A The Baptist Deacon

This is a repost of my Valentines post. I am reposting it for savedbygrace.  Her post this morning was titled The Pain of Porn. In her post I could feel her pain. I wanted to comment but her blog does not allow comments. I hope she will be able to read this and draw strength. Viewing porn is wrong! That is my stand. Men that fall into this trap (and it is a trap) need help. The good woman standing by her husband may not be enough. Women don’t think that it is your fault if you man looks at porn and he shouldn’t look. I’ll explain below.

I know that the devil has things in the world to hinder the work of God and the work of marriage. One of those things is the internet. When used properly it is one of the greatest tools ever invented. It also provides a place for predators of all kinds. Some target children some target men neither are a good thing.

Men get trapped in an addiction to porn and I call it an addiction. Some men don’t even believe they are doing anything wrong. Have you ever known a man that viewed porn regularly? It is nearly impossible to break this addiction unless there is some accountability set up, a lot of prayer or just taking his access to the internet away. The porn sites are so easy to access.

I believe God made all women beautiful and men enjoying looking, I understand that and I also understand that some women use it to there benefit to get what they want. I’m not trying to make it sound like the women are to blame. Let’s go back to the Garden of Eden. In Geneses chapter 3 the serpent came to Eve. The deceiver had a conversation with her. Then the lie came in verse 4 when he told her “ye shall not surely die.” Then look at verses 5 & 6:  ⁵For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. ⁶And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. The lie completed the deception.  She saw that the tree was good for food and that it was pleasant to the eyes.

This is how sin works. There was some truth mixed in with the lie. Sin pleases the eye and it pleases the flesh, but there is only pleasure in sin for a season. What price does one pay for deception and sin? It took Adam to complete the sin. In other words in this case it took two.

Women that exploit there beauty to get what they want only works if the man accepts in other words it takes two.

I would like to think that a Christian woman and a Christian man would be strong enough to avoid this kind of temptation, but sadly this is not always the case.

Now you can turn the tables, some men are able to exploit their good looks to get what they want out of women. Men will even take it a step farther and promise a woman anything to get what they want then they drop them like dirty laundry when they get it.

Let’s go back to the porn sites for a few minutes. They degrade women. They change mans perspective of what a real woman is. It is hard for a man who falls into this trap to distinguish between what is real and what is fictional. What about young boys who see this stuff by accident? I say by accident because it is out there looking for them. It could set there outlook toward women. They can even expect things that just can’t happen.

Proverbs chapter 31 verse 30: Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.

Husbands respect your wife. Men show women the respect they deserve. Do not get caught up in the unreal world of porn, if you do get help.

God created woman from man because he saw the he was alone and therefore a woman is a gift to man from God. Men treat your woman as a gift something to be cherished and loved. I believe all women (wife’s) deserve respect.

This year my wife and I will be married for 18 years. We haven’t always seen eye to eye on everything, she has been aggravating on several things and I sure she’s let me off easy compared to the aggravation I have caused her.

She truly is my soul mate. I truly am blessed more than I deserve with a woman that gives me her love for I really feel loved by her. She is a real gift from God. She is something real, with real love and affection. She completes me.

Good morning. I hope and pray each of you had a good weekend and were blessed in your church services on Sunday.

James Chapter 5:  ¹⁶Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. ¹⁷Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. ¹⁸And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.  

There is power in prayer so with that said I have a prayer request for the readers of Christian Blogsites. Saturday evening during our monthly business conference for the church when the service was just about over a young mother asked prayer for her son. He is not three years old yet and he has a speech problem. He can only make noise no words yet. His mother is convinced that there is a problem and she and her husband have taken him to different specialist, but so far no one has been able to help.

She has asked prayer many times before for him, but this time it was different or maybe I saw something different. I saw a good Christian mother scared that something was wrong with her child. She looks worn out and almost to her wits end and it is from the stress of worrying about her son.

There are a couple of people on Christian blogsites that are going through different trials in there life, we also need to remember those people as well.

I ask a special request for this family that the mother will gain strength, that the dad will remain strong, that the older sister who is 5 will continue to be healthy and especially that the little boy will be able to speak and one day tell his mother “I love you”. This is important.

May God Bless You!

A side note any scripture I use is always from the King James Version.

Creation Part 2

Okay, so what about dinosaurs? They lived on the earth within the last six – thousand years. That’s right within the last 6,000 years. You ask what about the billions of years the Earth is supposed to have been here? You need to read the first post I wrote about creation. The age of the earth is explained there. Are you still doubtful? Believe me I understand. The world has bomb - boarded us with doubt. We are taught from the time we enter school that the world is billions of years old.

In 1^st Corinthians Chapter 1 verses 24 – 31 we are able to read about how God uses the foolish things of the world to confound the wise.

 ²⁴But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. ²⁵Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. ²⁶For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: ²⁷But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; ²⁸And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: ²⁹That no flesh should glory in his presence. ³⁰But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: ³¹That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

You may be thinking well I understand that passage, but I’m not sure how dinosaurs could have lived in the last 6,000 years with man or if they existed at all.

