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Dismantling the myth of creation and the flood - Part 2 - Guest Speaker Mark Dinsmore
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Live in Bremerton. It's Monday night. Welcome to Calvary Chapel Bremerton bible study. My name is Mark Dinsmore. I'm sitting in for pastor Rick Brodery on vacation with his lovely wife, Kathy, down in Southern California. So welcome to all of you here tonight. Glad to have you with us. We're going to open in prayer and then enjoy some worship and get into our teaching, which is week two on, what the Bible says about creation and the flood and exploring some of the, latest scientific evidences for that. So let's open a prayer tonight and get started. Father God, we do love you. We thank you. We praise you, Lord, for your amazing creation. God, we thank you for life, for health, for strength, our homes, our families. Lord Jesus, you have blessed us so abundantly. Most of all, you have given us Christ our savior, Lord, who has washed away our sin. And we thank you and praise you for your the precious promises of your word, Lord, that we will one day, see you face to face. And, God, we just pray that you will continue to, teach us and train us, Lord. Help us to be lights and signposts pointing the world to you. And, God, so you may encourage us and strengthen us tonight. We thank you for this fellowship with the saints, assembling together so much the more as we see the day approaching. And so we ask you to bless it and be with us in Jesus' precious name we ask. Amen. Amen. Praise the lord. Praise god. Amen. Thank you, brother Rob. Wow. Worship's amazing, isn't it? Just can't wait till we can all get to heaven, and I'll actually be able to play the drums and sing, carry a tune. But we make a joyful noise unto the Lord. Right? And and so we're grateful that for that opportunity. Alright. Tonight is week two of our study, about creation and the flood, and, we read chapter one of Genesis and, talked about a few, of the verses there. We got, I think, up to day four of creation. And tonight, I wanted to open with a video about the hydroplate theory, which I believe our online audience has already seen and earlier our studio audience here got to see that in the other room. And so this is the book that doctor Walt Brown, whom you saw, has written about creation of the flood. It's called In the Beginning, Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood. This is the ninth edition. And, you know, many authors write 60 or 66 books. I believe Henry Morris is credited with 66 books to his name. Walt Brown has written one, but it's been updated and expanded. This is now 640 pages. It's an encyclopedia of encyclopedias, and this is a proof copy. Privilege to be working on the design and editorial team that is getting this back in print. So we'll keep you posted on that and let you know where this book will be available. I wanted to share a little bit about doctor Brown. He's eminently qualified scientist. He's not with at one time, he was the Midwest director for the Institute for Creation Research. Many of you know was founded by doctor Henry Morris in El Cajon, California. And, of course, he was also one of the founders of Christian Heritage Bible College, now called or Christian Heritage College, now called San Diego Christian College. That's where I went to school. But I wanted to read share with doctor Walt Brown. He received a PhD in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT. He was a National Science Foundation fellow. He taught college courses in physics, mathematics, and computer science. Wow. Smart guy. That's quite a deal there. But he's also retired Air Force full colonel. He's a West Point graduate and a former army ranger and paratrooper. Talk about a lot of accomplishments and qualifications. And assignments during his twenty one years of military service included director of Binet Laboratories. That is a a premier research laboratory, where many of the technologies implemented by our government are used, our defense forces. And so he was a director of that laboratory for major research development and engineering. He's a tenured was a tenured associate professor at the US Air Force Academy. He had special permission from the Pentagon in order to teach there. He was much in demand, and he was chief of science and technology studies at the Air War College there. For much of his life, Walt Brown was an evolutionist like some of you, many of you, and me as a young man, a former evolutionist. But after years of study, he became convinced of the scientific validity of creation and a global flood. And so since retiring from the military, doctor Brown has been the director of the Center for this for Scientific Creation and has worked full time in research, writing, and teaching on creation and the flood. So this is the result of all of those decades of labor in the field and his research and writing contained here. Much of this is accessible, you know, at the high school level and up. Much of it is college level and up. But I recommend that everyone, whether online or with a physical copy of the book, there's much in here to be digested, and it's a valuable, valuable resource. Okay. I promised last week that I would unearth something that I was involved with when I was at Master Books after graduating from college, And I was privileged to write this children's book called What Really Happened to the Dinosaurs. This is from 1987. It's way out of print. It it sold quite a few copies at the time, but I had a lot of fun working with the illustrator in Hong Kong, and this was a lot of fun for me to be involved with. So looking forward to doing a lot of lot more with publishing doctor Walt Brown's work and spreading the word about hydroplate theory. Okay? I'm sure that was a new term for some of you. I met a couple earlier that has doctor Brown's seventh edition. That was a few years back. And so we're real pleased that the new edition is coming out soon. Alright. So last week, we didn't complete our verse by verse study of chapter one, but we did successfully dismantle a number of myths, which we set out to do. We we dismantled the old earth myth. We dismantled the gap theory myth, the day age myth, the evolutionary myth, the myth of progressive creation, also known as theistic evolution, and we dismantled the big bang myth. Many more myths to dismantle. We're not gonna get to them all. A couple of them that doctor Walt Brown has done an an extensive and excellent job dismantling in this book include the the theory of plate tectonics. We were just discussing that earlier because as the earth continues to change and we have more earthquakes and more volcanoes, not only do we see that as a fulfillment of bible prophecy where Jesus and Matthew told his disciples that there would be earthquakes in diverse places. Right? And so the fascinating thing is that many of these, I I would say nearly all, of the earth events that we see today are a direct result of Noah's flood. The earth has still not reached complete equilibrium from the effects of that catastrophe as we saw in the video, which did a great job but still can't do full justice to the amazing power and velocity and volume of material that the fountains of the great deep ejected into outer space. Even bringing together as we'll see comets, which are dirty ice balls. Right? Crushed rock, frozen water, where and now we know where that came from. The fountains of the great deep. They burst forth. It says the order of events in scripture, the fountains of the deep broke forth, and the windows of heaven were opened. So they were opened vertically from the earth outward. The water didn't exist in outer space or the out upper atmosphere and rained downward. The windows of heaven were opened by piercing them with escape velocity force as the supercritical water at probably 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit carried with it rock, debris, even biological material into outer space. That's why Walt Brown predicted that they would find biological material, even proteins in some of the the comets and meteors. And indeed, that is exactly what scientists are finding, and they're scratching their heads. As the they get collect these samples and bring them back into the labs, they're scratching their heads because they