The orner Post March 4, A.D. 2018 Weekly Bulletin for Cornerstone Presbyterian Church cornerstonehobart.com

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Welcome to Cornerstone! Today at Church we examine Day Five

of Creation, where God creates living

souls, and fills the seas and the

firmament of Heaven with swarms of

teaming, abundant life.

Genesis 1:20-23

And God said, Let the water teem with

living creatures, and let birds fly above

the earth across the vault of the sky. 21

So God created the great creatures of the

sea and every living thing with which

the water teems and that moves about in

it, according to their kinds, and every

winged bird according to its kind. And

God saw that it was good. 22 God

blessed them and said, Be fruitful and

increase in number and fill the water in

the seas, and let the birds increase on the

earth. 23 And there was evening, and

there was morningthe fifth day.

Life, Uh, Finds a Way by Dan Probert

Our Pastor often jokes that here at

Cornerstone, he is surrounded by

engineers. Several of our elders have

backgrounds in engineering, many

people here in our congregation works

as engineers, many of our best and

brightest children are studying or aspire

to study engineering. And then theres

me, Dan, the most recent in a long line

of MTS apprentices here at Cornerstone

to have studied an engineering before

coming to the ministry. I remember

being quite surprised when I first came

to Cornerstone by just how many

engineers there were. It left me

wondering whether there something

about Christianity that was inherently

attractive to engineers, or, conversely,

whether there was something inherent in

Christianity that nudged Christians

towards engineering. Sitting in the pews

a couple of weeks ago listening to the

pastor preach about day three, I finalised

realised what that something was.

The word engineer can be traced back

through Middle English and Old French

to the Medieval Latin ingenium, having

the same root as the word ingenious

through the Old Latin verb gign and

Ancient Greek (ggnomai),

meaning, I beget, I give birth to, I

produce, or I cause. Now Prince

Phillip, The Duke of Edinburgh, is,

among many other things, a Senior

Fellow of the Royal Academy of

Engineering. In an interview for the

BBC a couple of years ago, he quite

rightly remarked that everything not

invented by God is invented by an

engineer.

We often tend to identify God foremost

with the office of judge, and we are

right to do so. But he is more than that.

The God we meet in Genesis 1, the very

first way which God choose to reveal

himself to mankind in sacred scripture,

is not as a lawgiver, but as a Creator.

The God of the Bible, the God of

Genesis 1, the God of the Fifth Day, is

an engineer, begetting, giving birth to,

producing, and causing the Heavens, the

Earth, and Life itself.

On Day One, we saw God create Light,

and separate it from the darkness. Then

on Day Four, we saw God create the

Sun, and the Moon and Stars, to be the

receptacles of that light, to govern the

Light of Day and the Darkness of Night

respectively.

Likewise, on Day Two, we saw how

God divided the chaotic, primordial

waters by means of a firmament, a

solid thing, into the Heavens above,

and the waters and sky below. And now

we start to see a pattern emerge as we

reach Day 5, where God fills the seas

and the skies with a teaming, swarming,

abundant life of fish and birds of living

souls. I do say souls purposefully.

20 And God said, Let the water teem

with living creatures, and let birds fly

above the earth across the vault of the

sky.

The majority of English translations

describe living creatures or living

beings in verse 20. However both the

Hebrew (nephesh chay) and the Greek

of the LXX ( , psychon

zoson) are better and more literally

rendered as living souls. You see, in

Hebraic thought, this soul is not

something that is peculiar to man, but is

possessed by all animate beings - fish,

bird, animals, and humans. If fact, its

use seems to indicate that it is not

something that is so much possessed by

animals and humans, as something that

animals and human are. That is the

birds and fish are nephesh (souls),

possessing chay (life). In this sense

though, it can be thought of sentience,

creatures that think, feel, and move -

hence why fish and bird are nephesh,

but the vegetation of Day Three is not.

The overwhelming picture here, though,

is that of abundance. The waters are to

be filled with swarms of creatures, and

birds are to flock across the face of the

expanse of heaven - a vibrant, dynamic

creation.

21 So God created the great

creatures of the sea and

every living thing with which

the water teems and that

moves about in it, according

to their kinds, and every

winged bird according to its

kind. And God saw that it

was good.

In verse 21, not only the

abundance, but the diversity of

creation is emphasised.

The Hebrew words tannin

gadowl (LXX , kete ta

megala) have had a diverse and

interesting translation history. The most

literal translation of the Hebrew is a

long reptile (the term is also sometimes

used for large land reptiles), whilst the

Greek perhaps is best rendered the

great whales. Other translations have

used variously sea-monster, sea-

beasts, or even dragons. Literally we

can picture here all the great leviathans

of the deep, the whales, the dolphins,

crocodiles, and even the giant squid and

other monstrosities.

In the Book of Jonah, when Jonah flees

from Gods command, and takes to the

seas, Gods sovereignty is

asserted as he sends a terrible

storm to sink the ship. When

Jonah admits to the other

mariners who he is, he tells

them, I worship the Lord, the

God of heaven, who made the

sea and the dry land. And sure

enough, when his fellow

travellers throw him overboard,

the God of the Fifth Day sends

a huge fish, the same

of Genesis 1:21, to

swallow him, and imprison him

for three days and nights, before

delivering him, alive and well, to

the dry land again. Here we see yet

again the way Gods creation serves

him, the Creator.

On a more poetic note, we can think of

the great sea beasts of Pagan mythology.

In The Odyssey, Odysseus faces all

manner of sea monsters, such as the

Charybdis, the fearsome daughter of

Poseidon and Gaia, who sucked ships

down into the deep, and Scylla, a six-

headed, twelve-legged serpent-like

creature. Likewise Perseus faces Cetus,

and there are other, even more horrible

beasts, like the multi-headed Hydra,

with the power to regenerate its heads,

poisonous breath, and blood so potent

that even the smell of it could kills a

man. The Greeks of antiquity feared

these beasts awfully. They were often

the offspring of the gods, and could

sometimes only be appeased by human

sacrifices. But in Genesis, this Pagan

narrative is completely subverted. The

sea-monsters are shown to be just

another part of the created order, created

by God and subservient to his will. The

Psalmist writes (Psalm 8):

25 There is the sea, vast and spacious,

teeming with creatures beyond

number living things both large and

small. 26 There the ships go to and fro,

and Leviathan, which you formed to

frolic there. 27 All creatures look to you

to give them their food at the proper

time. 28 When you give it to them,

they gather it up; when you open your

hand, they are satisfied with good

things. 29 When you hide your face,

they are terrified; when you take

away their breath, they die and return to

the dust.

And the ordinary birds and fish too -

creatures often deified in the Pagan

religions - are also shown to be just

another part of the Creation which God

has made for humanity, his image

bearers, to rule over.

How wonderful this must have sounded

to the first readers of this text, the

ancient Israelites, wandering

the deserts of Sinai! In the

Egyptian pantheon, as in many

other Pagan religions, the

anthropomorphic animal-gods

ruled over human affairs, and

the animals associated with

the various deities were often

afforded a status of reverence.

Birds were treated like gods,

whilst Gods own chosen

people were under a yoke of

slavery! But now this people,

coming out of the slavery and

journeying towards their

inheritance in the promised

were faced with this wonderful reality:

they were not servants to the birds and

fish, not even to the great monsters of

the deep! These were just another small

part of Gods massive, abundant, and

diverse creation - a creation he made for

his own glory, and as a habitation for his

own image bearers.

The events of Exodus 7 would have

been fresh in the minds of these first

readers. When God first wanted to

punish the people of Egypt, what did he

first turn to, but the Nile river, turning

its waters to blood, and killing all the

fish, simultaneously asserting his

preeminence over the created order, and

destroying a massive section of

the Egyptians livelihood.

We are also told that God made

according to their kinds, and

again, the wonderful diversity of

creation shines through, of birds,

of flying insects, of fish, and

other sea creatures. A few weeks

ago I went spear fishing for the

first time, and I was

understandably quite proud when

I was able to spear a

leatherjacket fish. Now for

someone who spent for years of

their life at our national Maritime

College, I dont know a lot about fish,

so when I saw this quite large, but ugly,

dopey looking fish gliding along, I

thought to myself, this is fair game. It

wasnt until later that I found out that,

even though you can eat leatherjacket,

you probably dont want to if you can

avoid it.

God could have just created

leatherjackets. But instead created

salmon and scallops, whales and

walruses, dolphins and dugong, trout

and tuna, oysters and octopi! Likewise,

he could, if he so wished, limited

himself to the ibis: a picnic wrecking,

dumpster diving, bin-chicken. A burden

on humanity. But instead we get

woodpeckers, bluebirds, and sparrows,

crows, cockatoos, and chickens, geese

and doves, penguins and swans, and all

the awesome birds of prey. Like the

vegetation of Day Three - God could

have just created potatoes for us to eat,

but instead gave us all manner of fruit

and vegetables, plus flowers and other

trees clothed with beauty - we are

presented with an incredible range of

creatures, a real testament to the

intelligence and genius of our God.

Similarly with the bird and the fish and

the insects, we see that some are for us

meat and providers of eggs, some are

pets, and some, like bees, provide what

the ecologists call ecosystem services

like pollination.

We see the power of the God of the

Fifth Day in Numbers 11. The people of

Israel have been wandering the deserts,

and God has been providing them with

manna, the bread of Heaven to live off.

And, perhaps understandably, the

people are beginning to crave meat, and

complain to Moses before God, saying,

If only we had meat to eat! Remember

all the free fish we ate in Egypt and the

cucumbers, watermelons, leeks, onions,

and garlic we had? But now weve lost

our appetite! Everywhere we look

theres nothing but manna!

And when Moses comes before God,

God is angry with the people, and

replies, I will give them meat. 19 They

wont eat it just for one or two days, or

five, or ten, or twenty days, 20 but for a

whole month, until it comes out of their

ears and theyre sick of it. And Moses

is doubtful, saying, Would they have

enough if all the flocks and herds were

butchered for them? Would they have

enough if all the fish in the sea were

caught for them?

But this is the God of the Fifth Day

Moses is addressing, he made the fish

and the bird and all the earth, he replies,

Is there a limit to the Lords power?

Of course not. God sends a wind from

the sea bearing quail birds upon its

wings, and we are told that they are

cover the earth, three feet deep for over

a days walk around the Israelites

camp. They are almost literally

swimming in birds.

22 God blessed them and said, Be

fruitful and increase in number and

fill the water in the seas, and let the

birds increase on the earth. 23 And

there was evening, and there was

morningthe fifth day.

Each of the previous five acts of

Creation had received the Divine

affirmation, And God saw that it was

good. And the sixth act is no exception.

But now we encounter something else

completely new, and something far

more: the first blessing of the Bible. The

fish and the birds are the first living

souls, ruling over the realm of the seas

and the airs, the first animate beings,

possessing more than that mere bios

() of the plants, the z () of

sentient life, possessing, to a degree,

thought and will. And so God blesses

them, and gives them a commandment.

The previous creative acts had all been

simply passive parts of Gods world,

now, instead, we see the first active

participants in Gods Divine plan for the

universe. It is Gods will that his living

creations should thrive in the realms

which he has created for them.

We see that two main themes have

emerged: Gods sovereignty, and Gods

providence. These themes only become

clearer when we look at the Gospels. In

the sermon today, we will look at how

the God of the Fifth Day became

himself a living soul and walked

amongst his creations.

Membership Classes

After church over five weeks.

Commencing with Nathaniel

Richardson 18th March.

Annual Congregational

Meeting immediately after

church on Sunday 25th

March.

Ladies Morning Tea

Guest speaker: Karen Fair

Date: 17/03/2018 at 10am

at Cornerstone

Please bring a plate to share

We are going to be taking

donations for Cambodia

(Fencing project)

RSVP: Cristiane Baker

0404392812

Our next book club is going to be

at Bethany's home (24 Tetraheca

Drive, Kingston) on Saturday

17th March at 8.30am for

breakfast. We'll be discussing the

book 'Perfect Sinners' by Matt

Fuller. You can purchase a copy

from John Jansen. EVERYONE is

welcome. Please contact Amy for

more

details: asglynn517@gmail.com

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2018. All youth Gr 6-12 welcome.

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GROWTH GROUPS

Study the Bible in a small midweek group!

Wednesday Night in Kingston

7.30pm at the Vonks, 48 Corlacus Drive,

Kingston. 6267 1113

Ladies Group Wednesdays

10:00am for coffee & chat, study starts

@10.30am, at Libby Dilgers, 40 Phoenix

St, Howrah. Phone 0448 554 845.

Thursday Night 7.30 PM in Kingston, 6

Tanina Mews , Contact Ian and Kym

Headley on 0419 525 292.

Thursday night in Lindisfarne 7.30pm at

James and Cristiane Bakers. 164 Derwent

Avenue. Contact leader Matt Delphin 0478

769 009.

Thursday Night 7:30pm-8:30pm in West

Hobart with the Bartlett Family. Starting

8/2/2018, following school terms.

Studying Luke. For teenagers and older.

Contact Paul Bartlett 0406 605 419

Womens Bible Study, Thursday 1:30 -

3pm at Annie Bartlett, West Hobart. Led by

Melanie Muggeridge. Contact Annie

Bartlett: 62319493, 0466 980 887.

Bible study for Mums with young children.

Thursday 9.30 am at Elodie McCauslands,

101 Norma Street, Howrah. Led by Anna

Gee, 6247 8976.

Phil Hague Preaching Dates

Please pray for Phil as he preaches today at

Mt Stuart, next Sunday at Riverview Lodge,

and Easter Sunday at the Overseas Christian

Fellowship Camp.

Part One of a review by Stefanie

Mapley of Patrick Sookhdeos 2017

THE DEATH OF WESTERN

CHRISTIANITY

A.W. Tozer Why is Christianity dying?

When a fish goes bad, the rot starts at

the head and then spreads to the body.

Since the 1960s, Christian leaders have

progressively betrayed the gospel.

Today the Church is scarcely

distinguishable from society.

What one generation tolerates the next

generation will embrace. John Wesley

Humanism stormed Western society to

the cult of fragmented individualism,

making the word society sound strange

and unfamiliar. Humanism bulldozed

Biblical morality and replaced it with

licensed permissiveness. Humanism

offered a new distorted prism through

which the brave new West could view

the Church. Christians were no longer

seen as the good guys but as the bad

guys or at best the laughably foolish

guys.

A relativism that is not only post-

Christian but inherently and

intentionally anti-Christian has replaced

Christianity. This relativism has

demolished Christian virtues and

labelled them unenlightened, backward,

intolerant, sexist, exclusivist, bigoted,

homophobic, transphobia,

Islamophobic, and in some cases,

illegal. The tables have been upturned as

social mores once regarded as immoral

and sinful under the influence of

Christianity, are now normalised and

celebrated. Worse still, the West exports

its increasingly immoral, values and

ideals across the world.

WESTERN CULTURE TODAY

Oprah shapes more of the nations grasp

of right and wrong than most of the

pulpits of the land. D.A. Carson

Culture is the collective beliefs, values,

worldviews and way of life specific to a

group of people.

What are the ideologies, philosophies

and worldview responsible for the

collective programming of the

Western mind in a post-Christian age?

ATHEISM

Western culture has shifted from a

Christian worldview to a culture that is

not merely indifferent to God, but

militantly campaigns against belief in a

supernatural or transcendent being.

Christopher Hitchens, along with

Oxford biologist Richard Dawkins,

American philosopher and

neuroscientist Sam Harris and American

philosopher and cognitive scientist

Daniel Dennett have come to be known

as the four horsemen of the atheist

apocalypse. (continued in insert)

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What do atheists look like? The

majority are Western, white, middle

class, university educated men. In

addressing this lack of diversity and

trying to spread their ideology across

racial, gender, social and educational

boundaries, they suggest co-opting the

ongoing implementation of the UN

System Wide Action Plan on Gender

Equality and the Empowerment of

Women as one strategy to promote

atheism. This exposes the United

Nations involvement in spreading

atheism, albeit thinly veiled by the noble

cause of gender equality.

MORAL RELATIVISM

It is not for anyone to question or judge

the behaviour, actions and decisions of

anyone else. What you believe is true

for you. What I believe is true for me.

What may be right for one person in one

situation can be wrong for another

person in the same situation.

Christianity has, for the most part, been

removed as the moral norm of culture

and replaced with a new moral code,

which consists of six tenets:

The best way of finding yourself is

by looking within yourself.

People should not criticise someone

elses life choices.

To be fulfilled in life, you should

pursue the things you desire most.

The highest goal of life is to enjoy it

as much as possible.

People can believe whatever they

want, as long as those beliefs dont

affect society.

Any kind of sexual expression

between two consenting adults is

acceptable.

POSTMODERNISM

This is linked to moral relativism but

goes deeper. It rejects moral absolutes;

it rejects all absolutes. Indeed, the very

idea of absolute truth is considered

fiction. Worse still, truth claims are in

reality claims to power. Truth is

subjective and plural. Consequently,

there is no fixed meaning to text,

authority, thought, norm or reality.

Everything, including the Bible, is open

to multiple interpretations. No

interpretation can be final or definitive.

Our view of reality is entirely a matter

of perspective. Individuals construct

their own truths. Reason is suspect.

Feelings trump facts. Experience and

emotion supersede empiricism or

reality.

PLURALISM

This is the view that all cultures,

religions, beliefs, norms and practices

are equally valid - even if they

contradict each other. For a culture to

claim it is better than another culture is

cultural imperialism. Faced with the

diversity of many races, religions,

cultures and beliefs, pluralists insist that

pluralism is the only path to peaceful

coexistence. Postmodernists are also

pluralists.

HEDONISM

This is the pursuit of pleasure for

pleasures sake. Pleasure is seen as lifes

utmost goal. Hedonism is a logical

outcome of atheism. If there is neither

God nor afterlife, this life should be

lived to its fullest. Unbridled sensual

pleasure becomes a substitute for the

happiness, meaning and fulfilment that

comes from a relationship with God.

Anything that causes pain, discomfort or

inconvenience must be eliminated.

Pleasure is no longer a desire, it

becomes a right.

CONSUMERISM AND

MATERIALISM

Materialism is the belief that nothing

exists except matter. Hence, matter is all

that matters and possessions bring

happiness. This has become a key

feature of Western culture. A persons

worth is measured by what they can

acquire rather than goals such as

character development, service to

humanity, generosity, righteousness,

wisdom and close relationships with

others.

I buy, therefore, I am. Shop until you

drop. Advertising and marketing are the

handmaiden of consumerism. they target

consumers by creating a dissatisfaction

not only with what we have, but with

who we are.

Materialism and consumerism are

obsessively self-centred and this links

them to individualism

INDIVIDUALISM

Individualism regards man - every man

- as an independent sovereign entity

who possesses an inalienable right to his

own life, a right derived from his nature

as a rational being. It promotes the

freedoms, rights and choices of the

individual over those of the family or

community.

As Christianity dies the individual loses

his or her anchor and is cut adrift on a

vast ocean of aloneness. Without God

individuals are forced to re-invent their

identity. This is why so many in

Western society are confused about who

they are and why so much energy and

effort is spent in searching for the

meaning of life and their place in the

world.

A recurring tweet says it all: Never

before has a generation so diligently

recorded themselves, accomplishing so

little.

GLOBALISATION

This is the process whereby the world

has become interconnected and certain

organisations (especially businesses)

and cultures have gained an immense

international influence.

Highly sophisticated communication

and technology, affordable access to air

travel, global news network, mass

immigration, social media and the rise

of multinational corporations have

contributed to the contested

phenomenon of globalisation. What is

problematic about this is the global

export and mass consumption of

contemporary Western values that have

their roots in postmodernism,

humanism, hedonism and consumerism.

Christian values are not only rejected

but seen as backward, harmful and in

some countries, illegal.

EXISTENTIALISM

This is a worldview that emphasises

defining self and the meaning of life

through free will and choice. Choices

are based on personal beliefs which

existentialists themselves construct,

based on what is appealing, suitable or

convenient at the time. Choices are

made without reference to objective

truth, tested tradition or a higher power.

Existentialism is by definition amoral -

not guided by a moral code. As the

meaning of life is self-constructed, a

significant emphasis is placed on

personal experiences and emotions.

Instant gratification is important

because existentialists live in the here

and now.

People in an existential society are less

likely to offer themselves for any form

of service for fear of giving up control

over themselves or their lives. This

reduces their involvement in civic life

and their participation in altruistic

activities.

Another result of existentialism is a

transient workforce who are in a job for

only a very limited time. Job hopping is

the new normal claims a Forbes report.

Existentialism has especially influenced

the education system in the West. It

increasingly privileges subjective

experience over objective truth.

INDIFFERENCE

There is a growing trend of ambivalence

and indifference, not just to religion, but

also to the world and to life itself among

millennial - the expressions meh or

whatever reflect this complete lack of

interest.

Millennials are more socially, civically

and politically disengaged than any

generation since the Second World War.

More than 75% said that wealth was one

of their primary motives in life. Of all

the factors measured, civic engagement,

interest in social capital and concern

for others were the lowest of any

generation since the 1940s.

Theyre also the least religious

generation in history, getting less

religious as they get older, which is

unprecedented - and the majority of

them identify Christianity as

synonymous with harsh political

conservatism.

Millennials tend to avoid anything that

makes them feel uncomfortable.

Students at a number of prestigious

universities in the UK and US are now

demanding safe spaces, censoring free

speech that might cause offence and

disinviting or no-platforming speakers

who hold a conservative worldview. In

the last couple of years standard

dictionaries have included the noun

snowflake generation in their

vocabulary meaning a generation which

is less resilient and more prone to taking

offence than previous generations.

Claire Fox, Director of the Institute of

Ideas notes, our overprotected

children are so loaded up with

emotional angst that they are ill-

equipped to deal with the basic

challenges of adult life. She argues that

the snowflake generation phenomenon

is the by-product of the health-and-

safety mania that mollycoddles children,

anti-bullying campaigns which

pathologise normal childish

transgressions and tensions and the child

protection industry that actively

encourages children to see potential

abuse everywhere.

CULTURAL MARXISM

Marx had tried to transform the

traditional economic model of the West

by instigating workers to revolt against

the capitalists. However, with the

outbreak of the First World War, when

the workers of the world donned the

uniforms of their countries and waged

war against one another instead of

revolting against their capitalist

overlords, Marxs prophecy proved

false. The working class had failed to

carry out Marxs utopian dream. Now

scholars of the Frankfurt School

redirected their efforts at the cultural

elite of society - the media, schools,

universities, government, judiciary and

even the churches - who were proud of

Christianity and Western civilisation.

The enemy to be destroyed was the

Christian-based civilisation of the West

and the tool to achieve this destruction

was Critical Theory.

Every aspect of Western culture had to

be undermined by incessant and

unrelenting criticism. The West had to

be portrayed as evil, corrupt,

authoritarian and oppressive.

Christianity, capitalism, authority,

family, patriotism, patriarchy, morality

and especially traditional sexual

morality, had to be attacked and brought

down.

Marxism had cried out against the

oppression of the workers. Cultural

Marxism turned its attention to creating

specific victim groups - women,

homosexuals, racial and ethnic

minorities etc. They portrayed the

oppressor as Western Christian

civilisation, the traditional nuclear

family, parents, the white heterosexual

male, the Christian church, the

capitalists and all conservative and

traditional values.

The most important task for cultural

Marxists was to capture the culture.