Who Was Luke?

This clip is taken from the sermon "Eyewitness to Jesus," preached by Pastor Mark Driscoll at the Mars Hill Church Ballard campus in Seattle, Washington, on September 20, 2009. It is the 1st sermon in our sermon series, "Luke's Gospel: Investigating the Man Who Is God."

To watch the full sermon, visit: http://www.marshillchurch.org/media/luke/eyewitness-to-jesus

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[albotrossable]

@Toledosteal BUT plants were not created before light. no, it doesnt make sence. but then, neither does the spontaneouse explosion of nothing (the big bang).

you also have to take into account a thing called "alligorical stories." these are stories that are not always true, but have a truth within them. this was common throughout the ancient world, and is still used today. genesis 1 says God made us. thats all that realy matters.

also, the bible does not say that the earth is flat.

[DivineNewsNetwork]

Great video... God Bless

[JarlEadwulf]

Try doing a tertiary course in geology, it just might open your eyes.

[Toledosteal]

Yes and a flat earth would appear as a circle from high above. 1 Samuel 2:8 also says that the earth sits on pillars. Last time I checked, no pillars. Oh but wait the parts that are dead wrong are just metaphors right? In genesis plants are created before the sun...truth or just metaphor? Or just plain wrong.

I think you know the answer.

[monuorah]

Regarding the last part of your statement, Isaiah 40:22a clearly states, "He (God) sits enthroned above the circle of the earth." proving that a biblical prophet knew the shape of the earth 2,200 years before Magellan proved it. There are plenty of verses within the Bible that list scientific truths long before scientists did, particularly in the books of Job, Ecclesiastes, Leviticus, Hebrews, and 2 Peter.

[LStrachey]

Is it logistically impossible to place animals in a box of that size, for that long? Why? I don't know who told you that there is no evidence for catastrophic flood(s) all over the earth. I've been told there are a great many fossils, laid down by flood water, all over the place. How do you know that there wasn't one big flood? Ancient stories of *a* great flood come from all over the place. Lots of people from few? -- no birth control then? Don't know the time scale -- not told.

[Toledosteal]

The evidence for the flood is absurdity. Apart from the logistical impossibility of cramming that many animals onto a boat for a year, there is no geological or genetic evidence to support it and human cultures have existed without interruption for thousands of years prior to the flood. Do you believe the flood really happened on a global scale around 4400 years ago and from a TINY population all the human variation we see could have come about?

[LStrachey]

'evolution' -- I don't spell well at 5am with virus

[LStrachey]

Colin Patterson was not a creationist -- he was a fish fossil expert with the Natural History Museum, London. I think you mentioned 6000 years, I didn't. Do you have answers for my questions about how you *know* the things you believe are true (apart from what is 'currently' understood -- which seems to deny a number of concurrent, different understandings). Eg., How do you know there was no flood?

[Toledosteal]

Your last sentence just shows an incredible misunderstanding of the universe as we currently understand it. The universe was not created 6000 years ago, there was no flood, and evolution is a perfectly natural and well understood process. I have no interest in arguing with people who actually bite down on apologetic tripe and call it 'truth.'