Objections to Correspondence

Objections to the correspondence view of truth come Christian and non-Christian sources.
When Jesus said, "I am the truth" (John 14:6), it is argued that he demonstrated that truth is personal, not propositional. This falsifies the correspondence view of truth, in which truth is a characteristic of propositions which correspond to its referent. But a person,as well as a proposition, can correspond to reality. As the "exact image" of the invisible God(Hebrews 1:3), Jesus perfectly corresponds to the Father (John 1:18). He said to Philip, "when you have seen me, you have seen the Father" (John 14:9). So, a person can correspond to another in his character and actions. In this sense, persons can be said to be true or express the truth.
God is truth, yet there is nothing outside of himself to which he corresponds. Yet according to the correspondence view, truth is that which correctly represents reality. Since God lacks correspondence, this argument goes, the correspondence theory denies that God is true, as the Bible says he is (Romans 3:4). However, truth as correspondence does relate strongly to God. God's words correspond to his thoughts. So God is true in the sense that his word can be trusted. God's thoughts are identical to themselves, a kind of perfect "correspondence." In this sense, God is true to himself. If truth is understood as what corresponds to another, then in this sense God is not "true." Rather, he is the ultimate reality and so the standard for truth. Others must correspond to him in a limited way in order to be called true, not he to them.
The basic fallacy in this objection that God is truth yet not correspondent is that it equivocates in its definitions. If correspondence relates only to something outside oneself, then God cannot be truth, but the ultimate reality to which truth corresponds. If correspondence can also be inside oneself, God corresponds to himself in the most perfect way. He is perfect truth by perfect self-identity. Consider the following fallacious thinking:

1) All who submit to the authority of the Pope are Roman Catholic.
2) But the Pope cannot submit to himself.
3) Therefore, the Pope is not Roman Catholic.

The mistake is in the second premise. Contrary to the claim, the Pope can submit to himself. He simply has to follow the rules he lays down for Roman Catholics. Likewise, God can and does live in accord with his own authority. In this sense he is true to himself.

 

Comparative similarities: homology , Part One

Evolutionist use the idea of "descent from a common ancestor" to explain why the forearm bones of a penguin, bat, and human are so similar. This explanation works for traits in your family, but can it be applied to the history of life on earth? The fact that we use such characteristics to classify organisms into groups does not mean that they are related to a common ancestor. The equally valid alternative is that all of these organisms were created by a common Designer who used the same design principle to accomplish similar functions. Although either explanation may appear equally valid, some instances make the case for a Creator clear.
When structures that appear to be similar to the one another developed under the control of genes that are not related, the common ancestor idea fails. Evolution would predict that the structures would be formed from a derived gene that has undergone modification through mutation and natural selection. Frogs and humans supposedly share a common ancestor that would account for the similarity of the limb structures. The problem is that when a frog's digits develop, they grow out from buds in the embryonic hand. In humans, the digits begin as a solid plate and then tissue is removed to form the digits. These entirely different mechanisms produce the same result, but they are not the result, but they are not the result of the same genes.

              

No more

We will look at a man named Enoch. He was mentioned in the book of Genesis.Genesis 5:18-23 says, "When Jared had lived 162 years, he became the father of Enoch. After he became the father of Enoch, Jared lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters. Altogether, Jared lived a total of 962 years, and then he died. When Enoch had lived 65 years, he became the father of Methuselah. ²² After he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked faithfully with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters. Altogether, Enoch lived a total of 365 years."
Enoch seemed to receive faith after he became a father after Methuselah was born. He honored God and he was the first person to never die. He was raptured by the Lord.
He was honoring God and one day, God saw that Enoch was closer to heaven after a long walk with Enoch. God said to Enoch, "Come home with me and never die." Many teachers have this joke.
We can learn to honor the Lord and it will go will with life. Enoch honored the Lord and God was pleased. I don't know about you, I want to honor the Lord.

Hebrews 11:5

  By faith Enoch was taken from this life, so that he did not experience death: “He could not be found, because God had taken him away.”For before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God.

What truth is. Arguments for correspondence

All non-correspondence views the truth imply correspondence, even as they attempt to deny it. The claim: "Truth does not correspond with what is "implies that this view corresponds to reality. Then the non-correspondence view cannot express itself without using a correspondence frame of reference.
If one's factual statements need not correspond to the facts in order to be true, then any factually incorrect statement is acceptable. It becomes impossible to lie. Any statement is compatible with any given state of affairs.
In order to know something is true or false, there must be a real difference between things and statements about the things. But correspondence is the comparison of words to their reference. Hence, a correspondence view is necessary to make sense of factual statements.
Communication depends on informative statements. But correspondence to facts is what makes statements informative. All communication ultimately depends on something being literally or factually true. We cannot even use a metaphor unless we understand that there is a literal meaning over against which the figurative sense is not literal. So, it would follow that all communication depends in the final analysis on a correspondence to truth.
The intentionalist theory claims that something is true only if what is accomplished corresponds fulfills what is intended by the statement. Without correspondence of intentions and accomplished facts there is no truth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVEAbjAShtU     
 

Did God create poodles?

Poodles and all other current breeds of dogs are descended from a dog kind that was created on Day 6 and was present on the Ark. The varieties of dogs that we see today, from wolves to coyotes to poodles, are all descendants of the dog kind that came off Noah's Ark. As populations of wild dogs were spreading across the globe, the environment shaped  their characteristics through natural selection. As humans began to domesticate dogs, they artificially selected the traits that they desired in populations. The breeds of modern domestic dogs are a result of the diversity that was programmed into the DNA of the original dog kind. All domestic dogs belong to the same species Canis familaris and can interbreed.
Purebred dogs have many genetic problems that result from close breeding of individuals over time to concentrate desirable traits. Many breeds have hip dysplaysia, vision problems and blood disorders. We know that these dogs not have been in the Garden of Eden because God called His creation very good and He would not have included those genetic mutations in that description. We do know that all of the breeds did come from a very narrow gene pool and that is confirmed by secular scientists. In the journal, Science, November 22, 2002, researchers reported, "The origin of the domestic dog from wolves has been established....We examined the mitochondrial DNA sequence variation among 654 domestic dogs representing all major dog populations worldwide......suggesting a common origin from a single gene pool for all dog population." It is still important to remember that no new information exists in these mutant forms, only a loss of information from the population, resulting in distinct traits.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWn48CAWt2k
  

News worthy

We always think of news worthy ideas. We think of a famous person doing good. I don't know about you but I am not impressed with titles. I don't put much stock in famous people but people of faith that live their faith.
People can talk but I see their actions so I love this person. Abel was a person that I look up to.
He had faith and offered a sacrifice and his life for God. Good works will not save a person but people are saved onto God works. Ephesian 2:8-10 says, "For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast.
 For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do."
Their was a blessing on Abel's life because he trusted in the Lord and believed that he was the only way and not by good works but good works showed his love for Jesus.
He had a brother named Cain that rejected the Lord and hated his brother, Abel.
Cain's life was full of sin and hatred so he killed his brother. Cain's life was in vain because he lived for himself and a warning to mankind.
Abel's life is like a beautiful flower that keeps on showing beauty because the Lord's is in the center of it. 
If you want a great life. You need to follow Jesus and love him thru your life. Your life will not be forgotten. But if you want a hard life, then follow the steps of Cain.

