Refuting Mormonism – is there only one God? (9 min)
It can be a bit confusing to nail down whether Mormons teach that we can become gods, and whether, consequently, there were gods before God. Official materials will seemingly deny it on the one hand, and on the other share how founder Joseph Smith taught his followers that God “was once as one of us,” and how the fifth LDS President Lorenzo Snow crafted this couplet: “As man now is, God once was: As God now is, man may be.”
But as Jeff Durbin shows in this clip, that is not what the Bible teaches in Is. 43:10-11 and elsewhere.
Turning cow poop into gas to run the tractors
Some environmental sorts still see overpopulation as a threat to the planet. But God’s people know He gave us a brain to problem-solve with, and two hands to put to work. So we can be creative like our Maker, and come up with intriguing energy-producing, pollution-reducing ideas like turning poop into fuel.
Daddy has to work now…
If your kids think work is the place that takes daddy from them, then they’ll view it quite negatively. So how can we instill a biblical view of work in our kids?
The insanity of denying free will
To justify their rebellion against God, smart people can believe the craziest things…
Potty humor from Old Testament times
In 2 Kings 10:27 we read of Israel’s King Jehu cleaning house by killing Baal’s priests and tearing down his temple. But we get one more detail thrown in – the temple wasn’t just destroyed, it was desecrated: “…people have used it for a latrine to this day.”
An archeological find shows that Judah’s King Hezekiah may have done something similar, though more symbolically, one hundred years later. A “symbolic toilet” was found in a dig at Tel Lachish in what some archeologists believed to be a small shrine. They think the purpose was simply to desecrate the unknown false god’s place of worship. Or as Newsweek‘s Kastalia Medrano put it:
“Hezekiah’s behavior basically stemmed from his belief that his ancestors hadn’t worshipped piously enough by turning to other gods, a lapse he apparently intended to remedy by both literally and figuratively defecating on holy places set up to worship those gods.”
Does earth have methods to regulate climate?
Here’s an account of climate regulators that the climate models either haven’t taken into account at all, or to the right extent.
Billions of ways to die (2 min)
The authors of Your Designed Body want us to understand while there are billions of ways to die, everything has to go just right for us to be alive.