say, well, surely, we've got contamination because we've got biological material here. We have the building blocks of life on these objects from outer space when the reality is, the truth is, that is a direct result of the the flood of Noah when the fountains ejected this material. And as the rocks and material came together under in the in the weightlessness of space, The microgravity of these objects pulled together. That's why a lot of these asteroids are not solid rock. They're they're discovering that they are just gravel piles hurdling through space. They're just giant, enormous rock piles. And so the gravity of these objects, as they had ejected from the earth, gradually formed together because they were shot out like a cannon. And so their trajectory and speed was roughly the same. And so the microgravities of these objects came together and formed clusters, and many of them orbiting around the sun. And that's how they come back to the earth. And some of them fall through the sky and become meteors and meteorites if material reaches the earth. So did anyone happen to catch any of the meteor shower last week? I think it was the last Tuesday was the peak. And I took my wife on a date. We took our pickup truck down to the the local beach. And between twelve midnight and 2AM, we're able to see a number of meteors, and so that was exciting. Shooting stars as they're called, but, of course, they're they're not stars. This is a material that is reentering Earth's atmosphere and burning up in the process. Some of it hits the earth the earth annually, and that's where we've we have meteorites. But the study of these rocks is fascinating. That's a whole another seminar topic on itself. But the evidence is that they came from Earth. Isn't that amazing? Proof of Noah's flood and the the global cataclysm and doctor Walt Brown's theory of how this all came to be. So one of the handcaps I have is I'd love to produce a lot of handouts to show you, and I just didn't have the ability to do that nor to produce a full slideshow, but at least we're familiarized with some of the major tenets of the Heider Plate theory. Okay. So one of the segments in this book is a timeline of creation up until the flood and up through the time of Abraham. And so there's a lot of confusion about the timing of the flood. As Walt said, this occurred about five thousand years ago, so relatively recently, and he pinpoints a date that there's there's biblical reason and scientific reason to accept as about thirty two ninety BC before Christ, plus or minus a hundred years. And so when we come to a later discussion, I'll be able to show some more charts from his book that indicate there the the reason for this is that when the the material was ejected from Earth during the flood and we have periodic comets and that orbit the sun, and then we have also some that go beyond that are shot out further in space. We call those trans Neptunian objects, and the evidence indicates that Pluto is one of those trans Neptunian objects that came together. So it's fascinating to consider, but it's a young Earth creation, and and so the flood was a fairly recent event as well. And as one of the early proponents of the flood, Ken Ham liked to say, all over the earth, see the evidence of this. He says there are billions of dead things, fossils buried in rock layers laid down by water all over the earth. Right? So these rock layers didn't start as rock. They started as soft sediment. There was also a metamorphic rock as well, of course. But but the fossil record, as it is called, the so called geologic column, is really a representation of the sediments that settled in that order as a result of Noah's flood. And we have entire continents that span with the same type of limestone, the same type of rock formation, literally covers coast to coast. And around the world, we see the similar stacking and similar order. So again, the hydroplate theory explains the origin of limestone, the origin. And we recognize and realize that as these superheated water ejected from the fountains of the great deep, it eroded the granite rock and, of course, created all of the sand particles that we see today in the sand dunes and on the on the beaches and in the ocean. So fascinating, fascinating to consider. And I hope next week we can explore more about the flood and even talk about the the Grand Canyon and Noah's Ark as well. Alright. So we we've seen throughout history that from time to time, Christian scholars and even pastors have tried to help God out. Right? And they've tried to do so by adopting these theories as they see them being proposed in the in the secular community. For example, trying to make the Bible harmonize with the concept of Darwinian evolution. And we have examples in scripture of what happens when we try to help God out. Right? One of them, Abraham, what did he do? Well, he had a child with Hagar, didn't he? He thought that would fulfill God's promise for his descendants. And then we have Moses. How did he decide to help God out? Well, he killed an Egyptian, right, to defend the Hebrew, believing he was acting on God's behalf. And then another example is Saul. How did he propose to help God out? Well, he offered sacrifices instead of waiting for Samuel. Right? So he took matters into his own hands. And so in each of these incidents, they led to complications and consequences, didn't they? So in like manner throughout recent history, modern history, we've seen Christians and creationists, they try to help God out. They've caused much confusion and division in the body of Christ, which prevents complete unity in mind and in spirit. And that's why we're taking time out to review the absolute history of scriptures and ask the question, why is this important? Why is this important? Because it demonstrates the Bible is the word of God, and we can trust every single word. And these aren't just stories. These aren't just myths collected from pagan nations as even some Christian organizations propose, which is really blasphemy because they are denying what God says about his word, that it is inspired by the spirit as they wrote down the words that God spoke. Of course, in the book of Genesis, we know that it's part of the Pentateuch, the first five books of scripture, and Moses is attributed as the author. But in the case of Genesis, these are early records, and and Moses was most likely the compiler. He was the editor. He assembled them together so they could be written down. And, nonetheless, they are inspired. There are many evidences of that. But the records, for example, in Genesis, excuse me, chapter five and Genesis chapter 11, we have the genealogies of Adam, and then we have the genealogies of Seth. And so these are clearly historic records that that are meant to be to demonstrate one of the proofs of the early record of creation. So we're all to have the mind of Christ, and we want and we certainly know that the creator of heaven and earth has an opinion on the matter, doesn't he? Right? And not just an opinion because Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. He's our creator, Lord, and savior, and the Holy Spirit has come to guide us into all truth. So it's worth knowing and pointing out that Jesus affirmed the Genesis multiple times during his ministry on earth. So let's look up a few verses that demonstrate that. Three volunteers, someone from Matthew nineteen four through five. I can hear you. Okay. That's Matthew nineteen four through five. Someone for Matthew 23 verse 35. 