 

Hebrews 11:4

 By faith Abel brought God a better offering than Cain did. By faith he was commended as righteous, when God spoke well of his offerings. And by faith Abel still speaks, even though he is dead.

What truth is. Correspondence with Reality.

Now that the inadequate views of the nature of truth have been examined, it remains to state an adequate view. Truth is what corresponds to its referent. Truth about reality is what corresponds to the way things really are. Truth is "telling it like it is." This correspondence applies to abstract realities as well as actual ones. There are mathematical truths. There are also truths about ideas. In each case there is a reality and truth accurately expresses it.
Falsehood, then, is what does not correspond. It tells it like it is not, misrepresenting the way things are. The intent behind the statement is irrelevant. If it lacks proper correspondence, it is false.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fpmu42g6mDs   

Design without a designer

Darwin grew up in an England that acknowledge a biblical worldview. When he wrote On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life, he had witnessed a world fall of death and disease. How could this be the world created by the God of the Bible? Evolutionary ideas offered people an alternative to a supernatural Creator. Life may appear to be designed but it is just a product of random changes over millions of years of earth history. This offered people a "scientific" means to reject God and believe in a naturalistic view of the universe. Micheal Denton suggests that the chief impact of Darwin's idea was to make atheism possible and respectable in light of the evidence for a Designer. Darwin's ideas fostered an environment where God was no longer needed-nature was all that was necessary. Darwin's ideas ushered in a pagan era that is now reaching a critical point. The idea that the appearance of design suggests a designer became an invalid argument in the eyes of evolutionists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5Mldp3f5iU       

Take a walk in the woods

Do you like nature? Have you walked in a wooded area and fall in love the trees and grass?
The best art is not painted but it is nature.
The public schools teaches that random energy built everything in nature without God.
I will go really deep with you.
According to the most-widely accepted theory of evolution today, the sole mechanism for producing evolution is that of random mutation combined with natural selection. Mutations are random changes in genetic systems. Natural selection is considered by evolutionists to be a sort of sieve, which retains the "good" mutations and allows the others to pass away.
Since random changes in ordered systems almost always will decrease the amount of order in those systems, nearly all mutations are harmful to the organisms which experience them. Nevertheless, the evolutionist insists that each complex organism in the world today has arisen by a long string of gradually accumulated good mutations preserved by natural selection. No one has ever actually observed a genuine mutation occurring in the natural environment which was beneficial (that is, adding useful genetic information to an existing genetic code), and therefore, retained by the selection process. For some reason, however, the idea has a certain persuasive quality about it and seems eminently reasonable to many people—until it is examined quantitatively, that is!
For example, consider a very simple putative organism composed of only 200 integrated and functioning parts, and the problem of deriving that organism by this type of process. The system presumably must have started with only one part and then gradually built itself up over many generations into its 200-part organization. The developing organism, at each successive stage, must itself be integrated and functioning in its environment in order to survive until the next stage. Each successive stage, of course, becomes statistically less likely than the preceding one, since it is far easier for a complex system to break down than to build itself up. A four-component integrated system can more easily "mutate" (that is, somehow suddenly change) into a three-component system (or even a four-component non-functioning system) than into a five-component integrated system. If, at any step in the chain, the system mutates "downward," then it is either destroyed altogether or else moves backward, in an evolutionary sense.
Therefore, the successful production of a 200-component functioning organism requires, at least, 200 successive, successful such "mutations," each of which is highly unlikely. Even evolutionists recognize that true mutations are very rare, and beneficial mutations are extremely rare—not more than one out of a thousand mutations are beneficial, at the very most.
But let us give the evolutionist the benefit of every consideration. Assume that, at each mutational step, there is equally as much chance for it to be good as bad. Thus, the probability for the success of each mutation is assumed to be one out of two, or one-half. Elementary statistical theory shows that the probability of 200 successive mutations being successful is then (½)²⁰⁰, or one chance out of 10⁶⁰. The number 10⁶⁰, if written out, would be "one" followed by sixty "zeros." In other words, the chance that a 200-component organism could be formed by mutation and natural selection is less than one chance out of a trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion! Lest anyone think that a 200-part system is unreasonably complex, it should be noted that even a one-celled plant or animal may have millions of molecular "parts."
The evolutionist might react by saying that even though any one such mutating organism might not be successful, surely some around the world would be, especially in the 10 billion years (or 10¹⁸ seconds) of assumed earth history. Therefore, let us imagine that every one of the earth's 10¹⁴ square feet of surface harbors a billion (i.e., 10⁹) mutating systems and that each mutation requires one-half second (actually it would take far more time than this). Each system can thus go through its 200 mutations in 100 seconds and then, if it is unsuccessful, start over for a new try. In 10¹⁸ seconds, there can, therefore, be 10¹⁸/10², or 10¹⁶, trials by each mutating system. Multiplying all these numbers together, there would be a total possible number of attempts to develop a 200-component system equal to 10¹⁴ (10⁹) (10¹⁶), or 10³⁹ attempts. Since the probability against the success of any one of them is 10⁶⁰, it is obvious that the probability that just one of these 10³⁹ attempts might be successful is only one out of 10⁶⁰/10³⁹, or 10²¹.
All this means that the chance that any kind of a 200-component integrated functioning organism could be developed by mutation and natural selection just once, anywhere in the world, in all the assumed expanse of geologic time, is less than one chance out of a billion trillion. What possible conclusion, therefore, can we derive from such considerations as this except that evolution by mutation and natural selection is mathematically and logically indefensible!

Hebrews 11:3

 By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.

