I know you might be confused – “What? Deborah is giving out Charles Darwin’s ‘Origin of Species’! Are you kidding me?”

Well, I think it is only fair to give both sides of an argument. Ray Comfort, of Living Waters, has taken Charles Darwin’s original book and added a 50 page special introduction. This includes the History of evolution, Timelines of Darwin’s life, Intelligent Design vs. Evolution, as well as a clear gospel message. You can hear more about the Special Edition here.

If you want to buy some to donate to your library or local school then you can buy them here.

You can see how God blessed us in Oxford below.

Have a great day,

Deborah Drapper

As a result of the Documentary “Deborah 13: Servant of God” I have been invited out to meet with some of the people who have most influenced my Christian life. The first week I meet with Ray Comfort and the ‘Way of the Master’ team, and even get to join him on the streets doing outreach. Then I fly over to Florida to meet with Eric Hovind from Creation Science Evangelism ministry and then Rick Wiles of TruNews.

If you want to keep up with our trip you can see what we’re up to on Bible-matters twitter. Look down the left hand side of the Bible-Matters page and follow our tweets.

Thank you to everyone who has made this trip possible and I’ll try and write again after I get home.

Have a great day,

Deborah Drapper

The first week will be spent with some very good friends then Dad and I go to meet Ray Comfort and the Way of the Master evangelism team while Kirsty continues with our friends. Ray Comfort will let you know more about what we will be doing as you listen to a short clip from a recent radio interview below….

The second week we all fly from Los Angeles, on the West coast, across to Florida, on the East coast, and share a few days fellowshipping with Eric Hovind from Creation Science Evangelism ministry. I am really looking forward to being able to ask him lots of questions about creation and evolution and visit their creation museum/Dinosaur Adventure-land.

From here we fly again down to West Palm Beach where we meet Rick Wiles from TruNews Radio and may be his son who has been researching Noah’s Ark. On the Saturday Rick will be showing us his new 1000 seater mission tent.

We set off from America on the Sunday evening and arrive back in Great Britain at lunch time on Monday!!

It will be such an amazing opportunity and privilege to meet so many Godly people who are excited about God and the Bible.

So many of you have invited us to pop in and stop off at your houses. Thank you, but unfortunately there just wouldn’t be time on this trip. If anyone happens to be in Los Angeles, Pensacola, or West Palm Beach when we are then please contact me and it would be great to meet up and chat if we can fit it in.

Have a great day,

Deborah Drapper

This week I have been working on an article for a magazine called Earthen Vessels. This is a quarterly print magazine edited and published by an 18 year old, homeschool graduate, Emily Berge, and it’s purpose is to encourage, educate, and strengthen our commitment, as Christians, to the Great Commission.

Articles are written by adults, youth, and children, and frequently include topics such as large families, adoption, missions, and teens who are pro-actively making a difference.

If you would like to order a copy of this magazine then send your details to: Earthen Vessels, c/o Emily Berger, RR4, Lacombe AB, T4L 2N4, Canada

Or email djberger@platinum.ca

I hope you manage to get your own copy of this magazine and encourage Emily in her amazing publication.

“But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us.” 2 Corinthians 4:7

Have a great day,

Deborah Drapper

“If God is the so called “Supreme Being”, why is there War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime and corruption?”

This is a question that I have received several times in my emails so I thought I would post the answer on here so others can read my answer.

There hasn’t always been War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime and corruption. In Genesis Chapter one we hear the account of how God created the Earth. Several times He says that it was good, but in Verse 31 it says, “And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.” Everything that God made was perfect.

So what happened?
Adam and Eve, the first Man and Woman, were allowed to live in the garden of Eden and were given the fruit of EVERY tree in the garden to eat, except for ONE: The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

But Satan, disguised as a serpent, tricked Eve by lying to her, and she disobeyed God. She ate the fruit from that tree and gave some to Adam to eat too. They had disobeyed the one rule that God had made. They had disobeyed God. Now because God is Holy and righteous (without sin) He has to punish sin and He judged Adam and Eve. (You can read these judgements in detail in Genesis Chapter 3) Basically their sin brought death into the world. Instant spiritual death and also the beginning of physical death.

So what has that to do with War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime and corruption?
The events that took place in the garden of Eden were the beginning of all these things. Sin, hatred, sickness disease etc all became worse and worse and all people will now die. The ultimate proof of your sin is your death. (Romans 6:23, “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”)

In a way death was a gift from God to escape from this wicked sinful world. Possibly God had to throw Adam and Eve out of the garden so they didn’t eat of the fruit of the Tree of Life because if they had they may have been stuck on this earth forever. Now we can get rid of these sinful bodies and be given new bodies. This world is going to get worse and worse until finally Jesus returns to destroy this fallen earth and make a new earth. In the meantime if we recognise our sin, repent of it, ask Jesus to take our punishment for us, then trust in Him, we can have eternal life with God.

