Steeling the Mind Conference - 2005 - Hovind, Missler, Gendron, Peretti

The Steeling the Mind Conference on February 12, 2005 was fantastic. Many gifted men lectured on important subjects like biblical creation, prophecy, the speed of light, and much more. Click one of the bookmark links below and you'll be taken to that speaker's notes on this page.

Mike Gendron

Chuck Missler

Mike Gendron - The Best-Kept Secret in the Church

There is no other need that compares to divine forgiveness.

There is disagreement regarding how God's forgiveness is granted.

The majority of Christians believe that sin has shattered their relationship with God and that God's forgiveness will repair it.

God's forgiveness is given freely and completely at the moment of faith and is secured forever.

God's forgiveness is unconditional to all of those that have been born again of God.

God's forgiveness is complete (Colossians 2:13, 14, 1 John 2:12, Colossians 1:14, Hebrews 10:17).

God's forgiveness is so complete that He no longer counts our sins against us.

Our fellowship with God is eternal (Hebrews 9:12-15, 1 Timothy 1:16, Mark 16:20, 2 Thessalonians 2:16).

An eternal inheritance awaits those that have been sealed with the Holy Spirit.

Our sin does not cause separation from God's love (Romans 8:38, 39, 1 Corinthians 1:9, Hebrews 13:5, John 6:39).

How can one who has been perfected forever be found imperfect (Hebrews 10:14)?

How can one, who has been born of incorruptible seed, die again (1 Peter 1:23)?

How can one who has been redeemed from the curse of the law be placed back under the curse (Galatians 3:13, 4:5)?

How can God break His promise to finish the work He began in believers (Philippians 1:6)?

Before anyone can be forgiven, we must confess that we are guilty sinners.

Jesus became the guarantee of a better covenant.

Jesus didn't mention grace because He died under the Old Covenant.

Our we trusting Christ or His adversary?

All God's attributes work in harmony through a sinless substitute who bears the sinner's punishment vicariously.

The Bible reveals three imputations: the sin of Adam (Romans 5:19) to the human race, the sin of believers to Jesus, and the righteousness of Jesus to believers (2 Corinthians 5:21).

We should see an increasing degree of holiness as we conform our lives to Christ's.

Mike Riddle - Fail-Safe Method For Defending Creation

God created by His power.

God isn't one of us. He created us.

The Bible tells us when God created - in the beginning.

God created everything in six literal days.

Most evolutionists don't even know what evolution is.

Evolution is based on materialism (e.g. there is nothing beside matter, there is no Creator God, etc.).

Evolution is an ideology based on the lack of God's existence.

Joseph Silk, Ph.D. - "It's only safe to say we have a theory without a beginning."

If evolution is unable to explain the origin of matter and energy through naturalistic means, then it is without a foundation.

Evolutionists affirm a miracle with no miracle-maker.

There are two possible origins for life: either life evolved by natural processes or life was created.

"Life's building blocks can form spontaneously," is a typical statement in a Biology textbook (e.g. "Biology: Visualizing Life").

Atoms: the basic unit of matter.

Molecules: specific arrangements of atoms.

Amino acids: specific arrangement of molecules.

Amino acids are the building blocks of life.

Proteins: specific arrangement of amino acids.

Life cannot start with oxygen.

Life cannot start without oxygen.

Since life cannot start with or without oxygen, people are looking for water all over the universe.

Water is a terrible place for life to start because of hydrolysis.

Water is one of the worst places in the universe for life to start. It's essential for life, but deadly to the beginning of life. Water contains oxygen.

Amino acids come in two shapes: left handed and right handed.

All amino acids in life are left handed.

Miller's experiment came up with 50% of left handed and 50% of right handed amino acids; which is a poison to life.

Every experiment every conducted has resulted in 50% left and 50% right handed amino acids; except when they're in their protective cell.

Miller's experiment was a known failure, but they still present it in science textbooks.

Time becomes the evolutionists' God because they believe that if we give it enough time, things will evolve.

Nobody has ever seen something occur that defied the law of probability.

The probability of one protein being formed by random processes is 10 to the 191st power!

The probability of a cell being formed by random processes is 10 to the 40,000th power!

