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What is it to be HUMAN?

Ian Denness — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 02:50:27 +0000

“Made in the image of God.”

That’s the most standout quality for me, as to what makes us human.

So what do you think to be “made in the image of God” would mean? Here’s the statement from the beginning of the Bible.

Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.

God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”

Genesis 1:26-28 (NIV)(http://www.laridian.com)

Those who wrote something on the 3 pages of opinions had something like “to make mistakes” as the most common.

“To make mistakes…”

It’s hard for us to admit our faults, and the times we have messed up.

However, since it was the most common comment, it shows that we know making mistakes is part of life and part of being human.

It also fits with what the Bible says about us. There is both the good and the bad. Being made in the image of God, but as well having the free choice to do what is wrong and make mistakes intentionally, or unintentionally.

That’s why Jesus came. To bring us to God, and for us to have the opportunity to be forgiven, if we want to accept that greatest of free gifts from God.

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Are we without excuse?

Ian Denness — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 02:14:35 +0000

Challenge yourself…

“The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.“

Romans 1:18 (NIV)(www.laridian.com)

The bottom line claim from that passage in the Bible is that “people are without excuse”.

That was the question. What do you think?

That is God’s claim, coming from Paul.

God says that “what has been made”, that is the world around us as we see and feel it, is the evidence for his claim that he exists. And not only do we need to acknowledge that he exists, but also, that we will be held accountable to him.

I heartily and happily accept that, since I see his hand all around in the world, nature and the sky above. But, most don’t…

What are your reasons for not accepting his claims?

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Can men be pregnant?

Ian Denness — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 02:37:35 +0000

How has this question arisen?

Apple released a new emoji earlier this year for a pregnant man. As well, the leader of the opposition in Australia stated that he wasn’t ‘woke’, and that men couldn’t be pregnant, even though the official and celebrated position of his political party, Labor, is that men can be pregnant.

In 2014, according to Medicare, 54 men claimed rebates for medical services related to their pregnancy.

Then I understood the context. Those FTM/Female-to-male transgender persons, who still had a uterus, could become pregnant, and therefore declare that in the census.

I believe that God cares for each one of us at the very core of our being, even deeper than our sexuality, at the level of our soul.

Jesus did also. That’s why, at great personal cost, he gave his very life for us, to bring us to God.

At the same time, he also made statements about his creation. This is one that may challenge some of us.

“Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female…'”

Matthew 19:4 (NIV)(http://www.laridian.com)

What do you think?

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Climate Change – has God lost control?

Ian Denness — Sun, 07 Nov 2021 06:46:59 +0000

We should ask this…

Where do you stand with the big issue of Climate Change?

We all have an opinion about this! As well, we would all base our individual strong opinion on what we would claim to be strong scientific evidence and reasoning. To be really honest, we should say there is some belief in it too.

However, when that discussion has cooled down, shouldn’t we also be wondering, “What does God think about what we humans refer to as ‘Climate Change’?”

One problem immediately comes up, as seen in the market yesterday. You can see the results of the opinions. Many voters didn’t even believe in a God. They, therefore, can opt out of answering the question.

Some there thought that it wasn’t even God’s fault, but all a result of the big corporations of the world making massive mischief with the climate for the sake of their profits.

Others seem to be disappointed with God in letting Climate Change happen.

Many consider the solution to be within our human capability.

This is reflected in the words of a world leader recently when he claimed it was “one minute to midnight” for humanity. Some other leaders declared it was our “last and best chance” to save humanity. I realise that most of the world leaders, elite and media moguls would not consider God to exist at all, let alone having anything to do with this.

Should we think of God coming into any of this at all? If the God of the Bible exists, does he think there is an issue, diagnosis first, and second, what the treatment would be, if needed?

What if God has got the climate under control?

God made a promise after the universal Flood back about 4,400 years ago. He was fed up with the acts of violence and rebellion by the people he had created. After that catastrophic event, he declared:

“Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.
[22] “As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat,
summer and winter, day and night will never cease.”

Genesis 8:21 (NIV) (http://www.laridian.com)

God sustains all things. As his created humans, we have been given the responsibility of looking after them to the best of our ability. This includes nature, the environment, as well as each other.

We are also told that the earth “will wear out”…

Lift up your eyes to the heavens, look at the earth beneath;

the heavens will vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment and its inhabitants die like flies.

But my salvation will last forever, my righteousness will never fail.

Isaiah 51:6 (NIV) (http://www.laridian.com)

That will be the time when the God of the universe creates a new earth where he will dwell with those who love him, accept him, and are happy to obey him…

But in keeping with his promise, we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness dwells.
2 Peter 3:13 (NIV) (http://www.laridian.com)

What are your thoughts about all of this?

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Where have we humans come from?

Ian Denness — Mon, 06 Sep 2021 08:50:51 +0000

Origins of life

If we don’t know where we’ve come from, won’t it be much harder to know where we are going?

We’ve all been wising up to Evolution, and with it the ‘Big Bang’, since our early school years, right through till now.

However, have you ever stopped to think about whether this ‘hypothesis’ is correct?

Just a few questions…

Did everything really come from nothing? Did life really come from non-life? Did order really come from chaos?
Really? Take any other scientific experiment, and you will find that each one of those claims is non-scientific, non-observable, and non-reproducible at any laboratory level. When applied to the origins of life, they are a claim to a miracle or at least big-time magic.

I think we would all agree that, according to the natural world now:

Something never comes from nothing; life never comes from non-life; order never comes from disorder; information never comes from inanimate matter.

Natural selection

As amazing and powerful as it is, natural selection is not the whole of Evolution, even if it seems to be promoted that way. It follows on from the origins of life, and does not act until there is life for it to be acting on. It actually is more of a culling force, rather than a creative force. That’s why it is called ‘Microevolution’, and is very much a real and ongoing part of all life that is already living.

The cart is usually put before the horse

Macroevolution should come first, the claimed actual origins of life. After that, should come Microevolution, the true action of natural selection on the origins of life onwards to today.

Another key word in the discussion is mutation. This also is used incorrectly, as if it is a creating force, just like natural selection. However, it should be kept in mind that almost all mutations are negative, in that they cause a loss of genetic information, rather than a gain.

Charles Darwin

In his book, Charles concentrated on the origin of the diversity of life, the “by means of natural selection” part of his book’s title. This is Microevolution, and so is quite misleading, since the book and the great discovery, celebrated and still being spread triumphantly up to today, is supposed to be the “origins of” life.

He was pointedly avoiding the question of the origins of life itself. There are many who think that even now, regarding this, nothing has changed…

Oceanic primordial soup

That’s where the first living organism was supposed to have arisen from. After that, with so much time, and so much good luck, here we are today! A leap of faith is needed!

I suggest a much more believable and scientifically acceptable means of explaining the origins of life is that of Intelligent Design. This involves the God of the Bible, the description in Genesis of that incredibly preserved book, and the evidence fitting it far better than any other hypothesis.

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”

Genesis 1:1 (NIV) (http://www.laridian.com)

Why don’t you check it out? Down the track, I will endeavour to have a Post about it.

Here’s a link to creation.com

Here’s a link to answersingenesis.org

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