20 okay. Twenty three thirty five. And someone for Matthew twenty four thirty seven through 39. I'll do that one. K. Matthew twenty four thirty seven through 39. And then lastly, someone for second Peter three three through six. Peter. Okay. Second Peter three three through six. Alright. Are we ready with Matthew nineteen? Four and five? Okay. And he answered and said unto them, have you not read that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female? And said, for this cause shall a man leave father and mother and shall crave to his wife, and they twain shall be one flesh. Oh, I received that. Yeah. Isn't that a powerful testimony? Jesus affirms the literal account of creation there. He says it was from the beginning. Right? And that confirms a literal Adam and Eve as well as God's intention for sex and marriage. It doesn't get any clearer than that, does it? Okay. Matthew twenty three thirty five. Matthew twenty three thirty five. That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, son of Barakas, whom ye shall whom ye shall excuse me. Whom ye slew within the temple and the altar. So unlike some of the ministries we mentioned last week that claim that the first 11 chapters of Genesis are a collection of myths, Jesus declared that Abel was a real person, okay, whose blood was shed by his brother, but whose punishment would fall onto all those who rejected God's prophets. So again, giving acknowledgement that Genesis is a historical record. And lastly, we see that right before his death, Jesus tells his disciples important details concerning his return in Matthew twenty four thirty seven through 39. Who's got that? That's me. I I have 25. Sorry. Okay. Oh, no. I had it right. But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and knew not until the flood came and took them all away, so shall also the coming of the son of man be. Wow. Yeah. That that's a whole sermon there. And, again, it is prophetic, but it it looks at the historical account of the flood. So on the gen on the website is Genesis history, one writer explains the significance of these quotes by Jesus. He says, I find this interesting for a number of reasons. First, not only does Jesus know the catastrophic historical events recorded in Genesis six and seven, but he also knows his audience is familiar with them. Their prior understanding of the flood's unexpected total destruction is the basis for his comparison. Secondly, Jesus describes the normal actions of the people living in Noah's day as unaware that a flood was coming. You would think that they would be aware because Noah was building the ark and preaching, right, for up to a hundred twenty years, at least a hundred years. But they were unaware. And so that's not uncommon today. People are increasingly unaware of natural disasters or human caused disasters that are bringing all wreaking havoc with our our world and our planet today. And so they're carried away by floods. They are they lose their homes. They lose their lives because they haven't prepared or they haven't taken heed to the warnings. And thirdly, Jesus says the flood swept them all away. So eight people onboard the ark were all that were spared, Noah and his wife, his three sons, and their three wives. So eight people repopulated the planet after the flood. But the fact that Jesus is linking an event where all flesh died that moved on the earth, birds, livestock, beasts, all swarming creatures that swarm on the earth, and all mankind, he's linking that to his eventual return. It means something about that return, doesn't it? It's gonna be big, and it's going to affect everyone. Because according to Jesus, Noah, the ark, and the global flood that killed all the birds, beasts, and people on the earth were as real and historical as his second coming will be. Right? And so that is a preview of coming attractions that everyone would be wise to remember in terms of their timing. I meant to hand out a verse in second Peter three three through six. Yeah. Would anyone like to turn there? Okay. Second Peter. Peter what? Three? Second Peter three three through six. Second Peter three three through six. Right? Yes. Okay. I gotta turn the page. Okay. It says, knowing that first that there shall come in the last days scoffers walking after their own lusts and saying, where is the promise of his coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. For this, they willingly are ignorant of that the the word of god, that heavens were old and and the earth standing out of the water and in the water, whereby that world that that that then that then was being overflowed with water perished. Well, the video that we saw as we started began our our study tonight helps explain that the earth was standing in the water and out of the water. But this is fascinating because notice it says, for they are willingly ignorant. Right? And they are scoffers and they are mockers who are willfully ignorant. So again, this isn't just speaking of people outside the church. It's talking about people who are professing Christians. It's talking about some of these authors, New York Times bestselling authors, pastors, organizations that promote theistic evolution that teach that Genesis is a myth. These are scoffers. These are mockers. And they're ignorant of the historicity, the factual, physical consequence of a real global cat cataclysm we call Noah's flood. So why don't all Christians agree on such important points as the date of creation? It's a young earth as we've seen, and there's plenty of evidences. We'll cover a few of those here in a little bit, not only from scripture and the genealogies, but also from things that can be tested, things that can be observed. So there's this little thing called pride. Right? And intellectualism is certainly one of the seeds of pride. It inflates man's idea of self importance. And some have desired the praise of men with their compromise and their own unique interpretation. They don't wanna be alienated from the world. They wanna be welcomed. As as some believers have said, even with regard to politics, they say, we just want a seat at the table. Right? And so they compromise in order to get a seat at the table. And unfortunately, as we'll see, it even causes some to suppress the truth in unrighteousness Romans chapter one. But Peter here says that everyone who rejects Genesis as history is willfully ignorant, or as the apostle Paul has said, professing themselves to be wise, they became what? Fools. Fools. And their foolish hearts were darkened. So that's just a little sidebar with some right reminders and application that, you know, we need to continue to grow, continue to learn, but do so in humility. As we'll see, not not everyone gets it all right. But as we grow in the Lord, we should always be Teachable. Teachable. Absolutely. Thank you. And and as long as we test all things, we cling to that which is good. Right? And we be we're like we wanna be like the Bereans who when when the apostle Paul was preaching, they received the word with gladness, but they searched the scriptures daily to see if what he was teaching was in alignment with the word of God. So we've seen that the gap theory was devised, and and it placed a previously unknown and undocumented world between the first two verses in Genesis chapter one. That's totally unnecessary and it's unwarranted, and that's what makes it surprising that some otherwise sound Bible teachers accepted this view. It was popularized in sermons as early as eighteen o four, and then it found its way into theological books, and then it was adopted and taught in seminaries. Sadly, even godly men came to believe and teach this error. Among them were Charles Hodge, Charles Spurgeon, and C. I. Schofield. Right? Some of you may have heard or or even have a copy of the Schofield study bible. He's a dispensational pre trib rapture scholar, but he he has some incorrect information in his study notes. And so that was read by millions, and it's still in use today. And therefore, it it propagated this this false view, which is really a compromise and an attack upon the historicity of the word of God. So that doesn't mean these men are heretics. It just means they had a blind spot. Okay? And as a result, sadly, most seminaries and Christian colleges around the country and around the world are compromised. But there's nothing wrong with admitting we are wrong. We should be teachable, and we should be open to changing our views. And if we've taught something wrongly, then we should acknowledge that and even seek to correct it if it's something that can lead people astray. Because there's no no new believers did anyone get a download like The Matrix, And then all of a sudden, you were imbued with all knowledge and wisdom instantaneously overnight. Of course not. You know, that might be fascinating and and sometimes desirable if you hadn't studied for a test. You're You're gonna want that knowledge downloaded immediately, aren't you? And so this is what happens. We we we need to take every thought captive to Christ, and the Holy Spirit will renew our minds, and his promise to guide us into all truth. So be humble, be teachable. So in contrast to old earth