Bernard Lovell, Ph.D. - "The chances of life evolving from random processes is 'effectively zero.'"

Francis Crick is an atheist who understands that the possibility of life evolving by random processes is so astronomical that he believes in aliens.

Robert Gange, Ph.D. knows that there is no chance that life could have been created by random processes.

Why should we accept evolution when they cannot produce the evidence?

The Precambrian offers single celled organisms, but the Cambrian offers very complex organisms like trilobites. You just can't have a cell become a clam overnight.

If the Darwinian model is true, then we should have a tree of transitions from the Precambrian to the Cambrian.

The fossil record reveals no transitionals between the Precambrian and the Cambrian! The fossil record fully supports the biblical account that all things were created after their own kind.

The entire foundation for the Darwinian model is missing.

In textbooks and museums, we see dinosaurs; what we don't see is the wide variety of animals that allegedly evolved into these dinosaurs. Where are they?

Dr. David Norman, "The origin of dinosaurs has puzzled (us) for many years."

Out of countless Biology books, only two were able to give one, alleged transitional lifeform that allegedly preceded the dinosaurs. The Thecondonts.

How did a Thecondont evolve into a Stegasaurus or a Triceratops? They have drastic differences!

Evolution is a religious belief system that must be taken on faith.

Which offers more, the faith of evolution or the faith of Christianity?

Ed Hindson - Armageddon - Past, Present, or Future?

Armageddon is only mentioned one place in the scriptures; in Revelation 16:16.

The emphasis is Revelation on Armageddon is the same as is revealed in Daniel 11:40-45, Joel 3:9-17, Zechariah 14:1-3, and Revelation 16:14-16.

The final battle or the "Day of the LORD" is described as "terrible" and "darkness."

Armageddon will occur in the Valley of Jezreel and near the Hill of Megiddo; some 50 miles north of Jerusalem.

The Bible tells us where we came from and where we are going.

Satan doesn't know the date of the rapture.

After the removal of the Restrainer, we have the revelation of the Anti-Christ.

Next, we have the unification of Gentile power.

You better have your spiritual suitcase packed and ready to go.

You can't read Revelation without anticipation and a sequential movement of time.

The Futurist view interprets the events in Revelation 4-22 as predictions of future events.

Preterism says these events already happened in and around 70 A.D.

Preterists think that the "Babylon" that was to fall was Jerusalem.

Historicists believe the events in Revelation are ongoing and spiritual; not literal and physical.

The Premillennial view says Christ will return before the Millennium.

The Postmillenial view says Christ will return after the Millennium.

Most Preterists are Postmillenial.

The Amillenialism viewpoint says that Christ will return after the church age, but there is no literal Millennium.

Preterists argue that the church replaces Israel and that God is finished with national Israel.

Romans 11 reveals that God has not finished with literal Israel.

Preterists say that Nero was the Beast in Revelation. However, they must add an "n" and call him Kaiser Neron and use numerology.

Preterists are almost anti-Semitic in their viewpoint of God's dealings with Israel.

Preterists have to argue that Satan is already bound. However, Satan's activity today is evident in the scriptures. See Peter 5:8, 1 Thessalonians 2:18, 2 Corinthians 2:17, and Ephesians 2:2.

The Preterist challenge for the church is that we work to bring in the Kingdom.

If we are in the Kingdom, then why do we still have wars and human governments?

Preterism denies the power and purpose of the King. They think that humans can bring in God's Kingdom on Earth.

Russell Humphreys - Starlight and Time

Dr. Humphreys has been participating in radio isotopes and age of the Earth research at ICR.

Carbon 14 has become the friend of the young earth creationist.

There are hundreds of billions of stars.

A light year is 6 trillion miles. This is how far light can travel, today, in one year.

Exodus 20:11 reveals that the creation week was six, literal days.

The two, earlier creationist theories were not adequate. These theories include light being created in transit and the speed of light changing (decreasing).

The problem with light being created in transit (e.g. The Mature Creation Theory) reveals a fictional history to us.

Psalm 19:1 refutes the idea of showing a fictional picture in the sky.

Light created in transit doesn't offer any scientific explanations.

Barry Setterfield popularized the theory that the speed of light has changed.

The data that Berry had did not support his theory.

