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On this special episode, Jason Harris joins me again to talk about some upcoming movies. We use the usual puzzle pieces format on some trailers for movies that are coming out in September 2024. This month's episode includes Gods Not Dead 5: In God We Trust, Transformers One, My Old Ass, Speak No Evil, The 4:30 Movie, Wolfs, His Three Daughters, A Different Man, Megalopolis, The Wild Robot, Lee and Never Let Go.As always, SPOILER ALERT for any of the movies we discuss!I also shout out some listener provided puzzle pieces from movies we covered in the month of May. Included are puzzle pieces from Eric Lanberg, Josie DeMarco, Darin Lundberg and Lex Rofeberg.Jason Harris is a writer and stand-up comedian (not just here in Las Vegas).Check out Jason Harris on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/jasonharriscomedy/My sixth album, MORE CONTENT is available NOW on iTunes, Bandcamp and all other digital music stores! Make sure to check it out!My latest music is the 24 for 2024 series in which I'm releasing a new single on the 1st and 3rd Fridays of every month in 2024. 24 new songs total. Follow along on the Spotify Playlist at https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4PDKoUQ1CoFpiogLu2Sz4D?si=3cb1df0dd0384968My latest music video “Burn" which you can watch at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxKAWFm0gAoThe song at the end of the episode is "September" from my album David Rosen.Make sure to “Like” Piecing It Together on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/PiecingPodAnd “Follow” us on Twitter @PiecingPodAnd Join the Conversation in our Facebook Group, Piecing It Together – A Movie Discussion Group.And check out https://www.piecingpod.com for more about our show!And if you want to SUPPORT THE SHOW, you can now sign up for our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/bydavidrosenYou can also support the show by checking out our Vouch store where we're selling a bunch of great products at https://vouch.store/piecingittogetherShare the episode, comment and give us feedback! And of course, SUBSCRIBE!And of course, don't forget to leave us a 5 star review on Goodpods, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Podchaser!Check out The Deposition Podcast at https://hughouse.productions/podcasts/deposition/And most important of all… Keep going to the theater to see new movies!Mentioned in this episode:Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Live ShowOur next live show is Thursday September 5th at Maya Cinemas on Beetlejuice Beetlejuice! More details and an...

The 90s bought us the left behind books by Jerry Jenkins. The early 2000s brought us the Left Behind film series with Kirk Cameron 2014 brought us Left Behind with Nicholas Cage AND in 2023-- we now have the next feature film in the beloved hit series--LEFT BEHIND, with Kevin Sorbo! If you have not heard of this series (which I sure hope you have in some way, it's INCREDIBLE) Left Behind series depicts the End Times, bringing to life a world after the rapture of Gods people. This series was inspired by Gods word and brought to life by followers of Jesus! These books now turned into a famous film franchise are seeds of conviction and eye opening awareness of what it could look like in the years to come! Take heart! He (King Jesus) has overcome the world for YOU! In this episode with Mr. Kevin we talk about...-This new Left Behind film -The importance of supporting Christian films opening weekend -Fathom Events -Sorbo's other films: Gods Not Dead, What If, Soul Surfer, Let there be Light -Kevin and his wife Sam's trip to group trip to Israel this May (click HERE for more)-The importance of holding the line in media and entertainment I cannot wait to see this film in theaters NEXT WEEK! Opening night is January 26th! Tell your friends, youth group, co-workers, Church, family, goldfish....everyone! Click HERE for tickets! For more on Kevin's films & ministry click HERE! I can't wait to hear what you think of the film. Leave us a review! I'm grateful for you, friend-GBYou are so loved! Let's hangout! Instagram YoutubeWebsite

On this resurrection Sunday I talk about the resurrection of Christ as well as the First and Second Resurrections that will take place. 4-17-22

On this resurrection Sunday I talk about the resurrection of Christ as well as the First and Second Resurrections that will take place. 4-17-22

We're back! Amador is busy with work so until things calm down Kenny and Travis will be covering their favorite thing: poorly made Christian Right wing propaganda films! Fun!

