{"id":68,"date":"2018-01-07T23:12:01","date_gmt":"2018-01-07T23:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.creationevidence.org\/blog\/?p=68"},"modified":"2019-07-03T03:32:13","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T03:32:13","slug":"creation-devotional-january-1-christian-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.creationevidence.org\/blog\/creation-devotional-january-1-christian-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Creation Devotional January 1 - Christian Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Daily Devotional - January 1<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>Christian Truth<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We forget our past at peril to our future.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Almost every university in America was started as a Bible college in order to train future leaders in various areas of biblical knowledge. The central purpose of our centers of knowledge and training (universities) was to link knowledge to biblical truth. Yet today in many universities, morality has become relative, sin is no longer even acknowledged as real, there is no unifying source of truth, and the Bible is ignored or ridiculed. But God\u2019s Word remains the foundation of all truth whether acknowledged or not. For instance:<br \/>\n\u2022 Almost all LAWS are based on some view of limiting \u201cbad\u201d behavior and enforcing \u201cgood\u201d behavior. Yet with no basis outside of humanity to determine right from wrong (such as the Bible), the persuasive, powerful, or majority simply define right and wrong to suit themselves while laws become numerous, arbitrary, and twisted. Society deteriorates. That is exactly what is happening in America today.<br \/>\n\u2022 There are only two possible explanations for our existence \u2013 either distinctly different types of animals were created or simple organisms (such as bacteria) turned into more complicated things (such as people). Once the biblical account of life\u2019s origins is rejected, much of BIOLOGY is simply misinterpreted.<br \/>\n\u2022 ECONOMICS is a biblical concept based on the stewardship of creation in order to develop the resources of the earth in a way that respects people as having been made in God\u2019s image and pleases God. With the rejection of a Creator, economics has no ultimate purpose.<br \/>\n\u2022 Rejection of the reality of a Biblical world-covering flood means that most of GEOLOGY and the time frame of history get distorted and misinterpreted.<br \/>\n\u2022 Even the study of THEOLOGY becomes distorted. Theism acknowledges God as being ultimately in control (The Creator is God). Atheism assumes God does not exist, so the human intellect is supreme (I am God). Pantheism believes that creation itself is all that there is and therefore worships creation (Everything is God). Since a biblical God is left out of a students\u2019 thinking throughout our public school system, the behavior of many students reflects some blend of atheism and pantheism. We ignore the foundational purpose of our universities (one truth) at peril to our future.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>~ Romans 1:22<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: \"Pearls in Paradise\" by authors Bruce Malone and Jule Von Vett<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Devotional &#8211; January 1 Christian Truth &nbsp; We forget our past at peril to our future. &nbsp; Almost every university in America was started as a Bible college in order to train future leaders in various areas of biblical knowledge. 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