Vanity Fair, a leading U.S. magazine of pop culture and fashion, devoted a lengthy article in their February 2010 issue to a review of the Creation Museum (Answers in Genesis).
To sum it up, the author thinks creationism is for idiots:
Just off a motorway, in a barren and uninspiring piece of scrub, the museum is impressively incongruous, a righteously modernist building resting in landscaped gardens filled with dinosaur topiaries. It cost $27 million and was completed in 2007. It answers the famous question about what God could have done if he had had money. This is it. Oddly, it is a conspicuously and emphatically secular construction. There is no religious symbolism. No crosses. No stained glass. No spiral campanile. It has borrowed the empirical vernacular of the enemy to wrap the literal interpretation of Genesis in the façade of a liberal art gallery or library. It is the Lamb dressed...
Will someone please list all the people who have observed living things arise from non-living things. Google and Bing could not find any. All life as we observe comes from other living things. Since the uniformity of nature does not change, or nature would not be uniform, then our observation from the present should apply to the past. Please post the list of names for all to see. Where can I observe ball bearing becoming carrots?
A.A. Gill is a coldhearted, nasty journalist. He writes bad restaurant reviews for the Sunday Times (UK). I find it is often impossible to make out from his review if the food in the unfortunate restaurant he visited is good, bad or indifferent. He also starred in a porn film btw! So he could write about it!!! Nasty, nasty piece of work.
Strange, my Pastor is a creationist, and we even had one of his teachers, John Whitcomb give a series of sermons on the matter at IHCC! God, Creation and Man
And of course we always use the clear and contemporary Bible the NASB.
Gen 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 And the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters. 3 Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light. 4 And God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness. 5 And God called the light day, and the darkness He called night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day. 6 Then God said, "Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters."---NASB
We can thank God, we have His Word clearly written in our language.
Moderator Alpha wrote: In case you missed it, see my post 1/22/10 4:22 PM for the reason your post was removed.
Moderator Alpha Bro ErnieG Thanks for the posts.
Seeing that before I was saved I was quite hostile against Christians and thought "I knew it all" and the God of the Bible was all made up. Probably somewhat like the attitude of the author of the Vanity Fair piece. I do remember one of the things God used in my life to get through my hostiliy was the NASB an accurate translation in words I could readily understand and not be bogged down in 'old English'.
And again I do not want to get off the thread BUT I cannot help but remember how when I was driving tractor trailer over the road another trucker told how he told a man who had been given and was reading an NIV how he shouldn't be reading it as it wasn't 'a real Bible' (cannot quote his exact words) and that he had to (needed(?)) to be reading the KJV.
"Bottom Line" in all of this is that I desire AND I BELIEVE IT IS A GOD GIVEN DESIRE BY THE SPIRIT that lost sinners come to know and believe in AND LOVE ABOVE ALL the Lord Jesus Christ who loved them and died for their sins on the cross as they were created by Him and for Him and I believe wants them to be saved.
Mike wrote: Not sure I follow the connection between the name of a magazine, and the version argument, Ernie, especially when the NASB agrees with the KJV on the verse use of "vanity."
Mike,
In the Bbile, King Solomn refers to everything being Vain or Vanity. You were correct about me not explaining myself very well, but my point was that now it is the KJV and NASB that are correctly using these words. And if we continue, the NASB will also omit key words and also fall by the wayside just like the NKJV did. We need a Bible that is absolute truth. We cannot have different versions every year because are salvation could also change.
(I hope that makes my point more clearer to those reading it and were trying to make sense of it.)
Michael Hranek wrote: Interesting to have my post removed. Could I've been getting too close to somebody's comfort zone? Could it be some truly might be offended with the observable reality there are people who give more emphasis on have lost sinners come to the KJV than on seeing lost sinners saved?
In case you missed it, see my post 1/22/10 4:22 PM for the reason your post was removed.
Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious *blood* of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God. Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently: Being *born again*, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the *word of God*, which *liveth and abideth for ever*. For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: But the *word of the Lord endureth for ever*. And this is *the word* which by the gospel is *preached unto you*. 1 Peter 1:18-25 KJV
Mike wrote: Not sure I follow the connection between the name of a magazine, and the version argument, Ernie, especially when the NASB agrees with the KJV on the verse use of "vanity."
Mike NY Interesting to have my post removed. Could I've been getting too close to somebody's comfort zone? Could it be some truly might be offended with the observable reality there are people who give more emphasis on have lost sinners come to the KJV than on seeing lost sinners saved?
btw Mike I checked the translations Bro ErnieG referenced even the NIV and the context was regarding idolatry and you are correct the NASB agreed with the KJV in the verse he referenced.
So back on topic. Why are some so hostile against there really being a God (there of course is) who is our Creator?
John UK wrote: I just love them Pilgrims. Pity the UK Christians are so reserved and shy they won't allow such zealousness as to have huge posters like these. Oh! To give sinners the opportunity to read God's word at thirty yards. ---
Indeed John, and even better if they could read it in their own tongue.
Oh and if anyone wanted to order some 60 x 40 inch posters like the ones at Pilgrim Cov Church, go to the TBS website and scroll down to posters, and then to the BIG POSTERS. Go for it, eh, get the word of God out!
Bro ErnieG wrote: --- Well, it looks like "Vanity Fair" is the proper name for a VAIN magazine, doesn't it? And two of three versions of the Bible use "Vanity" and Vain. The $64 question is, which version left VANITY and VAIN out between the KJV, NASB, and NKJV? I'll give you a clue, it wasn't the KJV. Now do you still think it is OK to use all the hundred's of versions"?
Not sure I follow the connection between the name of a magazine, and the version argument, Ernie, especially when the NASB agrees with the KJV on the verse use of "vanity."
Pity the UK Christians are so reserved and shy they won't allow such zealousness as to have huge posters like these. Oh! To give sinners the opportunity to read God's word at thirty yards.
p.s. It is a simple fact that nearly all folk are curious. If you hold a banner or poster with the word of God high in the air in any town centre, most will feel a compulsion to read it.
But make sure it is the Authorized Version, or the evolutionistically-inclined (heh heh-people) will have a good larf at you!
But if you leave the poster propped against a tree, much fewer people, if any, will stop to read it.
Dr. Terry Mortenson | 1/16/2009
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