Truth is not "what feels good"

The popular subjective view is truth gives a satisfying feeling, and error feels bad. Truth is found in our subjective feelings. Many mystics and new age enthusiasts hold versions of this faulty view, though it also has a strong influence among some experimentally oriented Christian groups. 
It is evident that bad news can be true. But if what feels good is always true, then we would not have to believe anything unpleasant. Bad report cards do not make a student feel good, but the student refuses to believe them at his or her academic peril. They are true. Feelings are also relative to individual personalities. What feels good to one may feel bad to another. If so, then truth would be highly relative. But, as will be seen in some detail below, truth cannot be relative.
Even if truth makes us feel good-at least in the long-this does not mean what feels good is true. The nature of truth does not depend on the result of truth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQITYLg74D8&t=621s 

Darwin's illegitimate brainchild

The idea of natural selection was published well before Darwin wrote Origin of Species. Darwin was most likely exposed to the idea in his days as a student in Edinburgh, and those ideas were integrated with the information gathered on his Beagle voyage. Several scholars have suggested that Darwin borrowed ideas from the works of many of his predecessors and contemporaries. It is suggested that Darwin failed to give credit to Edward Blyth for seminal ideas because Blyth was a "special creationist" who viewed natural selection in light of selecting among preexisting traits. Darwin is credited with the idea of evolution by natural selection, but it remains impotent in light of modern genetic concepts of information. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y6OWI8fN-M

It is there

We live in a world that nothing is guaranteed. Your beautiful wife could die tomorrow. Your job could be cut. Your house could be no more after a fire. There is a lack of hope in this world.
Mankind help in relationships and all of them can be cut off. The job that you love can be lost. The house could be flooded in a storm. 
The world is becoming a junk yard of rotten food and the world promote that there is no God.
People wonder will people kill themselves.
There are proof of God and science is on God's side so you can read my blog on science for more information.
God is real and when a person believes in Jesus, then that person will remain strong in times of trouble which we live in. It is true that we can't see God but creation is more complex than your phone so God is real. I have not seen God face to face but it is obvious that He is real.
God loved the people that trusted and believed in Him in the past. He is content when a person surrenders their live to Him.
This world is not all there is because eternity is next. A person either go to heaven or hell.
One sin leads to hell but thru the mercy of Jesus on the cross. A person can repent from their sins and go to heaven.

Hebrews 11:1-2

 Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. ² This is what the ancients were commended for.

Truth is not "what is existentially relevant"

Following Soren Kierkegaard and other existential philosophers, some have insisted that the truth is what is relevant to our existence or life and false if it is not. Truth is subjectivity, Kierkegaard said; truth is livable. As Martin Buber stated, truth is found in persons, not in propositions.
However, even if truth is existential in some sense, not all truth fits into the existential category. There are many kinds of truth, physical, mathematical, historical and theoretical. But if truth by its very nature is found only subjectively in existential relevance then none of these could be true. What is true will be relevant, but not everything relevant is true. A pen is relevant to an atheist writer. And a gun is relevant to a murder. But this does not make the former true nor the latter good. A truth about life will be relevant to life. But not everything relevant to one's life will be true.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWY-6xBA0Pk

Evolution a fact of science? Part Two

When we deal with the issue of origins, we must realize that no people were there to observe and record the events. When scientists discuss the origins of the universe, the earth, or life on earth, we must realize that the discussion is based on assumptions. These fallible assumptions make the conclusions of the discussion less valid than if the discussion were based on actual observation.  Almost all biology books and textbooks written in the last two generations have been written as if these presuppositions were true.
Proponents of the evolutionary worldview expect everyone to accept evolution as fact. This is a difficult case to make when the how, why, when and where of evolutionary history are sharply contested or unknown by the scientists who insists evolution is a fact.
Evolutionists often claim that creation is not scientific because of unprovable assumptions that it is based on. The fact that evolution is based on its own set of unprovable, untestable, and unfalsifiable assumptions is recognized by many in the scientific community.
Within the scientific literature, the mathematical and chemical impossibilities of the origin of the universe and life on earth are recognized. Many notable scientists, including Sir Fred Hoyle and Sir Francis Crick, have gone so far as to suggest that life originated om other planets or was brought to earth by an intelligent being. These ideas are no less testable than special creation but avoid invoking God as our Creator.
  

Suffering when doing good

Many and various afflictions united against the early Christians, and they had a great conflict. The Christian spirit is not a selfish spirit; it puts us upon pitying others, visiting them, helping them, and pleading for them. All things here are but shadows. The happiness of the saints in heaven will last for ever; enemies can never take it away as earthly goods. This will make rich amends for all we may lose and suffer here. The greatest part of the saints' happiness, as yet, is in promise. It is a trial of the patience of Christians, to be content to live after their work is done, and to stay for their reward till God's time to give it is come. He will soon come to them at death, to end all their sufferings, and to give them a crown of life. The Christian's present conflict may be sharp, but will be soon over. God never is pleased with the formal profession and outward duties and services of such as do not persevere; but he beholds them with great displeasure. And those who have been kept faithful in great trails for the time past, have reason to hope for the same grace to help them still to live by faith, till they receive the end of their faith and patience, even the salvation of their souls. Living by faith, and dying in faith, our souls are safe for ever.

Hebrews 10:32-39

³² Remember those earlier days after you had received the light, when you endured in a great conflict full of suffering. ³³ Sometimes you were publicly exposed to insult and persecution; at other times you stood side by side with those who were so treated. ³⁴ You suffered along with those in prison and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property, because you knew that you yourselves had better and lasting possessions. ³⁵ So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded.
³⁶ You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised. ³⁷ For,

“In just a little while,
    he who is coming will come
    and will not delay.”

³⁸ And,

“But my righteous one will live by faith.
    And I take no pleasure
    in the one who shrinks back.”

³⁹ But we do not belong to those who shrink back and are destroyed, but to those who have faith and are saved.

