A Report on the Ark Encounter (Part 1)

Paul J. Scharf

From Dispensational Publishing House; used by permission.

July 5, 2016

Greetings from the Ark Encounter—Answers in Genesis’ life-size reconstruction of Noah’s ark.

In this first report following a very big day at the Ark, I want to emphasize a few simple points.

Just getting to the Ark proved to be quite a challenge this morning. My wife Lynnette and I thought that we were leaving early, but we ended up trying to take an alternate route when we saw traffic headed to the Ark on Interstate 75 at a near standstill. We entered the parking lot before 10 a.m., then stood in line until finally getting on a bus that was bound for the Ark and the ribbon cutting ceremony around 11:35. (The ceremony began at 11.) All this to say—the crowd was immense.

There were people everywhere—going in every direction—but especially going to see the Ark and desiring to be part of this historic event. According to a report from Answers in Genesis, the crowd numbered more than 7,000 people.

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Review - Conscience: What It Is, How to Train It, and Loving Those Who Differ (Part 1)

Dan Miller

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The goal of this book is “to put conscience back on your daily radar, to show from Scripture what God intended and did not intend [the] conscience to do, and to explain how your conscience works, how to care for it, and how not to damage it.”1

Definition & Understanding

As their titles suggest, the first two chapters deal with defining the conscience. Chapter 1 defines the conscience as “your consciousness of what you believe is right and wrong.” Chapter 2 examines how the New Testament writers taught about conscience and develops a biblical understanding of the conscience from these data. Included in this is a definition of the “weak conscience”: an “uninformed moral consciousness.”2 As we’ll see later, this is the first of two definitions given in this book, and this presents a dilemma.

Chapter 3 answers, “What Should You Do When Your Conscience Condemns You?” The answer is the gospel, for nothing but the grace of God in the atoning work of Jesus can free us from guilt. This applies to the lost man approaching the cross with his guilt and the long-time believer who must again and again return to God in confession and seek forgiveness. We must never allow our guilt to become a tool for the accuser to bring us to despair.

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The Holy Spirit and The Sons of God

SharperIron

(About this series)

CHAPTER VII - THE HOLY SPIRIT AND THE SONS OF GOD

BY REV. W. J. ERDMAN, D. D., GERMANTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA

It is evident from many tracts and treatises on the Baptism of the Holy Spirit that due importance has not been given to the peculiar characteristic of the Pentecost gift in its relation to the sonship of believers.

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Do you believe the titles/headings of the Psalms are inspired Scripture?

Ed Vasicek

I noticed that when my favorite reader, Max McClean, reads from the Psalms (ESV) on Biblegateway.com, he does not read the headings (“A Psalm of Asaph on Jeduthun,” or “A Psalm of David”, etc.).

What is your viewpoint on these headings (often called “titles”), found in the Hebrew text? Do you believe these heading are part of inspired Scripture (some versions number them as verse 1), or do you believe that these headings are something less than inspired Scripture?

I personally love the Psalms and reached my conclusion in the mid/late 1970’s. What is your view?

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