views, the young earth creationists who take the Bible literally as an accurate record of history put the age of the earth at between six and ten thousand years, right, which is in stark contrast to the the four point five billion years that we see taught and promoted in textbooks of all ages from preschool to graduate school and in all of the nation's museums. Indeed, all around the world, the theory of evolution is taught as fact, really, when it is the emperor has new has no close. Right? There's no true science to support that. Because remember, creation scientists, biblical scholars, and evolutionary scientists and uniformitarian scholars have the same evidence. They look at the same rocks. They look at the same fossils. And so it just depends on what the world view is. As Ken Ham wrote in his book, The Lie Evolution, it's not a matter of whether one is biased or not. It is really a question of which bias is the best bias with which to be biased. And so we don't have time to explore all of those reasons tonight, but let's look at a few. Let's look at take the myth of radiometric dating. Anybody heard of carbon dating or uranium dating? Okay. These are forms of radioactive dating that are not only based in wrong biases, but bad assumptions, and they result in wildly incorrect and inconsistent results. As a creationist Mike Riddle reports, here's three examples. In 1986, a rock formed at Mount Saint Helens that erupted when? Does everybody remember? May 18. '80. September. '81. 1980. Yeah. Yeah. Nineteenth nineteen eighty. I was going into my junior year of of high school. So they tested a rock in 1986, formed at Mount Saint Helens in 1980, and it yielded a radiometric age of 350,000 years. Right? Amazing. And in 1954, a rock formed by lava flows at Mount Nagaruhoe in New Zealand yielded a radiometric age of 3,500,000 years. It had just formed. It had just come out of the ground, still smoldering. And at the top of the Grand Canyon, we know there's a recent lava flow there of about a thousand years ago, and it yielded the same age as volcanic rocks deep below the canyon wall, which they dated at 1,143,000,000 years. How in the world they believe they can get accuracy to three decimals? I don't know. But the point is if radiometric, quote, unquote, science incorrectly dates new material as millions or even more than a billion years old, how can it be trusted with any reliability? It can't. But regardless, they keep turning the knobs until the data lines up with their preconceived commitment to an ancient universe. So in the same way, astronomers and astrophysicists date meteors at millions of years old, but they don't understand the true source of space rocks and space debris, which we've seen were ejected from the earth according to Walt's Heidegger plate theory as the fountains of the great deep pierced the windows of heaven as they were opened and shot out into space. But evolutionary geologists aren't the only ones led astray by bad science. Sadly, even godly creation scientists have proposed and promoted some unbiblical teachings, some incorrect teachings based on faulty research and incorrect assumptions. One of these was the was the much vaunted RATE project, r a t e, which stands for radioisotopes and the age of the earth. This was commissioned by the Institute for Creation Research. It was published in 2005, so twenty years ago. This is a case where Sinus, from the original home of modern young earth creationism, founded by doctor Henry Morris, created a great conundrum that has yet to be satisfactorily reconciled. So they they metaphorically kinda shot their theory in the foot. As Walt Brown explains, this was a highly publicized $1,500,000 eight year research project. Because these researchers mistakenly say there's a heat problem, some people believe that the earth required millions of years to cool. And the coauthors of the study apparently were unaware that the hydroplate theory explains this heat removal. Okay? So does this mean that these men need to help God out by coming up with another compromise? So we have a Young Earth creation team of scientists who who are involved in this $1,500,000 eight year project with radioisotopes in the age of the earth, and they conclude that the earth would have been too hot and it needed millions of years to cool. What are the problems? Anybody see a problem with that? It doesn't fit the Bible's account, does it? And so does it mean they should reconsider their faulty presupposition, which led them to the air? It should. It should. And they unnecessarily wasted $1,500,000 of funds donated to the ministry. So that's a bit of a review with some new supporting material, but it's a perfect segue into the segment we're getting into tonight, which is perhaps the most fundamental misunderstanding and misconception within the modern creation science movement. It's led to tremendous division and deception in the body of Christ, and it set the young earth movement back at least fifty years, probably more. That has to do with key terminology in Genesis chapter one with regard to the days of creation, specifically the meaning and definition of the words for heaven and for firmament. But first, can anyone tell me what God said after each of his accomplishments during that first week in history? It was good. It was good. Hey. You were paying attention. Very good. Very good. Yeah. Alright. Very good. Very good. Very Well, yes, on day six, didn't he? So you you got the phrase. He used he used that phrase to describe his work. But there's a mystery here. If you're still in Genesis chapter one, somebody read verse four. Just pop it out. And God said, let there be light. God saw the light, but it was good. God divided the light from the darkness. Yes. God saw the light, and it was good. That's the first day, isn't it? And in verse 10, God called the dry land earth, and they gathered together the waters, called his seas. And God, what? Saw that it was All good. Good. Amen. Someone read verse 12. And the earth brought forth grass and herb yielding seed after its kind, and the tree yielding fruit whose seed was in itself after its kind. And God saw that it was good. Alright. So that's the third day. There's two declarations of it was good. Alright. Someone read verses 14 through 18 about the sun, moon, and the stars. God said, let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. And let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years. And let them be for lights in the expanse of the heaven to give light on the earth, and it was so. And God made two great lights, the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He made the stars also, and God placed them in the expanse of the heavens and gave light to give light to the earth and to govern the day and the night and to separate the light from the darkness. And God said it was good. It was good. There's day four. So real quickly, since we're on day four, I wanna add to our discussion from last week about the sun, moon, and stars, which God created for signs and for seasons and for light upon the earth. Henry Morris notes, the establishment of seasons, and these weren't simply religious seasons, but they were actual climatological seasons since that indicates the earth was formed with an axial inclination or a tilt from the beginning. That's the basic cause of our seasons today. Today, we have a twenty nine point five three day lunar month. Right? However, most ancient writings indicate that at one time, there was a thirty day lunar month. Also, in several verses in Genesis, they tell us that exactly five months elapsed during the first one hundred fifty days of the flood. So if you do you do the math there, that suggests that the preflood Earth likely had thirty day lunar months. And so there would be three hundred sixty days, the degrees in a perfect circle, and you would have 12 times 30 to make that perfect circle. So God's a God of order and a God of design. That sounds like that is a reasonable conclusion. But even after the flood, many ancient cultures also used a 300 a thirty day month. Ancient Egyptian astronomers divided their year into three seasons, each with four thirty day months. And then later, to achieve the the known three hundred sixty five day year, they added five days at the end of the year. This also happened with groups in Asia Minor and in India, also