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