Simple Christians with Dr. Ty

God is in all churches, but not all churches allow God to lead them.

This separation has been going on as long as Christianity has been in existence. The apostle Paul writes in 1 Corinthians how that church is dividing because some worship him, while others worship Appollos or Cephas (other early disciples). But he tells them the only worship that is to be done is to Jesus and to God. Dividing the church just hurts it.

And it's not much different today. I witnessed the division of a local church because of politics and gossip. 

But how do we, as Christians, combat those divisions?

The theory of evolution has been around for some time now. And it is a theory. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck is noted for being the first person to come up with a fully formed theory of evolution. And Charles Darwin expanded on it in his book “On the Origins of the Species.” But both of them missed something. One premise of both of their opinions was that, as soon as we found the “missing link,” that link between animal and man, that the theory of evolution would then become a fact.

But there wouldn’t be a missing link. I mean, there wouldn’t be just one missing link, there would be tens or hundreds of evolutions.

Think of this: We supposedly came out of some mysterious primordial goo into the oceans of the earth. Then we mysteriously developed lungs (who knows why we would do that when 2/3 of the earth is water and there was plenty of food down there for us. Add on to that we didn’t need clothes or houses or cars or any of the other “necessities” we have today.

So, from the beginning, there was no reason to come out of the oceans.

But I digress. According to Lamarck and Darwin, we did come out of the ocean and became ape-like creatures. Then we evolved into man.

And this is where I think they got it wrong. An ape-like creature didn’t suddenly give birth to Homo Sapiens, modern day man. There would have to have been a gradual progression from one to the other. And that means that there would not be one missing link; there would be hundreds of thousands of them. But we have never found even one?

“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust  destroy and where thieves break in and steal, 20 but lay up for  yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and  where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is,  there your heart will be also.”

Jesus isn’t just talking about material things, or he wouldn’t have said “there your heart will be also.”

Do we miss the mark about Jesus' life sometimes? We spend a lot of time talking about his death and the meaning about it, but he spent 3 days dying for our sins. He spent 3 years in ministry showing us how to live.

Attila the Hun, Alexander the Great, Xerxes, Pol Pot, Hitler, the Spanish Inquisition, the Salem Witch Trials. Much evil has been done in this world and some of it has even been done in the name of God.

So, it begs the question, which is also Volume 1 of the Simple Christian Podcast: Why did God create evil?

Episode 0 of the Simple Christian podcast. Learn about Dr. Ty, why he decided to start this podcast, and why he thinks blessings require obedience. Read the full article at thesimplechristian.net.