There has been a long tradition which sees the mission of the Church primarily as obedience to a command. It has been customary to speak of 'the missionary mandate.' This way of putting the matter is certainly not without justification, and yet it seems to me that it misses the point. It tends to make mission a burden rather than a joy, to make it part of the law rather than part of the gospel. If one looks at the New Testament evidence one gets another impression. Mission begins with a kind of explosion of joy. The news that the rejected and crucified Jesus is alive is something that cannot possibly be suppressed. It must be told. Who could be silent about such a fact? The mission of the Church in the pages of the New Testament is more like the fallout from a vast explosion, a radioactive fallout which is not lethal but life-giving.
Leslie Newbigin

Creation 4

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Creation 4

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4.38 Polar ice caps. There is no widely held mechanism for the formation of ice caps. Antarctica is a desert. The canopy flood theory offers a possible explanation. Other ice age features are better explained by the flood also (frozen mammoths, Spokane gravels). 5. Age of the earth. Lines of evidence indicating a young

age of the earth far outweigh evidence for an old age of the earth. The best scientific methods produce ages which correspond with Biblical ages of the earth.

Evidence for the Age of the Earth

Young Age

  1. Volcanism (continental accretion)
  2. Water Formation
  3. Meteoric Dust (earth and moon)
  4. Soil Formation
  5. Human Population Statistics
  6. Decay of Earth’s
  7. Scarcity of Helium
  8. The Earth-Moon System
  9. Tree Ring Dating
  10. Comets
  11. Pleochroic Halos
  12. Rotation of Earth
  13. Revolution of Planets
  14. Salt in the Sea

Old Age

  1. Radiometric Dating
  2. Size of Universe
  3. What is evolution?

6.1. Evolution is a philosophy which affects all areas of life. The key philosophic question is “Where did we come from?” The two currently popular models of evolution stand in absolute contradiction with each other. From the ancient ideas through the modern models only the major concept -origin and propagation of life forms without God -remains unchanged. Evolution provides the humanist with an answer to this apart from God. 6.1.1. Many specialists work in the context of assuming evolution to be true while they are not really aware of why they believe evolution. 6.1.2. This leads to turmoil (Marx, Hitler) and dehumanizing man (Ps 8.4). 6.2. What are the ideas of the origin of life? 6.2.1. God stated that He created life forms that reproduce after their own kind (Gen 1.11,21,24,29). 6.2.2. Ancient Greeks had attributed life to processes that work apart from God: Thales (600 BC), life arose from the sea; Heraclitus, life was transposed; Aristotle ( 300 BC) proposed an evolutionary scale. 6.2.3. Paul recognized that people ascribed God’s creative power to idols (Rom 1.23) and god’s of animism. 6.2.4. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1790) – evolution through inherited characteri

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