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Today's guest was just 8 years old when he came close to being executed by the Communists in China. At age 14, he faced deportation to forced labor camps, and spent years in a fight to escape that fate. His mother was beaten nearly to death by the notorious Red Coats, and yet he and his family never gave up hope that life would offer an opportunity to them, to live free and full lives. Today, Dr Ming Wang is a proud American citizen who has become a renowned eye surgeon. He dedicates himself to restoring vision to blind orphans from around the world. He was the inspiration for a character in the movie, God's Not Dead and in 2022 the movie Sight, based on his story and starring Greg Kineer, will hit theaters. In this episode of American Snippets, Dr Ming Wang shares his incredible story of enduring and surviving the Chinese Cultural Revolution, his extraordinary path that led him to America, and how he restores sight to the blind. He will also discuss current events in America, and what Americans need to do today, to protect our freedom.Subscribe To The NewsletterFollow Us On All PlatformsJoin The Great American Syndicate

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Please take a piece of paper and write three simple words: "God is dead." Flyover Film Country is taking you back to the golden age of 2014 and Pure Flix's smash Christian movie hit. In this continuation of our Flyover Essential Viewing series, the crew breaks down the many, many subplots of this absolutely bonkers movie, the issues of depicting Christians, atheists, immigrants, academics and journalists, and why this movie is actually a sermon and not really a movie. 

We have merch! teespring.com/legalfictionII Follow us on Twitter: @podlegalfiction, @kafka__esq, @ohnotsouter IIJoin our Discord: https://discord.gg/N295hu5qkt IIEmail us at: legalfictionpod@gmail.com II0:00 - Intro and we have merch now!0:44 - Spencer LARP'd3:50 - THE GREAT TROLLI GUMMI WORMS CONSPIRACY5:55 - Joe was vindicated on Spiral6:05 - Army of The Dead came out and dudes rock (actually watch it, it's fun)9:47 - RIP Charles Grodin11:47 - Free Palestine (Thoughts and Prayers to everyone there and to everyone having to explain to their Midwestern dad how Israel is actually kinda bad)13:19 - Albert Watkins is well uh...some kind of attorney and STL SUCKS27:33 - Cruella and Quiet Place 2 are releasing tomorrow (Joe will see at least one)28:39 - The Righteous Gemstones added new supporting cast and it's gonna rule31:04 - GODS NOT DEAD 2 REVIEW AND PLOT RUNDOWN (Hint it stinks)1:38:23 - Motion to Strike (Hard to pick just one part in this movie)1:42:00 - What Kind of Person Would X Character Be In Law School? (Makes no sense)1:43:43 - Does This Movie Pass The Bar? (Our Scores 0-100) & Joe Rants On Religion1:46:43 - Fund Our First Movie1:47:52 - Final Thoughts (God may not be dead but Joe wanted to be watching this)

A new MP3 sermon from Dean Bible Ministries is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: 93 - Giving an Answer - Part 11. God's Not Dead: Thinking Through the HOW [c] Subtitle: 1 Peter (2015) Speaker: Dr. Robert L. Dean Jr. Broadcaster: Dean Bible Ministries Event: Bible Study Date: 6/1/2017 Bible: 1 Peter 3:15 Length: 68 min.

A new MP3 sermon from Dean Bible Ministries is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: 93 - Giving an Answer - Part 11. God's Not Dead: Thinking Through the HOW [c] Subtitle: 1 Peter (2015) Speaker: Dr. Robert L. Dean Jr. Broadcaster: Dean Bible Ministries Event: Bible Study Date: 6/1/2017 Bible: 1 Peter 3:15 Length: 68 min.

Dragon on the Couch: The Dragon is back in theaters and saw the 2021 Jason Statham action movie Wrath of Man (in theaters only). The script was bad but it was exactly the kind of fun, dumb action movie we've come to know and love. Berto on the Bed: Berto watched Boss Level (Hulu), a Groundhog's Day style action movie and thought it was dumb but fun. He also watched Tenet (HBO), a Christopher Nolan film he felt was needlessly complicated but with some really interesting concepts and action pieces.  This week's deep dive is the 2014 Christian drama God's Not Dead, currently streaming on HBO.

