Sunday, June 15, 2025

Deconstruction Dan McClellan on Genesis 1:26 and so much more.


 The premises of the critical scholars do not even permit them to consider the correct answers on any number of questions.... 

Calvinism vs. a Christ-Centered Approach to Theology


 If no one has free will but the Father, then how did Christ have free will?

The Tower of Babel: Why Was God Mad?


 'Churches' are doing the same thing now. And their message is becoming incoherent. 

The Synoptic Gospels: The Case that Matthew Came First


 The traditional view is that Matthew came first. But not in Greek. 

The Origin of Angels, Demons, and Spiritual Powers


 It is an odd fact that the creation account doesn't speak about the creation of angels, demons, or spiritual powers. To some extent, we must speculate. Let our speculation then be informed speculation....

Genocide in the Bible? Is Gratitude the Most Moral Response for what happened to the Amalekites?


 Thank God for the massacre of the Amalekites? 

Days Before the Sun? Why Alex O'Connor Bested D'Souza on Genesis One


 So unnecessary. But until Christians adopt the Christ-centered position on early Genesis, they will get beat in debates like this. 

On Original Sin, are They all Wrong? Of Augustine, Pelagius, and the Pope.

If Augustine were alive today, with the better translations of Romans that we have now, I think even Augustine would say he was wrong about inheriting guilt from Adam's original sin. 
 

What is the Fate of the Damned? Eternal Conscious Torment? Annihilationism? Something Else?


 Damnation won't be as widespread as mainstream theology would suggest, thanks to the power of the work of Christ, but it will be even scarier for those to whom it applies. 

The Definitive Collection of Teaching to Refute Michael Heiser's "Unseen Realm" Theology

 But first let me emphasize that I don't consider him a heretic and that he was right on several things, just not the things for which he was famous. That must have been a very dangerous place to be spiritually..



No, Not that "Divine Council", the 82nd Psalm occurs on earth. And 1st Kings 22 isn't the same thing either....



The 82nd Psalm is one of the two "go to" passages for Unseen Realm Theology, and Heiser didn't have it right.... 


His other keynote passage is Deuteronomy 32, and he did not have that one right either. 



Scripture does not teach that the "Sons of God" are angels or spirit beings. The idea is based on a questionable translation of Job and the non-canonical and fraudulent "Book of Enoch".




The so-called "Book of Enoch" may have lifted a section of prophecy for its first page, but after that its nature is fanciful. The book may have drawn from a common belief system about demons found in scripture, but this does not make it scripture.. 


The NT passage warning us about "Do not delight in the religion of angels" is probably speaking about getting sucked into "Unseen Realm" type theology. 


Unfortunately scholars with a low view of scripture took these ideas and made them even more non-sensical than they were to begin with. 



Is there another view of "the Sons of God" and the Nephilim and the rest that makes sense of all of this?
There is, and I talk about it on my channel, but it isn't the standard take on early Genesis. 




Baptism for Infants, the Immature, and the Imperfect

 How you feel about baptism for those who cannot choose for themselves probably comes from what you think Baptism is....




The Bible on Slavery Why it Soars Beyond the Shallow Thinking of its Critics

 

Is there anything immoral about being a voluntary "slave to Righteousness"?



Did Jesus Just "Give Up a Weekend for Our Sins?" The Unfathomable Cost of the Atonement

 

Not even the church understands the enormity of the Atonement, a story thousands of years in the making. 



Is God just Saving Us from What He is Going to Do to Us?

 No. God is saving us from what our own lower nature is going to turn us into absent a proper relationship with Him. 


Wednesday, March 19, 2025

20% From An Unknown Species? Or Was Man the result of a Divine Hand?

 They haven't got it right. Some of you on the naturalistic side of things have shrugged and said it didn't matter when I told you that a Cambridge Professor has proof that the methods they used to say living Eurasians carry DNA from Neanderthals is deeply flawed and there is no real evidence for it. That attitude is letting the coverup continue and letting bad science continue that will be used to make other mistakes. Like the one reported on here.

This study claims that humanity became who we are because there was interbreeding of our main line with some "ghost" population AFTER Neanderthals and Denisovans split off from us, and this ghost population is responsible for 20% of our genes, concentrated in the brain and central nervous system. 80% of our genes are from our "mainline" population that was reduced to almost nothing a million years ago but slowly expanded and spun off the other two hominin lines. These claims are surely misinterpreting data. It makes no sense that we and we alone got our smarts from some mystery group that died out. The smarts helped us but somehow not them. Further, our mainline itself was from a line that was lingering near extinction for a long time. No indication that the other group, the one we got our smarts from, was near extinction, yet they are the ones who are gone. This group apparently frequently mated with our mainline ancestral group shared with Neanderthals. They haven't got it right. Some of you on the naturalistic side of things have shrugged and said it didn't matter when I told you that a Cambridge Professor has proof that the methods they used to say living Eurasians carry DNA from Neanderthals is deeply flawed and there is no real evidence for it. That attitude is letting the coverup continue and letting bad science continue that will be used to make other mistakes. Like the one reported on here. I have seen this problem before expressed different ways, where scientists claim "evolution moved at super-speeds" at some point in the H. Sapiens linage. What the data actually says is that while our species has the same general form in body as the other two species, our control system is radically different. WHY that happened is open to interpretation. Naturalistic explanations are "evolution moved at super-speed" which is unsatisfying because there is no indication of how or why it would move at "super speed" there or why it has not been observed moving at such speeds now. - and now add "We got all those genes from introgression with a mystery species." I have an alternative explanation. Man, as in H. Sapiens, is a distinct population because man had a distinct origin. A Divine One. Some brutish creature much like us in form may have been used as a template for the body, but the control system, the mind, was an innovation from God Himself. https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/genetic-study-reveals-hidden-chapter-in-human- https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/genetic-study-reveals-hidden-chapter-in-human-evolution