Participants: John Bradshaw
Series Code: IIW
Program Code: IIW001258
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00:11 God4s book, the Bible. 00:16 Still relevant in today4s complex world. 00:24 It Is Written, sharing hope around the globe. 00:34 Thanks for joining me today on It Is Written. 00:38 I4m John Bradshaw. 00:40 To hear some people tell the story, if you believe that 00:42 God created the earth, then you4re out of touch, stuck in 00:47 the past, ignorant of science and backwards thinking. 00:52 Which would mean, of course, that the Bible cannot then be 00:55 trusted. 00:56 Its opening words say that God created the earth and the 01:00 opening chapter says he did it in six days. 01:03 It would also mean that Jesus was out of touch, stuck in 01:07 the past, ignorant of science, and backwards 01:10 thinking. 01:11 After all, Jesus believed the creation story. 01:16 He said in Mark 10:6, from the beginning of the 01:19 creation, God made them male and female. 01:24 Jesus believed that God made Adam and Eve, plain and 01:27 simple. 01:28 And he believed that God made the Sabbath day, which was 01:31 given on the 7th day of the creation week. 01:34 Jesus said in Mark 2:27, "The Sabbath was made for man." 01:40 Made. 01:41 In the beginning, when God created the earth. 01:45 John 1:3 says, "All things were made by him." 01:50 While in Mark 13:19, Jesus referred to "the beginning of 01:54 the creation which God created." 01:57 In the Bible, Paul wrote about creation. 02:01 Peter wrote about creation. 02:03 John wrote about creation. 02:06 But a lot of people today do not believe that God created 02:10 the world. 02:11 Now, let's ask ourselves why that might be. 02:14 Is it because evolutionists are fools? 02:18 Well, I don't think that's the reason. 02:21 A lot of brilliant, well-educated people rejected 02:23 the Bible account of creation. 02:25 In fact, many evolutionists ask important questions about 02:28 origins that demand answers. 02:31 So, how is it that the Bible can say the earth is young, 02:34 just thousands of years old, and a respected scientist 02:38 relying on accepted scientific principles and 02:40 practices, would say that the Bible is wrong and not just 02:44 wrong, but wrong by millions and millions of years. 02:49 Can intelligent thinking people be scientifically 02:52 accurate while still believing what the Bible says 02:56 on the subject of creation? 02:58 To find out, I visited the creation museum in Northern 03:01 Kentucky. 03:02 A stone's throw from Cincinnati, Ohio. 03:04 The museum covers an area of 70K sq ft, a little less than 03:08 two acres, comfortably bigger than a football field, and 03:11 it's dedicated to promoting the Biblical view of 03:14 creation. 03:15 I spoke with Creation Museum president, Australian, Ken 03:19 Ham. 03:20 And I started by asking him about theistic evolution, the 03:24 idea that evolution is a process used by God to effect 03:29 creation. 03:30 KH: Within the church, and you know there are different 03:32 denominations, and so on, you will also find, as you know. 03:36 different views of eschatology dealing with end 03:39 times, different views even of baptism and different 03:43 views of other issues. 03:45 By and large, when you are arguing about such things as 03:51 eschatology or baptism or whatever it is, speaking in 03:53 tongues, or you know, a number of those different 03:55 issues, you are arguing from the Bible. 03:57 It might be people4s view of the church or people4s view 03:59 of Israel, or people4s view of Daniel, or Ezekiel or 04:02 Revelation, whatever it is. 04:03 JB: Right. 04:04 KH: But you see, the reason there are different views of 04:06 Genesis, like theistic evolution, for instance, is 04:09 not because you are arguing from Scripture, it's because 04:13 you are arguing outside of scripture. 04:15 You are really taking the secular view of the day and 04:17 you add it to the Bible in Genesis, and then you have to 04:20 reinterpret the clear words of Genesis, which means that 04:25 the big issue for me is it's an authority issue. 04:28 You are unlocking a door to say you don't have to take 04:30 this as written. 04:31 You are not using God's word to judge man's word. 04:34 You are using man's ideas outside of Scripture, which 04:36 you don't get from Scripture. 04:38 And then you are forcing them onto God's Word. 04:41 For instance, the Bible makes it clear. 04:44 God took dust and made a man. 04:45 So if you are going to believe in theistic 04:48 evolution, you are going to say God used evolution then 04:52 the process of some ape-like ancestor changing into 04:54 humans, even in Matthew 19 when Jesus was quoting 04:57 Genesis when talking about marriage, he was talking 05:00 about the one flesh, you know, the fact that Eve came 05:04 from Adam. 05:05 See, if you are going to believe in evolution, then 05:07 Adam came from an ape-man and Eve came from an ape-woman. 