Why is it God’s fault?
If you drive down the road and see a car all crashed up and bent with it’s windows smashed, do you say, ” Hey, Henry Ford, why is that car like that? You made it, it must be your fault!!” No! It isn’t Henry Ford’s fault that the car is in a mess. Neither is it God’s fault that the world is in a mess. When He made it, it was perfect. He gave man the opportunity to live in the garden of Eden, in a perfect paradise, for as long as they wanted. No suffering, no weeds, no backache!! But they chose to sin against God. They only had one rule and they sinned!! Just like you and I would have done too. Wars are caused by hatred and greed in man’s heart, as is hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime and corruption.

As well as God’s curse on mankind He also cursed the ground, and the earth is groaning as it falls apart. There are going to be more earthquakes, disasters, disease, etc. The only thing God promises He will never do again is flood the whole earth with water, as He did in Noah’s day. The flood was God’s judgement on wicked man and He gave mankind the chance to start again and guess what we did? Exactly the same as we did before. The Bible says that God is going to destroy this earth, and make a New Heaven and a New earth. We don’t know exactly when God is going to do this, but He gives us signs to look out for and it appears that there isn’t much time left. God is very patient and is giving people the chance to turn to Him first, but one day He will keep His word and it will be too late.

So instead of asking, “Why is there so much suffering in the world?” shouldn’t the question be, “Why doesn’t God just destroy us all? Why does He allow us to drink a cool glass of water and see a beautiful sunset?”

God is very patient. As we see a glimpse of what God’s wrath is going to be like we need to count it as a warning of what is to come. God made Hell for the devil and his angels, but God can’t and wont let sinners in to Heaven. The results of our sin is hurting others around the world, but most of all it is hurting God. He will not force anyone to come to Him, but He wants us to look around and see the results of our sin and call out to Him.

If you want to follow through a study that will help you understand better you can go to Finding God’s Way. This is a 4 lesson study from the Bible that will explain what God has done for you in more detail.

I hope this has helped to answer some of your questions. If you have any further questions after you have gone through Finding God’s Way then let me know.

Have a great day

Deborah Drapper

Take a look at Paul Grover’s website and see some of the suffering caused by wars and conflicts around the world today. Paul is an amazing photographer that I met when “The Telegraph” did an article about me back in March. Thanks Paul for letting me use your photo.

I would like to ask these Christians a few questions.

1. The Biblical account of Creation in Genesis seems very specific with six days of creative activity, each having an evening and a morning. Also the Biblical account of creation has the order all wrong according to the evolutionary view. Do you think that God should have inspired an account more in keeping with evolution, the truth as you see it, if He did use evolution to create everything? Why do you think God had an account recorded that was not accurate to the evolution view?
2. The Bible says that Adam was created from “the dust of the ground” and when he died he would ” return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.” If you believe that the dust Adam was created from represents an ape from which he evolved, did he turn back into an ape when he died?
3. According to the evolutionist’s understanding, the fossil record shows death, disease and bloodshed before people. Doesn’t that mean that if you believe that evolution is the way God used to create the earth then you cannot believe the Bible when it says in Romans 5 :12, “Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:” and in Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death”? If death and suffering didn’t arise from Adam’s sin and the resulting curse then how can Jesus’ suffering and physical death pay the penalty for sin and give us eternal life, as the Bible clearly says in 1 Corinthians 15:21 and 22, “For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.”
4. If the Genesis account of Creation, The Fall, the origin of Nations, the Flood, and the Tower of Babel – the first 11 chapters – are not historical, although they are written as historical narrative and understood by Jesus to be so, what other parts of the Bible do you disregard? What herminutical principle do you use to determine what is myth and what is historical narrative?
5. If God created an evolutionary world, so that it is getting better and more perfect over a long time period, why should God want to destroy it and create, “new heavens and a new earth” (2Peter 3:13, Rev 21:1)
6. As I understand it, Darwin formulated the evolution theory to eliminate God from the realm of biological origins. Isn’t it a bit strange to try and put God (Theism) with evolution (naturalism)? If God created using the mode invented to make Him unnecessary, how can God’s “eternal power and Godhead” be “Clearly seen” in creation as Romans 1:20 says?
7. In Genesis 1:31 God describes His just-finished creation as “very good”. How do you understand the goodness of God if He used evolution, ‘death, destruction and survival of the fittest’ to create everything?
8. As I understand it, there is no purpose, no direction and no goal in evolution. The God of the Bible is all about purpose. How do you reconcile the purposelessness of evolution with the purposes of God? What does God have to do in an evolutionary world? Is not God an unnecessary hypothesis?
9. If you read the Genesis account of Creation, without an evolutionary mind-set, what do you actually discover about the way God created the universe? Doesn’t God warn about adding to scripture? If you cannot come up with evolution as the means of creation without outside, extra teaching, shouldn’t you be very careful?
10. Why do we use the word ‘Universe’? Doesn’t it mean ’single – Uni, spoken sentence – verse’? “And God said ‘Let there be…’”