Truth is not "what is comprehensive"

Another idea is that the view that explains the most data is true. And those that are not as comprehensive are not true- or not as true. Comprehensive is one test for truth, but not the definition of truth. Certainly a good theory will explain all relevant data. And a true worldview will be comprehensive. However, this is only a negative test of whether it is true. The affirmations of that view  must still correspond with the real state of affairs. If a view was true simply because it was more Wikipedia, then a comprehensive statement of error would be true and a digested presentation of truth automatically would  be in error. Not all long-winded presentations are true and concise ones are all false. One can have a comprehensive view of what is false or a superficial or incomplete view of what is true.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUohtd2hP78

Evolution a fact of science? Part One

In the media, textbooks and scientific blogs the occurrence of evolution has become a "fact".
The definition of the word evolution has also taken on two different meaning that are not equal. Evolution can be used in the sense of change in a species by natural selection. This is often referred to as microevolution and is accepted by evolutionists and creationist alike as good observational science. This type of evolution allows change within groups but not between groups.
The other meaning of evolution involves the idea that all organisms on earth share a common ancestor by descent with modification. This idea is commonly referred to as macroevolution.
The definitions are often used interchangeable. Typical, textbooks show that new species can form-evolution has occurred- so they argue that is obvious that evolution, in the molecules-to-man sense, must have occurred. The problem is that just because natural selection and speciation have occurred (and there is strong evidence to support such claims) the claim that all life has evolved from a common ancestor is based on many assumptions that cannot be proven.
People believe the ideas of the evolutionary development of life on earth for many reasons: it is all that they have been taught and exposed to, they believe the evidence supports evolution, they do want want to be lumped with people who do not believe in evolution and are often considered to be less intelligent, evolution has the stamp of approval from real scientists and evolutionary history allows people to reject the idea of God and legitimize their own immorality. Evaluating the presuppositions behind belief in evolution makes for a much more productive discussion. Two intelligent people can arrive at different conclusions using the same evidence; so their starting assumptions is the most important issue in discussing historical science.
    

Only way and no other

The exhortations against apostasy and to perseverance, are urged by many strong reasons. The sin here mentioned is a total and final falling away, when men, with a full and fixed will and resolution, despise and reject Christ, the only Savior; despise and resist the Spirit, the only Sanctifier; and despise and renounce the gospel, the only way of salvation, and the words of eternal life. Of this destruction God gives some notorious sinners, while on earth, a fearful foreboding in their consciences, with despair of being able to endure or to escape it. But what punishment can be sorer than to die without mercy? We answer, to die by mercy, by the mercy and grace which they have despised. How dreadful is the case, when not only the justice of God, but his abused grace and mercy call for vengeance! All this does not in the least mean that any souls who sorrow for sin will be shut out from mercy, or that any will be refused the benefit of Christ's sacrifice, who are willing to accept these blessings. Him that comes unto Christ, he will in no wise cast out.

Hebrews 10:26-31

 ²⁶ If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, ²⁷ but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God. ²⁸ Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. ²⁹ How much more severely do you think someone deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified them, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace? ³⁰ For we know him who said, “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,” and again, “The Lord will judge his people.” ³¹ It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

The nature of truth, part four

Truth is not "that which was intended." Some find truth in intentions, rather than affirmations. A statement is true if the author intends it to be true and false if he does not intended it to be true. But many statements agree with the intention of the author, even when the author is mistaken. "Slips of the tongue" occur, communicating a falsehood or misleading idea the communicator did not intend. If something is true because someone intended it to be true, then all sincere statements ever uttered are true-even those that are patently absurd. Sincere people are often sincerely wrong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grWycEu-SPc

Natural selection and speciation, part three

No matter how hard evolutionists try, they cannot explain where the new information that is necessary to turn a reptile into a bird comes from. The typical Neo-Darwanian mechanism of mutation, chance and time cannot generate new information. The failure of evolutionary models to explain how a single cell could have evolved more complex information by additive mutations challenges the entire concepts. If we start from the Bible, we begin with the idea of specially created organisms possessing large amounts of genetic variability. These original kinds have undergone mutations-which cause a loss of information-and have been charged into new species by natural selection. In this biblical framework, the history of life makes sense.

http://creation.com/creation-tv   

This hit the spot

The apostle having closed the first part of the epistle, the doctrine is applied to practical purposes. As believers had an open way to the presence of God, it became them to use this privilege. The way and means by which Christians enjoy such privileges, is by the blood of Jesus, by the merit of that blood which he offered up as an atoning sacrifice. The agreement of infinite holiness with pardoning mercy, was not clearly understood till the human nature of Christ, the Son of God, was wounded and bruised for our sins. Our way to heaven is by a crucified Savior; his death is to us the way of life, and to those who believe this, he will be precious. They must draw near to God; it would be contempt of Christ, still to keep at a distance. Their bodies were to be washed with pure water, alluding to the cleansing directed under the law: thus the use of water in baptism, was to remind Christians that their conduct should be pure and holy. While they derived comfort and grace from their reconciled Father to their own souls, they would adorn the doctrine of God their Savior in all things. Believers are to consider how they can be of service to each other, especially stirring up each other to the more vigorous and abundant exercise of love, and the practice of good works. The communion of saints is a great help and privilege, and a means of steadfastness and perseverance. We should observe the coming of times of trial, and be thereby quickened to greater diligence. There is a trying day coming on all men, the day of our death.

Hebrews 10:19-25

 ¹⁹ Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, ²⁰ by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body, ²¹ and since we have a great priest over the house of God, ²² let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water. ²³ Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. ²⁴ And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, ²⁵ not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.

The nature of truth, part three

Truth is not "that  which coheres." Some thinkers have suggested that truth is what is internally consistent; it is coherent and self-consistent. But this too is an inadequate definition.  Empty statements hang together; even though they are devoid of truth content. "All wives are married women" is internally consistent, but it is empty. It tells us nothing about reality. The statement would be so, even if there were no wives. It really means, "If there is a wife, then she must be married." But it does not inform us that there is a wife anywhere in the universe. A set of false statements also can be internally consistent. If several witnesses conspire to misrepresent the facts, their story may cohere better than if they were honestly trying to reconstruct the truth. But it still is a lie. At best, coherence is a negative test of truth. Statements are wrong if they are inconsistent, but not necessarily wrong if they are.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfS4SDM_JFc  

Natural selection and speciation, part two

Using the dog kind as an example, we can see the amazing variety that was programmed into the DNA from creation. Using basic genetic principles and operational science, we can understand how the great diversity seen in the dogs of the present world could have come from one pair of dogs on Noah's Ark. Using the genes A, B, and C as examples of recessive/dominant traits in dogs, if an AaBbCc male were to mate with an AaBbCc female, there are 27 different combination (AABBCC....aabbcc) possible in the offspring. If these three genes coded for fur characteristics, we would get dogs with many types of fur-from long and thick to short and thin. As these dogs migrated around he globe after the Flood, they encountered different climates. Those that were better suited to the environment of the cold North survived and passed on the genes for long, thick fur. The opposite was true in the warmer climates. Natural selection is a key component of the explanation of events following the Flood that led to the world we now see.
This type of speciation has been observed to happen very rapidly and involves mixing and expression of the preexisting genetic variability. Not only does natural selection select from already existing information, it causes a loss of information since unfavorable genes are removed from the population. Mutations are not able to add new information to the genome. Not a single mutation has been observed to cause an increase in the amount of information in a genome. The difference in groups of similar organisms that are isolated from one another may eventually become great enough sop that the populations no longer interbreed in the wild. This is how new species have formed since the Flood and why the straw man argument set up at the beginning is a false representation of creationist interpretations.      

