Obama hosts Noda at the White House
International armies hunt for Kony
Speeding driver causes NY crash
New Orleans celebrates International Jazz Day

Five guitars were stolen a couple of weeks ago from Tom Petty and his band as they were preparing for a U.S. tour, and they are offering a $7500 reward for the return of the instruments. From a rock & roll viewpoint, I see no problem with this “theft,” because the rocker’s theme has always been “I’m free to do what I want any old time” (Rolling Stones), “It’s my life and I’ll do what I want” (The Animals), “You got to do what you want to do” (Mamas and Papas), and, “It’s your thing, do what you want to do” (Isley Brothers). At the 2003 MTV Awards show, Madonna, Britney Spears, and Christina Aquilera stated the rock & roll philosophy with these memorable words: “We’re bored with the concept of right and wrong.” Whoever stole Petty’s guitars was merely being true to himself and to the rock & roll principle. Few things have done more to break down the moral fabric of society than the world of pop music and its licentious message, and if any music is detestable in God’s eyes, it has to be rock & roll. “Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold. Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way” (Psalms 119:127-128). 

(Friday Church News Notes, April 27, 2012, www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143)

Officials probe Bronx SUV accident that killed 7
Yacht debris, bodies found off US-Mexico coast
1 case down, 2 left to go for fugitive siblings
With an asterisk, WTC is back on top in NYC

The British Library has purchased the 7th-century St. Cuthbert Gospel for $14.3 million (“British Library Buys,” AP, April 16, 2012). The palm-sized Latin gospel of John, bound in red leather, is the oldest European book to survive fully intact. It was found in Cuthbert’s coffin (d. 687) when it was opened in 1104 after being brought from the isle of Lindisfarne to protect it from Viking raiders. The St. Cuthbert Gospel will be displayed at the British Library’s John Ritblat Gallery next year. Already housed there is the 8th-century Lindisfarne Gospels, which features the earliest extant portion of Scripture in English. (The English is written above the Latin text of the four Gospels.) The size of the St. Cuthbert Gospel book (4x5 inches) and the simplicity of its binding and writing identifies it as a missionary Bible as opposed to large, ornate Catholic Bibles, such as the Lindisfarne. The Cuthbert Gospel was designed to read and to carry and to preach from as opposed to being put on display and “venerated.” Latin Bibles and Latin-based Bibles were used in England until the publication of the Tyndale New Testament in 1525. The first English Bible, the Wycliffe of 1380, was based on Latin and contained the textual errors common to Latin, such as the omission of “God” in 1 Timothy 3:16. We have documented many of these errors in The Glorious Heritage of the English Bible, an illustrated volume that is available in print and eBook editions from Way of Life Literature, www.wayoflife.org. For more on the Bibles in the John Ritblat Gallery, see the free eBook In the Footsteps of Bible Translators, www.wayoflife.org. 

(Friday Church News Notes, April 27, 2012, www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143)

Genesis 6:8
"But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD."

How long have people been living on Earth? The evolutionist says millions of years. Bible believing Christians generally say only about 6,000 years. But the answer to this question is amazingly simple.

If we start with only two people, and they have four children who live to have their own children, the second generation now has twice as many people – four. Now, allowing for infant mortality and other human problems that keep population down, we still find that on the average it only takes about 130 years to double the Earth's population. This figure fits into known historical records. And if anything, it's a conservative number.

If human history is 2 million years, as the evolutionists say, the Earth ought to have a lot more people than it does now. Alternatively, if we accept the 2 million years, then it must have taken 125,000 years to double the population in order to finish with today's world population. But that doesn't make any sense at all, especially since human historical records show that the doubling time is about 1,000 times less!

But if we start with eight people and reckon that the population doubles every 130 years, we find that it takes only about 4,000 to 4,500 years to get a population of 1 billion. And that was the Earth's population in the year 1800 – just about 4,200 years after the Flood, through which only eight people were saved to repopulate the Earth!

Notes: Weigand, Cleone H. 1985. "Morality remains the best way to stem population growth." Milwaukee Journal, Apr. 14. Map: World population density in 1994. 

