Bedward Family - Commentary

What I Believe

Craig Bedward

Religion

• Truth exists.

• Absolute truth exists.

• The Bible is the revealed word of the living God.

• There is nothing that you can do to make yourself right with God. The good news is, you don't have to, Jesus already did.

• Jesus alone is the one and only way to God.

  • Our sin separates us from God, since he is perfect.

  • Jesus was the son of God; He was God in the flesh.

  • Jesus came to earth for the purpose of dying. It wasn't some unfortunate situation. It was the supreme act of love.

  • Jesus' death paid the penalty for our sin.

  • Jesus rose from the dead, conquering sin (read The FEAT that Demonstrates the Fact of Resurrection).

  • Jesus said "I am the way, the truth, and the life, no one comes to the Father except by me." John 14:6.

  • Those who do not accept Jesus as their savior will spend their eternity in hell, a real place.

• There is no particular church that saves. Churches are just groups formed by men. They are only as good as the degree to which they follow Christ. However, good churches are everywhere and it is very important for a Christian to be part of one to be learning and growing in the faith.

• Faith is only as good as the object of that faith. You cannot make something true simply believing in it. If something is true, it is true. If something is false, it is false. Believing in something does not make it so. There is no value in faith if there is no value in the object of that faith. 

• Knowledge and acceptance of Christ is paramount to everything else in life.

Government / Politics

• "That government is best which governs least." - Henry David Thoreau

• People should be free from government control to do anything they would like as long as it does not injure someone else.

• There are probably some exceptions to the phrase above.

• Our government is very far off of how it was designed

  • Our government is a republic, not a democracy.

    • The difference between the two is far more than just symantics.

    • A republic is a government where the law is king. The law rules; not people.

    • A democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on lunch. It is mob rule. It allows the many to trample the few. 

    • A Republic treats everyone equally. Everyone is equally subject to the law, even those who make it and wield it.

    • Virtually everyone, even conservative Republicans, refer to our government as a democracy.

    • Read Not A Democracy

  • Our government is socialistic, moving toward communism/Marxism

  • Read a story about Davey Crocket

• This country was founded as a Christian nation

  • America's Godly Heritage with David Barton

  • The Myth of Separation with David Barton

  • The Christian Roots of America with D. James Kennedy

• "Separation of church and state" is a fallacy. The phrase does not exist in any founding document. What the Bill of Rights does say is Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion or preventing the free exercise thereof. We see case after case of the free exercise being squashed on the trumped-up grounds that exercising it somehow establishes it. It is utter nonsense. It is wielded heavy-handedly against Christians while other religions are given a pass, or in some cases, keenly encouraged.

• The federal government is far outside its Constitutional boundaries. It has taken control of nearly every aspect of our lives. Yet the Constitution only enumerates a few powers to the federal government and specifically outlaws any other powers (without an amendment). Most existing federal law is unconstitutional and illegal.

• The income tax is a form of slavery and must be abolished.

• Major media is very far left. You can see it in what the report, and even more obviously in what they don't. For a full picture of the news, visit WorldNetDaily.

• The media protects and perpetuates an ever-increasing government.

• Social Security causes the older generation to steal from their children for their own gain.

• The Republican Party refuses to stand for what it claims to stand for

  • "Big Tent" is a sell-out the the least-common denominator of moral compromise

  • Much of the Republican Party platform of today could have been taken from the Democratic Party platform a few decades back. So, I ask you, who's ideas are winning? When Reagan was President, the Republican Party platform called for the dismantling of the Department of Education and getting the Federal government out of education. George W. Bush made expanding the Federal government's role in education the centerpiece of his campaign.

• Today's "Liberal" thinking is moronic. They are dead wrong on just about every issue.

• Today's "Conservative" actions are moronic. Although the claim to stand for what is right on many issues, they rarely do it.

• Liberalism has left behind its historic stand of helping the downtrodden. Today, liberals strive to keep people down so they can complain about it and get more power to "solve" the problem. But the problems will never be solved because government cannot solve them in the first place and because those purporting to want to solve them, in fact benefit directly from them continuing forever. 

• Liberals want you to be able to do anything you want morally (sexually) as long as they control most of your money. They don't seem to think that freedom extends into the financial realm -- that is their territory.

• The main difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats would take us over the cliff at 80 miles an hour; the Republicans would stay within the speed limit. - Howard Phillips (Constitution Party)

• Political parties do a great disservice to the people of this country.

• As Winston Churchill once said: The American government is the worst form of government, except for all the others.

Abortion

• Abortion is wrong. It kills an innocent person. It is murder. 

