Ronnie W. Rogers, “Taking every thought captive…”

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 looking to the reward.” (Hebrews 11:26)

Moses was a member of the royal family. He had it all, and then walked off from it all for no foreseeable blessings in this life. He did it for eternal rewards.

When we make decisions that cost us in this life in order to be faithful to God, He will reward. Why does He reward? He does so not because of merit, but because He is gracious beyond measure. These are rewards of GRACE!

“And without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him.” (Hebrews 11:6)

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.

Astrophysicist Jason Lisle provides another (see Pt. I of this for other proposals) explanation for “the distant starlight problem” in his paper Anisotropic Synchrony Convention—A Solution to the Distant Starlight Problem. He states the problem thusly, “light travels a distance of one light year (about 6 trillion miles or 9 trillion kilometers) in one year, it would seem that we should only be able to see objects within a radius of 6,000 light years. Objects beyond that distance should not be visible, since presumably their light has not yet reached us. Yet, paradoxically, we can see galaxies whose distances have been measured to be many billions of light years away.”¹

The following mentions a few of his comments, but any evaluation of his theory should be based upon his paper rather than my comments, which are intended for those who do not wish to read the full article.

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1. All quotes in this article are from http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/arj/v3/n1/anisotropic-synchrony-convention accessed 11/19/11. Lisle also wrote a paper in 2001 under the pseudonym Roger Newton [↩]