The theory regarding a changing speed of light is unclear. If you change the speed of light, then you change the physical processes in which you measure the speed.

Berry Setterfield got Christians thinking about cosmology.

Neither theory explains other scientific phenomena like red shift and neither give a decisive, biblical basis.

The Bible + relativity = different clock rates.

The Earth is near the center of the universe. Clocks are slower near the center of the universe and this is supported with Einstein's theory of relativity.

Stephen Hawking says, ". . . our position in space is not specially distinguished in any way, this assumption implies that the universe is approximately, spatially homogeneous."

Homogeneous means it has uniform composition throughout. It is the same everywhere; even at the beginning.

This theory (the Big Bang) means the cosmos would have no edge or center.

Cosmologist Edward R. Harrison said, "In popular literature . . . the universe has a center and an edge. This is wrong. It has no center and no edge."

The name "Big Bang" has misled people because it's a misnomer.

Big Bang theorists imagine that matter fills all space. Travel infinitely. You'll never find space without galaxies.

These theorists believe that this is how it always has been; since the beginning.

The main Big Bang theory says you can travel in any direction and you will never find that big empty space with no galaxies in it.

Big Bang theorists believe that the cosmic egg existed in hyperspace.

If there is no edge of matter, then there is no center.

The Bible strongly implies that there is a center and that the Earth is very near it. We see this in Genesis 1:6-15.

A center makes gravity important.

There is no overall net power of force in the Big Bang universe.

In the biblical cosmos, there would be a faint, feeble force everywhere and all things would be falling toward its center.

This biblical cosmos theory is also called the Island Universe.

Scripture says that gravity affects the cosmos. See Isaiah 55:9.

As you approach Alpha Centauri, for instance, gravity begins to pull you more than the other gravitational forces.

According to the Big Bang theory, the Heavens are not higher than the Earth.

Scientists agree that gravity affects time.

Gravitational time dilation shows that lower clocks tick slower than higher clocks. Gravitational time stretches. This was predicted by Einstein and it has been shown by experiment.

Clocks at Boulder, Colorado (1 mile high) click 5 microseconds per year quicker than clocks at sea level.

Einstein said that clocks measure time. If the clock is ticking faster, then time is moving faster.

What if the altitude is 20 billion light years?

If today's cosmos is an "island," clocks near the center tick about 2% slower. This is insignificant today, but not in the past.

In the past, the cosmos was smaller. Red shift shows this.

The red shift stretches the wavelength of the light. This is an expansion red shift.

There are 17 verses in the Old Testament such as, "Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain and spread them out like a tent to dwell in." See Isaiah 40:22.

General relativity shows that this is what happened to space as well.

When the cosmos was smaller, clocks at the center were very slow.

At the center, one day could elapse while billions of years could elapse way out in the distant sky.

During six days on the earth, billions of years elapsed in the distant sky.

The Age of the Universe when Adam saw it = 6 days EST (Earth Standard Time)

Light from distant galaxies could reach us and distant objects would appear to be "old."

If the cosmos is an "island," then clock rates must be different.

If it has expanded, then clock rates were very different.

From all the science we know, these conclusions seem unavoidable.

God used relativity to let us see a young universe.

Clocks on Earth slow during the 4th day; enough time to see galaxies.

Chuck Missler - Prophets to the Gentiles

Nahum and Jonah were both prophets from Galilee.

Whoever said, "No prophet has arisen out of Galilee (John 7:52)," was incorrect.

There is not one Arab alive today that could trace his lineage to Ishmael.

Sheba and Dedan (Saudi Arabia) were children of Katurah; not Hagar.

The instructions to be a separate people were given to Jacob and not the rest.

The term "Arabs" is a collective term that can apply to any of these groups.

What is the prophetic role of Ammon, Moab, and Edom? See Daniel 11:41. It is the one region on Earth that does not come under control of the Anti-Christ. This area is the area of present day Jordan.

This specific area is called Petra or Bozrah.

The Strategic Trends of 2004 include:

Weapons of Mass Destruction: Matthew 24:22

Osama Bin Laden made a very true statement about the war at hand. He said it is a war between Islam and Christianity. Newt Gingrich said something similar, but our present administration hasn't labeled it as such, yet.

