I know. I saw the song title, before they sang, and thought, perhaps, it was supposed to be 'I Can Only Imagine' and that some words were left out of the title. I was dismayed when I heard that it was, indeed, John Lennon's 'Imagine'. I was even more dismayed when I read that this was apparently President Carter's favorite song and that he wanted this sung at his funeral. We live in North Florida and went to Plains to go to President Carter's Sunday School class two times. We were certainly aware of President Carter's liberal leanings, and anticipated that we might disagree with some of his teaching. However, the times we went, President Carter's teaching was completely Biblical and compelling. Had we been able to go more, we probably would have heard more 'liberal' teachings, but based on what we did hear those two times, the beliefs expressed in 'Imagine' are absolutely the opposite of what we heard President Carter teach. Now, my husband and I are wondering what President Carter really believed, because the world view and ideas in 'Imagine' are the antithesis of the Bible and Christianity. Both cannot be core beliefs in one person.
I am glad you discussed the state funeral for your listeners. It was kind of Jimmy Carter’s family to give a nod to the State, allowing a State funeral to be performed, before bringing his body home so that they could then have a Christian funeral and burial.
Mohler told a 9-year-old and his grandfather today, “I don’t believe the so-called theory of evolution is doing any better at explaining the dinosaurs.” And regarding their extinction, he said, “Nothing particularly surprising there, especially with climate change.” It makes me wonder just how ignorant Albert Mohler is. He says he had an interest in dinosaurs as a 9-year-old himself, and maintains that interest to this day, even to the extent of keeping a replica skull of Tyrannosaurus rex on his desk! So how could he not know of the evidence that the dinosaurs were wiped out, not by climate change, but by an asteroid hitting the earth. The evidence for this is a thin layer of clay rich in the element iridium, which is extremely rare on earth, but not in asteroids. Below the iridium layer - which has been found in many places around the world - you will find dinosaur fossils, above it none, unless you count birds. This was discovered in the early 1980s, and the site of the asteroid impact in Mexico has since been discovered. Mohler would have been in his 20’s, so maybe he missed it, but it makes you wonder how interested he could continue to be. And what’s with his calling it the “so-called” theory of evolution? The theory of evolution is a theory and it is about evolution. In fact there are few theories so well-established. Instead of paying it the respect it is due, even though he disagrees with it, he dismisses this monumental product of modern science with a flippant “so-called”. The theory of evolution is consistent with the history of life on earth as revealed by the fossil record as well as by genealogical relationships encoded in the DNA of plant and animal species. There is a vast network of facts, and relationships between facts, that all fit together into a story of the long evolutionary history of life on earth. Dinosaurs take their place in that story. If Albert Mohler had a clue about any of this, it is hard to see how he could say, “I don’t believe the so-called theory of evolution is doing any better at explaining the dinosaurs.” It’s all very well to say, “I’m going to trust the word of God. I’m going to trust the Book of Genesis.” But the Book of Genesis doesn’t explain why the natural world we find around us tells a richly detailed story, more certain than any man-made book, of a long and varied history of life on earth before human beings appeared. And Albert Mohler can’t explain why either.
I always feel smarter after listening to Dr. Mohler.
I was so perturbed that Imagine was sung at a Christian funeral. I am so glad to hear you affirm my thoughts.
I know. I saw the song title, before they sang, and thought, perhaps, it was supposed to be 'I Can Only Imagine' and that some words were left out of the title. I was dismayed when I heard that it was, indeed, John Lennon's 'Imagine'. I was even more dismayed when I read that this was apparently President Carter's favorite song and that he wanted this sung at his funeral. We live in North Florida and went to Plains to go to President Carter's Sunday School class two times. We were certainly aware of President Carter's liberal leanings, and anticipated that we might disagree with some of his teaching. However, the times we went, President Carter's teaching was completely Biblical and compelling. Had we been able to go more, we probably would have heard more 'liberal' teachings, but based on what we did hear those two times, the beliefs expressed in 'Imagine' are absolutely the opposite of what we heard President Carter teach. Now, my husband and I are wondering what President Carter really believed, because the world view and ideas in 'Imagine' are the antithesis of the Bible and Christianity. Both cannot be core beliefs in one person.
Well said
I am glad you discussed the state funeral for your listeners. It was kind of Jimmy Carter’s family to give a nod to the State, allowing a State funeral to be performed, before bringing his body home so that they could then have a Christian funeral and burial.
Did Jimmy Carter had some attitude towards Syncretism?
Greetings from Switzerland? 🇨🇭
It said of the flood that God told Noah to load the animals two by two onto the ark including the ones that he provided Moses and his family to eat.
Mohler told a 9-year-old and his grandfather today, “I don’t believe the so-called theory of evolution is doing any better at explaining the dinosaurs.” And regarding their extinction, he said, “Nothing particularly surprising there, especially with climate change.”
It makes me wonder just how ignorant Albert Mohler is. He says he had an interest in dinosaurs as a 9-year-old himself, and maintains that interest to this day, even to the extent of keeping a replica skull of Tyrannosaurus rex on his desk! So how could he not know of the evidence that the dinosaurs were wiped out, not by climate change, but by an asteroid hitting the earth. The evidence for this is a thin layer of clay rich in the element iridium, which is extremely rare on earth, but not in asteroids. Below the iridium layer - which has been found in many places around the world - you will find dinosaur fossils, above it none, unless you count birds. This was discovered in the early 1980s, and the site of the asteroid impact in Mexico has since been discovered. Mohler would have been in his 20’s, so maybe he missed it, but it makes you wonder how interested he could continue to be.
And what’s with his calling it the “so-called” theory of evolution? The theory of evolution is a theory and it is about evolution. In fact there are few theories so well-established. Instead of paying it the respect it is due, even though he disagrees with it, he dismisses this monumental product of modern science with a flippant “so-called”.
The theory of evolution is consistent with the history of life on earth as revealed by the fossil record as well as by genealogical relationships encoded in the DNA of plant and animal species. There is a vast network of facts, and relationships between facts, that all fit together into a story of the long evolutionary history of life on earth. Dinosaurs take their place in that story.
If Albert Mohler had a clue about any of this, it is hard to see how he could say, “I don’t believe the so-called theory of evolution is doing any better at explaining the dinosaurs.” It’s all very well to say, “I’m going to trust the word of God. I’m going to trust the Book of Genesis.” But the Book of Genesis doesn’t explain why the natural world we find around us tells a richly detailed story, more certain than any man-made book, of a long and varied history of life on earth before human beings appeared. And Albert Mohler can’t explain why either.