BIBLE BELIEVERS’ BULLETIN March 2018 Page 1 Bible Believers’ Bulletin Vol. 42 No. 3 “Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth” (John 17:17) March 2018 Noah: The Preacher of Righteousness By Brian Donovan charts of false science today come Science “falsely so called” (I Tim- from the work in the 1700’s by Carl othy 6:20) comes to conclusions that Linnaeus, who also believed in the are predetermined by an agreement fixity of species. However, Linnaeus among the experts and in order to was the first to classify humans as join this elite group, the student must part of the Animal kingdom and this agree with the established dogmas classification continues to this day. of evolution, paleontology, taxonomy, By putting mankind into the wrong astronomy and the remainder of the Kingdom (Animal), and building on disciplines. Only by agreeing with the a wrong foundation, false science is majority, is the “scientist” allowed to then led to put man into the wrong enter the sanctum and be accepted Class (Mammals), the wrong Order enough to even have an opinion. (Primates), and the wrong Family The modern scientific taxonomy (Hominids). Once the Bible is rejected, charts have their beginnings with Ar- man’s wisdom can only be described istotle in 375 B.C., who appears to be as “foolish” (I Corinthians 1:20). the first to classify animals. His work When the Bible believer is shown did not make any genetic connection “proofs” for evolution, he is usually between species as he believed that given about eight to ten different ex- species were fixed and unchanging, amples of evolution in action, as he which of course is demonstrable (by is mocked for denying such obvious “unchanging” he meant inability of one “facts”. Just about every list of evo- species to become another) unless lutionary proofs given by educators the student falls for the lies of evolu- today includes Darwin’s finches on tionary theory. The standard taxonomy the Galapagos Islands. Darwin was so unimpressed with the finches In This Bulletin when he passed through the islands Noah: The Preacher on his infamous voyage that slowly of Righteousness .........................1 allowed him to reject the Bible that Three Reasons Men Reject Christ ..2 he previously believed, his only men- tion of them in his journal was to note How to Spot a Born-Again Liar ......17 that they had different sized beaks. The Clueless God ..........................24 Continued on 10 Fact vs. Fiction ..............................31 Page 2 March 2018 BIBLE BELIEVERS’ BULLETIN Three Reasons Men Reject Christ By Dr. Peter S. Ruckman done certain evil deeds, you’ve “For God sent not his Son into thought about doing them. the world to condemn the world; “For ALL have sinned, and come but that the world through him might be saved. He that be- lieveth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their short of the glory of God” (Rom. deeds were evil” (John 3:17–19). 3:23). In this passage, the Lord is ex- In spite of the fact that salvation is plaining a very basic thing: why men free and costs nothing, men still reject don’t get saved. It follows probably Christ. So I am going to give you three the most well-known verse in the reasons men reject Jesus Christ. whole Bible—John 3:16. Although If you stop and think about it, if people know that verse, they don’t a person rejects Jesus Christ, he know what follows it. What follows is must, at least in his own way of the explanation of why men don’t take thinking, have a good reason for advantage of the love of God back doing it. A man must have a good in verse 16: “men loved darkness reason for rejecting free salvation. rather than light, BECAUSE THEIR The fruits of salvation are apparent. DEEDS WERE EVIL.” All that Western civilization has that You don’t have to guess what is is any good is connected with the wrong with a man or woman who re- Bible. Before the Bible came along, jects Jesus Christ. Men reject Christ atheists didn’t build hospitals or or- because they’re evil. You say, “Not phan homes. Those are the fruits of me, Ruckman.” Yeah, you. You might men and women who trusted Jesus not reach your full potential for evil, Christ and believed the Book. If a but you have done evil deeds and man rejects what brings forth good thought evil thoughts. If you haven’t fruit like that, there has to be some- Continued on 3 BIBLE BELIEVERS’ BULLETIN March 2018 Page 3 Three Reasons Men Reject Christ Continued from 2 Rembrandt painted himself into the thing behind a decision like that. scene. Unless you were looking for When a man accepts Jesus Christ, it, you might not catch it. Someone he makes an earthly investment that asked him why he did that, and Rem- pays better dividends than any other brandt replied, “Because I felt respon- investment he can ever make. I know sible for his death.” That’s true: our that by experience. When a man sins nailed Jesus Christ to that cross comes forward and receives Christ, I (1 Pet. 2:24). will often tell him: “You’ve made the Someone asked Charles Haddon best decision you will ever make in Spurgeon once how he prepared his your life.” I know that sounds rather sermons. Spurgeon said, “I pick a cliché, but it is true nevertheless. I text, and then I get to Calvary as fast say that without any qualms or reser- as I can.” vations at all. You will make millions The Crucifixion is central to salva- of decisions in your life, but the best tion. When Jesus Christ talks about one will be to trust Jesus Christ for “light” in John 3:19, He’s talking salvation. about Himself as “the light of the I say that because I have never world” (John 8:12) coming to die to met a man or a woman who truly save sinners. trusted Jesus Christ (not just said a Jesus said, “If I had not come prayer or joined a church or “convert- and spoken unto them, they had ed to Christianity”) who ever repented not had sin: but now they have no of doing that. If you live long enough, cloke for their sin” (John 15:22). you will make decisions you are sorry That’s why a sinner won’t come to you made, but that won’t be one of the light: he’s trying to hide his sins. them. Isn’t that something? Here is a Now the Crucifixion is central to “sure thing,” like people say out in the salvation, but it is meaningless with- world, and men turn it down. Why is out Christ’s resurrection. Michelan- that? gelo asked some Catholic dignitary “For he hath made him to be sin once why there were so many pic- for us, who knew no sin; that we tures of the Crucifixion and so few might be made the righteousness of the Resurrection? Catholics like a of God in him” (2 Cor. 5:21). dead Christ. I like what one Christian “Wherefore he is able also to woman did when she was convalesc- save them to the uttermost that ing in a Catholic hospital. She hung a come unto God by him, seeing he sign she had made on the crucifix in ever liveth to make intercession her room; it said, “He is not here: for for them” (Heb. 7:25). he is risen” (Matt. 28:6). Don’t you I am talking about why men reject know that made the nuns’ day. that free blood atonement for their The death of Christ is central to sins. Rembrandt once painted a pic- salvation, but not without the Resur- ture of the Crucifixion. In that picture, Continued on 4 Page 4 March 2018 BIBLE BELIEVERS’ BULLETIN Three Reasons Men Reject Christ Continued from 3 FREELY GIVE US ALL THINGS?” rection. That’s why Paul defined the (Rom. 8:32). gospel as the death of Jesus Christ You have to admit, that’s a pretty for our sins, His burial, and His resur- good promise, and you don’t have rection (1 Cor. 15:1–4). to pay a dime. The question is, why There is one thing for certain, would someone turn down an offer though: “the way of the cross leads like that? home.” If you want to make it to God Now over in Mark 4, Jesus gives in any good condition, the song says, a parable about a Sower sowing the “I must needs go home by the way of word of God. In verse 19, the Lord the cross.” You won’t get to God with- tells you about three things that kill out dealing with your sins, and the the effectiveness of the word in a per- only way God will accept is: “Christ son’s life. died for our sins according to the “And the cares of this world, and scriptures” (1 Cor. 15:3). the deceitfulness of riches, and the In London, there is an intersection lusts of other things entering in, called “Charing Cross.” There is an choke the word, and it becometh actual cross there set up by Edward unfruitful” (Mark 4:19).