Have a great day,

Deborah Drapper

What is Science?

Science means ‘to know’. The dictionary definitions tend to focus on systematic classification and careful collection of data: Things that can be observed, tested, and demonstrated.

Why are there lies in our text books?

So why is there so much that isn’t science being taught in our school’s science lesson? Why are there so many lies in our text books? And why are there still displays in our national museums that teach these lies as facts?

‘Lucy’

Last June I took a trip to the National History Museum in London.

As you can see the original bones of ‘Lucy’ are on display for all to see. What they forget to tell you though, in the little explanation underneath, is that there is much controversy over whether ‘Lucy’ is the ‘missing link’ between humans and apes or whether she is just simply another chimpanzee.

Donald Johanson used some very bold and imaginative language concerning his find and was very confident in his claims that ‘Lucy’ walked upright.

Perhaps these claims were a bit premature. More data has since been discovered which conflicts with Johanson’s hypothesis. Now Johanson has two choices. He either has to discard his earlier hypothesis and admit that ‘Lucy’ never walked up right, or he has to find a plausible explanation for the observations that conflict his hypothesis.

To add to his problems ‘Lucy’ is not even made up from one skeleton, but is several different finds pieced together. In fact, I believe the knee bone was found one year earlier, one and a half miles away, and in a completely different layer of strata, from where the rest of her was found. A real scientist would not put that knee bone with that skeleton. A real scientist would be brave enough to admit that ‘Lucy’, as she is, is not scientific. There is no evidence that she is a ‘missing link’ or an ancestor of humans.

Are you being lied to?

If you have Advanced Biology by Michael Roberts, Michael Reiss, and Grace Monger, then you have been lied to. Check out page 772 and see a lovely picture of Lucy! How many more lies are they telling you as facts? I can spot at least TEN!

If you would like to receive a free DVD called “Lies in the Text Books” which exposes the lies, and gives you the real science, then please contact me with your address and I will send one to you free of charge. Or you can check out a leaflet called “Are you being Brainwashed?”

Further Reading

A Case for Creation by Frair and Davis

Evolution: the fossils Still say NO by Duane T. Gish

Scientific Creationism by Henry M. Morris

Icons of Evolution by Jonathan Wells

Evolution: the Challenge of the Fossil Record by Duane T. Gish

Research Sites

Creation Science Evangelism

Answers in Genesis

Creation Science Movement

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Have a great day,

Deborah Drapper

The commenter said:
“There is one Bible story in particular that I find difficult to accept as an actual event which in turn sheds doubt in general with regard to accepting the Bible as a literal record. Noah’s ark. Even with today’s technology I’m relatively sure it would be difficult, if not impossible, to build a vessel capable of housing two of each living thing on earth. Additionally there is the matter of food and water and keeping prey animals separate from their prey. The sheer size and logistics are a bit mind boggling.”

So, how was it done and is it possible?
Let us first have a look and see what the Bible says.

“And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth. 14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. 15 And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. 16 A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.” Genesis 6:13-16 (KJV)

So what was the Ark to be like?
Length 300 cubits, Breadth 50 cubits, Height 30 cubits, with 3 floors, rooms, one window and one door. Pitched or waterproofed inside and out.

A cubit is the measurement from the elbow to the end of your fingers. The standard cubit is 18 inches, though there is some evidence for a very much bigger measurement for the cubit that is used. But lets work to the 18 inch cubit.

Length 300 cubits = 450 feet or 137.16 M
Breadth 50 cubits = 75 feet or 22.86 M
Height 30 cubits = 45 feet or 13.71 M
450 x 75 = 33,750 square feet per deck with 3 decks.
33,750 x 3 = 101,250 square feet of flooring that is 9,406.464 square meters of flooring.
633, 20ft shipping containers (TEU, Twenty-foot equivalent unit) in floor space. That is something like 316 modern articulated lorries.

