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The orner Post March 4, A.D. 2018 Weekly Bulletin for Cornerstone Presbyterian Church cornerstonehobart.com
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Welcome to Cornerstone! Today at Church we examine Day Five
of Creation, where God creates living
souls, and fills the seas and the
firmament of Heaven with swarms of
teaming, abundant life.
Genesis 1:20-23
And God said, Let the water teem with
living creatures, and let birds fly above
the earth across the vault of the sky. 21
So God created the great creatures of the
sea and every living thing with which
the water teems and that moves about in
it, according to their kinds, and every
winged bird according to its kind. And
God saw that it was good. 22 God
blessed them and said, Be fruitful and
increase in number and fill the water in
the seas, and let the birds increase on the
earth. 23 And there was evening, and
there was morningthe fifth day.
Life, Uh, Finds a Way by Dan Probert
Our Pastor often jokes that here at
Cornerstone, he is surrounded by
engineers. Several of our elders have
backgrounds in engineering, many
people here in our congregation works
as engineers, many of our best and
brightest children are studying or aspire
to study engineering. And then theres
me, Dan, the most recent in a long line
of MTS apprentices here at Cornerstone
to have studied an engineering before
coming to the ministry. I remember
being quite surprised when I first came
to Cornerstone by just how many
engineers there were. It left me
wondering whether there something
about Christianity that was inherently
attractive to engineers, or, conversely,
whether there was something inherent in
Christianity that nudged Christians
towards engineering. Sitting in the pews
a couple of weeks ago listening to the
pastor preach about day three, I finalised
realised what that something was.
The word engineer can be traced back
through Middle English and Old French
to the Medieval Latin ingenium, having
the same root as the word ingenious
through the Old Latin verb gign and
Ancient Greek (ggnomai),
meaning, I beget, I give birth to, I
produce, or I cause. Now Prince
Phillip, The Duke of Edinburgh, is,
among many other things, a Senior
Fellow of the Royal Academy of
Engineering. In an interview for the
BBC a couple of years ago, he quite
rightly remarked that everything not
invented by God is invented by an
engineer.
We often tend to identify God foremost
with the office of judge, and we are
right to do so. But he is more than that.
The God we meet in Genesis 1, the very
first way which God choose to reveal
himself to mankind in sacred scripture,
is not as a lawgiver, but as a Creator.
The God of the Bible, the God of
Genesis 1, the God of the Fifth Day, is
an engineer, begetting, giving birth to,
producing, and causing the Heavens, the
Earth, and Life itself.
On Day One, we saw God create Light,
and separate it from the darkness. Then
on Day Four, we saw God create the
Sun, and the Moon and Stars, to be the
receptacles of that light, to govern the
Light of Day and the Darkness of Night
respectively.
Likewise, on Day Two, we saw how
God divided the chaotic, primordial
waters by means of a firmament, a
solid thing, into the Heavens above,
and the waters and sky below. And now
we start to see a pattern emerge as we
reach Day 5, where God fills the seas
and the skies with a teaming, swarming,
abundant life of fish and birds of living
souls. I do say souls purposefully.
20 And God said, Let the water teem
with living creatures, and let birds fly
above the earth across the vault of the
sky.
The majority of English translations
describe living creatures or living
beings in verse 20. However both the
Hebrew (nephesh chay) and the Greek
of the LXX ( , psychon
zoson) are better and more literally
rendered as living souls. You see, in
Hebraic thought, this soul is not
something that is peculiar to man, but is
possessed by all animate beings - fish,
bird, animals, and humans. If fact, its
use seems to indicate that it is not
something that is so much possessed by
animals and humans, as something that
animals and human are. That is the
birds and fish are nephesh (souls),
possessing chay (life). In this sense
though, it can be thought of sentience,
creatures that think, feel, and move -
hence why fish and bird are nephesh,
but the vegetation of Day Three is not.
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The overwhelming picture here, though,
is that of abundance. The waters are to
be filled with swarms of creatures, and
birds are to flock across the face of the
expanse of heaven - a vibrant, dynamic
creation.
21 So God created the great
creatures of the sea and
every living thing with which
the water teems and that
moves about in it, according
to their kinds, and every
winged bird according to its
kind. And God saw that it
was good.
In verse 21, not only the
abundance, but the diversity of
creation is emphasised.
The Hebrew words tannin
gadowl (LXX , kete ta
megala) have had a diverse and
interesting translation history. The most
literal translation of the Hebrew is a
long reptile (the term is also sometimes
used for large land reptiles), whilst the
Greek perhaps is best rendered the
great whales. Other translations have
used variously sea-monster, sea-
beasts, or even dragons. Literally we
can picture here all the great leviathans
of the deep, the whales, the dolphins,
crocodiles, and even the giant squid and
other monstrosities.