Rise of Islam: Daniel 11

Rise of European Superstate: Daniel 2, 7

Rise of China: Isaiah 49, Revelation 19

Biotech and Global Pestilence: Revelation 6:8

Struggle for Jerusalem: Zechariah 12

Jesus predicted the technology in the end times. See Matthew 24:22. This is a technology statement. If we were reading this in the 1860's in the Civil War, it would make no sense. However, right now, we have over 5,000 times the weapons it would take to wipe out the entire Earth.

Today, over a dozen countries have weapons of mass destruction, they are imbalanced, and they are racing to get more. Plus, many terrorists have them.

Every member of the Cabinet and the Chamber of the Joint Chiefs were a professing Christian at one time.

Over 40 countries are manufacturing nuclear weapons.

"Of 132 suitcase nukes, 84 are missing," said General Lebed.

Near Riyadh, there are over 40,000 Chinese engineers making ballistic missiles. The materials were provided by France and the technology was provided by China. Pakistan provides the nuclear warheads for these missiles.

In 1981, when Iraq was threatening Israel's security, they took them out. Now, Israel's security is being offended and they are being tempted to take out Al-Saliahl in Iran. They are also threatening to take out Damascus and Mecca.

"If we get through this year without a nuclear event, I'd be surprised," says Chuck Missler.

There are 20,000 Russian technicians now working at the Bushehr nuclear site. Their 1,000 megawatt $1 billion plant will be operational by the end of 2005.

"If God doesn't judge America, then He's going to have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah," said Billy Graham.

There are 10 miracles in the book of Jonah, but the biggest one was the repentance from the King and all of the people of Ninevah.

The 3rd commandment has nothing to do with swearing. It has everything to do with ambassadorship.

Andy McIntosh - The Intricacies of Flight

The bones of birds have to be exceedingly light.

In July 1998, National Geographic claimed that the dinosaur evolved into a bird, yet the bone structure is very different.

The muscle and bone arrangement for flight contains a sternum.

Special breathing is required for birds. We have two lungs and we breathe in and out. Birds need air in their bloodstream by an efficient means. The air in their bronchial tubes never stops moving. They have a counter flow as blood moves one way and air moves the other.

Birds breathe in two cycles. The air moves to the back, then to the front.

Feathers are marvelously engineered. The primary feather has an asymmetry.

Feathers are not randomly stuck into the bird. They are in the right place. Symmetrical feather are in the tail.

Evolutionists have to belief the bird evolved hollow bones, a dynamic breathing system, and highly systematically engineered feathers.

The air won't break the surface of a feather because it works as velcro. The hooks slide over the ridges.

All the bobules on one side are ridges and all the bobules on the other side are hooks.

A sliding joint needs lubrication. The bird gets it from the base of its spine and the preening gland. His head has to turn 180 degrees in order to get this oil on its beak, then spread it to his body.

The Alula feather helps the Albatross fly slowly.

Hummingbirds can fly forwards, backwards, up, and down. It is extremely good at hovering.

Archaeopteryx was a fully developed bird. It's curved wings means that it could not have been primitive. Some birds today have claws on its wings, so that's another non-sign of its allegedly, transitional nature.

Butterflies don't show any changes from those fossilized in the past, however evolutionists insist that there was a precursor and that they evolved.

Dragonfiles have been found with a 3 foot wingspan! The fact of Giantism in the fossil record shows that there were very different conditions in the pre-flood world.

Supposed transitional changes for bat evolution - none exist save the shrew and the bat. None of these forms actually exist.

According to the fossil record, there have been no changes in bat evolution.

Arctic terns fly south in winter and they fly 12,000 miles from the North Pole to the South Pole.

The Pacific Golden Plover migrates 3,000 miles from North Canada/Alaska to Hawaii.

How does evolution explain very lengthy migration?

The Monarch Butterfly migrates from North East Canada to Mexico. Sometimes, it takes two generations to make it! They pass along information to their descendants, so they can make the migratory trip.

According to Romans 1:20, nature has told the atheist and the evolutionist that there is a Creator God. He cannot honestly say he didn't know or see.

Kent Hovind - Facts Supporting Intelligent Design

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Frank Peretti - The Covering

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