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A Few Answers to "Answers In Genesis"
A FEW ANSWERS TO “ANSWERS IN GENESIS”
Sermon Notes of Pastor Don Elmore
June 19, 2011
The June 11, 2011 Saturday Enquirer had another story about the “Answers in Genesis’” new park in nearby Grant County, Kentucky. The headline was: Ark Work Could Start Soon; with the secondary headline being: Tax rebates pave way for $172M attraction. It was on page one, right at the top of the first page; and it continued on to page A12.
One wonders why this organization gets such good promotions from the newspaper. And this story is not unique; there have been many stories about “Answers in Genesis” throughout the years. Many of them, front page stories!
I remember when they only had a book and cassette tape room in a very small space in a small strip mall, located at their headquarters in Florence, Kentucky. In around twenty years they have built a Museum (worth over $30 Million and totally paid for) and now plan to build a $172 Million park with full-size replica of Noah’s Ark, a Walled City with retail, food and themed venues, a children’s play area, a Tower of Babel with a special-effects theater and a Noah’s Animals area with a petting zoo. Other exhibits include a Journey Through History themed attraction, a First-Century Village, an aviary and a special-events area for large gatherings. Both of these attractions are/will be in northern Kentucky.
Universalism On Trial - Part 2
Sermon Notes by Pastor Mark Downey
January 22, 2012
Scripture Reading: Ezra 4:1-5
The enemy can only play unfair and dirty. And by “enemy” I mean those who would have the White race disappear from the earth and the racial message of the Bible with it. In today’s reading of Scripture from Ezra, the returning house of Judah, from their 70 year captivity in Babylon, found adversaries in their ramshackle temple that needed to be rebuilt, wanting to help them on the reconstruction project; and even told the chieftains of Israel, “We seek your God, as you do” (uh huh) and they said they made sacrifices to our God while they were in Babylon. Well, wasn’t that nice of them? But, our ancestors told these racial aliens that they had no business with them or their God and they’d rebuild the temple on their own. Oh my, this is beginning to sound racist.
It didn’t take very long for these aliens to show their true colors by hindering our ancestors by first, trying to make an unholy alliance with them and secondly, more devious tactics of withholding supplies, frustrating construction and making false accusations to POG (the Persian Occupational Government). Israel was being hounded and nagged to mix with another race; to go the way of universalism, but they would have none of it.
Maybe they were acutely aware of what happened to their brethren in the northern house of Israel, just a couple hundred years prior when they went into captivity and the Assyrians repopulated Samaria with racial aliens who, “Feared not the Lord; therefore the Lord sent lions among them, which killed some of them.” Wouldn’t it be ironic if there were some real lions in Detroit? In II Kings 17, we read about an interesting report about how the aliens complained to the king of Assyria and said; hey we don’t know what manner of God there is of this land, how about giving us some assistance? So the king retrieved one of the priests of Israel to (try and) teach them how to fear the Lord. The Israelite priest may have told them exactly what to do to reduce the lion attacks, but in verse 29 it says, “Every nation made gods of their own and put them into the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made” and then it goes on to mention each alien race and their respective gods; some even “Burned their children in fire.” It goes on to say, “So they feared the Lord, and made unto themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high places [much like the nit wits of churchianity today]. They feared the Lord, and served their own gods according to the customs of where they came from.” When it says they “feared the Lord,” it means they revered Him superficially without having a clue as to why (much like the native savages that missionaries try to convert). And in verse 34 it explains that they really didn’t fear the Lord, because they did not follow after the Laws of God, which were only given to Jacob-Israel. “With whom the Lord had made a covenant, and charged them saying, Ye shall not fear other gods [like universalism does]… and He shall deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies [like universalism]” (v.35, 39). I yearn for deliverance, but I don’t think the rest of my race knows who the enemy is.
Whom Did God Choose?
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Sermon notes by Pastor Don Elmore
January 15, 2012
Scripture Reading: Joshua 24:31
In the Answers in Genesis booklet, “How Can I Become a Child of God?” they divided the small booklet into several divisions. For example, it starts out with the topic Creation, followed by Corruption, Confusion, Christ, Cross and the Consummation and then two pages entitled the same as the booklet. They make the same basic divisions in their museum.