In the Book of Jonah, when Jonah flees
from Gods command, and takes to the
seas, Gods sovereignty is
asserted as he sends a terrible
storm to sink the ship. When
Jonah admits to the other
mariners who he is, he tells
them, I worship the Lord, the
God of heaven, who made the
sea and the dry land. And sure
enough, when his fellow
travellers throw him overboard,
the God of the Fifth Day sends
a huge fish, the same
of Genesis 1:21, to
swallow him, and imprison him
for three days and nights, before
delivering him, alive and well, to
the dry land again. Here we see yet
again the way Gods creation serves
him, the Creator.
On a more poetic note, we can think of
the great sea beasts of Pagan mythology.
In The Odyssey, Odysseus faces all
manner of sea monsters, such as the
Charybdis, the fearsome daughter of
Poseidon and Gaia, who sucked ships
down into the deep, and Scylla, a six-
headed, twelve-legged serpent-like
creature. Likewise Perseus faces Cetus,
and there are other, even more horrible
beasts, like the multi-headed Hydra,
with the power to regenerate its heads,
poisonous breath, and blood so potent
that even the smell of it could kills a
man. The Greeks of antiquity feared
these beasts awfully. They were often
the offspring of the gods, and could
sometimes only be appeased by human
sacrifices. But in Genesis, this Pagan
narrative is completely subverted. The
sea-monsters are shown to be just
another part of the created order, created
by God and subservient to his will. The
Psalmist writes (Psalm 8):
25 There is the sea, vast and spacious,
teeming with creatures beyond
number living things both large and
small. 26 There the ships go to and fro,
and Leviathan, which you formed to
frolic there. 27 All creatures look to you
to give them their food at the proper
time. 28 When you give it to them,
they gather it up; when you open your
hand, they are satisfied with good
things. 29 When you hide your face,
they are terrified; when you take
away their breath, they die and return to
the dust.
And the ordinary birds and fish too -
creatures often deified in the Pagan
religions - are also shown to be just
another part of the Creation which God
has made for humanity, his image
bearers, to rule over.
How wonderful this must have sounded
to the first readers of this text, the
ancient Israelites, wandering
the deserts of Sinai! In the
Egyptian pantheon, as in many
other Pagan religions, the
anthropomorphic animal-gods
ruled over human affairs, and
the animals associated with
the various deities were often
afforded a status of reverence.
Birds were treated like gods,
whilst Gods own chosen
people were under a yoke of
slavery! But now this people,
coming out of the slavery and
journeying towards their
inheritance in the promised
were faced with this wonderful reality:
they were not servants to the birds and
fish, not even to the great monsters of
the deep! These were just another small
part of Gods massive, abundant, and
diverse creation - a creation he made for
his own glory, and as a habitation for his
own image bearers.
The events of Exodus 7 would have
been fresh in the minds of these first
readers. When God first wanted to
punish the people of Egypt, what did he
first turn to, but the Nile river, turning
its waters to blood, and killing all the
fish, simultaneously asserting his
preeminence over the created order, and
destroying a massive section of
the Egyptians livelihood.
We are also told that God made
according to their kinds, and
again, the wonderful diversity of
creation shines through, of birds,
of flying insects, of fish, and
other sea creatures. A few weeks
ago I went spear fishing for the
first time, and I was
understandably quite proud when
I was able to spear a
leatherjacket fish. Now for
someone who spent for years of
their life at our national Maritime
College, I dont know a lot about fish,
so when I saw this quite large, but ugly,
dopey looking fish gliding along, I
thought to myself, this is fair game. It
wasnt until later that I found out that,
even though you can eat leatherjacket,
you probably dont want to if you can
avoid it.
God could have just created
leatherjackets. But instead created
salmon and scallops, whales and
walruses, dolphins and dugong, trout
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and tuna, oysters and octopi! Likewise,
he could, if he so wished, limited
himself to the ibis: a picnic wrecking,
dumpster diving, bin-chicken. A burden
on humanity. But instead we get
woodpeckers, bluebirds, and sparrows,
crows, cockatoos, and chickens, geese
and doves, penguins and swans, and all
the awesome birds of prey. Like the
vegetation of Day Three - God could
have just created potatoes for us to eat,
but instead gave us all manner of fruit
and vegetables, plus flowers and other
trees clothed with beauty - we are
presented with an incredible range of
creatures, a real testament to the
intelligence and genius of our God.