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R-vDUyv4Ak  

The best way

The law merely presents a shadow of the essential spiritual blessings and does not perfect those who seek God through it. Its sacrifices therefore must be continually repeated and the consciousness of sins is annually revived, for animal blood cannot take sins away. Accordingly, when Christ comes into the world He says, “Sacrifice and offering Thou wouldst not, I am come to do Thy will”. He proclaims the uselessness of O.T. sacrifices, that He may clear the ground for “the offering of the body of Christ”. This is the great distinction between Christ and all other priests. They stand daily ministering, He by one offering has perfected those who approach God through Him.

Hebrews 10:1-18

 The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming—not the realities themselves. For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship. ² Otherwise, would they not have stopped being offered? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt guilty for their sins. ³ But those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins. ⁴ It is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

⁵ Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said:

“Sacrifice and offering you did not desire,
    but a body you prepared for me;
⁶ with burnt offerings and sin offerings
    you were not pleased.
⁷ Then I said, ‘Here I am—it is written about me in the scroll—
    I have come to do your will, my God.’”

⁸ First he said, “Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not desire, nor were you pleased with them”—though they were offered in accordance with the law. ⁹ Then he said, “Here I am, I have come to do your will.” He sets aside the first to establish the second. ¹⁰ And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

¹¹ Day after day every priest stands and performs his religious duties; again and again he offers the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. ¹² But when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, ¹³ and since that time he waits for his enemies to be made his footstool. ¹⁴ For by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy.
¹⁵ The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First he says:

¹⁶ “This is the covenant I will make with them
    after that time, says the Lord.
I will put my laws in their hearts,
    and I will write them on their minds.”

¹⁷ Then he adds:

“Their sins and lawless acts
    I will remember no more.”

¹⁸ And where these have been forgiven, sacrifice for sin is no longer necessary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvGUvu6yNcw 

The nature of truth, part two

Truth is not "what works." One popular theory is the pragmatic view of William James and his followers that truth is what works. According to James, "Truth is the expedient in the way of knowing. A statement is know to be true if it brings the right results. It is the expedient as confirmed by future experience." That this is inadequate is evident from its confusion of cause and effect. If something is true it will work, at least in the long run. But simply because something works does not make it true. This is not how trust is understood in court. Judges tend to regard the expedient perjury. Finally, the results do not settle the truth question. Even when results are in, one can still ask whether the initial statement corresponded to the facts. If it did not, it was not true, regardless of the results.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwp5ZeWQ2w  

Natural selection and speciation, part one

Evolutionists often set up straw man arguments which suggest that creationist believe life was created just as it is seen today. Evolutionist demonstrate that there are many examples of change over time in species and suggest they disproved creationism. This is an inaccurate description of the biblical creationist model of life on earth. Creationists accept change in animals over-time-God didn't create poodles-but within the boundaries of the created kinds according to Genesis 1.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK8qeyPYsjg 

The best plan for mankind, are you applying for it

It is evident that the sacrifices of Christ are infinitely better than those of the law, which could neither procure pardon for sin, nor impart power against it. Sin would still have been upon us, and have had dominion over us; but Jesus Christ, by one sacrifice, has destroyed the works of the devil, that believers may be made righteous, holy, and happy. As no wisdom, learning, virtue, wealth, or power, can keep one of the human race from death, so nothing can deliver a sinner from being condemned at the day of judgment, except the atoning sacrifice of Christ; nor will one be saved from eternal punishment who despises or neglects this great salvation. The believer knows that his Redeemer lives, and that he shall see him. Here is the faith and patience of the church, of all sincere believers. Hence is their continual prayer as the fruit and expression of their faith, Even so come, Lord Jesus.

Hebrews 9:23-28
 ²³ It was necessary, then, for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. ²⁴ For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with human hands that was only a copy of the true one; he entered heaven itself, now to appear for us in God’s presence. ²⁵ Nor did he enter heaven to offer himself again and again, the way the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own. ²⁶ Otherwise Christ would have had to suffer many times since the creation of the world. But he has appeared once for all at the culmination of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself. ²⁷ Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, ²⁸ so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqiy9JRx-5w&t=378s

The Nature of Truth, part one

Pilate asked: What is truth? Philosophers from Socrates to this century answered: Is it absolute? Is it knowable (see Agnosticism)? And does it correspond to a referent or, in the cause of metaphysical truth, does it correspond to reality?
The nature of truth is crucial to the Christian faith. Not only does Christianity claim there is absolute truth (truth for everyone, everywhere, at all times), but it insists that truth about the world (reality) is that which corresponds to the way things really are. For example, the statement, "God exists" means that there really is a God outside the universe, an extracosmic Being (check up on the evidence of God). Likewise, the claim that "God raised Christ from the dead" means that the dead corpse of Jesus of Nazareth supernaturally vacated its tomb alive a few days after its burial (research the evidence of Resurrection). Christian truth claims correspond to the state of affairs about which they claim to inform us.    

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQITYLg74D8

The topic of Evolution, Part Two

Evolution: all life on earth has come about through descent with modification from a single common ancestor (a hypothetical, primitive, single-called organism).

  The fact that evolutionary process, on the scale of millions of years, cannot be observed, tested, repeated, or falsified places them in the category of historical science. In secular science, evaluating historical events is considered just as acceptable as conducting laboratory experiments when it comes to developing scientific theories. Since scientific theories are subject to change, it is acceptable to work within an admittedly deficient framework until a better or more reasonable framework can be found.