in Greek, and the Syrian calendars were similar as well. And all of these count calendars consisted of twelve months, each with exactly thirty days. And then they had to add five days at the end of the year to account for 365. And in some cases, a sixth day was added, of course, to account for what we call leap year. So even though the we have references in the Vedic and this classical Sanskrit texts, which explain why the length of a year and a month changed. These manuscripts point to a, quote, cosmic upheaval in the remote past, unquote. Isn't that interesting? They explained that we used to have a three hundred sixty day year, but the Earth, quote, underwent a total upheaval. And as a result, the Earth's period of revolution around the sun in three hundred sixty days was changed to three hundred sixty five days. And it says this also caused the moon to undergo a, quote, unquote, serious perturbation. That's kind of an understatement. And the period of lunation was probably changed. So that's a fascinating history to consider. Has anybody heard that before? That our calendar, the preflood calendar was different than the calendar we have today. What do you think caused this dramatic earth shaking change? Any idea? The The flood. Alright. The mechanics of it, Walt Brown explains in his book in greater detail and and more eloquently than I could. But, essentially, when you eject all of that matter into space, roughly half of the preflood seas that were below the crust were ejected. Much of that went out into the space. Much of it came back in the form of rain and ice as well, alright, and collected on the poles, sunk back into the ocean basins that were created. But all of that earth changes creates an imbalance. Right? And so as the mountain ranges formed and were pushed up, if you've got a spinning ball and and then you increase the the weight and you shift the the balance, it's going to cause that that ball to shift. Very simplified oversimplified. Doctor Brown does an excellent job explaining that in his book. And, again, today, it's fascinating to consider that with the earthquakes that we see occurring more and more frequently, the earth is still settling out from the effects of the flood. And many of these earthquakes are caused not by plate tectonics, not by one plate diving under the other, because that is physically impossible. As Doctor. Brown explains, he's the mathematician with a PhD in mechanical engineering from MIT. So he knows a few things. He's done the math. It's in his book. It's impossible for one plate to subduct underneath another plate. So the earthquakes today are caused as a result still settling out from the flood. As the earth shrinks, just like an apple, if you take an apple and you set it, what does it do? It dries out, and the skin gets all what? Wrinkly. Okay? And so the same thing is happening to our earth. There's a point when when magma melts and goes below a certain depth, when rock melts and goes below a certain depth in the Earth, it condenses. So the the rock, which is larger, condenses, becomes magma, goes into deeper into the earth. And so when that happens over time, the earth's skin, as it were, the crust, is shrinking, causing buckling, causing more and more earthquakes. And so, again, there we have the perfect explanation for what's happening today. And we know from scripture, from prophecy that earthquakes will increase, and that's what we see. Another quick side note, many people today are concerned about the oceans rising, about the the ice melting, right, and causing polar bears to become possibly extinct and all that. But in God's original very good earth, we didn't have these great ice fields in the first place. And so they came as a result of the flood. Alright? We had warm waters in the oceans, which is necessary to create precipitation and come down in the form of ice as the water was shot out into space. Some of it didn't escape Earth. It was frozen, though, and it came back and literally buried alive frozen mammoths. And as you examine these these creatures that are buried, they're so well preserved. Some of them have green plants still in their mouth. Right? And so they were they were quick frozen instantly, probably with minus 400 degree ice that piled up around them, and their bodies were literally crushed in place, which which baffles which baffles the secular science, but is explained beautifully by the hydroplate theory. And so the the ice is receding. The earth is still warming. Why? Because it's recovering from the flood. There this isn't shouldn't be shocking. It's not a great alarm, but it's not going to inundate the cities like they want to create fear and panic because that is a form of control of populations if they create enough fear and panic. And that is the goal of that. It is purely political. Scientifically, we'll come probably next week, we'll examine at the how the earth changed in the days of Peleg when the earth was divided. As as Walt Brown showed in his videos, the ocean level was at one time three miles below the current level today. And on the plateaus on the is now the continental shelf, as cultures dispersed after the flood, they would have built cities and communities on the oceanfront just like we enjoy cities and communities today on the oceanfront. Well, as the post flood lakes and reservoirs drained back into the ocean and as the ice melted after the ice it's not it's it's not a long ice age. It's a short ice age by comparison. But all that water came back into the ocean and the levels and as the mountains sunk down into the crust, right, because they got buckled and pushed up, then the ocean again rises up and it flooded those continental shelves. So that explains why we have this very unique feature all around the globe where there's a relatively shallow ocean on the continental shelf. And, of course, that probably gave rise to the mists of Atlantis as well as the the knowledge that there used to be a world before the flood, before the the scripture says that the world that then was perished. Okay? And so it was covered with water as well. So the stories of Atlantis probably originated from flood accounts, but also even in post flood times, there used to be cities that are now being discovered on these continental shelves under the ocean. So that tells us that at one time, the water levels were much lower. Okay. We talked about science in the heavens. I had a fascinating conversation with Rob after our study last week. And because he's an astronomer. You ought to pick pick his brain. He's got a lot of knowledge with regard to what we see in the skies. And we're talking about constellations, and there's a number of scriptures where these a number of constellations are mentioned in scripture. Pleiades and Orion are a couple of examples. And he was discussing that that these were likely named by, you know, secular observers. They weren't named by God, but they were just identified in the same way that Paul quoted from secular philosophers as he debated people there in Rome and Jerusalem. And so there are references in scripture to some of these secular ideas. There are also some people who have postulated that the constellations that are called the zodiac today, the 12 constellations in the zodiac, which is new age. We're not promoting astrology here. But some have speculated that these constellations originally told the gospel and the stars. I just mentioned that in passing. I'm not endorsing that view. In fact, I would be cautious and skeptical of it. I'm just letting you know that in 1882, a believer named Joseph Seis published a book called The Gospel and the Stars. And so it's interesting to consider. But this is also a way that many people have been derailed and from the from the word of God. And so we need to keep coming back and testing all things by the word of God. Some people have, for example, have told us that the Great Pyramids are a timeline, and that gets into all kinds of numerology, and and that's the fruitless pursuit. So it's sad that some have been derailed by those pursuits. And but God did give us the stars and the sun and the moon for signs and for seasons. Okay. On day five, God created the fish and the birds. And then if you're still in Genesis, what did God say at the end of verse 22? He saw that it was good. Right? And on day six, God created all the