Similarly with the bird and the fish and
the insects, we see that some are for us
meat and providers of eggs, some are
pets, and some, like bees, provide what
the ecologists call ecosystem services
like pollination.
We see the power of the God of the
Fifth Day in Numbers 11. The people of
Israel have been wandering the deserts,
and God has been providing them with
manna, the bread of Heaven to live off.
And, perhaps understandably, the
people are beginning to crave meat, and
complain to Moses before God, saying,
If only we had meat to eat! Remember
all the free fish we ate in Egypt and the
cucumbers, watermelons, leeks, onions,
and garlic we had? But now weve lost
our appetite! Everywhere we look
theres nothing but manna!
And when Moses comes before God,
God is angry with the people, and
replies, I will give them meat. 19 They
wont eat it just for one or two days, or
five, or ten, or twenty days, 20 but for a
whole month, until it comes out of their
ears and theyre sick of it. And Moses
is doubtful, saying, Would they have
enough if all the flocks and herds were
butchered for them? Would they have
enough if all the fish in the sea were
caught for them?
But this is the God of the Fifth Day
Moses is addressing, he made the fish
and the bird and all the earth, he replies,
Is there a limit to the Lords power?
Of course not. God sends a wind from
the sea bearing quail birds upon its
wings, and we are told that they are
cover the earth, three feet deep for over
a days walk around the Israelites
camp. They are almost literally
swimming in birds.
22 God blessed them and said, Be
fruitful and increase in number and
fill the water in the seas, and let the
birds increase on the earth. 23 And
there was evening, and there was
morningthe fifth day.
Each of the previous five acts of
Creation had received the Divine
affirmation, And God saw that it was
good. And the sixth act is no exception.
But now we encounter something else
completely new, and something far
more: the first blessing of the Bible. The
fish and the birds are the first living
souls, ruling over the realm of the seas
and the airs, the first animate beings,
possessing more than that mere bios
() of the plants, the z () of
sentient life, possessing, to a degree,
thought and will. And so God blesses
them, and gives them a commandment.
The previous creative acts had all been
simply passive parts of Gods world,
now, instead, we see the first active
participants in Gods Divine plan for the
universe. It is Gods will that his living
creations should thrive in the realms
which he has created for them.
We see that two main themes have
emerged: Gods sovereignty, and Gods
providence. These themes only become
clearer when we look at the Gospels. In
the sermon today, we will look at how
the God of the Fifth Day became
himself a living soul and walked
amongst his creations.
Membership Classes
After church over five weeks.
Commencing with Nathaniel
Richardson 18th March.
Annual Congregational
Meeting immediately after
church on Sunday 25th
March.
Ladies Morning Tea
Guest speaker: Karen Fair
Date: 17/03/2018 at 10am
at Cornerstone
Please bring a plate to share
We are going to be taking
donations for Cambodia
(Fencing project)
RSVP: Cristiane Baker
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Our next book club is going to be
at Bethany's home (24 Tetraheca
Drive, Kingston) on Saturday
17th March at 8.30am for
breakfast. We'll be discussing the
book 'Perfect Sinners' by Matt
Fuller. You can purchase a copy
from John Jansen. EVERYONE is
welcome. Please contact Amy for
more
details: [email protected]
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GROWTH GROUPS
Study the Bible in a small midweek group!
Wednesday Night in Kingston
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Phil Hague Preaching Dates
Please pray for Phil as he preaches today at
Mt Stuart, next Sunday at Riverview Lodge,
and Easter Sunday at the Overseas Christian
Fellowship Camp.
Part One of a review by Stefanie
Mapley of Patrick Sookhdeos 2017
THE DEATH OF WESTERN
CHRISTIANITY
A.W. Tozer Why is Christianity dying?
When a fish goes bad, the rot starts at
the head and then spreads to the body.
Since the 1960s, Christian leaders have
progressively betrayed the gospel.
Today the Church is scarcely
distinguishable from society.
What one generation tolerates the next
generation will embrace. John Wesley
Humanism stormed Western society to
the cult of fragmented individualism,
making the word society sound strange
and unfamiliar. Humanism bulldozed
Biblical morality and replaced it with
licensed permissiveness. Humanism
offered a new distorted prism through
which the brave new West could view
the Church. Christians were no longer
seen as the good guys but as the bad
guys or at best the laughably foolish
guys.