TESTO DELL'ARTICOLO ➜ http://www.filmgarantiti.it/it/edizioni.php?id=53GOD'S NOT DEAD: DIO E' VIVO DAVVERO ED E' PRESENTE NELLA NOSTRA VITAUn film emozionante che spinge adolescenti e adulti a riscoprire le forti ragioni della fede cristianaGod's not dead, Dio non è morto, film campione d'incassi in America, arriva in Italia grazie alla casa di distribuzione Dominus Production che, reduce dal precedente successo distributivo del film Cristiada, propone una nuova, avvincente storia. Il film, basato su una storia vera, narra la sfida intellettuale tra un prestigioso professore di filosofia, interpretato da Kevin Sorbo, l'Hercules della tivù, e una giovane matricola universitaria.Il film racconta la vicenda di Josh Wheaton, studente al primo anno di College che s'iscrive al corso di Filosofia insegnato dal professore Jeffrey Raddison. Ateo, superbo e autoritario, il Professor Radisson ha costruito la sua brillante carriera e la sua intera vita privata sulla tesi che Dio non sia mai esistito e che ogni religione sia un'inutile superstizione. Di forte temperamento, esige, quindi, che i suoi studenti sottoscrivano la dichiarazione "Dio è morto", se vogliono voti buoni. La matricola Josh, unico tra i suoi compagni, non accetta la negazione della fede imposta dal professore ai suoi studenti. Il giovane, quindi, dovrà dimostrare che "Dio è vivo" al professore e all'intera classe, in una serie di serrati dibattiti a due con il docente. Il ragazzo dovrà superare difficoltà esterne, fra cui il volta faccia di alcuni amici, e momenti di crisi interiore, ma vale davvero farlo? A Josh sembra proprio di sì...Pensate che sia un'americanata? Un'esagerazione da film? Ma basta anche chiedere a qualche scolaro... In Italia in una prima superiore, per esempio, il primo giorno di scuola, un professore di storia ha esordito così: "Chi di voi crede che l'universo sia stato creato da Dio?". Pochi coraggiosi alunni hanno alzato la mano e il docente ha proseguito, dicendo: "Benissimo! Allora potete accomodarvi fuori dalla classe!".Ma davanti a questi fatti, non dobbiamo scoraggiarci ma alzarci in piedi e difendere la nostra fede, non per gloria personale ma per il bene del prossimo. Il giovane protagonista del film, infatti, è animato anche da uno spirito di amore verso il suo professore e verso i suoi compagni, perché "Se accetti questa sfida, potrebbe essere l'unico incontro significativo con Dio di tutta la loro vita", come gli ricorda la sua guida spirituale.E non dobbiamo scoraggiarci nemmeno se siamo gli unici ad alzarci in piedi: la storia dei martiri ci insegna che anche dove uno solo ha combattuto per la fede, egli ha risvegliato la coscienza e l'azione di molti. Nel film, Josh, nonostante sia solo, non abbandona la sua sfida e per fortuna, questo succede anche nella vita di tutti i giorni.Per esempio, sempre in Italia, l'anno scorso è bastata la determinazione di un solo un ragazzino per rinvigorire le presenze all'annuale benedizione dell'edificio. Come tutti gli anni, era stata concordata dalla scuola insieme al parroco la data del rito. Alla fine dell'orario delle lezioni, gli alunni interessati si erano riuniti per partecipare alla benedizione, ma quella volta fu detto dai professori presenti che i ragazzi non potevano rimanere perché non avevano il permesso dei genitori. Tutti sono andati via, tranne uno, l'unico che, senza timore, ha risposto agli insegnanti che sua mamma era d'accordo e che, se volevano, potevano chiamarla. Inutile dire che l'anno seguente i ragazzi presenti alla benedizione erano una trentina e alcuni alunni stessi, memori dell'episodio precedente, avevano cominciato in tempo ad informarsi di cosa dovevano fare per partecipare. Fu scoperto così che non era necessario nessun permesso per assistere al rito, era sufficiente la circolare che era sempre passata ogni anno di classe in classe. Un solo ragazzo in piedi è bastato a "risvegliare" la coscienza di trenta.Questi possono essere solo alcuni dei tanti preziosi spunti di riflessione che il film suscita; quindi come mancare ad una pellicola con più di 10 milioni di biglietti emessi e oltre 69 milioni di incassi nei soli Stati Uniti, premiato come Inspirational Film of the Year al 46esimo GMA DOVE AWARD, vincitore, nel 2014, del Film Television Impact Award? God's not dead è un film emozionante che spinge adolescenti e adulti a riscoprire le forti ragioni della fede cristiana.Per approfondimenti e per vedere il trailer e alcune scene del film GOD'S NOT DEAD e per leggere le schede dei migliori film, visita il sito FilmGarantiti.it

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Our God is NOT dead - Jesus Christ rose again on the third day and DEFEATED death! Oh, death, where is your sting? Our Christ is victorious! Celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ with us as Pastor Vlad brings a beautiful message about the Good News!

