Notice on a slight format change:

Except for July 2012, these are mostly a collection of current devotional notes.

July 2012 is a re-write of old quiet times. My second child was born Nov 11, 1987 with multiple birth defects. I've been re-reading my QT notes from that time in my life, and have included them here. They cover the time before the birth and the few years immediately after the birth. They are tagged "historical." I added new insights and labeled them: ((TODAY, dd mmm yy)).

Friday, January 3, 2020

QT 3 Jan 20, 2 Pet 3:3, Scoffers are quite religious


2 Peter 3:3 (ESV) — knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires.

NOTE: There have been scoffers throughout history, so understanding the phrase "last days" does seem difficult. But there certainly are more scoffers today than at any point in history. They think science gives them the evidence to be vocal in their disbelief, although for myself, science doesn't contradict my faith. I have found science to be a friend of faith. Evolution by random selection is an example. Mathematically, it is impossible to build a single cell by randomly adding parts that make up a cell. There is not enough time in the universe. Also, the unique cosmological constants that make up our physics are too finely tuned to be by chance. A slight deviation would make it impossible for anything to exist. Today scoffers answer these charges with a multi-universe theory (something that can not be proved). Why is that not a "God-in-the gaps" solution as the scoffers charge Christians for using the supernatural to explain the unknown? It is funny though--scoffers and atheists are religious.

PRAYER: Father, open our eyes to our foolishness. Help us to not be close minded to what we don't want to believe. Help us to consider rationally all ideas. Help us to see how you created the universe for good.

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