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AND OUR PRESBYTERY LEADERS WOULD HAVE US BELIEVE:  ‘WE HAVE NOT CHANGED!’

Does this look like Rev Thompson is keeping the terms of the oath he took at his ordination?

“As God helps you will you expose and resist the continued apostasy from Christ manifested within Irish Presbyterianism, Methodism, Episcopalianism and other visible church bodies; exhorting God’s people to obey the teaching and commandment of 1 Timothy 6: 3-5?”

1 Timothy 6:3-5 states: “If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.”

The minister of Draperstown Presbyterian Church does not “consent to the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness” for he refuses God’s command to separate from the apostasy of Irish Presbyterianism.

This is but yet another indication that there are those within the Free Presbyterian Church who are determined that the stand taken in Crossgar 75 years ago, in obedience to God’s Word, is overturned.

Sadly, all too many are either too scared, not interested, or just fast asleep, to raise a protest!

The Lord’s attitude toward those who would go back to apostasy is plain.

“And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt. . . And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them? I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they,” Numbers 14:4, 11-12.

The will of God for His faithful is still that which motivated our separatist forefathers 75 years ago! “Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty,” 2 Corinthians 6:14-18.

Those who are abandoning these commands of God and encourage others to join in their rebellion, are ill spoken of in God’s Word! (more…)

or  The agnostic evolutionist who repeatedly and inadvertently demonstrates to millions the truth of God’s Word!

“Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear,” Hebrews 11:3.

The Greek word translated in our text by the phrase, “we understand”, is NOIEO. It means ‘to perceive with the mind, to understand, to have understanding.’

1. Those who believe the inspired record of God creating all that we see around and above us, stretching out into the immensity of the universe, are enabled ‘to perceive with the mind’ just how this has come into existence and rejoice in that knowledge

Those who follow the subject of man’s excavations of the earth’s record of former times, with any degree of dedication, will have noted how many times we read headlines which may be generalised as :—

‘Experts discover new evidence which throws in doubt former opinions on the origin of all things.’

I read the following statement recently:

‘As of early 2026, several groundbreaking scientific discoveries—primarily from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and CERN—have challenged the conventional Big Bang model and, by extension, traditional understandings of the origin of the universe, galaxies, and matter. These findings suggest that the early universe was far more mature, complex, and active than previously believed.’

Such is the repeated history of the unbelievers’ guesswork as to the origin of all things!

There has been a constant and necessary casting aside of yesterday’s ‘certainties’ and an embracing of yet another short-lived confident definition of the most ‘certain’ truth of how all things began, by Bible-rejecting ‘experts’!

Faith’s Response

All the while, the one who embraces by faith what the Lord says in Genesis chapter 1, finds in the latest discoveries which demolish the ‘authoritative’ declarations of yesterday of the evolutionists, but confirmation of the Bible’s account.

Student

While a student back in the mid-‘60s, part of my theological studies, under the late Dr Alan Cairns, involved an in-depth study of “The Genesis Flood.”

It was much more than helpful in my grasping of how unbelieving man’s searching of the fossil records was but fully endorsing of God’s account of creation.

Of course, palaeontologists, who are disciples of Darwin, place upon such discoveries the most ludicrous interpretations. (more…)