{"id":8843,"date":"2017-03-08T18:35:17","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T18:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=8843"},"modified":"2017-03-08T18:35:17","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T18:35:17","slug":"blog-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/8843\/blog-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Comment – The Only Proof"},"content":{"rendered":"

This Blog you wrote after watching the film, “Is Genesis History?” is very good!\u00a0\u00a0 A couple lines of the Blog stood out to me:\u00a0 “The geological, biological, and astronomical facts that creation scientists proclaim may be interesting and instructive, but they are all things the human spirit can learn and teach;\u00a0<\/strong>they can never create righteousness and save a soul.<\/strong>”\u00a0 And this:\u00a0 “Some men passionately argue that the Bible is one big myth, while other men passionately argue that it is all factually true.\u00a0\u00a0But they are all making God out to be a liar if they all do not have His Spirit.”<\/span><\/p>\n

I wondered as I watched the movie, “Is Genesis History?” last night if any of those scientists had the holy Ghost, especially because they were so passionate about their beliefs.\u00a0 I imagined you sitting at the table with them at the end of the movie and asking them if they had the holy Ghost with the evidence of speaking in tongues.\u00a0 If any had answered yes, then the conversation could have gone to something that made everything else they had talked about so much more meaningful.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I am glad I took Ben to hear the creation side of the argument, (and we both loved the scenery), but I am more glad for this Blog as a follow-up to what he saw and heard, to remind us that without the spirit, none of those arguments mean anything and that by leaving the holy Ghost out of the story of Creation, they have missed the whole point!<\/span><\/p>\n

The movie was a good science lesson, but it “can never create righteousness and save\u00a0the soul.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Lee Ann<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Only Proof<\/span><\/p>\n

“It is the Spirit that bears witness because the Spirit is truth<\/em>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

1John 5:6b<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 The increase in number of scientists and educators who are not afraid to publicly confess faith in the Bible\u2019s creation and flood stories is refreshing.\u00a0 The evolution bullies are having their stranglehold on education and scientific outlets loosened a little.\u00a0 We may be seeing the beginning of a revival of good, common sense in the scientific and education communities.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Before you start jumping for joy, however, let me remind you of this eternal truth: the holy Ghost is the only completely dependable witness that the Bible is true and that Jesus is Lord.\u00a0 It does feel like a relief to hear scientists and scholars speak up in favor of Genesis being a trustworthy record of historical events, but if those scientists and scholars do not have the holy Ghost, they do not even belong to God, much less have they been sent to speak on His behalf!\u00a0 And not belonging to God, they must have an agenda other than love for God for their defense of the Bible.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 The theory of evolution has always been goofy.\u00a0 God\u2019s children\u00a0have never needed help from \u201ccreation scientists\u201d to understand that.\u00a0 Genuine faith needs no scientific evidence to be strong and sure.\u00a0 No matter what we know of earthly scientific facts, it is only by faith that we understand that the worlds were formed by the word of God (Heb. 11:6).\u00a0 Do not be seduced into leaning on the knowledge and wisdom of men!<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 One of the first truths Jesus taught me as a young believer is that the closer something comes to being true, without being true, the more evil it is.\u00a0 Someone who is close to the truth can deceive many more people than someone who is nowhere near right.\u00a0 Likewise,\u00a0men who defend the Bible, but have not yet been baptized with the holy Ghost into the body of Christ, are only close to the truth; they are not in it!\u00a0 And the truth is not in them, for \u201cthe Spirit is truth.\u201d\u00a0 Guard your hearts against such men!\u00a0 Do not trust those who believe in the goodness and need of the Bible but who do not believe in the goodness and need of the holy Ghost!\u00a0 They are not of God!<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 The holy Ghost is God\u2019s witness that everything in the Bible is true, and it is sufficient.\u00a0 The geological, biological, and astronomical facts that \u201ccreation scientists\u201d proclaim can be interesting and instructive, but they are all things the human spirit can learn and teach; they can never create righteousness and save a soul.\u00a0 \u201cIf we receive the witness of men<\/em>,\u201d John wrote, \u201cthe witness of God is greater.\u00a0 And this [the Spirit] is the witness of God which He has borne of His Son<\/em>\u201d (1Jn. 5:9).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 John went on to say that \u201cHe who believes on the Son of God has the witness in himself<\/em>,\u201d and that \u201che who does not believe God has made Him out to be a liar because he does not believe the witness that God gave of His Son<\/em>.\u201d (1Jn. 5:10).\u00a0 In other words, those who do not have the witness of God, the holy Ghost, are making God out to be a liar, no matter what they say about the Bible, or even what they say about God Himself!\u00a0 Some men passionately argue that the Bible is one big myth, while other men passionately argue that it is all factually true, but they are all making God out to be a liar if they all do not have His Spirit.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pastor John<\/span><\/p>\n

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This Blog you wrote after watching the film, “Is Genesis History?” is very good!\u00a0\u00a0 A couple lines of the Blog stood out to me:\u00a0 “The geological, biological, and astronomical facts that creation scientists proclaim may be interesting and instructive, but they are all things the human spirit can learn and teach;\u00a0they can never create righteousness […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8843"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}