05:11 But, the Bible makes it very clear and Jesus himself, who 05:15 is the Word, and who is the Son of God, Jesus, quoted 05:19 from Genesis, talking about your one flesh, because the 05:22 woman came from the man. 05:23 She did not come from an ape woman. 05:27 And so, really, for theistic evolutionists, they are 05:29 really undermining Biblical authority because they are 05:31 reinterpreting God's word by forcing man's ideas on God's 05:34 word. 05:35 Secondly, they are really destroying the whole basis of 05:37 marriage, if you think about it, and of course, that all 05:41 relates too to Christ and his relationship to the church in 05:44 the New Testament. 05:45 But there is even something else as well, and that's 05:49 this. 05:50 All the different positions on Genesis, they all have one 05:52 thing in common. 05:53 JB: What's that? 05:54 KH: Putting millions of years in the Bible. 05:57 The idea of millions of years came from atheists, Deists, 06:00 people who believed in naturalism, who wanted to 06:03 explain life without God, wanted to get rid of the 06:06 flood of Noah's day, and they want to come up with a way of 06:11 explaining the world without God and so back in the late 06:14 1700s, early 1800s, these people postulated the idea 06:18 that the fossil layers we see over the earth's surface, 06:21 were laid down over millions of years, and that happened 06:25 before man. 06:26 And so you'll find that every one of the compromised 06:29 positions is people trying to come up with some new sort of 06:33 way or different way to fit millions of years and/or 06:36 evolution, sometimes, into the Bible. 06:40 And if you believe in millions of years, here's my 06:42 challenge for people. 06:44 If you take Genesis 1:29, 30, and you read it exactly the 06:48 same way that Jesus quotes from Genesis, then Adam and 06:53 Eve ate fruit, all vegetarian, and the animals 06:57 were vegetarian, they ate plants. 07:00 Now man wasn't told to eat meat until after the flood 07:03 Genesis 9:3 when God laid that out. 07:06 But originally, they were all vegetarian. 07:08 In the fossil record, supposedly existing millions 07:11 of years before man, if you believe in millions of years, 07:13 as a Christian, you've got lots of examples of animals 07:17 eating each other, fish eating each other, bones in 07:20 the stomachs of other animals, and so on. 07:23 What are they going to do with that? 07:25 Ok. 07:26 No. 07:27 2. 07:28 Doesn't the Bible clearly tell us in Genesis that as a 07:30 result of the curse, thorns and thistles came into 07:34 existence? 07:35 JB: That's correct. 07:36 KH: The fossil record, said to be millions of years 07:39 before man, right? 07:40 There's a lot of examples of fossil thorns said to be 07:43 hundreds of millions of years old. 07:45 Wait a minute! 07:46 You've got all these thorns, millions of years before man 07:50 sinned? 07:51 Then thorns didn't come after the curse. 07:53 There are many examples of diseases in the fossil bones. 07:57 There are brain tumors. 07:58 For instance, there's a brain tumor in a dinosaur fossil, 08:02 evidence of abscesses, arthritis, cancer, all sorts 08:06 of diseases. 08:07 In fact, there are even medical researchers today who 08:10 use the fossil bones to help people understand how to look 08:15 for certain diseases and so on. 08:17 Now, when God finished creating everything, he said 08:19 everything he made was very good. 08:22 So, if you are going to believe in millions of years, 08:25 God said brain tumors were very good, cancer was very 08:27 good. 08:28 See, from a perspective of Scripture, you can't have 08:32 brain tumors, cancer, arthritis, abscesses that you 08:36 see in the fossil record, animals eating each other, 08:38 thorns, supposedly millions of years before man. 08:41 And so, therefore, the whole fossil record has to come 08:43 after sin. 08:45 And when you look at the fossil record, you see these 08:49 fossils laid down in sedimentary layers over the 08:51 earth. 08:52 How would explain billions of dead things buried in rock 08:56 layers, laid down by water or over the earth. 08:59 I mean, 70% of the earth's surfaces is covered in 09:01 sedimentary strata. 09:02 You know what the Bible actually tells us? 09:04 JB What's that? 09:05 KH That there was a global flood. 