living creatures upon the earth after their kind. Alright? So there's another phrase that we need to take a look at after their kind. What does that mean? Well, Walt Brown explains in his book, creationists and evolutionists both agree that microevolution and natural selection occur. Minor change has been observed since history began. But notice how often evolutionists give evidence for microevolution to support macroevolution. So microevolution, real quickly, is variation within species. So we've got dog kinds today. We probably have 200 species of dogs, but they originally would have come from one dog kind, probably a type of wolf. And so as these dogs were even bred by men to produce different characteristics, They were also geographically isolated, and different packs of dogs would have developed different characteristics. And the human race did in much the same way as they were isolated after the Tower Of Babel. They had at one time had a large gene pool producing great variety. But as they have a smaller and smaller gene pool, the characteristics that their genes produce, they actually lose information, and they become they they develop distinct features. And so today, we have 200 kinds of dogs. So it's it's amazing to consider that the chihuahua did come from a wolf ancestor at some point. But you could never produce a wolf from a chihuahua. Doesn't work that way. Alright. But macroevolution doesn't exist. In other words, there's no way to to create a new kind of animal from another kind. Several mechanisms have been proposed for that, but they're easily disproven. One of them is natural selection, which we certainly do observe in creation. But as Answers in Genesis explains, natural selection is no real help in explaining the origin of new species, but it's great for explaining how and where different specialized subtypes of the various created kinds multiplied and filled the earth after death corrupted the creation and, again, after the flood. The second is genetic mutation. So the idea that plants and animals advance or become better, improved through errors in their DNA. I don't know about you, but I don't improve when I make an error. The problem with that is that the vast majority, nearly one hundred percent of genetic mutations are harmful. As a creation scientist explains, mutations are no real help in explaining the origin of species, but they are great for explaining the origin of disease, disease organisms and birth defects. That's what mutations produce. And so the third myth of Darwinian Darwinian evolution to be dismantled is the idea that acquired characteristics or improvements gained after birth resulted in gradual improvement of species and changes in kind. Alright? You've probably been to zoos or museums, and there's speculation that, for example, that the giraffe over periods of you know, long periods of time kept stretching its neck out to reach the tops of the trees. Well, that's a preposterous idea. That's like saying that a bodybuilder who becomes mister Olympia, alright, is able to pass on those muscles to his offspring. It it doesn't work that way. So the bottom line is that created kinds stay in their kind. In other words, you don't we have cats and dogs, but we don't have any dats or cogs. They don't they don't mix that way. Creepy crawlies, stay creepy crawlies. Fish stay fish. Birds stay birds. You know, that one of the examples that we've seen in textbooks and museums again is Darwin's finches. Right? He observed that there were certain finches on the islands of the Galapagos that that fared better because they had specialized beaks that enabled them to do what they needed to do to to get food. But that's not evidence of macroevolution. That's just variation within species. So let's finish up with day six of creation. And on that same day after God created the animal kinds, he did something very special, didn't he? What did he do? Someone read verse 27. Genesis one twenty seven. So God created man in his own image. In the image of God created he, and male and female created he, them. Amen. Amen. Notice again, we have a mention of the Godhead here in the plural form, but we know from scripture that God is one. But he says, let us make man in our image after our likeness. Again, that's a passage that's caused much confusion with teachers who have pulled that out of context. It doesn't mean as so many believers and unbelievers have twisted that we can become cocreators with God. Right? That's kind of a a concept that is promoted among some charismatics today and even new agers, right, believe that they can cocreate, that they can speak things into existence by the power of their words. Of course, we know that that is false, but it doesn't stop misinformed TV preachers from proclaiming it. It also doesn't mean that we are little gods. Alright? Benny Hinn and Paul Crouch were two who popularized that idea back in the seventies and eighties, and others have taught that as well. So and it neither doesn't mean that we become gods of our own planet as the Mormons believe. So we're we're created in God's image. What does that mean? Well, we're made in the image of God. It's a reference to the attributes that we share. Alright? We do like to create. God gave us mind and the ability to create, but we don't create out of nothing. We don't create ex nilo. We don't speak things into existence. We we form and fashion things from what has already been made. But as Henry Morse points out, creation itself can be seen as a model of the three in one Godhead. So we see and and Paul mentions such as on this in Romans chapter one. Alright? So that the things that have been made by God is evidence of creation. The physical universe is, in a very real sense, a trinity of trinities. We've got time. We've got space. We've got matter. They each require each other in order to exist. Time, space, matter. And then we have the dimensions of physical objects, length, width, height. And then we've got the dimension of time, past, present, future. And so likewise, in a certain sense, the human life is a trinity of the body, the soul, and the spirit. So note that a trinity is not an entity composed of three individual parts. Right? That's the error of modalism. That's a belief that some like T. D. Jakes and other ministers have taught that God at different times appears in different forms. But, of course, that is heresy. So a trinity is not like three sides of a triangle, but rather it's an entity of three parts, each of which is the whole. And if that's difficult to comprehend, put it let's put it this way. The mathematics of the trinity is not one plus one plus one, which would be three. Rather, it is one times one times one. Three and one. Would it be like an egg? Well Like, you know, the old. Not quite. Some people have postulated that. But the mathematical here example of one times one times one is some people have suggested that water is an is an example of the Trinity as well because we have solid ice, we have liquid water, and we have the vapor, which is gas. And so it's it's one source, but it's three components. But that breaks down because as Walt explains in his book and as we've we've touched on, but he goes into great detail here. There's there's a phase of matter that most people haven't even heard of, and that's called plasma is one way to put it. Okay? Or supercritical. So when water and even lead can become supercritical, that means that when it's under heat and pressure, alright, it becomes a supercritical state that is neither liquid nor gas. It's an entirely different matter. It has properties of both. And so that is what the water became under the Earth's crust. This is demonstrated and repeatable in the laboratory, so this is a real thing. Supercritical is a different type of state of matter. Okay. So we see in scripture Jesus was a a God on earth. We can't we cannot duplicate him and and work the same miracles that he did as some believers try to do. Because scripture tells us, for in cry in Christ dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. Colossians two verse nine. Thus the Lord Jesus can say to his disciples, he that has seen me has seen the father. John fourteen nine and in Colossians one fifteen, for he himself is the image of the invisible God. So ponder that for a very long time. Jesus is the creator, and the fullness of