A major problem for evolution, as mentioned above, is the huge increase in information content of organisms through time. Evolutionary theory accepts additions and deletions of information as evidence of evolution of a population.  The problem is that through the imagined history of life on earth, the information content of the genomes of organisms must have increased dramatically. Beginning with the most primitive form of life, we have a relatively simple genome compared to the genomes that we see today.  Mutations are said to provide the fuel for the evolutionary engine. Virtually all observed mutations result in a loss in the information content of a genome. There would need to be some way to consistently add information to the genome to arrive at palm trees and people from a simple single-celled organism-the hypothetical common ancestor of all life on earth. Evolutionists have failed to answer the question, "Where did all the new information come from since mutations are known to reduce information?" You cannot expect evolution, which requires a net gain in information over millions of years, to occur as a result of mutation and natural selection. Natural selection, evolution's suppose mechanism, cause a loss of information and can only act traits that are already present!

Creationist agree with the idea of "descent with modification" but not with the notion of a single common ancestor. To accept a common ancestor for all life on earth requires a rejection of the biblical account of creation in Genesis and backed up by many other verses. The order of events of evolutionary history cannot be reconciled with the account recorded in Genesis 1, without compromising one or the other. The philosophies of evolution and biblical Christianity are not compatible. 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBZqyG149ww 

 

 

The best idea that you may never heard

The solemn transactions between God and man, are sometimes called a covenant, here a testament, which is a willing deed of a person, bestowing legacies on such persons as are described, and it only takes effect upon his death. Thus Christ died, not only to obtain the blessings of salvation for us, but to give power to the disposal of them. All, by sin, were become guilty before God, had forfeited every thing that is good; but God, willing to show the greatness of his mercy, proclaimed a covenant of grace. Nothing could be clean to a sinner, not even his religious duties; except as his guilt was done away by the death of a sacrifice, of value sufficient for that end, and unless he continually depended upon it. May we ascribe all real good works to the same all-procuring cause, and offer our spiritual sacrifices as sprinkled with Christ's blood, and so purified from their defilement.

Hebrews 9:16-22

 ¹⁶ In the case of a will, it is necessary to prove the death of the one who made it, ¹⁷ because a will is in force only when somebody has died; it never takes effect while the one who made it is living. ¹⁸ This is why even the first covenant was not put into effect without blood. ¹⁹ When Moses had proclaimed every command of the law to all the people, he took the blood of calves, together with water, scarlet wool and branches of hyssop, and sprinkled the scroll and all the people. ²⁰ He said, “This is the blood of the covenant, which God has commanded you to keep.”²¹ In the same way, he sprinkled with the blood both the tabernacle and everything used in its ceremonies. ²² In fact, the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqiy9JRx-5w&t=45s 

 

The principle of analogy

Since nonbeing cannot produce being (5) only being can product being. But a contingent being cannot produce another contingent being (6). And a necessary being cannot produce another necessary being (8).
So only Necessary Being can cause or produce only a contingent being. For to "cause" or "produce" being means to bring something into being. Something that comes into being, has being. A cause cannot bring nonbeing into being, since being is not nonbeing (4). The fact that Being produces being implies that there is an analogy between the cause of being and the being it causes (8). But a contingent being is both similar and different from a Necessary Being. It is similar in that both have being. It is different in that one is necessary and the other is contingent. But whatever is both similar and different is analogous. Hence, there is an analogy between Necessary Being and the being it produces.
Two things, then, are entailed in the principle that Necessary Being causes being: First, the effect must resemble the cause, since, both are being. The cause of being cannot produce what it does not posses. Second, while the effect must it must also be different from it in its potentiality. For the cause, by its very nature, has no potential not to be. But the effect by its very nature has the potential not to be. Hence, a contingent being must be different from its Cause. Since, the Cause of contingent beings must be both like and different from its effect, it is only similar. Hence, there is an analogical likeness between the Cause of a contingent being and the contingent being it causes to exist.
Such a Being is appropriately called "God" in the theistic sense, because he possesses all the essential characteristics of a theistic God; therefore, the theistic God exists.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot7vyu0CPxA

The topic of Evolution, Part One

Evolution: all life on earth has come about through descent with modification from a single common ancestor (a hypothetical, primitive, single-called organism).

Evolution is generally assumed to happen as a natural consequence of natural selection. However, no direct observational evidence supports the concepts of a fish turning, however gradually, into an amphibian. Evolutionists will argue that there has simply not been enough time to observe such changes. Man has only been recording information that would be useful for a short period of time relative to the immense amounts of time required by evolutionary theory. This raises the question, "Is evolution a valid scientific idea since it cannot be observed in experiments and repeated to show that the conclusions are valid?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcCsMxuAZAE    

All good things begin here

All good things past, present, and to come, were and are founded upon the priestly office of Christ, and come to us from thence. Our High Priest entered into heaven once for all, and has obtained eternal redemption. The Holy Spirit further signified and showed that the Old Testament sacrifices only freed the outward man from ceremonial uncleanness, and fitted him for some outward privileges. What gave such power to the blood of Christ? It was Christ's offering himself without any sinful stain in his nature or life. This cleanses the most guilty conscience from dead, or deadly, works to serve the living God; from sinful works, such as pollute the soul, as dead bodies did the persons of the Jews who touched them; while the grace that seals pardon, new-creates the polluted soul. Nothing more destroys the faith of the gospel, than by any means to weaken the direct power of the blood of Christ. The depth of the mystery of the sacrifice of Christ, we cannot dive into, the height we cannot comprehend. We cannot search out the greatness of it, or the wisdom, the love, the grace that is in it. But in considering the sacrifice of Christ, faith finds life, food, and refreshment.

Hebrews 9:11-14

 ¹¹ But when Christ came as high priest of the good things that are now already here, he went through the greater and more perfect tabernacle that is not made with human hands, that is to say, is not a part of this creation. ¹² He did not enter by means of the blood of goats and calves; but he entered the Most Holy Place once for all by his own blood, thus obtaining eternal redemption. ¹³ The blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that they are outwardly clean. ¹⁴ How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God!