The saga ends here as we once again return to the Pureflix universe to review God's Not Dead: A Light In Darkness. Listeners of this show will know that we weren't exactly fans of the first 2 but with a new creative force behind this one does it have more underneath the surface? Tune in to fins out, plus we talk the trailer for Spiral and Wrath of Man, the Obi Wan Kenobi series solidifying a bizarre cast, Godzilla vs Kong's box office and more right here on Notorious by Chance. 2:55 - Trailer Talk 10:48 - NOTORIOUS News 34:08 - God's Not Dead: A Light In Darkness Review Big thanks to the sponsor of this episode Loved Again Media. Be sure to visit https://lovedagainmedia.com/ and use code Notorious for $10 off your first order

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This is the last full chapter of thought, and Brooks makes a clear point - Christianity is growing here in America, and around the world, and it is really interesting; nominal Christianity (traditional and rigid religious practicing Christians) is actually shrinking, but evangelical Christianity (faith based on wisdom, truth, passion, and philosophy) is growing. Another way to say it would be, faith that is based on ‘the Bible says' is shrinking, but faith based on research and thought is growing. This is a good thing; the growth side at least. The problem is that those with a faith based on ‘the Bible says' is hollow and brittle, and these people are a victim of an institutionalized faith that hasn't prepared her people well. There are countless stories of people coming to faith in Jesus, and there are so many different paths people have taken to great there. But what we seem to miss are the volumes of people that come to faith through examination. That is, there are many people who actually come to faith through science, through philosophy, and through which the very lines of argument that many ‘the Bible says' Christians leave. The takeaway for me from today, and kind of pulling the contents of this book together as a whole, would be that faith based on research and science and investigation is strong and is it is achievable and even reasonable. It just requires some effort on our part.

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Today's reading is really more about the Bible itself. It is looking at some of the textual criticisms that have come up over time, and some of the common critiques of the Bible that people use in justifying their antithetical position as it relates to its validity. The thing is, this is an easier chapter in my opinion, as any kind of a real study of the Bible's origins and assembly leads to one reasonable outcome - this collection of writings is a miracle in-and-of-itself. There just aren't great arguments that the Bible, as a whole, isn't a very reasonable representation of historical and revelational events. People can and certainly will always argue about the spiritual element of the Bible, the fact that there is a God and there are supernatural themes and events, but no one has been able to bring a credible argument against the work as a whole. All of the issues that arise in such a critique are fleshed out with just a little textual criticism...in fact, most people who are skilled in textual criticism have accepted that the Bible as a whole is pretty well defended. Rice presents great arguments in this chapter about seeming contradictions one finds in scripture, about the assembly of the Bible, about timelines and history and all of that - it is really good. For me though, I have spent a lot of time resolving this particular issue in my personal studies. If you haven't, this is a great, great read, and a chapter well worth the time. My big take away from today's reading is more reflective...I am moved this morning; moved by the Bible itself, and that I am able to sit here and admire it, hold it in my hands, read it and gaze back into time by opening this thing up. It truly is a miracle that is often overlooked. I mean, when we understand all that had to happen for this thing to be right here in my hands, it is amazing. Great reading this morning.

This chapter is really on the validity of Jesus' story from the Bible - did Jesus exist, did He do all the things that the Bible says He did? Was He a man, myth, or Messiah? Ironically, this is the most easily confirmed historical truth from the Bible - that Jesus was a man who lived on this earth starting around 2020 years ago, that he was highly influential on the people with whom he associated and who later became proclaimed disciples of his, he was eventually hung on a cross and died the death of a hardened criminal by the Roman authorities under Pontius Pilate, and he was seen a few days later by numerous people...numbering in the hundreds. To all of that there is very little debate anymore. And the irony is that THESE truths are rarely the center of discussion when it comes to debating the existence of God and the validity of the Christian faith, and they are ultimately the only points that REALLY matter. Anyone who takes the time to really look into the life and death of Jesus with truth in mind can't help but come to the conclusion that the story of Jesus is real. It isn't really up for debate at this point. We can debate the identity of Jesus I supposed, we just can't debate the authenticity of the factual elements from scripture...history corroborates the places, the people, and the timelines. That leads to another thought - if history corroborates the places, the people, and the timelines, what does that mean of the people who wrote the Bible (the over 60 authors, 7 or 8 of them from the New Testament after Jesus' life, death, and resurrection); were they all crazy? They are the ones who claim these events from history that we can't deny, and they draw the conclusion from these events that Jesus' is God's Son, in a sense, God Himself...are they nuts? That hundreds of people claimed to have seen the risen Jesus and go along with their claims, when there would have been a VERY easy out on the grounds of not seeing Jesus, is amazingly strong evidence of the resurrection. What else explains the resurrection? That's a question atheists really have to contend with and answer...and arguing that Jesus never died doesn't fly; history refutes that too strongly and non-Christian scientists concede that point as well. But what then?