09:07 And if there really was a global flood, you'd expect to 09:09 find billions of dead things buried in rock layers, laid 09:11 down by water, all over the earth, and that's what you 09:13 find. 09:14 JB And that's what you find. 09:15 KH and you know what you find? 09:17 Billions of dead things, buried in rock layers laid 09:19 down by water all over the earth. 09:21 So what should you think when a fossil is discovered that 09:23 seems to indicated human beings were on Earth millions 09:25 of years ago - when the Bible says no such thing? 09:27 KH In a way, that evidence that we do have a Lucy is 09:31 strong enough to actually draw out a particular 09:36 interpretation which is she was some kind of ape. 09:38 JB More in just a moment. 09:40 [Music] In Matthew 4:4, the 09:53 Word of God says, "It is written, man shall not live 09:56 by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the 10:00 mouth of God. 10:01 Every Word is a one-minute Bible-based daily devotional 10:04 presented by Pastor John Bradshaw and designed 10:07 especially for busy people like you. 10:11 Look for Every Word on selected networks or watch it 10:17 on-line everyday on our website: itiswritten.com. 10:21 Receive a daily spiritual boost. 10:25 Watch Every Word. 10:26 You'll be glad you did. 10:29 Here's a sample. 10:32 [Music] When I read about a 14 year old girl executed for 10:35 adultery I was thankful that Jesus doesn't mete out 10:38 justice the way some people do. 10:40 The monarch of the universe - who could throw the book at 10:43 all of us if he wished - prefers to win us with love 10:46 rather than brutalize us. 10:47 Here's what God says in Jeremiah 9:24, "But let him 10:51 who glories glory in this, that he understands and knows 10:54 Me, that I am the LORD, exercising loving-kindness, 10:57 judgment, and righteousness in the earth. 10:59 For in these I delight," says the LORD." 11:02 Jeremiah 9:24 NKJV God's a God of justice, that's true. 11:05 But God deals kindly with His people. 11:08 He's patient and merciful towards sinners, and instead 11:09 of looking to do away with us He does all He can to win us 11:12 and convince us that He's good. 11:15 I hope you remember this verse today. 11:16 Unlike humans, God is only good. 11:20 I'm John Bradshaw for It Is Written. 11:21 Let's live today by Every Word. 11:26 This is It Is Written, thanks for joining me. 11:28 I'm John Bradshaw Today I'm discussing creation and 11:31 evolution with Ken Ham, the President of the Creation 11:33 Museum in Northern Kentucky. 11:36 Ken's been teaching creation for decades, so I asked him 11:39 about "Lucy". 11:41 In 1974, an American anthropologist working in 11:46 Ethiopia discovered fossilized remains of what 11:50 became known as "Lucy". 11:53 Lucy was actually about 40% of a skeleton. 11:56 Many people believe this skeleton to be several 11:58 millions of years old, and either a direct ancestor of 12:02 today's human beings, or closely related. 12:06 If Lucy is actually a human - or human ancestor - and is 3 12:10 million-plus years old, there goes the idea of a young 12:13 Earth that is less than 10,000 years old. 12:16 So I asked Ken Ham if 40% of an old skeleton gives enough 12:20 evidence of human beings living millions of years ago. 12:24 KH In a way, that evidence we do have of Lucy is strong 12:30 enough to actually draw out a particular interpretation 12:33 that she was some kind of ape. 12:36 And it is interesting. 12:37 See, when you dig up a skull, you can make, by using 12:43 artistic license, you can make the head on that skull 12:48 look ape-like or human-like. 12:51 You can take an ape skull and make it look a bit 12:53 human-like. 12:54 You can take a human skull and make it look ape-like. 12:57 If you want Lucy to be human-like, right? 13:02 Well, you want to have short arms, because apes have 13:05 longer arms. 13:06 And so, therefore, where the broken bones are, they put 13:08 them together but when you look at them, they are 13:10 tapered, indicating that they should be apart. 13:13 And so we put them apart to where we believe they should 13:19 be, showing she really had long arms, right? 13:21 Like an ape, which is what the discoverer of Lucy said 13:23 she was. 13:24 Then, when you look at the leg bones, well, for the leg 13:26 bones, they want the opposite to happen. 