Wow, my mind is just blown away right now. Don Landis came and spoke on apologetics today. We sent in questions that people have asked us in the past and we sat for three hours straight while being absolutely mesmerized by the passionate and enlightening words coming out of his mouth. I need to digest all of this material so I can actually do the lecture justice. I feel so much more at ease about any concept that is hard to grasp because God is infinite and we are finite. We're never ever going to understand the gospel and all it's truths apart from the Holy Spirit. Our logic is sheer foolishness without it. And I love how Dan explained that reason and faith work together to reaffirm the Word. Also, God had an initial "problem". He created us and because of our finite brains...even if we have brains the size of South America, we still couldn't understand the gospel. So how do we understand at least the basic concepts of the gospel so we can know and be in fellowship with him here in this cursed earth? This is where faith comes to the rescue. In Revelations it is said that every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that He is Lord. Everyone, believer, non-believer, agnostic, muslim, will confess that the Lord is sovereign because they finally see it. So many us struggle with believing in things we can't see. If we wait to believe in things after we've seen them, then we will not be entering the kingdom of God. It is through faith alone in our Lord Jesus Christ that salvation comes.

That's only one question of the 17 that we addressed. We discussed Big Bang Theory, free will v. sovereignty, why God lets people go to Hell, etc, etc. I'm just so energized and enthused!

A side note on the why God lets people go to hell and it seems unfair. Or for that matter, why does God save someone who is a good person and is saved early and also those who have their great epiphany very late in life. Was it fair that Jesus died and suffered the price of our sin? Who are we to reject His salvation because we think we're better than others and are comparing ourselves through works?

I'm just on a roll and there will be more to come. I'll let this simmer with you guys for a bit and I'll post all the different books that we suggested too.

Not to mention we went outside and there was a new moon, so it was dark and the stars looked spectacular! Clear skies, I saw so many more stars that it was difficult to find the big dipper. I saw a falling star, a satellite or something (it just looked like a moving star across the sky), and all of it just screams "Glory to God!"

I'm incredibly pumped and more to come!