Today's reading starts off by talking about the meaning of life...and this is really one of those readings that can make your head hurt if you really think about it hard enough! Then Brooks turns to evolution, which is where I am going to start, and then I will spend the majority of the time commenting on the meaning of life stuff...Brooks comes back there in his writing as well. Here is the bottom line on the evolution thing - there are a lot of similarities between various species of animals, including man and ape, but there are still some very different elements and, from what Brooks is saying, and credible scientists will admit that there is a genetic leap to get from one species to the other. It LOOKS like evolution might explain the difference, but there are a few pieces of the puzzle that just haven't been found and can't be explained. He explores several of them, and this is one of those chapters that I would categorize as GREAT to read and to have ready - you won't remember everything, but you will remember that you were thoroughly convinced that evolutionary science is a long way from being explanatory about human life. And I have to say, sometimes that is the key with this apologetics stuff...finding a place where you can find truth, and being able to simply return to it later when you have questions. It is like building a library for your faith. Great stuff. Now, turning to the topic of “meaning”...he makes a good point, is there any coincidence that the great selling book of all time, apart from the Bible itself, is Rick Warren's “Purpose Driven Life”. Just think about this for a second...why is that? There is a cynical answer - that there are enough Christians in the world who have, as a population, purchased the book in large enough numbers to make that happen, and that is surely part of the explanation. But I know several people who are not practicing Christians, even atheists, who have read the book...it is an easily-approachable book, and it has a lot of great principles that are fairly easy to take and run with in life, and it makes for a great surface level exploration of the Christian faith. I am positive this book has impacted the world as a first step for people to test the waters on the Christian faith. But again, the question, “Why?”. It is clear, people live life in a quest for meaning. And, there is no way around the fact that my two COVID-kittens aren't doing the same thing, neither are yours, and neither are any other animals. Love, beauty, emotion, religion, meaning, purpose - these are either all human fabrications or we have had these placed into us by a creator.

And, let's just grant, for the sake of argument, that Darwin was right and that all animals were evolved from a single organism, a single cell. There is still a problem, in fact, a problem that Darwin himself cited and didn't even claim an answer to - “Where did that first cell come from?” Imagine getting a text from someone random...you've gotten one of those before. It looks like this: “aiojernasroineaoneandepomamd”. But imagine the text you got looked like this, “Hey, guess what, I won the lottery.” What's the probability that you would get THAT text randomly? And I don't mean someone sent it to you by accident, meaning to send it to someone else...I mean, you got that text because someone was sitting on their phone and it sent that...how random would THAT be? Well, that's something like a billion times more likely than the probability our DNA formed just like it in order to make life happen. Think about that for a second. Said another way, from the book Evolution from Space by Hoyle and Wickramasingle, the probability that life could originate out of nowhere with all of the right combinations of chemistry and physics would be similar to a tornado blowing through a scrapyard and piecing together a Boeing 747, gassed up and ready to fly. That's funny to think about! Mathematically, the probability is something like 1 to 10^40,000,000,000th. I don't even understand that number. Irreducible complexity - destroys the argument that evolution slowly and methodically pieced together life by proving that there are many organisms that can't exist without multiple irreducible minimums in terms of complexity. Think about this...you go to Ikea and get a new piece of furniture, which you will know has to be brought home and assembled by you...a joy of Ikea shopping. What's the likelihood that that you could ditch the directions and randomly piece things together and take them apart and try a new order for this process each time, and then end up at the final product? And you have to remember this...you can't do this with a sense of knowing that this is a book shelf, of a chair, because this is random. You would have to do this with absolutely no sense of the end game. It might be easier to think of it this way...imagine you were given all of the parts of that Boing 757 and you were told to put it together, no instructions, no computer or Youtube for help...go. That just isn't going to happen. And, in your assembly, when you recognize that your 100th decision used a piece that you later figured out needed to be used in your 2,000,000th decision, you'd have to take it all apart and start over again. I mean, come on...that's the same argument that naturalism is making. And recognize that there is a difference between evolution within species and evolution from nothing...I mean, people seem to be getting taller, and animals around the world are adapting to changes in the climate and the world...that's totally fair, but that is different than saying no life evolved into some life and we are just the 100 trillionth iteration of that process. Both the evidence from the telescope and evidence from the microscope point to the evidence of God. The bottom line for today is this - there is no credible evidence that points to the fact that there is a common ancestor vs. a common designer; it is perfectly scientific and reasonable to be a believer in God and in the story of Jesus. You can rest in that conclusion firmly. And, if you want to feel more secure in your faith, you can do so be leaning into science; you don't have to run away.

