How can we avoid the default – eternity in hell?

John 3:17 states:
For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved
 
The question is: Saved from what – the answer is, from eternal punishment – hell
 
The Bible describes what we need to be save from in these terms.
Luke 16 and Mat 25 – tormented in an everlasting fire
Revelation 14 – no rest day or night
Revelation 20 – in a lake of fire and brimstone, tormented day and night forever and ever

What we must understand is that this is the default.
The Bible also teaches how to avoid the default.

First: Acts 4:12 teaches there is only one person who can save us.
And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among mankind by which we must be saved.
 
And that name is Jesus
 
Second: Eph 2:8-9 teaches there is only one way.
For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
 
Third: Rom 10:9 teaches how we can be saved.
That if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

 

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How do dinosaurs fit into the Bible?

A common challenge is how do dinosaurs fit into the Bible.

The best evidence is the Bible. God created man and land animals (which included dinosaurs) on day 6 of His creation. This means dinosaurs and people lived at the same time.

Additional evidences include:

  • Dinosaur soft tissue still with the bones
  • Unfossilized dinosaur bones
  • Proteins found with the bones
  • Red blood cells found with the bones
  • DNA fragments found in the bones (which should last a maximum of about 10,000 years)
  • Carbon-14 in the bones (should last a max of about 100,000 years)

All these are observable evidences that refute the idea  out 65 million years ago.

In addition:
In Job 40 there is a good description of a dinosaur called behemoth. It is described as:

  • Having large bones and a large tail like a cedar tree.
  • This is not an alligator
  • It is not a description of an elephant or a hippopotamus
  • The description resembles that of a dinosaur.

How do dinosaurs fit into the Bible?

  God created them on day six with man about 6,000 years ago.

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Should we really care if the earth is young or old?

Should Christians really care if the earth is young or old (billions of years)?

A common claim by some church leaders is that the age of the earth does not matter.
 
This claim however, demonstrates a lack of biblical knowledge.
 
First: if the earth is old this means there would have been millions of years of death and disease before Adam and Even and the Fall.
It teaches death before sin, which means sin was not the cause of death. This undermines the very reason Jesus had to go to the Cross and die for our sins.

So, it is important because it is a gospel issue.

Second: an old earth changes the character of God. In Gen 1:31 call called His entire creation “very good”. Did God really call death, disease and destruction very good?
 
Third: In Commandment 4 of the 10 Commandments God wrote down on the stone tablets that He created everything in 6 days. Millions of years calls into question the truthfulness of the 10 Commandments.
 
Fourth: In Mark 10 and Matthew 4 Jesus states that man and woman were created from the beginning of creation and not after millions of years. Jesus, the Creator of all things, believed in a young earth.
 
Therefore, the age of the earth is an important biblical issue.

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How well trained are your Sunday school teachers?

The number one issue effecting Sunday school is a lack of training for teachers.
 
Ken Brady (Manager of Lifeway’s adult Bible study curriculum for trainers)
“If you want to breathe life into your Sunday school, you must train the leaders.”
 
Bob Mayfield (Sunday School and adult discipleship specialist)
“The training of a church’s Sunday School and small group leaders is one of the five most important actions that are conducive to a church’s growth and spiritual health.”

Just having an advanced degree in a subject does not qualify someone to teach. What is needed is well-qualified Christians who have a biblical worldview, who display leadership, who know their subject and can cause learning by being learner focused (produce does of the Wd).
 
Creation Training Initiative offers a 1-day course that provides teachers the skills that will help them maximize the learning and retention of information.
 
If you want to enhance your Sunday school program plan to host the 1-day “Dynamics of Christian Education” course from CTI at your ch.

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How should we interpret Genesis 1?

How should we interpret Genesis 1?

  
In Genesis one
1. God explicitly chose the word day for time
2. In Genesis 1:5 God defined the length of the day as a light and dark cycle
3. God used a number with the word “day” which always means a day
4. God further defined each day with “evening and morning” which always means a day
5. Genesis 1 is written as historical narrative and not poetry.

Then in the 10 Commandments, Exodus 20:11, God wrote down on the stone tablets He created everything in 6 days

So why do so many Christians hold to an old earth?
-Some lack trust in God’s Word
-Some have never heard the truth
-Some have more fear of man that of God
-Some are convinced scientists have proven the earth is old, but they have never heard the true science
-Some are wolves in sheep’s clothing and seek to deceive people

What we need are well-trained pastors and teachers who believe God’s Word and that are not ashamed to teach it as God gave it to us.

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Do we need another Jeremiah?

Do we need another Jeremiah to warn America of impending judgement and to turn back to God’s Word?
 
No, we don’t need another Jeremiah. God already gave us Isaiah, Ezekiel, Jeremiah and other prophets to warn us of what He will do to nations that abandon Him and His Word. Especially nations that call good evil and evil good.