A relativism that is not only post-
Christian but inherently and
intentionally anti-Christian has replaced
Christianity. This relativism has
demolished Christian virtues and
labelled them unenlightened, backward,
intolerant, sexist, exclusivist, bigoted,
homophobic, transphobia,
Islamophobic, and in some cases,
illegal. The tables have been upturned as
social mores once regarded as immoral
and sinful under the influence of
Christianity, are now normalised and
celebrated. Worse still, the West exports
its increasingly immoral, values and
ideals across the world.
WESTERN CULTURE TODAY
Oprah shapes more of the nations grasp
of right and wrong than most of the
pulpits of the land. D.A. Carson
Culture is the collective beliefs, values,
worldviews and way of life specific to a
group of people.
What are the ideologies, philosophies
and worldview responsible for the
collective programming of the
Western mind in a post-Christian age?
ATHEISM
Western culture has shifted from a
Christian worldview to a culture that is
not merely indifferent to God, but
militantly campaigns against belief in a
supernatural or transcendent being.
Christopher Hitchens, along with
Oxford biologist Richard Dawkins,
American philosopher and
neuroscientist Sam Harris and American
philosopher and cognitive scientist
Daniel Dennett have come to be known
as the four horsemen of the atheist
apocalypse. (continued in insert)
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What do atheists look like? The
majority are Western, white, middle
class, university educated men. In
addressing this lack of diversity and
trying to spread their ideology across
racial, gender, social and educational
boundaries, they suggest co-opting the
ongoing implementation of the UN
System Wide Action Plan on Gender
Equality and the Empowerment of
Women as one strategy to promote
atheism. This exposes the United
Nations involvement in spreading
atheism, albeit thinly veiled by the noble
cause of gender equality.
MORAL RELATIVISM
It is not for anyone to question or judge
the behaviour, actions and decisions of
anyone else. What you believe is true
for you. What I believe is true for me.
What may be right for one person in one
situation can be wrong for another
person in the same situation.
Christianity has, for the most part, been
removed as the moral norm of culture
and replaced with a new moral code,
which consists of six tenets:
The best way of finding yourself is
by looking within yourself.
People should not criticise someone
elses life choices.
To be fulfilled in life, you should
pursue the things you desire most.
The highest goal of life is to enjoy it
as much as possible.
People can believe whatever they
want, as long as those beliefs dont
affect society.
Any kind of sexual expression
between two consenting adults is
acceptable.
POSTMODERNISM
This is linked to moral relativism but
goes deeper. It rejects moral absolutes;
it rejects all absolutes. Indeed, the very
idea of absolute truth is considered
fiction. Worse still, truth claims are in
reality claims to power. Truth is
subjective and plural. Consequently,
there is no fixed meaning to text,
authority, thought, norm or reality.
Everything, including the Bible, is open
to multiple interpretations. No
interpretation can be final or definitive.
Our view of reality is entirely a matter
of perspective. Individuals construct
their own truths. Reason is suspect.
Feelings trump facts. Experience and
emotion supersede empiricism or
reality.
PLURALISM
This is the view that all cultures,
religions, beliefs, norms and practices
are equally valid - even if they
contradict each other. For a culture to
claim it is better than another culture is
cultural imperialism. Faced with the
diversity of many races, religions,
cultures and beliefs, pluralists insist that
pluralism is the only path to peaceful
coexistence. Postmodernists are also
pluralists.
HEDONISM
This is the pursuit of pleasure for
pleasures sake. Pleasure is seen as lifes
utmost goal. Hedonism is a logical
outcome of atheism. If there is neither
God nor afterlife, this life should be
lived to its fullest. Unbridled sensual
pleasure becomes a substitute for the
happiness, meaning and fulfilment that
comes from a relationship with God.
Anything that causes pain, discomfort or
inconvenience must be eliminated.
Pleasure is no longer a desire, it
becomes a right.
CONSUMERISM AND
MATERIALISM
Materialism is the belief that nothing
exists except matter. Hence, matter is all
that matters and possessions bring
happiness. This has become a key
feature of Western culture. A persons
worth is measured by what they can
acquire rather than goals such as
character development, service to
humanity, generosity, righteousness,
wisdom and close relationships with
others.
I buy, therefore, I am. Shop until you
drop. Advertising and marketing are the
handmaiden of consumerism. they target
consumers by creating a dissatisfaction
not only with what we have, but with
who we are.
Materialism and consumerism are
obsessively self-centred and this links
them to individualism
INDIVIDUALISM
Individualism regards man - every man
- as an independent sovereign entity
who possesses an inalienable right to his
own life, a right derived from his nature
as a rational being. It promotes the
freedoms, rights and choices of the
individual over those of the family or
community.
