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Age of the Earth According to Jesus

Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” He answered, “What did Moses command you?” They said, “Moses allowed a certificate of divorce to be written, and to divorce her.” But Jesus said to them, “For your hardness of heart, he wrote you this commandment.  But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female .  For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife,  and the two will become one flesh, so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.  What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.” — Mark 10.2-9 , World English B ible Theistic evolutionists, progressive creationists, gap theorists and the like attempt to make the Bible say what it does not say. Since "science" (philosophies) have "proven" that the Earth is millions of years old, they add millions of years to the Bible. I have had people say to me, "The Bible doesn't say how old the Ea

Christian Fundamentalism and Anti-Intellectualism

"To be ignorant and simple now – not to be able to meet enemies on their own ground – would be to throw down our weapons, and betray our uneducated brethren who have, under God, no defense but us against the intellectual attacks of the heathen." — C.S. Lewis  By Cowboy Bob Sorensen Edited September 13, 2016   This is a difficult article to write because supporting documents are difficult to obtain. Although there is a plethora of material that states, essentially, "Christian Fundamentalism is anti-intellectual", I am unwilling to use it because of anti-Fundamentalist bias. (Ironic, really, that liberal analyses decrying the anti-intellectualism of Fundamentalism are themselves slanted and illogical in their approach.) There are some problems and bad connotations associated with the Fundamentalist movement , but I am not interested in emotionally-laden terminology. Therefore, this article will draw from my own thoughts, research and experiences. If pe