Your Journey of Faith
Four stages of Faith
We pass through four stages of growth in our faith and our relationship with God.
Assess your present level of faith to access the most fitting resources.
In which of the following stages do you find yourself?
Jerry and Pat
1. Do you believe in God?
Does a good God almighty really exist? Stop avoiding the question. Religious or not, you need to "wrestle with God" before taking on a world of confusion and hurt.
How? By understanding how stars and babies make God so evident that any form of denial can only be interpreted as ingratitude.
2. Are you religious?
If God exists, what is he like? We can only know an invisible God if that God chooses to manifest himself materially. Can we find a place and time where God put on an intellectual sight and sound demonstration to a large number of key players who would then relay that privileged information to nations around the world and across centuries? It would be big. It would be hard to deny. Think Israel. Think world history.
3. Do you trust Jesus?
Jesus came as the lamb of God. That was unexpected. If people had invented the Messiah, he would not have been weak and vulnerable. Everyone was surprised when Jesus told us to turn the other cheek. They were confounded when he died on the cross. God's ways are higher than man's ways as much as the stars are higher than the Earth. That means that salvation has to come from God and not from down here below. God's salvation, the promise of life after death, only comes from renouncing our self-confidence and learning what it means to fully trust in Jesus.
4. Are you experiencing God daily?
Many Christians believe in Jesus, but they don't live like Jesus. They're stuck. They have a knowledge of God but don't do anything that they couldn't do with their own talents and skills. They don't see God working around them and then cooperate with God to accomplish things beyond their own power. The book Experiencing God has been used by many Christians around the world to help people be aware of God's presence and power around them. If you're not seeing God do supernatural acts in your life, it's time to start experiencing God.
book and e-book
Both devotional and technical, "Reflections" contains original material that can be used for individual or group study.
The Real Babel Discovered
For years, theologians have assumed that the city of Babylon was Babel because the Hebrew words are the same. Archeologists, however, know that Babylon did not exist at the time of Babel. David Rohl, Doug Petrovich, and Bryant Wood, all archeologists, have recognized this glaring misunderstanding and have taken the position that Babel is better understood as the ancient city of Eridu on the plains of Sumer. It's time to pause our search for Noah's Ark and shift our attention to Eridu, which has was first excavated in 1855.
Reflections on the Children of Noah was compiled from blog posts on this site under the category "Biblical Paleoarcheology". Two things became apparent to me as I wrote these blogs. First, the correlations between the incredible Urban Revolution of archeology and the unique Biblical city where languages were born are undeniable. Secondly, few people are talking about it. I have no idea why and think that should change.
This book is about much more than Babel. It is a reconstruction of Biblical history between Noah and Abraham. That includes the Neolithic, Chalcolithic, and Early Bronze Age. Again I say, this is a glaring hole in Biblical archeology that needs to be addressed. Join us in this adventure.
DVD
An introduction to the New Chronology movement
e-book
a thorough archeological defense of the New Chronology movement, written by David Rohl
The New Chronology revision of Egyptian History
Biblical dating does not fit with Egyptian dating. The problem goes back to 1822 when Champollion created a synchronism (link) between the Egyptian king Shoshenk I and Shishak in the Bible (2 Chronicles 12:9). The New Chronology movement contends that this erroneous synchronism adds 350 years to Egyptian history and discredits Biblical history involving Joseph, Moses, Solomon, etc. That reveals the real reason behind why academic authorities say the Bible is full of errors and created by men.
It's quite shocking to think that an agnostic archeologist in England would come to the conclusion that the Bible is historically accurate, while conservative Christians in the US muddle through making excuses for mismatched events. Was it Shoshenk I or Ramesses II who attacked Rehoboam? After studying the issues for the last ten years, I'm shocked that so few Christian authorities are willing to stand up against archeological tradition. There should at least be debate. I, myself, take a stand for a revision of pagan Egyptian chronology and a return to faith in the Bible as true history.
The DVD and book were written ten years ago, but there is still no strong voice in the US championing this message, besides Tim Mahoney and Patterns of Evidence. The book is out of print at the moment and only available as an e-book. I purchased the set of 10 DVDs to loan out, and I encourage others to spread the word.