Both the A.P.A. and the head of the Human Genome Project have recently publicly affirmed that there IS NOT a "gay gene". Homosexuality is not hard-wired. Twin studies and reformed homosexuals also show that it's not a genetic necessity for anyone. This agrees with what the Bible teaches, that homosexuality is wrong, and that God made us male and female; as mutually complementary matching pairs. Not only that, but it is a statistically very destructive and dangerous lifestyle. Unfortunately, some of Hawaii's State senators apparently can't get their heads around this knowledge, and today voted to approve "civil unions", so I'm posting again an article from last year when this was first proposed. Hopefully our State House and Governor will exercise more common sense, and stand with the clear majority of Hawaii's people against this ill-advised notion. If someone we love is sleeping in a burning house, they need to be AWAKENED--not SEDATED with legislation.

When I was a kid, faith was represented to me almost as a form of wishful thinking. That notion was reinforced in school when I read things like Huckleberry Finn saying "Faith is believing what you know ain't so". Only later on, when I started to seriously study the Bible did I realize that that definition is foreign to scripture. Faith in the Bible is NOT opposed to evidence, but rather is "being SURE of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see". (Hebrews 11:1, emphasis mine). The Greek word for faith in this passage, "pistis" refers to a reasonable (logical) inference, not wishful thinking. We don't always have visual evidence for what we believe, but God has provided us good reasons to believe regardless. The following article on faith by Ken Samples sheds some light on how we should view the relationship between faith and logic.

One of the most primary proofs of the Christian faith that it changes people in ways that nothing else can. Even atheists can't deny that, so they frequently speculate on sociological phenomena to try to explain this change in people. The problem is, we see that no other philosophy or belief system does what the Holy Spirit can, so their speculations fall flat under scrutiny. The following article appeared recently in the London Times, and shows why even atheists (in their honest moments) have to grudgingly acknowlege the life-changing effects of real Christendom.

Relativism Self-Destructs

Gregory Koukl
Greg finds a prime example of confused morality on a popular TV talk show.

I’ve been following these two cases in the news recently about homosexuality and parenting. There was a young lady in Virginia whose young son was taken away and given to the grandmother because the court had ruled she was [...]

The number of rules and regulations protecting individuals under what is usually translated to as “slavery” in the Bible, are many and they are quite strict. The following quote from Rabbinic lore highlights how well these servants were treated:  "Our masters taught: ‘Since he has fared well with there’–’with thee’ in food; ‘with thee’ in [...]

by William Lane Craig
To answer the question of Jesus’ resurrection from a historical standpoint, we must first determine what facts concerning the fate of Jesus of Nazareth can be credibly established on the basis of the evidence and second consider what the best explanation of those facts is. At least four facts about the [...]

My original post here disappeared for some reason. I'll replace it eventually, but meanwhile, here's William Lane Craig's article on The Problem of Evil.

 
First, a word about claims like these in the movie. The first thing you should do when encountering these (if you can) is open an internet search engine, and type in "refutation of Zeitgeist, The Movie" (or whatever it is) to get the other side to the story. Their is a wealth of information on the web [...]

 
First of all, what about the proposition that we unconditionally support people that we love? That sounds nice, but I think in the real world, we all know that such a wide-open notion can’t be a valid rule. All the parents reading this know that if you support small kids unconditionally, you will soon have no small kids to [...]

 
Did you know that the full title of Darwin’s book from 1859 that many will champion today is "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life". In the intervening years, many have reduced it to only the first five words of that title, but [...]