As Christianity dies the individual loses
his or her anchor and is cut adrift on a
vast ocean of aloneness. Without God
individuals are forced to re-invent their
identity. This is why so many in
Western society are confused about who
they are and why so much energy and
effort is spent in searching for the
meaning of life and their place in the
world.
A recurring tweet says it all: Never
before has a generation so diligently
recorded themselves, accomplishing so
little.
GLOBALISATION
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This is the process whereby the world
has become interconnected and certain
organisations (especially businesses)
and cultures have gained an immense
international influence.
Highly sophisticated communication
and technology, affordable access to air
travel, global news network, mass
immigration, social media and the rise
of multinational corporations have
contributed to the contested
phenomenon of globalisation. What is
problematic about this is the global
export and mass consumption of
contemporary Western values that have
their roots in postmodernism,
humanism, hedonism and consumerism.
Christian values are not only rejected
but seen as backward, harmful and in
some countries, illegal.
EXISTENTIALISM
This is a worldview that emphasises
defining self and the meaning of life
through free will and choice. Choices
are based on personal beliefs which
existentialists themselves construct,
based on what is appealing, suitable or
convenient at the time. Choices are
made without reference to objective
truth, tested tradition or a higher power.
Existentialism is by definition amoral -
not guided by a moral code. As the
meaning of life is self-constructed, a
significant emphasis is placed on
personal experiences and emotions.
Instant gratification is important
because existentialists live in the here
and now.
People in an existential society are less
likely to offer themselves for any form
of service for fear of giving up control
over themselves or their lives. This
reduces their involvement in civic life
and their participation in altruistic
activities.
Another result of existentialism is a
transient workforce who are in a job for
only a very limited time. Job hopping is
the new normal claims a Forbes report.
Existentialism has especially influenced
the education system in the West. It
increasingly privileges subjective
experience over objective truth.
INDIFFERENCE
There is a growing trend of ambivalence
and indifference, not just to religion, but
also to the world and to life itself among
millennial - the expressions meh or
whatever reflect this complete lack of
interest.
Millennials are more socially, civically
and politically disengaged than any
generation since the Second World War.
More than 75% said that wealth was one
of their primary motives in life. Of all
the factors measured, civic engagement,
interest in social capital and concern
for others were the lowest of any
generation since the 1940s.
Theyre also the least religious
generation in history, getting less
religious as they get older, which is
unprecedented - and the majority of
them identify Christianity as
synonymous with harsh political
conservatism.
Millennials tend to avoid anything that
makes them feel uncomfortable.
Students at a number of prestigious
universities in the UK and US are now
demanding safe spaces, censoring free
speech that might cause offence and
disinviting or no-platforming speakers
who hold a conservative worldview. In
the last couple of years standard
dictionaries have included the noun
snowflake generation in their
vocabulary meaning a generation which
is less resilient and more prone to taking
offence than previous generations.
Claire Fox, Director of the Institute of
Ideas notes, our overprotected
children are so loaded up with
emotional angst that they are ill-
equipped to deal with the basic
challenges of adult life. She argues that
the snowflake generation phenomenon
is the by-product of the health-and-
safety mania that mollycoddles children,
anti-bullying campaigns which
pathologise normal childish
transgressions and tensions and the child
protection industry that actively
encourages children to see potential
abuse everywhere.
CULTURAL MARXISM
Marx had tried to transform the
traditional economic model of the West
by instigating workers to revolt against
the capitalists. However, with the
outbreak of the First World War, when
the workers of the world donned the
uniforms of their countries and waged
war against one another instead of
revolting against their capitalist
overlords, Marxs prophecy proved
false. The working class had failed to
carry out Marxs utopian dream. Now
scholars of the Frankfurt School
redirected their efforts at the cultural
elite of society - the media, schools,
universities, government, judiciary and
even the churches - who were proud of
Christianity and Western civilisation.
The enemy to be destroyed was the
Christian-based civilisation of the West
and the tool to achieve this destruction
was Critical Theory.
Every aspect of Western culture had to
be undermined by incessant and
unrelenting criticism. The West had to
be portrayed as evil, corrupt,
authoritarian and oppressive.
Christianity, capitalism, authority,
family, patriotism, patriarchy, morality
and especially traditional sexual
morality, had to be attacked and brought
down.
Marxism had cried out against the
oppression of the workers. Cultural
Marxism turned its attention to creating
specific victim groups - women,
homosexuals, racial and ethnic
minorities etc. They portrayed the
oppressor as Western Christian
civilisation, the traditional nuclear
family, parents, the white heterosexual
male, the Christian church, the
capitalists and all conservative and
traditional values.
The most important task for cultural
Marxists was to capture the culture.