the Godhead dwells in him dwelt in him on the earth. As Philippians two six through eight says of Jesus, who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God, but made himself of no reputation and took upon him the form of a servant and was made in the likeness of men. And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient unto death even on the death of the cross. So that brings us back to verse 27 of Genesis chapter one. So God created man in his own image, and the image of God created him, male and female created he them. Can't be any clearer than that, can it? So why is there so much confusion in the world and church today over human sexuality? Satan, of course, he's the author of confusion and the father of what? Law. The father of lies. So the same tactic of the serpent has been in place since he first deceived Eve in the garden by getting her to question or doubt the word of God. What did he say? Has not God said. Yay. Has God said? Right. That's why Genesis is so important. It is our bedrock. It's our foundation for life and all that we hold, cherish, and hold dear. Someone read verse 28, Genesis chapter one. God bless them and God said to them, be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and rule over fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth. Subdue and have dominion. So uninformed critics of the Bible love to cite that verse as the cause of individual and corporate greed, which is blamed for the habitat destruction around the world. Of course, the plain reading of the text is that God's intent for Adam and Eve was one of management and stewardship. Okay. Someone read verse 29. And God said, behold, I've given you every herb bearing seed which is upon the face of all the earth and every tree in which is fruit of a tree yielding seed, and it shall be for your meat. Amen. Okay. Someone then continue in verse 30. And to every beast of the earth and to every fowl of the air and to everything that creeps upon the earth wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for me, and it was so. K. Every green herb. Notice that originally, created man and animals to eat only plants. Right? Do we have any vegetarians here? Hope not because we had tacos. Had tacos. We had tacos. They were great. Thanks for everyone who who brought all all the sides. So they weren't to eat each other. So the reason for this is obvious. Right? Because the scriptures declare that life is in the blood. And this fact alone should be sufficient to discredit the theories of theistic evolution, also known as progressive creation. And yet the majority of churches and Christian institutions today teach that God used the process of evolution. Isn't that sad? Because that puts death before the fall of man. Alright? In other words, it compromises and contradicts scripture because death came by one man, Adam, and death by sin. Right? Okay. Someone read verse 31. God saw all that he had made. Behold, it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning, the sixth day. Very good. Very good. We're gonna discuss that here, but I need two more readers. So someone turn to Exodus twenty eleven. Does somebody wanna who who will get that? I can get it. Okay. Exodus twenty eleven. And then someone turn to Exodus thirty one seventeen. Who will read that? Exodus thirty one seventeen. I do. Okay. So while you're turning there, let's discuss very good. Notice on this day, God called the culmination of his work not just good, but very good. And in a very good earth, do you think there was sin? No. Was there corruption? No. Was there bloodshed? No. Was there any radiation? Okay. Some of you aren't so sure about that. Alright. Is radiation harmful or helpful to life? Harmful. It's harmful. Harmful, isn't it? Yeah. Right. And in fact, as we'll see in fact, as we'll see, radiation is the primary cause of aging and death ultimately today. Alright? So there was no bloodshed. There was no radiation. There were no toxic elements to cause sickness or death. And then we know where the bloodshed came from. That means there's a literal historical Adam and Eve right there. And the literal and historical Garden of Eden, required the literal and historical first blood sacrifice. Do you see why it's so important to understand scripture as a record of true history? It's not allegory. It's not mythology. It's not a pagan collection of pagan myths. It's God's word. Okay. And so it's also this this literal physical first blood sacrifice of an animal, probably a lamb as a type of Christ. He is the lamb that takes away the sin of the world. So finally, know from the scriptures that creation week is six literal days because at Exodus twenty eleven, we read k. Exodus twenty eleven. My my god. For in six days, the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them is and rested the seventh day. Wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it. Amen. And praise God that he did. He gave us a day of rest. Right? Yep. And so these are six literal days. And in Exodus thirty one seventeen, we read. It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever. For in six days, the Lord made heaven and the earth. And on the seventh day, he rested and was refreshed. So folks, it's it's that simple. Six literal days. Not six not a thousand years for each day, not a million years for each day, not a billion years for each day, six twenty four hour periods. There was morning, there was evening. Scripture says that we shouldn't go beyond what is written, lest some of that none of you may be puffed up in favor of of one against another. So don't follow science falsely so called that leads to delusion. Don't subscribe to intellectualism, leads to pride. Get humility, which leads to biblical knowledge, for the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Okay. I think we want to cover this last section real quick before we close. So this is a little teaser, and we saw part of the answer tonight in the video. Did anyone notice that there's a certain day in which God did not clear it is good? Did not declare it is good? There was one day of creation week. Go back and look at verses six through eight. Would someone like to read chapter one six through eight? Okay. And God said, let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament, and it was so. And God called the firmament heaven, and the evening and the morning were the second day. Okay. What's missing? It was good. Yeah. It's not there. Why isn't it there? Let's keep reading about day three beginning in verse nine. Someone read nine through 13. When God said, let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear, and it was slow. And God called the dry land earth, and to gather in the waters, he called the seed. And God saw that it was good. And God said, let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind with a seed in them on the earth and it was sold. And the earth brought forth vegetation plants yielding seed after their kind and trees bearing fruit with seed in them And after their kind, God said it was so good. Wow. So we have two references for it was good there. So Part a and Part b or what? Yeah. Actually, you could you could put it that way. Part a and part b. It took two days for what God was accomplishing with regard to the earth, with regarding to separating the waters above from the waters below. This is a mystery that I have not seen anyone else unpack or solve. I've only seen it solved by Walt Brown in his book and with the hydroplate theory. And it's all surrounds around the misinterpretation and and of of one or two ver words here, and the word is firmament. Okay? And expanse. The expanse the word for expanse is rachia. Alright? And if we understand that the raquia is a hammered out solid, then it really solves the issue of where the waters were as we saw in the video that modeled Walt's hydroplate theory, there were waters above the Earth's crust, there were waters below, substantial waters. Really, an ocean, subterranean ocean, 60 miles below the the the surface of the Earth. These were the fountains of the great deep. And God created it and put them there. And then, there was a video there, and I'll I'll try to show some graphics next week about how the pillars of the earth. There's multiple references and multiple chapters of the Bible about the pillars of the earth. So imagine the first thing