What we don’t need is more soft teaching, more seeker friendly preaching, more compromise and more false gospels.

What we do need are church leaders and Christian university professors who have the boldness and courage to teach God’s Word as He gave it to us.

-We need leaders who will teach the full Gospel – the bad news of hell and the good news of salvation.
-We need leaders who are not afraid to teach the truth about God’s creation. That He created in 6-days and to stop adding in millions of years which is nowhere found in the Bible.
-We need pastors who are willing to teach God’s justice and not social justice.
-And we need to stop playing games with the next generation and equip teachers with the knowledge and skills to be able to train the next generation to believe God’s Word and be able to defend their faith.

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Sam Rotman -Beethoven Sonata No. 8 in C minor Op. 13

Beethoven Sonata No. 8 in C minor Op. 13
Pathétique
Third movement: Rondo-Allegro

Mr. Rotman is a renowned international concert pianist who has performed over 3200 concerts in 61 countries.

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Pastor Responds to the Importance of Equipping Christians in the Church

Dr. Anthony Silvestro, CTI instructor and apologist, interviews Dr. Casey Butner, Senior Pastor Beulah Baptist Church, Winter Garden, FL, on the importance of equipping Christians in the church with CTI’s “Creation: Basic Training” course.

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2022 Creation Apologetics Training College

Become an apologetics leader in your church and community this Aug 1-6, 2022 near Asheville, NC.

This 5-day course is intense, filled with valuable information, and allows students to practice what they have learned. Because of the techniques used in the course the student success rate is near 100%.

You will have the opportunity to learn with like-minded believers who have a passion for creation and apologetics.
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Equipping Parents to Teach Apologetics

Training courses to equip parents to teach biblical creation and apologetics to their children.

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Who Did Cain Marry?

Nonbelievers often use the challenge, “Who did Cain marry?” to challenge the credibility of the Bible. However, this challenge is generally made without knowledge of what the Bible teaches or knowledge of the history of genetics.

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2 Timothy 2:2 Education Project

 

Did you know over 80% of Christian youth have doubts about the Bible? These doubts start in the early grades.

We are losing the education battle for who controls what the next generation will believe. Many have already compromised God’s Word before they reach college. The world is out-educating the church.

Welcome to the 2 Timothy 2:2 Education Project

2 Tim 2:2 is one of the most powerful verses in the Bible about making disciples.   It states:

The things which you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses, entrust these to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.

In this verse, Paul is telling Timothy, now that I have trained you, you go out and do what I did – you train others how to teach also. This is discipleship.

Let me go through 4 points about this education project that will make it a valuable asset to your church.

  1. The process starts by CTI partnering with Christian educators, youth pastors and parents; by equipping them with the knowledge and skills to teach their children and youth about biblical creation, how to defend their faith (known as apologetics), and to know, share and defend the Gospel
  2. In our courses we demonstrate methods that take the training beyond just hearing or reading to the application level where students become doers of the Word.
  3. By equipping Christian educators, youth pastors, and parents we will, as a team be able to train more and more children and youth each year. By the end of 5 years over 15,000 can be effectively equipped to stand firm in their faith in God’s Word.
  4. Some of the 2 Tim 2:2 education programs include:
  • 5-day CATC
  • 4-day CEC
  • A 3-day Communication and teaching skills course
  • Parent training courses
  • A series of 1-day training courses

At CTI we are investing in the next generation.

Consider becoming a Financial Partner with CTI in this much needed & meaningful education program

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2022 Creation Apologetics Training College

The cost to attend the 5-day course includes:

-A 360-page training manual
-Breakfast, lunch, and dinner for 5 days
-5 nights of lodging
-Fellowship with like-minded believers
-The opportunity to use (practice) what you learn
-Five days of training

Learn more

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Should we use science to interpret the Bible?

Should Christians use science to interpret Scripture when it appears the Bible does not agree with the scientific evidence?

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Is There Evidence for the Existence of God?

Using the Bible, this video gives power evidence for the existence of God that unbelievers cannot disprove.

Christians might ask the question in this way:
“what is our best evidence for the existence of God?”

Non-believers will ask it in a more challenging manner, such as:
“Show me any evidence that God exists?”

So how do we answer this challenge?
What is the best evidence for the existence of God?

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How Old Is God?

Does the bible tell us how old God is?

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When Did Dinosaurs Live?

Did you know the Bible and the scientific evidence support dinosaurs lived at the same time as man?

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Who is Jesus?

Why Jesus is someone you need to know.

-He is God the Son
-He is the Creator of all things
-His is the one and only Savior
-He is the KING of kings and LORD of lords
-In Him and Him alone is our victory
-He has all authority and will be our final Judge

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Lesson 5: How did Adam name all the animals & the Genesis 2:4 debate

Responding to Biblical Arguments Used to Support Millions of Years

In this video Mike answers two biblical challenges
1. Does Genesis 2:4 teach the days of creation were long ages?
2. How could Adam name all the animals in one day?

