DISCIPLE

by A. W. Tozer The current effort of so many religious leaders to harmonize Christianity with science, philosophy and every natural and reasonable thing is, I believe, the result of failure to understand Christianity and, judging from what I have heard and read, failure to understand science and philosophy as well. At the heart of the Christian system lies the cross of Christ with its divine paradox. The power of Christianity appears in its antipathy toward, never in its agreement with, the ways of fallen men. The truth of the cross is revealed in its contradictions. The witness of the church is most effective when she declares rather than explains, for the gospel is addressed not to reason but to faith. What can be proved requires no faith to accept. Faith rests upon the character of God, not upon the demonstrations of laboratory or logic. The cross stands in bold opposition to the natural man. Its philosophy runs contrary to the proce...

     While the world hails Stephen Hawking and mourns the death of a great mind, Christians have another perspective, a Biblical one. Hawking was an atheist and enemy of the truth. He led millions astray with his foolish declarations like: "God did not create the universe." Romans 1:22 describes such statements: "Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools."      He spoke with false authority on things he knew nothing about, and was practically worshiped for whatever he said. Long before this frail mortal man of less than 80 years duration came on the scene, God declared: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" (Genesis 1:1). God was there way back then, but Hawking wasn't.  The Old Testament prophets and New Testament apostles, inspired by the Holy Spirit, communicated faithfully the same truth, that God made all things.     Today is indeed a sad day for Hawking, for he has passed into eternity and ...

OSIRIS-REx they're calling it, supposedly a mere technical acronym. It is a mission to travel to the asteroid Bennu, map it, take a sample, and return to Earth, so that they can analyze the sample and learn what part asteroids played in bringing the building blocks of life to Earth.      This is stupid for several reasons. First of all, we can tell you with total confidence that asteroids had nothing, absolutely nothing to do with life on Earth. There were no building blocks. Stop passing off theories as facts!!     "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" (Genesis 1:1). All anyone has to do is read the first 3 chapters of the Bible and he will know the answers to all kinds of questions that people pose today. No need for philosophy. No need for "discovery" missions to "unlock the secrets of Earth's origins", etc. God was there in the beginning. He did it, and He tells us about it in His book. Instead of spending astronomical a...