Ronnie W. Rogers

Think About IT: Pastor’s Complicity with Science’s Debasement of MAN

By Ronnie W. Rogers / June 13, 2012 / Comments Off on Think About IT: Pastor’s Complicity with Science’s Debasement of MAN

The Primates House was the main attraction at the famous Bronx Zoological Gardens in 1906. But what brought amazed smiles from curious adults and squeals of joy from happy children was no ape–it was a human being named Ota Benga. (For the sources from which this biographical sketch is drawn, see Phillips Verner Bradford and…

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Think About IT: Theology Is the Essential in Politics

By Ronnie W. Rogers / June 7, 2012 / Comments Off on Think About IT: Theology Is the Essential in Politics

You know the refrain; do not mix religion and politics. Au contraire, I say mix Christianity and politics, lest the politically perceptive be seen as wizards of what ought to be, and the only ones who can make it so. Christianity informs us how things are to be. For example, why work is important, why…

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Think About IT: Altering Hippocrates Leads to Government Health Care

By Ronnie W. Rogers / June 1, 2012 / Comments Off on Think About IT: Altering Hippocrates Leads to Government Health Care

The Hippocratic Oath has gone through many revisions in the quest for the western world to be able to justify abortions, infanticide, and euthanasia. However, like other things, once one starts to unravel it, it unravels to the end. Often unnoticed is that not only did Hippocrates’s oath elevate human life in not allowing abortions,…

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Answering Arguments That Claim Biblical Support of Homosexuality

By Ronnie W. Rogers / May 24, 2012 / Comments Off on Answering Arguments That Claim Biblical Support of Homosexuality

Doug Gray presented a paper in The Ethics Round Table on the biblical perspective on homosexuality that I thought might be helpful. He presents the arguments used to support homosexuality from the Bible and culture. Then he gives a biblical response.

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Think About IT: Islam Is Coming to a City near You

By Ronnie W. Rogers / May 18, 2012 / Comments Off on Think About IT: Islam Is Coming to a City near You

The Ottoman Empire was founded in 1300 and collapsed after World War I. What if it had not, and what if the Muslims were able to establish such an empire today? What might it look like? Here is an example of what they required of the Armenian Christians in the Ottoman Empire.

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Think About IT: Christianity Is Not Just Good!

By Ronnie W. Rogers / May 7, 2012 / Comments Off on Think About IT: Christianity Is Not Just Good!

If Christianity were simply good, one could be inclined towards it or not. There are many good things, ideas, sayings, etc. Even the way we present the desirability of Christianity is oftentimes based upon the goodness of Christianity, e.g. emphasizing what it can do for you or has done for others, etc. This leads to…

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Think About IT: Forgiving the Unforgivable

By Ronnie W. Rogers / May 1, 2012 / Comments Off on Think About IT: Forgiving the Unforgivable

Bill Elliff was one of my predecessors at Trinity Baptist Church, and he is also the one who recommended me to the church. I have heard Bill and Tom Elliff speak a few times about the divorce of their parents and how difficult it was. I found the following synopsis of their mother’s struggle and…

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Think About IT: Sacrifice Is Not for Long!

By Ronnie W. Rogers / April 21, 2012 / Comments Off on Think About IT: Sacrifice Is Not for Long!

The Bible speaks a lot about rewards. God may give some rewards and/or blessings while we serve Him here on earth, but most often, they are spoken of as being received after this life. For example, concerning Moses, God said, “considering the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he was…

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Think About IT: President Obama’s Undermining of Religious Freedom

By Ronnie W. Rogers / April 13, 2012 / Comments Off on Think About IT: President Obama’s Undermining of Religious Freedom

The President’s present drive to force religions to act against their faith is only the most recent of such actions that undermine freedom of religion and/or deepen the moral abyss of America. Check out this article for a timeline.

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Is Starlight Travel Time Incompatible with the Biblical Account of Creation? Pt. II

By Ronnie W. Rogers / April 7, 2012 / Comments Off on Is Starlight Travel Time Incompatible with the Biblical Account of Creation? Pt. II

Astrophysicist Jason Lisle provides another explanation for “the distant starlight problem” in his paperÂAnisotropic Synchrony Convention—A Solution to the Distant Starlight Problem Â(see Pt. I for other proposals) He states the problem thusly, “Since light travels a distance of one light year (about 6 trillion miles or 9 trillion kilometers) in one year, it would…

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