A CALL FOR GRAVE INTROSPECTION AMONG CHRISTIAN THEOLOGIANS WHO SNIFF AT GOD'S WORD THE BIBLE AND ARROGANTLY DISDAIN THE GENESIS RECORD OF GOD'S WONDROUS WORK OF CREATION:
Theologians take great care that YHWH would not describe you this way: “Your dwelling is in the midst of deceit; Through deceit they refuse to know Me,” declares the Lord." Jeremiah 9:6 (NASB) Consider Jehoshaphat, the king in Jerusalem who thoughtlessly sided with the enemies of God's people ... but humbly accepted a rebuke and became one of the greatest leaders of Judah. The rebuke: "Then Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned in safety to his house in Jerusalem. 2 Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the Lord and also bring wrath on yourself from the Lord? 3 But there is some good in you, for you have removed the Asheroth from the land and you have set your heart to seek God.” The noble king's response 4 So Jehoshaphat lived in Jerusalem and went out again among the people from Beersheba to the hill country of Ephraim and brought them back to the Lord, the God of their fathers." (II Chron. 19:1-4. NASB) |
Creation yes, evolution no. In the beginning God created
Adam and Eve just like the Bible says - not through deep-time ages of evolution. Jesus sharply affirmed the Genesis record when He demanded, "Have you not read...?", scolding the Jewish religious leaders of His time
for their lack of understanding of the Holy Scripture. Followers of Jesus from the pulpit to the pew to the Christian college Bible department must understand that
theologians who dismiss or diminish the words of Genesis at the beginning of the Bible then at the same time
dismiss or diminish the Jesus revealed as King of Kings and Lord of Lords at the end of the Bible. Each proof of the divinity of Jesus then becomes a proof of the Genesis story of Creation, the Fall, and the Flood because Jesus Himself, as Creator, affirmed that the Genesis record is accurate and readable.
Also, numerous modern scientific discoveries demonstrate that the "deep time" narrative (millions and millions of years) is not evidentially viable - Texans would say "all hat and no cattle." TSFT15. True Science for Theologians, Los Angeles, May 2015, 35 min. Uploaded Sept 14, 2015. |
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PRESENTERS FOR TRUE SCIENCE FOR THEOLOGIANS CONFERENCE MAY 2015
PRESENTERS FOR TRUE SCIENCE FOR THEOLOGIANS CONFERENCE MAY 2015
Bob Vern CK Jake Ryan Tim Reid Clint
Bob Enyart. Bob is currently lead pastor at Denver Bible Church, and hosts the long-running Christian talk radio show Bob Enyart Live, and of Theology Thursday and the creation-evolution program Real Science Radio. Originally from northern New Jersey, Bob had a technical career before going into full-time ministry. In the 1980s Bob was an Apache Attack Helicopter software engineer with McDonnell Douglas in southern California and in Phoenix, then worked with Microsoft in Redmond, WA. But the whole time Bob had a desire to serve the Lord in ministry. Bob walked away from his technical career in order to both teach the Bible and to be a Christian pro-family activist. After Bible training in New York and in Colorado, Bob began in Christian ministry in the Denver area in 1988, adding a Christian radio program in the Denver area in 1991, then called in 2000 to serve Denver Bible Church, an evangelical young-earth creationist church, where he still leads. Bob’s long-time interest in science and scripture goes back to the 70s and Henry Morris and Duane Gish of the Institute for Creation Research. KGOV.com is home of long-running Christian radio talk show Bob Enyart Live, and of Theology Thursday and creation-evolution program Real Science Radio. The Bob Enyart Live (BEL) news talk show airs daily including on America's most powerful Christian radio station, Denver’s 50,000-watt AM 670 KLTT. Find more: Bob Enyart YouTube channel!