13:30 Because apes have shorter legs so they want them to 13:36 have longer legs, so for the leg bones, they actually put 13:38 those bones apart whereas when we look at them, it 13:40 looks like they should be together and so, they do the 13:43 opposite of what they should do because they want to make 13:47 it into something that it really is not. 13:49 But when you've just got the bones and you don't have the 13:53 flesh and the hair and you can't see it and so that's 13:56 how people can be indoctrinated in evolution 13:58 because an evolutionist can take those bones and arrange 14:01 them in a particular way and you know, shorten the arms, 14:04 and lengthen the legs, or the rest of it, you know, do what 14:08 they want to do with them, and then put flesh and hair 14:12 on them and make it look sort of half human-like. 14:15 They can make the eyes look a particular way and make it 14:18 look a bit humanlike, and that's what they do. 14:21 JB I asked Ken Ham a question I think everyone has asked at 14:25 some time or another: how do you fit dinosaurs into the 14:28 Bible story, when the science tells us dinosaurs lived 14:33 millions of years ago. 14:34 KH You've got crocodiles, and the nautilus, and horseshoe 14:38 crab and so on. 14:39 You've got these creatures, that according to 14:41 evolutionists, lived before dinosaurs, and then must have 14:44 lived with dinosaurs years ago and then supposedly 14:47 dinosaurs died out, then all these others lived on and 14:51 they are still living with us today. 14:54 So, the point is, these creatures are living with us 14:57 today so why is it even from an evolutionist perspective, 15:00 why is it so stupid to think that dinosaurs could not live 15:04 with people? 15:05 Now most people have the wrong idea about dinosaurs. 15:07 They think they are all great big monsters. 15:09 JB A ha KH Well the word dinosaur was first invited in 15:11 1841 by an Englishman, Sir. 15:13 Richard Owen and it comes two Greek words, Dino Sauros and 15:16 translated, it means terrible lizard. 15:19 And so people get the idea that they are all great, big 15:23 monsters. 15:24 The average size of a dinosaur is only the size of 15:27 a sheep, a shepherd dog. 15:29 That's the average size. 15:30 There are many dinosaurs as small as chickens. 15:33 The mosasaurus when it hatched out of an egg, was 15:37 only the size of a mouse. 15:39 So we shouldn't get the idea that dinosaurs were all great 15:43 big monsters. 15:44 Secondly, people think that they were hundreds, and 15:47 hundreds, and hundreds of different type of dinosaurs. 15:50 Actually, there is only about 50 families of dinosaurs, 15:53 which means about 50 kinds. 15:55 We would say, in most instances, not all, but most 15:58 instances, that the kind would be more at the family 16:03 level of classification. 16:04 And we have actually had, for instance, some scientists 16:07 working on how many kinds of land animals are there on the 16:11 earth. 16:12 Not species, but how many kinds, actual kinds. 16:15 Because you know deer and moose are the same kind, 16:18 alpacas, llamas, one hump camels, two hump camels are 16:21 all the same kinds, zebras, horses are all the same 16:23 kinds. 16:24 That's why at the petting zoo here, we have a zorse and a 16:27 zedonk and so on. 16:29 Actually our scientists believe there is probably 16:31 about a thousand kinds of land animals which means.. 16:37 JB 50 odd kinds of dinosaurs KH and 50 kinds of dinosaurs, 16:40 well there's 50 families of dinosaurs, so there are about 16:42 50 kinds. 16:44 We would say dinosaurs were made on day six because all 16:46 land animals were made on day six of the creation week. 16:49 We believe those days are ordinary days. 16:51 The Hebrew word Yom, when it's used with evening, 16:53 morning, number or night means an ordinary day. 16:56 JB 24 hour period KH The only reason that many Christians 16:58 don't believe that is not because of what the Hebrew 17:01 words mean, it's because they are trying to force millions 17:03 of years into the Bible. 17:04 You take It Is Written, in fact, that's where our 7-day 17:07 week comes from, Exodus 20:11, the basis of the 17:09 Fourth Commandment: In six days the Lord made the 17:11 heavens and the earth and rested on the 7th day and God 17:14 blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy and so a seven 17:16 day week is based upon the creation week. 17:19 You know, if God made everything in six million 17:21 years and rested for millions of years, we could go into 17:23 retirement now. 17:24 JB Yes we could. 17:25 KH So you see those days are ordinary days. 17:28 On day six, God made the land animals and he made the first 17:30 two people, Adam and Eve. 17:31 Dinosaurs are land animals. 17:33 Dinosaurs were beside Adam and Eve. 17:35 See, I have people say to me, "but the word dinosaur is not 17:37 in the Bible." 17:38 I say, well, of course not. 17:40 You know, why isn't the word dinosaur in the Bible? 17:43 Well, the same reason you don't have the word email in 17:46 the Bible. 17:47 Right? 17:48 It's a modern word. 17:49 JB Sure KH The word dinosaur is a modern word. 17:51 It was made up in 1841. 