English blog by Gertim Alberda
Martin Luther wanted 4 part singing in church services, which the people slowly but certainly should learn with their own voice. He even sang in 4 part at home, with his wife and children and his students. Sadly it wasn't successful back then and singing in 4 part in church services never became a success with him.
A poem I wrote.
The Bible tells us that Jesus is the creator of the universe. In this article I explain why and make this clear with Bible verses. Why is that so important, one might think? Well, if Jesus is indeed The Creator, imagine what it means when Jesus came to that same creation, became man and became part of His own creation, to save us. Also imagine what it means when one would say to believe in Jesus and that it would be possible to, at the same time, believe in evolution. One can impossibly separate the gospel, and Jesus, from creation. He made it. Saying everything came into being by evolution is directly insulting Jesus and neglecting who He is and what He did. This article shows why.
In a table all Bible verses in the New Testament are summed up that mention something with respect to creation or that have something to do with it or are of importance to the subject creation / evolution.
Many so called Christians are trying to mix or combine evolution with the Bible today. This happens for example in theistic evolution. Such persons are often, for all kinds of reasons, already convinced of evolution, but want to combine it with faith and therefore come up with all kind of creative ideas how to mix this with Genesis 1-3. That often leads to a total different interpretation of the Adam and Eve as described in the Bible, like suggesting they could have been apes. What are the direct implications of such attempts, especially to the Gospel?
As we all know and can observe today, there is a strong tendency in the Church to neglect or deny the literal importance of Genesis 1-3. Often one can hear things like: ‘Genesis is not written like a newspaper, with factual information about how it really, historically happened. It tells us the main things, the big picture’, one says, it gives answer to ‘who’ and ‘why’, not exactly ‘how’ and ‘when’. So, it leaves room for things that went factually different’, they say. This article discusses the consequences of mixing evolution with faith and why they cannot go together.
This article describes eight characteristics with which an answer is given to the question why the Bible is so completely unique. Now, of course being unique does not automatically mean that it would also be the inspired word of God, but this article, certainly with the whole picture 'sketched out', also gives clues about that.
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