There's a pretty neat Noah's Ark exhibit at the Skirball museum.
Posted on 12/07/2010 5:20:13 PM PST by truthfinder9
In a major recession, some brainiacs decided they want to build a $150 million Noah's Ark Amusement Park in Kentucky. The effort is backed by Answers in Genesis, the group that sunk millions into a "creation" museum that highlights their distorted view of science with such things as men living with dinosaurs.
Many Christians are asking, however, aren't there better things to spend this money on?
"Hungry people, missionaries, new churches, charities, all should be higher on the list. This is embarassing," said one churchgoer.
Another added, "How can we afford to waste this money while the government is busy destroying our economy?"
"It's time to reign in these people and put the money to something God would be proud of."
Comparing those verses to building this park is a false comparison. The verse isn’t a license to do anything in the name of Christ without thought. There seems to be a tendency for people to accept something that comes under a Christian label without any scrutiny. The people behind the park, including AIG, have done plenty of good. Does that mean that they are above review or criticism? AIG doesn’t hesitate to comment on those who disagree with them, so why are so many quick to shield them from any questions? But this really isn’t so much about them as it is about how we can reach more people the most effectively. How many
hundreds of churches could that money build in the many unchurched areas in this country alone? Most Christians in their local bubbles, and we are all guilty of this to some
extent, don’t realize that many people aren’t even exposed to churches. Where is the nonbeliever or skeptic most likely to see and stop and inquire or be exposed to an outreach or church members? In their neighborhood and work area? Or at an amusement park thousands of miles away?
. To the advancement of the inerrant word of God, and that is what has your far left antichrist panties in a bunch.
Then why does he mark up his Pamphlets and DVDs to prices so high that restricts the 'advancement of the inerrant word of God"?
Other than building the museum with other peoples money, what good have they done?
OECs don’t deny Noah’s flood. Where did you get that propaganda from? Oddly enough, every time I hear a claim like that about a OEC made by a YEC I go check the OEC positions, and by golly, the YEC claims are untrue. Why is that? Do they actually read what the OECs write or are they too busy scaring people from reading it?
Another added, "How can we afford to waste this money while the government is busy destroying our economy?"
"It's time to reign in these people and put the money to something God would be proud of."
As if this last person was a confidant of God and so knows what He would be proud of. I gather this has something to do with economics, in the same way as the first two quotes boil down to economics.
The ideology of "Social Justice,"a/k/a "Liberation Theology," is at the bottom of all three statements.
No wonder they deplore Noah's Ark Amusement Park — it is a capitalist enterprise which moreover showcases, not Liberation Theology, but its nemesis, biblically-based orthodox Christian theology.
Still, Noah's Ark Amusement Park — which I gather is a place chock-full of water slides — sounds like a really fun place to go on a hot summer's day.... Maybe they'll succeed in raking in the dough, some or all of the proceeds of which could be directed to genuine (i.e., uncoerced) charitable works.
Evidently some so-called Christians find Marx's social theories highly appealing. More so than the appeal of God Who revealed Himself in the Holy Bible.
JMHO FWIW
There's a pretty neat Noah's Ark exhibit at the Skirball museum.
“Agreed - that’s why Noah’s Flood is attacked with such vehemence.”
The evolutionists attack it but the OEC’ers simply ignored it. A day can be thousands and millions of years and animals came before people. Problem solved. Wonderful. Then they closed their Bibles after Chapter 2.
LOL!
I thought feedinng people was orthodox Christian theology, but maybe I’m wrong. Boy you folks see leftist demons everywhere even where there are none.
Animals did come before people. Did you even open your Bible? Never met a OEC that ignored the flood. Like making stuff up?
What GG said! Also, reply #6 is worth noting :o)
All the best—GGG
So they do it so it’s ok we do it, too?
“OECs don’t deny Noah’s flood. Where did you get that propaganda from? “
Yes, they have to deny a flood that covered the entire earth including the highest mountains which is what the Bible says. You can’t just stick in a flood that would cover Mt Everest and have it vanish without leaving a single trace.
I know what OEC’s write because I used to be one.
Yes; but in the Holy Scriptures, Christ — not man or his institutions — is doing all the feeding. And symbolically this feeding is the nourishment of souls, not preeminently of bodies.
You wrote, "Boy you folks see leftist demons everywhere even where there are none."
Let me put it this way: Satan is the ultimate "leftist demon," er, "progressive"; and he, the father of lies, has been very busy lately, just about "everywhere"....
See my tagline...
“Animals did come before people. Did you even open your Bible?”
Yes but the Bible also says that the earth and trees were created before the sun and the moon. The Bible says that people used to live to be several hundreds of years old. The Bible says that the entire world was united at the tower of Babel. There are a lot of things that simply don’t work with the OEC timeline.
Yep, that's about the size of it, MrB! Excellent insight!!!
Of course, today even many Christians seem to believe that Satan does not exist; that he's just some kind of fairy tale character that human beings constructed in the past in order to project their own moral guilt onto a cause beyond their control. E.g., "The Devil made me do it!!!"
Which is not to take Satan seriously at all as really functioning within human reality. And which leads to the perspective of "beyond good and evil" typified by Ivan (not to mention the Grand Inquisitor) in The Brothers Karamazov....
Yet for me, the truth of the matter was summed up long ago by an author whose name I do not now recall. (Jeepers, it might even have been Dostoveysky, but I don't have a cite.) The main insight there was (paraphrasing):
"I am Satan, the Father of Lies. And the greatest lie I ever told — and got mankind to believe — is that I do not exist."Just some miscellaneous food for thought!
Thank you so very much, MrB, for getting us focused on your splendid tagline!
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