C Michael Patton
C. Michael Patton is the primary contributor to the Parchment and Pen/Credo Blog. He has been in ministry for nearly twenty years as a pastor, author, speaker, and blogger.
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Th.M. Dallas Theological Seminary (2001), president of Credo House Ministries and Credo Courses, author of Now that I'm a Christian (Crossway, 2014) Increase My Faith (Credo House, 2011), and The Theology Program (Reclaiming the Mind Ministries, 2001-2006), host of Theology Unplugged, and primary blogger here at Parchment and Pen. But, most importantly, husband to a beautiful wife and father to four awesome children. Michael is available for speaking engagements.
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7 replies to "A Mind-Blowing Christian Worldview"
In the BEGINNING…Genesis 1:1. That’s when TIME began.
God is FROM Everlasting, and there is NO TIME that can be measured to find out how old God is.
Time has a beginning, when the HEAVENS (UNIVERSE) was created. And the UNIVERSE will cease to exist. We will be in a NEW Heaven where God is, in a new earth, where time can’t be measured.
I don’t care what the Christian “WORLD VIEW” is, because as we all know, Christian WORLD VIEWS have been WRONG before.
Take FLAT EARTH as a prime example. They were WRONG. But that was a Christian world view! How much more are there that Christians are WRONG about? Let’s leave some SPACE for Christianity being INCORRECT in our WORLD VIEWS. Four corners didn’t turn out to be flat earth, after all.
Ed Chapman
Our differences are that you state that the universe and the earth will never cease to exist. You state that time, space, and matter will always be.
I state the exact opposite.
2 Peter 3:12
Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
Isaiah 34:4
And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree.
Revelation 7:16
They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.
Revelation 21:23
And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
Revelation 22:5
And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.
NO SUN
NO HEAT
NO NIGHT
NO MOON
Of all of those things in Genesis where God said, IT IS GOOD…you are missing:
2 Corinthians 4:18
While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
If you think that THIS EARTH was meant for Adam to live eternally on…Uh, NO!
Adam was made to die anyway. He did not start out with a body that doesn’t die.
1 Cor 15:42-46
It is sown in corruption (decaying body)
It is sown in dishonour
it is sown in weakness
It is sown a natural body
Natural body is the DIRT body that dies.
What came first is the natural, not the spiritual (that does not die)
46 Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.
You state that God is soveriegn. He designed Adam to be weak, and considered that Good!
47 The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is the Lord from heaven.
2 Corinthians 5:1
For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
So while you consider the word GOOD from Genesis, you are failing to see the whole picture.
Adam didn’t SCREW UP God’s plan. Do you really think that God told Adam, “NOW LOOK WHAT YOU DID…NOW, BECAUSE OF YOU, I HAVE TO CHANGE PLANS”?
Or was the plan of salvation already in place long before Adam fell?
Ed Chapman
Time for some comedy! In your last, you said something about working in jobs, or professions…
Revelation 22:5
And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle
Looks to me like the CANDLESTICK MAKER will be out of a job!
LOL!
Time for some comedy! In your last, you said something about working in jobs, or professions…
Revelation 22:5
And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle
Looks to me like the CANDLESTICK MAKER will be out of a job!
LOL!
Time for some comedy! In your last, you said something about working in jobs, or professions…
Revelation 22:5
And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle
Looks to me like the CANDLESTICK MAKER will be out of a job!
LOL!