A Few Answers to "Answers In Genesis"

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By 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.

What Is Wrong With Calvinism?

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by Pastor Don Elmore

July 31, 2011

According to Loraine Boettner, in his much-studied and theologically influential book, The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination, “The Calvinistic view is the only logical one if we accept the Scriptural declaration that salvation is by grace” (p. 103). Calvinists insist that God in His sovereignty, and in eternity, chose or picked out of mankind whom He would save (by means of Christ’s death and the work of the Holy Spirit) for no other reason than His own wise, just and gracious purpose. The Reformed Faith separates the human race into two portions and ordains one to everlasting life and the other to everlasting death. As the Westminster Confession states:<--break->

By the decree of God, for the manifestation of His glory, some men and angels are predestinated to everlasting life, and others are foreordained to everlasting death. These angels and men, thus predestinated and foreordained, are particularly and unchangeable designed; and their number is so certain and definite that it cannot be either increased or diminished.

Whom Will You Serve?

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Pastor Don Elmore

July 3rd 2011

Joshua 24:14-15 “Now therefore fear the LORD, and SERVE him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers SERVED on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and SERVE ye the LORD.

And if it seem evil unto you to SERVE the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will SERVE; whether the gods which your fathers SERVED that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will SERVE the LORD.”

SERVE OR SERVED – 7 x

The Key To Biblical Understanding

Sermon Notes from Pastor Don Elmore

Do you remember the message that I brought on the 3 different variations of the tribe of Judah?

    1. Shelahites – Mixed with Canaanites (true Jews of today)
    2. Zerahites – true seed of Israel
    3. Pharezites – true seed of Israel

The three variations of Judah still have a lot of descendants today; only one is rightly called Jews.

Lies, Lies and More Lies

by Pastor Don Elmore

2010

This past week I have felt that our nation has been the recipient of those whose father was the originator of the lie (John 8:44).  They have certainly told many lies in the nation’s past—but this week they had to change their lies so often. 

Hadassah

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By Pastor Don Elmore

In the back of the book, Primo-genesis...the story the Bible tells,  on page Plate 11, written by Howard B. Rand, we find the following chart (see page 6):

Esau -- Adah (one of his Canaanite wives)

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Eliphaz – Timna – (daughter of Seir the Horite)

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Duke Amalek – We have the origin of the Amalekites, who were the first to attack Israel when they came out of Egypt in the Exodus.

Thus, the Amalekites were descending from Esau and are now called “Jews.”

From Smith Dictionary:

Agag:  Possibly the title of the kings of Amalek, like Pharaoh of Egypt.  One king of this name is mentioned in Numbers 24:7, and another in 1 Samuel 15:8, 9, 20, 32.  The latter was the king of the Amalekites, whom Saul spared contrary to Jehovah’s well-known will.  Exodus 17:14 and Deuteronomy 25:17.  For this act of disobedience Samuel was commissioned to declare to Saul his rejection, and he himself sent for Agag and cut him in pieces (B.C. about 1070.)  Haman is called the AGAGITE in Esther 3:1, 10; 8:3, 5.  The jews consider him a descendant of Agag the Amalekite.

Amalekites: a nomadic tribe of uncertain origin, which occupied the peninsula of Sinai and the wilderness intervening between the southern hill-ranges of Palestine and the border of Egypt.  Numbers 13:29; 1 Samuel 15:7; 27:8.  Their wealth consisted in flocks and herds.  Mention is made of a “town,” 1 Samuel 15:5, but their towns could have been little more than stations or nomadic enclosures.  The Amalekites first came in contact with the Israelites at Rephidim, but were signally defeated.  Exodus 17:8-16.  In union with the Canaanites they again attacked the Israelites on the borders of Palestine, and defeated them near Hormah. Numbers 14:45.  Saul undertook an expedition against them.  ! Samuel 14:48.  Their power was thenceforth broken, and they degenerated into a horde of banditti.  Their destruction was completed by David. 1 Samuel 30:1-17.