Ron Reagan Jr. obviously doesn’t know his father.  I say “know” in the present tense because I know that Ex-President Ronald Reagan is alive in heaven today.  It is a shame that Ron Reagan used his relationship as a platform to tear down his father’s work in front of God and man.  I know that God will always forgive the one who comes to Him, and I have to strongly rebuke Ron for what he said.

I am referring to an article that World Net Daily ran last month in which Ron Reagan (The president’s son) said that he didn’t believe his father would approve of Palin.  The article is here.

Fortunately, President Ronald Regan had more than one son. Michael Reagan believes that he sees his father in Palin.  I definitely agree and it is easy to explain why.

Ronald Reagan was an outspoken Christian, like Palin.  He stood up for God and the bible when it wasn’t politically expedient for him to do so.  He was a champion for life and was not afraid to face evil head on in this world.  He was one who wanted to see America restored to its position as an example to the world.  He wanted to see the government come down off of its high horse and serve the people without robbing the people of all of their resources.  He liked to talk directly to the people in spite of the media.  Sound familiar?

How do I know that Ron Jr. was up to no good?  Listen to what he was quoted as saying in regard to Palin’s belief in a God who created the world:

"It's such a profoundly anti-intellectual, anti-science stance, I don't see how you can hold high office and believe something like that."

So I thought I would share today what President Ronald Reagan actually said about God as a Creator:

“Each of us, each of you, is made in the most enduring, powerful image of Western civilization.  We’re made in the image of God the Creator” – Remarks to citizens in Hamback, Federal Republic of Germany, May 6, 1985

“How can we hope to retain our freedom through the generations if we fail to teach our young that our liberty springs from an abiding faith in our Creator?” – Remarks at a White House ceremony in observance of National Day of Prayer, May 6, 1982

“I’ve always believed that we were, each of us, put here for a reason, that there is a plan, somehow a divine plan for all of us.  I know now that whatever days are left to me belong to Him.  I also believe this blessed land was set apart in a very special way, a country created by men and women who came here not in the search of gold, but in search of God.  They would be free people, living under the law with faith in their Maker and their future.”  Remarks at the annual National Prayer Breakfast, February 4, 1982

“Two visions of the world remain locked in dispute.  The first believes all men are created equal by a loving God who has blessed us with freedom.  Abraham Lincoln spoke for us: ‘No man,’ he said, ‘is good enough to govern another without the other’s consent.’ 

The second vision believes that religion is opium for the masses.  It believes that eternal principles like truth, liberty, and democracy have no meaning beyond the whim of the state.  And Lenin spoke for them: ‘It is true, that liberty is precious,’ he said, ‘so precious that it must be rationed.’

Well, I’ll take Lincoln’s version over Lenin’s – and so will the citizens of the world if they’re given free choice.”  Remarks at a ceremony marking the annual observance of Captive Nations Week, July 19, 1983

I absolutely love this gem... O'Reilly says "I'm throwin' in with Jesus because He's the only one who has an explaination about how all of this got here."  And Dawkins ridiculous reply "We working on that."  Priceless... and note that one of the main problems with people like Dawkins who demonstrate no understanding of the information problems in biology, early on in this piece when he says how we clearly understand how the tides work.  Notice that understanding how something works and even what the component parts are made of, have nothing to say on WHO put them there, who or what organized them with know-how, properly tuned, to function day after day. 

Imagine we find a complicated engine somewhere in a desert, with gasoline and lubricants, working, etc., the whole nine yards... and say "well obviously, that gear there turns and rubs against that gear over there and these parts are made merely of metal which is found in the earth and these oils are known to be in the ground as well.  Clearly when this part goes up and down, this part over here reacts and the continual sparking of this keeps this machine going until it runs out of fuel."   Dawkins would have us believe that since we know how it's working and what it's made of, the case is solved and science has proven that this engine needed no creator and no one to make sure that the oil is topped up and the gasoline filled.  Anyone who suggests a "creator" of this device is simply an enemy of science, who's clearly trying to take the "easy way out" and suggest something besides natural forces are at work.    This is complete ignorance of the information problem.  Read my lips Mr. Dawkins:  All design has a designer.   And to believe otherwise is to be an enemy of truly observed science.   One last point.... I have always found this humorous and I can't recall where I heard it:  "Atheists don't believe in God, but some people are surprised to learn that God doesn't believe in atheists either."   In other words, God tells us that even the most ardent combat soldier against Christianity (we'll use Richard Dawkins as our example), deep down knows that there is a God.  All of observed nature makes this clear.  Since all things which exist had a causation, and a cause must be greater than it's effect, we look at this universe with it's untold billions and trillions of stars and spinning galaxies, quasars, nebulae, black holes, suns and planets, and the planet earth with its beautiful and exquisite life forms, it is readily accessible information that the cause behind it all, must truly be a GOD. 

I have moved my Bible Frequently Asked Questons page to this web site.  I am preparing my troytaft.com site as my consulting business site.  Since many of the customers who come to that site do not understand christianity, I thought it would be better if I introduce the christian resources to christians personally.  This is a resource for believers who are Spiritually minded.

The Bible FAQ covers answers to some of the same questions answered by Answers in Genesis.  Evidently AIG get's these questions frequently, I'm just shareing the burden with them and I am happy to do so.  I hope that you will find some answers and encouragement in this FAQ.

It's really hard to understand the details of what Jesus was doing at the time of his death unless you understand what his intentions were.  Mel Gibson's "The Passion" could not have been showing any racism by blaming the Jews or the Romans for the killing of Jesus.  For one thing, the movie clearly shows that just about everyone turned their back on him which really shows that we were all to blame, but the one who really made sure that this event would happen was Jesus himself.

Listen to what Jesus said:

"Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again.  No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself.  I have the power to lay it down, and I have the power to take it again.  I received this commandment from my Father. " (John 10: 17-18)

He said this before he went through the events of the passion.  Jesus decided to be killed.  He did it for you and I that anyone who believes that he did it would have the punishment of their sin taken away and would be given a new life that would allow them, through his power, to overcome sin in the future.  This is what Jesus said before he died:

"As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him. He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God. This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil. For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed. But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God. " (John 3:14 - 21)

I think that it is actually this that makes people angry about "The Passion".  According to the Bible, Jesus was so exclusive and didn't make it easy for there to be many ways to God.  In fact he said:

"I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me." (John 14:6)

That's pretty restrictive.  But wouldn't the truth be that way?  In our world limits are everywhere.  We like to imagine that we are invincible, but in reality, we are far from it.  We are limited and because of this limit it is logical that there is a limit to which parts of religion are true and which parts are false.

So, to really believe in Christianity, you must be exclusive.  You cannot combine Jesus' statement above with any religion which says that there is another way to God.  There are two logical paths:

1. Exclusivity is in error and Mutiplicity is the truth, or
2. Exclusivity is the truth and Mutiplicity is in error

You see, truth is still there, it's just your belief that is the issue.  If you argue with a Christian on the basis that you accept all religions, then you are not being logical.  You believe in a single philosophy (you could call it a religion of Multiplicity) which believes in "the truth of mutiplicity over exclusivity".  You would have a philosophical belief system that opposes Christianity.  It is a large misunderstanding to believe that you can include the philosophy of mutiplicity with Christianity.

This is more likely to be the issue people have with "The Passion" movie.