Dr. Vern Bissell. Vern is currently initiating a science literacy program for students, families, and theologians. While a math plus physics undergrad at Pepperdine in the 60s, Vern worked as a computer programmer on the Apollo Project. After receiving his M.S. in Water Resources Engineering at the University of Maryland he began work at NOAA, National Weather Service. Vern wrote software for the National Weather Service River Forecast System, and also was primary NWS project scientist to measure snow water content by airborne sensing of soil-sourced gamma radiation in the early 70s. Completed work for PhD (Civil Engineering -Water Resources, minor statistics). Moved to Oregon in 1974 to begin work in operational river forecasting, primary responsibility for computing systems. Later directing the NWS hydrology program in the northwest U.S., Vern led an award-winning interagency team developing a description code for water resources and weather data transmission through a wide variety of automated and manual collection and communication systems. Author of about 25 technical papers or publications, Vern retired from NOAA in 1996. Vern now focuses on English and science-Bible literacy among internationals both in USA and overseas. Following science and Bible apologetics since 1968, Vern today continues facilitating translation, publication and/or distribution of (mostly science) Christian apologetics books in Asia. Vern is also occasional guest co-host for Truthseekers cable-TV apologetics program http://www.truthseekers.ws/.
Dr. C. K. Thong. Chan Kei Thong, a 4th generation Singaporean, became a Christian while in the military, and in 1975 dedicated his life to serving God in China. In 1980 he co-founded Management Technologies Inc (now LDi). Since Chan Kei was appointed in 1991 as President for LDi, the company staff grew from less than 40 expatriates and Chinese nationals to establish the largest network of international schools in China. He has conducted management seminars around the world, with focus to impact marketplace leaders, cultural influencers and government leaders with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. While serving in China, Chan Kei was a teaching elder at Beijing International Christian Fellowship. Chan Kei is also an Adjunct Professor of Trinity Western University, Canada. Chan Kei was major author, with Charlene Fu, of the 2006 book Faith of our Fathers. Ancient Chinese characters, historical sites, ancient documents, and culture reveal that the Chinese worshiped the same Creator as the God of the Bible at the beginning of its civilization. For Chinese, coming to faith in Christ is a return to the faith of ancestral Chinese fathers. Chinese written history and the history and ancient pictorial characters affirm the narrative of the Creation and Flood accounts of the Bible. Discussion at: http://creation.com/defending-faith-of-our-fathers
he book (Chinese or English) can be purchased at: www.faithofourfathersbooks.com
Jake Doberenz. Jake will graduate high school June 2015 in Clackamas, Oregon. He plans to attend Oklahoma Christian University pursuing a double major in Bible and Public Communication/Leadership. Jake is founder, writer, and website designer for http://www.creationistcompany.com/ Jake will share with the 2015 Science Literacy event with a video clip. Jake seeks to be used of God in higher Christian education – Bible professor to whatever comes next.
Ryan Bitikofer. Bacheloers Degree in Music, Harding University; Masters in Adult Education and Distance Learning University of Phoenix; partial study in MTh program Harding Graduate School of Religion before going to China. Ryan served as a church-planting missionary in China for 11 years 2002-2013, dividing time between Shanghai, Wuhan-Jingzhou, and Beijing. Ryan has served as lead preacher at Camelback Church of Christ, Phoenix, AZ since 2014.