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“In a written submission seen by The Daily Telegraph, the former leader of more than 70 million Anglicans warns that the outward expression of traditional conservative Christian values has effectively been ‘banned’ in Britain under a new ‘secular conformity of belief and conduct’. His comments represent one of the strongest attacks on the impartiality of Britain’s judiciary from a religious leader. He says Christians will face a ‘religious bar’ to employment if rulings against wearing crosses and expressing their beliefs are not reversed. Lord Carey argues that in ‘case after case’ British courts have failed to protect Christian values. He urges European judges to correct the balance. The hearing, due to start in Strasbourg on Sept 4, will deal with the case of two workers forced out of their jobs over the wearing of crosses as a visible manifestation of their faith. ... Lord Carey, who was archbishop from 1991 to 2002, warns of a ‘drive to remove Judaeo-Christian values from the public square’. ... He outlines a string of cases in which he argues that British judges have used a strict reading of equality law to strip the legally established right to freedom of religion of ‘any substantive effect.’” 

(“Britain’s Christians Are Being Vilified,” The Telegraph, April 13, 2012)

3 dead, 1 missing in yacht race collision
Tent that ripped in deadly winds was properly inspected
Official: no security risk in Secret Service scandal
London apartments could play Olympic security role

The emerging church has its own movie now. Blue Like Jazz is a film based on Donald Miller’s best-selling autobiographical book by the same title about rejecting Southern Baptist Christianity, going wild in the world, and eventually settling on an emerging approach that is not much more than a Christianized version of the world. True to its “culturally liberal” philosophy, the emerging movie is “full of cussing and references to drugs and sexuality, and it seems like the main character has a beer in his hand during nearly every scene” (“Blue Like Jazz Director Steve Taylor Says Film Isn’t Christian,” Christian Post, April 19, 2012). Ah, the glories of “cultural liberalism”! See “The Emerging Church Loves to Drink,” www.wayoflife.org. 










(Friday Church News Notes, April 27, 2012, www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143)

Body found after bunker standoff
California earthquake downgraded
NFL draft wrapping up
Cyclists demonstrate in Rome

Southern Baptists and “conservative evangelicals” demonstrated their great compromise and spiritual blindness by praising Chuck Colson unequivocally following his death last week. He was praised by Al Mohler, Richard Land, Bryant Wright (SBC president), Frank Page, David Dockery, and Ed Stetzer, among others, all of whom are known as conservatives (“SBC Leaders Say Colson Was Evangelical Giant,” Baptist Press, April 23, 2012; Al Mohler’s The Briefing, April 23; Ed Stetzer’s blog, April 21). None of these “conservative evangelical” leaders mentioned the fact that Colson was one of the most effective builders of the apostate one-world church, wielding nearly as much influence in this wretched business as that other prominent Southern Baptist, Billy Graham. Colson was ecumenical from the time of his conversion in 1973 and grew ever more radical in this heretical philosophy through the years. In his forward to the deceptively-titled 1990 book Evangelical Catholics, by Roman Catholic author Keith Fournier, Colson said, “... it’s time that all of us who are Christians come together regardless of the difference of our confessions and our traditions.” In his 1993 book The Body, Colson said, “The body of Christ, in all its diversity, is created with Baptist feet, Charismatic hands, and Catholic ears--all with their eyes on Jesus.” Colson was one of the authors of the 1994 Evangelicals and Catholics Together statement, falsely claiming that Catholics, Protestants, and Baptists agree on “core beliefs.” After his meeting with Pope John Paul II in 1995, Colson proclaimed that the pope was a great defender of “Christian orthodoxy.” In his speech at the Promise Keepers conference in Memphis in 1996, Colson called division a sin and said that when Christians aren’t one they are working against God. In 1998 Roman Catholic Michael Timmis was named chairman of Colson’s Prison Fellowship, and the next year it was report more than 70 percent of Prison Fellowship chaplains were Roman Catholic (Calvary Contender, Nov. 15, 1999). In his 2003 book Being the Body, Colson expressed thanksgiving that “fresh winds are blowing everywhere among Catholics and Protestants” (p. 86). Colson’s ecumenical principle was in open rebellion to God’s commands to earnestly contend for the faith once delivered to the saints, to beware of false teachers, false gospels, and doctrines of devils, and to separate from heresy (e.g., Matthew 7:15; Romans 16:17; 2 Corinthians 11:3; Ephesians 4:14; 1 Timothy 4:1-3; 2 Timothy 3:5; Titus 3:10-11; 2 Peter 2:1-2; Jude 3). The “conservative” evangelicals that many independent Baptists are flirting around with are bridges to the treacherous waters of modern evangelicalism, with all of its ancient and end-time heresies. (See The Treacherous Waters of the Southern Baptist Convention, a free eBook available from Way of Life Literature.) 

(Friday Church News Notes, April 27, 2012, www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143)