Why a good God commanded the Israelites to destroy the Canaanites
This blog comes from Jonathan Noyes and the appendix comes from Got Questions.
When I was an atheist, I loved causing Christians to doubt God. It was fun for me. One of my favorite tactics was to get them to question God’s goodness. I thought that if I could cause them to doubt God’s goodness, I could eventually get them to doubt God’s existence. (more…)
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The creation information barrier
Most of this blog is based on an article by Duane Caldwell.
The border wall between the United States and Mexico is intended to deter illegal immigration and drug trafficking. Trump’s administration promoted border wall construction, while Biden’s administration has largely worked to stop or limit further expansion. (more…)
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Life is like a computer
Computers are comprised of hardware and software. The hardware is the physical components that enable data input, data processing and data output. The software is the programs (language) that provide instructions for the hardware that enables data input, data processing and data output. The software is information (language) that is coded on part of the hardware. (more…)
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God’s answer to suffering
When we struggle to understand why godly people suffer, we can doubt God’s goodness or His justice. This is the theme of the book of Job in the Bible. Job probably lived in about 1900 – 1700 BC. The Bible’s authors assume that Job was a historical figure (Ezek. 14:14, 20; Jas. 5:11). (more…)
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Justice questions
Life is marked by events of suffering, both great and small. At present there is great suffering due to wars in Gaza, Sudan and the Ukraine. Some of these events are the products of a natural disaster impacting entire communities with grief and loss. Others are the fruit of human evil that has a profound effect on the world. Still others are private, affecting a person of a family. In all these cases people struggle to understand why it happens. And they question God’s goodness or His justice. (more…)
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Jesus is the rock you can stand on
I’m in deep, deep trouble again. I’ve cried my eyes out; I feel hollow inside. My life leaks away, groan by groan; my years fade out in sighs. My troubles have worn me out, turned my bones to powder. To my enemies I’m a monster; I’m ridiculed by the neighbors. My friends are horrified; they cross the street to avoid me. (more…)
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God is the greatest father
Today is the first day of the spring season in the southern hemisphere when there is new growth and flowering of vegetation. In fact in Sydney we have been getting spring weather for the last ten days. Because of this, there were plenty of flowers to be seen on our bush walk yesterday. It’s also a day in Australia when we honor and appreciate fathers (see Appendix). (more…)
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Prophecies about Jesus: He would experience intense suffering
Did you know that many aspects of the crucifixion of Christ are mentioned in the Old Testament? (more…)
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Train for eternity
Exercise and sport provide a myriad of benefits to our wellbeing. There are physical health advantages such as better heart and lung health, higher bone density, lower blood pressure, better balance, flexibility and function. There’s also the psychological gains of physical activity changing brain chemistry to improve mood, reduce stress, promote sleep and boost memory function. Not to mention the social positives that come with many sports – being part of a team or group joined together with a common goal. Although exercise and sport often involve a level of discomfort and hard work it’s easy to understand why, with such an impressive list of benefits, we see crowded sports fields every weekend and can find a gym or two in almost every suburb. (more…)
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Go for gold!
Many of the world’s best athletes and sports competitors are striving for victory at Paris, after spending hours each day practicing and developing their skills and directing their minds to the task ahead. (more…)
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Eternal glory awaits those who …
Have you ever dreamed of excelling at something? Being the world’s best? Having crowds cheer for you? To have people say your name with awe and speak well of you. Respect. Kudos. Glory. Fame. (more…)
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Prophecies about Jesus: He would be betrayed
In February 2024, the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation revealed that a former politician was cultivated by foreign spies. The person had agreed to share knowledge from inside Parliament in exchange for payment. The implication was that they may have betrayed their country. (more…)
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Healthy masculinity
When you put the word “domestic” in a search engine, it replies with the prompt “violence”. This indicates the prevalence of domestic (or family) violence in our society. Statistics for NSW, Australia, are given below. According to the news media there is an epidemic of violence against women in Western Australia. And Queensland’s Police commissioner said that we should be ashamed of the high number of domestic and family violence incidents. (more…)
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Evidence for the God of Christianity
According to a 2023 survey, about half of Americans believe in God, the lowest number in history. And globally (omitting China and Russia), an average of 40% say they believe in God “as described in holy scriptures”. (more…)
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Blood as a symbol of death in the New Testament
When we sing songs like “Nothing but the blood of Jesus” and “Forgiveness is bought with the precious blood of Jesus Christ”, do we understand what the words mean? Or when we hear that our sins can be washed away by the blood of Jesus, what does that mean? (more…)
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God left no stone unturned for you
What would you do to get back someone precious that you’d lost? What lengths would you go to to find your missing child, friend, spouse or parent? How far would you travel? How long would you look? What price would you pay? (more…)
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Has God finished with Israel?
