Several Items of Interest

Malady of the Soul
"A generation of Christians reared among push button and automatic machines is impatient of slower and less direct methods of reaching their goals.  We have been trying to apply machine-age methods to our relations with God.  We read our chapter, have our short devotions, and rush away, hoping to make up for our deep inward bankruptcy by attendingt another gospel meeting or listening to another thrilling story told by a religious adventurer lately returned from afar.

"The tragic results of this spirit are all about us.  Shallow lives, hollow religious philosophies, the preponderance of the element of fun in gospel meetings, the glorification of men, trust in religious externalities, quasi-religious fellowships, salesmanship methods, the mistaking of dynamic personality for the power of theSpirit; these and such as these are the symptoms of an evil disease, a deep and serious malady of the soul."
   A. W. Tozer

Some Scientific Facts:
Rejecting the Creator results in moral depravity (Romans 1:20-32).  The Bible warns that when mankind rejects the overwhelming evidence for a Creator, lawlessness will result. Since the theory of evolution has swept the globe, abortion, pornography, genocide, etc., have all risen sharply.

The fact that God once flooded the earth (the Noahic Flood) would be denied (2 Peter 3:5-6).  There is a mass of fossil evidence to prove this fact, yet it is flatly ignored by most of the scientific world because it was God's judgment on man's wickedness.

Vast fossil deposits anticipated (Genesis 7).  When plants and animals die they decompose rapidly.  Yet billions of life forms around the globe have been preserved as fossils. Geologists now know that fossils only form if there is rapid deposition of life buried away from scavengers and bacteria.  This agrees exactly with what the Bible says occurred during the global Flood.

The continents were created as one large landmass (Genesis 1:9-10).  Many geologists agree there is strong evidence that the earth was originally one super continent  -  just as the Bible said way back in Genesis.

Continental drift inferred (Genesis 7:11).  Today the study of the ocean floor indicates that the landmasses have been ripped apart. Scripture states that during the global Flood the"fountains of the great deep were broken up."  This cataclysmic event apparently resulted in the continental plates breaking and shifting.

Ice Age inferred (Job 38:29-30). Prior to the global Flood the earth was apparently subtropical.  However shortly after the Flood, the Bible mentions ice often  -  "By the breath of God ice is given, and the broad waters are frozen" (Job 37:10).  Evidently the Ice Age occurred in the centuries following the Flood.