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Here is the reality confronted in this chapter - that evil exists. We all know it does, so that's not a secret or a revelation. The struggle is to understand the tension between evil in this world and an all-knowing, all-loving, life-creating God. But there are a couple of bedrock ideas from this chapter that I think really stood out to me, and that I want to reiterate here in my journaling. First is the reality that without God, and I mean a god of some kind here, then there is no good or evil...morality isn't a social construct, it is a theological one. Or think of it this way, there is no ultimate good or evil unless it is termed that from a being outside of this life...because, otherwise, your good is yours, your evil is yours, and mine is mine. At best, if good and evil aren't arranged from a being outside of this life, then good or evil is simply a product of ‘might makes right'. And think about this...if we all do what we want, when we want, with whom we want, we all ultimately destroy this world. Order and peace can't exist without submission to a truth that we should serve the greater good...that we should love others. Without God, evil and good are opinions. Just look at nature...nature operates purely in this fashion, and it is held in balance by this very reality. You would have to admit, in your heart of hearts, that you have something in there that is different, that you have a vision for your future, a sense of ought and ought not, and a yearning to and longing for ‘more' from life...the existence of that very sense (which is often what we term ‘the spirit') is a fantastic argument for God, and by extension for moral order under God's rule of what is good and evil. Second, Brooks makes this argument that I think is really awesome, that what God did in the beginning was to create love. And God created love by giving us a choice...a choice to love or not to love. Because, think about this, you can't be forced to love someone, or to be loving...you can DO loving things, but to love experientially, we have to have freedom to choose NOT to love. What is ‘not loving'? Well, not loving could simply be termed - evil. Evil is the antithesis of love. So one way to think about all of this is that God didn't create evil so much as he named it. But the bottom line is that we all are benefited by love and we desire love...it is a human thing to want to experience love. And, I am not talking about just romantic love here, but love in general. Joy, happiness, satisfaction, and all of those good things can all generally be rolled up under the term ‘love'. Love is the thing that makes all positive emotions possible. And love can't exist without the opposite, just as light can't exist without darkness. So it is short-sighted and one-sided to say that God created evil...God created choice, which is the characteristic unique to human kind, and in doing so He created the opportunity for us to choose love or evil. The evil in the world around us is our own doing. And God is working a plan to redeem the world from this evil. That's what history and Jesus and the Bible all teach us. And that brings us back around to the idea that you and I can complain that God isn't redeeming the world quickly enough or in the right way, but that's like telling Leonardo de Vinci that he improperly painted the Mona Lisa. It just stands to reason that the God that created the universe would probably understand how best to redeem it...and your opinion, my opinion, about that topic likely isn't highly useful. What a great chapter this morning...my head hurts!

