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SLIDE 3

Intro:

We humans have a terrible habit of changing things…

Sometimes we like to remove the reality, the core truth, the hard parts of a topic..

And replace them.. w/something that better fits our opinions

When our founding fathers established the separation of church and state..

They thought back upon England..

And of how the government had it’s own church..

And in that church, that government had the ultimate say on what went on..

So here, in America, they set the church free..

To practice their faith freely, w/o the government intervening.

..w/o the government ordaining and organizing any particular group or denomination..

It was a law.. that was intended to protect the church from government control and influence..

It was all about “political authority”.. keeping it’s hand, out of the “spiritual establishment”

It was never intended to be a law that protected government from being influenced by the spiritual establishment..

But, that’s what it has become..

Evolution has never been anything but a theory..

It’s based on observations of adaptation w/in a species..

No body refutes inter species evolution.. or more correctly.. “adaptation”…

But the idea of one species involving into another..

Is impossible to prove.. because.. no proof exists..

It is as Darwin presented it..

A theory.

But, it’s the only viable solution..

For everyone is wired to ask the all important question:

“How did we get here?”

The mind might try to answer this with.. “A creator.. some kind of god made all this.”

w/ that answer, we then face a responsibility to come to terms w/the reality of God..

Since a lot of folks are not too keen on that idea..

They don’t like the idea of God.. and all the personal accountability that goes along w/that..

They are desperate to embrace a contrary view, one that sets them free from considering the possible reality of a God or a creator..

This makes, the theory of evolution.. very attractive..

And so, it’s taught to us.. from elementary school on..

The text book might use the word “theory”..

But that’s not how it’s presented..

And those artistic renderings which depict what transitional man might have looked like?

Those are pretty good.

So, in reality.. evolution is a theory..

And that’s fine.. it’s a brilliant idea..

But is that how the world sees it?

Or, has it in fact, taken on another status?

Has it been promoted..

From theory.. to fact?

Huge faith..

Massive faith..

The majority has come to this conclusion..

Not theory.. but fact!

Many things in the church have changed over the ages..

In the OT, God ruled Israel as a Theocracy under the judges… then, as a Monarchy under the Kings.

Has become, to many folks.. the thing which gives salvation..

He had a special and unique relationship with the nation of Israel, and even as He proved Himself to them over and over again… they struggled to operate as a state government under Biblical principles...

There are no more Theocracies… and there are no more monarchies where God has ordained, anointed and called a King to carry out His principles..

As it was in Jesus’ day… the governments were secular, and religion existed on it’s own....

But… man struggled with this division… And man has tried, over and over again to join together government and religion.

Any study of history would show us, consistently… that the unity of church and state has always created problems.

You see a lot of this in church history… and in almost every case… the influence of one entity upon the other led to corruption.

In the early days, when Christianity began to be established and accepted… early in the 4th century… they sought to unite the two.

Over the years, a Catholic city, or state, or country, required membership and devotion to the Catholic church first to confirm citizenship.

If you were living in one of these places, and you had not been properly identified as a Catholic, you were there illegally, and the punishment was often times extreme or even lethal.

How did they confirm a person’s citizenship?

For instance, when a new child entered into a family, how did that child become a legal citizen?

-The church decreed, that this citizenship was established through Baptism.

These were the practices that established the idea of baptizing infants.

When Protestant cities and states and countries were established, they required that babies be baptized into their churches for citizenship.

When the Orthodox cities were established… they practiced the same thing…

Over the years, when common people began to get their hands on the Bible, and read it for themselves… they began to see things differently than the state churches…

So, for those who embraced believer baptism… -there was great conflict.

There was persecution.

For the sake of following a Biblical conviction that was apart from state influence… many of these people fled into other countries, and sought the freedom to practice their faith w/o punishment.

And yet… here we are… nearly 1500 years later… and the practice of baptizing infants is still widely practiced.

The origin of the idea, which established it firmly in those early churches… has passed away… but the practice is still there...

And they have a Biblical argument for it… but it’s not the easiest conclusion to come to… but if you’ve been raised in that tradition, it makes sense...

If you come to the Bible with fresh eyes, apart from that tradition, it’s neigh unto impossible to draw a conclusion for infant baptism.

You see, the church has two very diverse ideas on baptism… and within those two main ideas… there are probably thousands of unique applications and interpretations...

The inerrancy of scripture..

Has become.. to many.. a farce.. it is, to many..

A book full of errors..

And quite devoid of divine instruction..

Relativism has taken a strong hold.. and the old ideas of “absolutes”.. is gone..

The scriptural teaching.. which tells us, that there is only one way to Heaven..

That has been replaced..

.. w/the old wagon wheel theory..

Many different spokes.. all lead to the hub..

And so, w/faith, there are many ways to God..

Jesus gave us an outline, a model for prayer.. we call it “the Lord’s Prayer”..

And it teaches us how to pray.. and what to pray..

But it doesn’t teach us.. “what to say”..

Scripture commands us to avoid vane repetitions..

And yet..

For many.. prayer is not a real conversation w/God..

No.. it’s a poetic recital of some prayer.. that is said, word for word..

Week in and week out..

But.. often times… it doesn’t mean anything to the one saying it..

It’s just a mindless chant..

And for many.. real prayer.. is non existent..

.. it is replaced.. by a mindless chant.

The simple.. black and white presentation of truth.. that we are given in the scriptures..

Is just.. too simple..

It is, for so many.. just too hard to swallow..

And so.. we humans have a way.. of working these things over in our minds..

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