On March 18, 2008 a news report from Fox News reported a mummified dinosaur was slowly being revealed. Here is the link:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,338930,00.html

The fossil was found in North Dakota and is being called Dakota. It was originally discovered in 1999 by a Yale University paleontology student in the Badlands. What makes this story of a dinosaur fossil different than most, though, is the incredible preservation of Dakota. The AP reports that the duckbilled dinosaur fossil includes fossilized skin that is “as hard as iron.” It thus joins only four other such mummified dinosaurs in the world.

Toeing the line of evolutionary timetables, Dakota was assumed to have fossilized some 65 million years ago.

Science uses something called carbon dating to get ages of fossils. So why assign it an age of 65 million years. You have to remember that that is what scientist do, they assign.

Now I will ask if you remember reading about a flood in Genesis. The earth was still very young. At most at the time of the flood it would have only been 1,700 years old. The Earth was very different at this time perfect, undefiled if you will with the exception of the wickedness of mankind, after all that is why God destroyed the earth with water.

The flood changed the face of the Earth it even carved out the Grand Canyon. Remember the reference above from 1^st Corinthians, when we mentioned the confusion of the wise?

Let’s go back to Dakota; scientists explain how Dakota must have been “buried rapidly.” That is exactly the explanation creation scientists give, but we have a clear, global explanation for the millions of fossils we have, which are time and time again shown to have been buried rapidly and catastrophically: the Flood of Noah’s day, which unleashed catastrophes worldwide and covered the world in water for a large portion of a year. Starting from this viewpoint, we can make sense of these many fossils buried rapidly and recently—just a few thousand years ago.

The flood destroyed a lot of “large animals” which included the largest of the beast.

Genesis chapter 7, records that Noah took of every clean beast by seven and of every un – clean beast he took in by two or two by two, to keep alive upon the face of the earth. This included dinosaurs, yes I said dinosaurs. Now you have to realize that the larger animals did not get on the ark and you also have to realize that a lot of animals have become extinct since the flood.

What about these large beast co – existing with man? Genesis chapter 2:  ²⁰And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field. Adam named each animal, each beast.

Something else you have to remember is all the animals were able to get along and co – exist with man before the flood. After the flood the animals became afraid of man. Look at Genesis chapter 9 beginning with verse 1:  ¹And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.  ²And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.

I ran a lot of references on verse 2. Every reference I ran talked about man being at piece with the animals. They were never meant to fear us or dread us, but as with everything man messed this up.

How did the animals get so big? A reptile will grow until it dies. People as well as animals lived for long periods of time in Noah’s day, so it stands to reason there were very large animals. Dinosaurs and man walked together on this Earth six – thousand years ago.

I pray that this has not confused you and has answered some question that you may have had. I hope you don’t think that I am totally out of my mind, but I have given you biblical proof. May God Bless you

Hi and welcome back to my blog. It would seem that all the blogs I read survived the upgrade. So far I like what I see on the new and improved site. Thank you to all who have commented in the past and I look forward to your future comments.

I am going to repost part one of creation this morning. In the morning I plan to post part two. Before you read each post I want you to know I have not written either of these post for argument. With that being said you should still leave me a comment even if you don’t agree. As long as it is not a hateful, spiteful or just down right mean I will allow the comment. You can disagree with me and not be hateful, spiteful or mean. After all aren’t we a group of Christian people trying to write what God wants us to?

CREATION

Creation; this is the subject of much debate. There are many different opinions about creation and the age of the earth, as an example just go to a search on the internet.

I want this to be laid out exactly how God wants it to be presented.

Why can’t we just take the Genesis account of creation and be finished with it? Why do we want to make the earth older than it is? Why do we want to be in confusion about the dinosaurs?

I can answer these questions simply it is because the devil is the author of confusion. We could leave it at that but for the sake of argument we will explore these questions and hopefully several more.

To let you know where I stand, I believe the Geneses account describes a literal six day creation with the seventh as a day of rest. 

I have heard people say that with God a day is as a thousand years. This may be true, but if so why wouldn’t the Geneses account have been clearer. (The Geneses account is very clear on creation week.) People also want to use this argument to try and prove that the earth is older than it is.

 Just so you know where we are in time, from Adam and Eve until today is just over six thousand years that’s it. Now let’s say that God used a thousand years as a day in creation that would only add at most 7 thousand years to the age of the earth. If my math is correct that is as most 13 thousand. So how can you say the earth is millions and even billions of years old? If you believe in God and if you are subscribing to the theory that it took about 7 thousand years or longer to create the earth how are you dealing with the first five verses of the bible?

Genesis 1

   ¹In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.  ²And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. ³And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.  ⁴And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. ⁵And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

Did I read that correctly? The evening and the morning were the first day? So from the very first day light and darkness were separated therefore the beginning of time, not only time but days as we have days now.

What about dinosaurs? Science tells us they lived billions of years ago. I will try and address and answer the question of dinosaurs in the next post.

A web site you might want to check out is http://www.users.bigpond.com/rdoolan/index.html this site also deals with creation.

Until next time feel free to leave comments. May God Bless You!

I am from Sparta Tennessee. It is a small town in the middle of the state East of Nashville and West of Knoxville.
I have been a Christian for twenty - one years. This does not mean that I am perfect just forgiven, saved by the wonderful grace of God.
I am married to a wonderful woman and we have four kids three boys and a little girl.
I am active in my community as well as in my church. I am currently serving as church clerk and treasurer. I was set aside for the office of Deacon and ordained in May of 2002.

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