 


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Lesson 4: What is the Framework Hypothesis

Lesson 4: Responding to Biblical Arguments Used to Support Millions of Years

A great video that exposes the Framework Hypothesis as a false teaching. In this video Mike uses the Berean+ test to point out the errors in the model. Unfortunately, it is being taught as truth in some Christian universities and churches.


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Lesson 3: Understanding the Gap Theory

Lesson 3: Responding to Biblical Arguments Used to Support Millions of Years

A biblical approach to understanding the gap theory. In this video Mike uses the Berean+ test to show why the gap theory is a false teaching.
• The theological test
• The linguistic/hermeneutic test
• The consistency/logic test
• The science test (observational evidence)


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Lesson 2: Does the Bible Support Millions of Years?

Lesson 2
-Creation is a secondary doctrine
-How could the first three days be literal days if the sun was not created until day 4?
-The problem of using modern science to interpret Scripture



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Lesson 1: Does the Bible Support Millions of Years?

Lesson 1 of 5
-Warnings from God
-2 Peter 3:8
-The word “day” does not always mean a literal day
-God could have used evolution



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Who Is Fighting for the Next Generation

by Mike Riddle

Two statistics that should concern every pastor is that less than 5% of Christian youth have a biblical worldview and over 60% are leaving the church. Contributing to this problem is that we are allowing Hollywood to define what love, sex, marriage, and even gender, should be. In addition, the secular school system has defined what to believe about origins and is promoting it as fact. Even worse, most churches and Christian universities lack a plan to counter this teaching. They seem to be unaware, unconcerned, or have already compromised about the war being waged.

We are losing the spiritual battle while the church remains comfortable with the status quo. Without a unified plan to win the battle for the next generation, our churches and Christian universities will continue to lose the hearts and minds of our youth and cease to be a factor in shaping society. The Bible does not allow for apathy and compromise.
The church needs leaders who have the courage to teach the Word of God and not man’s wisdom. The church needs leaders who will honor God’s Word and not re-write it. The church needs leaders with the commitment to stand firm when ridiculed by the world and train up a new generation of Bible-believing leaders (2 Timothy 2:2).

While church growth or using social media to reach thousands, adding more Sunday school classes, or attending conferences may be good, they are not the solution. The answer is also not in the accumulation of knowledge, but in the application of that knowledge (James 1:22). What is needed is education that makes true disciples of Jesus Christ. We need trained leaders who are sanctified by God’s Word, who have a biblical worldview, and who are unashamed to share and defend their faith and stand firm under the pressures of the world. We need Christians, especially teachers and apologists, who are not ashamed of the first chapter of the Bible who can teach the next generation biblical creation and apologetics. It is imperative that we turn back to trusting God’s Word and stop trying to reinvent it with “new revealed knowledge” like the gap theory, the day-age theory, and the framework hypothesis. If students are taught not to believe what the first chapter of the Bible clearly proclaims, we leave the door wide open for compromise elsewhere.

Consider supporting a ministry whose mission is:

To equip Christians worldwide to be effective teachers and speakers about biblical creation and apologetics, so that, the next generation can be trained to stand firm on biblical truth and defend their faith.

Our 5-year plan starting in 2021 is to begin certifying Christians to be speakers, teachers, and apologists. To learn more about this education initiative contact CTI at:
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Lesson 3: The Days of Creation

Lesson 3
Five more biblical evidences confirming
the days of creation were literal days.



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Lesson 2: The Days of Creation

Six biblical evidences that confirm the days of creation were literal days.

 


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Lesson 1: The Days of Creation

Lesson 1
Basic hermeneutics: Learn tools that will help you with your study of God’s Word.

 


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Breaking News!

Wonder why over 80% of Christian youth have doubts about the Bible?

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Semper Fi

It is a wonderful time to be a Bible believing Christian. Not because it is getting easier, but because it is getting harder. We live in a country that has become more and more hostile to the Bible. This means the harvest is plenty and there are many opportunities to be a witness for Jesus Christ.
-Acts 28:31
Proclaiming the kingdom of God and teaching about the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness and without hindrance.
-Joshua 1:9
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.

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The Case for Apologetics Examples from Jesus

If pastors want their congregation to be more Christ like, strengthen their faith in an age of doubt, and prepare young people to repel attacks on their worldview, then why don’t more pastors teach apologetics in their church? On numerous occasions Jesus practiced apologetics.
– John 4:5-40 (The woman at the well)
– Mat 21:24-27 (Jesus is challenged)
– Mark 12:18-27 (Jesus is questioned about the Resurrection)
– Mat 22:15-22 (Jesus is challenged)
– Mat 22:23-30 (An example of apologetics and evangelism)
– Mat 22:41-45 (Jesus asks a question)

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