In the page titled, Confusion, it makes two very big assumptions:
“Noah’s children and grandchildren disobeyed God after the Flood. God caused them to scatter from the Tower of Babel all over the earth by confusing their language. From these families:
- All the people groups of the world have come.
- But no matter where we live or what shade of skin color we have, we are all part of Adam and Eve’s family.
We are all disobedient to God. We all deserve to be separated from God forever. So we all need to be restored to a right relationship with God—to become part of God’s family” (labeling the two points are not in their booklet).
Then follows the quoting of Genesis 11:9 “Therefore its name is called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of the earth.” On the latter half of the page is a picture of a young black boy with a young white boy.
That is the entire chapter on Confusion. It assumes that the flood that occurred at this time was world-wide and destroyed all life except the 8 people of Noah and his family. But the fact that there are more languages than pure races doesn’t bother them at all. In fact, according to Answers in Genesis, Adam and Eve were mid-brown in their pigmentation; so Noah and his three sons were the same: mid-brown.
According to their beliefs, all people groups (that is the two words that they use instead of the word, races) are descended from Noah and his three sons. Every one of every race is all descended from Noah and from Adam. So, all races were mid-brown from Adam to Noah until God scattered them from the Tower of Babel by confusing their language. They all left and went with the people of the same language to different parts of the earth which produced the new races of the black, white, and yellow people of the world. This change into different races, however, only lasted for a couple of hundred years, according to them, as it doesn’t happen anymore—there is no scripture given for this!
There is no history that can verify this position either.
Universalism On Trial
by Pastor Mark Downey
A study into the nature of God's relationship towards the White race and all other races. 2 parts:
Part 1: Today, universalism can be summarized as: the brotherhood of man [sic]; all races are God’s children; God loves everyone and His mercy is extended to all races; all races will be united with God in heaven for eternity; any race can become God’s elect or chosen by their beliefs; all races can be redeemed; and the most disturbing corruption says that Jesus changed God’s plan for the ages in having an exclusive relationship with the lineage of Jacob-Israel, who are the Anglo-Saxon, Celtic, Scandinavian, Germanic and kindred peoples that comprise the twelve tribes. With the advent of theological and political universalism, all races are equal in the eyes of God and the state. In many cases the state assumes the power of God enforcing laws based on universalism, known as civil rights, but they do not correspond to God’s Law and they don’t pertain to White people.
Part 2: An interim for discovery before the trial resumes; a biblical and historical review of Israel's entanglement with the same kind of universalism that the modern church faces.
Joshua 4: The Two Twelve Stone Memorials
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Sermon notes by Pastor Don Elmore
January 1, 2012
Scripture Reading: Joshua 3:1-7
Today we have a lesson that most of the Judeo-Christian churches would tell its congregations that it is about other people; that it is NOT about them—it’s about the Jews. But I will tell you just the opposite. This is a story about our great-great-great-great? - grandparents and how their GOD kept His Word to them and also to us. It is a marvelous historical happening that I hope will increase your faith in God; for our God is the same one who they had, who acts in the same way that He acted in this saga.
This is a true story; not a myth or some fancy story line. Everything in this tale is true—and there were monuments built to keep this saga in the mind of the children to tell them about what happened and to keep the story alive. It is a small part of the fascinating historical event of Israel’s journey to the Promised Land.
Judging Xmas
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Sermon Notes of Pastor Mark Downey
December 25, 2011
Scripture Reading: Isaiah 1:11-16
In case you didn’t notice, I spelled Christmas X-m-a-s, because that’s the way pagans spell it. They don’t believe Christ is in their celebration and they would be correct. Christ is not IN Christmas any more than the Federal Reserve is in the federal government. If you corner an honest Christian, they will admit that the Bible does not sanction Christmas and that it does indeed have pagan origins… but, but, but. Therefore, judging this Christ-less celebration with Christ arbitrarily interposed in the name of the so called holy day or holiday is justified and deserving of adjudication, even though some Christians think that it’s Christian. Let’s keep it simple: if a pagan god is the reason for the season, would this not be having another god before the Almighty? A violation of the First Commandment? “Thou shalt have no other gods before Me” Ex. 20:3. In other words, even if the word “Christ” is used, it is not the same Jesus, the Messiah we worship. It is a vicarious identity that has no relationship to Christianity.
