About Mike Riddle, Creation Training Initiative (CTI)
The mission of Creation Training Initiative is to equip Christians worldwide to be effective teachers and speakers on the subject of biblical creation. So that the next generation can be trained to stand firm on biblical truth and defend their faith. In order to achieve this mission, CTI will provide basic level to in-depth, extensive training courses for Christian teachers and parents to effectively equip adults and youth to defend their Christian faith, and Biblical truth.
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Mike Riddle: International speaker and educator on Christian education and apologetics.
John 3:17 states:
For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved
The question is: Saved from what – the answer is, from eternal punishment – hell
The Bible describes what we need to be save from in these terms.
Luke 16 and Mat 25 – tormented in an everlasting fire
Revelation 14 – no rest day or night
Revelation 20 – in a lake of fire and brimstone, tormented day and night forever and ever
What we must understand is that this is the default.
The Bible also teaches how to avoid the default.
First: Acts 4:12 teaches there is only one person who can save us.
And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among mankind by which we must be saved.
And that name is Jesus
Second: Eph 2:8-9 teaches there is only one way.
For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Third: Rom 10:9 teaches how we can be saved.
That if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
21 Oct 2022
How do dinosaurs fit into the Bible?
A common challenge is how do dinosaurs fit into the Bible.
The best evidence is the Bible. God created man and land animals (which included dinosaurs) on day 6 of His creation. This means dinosaurs and people lived at the same time.
Additional evidences include:
* Dinosaur soft tissue still with the bones
* Unfossilized dinosaur bones
* Proteins found with the bones
* Red blood cells found with the bones
* DNA fragments found in the bones (which should last a maximum of about 10,000 years)
* Carbon-14 in the bones (should last a max of about 100,000 years)
All these are observable evidences that refute the idea out 65 million years ago.
In addition:
In Job 40 there is a good description of a dinosaur called behemoth. It is described as:
* Having large bones and a large tail like a cedar tree.
* This is not an alligator
* It is not a description of an elephant or a hippopotamus
* The description resembles that of a dinosaur.
How do dinosaurs fit into the Bible?
God created them on day six with man about 6,000 years ago.
11 Oct 2022
Should we really care if the earth is young or old?
Should Christians really care if the earth is young or old (billions of years)?
A common claim by some church leaders is that the age of the earth does not matter.
This claim however, demonstrates a lack of biblical knowledge.
First: if the earth is old this means there would have been millions of years of death and disease before Adam and Even and the Fall.
It teaches death before sin, which means sin was not the cause of death. This undermines the very reason Jesus had to go to the Cross and die for our sins.
So, it is important because it is a gospel issue.
Second: an old earth changes the character of God. In Gen 1:31 call called His entire creation “very good”. Did God really call death, disease and destruction very good?
Third: In Commandment 4 of the 10 Commandments God wrote down on the stone tablets that He created everything in 6 days. Millions of years calls into question the truthfulness of the 10 Commandments.
Fourth: In Mark 10 and Matthew 4 Jesus states that man and woman were created from the beginning of creation and not after millions of years. Jesus, the Creator of all things, believed in a young earth.
Therefore, the age of the earth is an important biblical issue.
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