Have Written on Evidence
for God Seen in Nature:</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2019/06/god-created-earth-to-be-inhabited.html" target="_blank">God Created the Earth to be Inhabited</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2019/01/how-sun-glorifies-son.html" target="_blank">How the Sun glorifies the Son</a><br />
<br />
<a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2016/02/seeing-god-in-creation-gives-me-courage.html" target="_blank">Seeing God in Creation Gives Me Courage to Keep Serving Him</a><br />
<br />
<a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2016/02/nuclear-submarines-and-living-cells.html" target="_blank">Nuclear Submarines and Living Cells</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2018/04/theistic-evolution-demagnifies-gods.html" target="_blank">Theistic Evolution Demagnifies God's Glory</a><br />
<br />
<a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2018/06/octopi-from-outer-space.html" target="_blank">Octopi from Outer Space</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2019/03/behes-three-mighty-blows-against.html" target="_blank">Behe’s Three Mighty Blows Against Darwinism</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I also have blog posts on lots of other stuff. Here’s a small
sample:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2016/07/sunflowers-and-sonpeople.html" target="_blank">Sunflowers and Sonpeople</a><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2018/11/marks-resources-on-hell-conditional.html" target="_blank">Mark’s Resources on Hell</a></span></p><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">
<a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2018/04/create-in-me-clean-heart-o-god.html" target="_blank">Create in Me a Clean Heart, O God</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://parresiazomai.blogspot.com/2018/01/what-does-paul-mean-by-spiritual-body.html" target="_blank">What does Paul Mean by a “Spiritual Body”?</a></span></p>
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<![endif]--></div>Mark Corbetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11845358650245441477noreply@blogger.com0