On November 26, 1955 the purpose-built container ship Clifford J. Rodgers, only carried 600 containers between North Vancouver, British Columbia and Skagway, Alaska. Just about the same size as the Ark in cargo. The first purpose-built container ship in the United States was the Ideal-X, a T2 tanker, owned by Malcom McLean, which carried just 58 metal containers between Newark, New Jersey and Houston, Texas on its first voyage, in April 1956. Today we build ships that carry over 9,000 TEU
So the Ark was big. Not by today’s supper ships, but compared to the normal pictures you see of Noah’s Ark.

So could two of every animal and seven of a few fit in?
What does the Bible say?

“Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.” Genesis 6:20 (KJV)

Only two of every kind, (kind probably being like dog kind not two of every breed). And they would come to Noah, he would not have to find them. If they are supernaturally coming to Noah, it is also possible that they would not fight and many may hibernate.

What we need to know is, ‘How many animals are we talking about?’, ‘What size are they?’ etc.
It is estimated that there are about 16,000 “kinds.” of animal. (there are 400-something dog breeds but they all belong to one species (Canis familiaris), in the same way many species can belong to one kind.) Looking at mammals, birds, amphibians and reptiles, the leading systematic biologist, Ernst Mayr, gives the number as 17,600. Allowing for two of each species on the ark, plus seven of the few so-called “clean” kinds of animals, plus a reasonable increment for known extinct species, it is probable that not more than say, 50,000 animals would have needed to be on the ark.

Most of these animals would have been smaller than a sheep. Remember that even the largest dinosaurs were relatively small when babies or only a few years old. Scholars agree that there was plenty of room for all of the animals on the ark, plus food and water with room to spare.

How long would it take to build?
When talking about Noah having had to build this boat in 6 months or even 6 years, it appears that Noah was given 120 years to get this huge operation together: ship, food, water, animals etc.

“And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.” Genesis 6:3 (KJV)

Sound like a long time? Noah lived to 950 years old.

So what is the message of the Ark for us today?

The flood really happened. God judged the world for it’s sinfulness. Today the flood is a reminder for us of God’s judgement.

Mankind had rejected God and was living a life of sin. The flood, and the remains of it that we can see today in the rocks, is a reminder to us of the fact that God does and will judge sin.

“Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” Galatians 6:7

The Ark was provided by the grace of God.

“But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.” Genesis 6:8 (KJV)

Before the flood came God provided Noah a way in which he could escape. Not because Noah was perfect, but because of God’s grace. God does not change. He is still a righteous judge. He must judge sin, yet He is still merciful and “takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked.” (Ezekiel 33:11) Through His grace He has provided us a way to escape before judgement comes.

“God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” John 3:16

The ark had only one door.

“…and set the door of the ark in its side.” – Genesis 6:16

There were two groups of people during the time of the flood – those inside the Ark, before the flood arrived, and those who were outside.

Today there are two groups of people – those in Jesus, forgiven by his death and those who are outside. Those outside, do not think of themselves as outside, they are the ‘normal’ ones. Until the judgement comes! Only then do they see that they are outside. Jesus is the only way to get from the outside to the inside.

“I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved… ” (John 10:9)

“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” John 14:6

“Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” Acts 4:12

There is much more that could be said:

God invited them in, and God was there with them: “And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark…” Genesis 7:1 (KJV)

They were secure inside the Ark “… and the LORD shut him in.” Genesis 7:16, once God shut the door it was shut and no one else could enter.

Jesus is coming back soon and it will be just like it was when the flood hit.

“37 But as the days of Noe, [Noah], were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. 38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, 39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.” Matthew 24:37-39

So as you look at the fossil record, with it’s billions of dead things, buried in rock layers, laid down by water, all over the Earth, think about the flood and God’s judgement past and coming.

To find out how to be in God’s grace and escape His future judgement you might like to look at ‘Finding God’s Way’.

Further reading.
http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/am/v2/n2/caring-for-the-animals
http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/am/v2/n2/two-of-every-kind
Noah’s Ark: A Feasibility Study by John Woodmorappe
With over 1,200 scholarly references to academic studies. Woodmorappe claims that after years of systematically examining all of the questions which have been raised over the years, “all of the arguments against the Ark are… found wanting. In fact, the vast majority of the anti-Ark arguments, at first superficially plausible, turn out to be easily invalidated.”
The Genesis Flood by Henry Morris and John Whitcomb.
The Genesis Record by Henry M. Morris.

Images of possible Ark site, Anchor Stones, and how they were used.