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Bw9SgXQFUE 

Contingent being exists=Principle of Existential Contingency (Bc exists)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Axcva8wZvAY

Not everything that exists is necessary. For change is real, that is, at least some being(s) really change. And a Necessary Being cannot change in its being. (This does not mean there can be no change in external relations with another being. It simply means there can be no internal change in its being. When a person changes in relation to a pillar, the pillar does not change.) For its being is necessary and what is necessary in its being cannot be other than it is in its being. And all change in being involves becoming something else in its being.
But it is evident that I change in my being. I change from not being to being. By "I" is meant the self-conscious individual being call myself. (This is not to claim that all the parts or elements of my being are not eternal. There are good reasons to believe they are not because usable energy is running down and cannot be eternal, but this is not point here.) This "I" of consciousness around which these elemental parts of matter come and go, is not eternal. This is clear for many reasons.
First, my consciousness changes. Even those who claim they are eternal and necessary (namely, that they are a Necessary Being, God) were not always conscious of being God. Somewhere along the line they change from not being conscious they were God to belong conscious they were God. But a Necessary Being cannot change. Hence, I am not a Necessary Being. Rather, I am a contingent being. Therefore, at least one contingent being exists. Everything is not necessary.
Further, there are other ways to know one is contingent. The fact that we reason to conclusions reveals that our knowledge is not eternal and necessary. We come to know , But no necessary being can come to know anything. It either eternally and necessarily knows everything it knows or else it knows nothing. If it is a knowing kind of being, then it necessarily knows, since it is a necessary kind of being. And a being can only know in accordance with the kind of being it is. A contingent must know contingently and a Necessary Being must know necessarily.  But I do not know all that I can know eternally and necessarily. Therefore, I am a contingent kind of being.
Therefore, one necessary, eternal, uncaused, unlimited, rational, personal and moral being exists.

Adaptation and science, Part Three

 Adaptation: 
 A physical trait or behavior due to inherited characteristics that gives an organism the ability to survive in a given environment.

Consider a woodpecker pair off the Ark. The pair may contain genes (information) for long and short beaks. As the birds spread out into the lush new world growing in the newly deposited soil, they produce offspring that contain both long-beak and short-beak genes. (Although the actual control of beak growth is complex, we will assume that long is dominant over short for this simplistic example.) Areas populated by trees with thick, soft bark would tend to select for woodpeckers with longer beaks. Areas where the bark thinner and harder would tend to be populated by woodpeckers with shorter beaks. Two new species, with slightly different adaptations, could arise if the two populations were geographically separated. The population of short-beaked woodpeckers would have lost the information for long beaks. No more long-beaked woodpeckers would be produced without a significant addition of genetic information affecting the beak length. The long-beaked woodpeckers would still have the ability to produce short-beaked offspring, but they would be less able to compete and those genes would tend to decrease in frequency in the population. Due to their isolation, two new species of woodpecker would develop, but within their kind. Observable science supports this type of subtle change within a kind but not molecules-to-man evolution.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ACCIu3jPrc

 

Have true freedom?

The apostle goes on to speak of the Old Testament services. Christ, having undertaken to be our High Priest, could not enter into heaven till he had shed his blood for us; and none of us can enter, either into God's gracious presence here, or his glorious presence hereafter, but by the blood of Jesus. Sins are errors, great errors, both in judgment and practice; and who can understand all his errors? They leave guilt upon the conscience, not to be washed away but by the blood of Christ. We must plead this blood on earth, while he is pleading it for us in heaven. A few believers, under the Divine teaching, saw something of the way of access to God, of communion with him, and of admission into heaven through the promised Redeemer, but the Israelites in general looked no further than the outward forms. These could not take away the defilement or dominion of sin. They could neither discharge the debts, nor resolve the doubts, of him who did the service. Gospel times are, and should be, times of reformation, of clearer light as to all things needful to be known, and of greater love, causing us to bear ill-will to none, but good-will to all. We have greater freedom, both of spirit and speech, in the gospel, and greater obligations to a more holy living.

Hebrews 9:6-10

 

⁶ When everything had been arranged like this, the priests entered regularly into the outer room to carry on their ministry. ⁷ But only the high priest entered the inner room, and that only once a year, and never without blood, which he offered for himself and for the sins the people had committed in ignorance. ⁸ The Holy Spirit was showing by this that the way into the Most Holy Place had not yet been disclosed as long as the first tabernacle was still functioning. ⁹ This is an illustration for the present time, indicating that the gifts and sacrifices being offered were not able to clear the conscience of the worshiper. ¹⁰ They are only a matter of food and drink and various ceremonial washings—external regulations applying until the time of the new order.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqiy9JRx-5w&t=3s 

Necessary Being exists=Principle of Existential Necessity (Bn exists)

The principle of Existential Necessity follows from two other Principles: The Principle of Existence (no. 1) and the Principle of Causality (no. 5).
 Since something undeniably exists (no. 1), either is is (a) all contingent or (b) all necessary or (c) some is necessary and some is contingent.
But both (b) and (c) acknowledge a Necessary Being, and (a) is logically impossible, being contrary to the self-evident principle no.5. For if all being not to exist. That is, a state of total nothingness is possible. But something now undeniably exists (e.g,  I do), as was demonstrated in premise no. . And nothing cannot cause something (no.5). Therefore, it is not possible (i.e., it is possible) for there to have been a state of total nothingness. But if it is impossible for nothing to exist (since something does exist), then something necessarily exists (i.e., a Necessary Being does exist).
To put it another way, if something exists and if nothing cannot cause something, then it follows that something must exist necessarily. For if something did not necessarily exist, then nothing would have caused the something that did exist. Since it is impossible for nothing to cause something, then it is necessary for something to always been.
This Necessary Being is also eternal, uncaused, unchanging, unlimited and one, since a Necessary Being cannot come to be, be caused by another, undergo change, be limited by any possibility of what it could be (a Necessary Being has no possibility to be other than it is) or to be more than one Being (since there cannot be two infinite beings).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH2fc6LDJ7A

Adaptation and science, Part Two

Adaptation: 
A physical trait or behavior due to inherited characteristics that gives an organism the ability to survive in a given environment.
Biblical creationists consider  major structures to be part of the original design provides by God. Modifications to those structures, adaptations, occur due to genetic recombination, random mutations and natural selection. These structures do not arise from the modification of similar structures of another kind of animal. The beak of the woodpecker, for example, did not arise from the beak of a theropod dinosaur ancestor; it was an originally designed structure. The difference in beak shapes among woodpeckers fits with the idea of natural selection leading to changes within a population of woodpeckers-within the created kind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK_TYL7qvQs

The glory that is beyond

The apostle shows to the Hebrews the typical reference of their ceremonies to Christ. The tabernacle was a movable temple, shadowing forth the unsettled state of the church upon earth, and the human nature of the Lord Jesus Christ, in whom the fullness of the Godhead dwelt bodily. The typical meaning of these things has been shown in former remarks, and the ordinances and articles of the Mosaic covenant point out Christ as our Light, and as the Bread of life to our souls; and remind us of his Divine Person, his holy priesthood, perfect righteousness, and all-prevailing intercession. Thus was the Lord Jesus Christ, all and in all, from the beginning. And as interpreted by the gospel, these things are a glorious representation of the wisdom of God, and confirm faith in Him who was prefigured by them.

