Celebration of Creation
Sep 23, 2009 08:14
If you’ve ever had your belief in creation challenged, or had doubts of your own, you need to tune in to Hope Church Channel for a live, faith-affirming broadcast on Friday and Saturday, October 23 and 24, of the landmark “Celebration of Creation” event from Loma Linda University Church. This dynamic, interactive event is sponsored by the General Conference Faith and Science Council and Hope Channel.
Christians, and especially Seventh-day Adventists, believe in the Creator God of the Bible and the Biblical account of a recent six-day creation. The creation and the Creator will be specially celebrated during this event that will feature research on the key issues of origins by scientists and theologians from Loma Linda University, Andrews University, and Southwestern Adventist University as well as special guests from the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists and others. The presentations will be anything but dry, boring academic recitations.
“The Celebration of Creation is a not-to-be missed symposium offering a unique opportunity to understand the Biblical account of origins,” says Gerry Karst, a Vice President of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists and chair of the Faith and Science Council that is sponsoring the event. Seventh-day Adventists worship the Creator God of the Bible, celebrating the creation each Sabbath.
Topics to be covered include: “Reasons to trust God’s Word,” “The evidence and the Book,” “Getting science right—Geology and Biology,” “How can a good God allow evil?,” The scope and limits of evolution,” “The scientific advantage of a fresh worldview,” and “What does it all mean?”
The event will be broadcast live on Hope Church Channel and rebroadcast at a future date on Hope Channel. See note at the end of this article for tune-in instructions for Hope Church Channel.
October 23 – 7pm-9pm PT/10pm-11pm ET (Oct 24 – 02h00-04h00 GMT)
October 24 –10am-10:50am PT/1pm-1:50pm ET (17h00-17h50 GMT)
October 24 –2pm-5:15pm PT/5pm-8:15pm ET (21h00-00h15 GMT)
October 24 –6pm-8pm PT/9pm-11pm ET (Oct 25 - 01h00-03h00 GMT)
Currently, a partial list of guest speakers includes:
Dick Davidson, Andrews University
JoAnn Davidson, Andrews University
Leonard Brand, Loma Linda University
Cliff Goldstein, author, General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
Randy Younker, Horn Archaeological Museum
Jim Gibson, Geoscience Research Institute
Art Chadwick, Southwestern Adventist University
Tim Standish, Geoscience Research Institute
John Baldwin, Andrews University
Raul Esperante, Geoscience Research Institute
Ed Zinke, Adventist Scholar
Ronny Nalin, Geoscience Research Institute
“The Celebration of Creation promises to be a very exciting and spiritually uplifting event. It will focus on our bedrock belief in God as the Creator with the power to accomplish the creation in six literal, 24 hour, consecutive days of recent origin,” says Ted N. C. Wilson, another vice-president of the General Conference.
Seventh-day Adventist doctrines are spelled out in a statement of 28 fundamental beliefs. The sixth of these beliefs focuses on the creation. It states, in part, “God is Creator of all things, and has revealed in Scripture the authentic account of His creative activity. In six days the Lord made the heaven and the earth and all living things upon the earth, and rested on the seventh day of that first week. Because God rested on the seventh day of the creation week, Adventists follow the Biblical commandment to also rest on the seventh-day Sabbath and remember that He is the creator of all things.”
“We have held conferences in the past that explore alternatives to the Adventist doctrine of creation,” says Timothy Standish, a research scientist at the Geoscience Research Institute. “The Celebration of Creation allows us an opportunity to move beyond some of the inherent acrimony these involve. As Adventists, we know we don’t have all the answers to all the questions, but we do have some very good answers to some questions, and the Biblical creation is an answer worth celebrating.”
“The Celebration of Creation is an opportunity for us to unite together in praise and worship of our awesome Creator God.” Wilson adds, “As Seventh-day Adventists, we believe that the culmination of the creation week with the Sabbath is of profound importance, not only to our present worship of God, but also to our belief that the Sabbath is the sign and seal of God’s people at the end of time just before Christ’s soon return. The Celebration of Creation will provide faith-affirming presentations from scientists, theologians, and others who base their faith on the Biblical account of creation. As you attend these meetings, you will be encouraged as God is lifted up as our Creator.”
For more information on the event, or to learn how to attend the local event, visit www.fscsda.org www.creationsabbath.net.
NOTE:
Hope Church Channel is a supporting channel of the Hope Channel network and carries special event programming such as conferences, training seminars, and camp meetings. It is on the same satellite (AMC 4) as Hope Channel.
For instructions on how to tune your satellite receiver to get Hope Church Channel, call 888-4-HOPE-TV (888-446-7388). Or, you may write to info(at)hopetv(dot)org, put "Hope Church Channel" in the Subject Line, and submit your name, address, phone number, and type of receiver. Instructions will be sent to you promptly. In some cases it may be necessary to contact the company from which you purchased your system.
Parameters:
Satellite: AMC-4 @ 101W
D/L Frequency: 12115.90 MHz (or 12116 on many receivers)
Pole: Horizontal
SR: 3.1000 Msps (or 3100 on many receivers)
FEC: 1/2