• "Pro-Choice" is really Pro-Death

• Abortion should not be allowed in the case of rape or incest as many "reasonable" and "moderate" people hold. The manner of conception does not change what it is: a child.

• I know of no situation where an abortion would save the life of the mother. If the baby needs to come out, that's fine. Just make every effort to save the baby. How does killing the baby improve the mother's situation?

• Some people will argue since we don't know exactly when life begins that people should be free to kill it. But...

  • If you have to kill it, it is alive

  • At the point of conception, a new organism exists. It is a human. It has unique DNA distinct from its parents.

  • Not knowing when life begins is more reason to be careful. If you are about to take down a building with explosives and you aren't sure if anyone is inside, the prudent thing to do is not blow up the building until you know for sure. You don't carelessly blow it up on the basis that you don't know.

• When a woman has an abortion, she doesn't go from being pregnant to being not pregnant. She goes from being the mother of a live baby to being the mother of a dead baby.

• The only real question that needs to be answered is "What is the unborn?" 

• Daddy, Can I Kill This?

• Annihilating Abortion Arguments

• More information on abortion

• Graphic pictures of the results of "choice"

Homosexuality

• Homosexual behavior is wrong

  • There is no such thing as a homosexual. It is not an identity; it is a behavior.

  • The term implies a false legitimacy as if homo- and hetero- are equal choices. They are not. One is normal; the other is a deviation from normal.

  • It is a very destructive lifestyle to those who practice it. Aids obviously takes it's toll. But many other factors as well serve to lessen the lifespan of the average homosexual. The lifestyle literally kills them. (See the Ten Things Gay Men Should Discuss With Their Health Care Providers from the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association)

• Gay activists push many lies about homosexuality

  • Homosexual Urban Legends

• Homosexuality can be changed

  • Despite a long search and many false proclamations of the "gay gene", there is no evidence of a biological origin. Every single cell in your body contains chromosomes with your gender identity: male or female.

  • Change is difficult but it is possible.

  • Many people have left homosexuality. See Exodus International. Read the testimony of Stephen Bennett. Stephen Bennett's web site.

  • Why is it that people can switch from heterosexual behavior to homosexual behavior and be welcomed into the homosexual community as finally "finding themselves" and yet suggesting that someone could journey the other way brings calls of hatred, homophobia, and the other usual attacks?  

• Abusing or harming homosexuals is wrong

  • God created all of us, including homosexuals.

  • God loves all of us, including homosexuals.

  • Christians should do everything possible to extend love and acceptance to homosexuals. That does not mean condoning the sin. The phrase "hate the sin but love the sinner" is often invoked. While that is true, I find it irritating because of the way Christians often seem to apply it only to homosexuality. Other sins are overlooked more easily and apparently don't require that mantra to remind us to love the sinner. Are homosexuals so hard to love? They are fellow strugglers through life in need of God. If you think yourself better, that is simply a problem you have with pride.

Origins / Evolution

• Evolution is false and illogical

  • It defies the 2nd law of thermodynamics (things degrade and wear out, they don't improve and get more complex)

  • It defies information theory (a thing cannot produce something more complex than itself)

  • Chance is often attributed with being the driving force behind evolution. But "chance" is not a force, it can't do anything. Chance doesn't make a coin go heads or tails, it is simply a mathematical way of measuring it.

  • There is an almost complete lack of evidence. The fossil record should have countless transitional forms. Darwin predicted it. But we have never found them. They simply don't exist. What we do find is the same types of fossils, over and over again. Now scientists talk about ideas like punctuated equilibrium, where evolution took place in quick bursts. First they tell us it needs a long time because "chance" takes a long time. But a long time would produce many fossils, which don't exist. So now they tell us it happened quickly and that's why there are no fossils. This is considered science. 

  • Belief in evolution is more faith than logic. It is very anti-religion; specifically, anti-Christian. (see The Emperor's New Species)

  • Most evolutionary teaching is full of propaganda, lies, manipulation, and fabrication.

  • Modern microbiology has shown us that organisms are far more complicated than we previously thought (see Michael Behe's book "Darwin's Black Box").

  • To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances...could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree. - Charles Darwin

• The earth may very well be a few billion years old (see Reason's to Believe).

• Many Christians assume giving into the idea of an old earth is giving into evolution. But the age of the earth and evolution are two entirely different questions. 

• The universe was probably created by a big-bang event, which points toward God. A big bang is a definite point where everything suddenly explodes out of nothing. Sounds like creation to me.

Other Things I Believe

• The Simpsons is a very funny show (although they could stop bashing Christianity so flagrantly)

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a very funny "trilogy"

• WorldNetDaily is the best source for news and commentary

I Believe...That's all the time I have, but will be back to add more...