Tim Brinley. Master's of Missiology (ACU, 1983); Master's of Education (National U., 1994); Texas Teaching Credential. Church planting missionary Turkey (1976-1977), Athens and Thessalonica, Greece. (1983-1987), Moscow, Russia. (1994-2008); Professor of Church History and Teachings of Apostle Paul in Moscow, Russia (1996-1999); Professor and Director of Harding University Extension in Athens, Greece. (2008-2010); Preaching and Teaching Elder of North County Church of Christ, Escondido (2011-present). Tim is father of 4 children, and oldest son has been a church planter in Turkey last 8 years. Since 1976 Tim has followed creationism, learning in summer seminar series from Henry Morris, Duane Gish, others at the Institute of Creation Research. Also, through his company CCASTravel www.ccastravel.com, Tim leads smaller educational groups in Classical and Biblical Adventure study trips to the lands of the Bible with an emphasis on the historical integrity of the Biblical record
Reid Moon. Masters of Theology Harding Graduate School of Religion (1984), preaching at Zelienople Church of Christ, Zelienople, PA (near Pittsburgh). Reid serves as current chairman of the Creation Science Fellowship and was coordinator for the International Conference on Creationism in Pittsburgh in 2003, 2008, and 2013. Since 1986, the ICC has been the premier peer-reviewed scientific conference for creationism in the world. At the 2013 ICC, 354 attendees, including 19 walk-ins, from 9 countries attended. ICC13 also had viewers via webinar to 29 individuals and groups around the world, including Singapore and Peru. Reid will briefly share at the Creation Literacy event in Los Angeles by video clip describing the ICC. http://www.creationicc.org/
Clint Loveness. A film-maker from his youngest days, Clint graduated in film production from Pepperdine University in 2007. Clint became intensely interested in creation-evolution and apologetics questions when his brother and other friends at Pepperdine drifted from faith in Jesus. Clint will share his heart desire that young people at any Christian college will be able to find rich reassurance that the Creator God is the God of a book that reveals reliable and understandable truth. Clint has provided a trove of resources at his apologetics website: http://www.provethebible.com/
Bob Enyart. Bob is currently lead pastor at Denver Bible Church, and hosts the long-running Christian talk radio show Bob Enyart Live, and of Theology Thursday and the creation-evolution program Real Science Radio. Originally from northern New Jersey, Bob had a technical career before going into full-time ministry. In the 1980s Bob was an Apache Attack Helicopter software engineer with McDonnell Douglas in southern California and in Phoenix, then worked with Microsoft in Redmond, WA. But the whole time Bob had a desire to serve the Lord in ministry. Bob walked away from his technical career in order to both teach the Bible and to be a Christian pro-family activist. After Bible training in New York and in Colorado, Bob began in Christian ministry in the Denver area in 1988, adding a Christian radio program in the Denver area in 1991, then called in 2000 to serve Denver Bible Church, an evangelical young-earth creationist church, where he still leads. Bob’s long-time interest in science and scripture goes back to the 70s and Henry Morris and Duane Gish of the Institute for Creation Research. KGOV.com is home of long-running Christian radio talk show Bob Enyart Live, and of Theology Thursday and creation-evolution program Real Science Radio. The Bob Enyart Live (BEL) news talk show airs daily including on America's most powerful Christian radio station, Denver’s 50,000-watt AM 670 KLTT. Find more: Bob Enyart YouTube channel!
Dr. Vern Bissell. Vern is currently initiating a science literacy program for students, families, and theologians. While a math plus physics undergrad at Pepperdine in the 60s, Vern worked as a computer programmer on the Apollo Project. After receiving his M.S. in Water Resources Engineering at the University of Maryland he began work at NOAA, National Weather Service. Vern wrote software for the National Weather Service River Forecast System, and also was primary NWS project scientist to measure snow water content by airborne sensing of soil-sourced gamma radiation in the early 70s. Completed work for PhD (Civil Engineering -Water Resources, minor statistics). Moved to Oregon in 1974 to begin work in operational river forecasting, primary responsibility for computing systems. Later directing the NWS hydrology program in the northwest U.S., Vern led an award-winning interagency team developing a description code for water resources and weather data transmission through a wide variety of automated and manual collection and communication systems. Author of about 25 technical papers or publications, Vern retired from NOAA in 1996. Vern now focuses on English and science-Bible literacy among internationals both in USA and overseas. Following science and Bible apologetics since 1968, Vern today continues facilitating translation, publication and/or distribution of (mostly science) Christian apologetics books in Asia. Vern is also occasional guest co-host for Truthseekers cable-TV apologetics program http://www.truthseekers.ws/.