God created was the earth with a crust and a subterranean body of water on day two. And then this this settled into the the crust then settled into the mantle, really. And it developed kind of arches. Like, if you've been under a large building or seen a classical Roman structure and you go down into the basement or the catacombs, there will be these arches. Right? And they're supporting the soup the structure above, the superstructure. In the same way, as the earth dipped down and seas were formed and there were and the earth developed its shape with hills and probably no higher than a mountain or excuse me, no more higher than a than a mile. And so the earth was one large continent. The oceans were below. There were seas above and bodies of water. But it took two days for this crust to settle into the earth and form pillars or sockets that were rooted into the earth. And so, again, there are several places in scripture. This isn't just poetic language. God is actually describing the formation of the earth that he created. And so what happens here in the process is this demand dismantles the myth of the canopy theory. Alright? Anybody heard about the canopy theory? This was probably one of the core tenets of modern scientific creationism as advanced by John Morris and Henry Whitcomb in their seminal book called The Genesis Flood. I think it was published around 1960, early sixties, '61 or so. And so the canopy theory is the belief that God originally fixed a great water canopy above the earth of either water vapor or ice, which encircled the earth like a dome somewhere above the atmosphere or even further out in space that created a greenhouse environment for the earth. So it was believed for several decades that this was the answer for the source of water for Noah's flood. What's the problem with that? Well, it wasn't known until the nineties or acknowledged in the nineties that the Canopy theory collapsed because it was it would have created such a heat heated environment in the earth, it would have boiled. The earth the the planet surface would have boiled as a result. And so the Canopy theory was an impossible idea, but it was kinda quietly swept under the rug. Books are still published. They're not taken out of print. There's no errata sheets published. So this literally built and popularized a false idea of creation that is perpetuated to this day. And that's a huge problem because as some of you know, and and we've seen on the Internet, on the web, the idea of the the flat earth. Right? The flat earth theory. Well, as it turns out, the the cosmology, atheists and evolutionists love to laugh at the creationists because the cosmology of this the idea of this canopy above the Earth fits or appears to be modeled in part after the early concepts of the earth inside of a dome, right, and floating in the top of water. And so these are derived from really ancient Hebrew texts and other texts and a misunderstanding of Rakia, of what that is. Alright? The waters above and the waters below is above the crust and below the crust. It's not above the crust and outer space. Okay? Does that make any sense now? Doesn't that change everything? It literally changes everything. And so I believe God gifted Walt Brown and gave him the training and the and the knowledge and expertise and revealed to him, it's that simple. And and then took him back over a process of years, and he studied the biblical text. And he discovered that brachia or means what it does. It's it's hammered out. It's stretched out. It's kinda like gold being plated over, you know, wooden object or something. And so it refers to the earth's crust. It doesn't refer to, you know, the the imagined expanse outside of which is a shield of water. So Well, and aren't we told in Genesis that that the garden was watered by a mist that came Yeah. Up from the ground? Like, it wasn't raining down on it like we know a tropical jungle today. Absolutely. Yeah. So that is a result of what Walt Brown calls tidal pumping. Because if you have this massive ocean under the crust, okay, it's still going to be influenced by the gravitational pull of the moon. Right? And so just as we have tides today in some areas of the earth, these tides can rise twenty, forty, even 50 feet. And so what effect would that have had on the crust if the moon is pulling two times a day causing the crust to surge and breathe? And then as it orbits, it's causing different as it travels, it's causing the crust to breathe or be stretched. Right? And so that pumping action created a supercritical water which existed right after creation, but it was a cycle designed by God so that it would come up and water the ground from below, water the mist from below. And at some point, we don't know why, but the earth split. It developed a crack, which, as we saw in the video, began at a point in the crust, and then it expanded at three miles a second and traveled the whole earth in a matter of hours. Right? And the fountains of the great deep broke forth. So that's why the it's so important to understand these things because it gives us a reason of the hope that's in us. We need to be able to defend or give, you know, an apology, not in the sense that we're apologizing, but it's an apologetic for the faith. And it's the strongest apologetic that I've ever come across. And so I'd encourage you to explore this further. But, yeah, so large was this pillar of modern creationism that its crash should have reverberated throughout Christendom with thunder squeaks, but it was kinda quietly swept under the rug. It was acknowledged in a couple of different articles. No corrections. No retractions. And so the major creation organizations abandoned their beloved canopy theory, a belief, as I mentioned, that has been used to ridicule Christians as flat earthers. Alright? And there are indeed parallels to that ancient fable. And so that's tragic, isn't it? It's tragic that the perceived correlation between the failed canopy theory and the fantastical cosmology of the flat earth theory has resulted in shipwreck faith of many. Some have abandoned Christianity altogether. Others have resorted to rejecting a young earth in favor of an old earth. Okay? Just as the rate theory by ICR said, well, the Earth needed to cool. It's got a heat problem, and so it must be millions of years old. There's a conflict. There's a contradiction. But there's no contradiction if we understand the source of the waters. They didn't come from above. They came from below. And so there is a theory that explains all this in a biblical and scientific framework. It's called the Heider Plate theory by Walt Brown, and it is indeed compelling evidence for creation and the flood. Alright. Thank you for being here tonight, and God bless you. Let's close in prayer. Father in heaven, we worship you. We thank you. We praise you. Oh, Lord, the psalmist said in chapter 26 verse seven that I may pray excuse me. Psalm twenty six seven. That I may declare the wonderful works of God. And tell of all thy wondrous works. Thank you, my dear sweet wife. That's just an attack of the enemy. That's my life verse. And so what that means is we just need to publish. We need to proclaim, Lord, the truth of your creation, the truth of your word as is so miraculously demonstrated in creation everywhere we look, Lord, from birds and bees and flowers and trees and water and sky. And, Lord, even the geology that we see in the earth today, it shouts, it proclaims, it declares that your word is true from the very first verse. And so, Lord, thank you for the study that we've all enjoyed and shared in tonight. We pray that you would encourage us and strengthen us, Lord, and that you will enable us to lead others out of error, out of deception, and bring them into the glorious light of and knowledge of the truth which points to you for you are the way, the truth, and the life. So thank you for each one here. Ask you to bless and protect until we meet again. In Christ's name, we pray. Amen.
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Calvary Chapel Bremerton - Home Bible Study
Listen to Rick Beaudry, Pastor of Calvary Chapel Bremerton, lead our home Bible Study session in worship and teaching the Word of God. Be edified and built up in your faith with solid Bible teaching. New episodes released on Tuesdays in the Pacific Standard Timezone.
