The speakers for the upcoming “Celebration of the Creator”

I have asked brothers and sisters in our church family to speak on February 15, 2009 at Berean Baptist Church in Ammon, Idaho.

9:30 am – “Science or the Religion of Science” by Mike Daniels (B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Idaho; M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of New Mexico)

9:30 am– Jessica Tomberlin (B.S. in Mathematics, University of Wyoming)

10:00 am– Art Watkins (B.S in Metallurgical Engineering, California Polytechnic State University; M.S. in Metallurgical Engineering, University of Idaho)

10:00 am– Dr. Mary Girling (B.S. in Biomedical & Electrical Engineering, Duke University; M.D. at Wake Forest; board member of Eastern Idaho Technical College)

10:45 am– Eric Tomberlin (B.S. in Electrical Engineering, M.S. in Electrical Engineering, special emphasis in bioengineering, University of Wyoming)

11:15 am– “My evolution out of evolution” by Dr. Josef Sobieraj (B.A. in Geology, Appalachian State University; M.S. in Geology, Western Washington University; M.B.A. in Business Administration, Pfeiffer University; Ph.D. in Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Cincinnati)

1:00 pm – Dr. Paul Creighton (M.D., Oregon State University, Oregon Health Sciences)

1:30 pm– Todd Wood (B.A. in Christian Missions, M.A. in Theology, M.Div. at BJU) – yes, I am the oddball. (chuckling)

Come visit us.  You might find our perspective surprising and refreshing.

The anti-polytheist vs. the anti-monotheist

Last night, our church family gazed upward and listened with reverence to the King of nations (Jeremiah 10:7).  My Cambridge KJV retains all the translators’ senses and crossreferences in the margins.  By verse 7, I have Psalm 89:6 and Revelation 15:4.

So placing all three references side by side in the KJV, who do LDS think this King is?

Let’s move down to Jeremiah 10:11.  It is an Aramaic antipolytheistic saying – the only Aramaic saying in the whole book of Jeremiah.  The critics refer to it as a gloss.  In fact, they won’t give credit to Jeremiah as the author for a good portion of Jeremiah 10.

What do you think?  I just finished reading the yellow dart’s post on radical monotheism a few minutes ago.

Here is the theological battle waged within the I-15 corridor.  Which “Christianity” has the proper understanding of God?  The anti-polytheist? Or the anti-monotheist?

Dave in JH is pumping you for Darwin Week

Some Christians are enemies to science but not LDS BYU, claims Dave at BeliefNet, who has been posting some humdingers lately.

On Sunday, February 15, our church family in Idaho Falls is hosting a day of “Celebrating the Creator”.  More details later.

But with all the festivities why don’t all the LDS bishops in town follow suit with BYU and host a “Darwin Sunday”.  Some are pushing for this.  Why not LDS bishops?