Dr. C. K. Thong. Chan Kei Thong, a 4th generation Singaporean, became a Christian while in the military, and in 1975 dedicated his life to serving God in China. In 1980 he co-founded Management Technologies Inc (now LDi). Since Chan Kei was appointed in 1991 as President for LDi, the company staff grew from less than 40 expatriates and Chinese nationals to establish the largest network of international schools in China. He has conducted management seminars around the world, with focus to impact marketplace leaders, cultural influencers and government leaders with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. While serving in China, Chan Kei was a teaching elder at Beijing International Christian Fellowship. Chan Kei is also an Adjunct Professor of Trinity Western University, Canada. Chan Kei was major author, with Charlene Fu, of the 2006 book Faith of our Fathers. Ancient Chinese characters, historical sites, ancient documents, and culture reveal that the Chinese worshiped the same Creator as the God of the Bible at the beginning of its civilization. For Chinese, coming to faith in Christ is a return to the faith of ancestral Chinese fathers. Chinese written history and the history and ancient pictorial characters affirm the narrative of the Creation and Flood accounts of the Bible. Discussion at: http://creation.com/defending-faith-of-our-fathers
he book (Chinese or English) can be purchased at: www.faithofourfathersbooks.com
Jake Doberenz. Jake will graduate high school June 2015 in Clackamas, Oregon. He plans to attend Oklahoma Christian University pursuing a double major in Bible and Public Communication/Leadership. Jake is founder, writer, and website designer for http://www.creationistcompany.com/ Jake will share with the 2015 Science Literacy event with a video clip. Jake seeks to be used of God in higher Christian education – Bible professor to whatever comes next.
Ryan Bitikofer. Bacheloers Degree in Music, Harding University; Masters in Adult Education and Distance Learning University of Phoenix; partial study in MTh program Harding Graduate School of Religion before going to China. Ryan served as a church-planting missionary in China for 11 years 2002-2013, dividing time between Shanghai, Wuhan-Jingzhou, and Beijing. Ryan has served as lead preacher at Camelback Church of Christ, Phoenix, AZ since 2014.
Tim Brinley. Master's of Missiology (ACU, 1983); Master's of Education (National U., 1994); Texas Teaching Credential. Church planting missionary Turkey (1976-1977), Athens and Thessalonica, Greece. (1983-1987), Moscow, Russia. (1994-2008); Professor of Church History and Teachings of Apostle Paul in Moscow, Russia (1996-1999); Professor and Director of Harding University Extension in Athens, Greece. (2008-2010); Preaching and Teaching Elder of North County Church of Christ, Escondido (2011-present). Tim is father of 4 children, and oldest son has been a church planter in Turkey last 8 years. Since 1976 Tim has followed creationism, learning in summer seminar series from Henry Morris, Duane Gish, others at the Institute of Creation Research. Also, through his company CCASTravel www.ccastravel.com, Tim leads smaller educational groups in Classical and Biblical Adventure study trips to the lands of the Bible with an emphasis on the historical integrity of the Biblical record
Reid Moon. Masters of Theology Harding Graduate School of Religion (1984), preaching at Zelienople Church of Christ, Zelienople, PA (near Pittsburgh). Reid serves as current chairman of the Creation Science Fellowship and was coordinator for the International Conference on Creationism in Pittsburgh in 2003, 2008, and 2013. Since 1986, the ICC has been the premier peer-reviewed scientific conference for creationism in the world. At the 2013 ICC, 354 attendees, including 19 walk-ins, from 9 countries attended. ICC13 also had viewers via webinar to 29 individuals and groups around the world, including Singapore and Peru. Reid will briefly share at the Creation Literacy event in Los Angeles by video clip describing the ICC. http://www.creationicc.org/
Clint Loveness. A film-maker from his youngest days, Clint graduated in film production from Pepperdine University in 2007. Clint became intensely interested in creation-evolution and apologetics questions when his brother and other friends at Pepperdine drifted from faith in Jesus. Clint will share his heart desire that young people at any Christian college will be able to find rich reassurance that the Creator God is the God of a book that reveals reliable and understandable truth. Clint has provided a trove of resources at his apologetics website: http://www.provethebible.com/