Have you heard the media reports of genocide in Gaza? What are the facts? In the war between Israel and Hamas there have been about 32k people killed in Gaza. But these are not all civilians. About 13k were soldiers and 19k were civilians. This is a ratio of 1.5 civilians for each soldier, which for urban combat in the Middle East is a very normal ratio. The ratio of civilians to combatants is better than the American armies was when they got the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) out of Mosul. That was 10k civilians dead to kill 4k Isis (a ratio of 2.5). What’s unique about this war? Unlike every other war, the army of Hamas has perfected the art of embedding itself with civilians so that you cannot hit them without hitting the people around them. They locate their bases near mosques, schools, and hospitals in urban areas. (more…)
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The theological motivation of science
This post comes from Dr Jay Wilde.
The German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg (December 5, 1901 – February 1, 1976), was a pioneer of quantum physics. He developed his own formulation of quantum mechanics, for which he won the 1932 Nobel Prize in physics. He later developed his famous Uncertainty Principle, which continues to guide physicists in their understanding of the behavior of atoms and subatomic particles. (more…)
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Don’t be afraid
Australians spend $1.6 billion a year on hair care. We want to remove hair from some places and grow it in others, color and repair our hair, straighten and curl our hair, feed, wax, laser, nourish, and cut our hair. (more…)
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Data manipulation enhances “climate change” in Australia
This blogpost comes from articles by the Australian biologist Dr Jennifer Marohasy. The previous post, “There is no climate crisis in Australia”, also came from Dr Marohasy.
It could be that the last 26-years of temperature recordings by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) will be found not fit for purpose and will eventually need to be discarded. This would make for a rather large hole in the calculation of global warming – given the size of Australia. (more…)
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There is no climate crisis in Australia
This blogpost comes from an interview of the Australian biologist Dr Jennifer Marohasy by Hannes Sarv of Freedom Research.
According to Marohasy, climate change is a natural phenomenon and CO2 has nothing to do with it. In 2017, Marohasy and John Abbot published an article on temperature variations over the last 2,000 years, showing that climate change is not the result of an increase in anthropogenic carbon dioxide over the last century, but a natural process in nature. They used proxy data from tree rings, corals or lake sediments, which express earth’s warming and cooling cycles, with a variation of about 2ºC. Of course, alarmists didn’t agree. (more…)
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Figures of speech in the Lord’s Supper
Ignoring figures of speech has led to great errors, as some take the literal figuratively and others take the figurative literally.
Jesus used lots of metaphors like, “I am the bread of life” (Jn. 6:35); “I am the light of the world” (Jn. 8:12); “I am the good shepherd” (Jn. 10:11), and “I am the true vine” (Jn. 15:5). So it’s not surprising that there are figures of speech like this in the passages in the Bible about the Lord’s Supper (Mt. 26:26-29, Mk. 14:22-25, Lk. 22:19-20; 1 Cor. 11:23-26). (more…)
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Why environmentalism and animal rights are dependent on a Christian worldview
This blogpost comes from J Warner Wallace, who blogs at “coldcasechristianity.com”.
For many who deny the existence of the Christian God, environmentalism and the cause of animal rights have become a religion of sorts. The movement has its own doctrinal beliefs, its own set of commandments and its own set of prescribed consequences. At times, the doctrinal beliefs seem self-contradictory. I have many friends who fight vehemently for the rights of animals while supporting the abortion of humans. Maybe contradictions of this sort are the result of improper “grounding”. (more…)
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The religion of climate change
This blogpost comes from an interview of Michael Shellenberger, who is an environmentalist, commentator, author and an advocate for pragmatic solutions to climate change.
Summary
I accept the core science of climate change, but not the alarmism because climate change is gradual and manageable, and not catastrophic. There is no climate crisis or climate emergency. That’s a corruption of the science. For example, sensational scenarios are fraudulent and scare tactics. (more…)
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