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Author: Brian Mason
Company: Beacon Apologetics
Website: beaconapologetics.wordpress.com
Memorable Quote 1: Truth does not fear investigation!
Memorable Quote 2: Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life!
Author Comment / Biography: I honestly can’t remember not being a Christian. I recall getting a Catholic Bible from my Uncle John and Aunt Marie with my name printed in it by the manufacturer on the opening page. Being presented with this tool was profoundly influential in my life.My mother is a Catholic and my father was a Protestant immigrant from England who came over by ship to Canada shortly after the Second World War. My dad had chronic bronchitis and because of that his mother and father brought the family to Canada to escape the dampness of England, to help his breathing, not to mention a better life that would be available in North America.
My parents were very good to me and my younger sister Laura, and provided us with as much as they could, even when times were tough. We were blessed. My father always wanted to keep us kids very busy and put us into sports. I started as a speed skater and was good at it, but eventually gravitated to the sport of bicycle racing. I did well at it and actually made the Canadian national team. Cycling, to me, taught me discipline and goal setting.
When my career in sports was over, I did many jobs, but one was highly instrumental in my “awareness” of the creator and directly saved my life in a strange way. I was offered a career in a very large Canadian bank as a mortgage and loans officer. At first when I took the position I was very happy as the earnings were very good. Then one day it hit me concerning banking. We were in the business of turning down the loans! I bought into it for a while, but I was heading down the wrong path and with me being a “positive” person it was destructive. It would always hurt my heart to turn down a young couple’s mortgage application, and it would wound me inside. As a direct symptom, I was drinking and partying very heavily and compounding that with the stress of my “chosen” career, I was unknowingly on deaths door. Then the day came that changed my life forever. After a week or so of heavy drinking I felt very ill. I remember calling into work and telling my manager that I wasn’t feeling well and could not come in to work. My heart was doing some strange things. It was fluttering and I was losing my breath to the point of gasping. Then “it” happened. I was lying in my bed feeling extremely ill, but also fully awake and lucid. Directly to the right of me, as if someone was lying with me, I heard the words distinctly, “Take care of your body and I will take care of the rest”. In retrospect this would normally scare someone silly! However, it comforted me. Thinking back on that day I now KNOW that it was God speaking to me. The voice was neither male nor female, but it said “I” will take care of the rest. How amazing! I still get goose bumps thinking about that day! I have been spared! Praise GOD!
I have tried my best to uphold those words, as best as a mortal can do. Sometimes I think I could still be a better man, but as a human I am a sinner and I fail. The road to God has led me to the world of Christian Apologetics. By definition it is the defense of the Christian faith. I have been in total immersion of that discipline and have been ordained by God, through the National Association of Christian Ministers. I believe that I have been guided that direction by God, and I also believe that Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior. Through him ALL is possible!
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The second law of thermodynamics describes that the amount of USABLE in the entire universe is decreasing. So in a nutshell the universe’s energy is running down a...
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22. Evolution Vs. God
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Yes this is s plug for the Ray Comfort DVD “Evolution Vs. God”. This video can be seen at the site http://www.evolutionvsgod.com/. I feel extremely sad that such so called educated “brights” as Richard Dawkins says that he and his atheist (actually agnostic) friends claim to be believe Darwinian Evo...
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23. Are We Currently Under God's Judgment?
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Today I was reading one of a friend’s friend of mine on Facebook and he was suggesting that certain weather patterns and calamities around the worlds was in some respect God’s judgment. Well that may be true however we should be slow to suggest such things, as it could definitely be throwing around ...
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24. Difficult Bible Scripture: How Do We Handle Such Passages? Part One
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The Bible should at first be considered inerrant and the Word of God, the burden of proof lies with the critic. We have extremely good evidence to support the scriptures as being factual. Also being critical is not necessarily a bad thing either as it makes one probe deeper looking for the answers o...
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25. Terminology Tuesday: Free Will
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*The ability of an agent to make genuine choices that stem from the self. Libertarians argue that free will includes the power to determine the will itself, so that a person with free will can will more than one thing. Compatibilists typically view free will as the power to act in accordance with on...
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26. The Roman Catholic Church: Ten Commandments Distortion!
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This is what the Roman Catholic Church states is the “Ten Commandments”…check this out.
1. I, the Lord, am your God. You shall not have other gods besides me. 2. You shall not take the name of the Lord God in vain 3. Remember to keep holy the Lord’s Day 4. Honor your father and your mothe...
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27. Are You Sure You Can Study Bible Scripture?
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Do you fall into the following categories?
1. Are you filled with the Holy Spirit? Eph 5: 18 Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit, 2. Are you seeking to be set apart aka holiness? 1Peter 1:14-16 As obedient children, do not conform to the...
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28. Terminology Tuesday: Revelation
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*Refers both to the process by which God discloses the divine nature and the mystery of the divine will and purpose to human beings, and to the corpus of truth disclosed. Some theologians maintain that revelation consists of both God’s activity in salvation history through word and deed, culminating...
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29. Pope Francis Strikes Again!
July 20, 2013
Vatican offers ‘time off purgatory’ to followers of Pope Francis tweets Papal court handling pardons for sins says contrite Catholics may win ‘indulgences’ by following World Youth Day on Twitter:
Article from the Guardian:
In its latest attempt to keep up with the times the Vatican...
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30. Roman Catholic Indulgences: Heresy
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Since Pope Francis has not moved from the medieval times on the stance of indulgences, I thought a clear definition of what they are would be helpful. I would just plead to the pope to please scrape some of the gold on the ceilings that was put up there due to the indulgences and maybe feed the poor...
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