Hebrews 9:1-5
 Now the first covenant had regulations for worship and also an earthly sanctuary. A tabernacle was set up. In its first room were the lampstand and the table with its consecrated bread; this was called the Holy Place. Behind the second curtain was a room called the Most Holy Place, which had the golden altar of incense and the gold-covered ark of the covenant. This ark contained the gold jar of manna, Aaron’s staff that had budded, and the stone tablets of the covenant. Above the ark were the cherubim of the Glory, overshadowing the atonement cover. But we cannot discuss these things in detail now.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqiy9JRx-5w&list=PLXYr1EhcJLKVy6iNUk5dUFDozT3SYuQ8j&index=9

The principle of existential causality

All contingent beings need a cause. For a contingent being is something that is but could not be. But since it has the possibility not to to exist, then it does not account for its own existence. That is, in itself there is no basis explaining why it exists rather than does not exist. It literally has nothing (non-being) to ground it. But non-being cannot ground or cause anything (5). Only something can produce spmething.
Therefore, this Necessary Being is personal, rational and moral in a necessary way, not in a contingent way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0O39jEqfYU 

Adaptation and science, Part One

Adaptation: A physical trait or behavior due to inherited characteristics that gives an organism the ability to survive in a given environment.

Evolutionist often look at a characteristic of an organism and assume that it was produced through a series of changes and call it an adaptation to a given environment. To an evolutionist, legs on tetrapods are an adaptation that arose as a fish's fins became adapted to crawling in a shallow stream, providing some form of advantage. The fins with more bones were better adapted to a life partially lived on the land. Fins that developed bones attached to a pectoral girdle gave an advantage to those individuals that wandered onto land to find food or avoid predators. The problems with this scenario are in the amount of  time such a change would require and the lack of a mechanism to cause the change.
Evolutionary biologists assume, based on geologic interpretation, that there have been billions of years for this process to occur. But if long ages did not exist, the hypothesis can't be true.
The other requirement, a mechanism for change, is also assumed to exist-even though it has never been observed. Natural selection tends to delete information from the population. If natural selection is the mechanism that explains the successive adaptation in the fish fin example, it must provide new genetic information. To produce the new bones in the fins requires an orchestration of biologic processes.
The bones don't just have to be present; they must develop at the right time in the embryo, have their shape and size predetermined by the DNA sequence, be attached to the correct tendons, ligaments and blood vessels, attach to the bones of the pectoral girdle and so on. The amount of information required for this seemingly transformation can't be provided by a process that generally deletes information from the genome.

 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB3_xGNe9Kg

The old and the new

Jesus came to fulfill the Old Testament. The Old Testament was good but the law of God shows that we need a Savior and Jesus is the Savior. He is God and he fulfilled the law of God.
I think Hebrews 8:13 goes well with Matthew 5:17-20. When I read the Old Testament, I realize that Jesus is the answer and we need to surrender to him.

Matthew 5:17-20

 ¹⁷ “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. ¹⁸ For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. ¹⁹ Therefore anyone who sets aside one of the least of these commands and teaches others accordingly will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. ²⁰ For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.

 

Hebrews 8:13

 By calling this covenant “new,” he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and outdated will soon disappear.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-JilonMTJM

The negative principle of modality

A Necessary Being is by definition a mode (kind) of being that cannot be. That is, by its very mode (modality), it must be. It cannot come to be or cease to be. But to be caused means to come to be.
Hence, a Necessary Being cannot be caused. For what comes to be is not necessary.
But a Necessary Being cannot be contingent(i.e., non-necessary) in its being which would be a contradiction (no. 3).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZC8EfViQ0M&list=PL3gdeV4Rk9Ef6jhlYL-Pp1UwzvnL_kbqw&index=8

The meaning of Speciation

Speciation: the process of change in a population that produces distinct populations which rarely naturally interbreed due to geographic isolation or other factors.

Speciation is observable and fits into the category of operation science. Speciation has never been observed to turn one kind of animal into another. Lions (Panthera leo) and tigers (Panthera tigris) are both members of the cat kind, but they are considered different species primarily due to their geographic isolation. However, it is possible to mate the two. Ligers (male lion and female tiger) and tigons (male tigers and female lions) are produced (with varying degrees of fertility). These two species came from the original cat kind that would have been present on Noah's Ark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyTXYK29qJM

Hope in life

And they — Who are under this covenant; shall not teach — That is, shall not any more have need to teach; every man his neighbor, &c., saying, Know the Lord — Though in other respects they will have need to teach each other to their lives’ end; yet they shall not need to teach each other the knowledge of the Lord; for this they shall possess; yea, all real Christians, who believe in Jesus as the true Messiah, with a living faith, a faith working by love, shall know me — Even as a pardoning God, (Hebrews 8:12,) and therefore savingly; from the least to the greatest — From the babe in Christ, the little children spoken of by St. John, whose sins are forgiven them; unto such as are of full age; strong in the Lord, and deeply experienced in his ways. See 1 John 2:12-14. Or, by the least may be meant the poor and despised, and by the greatest, persons of wealth, authority, and power. In this order, the saving knowledge of God ever did, and ever will proceed; not from the greatest to the least, but from the least to the greatest; from the poor to the rich; from the low to the high; that no flesh may glory in his presence. For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness — I will pardon and accept them through my Son, in consequence of their repentance and faith in him; or, I will justify them, and give them peace with myself, and thus will make them wise unto salvation, truly holy and happy. Observe, reader, justification and peace with God is the root of all true knowledge of God and conformity to him. This, therefore, is God’s method; First, a sinner, being brought to true repentance toward God, and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, is pardoned; then he knows God as gracious and merciful; then God’s laws are written on his heart; he is God’s, and God is his. And their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more — Namely, so as to punish them. In the Hebrew of Jeremiah, this passage runs thus; I will forgive their iniquity, and will remember their sin no more. Probably the apostle translated the prophet’s words freely, to show, that, under the new covenant, every kind of sin is freely forgiven to the truly penitent and believing, which was not the case under the former covenant.

Hebrews 8:11-12

 ¹¹ No longer will they teach their neighbor,
    or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’
because they will all know me,
    from the least of them to the greatest.
¹² For I will forgive their wickedness
    and will remember their sins no more.”