In chapter 2, Brooks really starts taking aim at the notion that science and faith are direct competitors in terms of explaining how life came to be. He says, and I would certainly agree with this, that atheists tend to really try to lay claim to ‘reason' - meaning, there is a notion that is embedded in culture that ‘intelligent' people tend to flock towards science, and that it is ‘cute' to cling to faith, but that there really isn't any explanatory power in faith in terms of how the world and the universe came into being. Side note, there is a great documentary called “Is Genesis History” that I would recommend watching, it is really good, and it punches holes in this idea some as well. The reality is that science hasn't (and I believe can't) answered all of the questions we have about creation and the universe. In fact, as time has gone on, big holes have been punched in the widely accepted evolution narrative. I would go so far as to say that it is deteriorating in many ways, whereas history is daily being made and discovered in the world of Christian faith. But, besides that...one thing that I think is SO important, and that Brooks may get to in the coming chapters, is that we ground our faith on the right thing. We can chase these arguments down into various rabbit holes, and that's fun and all...but we have to keep the main thing the main thing. What is THE main thing? We profess to believe that a man named Jesus came to this earth about 2000 years ago, that He lived a blameless life, that He was falsely executed as a criminal, that He was placed into a tomb and 3 days later was seen walking around in living form by hundreds of people. We believe that this proved that He was who He said He was...the Son of God. That's what we believe. So, as fun as it is to play with this creation stuff, we have to remember that THAT is the main thing. And science has had an incredibly difficult time refuting that...it has had no luck. The best arguments science has produced against THAT narrative is like the turtle analogy from yesterday, basically, “Well, we know the turtle was alive (ie, we know Jesus came and went), and we can't deny that he is now sitting atop the fence post (ie, and we have a hard time refuting that people saw him after His death), but we are going to assume that something other than the obvious happened (ie, we are going to try to come up with ways to refute whether or not Jesus was ever actually dead, or that someone was pretending to be Him and tricked everyone, or everyone who saw Jesus was hallucinating, etc.)...we can't deny the turtle was on the fence post and we can't deny that Jesus came back, but we CAN come up with various explanations that don't involved someone putting the turtle on the fence post or Jesus actually being the Son of God. And heck, if you give people long enough (like 2000 years), they will come up with some creative solutions to this puzzle. Bottom line - our faith isn't blind faith...there are elements that can't be seen, sure, but there are plenty of rational, historical, and scientific elements as well. And, besides that, is it really reasonable to assume that all reasonable people are atheists and that all religious people are fools? That's a very egotistical position for an atheist to take. Just because we don't fully understand how something works doesn't mean there isn't a creator. Science isn't opposed to God.

Chapter 1 Summary: http://www.stevecanderson.com/journal-entries/gods-not-dead-by-rice-brooks

I am doing something a little different for a couple of weeks. I love reading God's word and studying God's word in the morning, and while that it true, it is also true that I am in a season of life where I have 30-45 minutes for devotional time in the morning. At the same time, I love reading as well, and I would like to read some books about our great faith. So, for the next few weeks, I am going to be reading a chapter a morning in this book that was recommended to me, “God's Not Dead: Evidence for God in an Age of Uncertainty”, but Rice Brooks. Apologetics is a favorite topic of mine, so this will be a fun journey. I will journal and comment along the way as I normally do, and I will try to pull takeaways from the reading, as always. I am sure there will be references to scriptures and all of that as well, so we'll chase things down the rabbit hole and have a good time with it. Here is the bed rock passage for this book: 15 but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect, 16 having a good conscience, so that, when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame. We just studied this passage within the last few weeks. We know that Peter was addressing suffering to a group of Christians spread out across what is now Turkey, and that he was urging them to be prepared to account for their faith. Now, I want to be fair - there are people who are gifted apologists and who can stand toe-to-toe with amazingly skilled debaters and skeptics (Tim Keller and Andy Stanley come to mind), but we aren't called to that. We are called to be reasonably accountable, at least that's my belief...Peter doesn't qualify his statement here in 1 Peter 3:15. But, based on everything I have ready, a reasonable level of accountability certainly seems fitting. In fact, we talked a couple of weeks ago, when reading this passage, about a method of discussing what we believe that I think does exactly that. In this opening section of the book, the introduction and chapter 1, we see a few topical issues discussed and I think that most important one, to me, is this idea that one of the primary tools that atheists have is this ability to set up a false dichotomy between science and faith. Now, before I go into that more, let me be clear about what I am saying and what I am NOT saying about atheists here - MOST atheists are not actively assaulting the Christian faith and Christians, and they aren't running around trying to oppress our beliefs. When we talk about pushing back against them, we need to remember that most non-believers are just like most believers...they just walk around with a set of beliefs that they haven't really ever tested. So we shouldn't villainize atheists in our minds...sometimes these apologetics books will feel a little like that, and that's not the intent. The intent is to attack ideas, not people.

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