17:53 In fact, I do believe there is a dinosaur described in 17:55 detail, in the Bible, more than most other animals. 17:59 In the book of Job, Job 40:15, he says "behold, 18:03 Behemoth," talking to Job and about this animal that lived 18:08 with him, he said he was a chief of the ways of mouth. 18:10 The Hebrew language there implies it's the largest land 18:12 animal God made and the largest animal we know of 18:15 that lived on the land from what we found is one of the 18:17 Sauropod dinosaurs. 18:19 Now they did grow very large, by the way, but even they had 18:22 some eggs, which would not have been much bigger than 18:25 the size of a football. 18:27 That's the biggest egg we found, you know, dinosaur 18:30 eggs. 18:31 But, Behemoth, everything about it is big and strong. 18:33 Has a tail like a cedar tree. 18:34 You know. 18:35 And some of the Bible notes, I notice in some of the 18:38 Bibles say it was an elephant or hippopotamus. 18:40 Have you ever seen an elephant's tail? 18:42 It looks like a piece of rope dangling down. 18:44 Or if you see a hippo tail, you know, it's like a flap of 18:48 skin. 18:49 You know, a cedar tree? 18:50 No, I don't think so. 18:51 It's more, we believe the description of a Sauropod 18:53 dinosaur. 18:54 You see, people say, well what happened to the 18:56 dinosaurs? 18:57 Well, why aren't you interested in the dodo bird? 18:59 What happened to the dodo bird? 19:01 What happened to.. 19:02 what? 19:03 The Moa? 19:04 JB The Moa in New Zealand. 19:04 That's right. 19:05 Great big bird, 9 feet tall. 19:06 KH It's gone now. 19:07 JB Gone. 19:08 KH I mean, there are hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of 19:10 animals that have become extinct. 19:11 But people think it's the dinosaurs that are the big 19:13 mystery but there are lots of animals that are becoming 19:15 extinct. 19:16 Because of changing conditions and I mean that's 19:18 why we have endangered species programs. 19:20 I tell people the reason dinosaurs became extinct is 19:23 we didn't start our endangered species programs 19:26 early enough. 19:26 This is It Is Written. 19:28 I'll have more with Ken Ham in just a moment.♪♪♪ 19:45 [Music] Eyes for India is giving sight to the blind and 19:52 you can be a part of this amazing work that God is 19:55 doing. 19:56 15 million blind people live in India, more than any other 19:59 country in the world and many of the blind in India could 20:03 see again if only they could have simple cataract surgery. 20:07 It Is Written is making that happen. 20:10 Would you support Eyes for India? 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21:17 JB Sure, it's right there in the Bible. 21:19 KH Now wait a minute, wait a minute. 21:21 Secular scientists say that you can't have a man rising 21:23 from the dead, and you can't have a virgin birth. 21:25 You know, if I was to go through the Bible and what I 21:27 call our mainline churches, and I was to say: Do you 21:29 believe fed thousands of people is a miracle? 21:31 JB Oh, they'll say yes, sure. 21:32 KH They'll say yes. 21:33 How do you know? 21:34 The Bible says. 21:35 Do you believe Jesus walked on water? 21:37 Oh yes. 21:38 How do you know? 21:39 The Bible says. 21:40 Do you believe that a man was swallowed by a fish? 21:42 And lived in a fish for three days? 21:44 How do you know? 21:45 The Bible says. 21:46 As soon as you get to Genesis in this day and age, and even 21:48 in the church and you say, what God created in six days, 21:50 man was made from dust, woman from his side, there was a 21:53 global flood, death came after sin, here is what we 21:55 hear. 21:56 Oh no. 21:57 Why not? 21:58 Well because outside of scripture here, because these 22:00 ideas of millions of years, because of evolution. 22:02 You've got to reinterpret the days, you've got to do this 22:04 and here's the point. 22:06 What is happen is this. 22:07 If we don't take a stand on the creation account in 22:09 Genesis and we allow outside ideas to reinterpret that, we 22:15 are unlocking a door and the door we are unlocking is we 22:18 are telling coming generations that you don't 22:21 have to take God's word as written here. 22:23 It puts them on a slipperly slide of unbelief through the 22:26 whole of Scripture. 22:27 You tell me to believe this bit of the Bible over here, 22:30 but this bit doesn't matter. 22:31 I can take mans ideas and reinterpret here, but I am 22:34 not allowed to do that over here. 22:36 It's hypocrisy. 22:38 God's word came under attack at the beginning and that 22:42 attack has continued down through the ages. 22:44 It's never abated. 22:45 It's the same attack yet it manifests itself in different 22:48 ways and different eras of history. 