Baal Worship in Judeo-Churchianity
by Pastor Mark Downey
Today there are many people who are advocating what is known in Scripture as ‘Baal Worship’ either knowingly or unwittingly, the latter being predominant. Our people don’t know what it is, don’t understand its ulterior motives or even recognize it when they see it. It’s like a cancerous disease manifested in many different symptoms, which the average Christian cannot detect without trained eyes.
Part 1: Identifying Baal in the churches; finding examples of Baal in the Old Testament; the mentality of Baal.
Part 2: Persecution from the Baals; Baal Creationists; political fallout from the liberal-conservative church of Baal; archaeological discoveries of Baal.
Part 3: The 12 elements of Baal worship, which will determine whether a church is no longer Christian.
Part 4: How to bring down the Baals; diagnosing the cause of apostacy in order to cure the symptoms.
The Minority
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by Pastor Don Elmore
December 18, 2011
You had to hear of the story of the interracial couple who met at Georgetown College which is located about six miles north of Lexington, Kentucky. The young woman is white and 24, who is from Pike County, Kentucky; the young man is black and 28, who is from Zimbabwe, Africa. The woman is now working on her master’s degree in Indiana, while her finance is now working at Georgetown College.
When the two go to visit the girl’s parents in Pike County, Kentucky (a rural area), they visit the church that her parents have gone to for most of their lives—a Free Will Baptist Church. Her mother a former Sunday school teacher; her father a former deacon and present church secretary. They did so last summer and they participated in the service musically by her playing the piano and by his singing a hymn.
After the service, the pastor, who retired after the incident and is still a member of the church, told both of them they could no longer participate in the church service or even become members. That was last June; by November 27th the church voted 9-6 to outlaw all interracial couples from participating in church except for funerals.
There is an interesting quote of the mother of the daughter, who is soon (next summer) going to be the mother of the daughter who had committed the abominable sin of miscegenation: “They are both Christians and they both try to live a Christian life and serve God. There is nothing in the Bible that we have found that tells us that that the couple should not be married.” I wonder how hard they have looked.
The Battle of Blood River
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by Pastor Mark Downey
I get frequent inquiries from believers as well as mockers and doubters as to where God is these days. Where is He? They ask, “Why isn’t He performing supernatural miracles like the ones we read about in the Bible?” And of course I answer with the affirmation that He is the same yesterday, today and forever; that where two or more are gathered in His name, there He is in the midst of them.
There are some phenomenon’s that defy explanation, unless you’re a Bible-believing Christian and pray in faith knowing that that prayer will be answered and that everything will be well. In spite of all the terrible things that surround us, there is still hope and proof of deliverance. Our God delivers.
The "Two Nations"
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By Pastor Don Elmore
December 4, 2011
We are living in very deceptive times. The Bible says that almost the entire world will be deceived by the evil seed. Almost everything in this age is an illusion. Our money, our holidays, our institutions and even ourselves are images of examples of what the Bible talked about what would happen in the end of this age.
For example, our big holiday of Christmas is a big illusion. In the Friday, December 2, 2011, Cincinnati Enquirer, in its “Faith Matters” column,The Creation Museum, the product of Answers in Genesis 1-11, begins this weekend with a “preview of events for its annual Christmas celebrations with the events opening to the public next weekend. The museum has an extensive Christmas program, including Christmas Town, a combination of live nativity and dramas. The museum exhibits and “The Christmas Star” planetarium program each have admission and tickets. Admission after 5 p.m. on Christmas Town nights is $5. The Garden of Lights includes 60,000 Christmas lights, and the Christmas Town includes a reenactment of first-century Bethlehem and a marketplace with gifts and souvenirs. The outdoor Christmas Town and Garden of Lights are free through the season; with the town open 6 to 8 p.m. on Dec. 9, 10, 16, 17, 26, 27, 30 and 31.”
The word “Christmas” is not even mentioned once in the Bible; so much for sola scriptura! Christ’s mass was forbidden to be celebrated by many Protestants and before them the churches who were separate from and never a part of the Universal (Catholic) Church. One wonders as he hears of Black Friday and Cyber Monday how insane the season has become. It is like the letter to the editor that appeared in the Cincinnati Enquirer on November 29th:
