Year: 2018

Year: 2018

Truth — How It Unfolds and Advances
December 6, 2018 Bible Answers That Make Sense, Blogs, Character Development Tim Jennings, M.D.

Do you want to be a person of truth, someone who loves the truth, who is able to comprehend the truth and move forward in truth as it is revealed?

The Bible tells us that those who are lost are lost because “they refused to love the truth and so be saved” (2 Thessalonians 2:10).

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Sincerity in Rule Keeping Can Destroy
November 29, 2018 Blogs, Design Law, Life's Tough Questions Tim Jennings, M.D.

In the 1964 epic movie, Zulu, starring Michael Caine, the battle of Rorke’s Drift is depicted. This battle occurred in South Africa in 1879 during the Anglo-Zulu war. The movie depicts the true events of 150 wounded and sick British Soldiers, successfully defending themselves against 4,000 Zulu warriors.

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The Two Ditches: Atheism on the Left, Imperial Dictator God on the Right
November 15, 2018 Blogs, Integrating Bible, Science, and Life Experiences, Life's Tough Questions Tim Jennings, M.D.

God is Creator — builder of all reality (space, time, energy, life) — and God’s laws are the laws upon which reality are constructed to operate — the laws of physics, health, and the moral laws.

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Transgender People and Our Community – A Rational Understanding and Approach
November 8, 2018 Blogs, Human Sexuality, Life's Tough Questions Tim Jennings, M.D.

Over the last several years, there has been much in the press about transgender individuals, transgender rights, and legislators battling over various issues (public bathrooms, etc.). In my practice, I have had a number of patients who are transgender, and even more family members of transgender individuals struggling with some aspect of this issue.

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Alzheimer’s, Cholesterol, and Genetics – How to Reduce Your Risk for Dementia
October 25, 2018 Blogs, Brain and Body Health Tim Jennings, M.D.

It has been known for more than two decades that elevated cholesterol was associated with increased risk for Alzheimer’s Disease (AD).[1] It is also known that the ApoE gene produces a protein that transports fats, including cholesterol, into brain cells.

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Does God Make People Deaf and Blind?
September 20, 2018 Bible Answers That Make Sense, Blogs, Life's Tough Questions Tim Jennings, M.D.

This is Anisha, and I’m thirteen. I loved reading your book, The God-Shaped Brain, but I still have some doubts that needed clarification. Dr. Tim, in chapter 8, pages 116 to 118, you explained that God does not create all the health disorders that the human race suffers today, so how are we to fit the following verse in?

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Priests and Child Abuse — A Predictable Result
September 5, 2018 Blogs, Human Sexuality, Life's Tough Questions Tim Jennings, M.D.

Most of us read with great sadness the distressing headlines of the Pennsylvania grand jury findings that over 300 Roman Catholic priests had molested more than 1000 children over 70 years — followed by a massive coverup by the organized church authorities.

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Does God Create Evil?
August 21, 2018 Blogs Tim Jennings, M.D.

I received an email asking how we understand Isaiah 45:7:

I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.” And wondered if God creates evil. KJV (emphasis mine)

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Penal Substitution versus Design Law – What’s the Difference?
July 18, 2018 Bible Answers That Make Sense, Blogs, Design Law Tim Jennings, M.D.

An online listener wrote:

What is the difference between penal substitution and design law? How do we explain the difference and reason with someone who believes in penal substitution?

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Anointing with Oil: Real Medicine or Superstitious Ceremony?
July 6, 2018 Bible Answers That Make Sense, Blogs, Integrating Bible, Science, and Life Experiences Tim Jennings, M.D.

I received this question from an online listener:

I’m wondering if you could address the biblical teaching of anointing the sick referred to in the book of James from the design-law perspective? I just don’t understand this teaching having heard of many anointing services and seeing very few people healed. What’s the point? There must be more to it than just “blind faith.”

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Did God Create Adam and Eve with a Defective Void?
June 28, 2018 Bible Answers That Make Sense, Blogs, Family and Relationship Health Tim Jennings, M.D.

I received the following question from an online listener:

Was mankind created (before the fall) with a void inside? Is that how Satan appealed to Adam and Eve, as far as the temptation in the Garden of Eden? Did Satan appeal to that hole or void inside mankind?

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7 Steps to Keep Your Brain Healthy and Mind Sharp
June 13, 2018 Blogs, Brain and Body Health, Mental Health and Healing Tim Jennings, M.D.

Keep your brain healthy and your mind sharp! Americans are living longer than ever before, but with longer life comes concerns about maintaining vitality, and retaining one’s mental fitness. The good news is that we can make choices to slow the decline in vitality and keep our brains healthy and minds sharp.

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