Jay Forrest

"Avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called" (1 Tim 6:20). Carl Sagan once claimed that "The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be." This is not a statement of fact but a statement of faith First, he never tried to prove the statement. Which makes it a mere assertion. And just because a scientist says it doesn't make it true. It is asserted without evidence, and it can be ignored without evidence. Second, how did he know that "the Cosmos is all that is?" You would first have to know "all that is" before you could know that the Cosmos is it. The fact that physicists populated a multiverse means that many cosmos'. Third, if Carl didn't exist from the beginning of time, how could he know that the "Cosmos is all that... was." This is very unscientific. He has no evidence to support it, no experiments to prove it, and no testimony to verify it. It is a mere assertion. Fourth

“And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” (John 8:32). A claim is a statement that is either true or false. If the statement is neither true nor false, it is not a claim. Truth is the description of the quality of a claim. A claim is true when the statement being made matches the way things actually are. Truth refers to a claim or group of claims in which the statements of the claim correspond to reality. In other words, the statement really does express the reality of the matter. If someone makes the claim that I am a man, and I really am a man, then the claim is true. It is true because it matches or corresponds to the way things really are. Truth is the name of a claim that matches reality. Truth is the correspondence between a claim and reality. All other attempted definitions must assume this one. All other definitions claim that their definition corresponds to reality, and therefore is true. Which means that all other definitions are false. You ca

"The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom." (Prov. 4:7 NIV). In order to get wisdom, you need to first know what wisdom is. Unfortunately, this is harder than you might think. There is no agreement on what wisdom is. Wisdom is not knowledge. Knowledge is the acquisition of facts and information. Wisdom is not experience. Wisdom is not the right use of knowledge, that's prudence. Rather, wisdom is the proper perspective of reality. Experience is the practical application of knowledge in real-world situations. Wisdom is not understanding. Understanding is the ability to comprehend and interpret information. And wisdom is not prudence. Prudence is the right use of knowledge. Wisdom is the proper perspective of Reality. It is the result of the skillful integration of knowledge, experience, and understanding. A proper perspective is God's perspective. The closer we get to his perspective, the wiser we are. Worldly wisdom is a distorted perspective of Reality. I

"Conversion is conversion from a self-centered person to a God-centered person." - E. Stanley Jones Conversion is not optional. Jesus was clear, “Truly I say to you, Except you be converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven” (Matt 18:3). The Apostle Peter said the same thing, “Repent you therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out” (Acts 3:19). Conversion means to turn around. We can illustrate it by imagining a person heading in one direction and then turning around and heading in a completely different direction. That is conversion. Repentance is changing your mind, conversion is changing your direction in life. And this is what E. Stanley Jones is pointing to. Before conversion, everyone is self-centered. They are living their life on their own terms, they are doing what they want when they want. They are lord of their lives. Conversion is turning from selfishness and surrendering to God. Now you are

For this reason,      I bow my knees to you Father of my Lord Jesus Christ,      from whom the whole family      in Heaven and Earth is named, that you would grant me,      according to the riches of your glory, to be strengthened with might      through your Spirit in the inner being, that Christ may dwell in my heart      through faith; that I, being rooted and grounded in love,      may be able to comprehend with all the saints      what is the width and length and depth and height - to know the love of Christ      which passes knowledge;      that I may be filled with all of your fullness. In Jesus' name, amen. (Eph 3:14-19)