And He Made The Stars Also....

I recently saw a version of this over on www.theologica.blogspot.com and I was impressed with it so I thought I would put the fuller version here. If you like this, on the bottom of the post there is another link with a view of the Milky Way 10 million miles from Earth.

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Who wants reformed criminals anyways?

Over at the Musclehead Revolution, Kevin McCullough has posted a link to a NY Times article decrying government funding of a Christian criminal reform program.

Kevin McCullough, after asking a few questions to those who oppose the criminal reform program says, "Evidently the answer to these questions is - YES. We would prefer for society to become a much more dangerous place than to admit - that God's way just MIGHT straighten out a few bad apples."

At the heart of this issue is one's wordlview. Either these criminals need to "get right" with their Creator who made them, by repentance of their sin, or these criminals need to deny their Creator and any supposed responsibility to listen and follow him, and "get right" with their autonomy as an individual, with having no moral responsbility, and only follow their animal like instincts...since after all, they are no different or better than those from which they have evolved...

It should be clear which worldview I support! The Truth of the Bible is truth with a capital "T." It is total reality. It is total Truth.

Gender issues

In case you haven't heard about this I thought I would post some thoughts about it. Transgender activists brought a proposal to the NYC health department that would have allowed them to change their gender on their birth certificate without a sex change operation. Thankfully, this proposal was rejected...so it is back to the drawing board for the GLBT association. However, read carefully why it was rejected and your rejoicings for its denial will soon end. It was not denied because it is contrary to common sense, or because it is contrary to human nature itself, or because it is plain wrong, but because of "certain societal ramifications."

We live in a society that has rejected any platform from which we can judge right and wrong. We live in a society where truth is thought of as relative, and instead of moral absolutes like "right and wrong," "sin and righteousness," we are confronted with a philosophy of "if it feels good, do it" and that is all that matters.

Well, lets follow this thinking through. If it feels good for someone to commit pedophilia, does that make it OK? If it feels good for someone to rape a women and then stab her to death, does that make it OK? If it felt good for Hitler to wipe out the Jews, did that make it OK? In other words, what feels good to one person may not feel good to another person, so who is right?

The fact of the matter is, it really doesn't matter how you feel or what might seem right to you, because after all what makes your feelings or thoughts better than anyone else? What matters is TRUTH, and if what you "feel" goes contrary to what is truth or reality, then don't follow through with what you feel. What matters is if as Scripture says, God created the heavens and the earth and all that is in it, and that God made us in His image, then that means we are accountable to live to the standard for which he created us.

The truth is, God created man and woman. God wants women, who are women because of certain physical anatomy, to be women! God wants men, who are men because of certain physical anatomy, to be men! Is that really such a radical idea! Is that really so terrible! I think not. What is terrible and indeed, quite sad, are those who people who are so convinced they are not made in the image of God and are merely the sum of their actions and feelings, feel they must change their sex to be happy and free!