22:51 For instance, when Peter and Paul were preaching about the 22:53 resurrection, did they ever get the question: Hey, that's 22:56 all very well, preaching about the resurrection. 22:58 What do you do with carbon dating? 23:00 Did people like Martin Luther, when he nailed the 23:02 thesis on the door of the church, did someone come up 23:04 to him and say that's all very well to nail those on 23:07 the door of the church. 23:09 I want to know about dinosaurs. 23:11 Well, the word dinosaur was not invented until 1841. 23:13 My point is this. 23:14 There is a particular Genesis 3 attack in our day. 23:18 People in past ages had to deal with all sorts of 23:22 attacks on the Bible. 23:24 Gnosticism and all sorts of heresies and so on. 23:27 I believe today that the teaching of evolution, 23:30 millions of years, big bang and so on, that permeates the 23:34 world, wherever you've got an education system, access to 23:37 the internet, access to television, people have heard 23:40 of evolution millions of years. 23:42 It permeates museums around the world, zoos around the 23:45 world, just about everybody has heard about evolution of 23:48 millions of years. 23:49 I believe that it is the Genesis 3 attack of our day. 23:52 You know, your salvation is not conditioned upon the age 23:57 of the earth of whether you believe in evolution or the 24:00 days of creation. 24:01 The condition is upon faith in Christ, right? 24:04 But believing in evolution for millions of years doesn't 24:08 necessarily affect your salvation. 24:10 There are many Christians that believe in millions of 24:13 years. 24:14 Many Christians that believe in evolution. 24:16 But what it does affect is how the next generation views 24:20 Scripture itself. 24:22 What I have given you is a long answer to get back to 24:26 the fact that the issue is one of authority. 24:29 Who is the authority? 24:30 God or man? 24:31 And when you let man be an authority over God's word and 24:35 reinterpret God's word because of outside ideas you 24:37 are unlocking a door so the next generation tend not to 24:40 believe the Scripture as much and the next generation doubt 24:43 and disbelieve even more and as time goes on, you would 24:48 expect to see more and more in the younger generations of 24:52 leaving the church, walking away from the church as 24:55 exactly what we see. 24:56 JB That's what we see today. 25:10 [Music] Creation or evolution? 25:12 I'd like to offer you a free book that makes this subject 25:16 clear. 25:17 áIt's called "Out of Thin Air", produced by It Is 25:20 Written, and written by former ministry speaker Shawn 25:23 Boonstra. 25:24 It's an excellent resource that makes the subject of 25:27 creation and evolution very, very clear. 25:31 Get your free copy of "Out of Thin Air" by calling now, 25:34 1-800-253-3000. 25:37 Ask for: Out of Thin Air. 25:45 Or you can write to It Is Written, Box O, Thousand 25:48 Oaks, CA 91359, and we will mail a copy to your address 25:53 in North America. 25:55 This is a resource you'll appreciate. 25:58 In an age where the Bible account of creation is under 26:00 increasing attack, you'll be blessed, encouraged and 26:04 informed by this excellent book. 26:07 It's yours free. 26:08 Just call 1-800-253-3000, 1-800-253-3000 right now, or 26:16 write to the address on your screen. 26:18 There's no cost and no catch. 26:20 Simply call now, and ask for Out of Thin Air. 26:23 And remember: It Is Written is a faith-based ministry 26:28 made possible by viewers like you. 26:31 Your continued financial support makes it possible for 26:34 It Is Written to continue sharing the Word of God with 26:36 the world. 26:38 Thank you so much for your support. 26:44 What a wonderful subject: Creation and evolution. 26:47 Why don't we take a moment now and pray. 26:49 We'll pray to the God of creation and ask his blessing 26:53 and guidance. 26:54 Our Father in heaven, I thank you for the Bible. 26:57 The Bible that reveals to us that In the Beginning, God 27:00 created. 27:01 Lord, I look forward to your continuing creative power. 27:04 The Bible tells us that you will recreate this earth. 27:08 We will dwell in a new earth some day. 27:12 The Bible tells us that you are the God who can recreate 27:15 a broken, human heart. 27:17 Lord, would you do that work for us? 27:19 We thank you today and we pray praising you, in Jesus' 27:23 name, Amen. 27:46 Thanks for joining me today. 27:47 I look forward to seeing you again next time. 27:49 Until then, remember: It is written, man shall not live 27:54 by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the 27:58 mouth of God. |
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