Well, I guess it was only a matter of time.
Some of you might have heard about John Holzmann and Sonlight Curriculum for Homeschoolers based out of Colorado. John is a friend of mine who, a couple of years ago, expressed interest in Beyond Creation Science. (You can see his comments here.)
John is the inquisitive type who is always investigating various viewpoints. That shows in how Sonlight Curriculum is formulated. They tend to offer books with contrasting (and sometimes contradictory) views. The goal is to expose the home school student to different points of view so they can develop critical thinking skills. In a nutshell, Sonlight Curriculum is after real education -- which is probably why they are so popular with home schoolers.
Except this has now caused a problem for John in Colorado.
The Colorado homeschool association (CHEC) decided that Sonlight would no longer be allowed a booth at the annual Homeschool Convention in Colorado that is hosted by CHEC. Why not? Because Sonlight Curriculum includes material written from an old-earth creationist/Intelligent Design perspective. (GASP!!)
Apparently, this makes Sonlight Curriculum "not Christian enough" to participate in the Homeschool Convention since CHEC requires a strict 6 Day/Young-Earth statement of faith for all its vendors. Of course, Sonlight has been displaying their material at this annual convention for years. They make no official stand on the YEC-OEC debate as an organization. They include YEC material along with OEC material in their curriculum. None of this matters now. Somebody just decided they don't meet up to the standard required by CHEC.
Hmm....
I suspect that some of John's recent articles on the subject might have something to do with Sonlight getting the ax. The irony, though, is that there appears to be a backlash against CHEC from loyal Sonlight supporters. Gotta love those home schoolers! It appears that some of them think that loving God with all their mind means actually learning about opposing views whether they agree with those views or not. I am also willing to bet that the OEC home schooling contingent will be getting larger in the future rather than smaller. Sonlight Curriculum is sure positioned to serve this niche within the home school community! Looks like free advertising to me, courtesy of the nanny CHEC! (Who needs state control of education when you can have have your state Christian home school association filter vendors at the convention for you! Ironic, no?)
Now we get to wait on an official response from CHEC regarding the situation. This one will be fun to watch. I don't know if CHEC realized this, but they just put the subject of old-earth creationism front and center for a lot of new people who probably had no interest in it before.
You can read John's account of the details here.
Tim Martin
www.BeyondCreationScience.com
THE PAROWAN PROPHET: WE'RE DEAD.
Leland Freeman is a PROPHET, according to no less authority than himself. He is known as the Parowan Prophet (Parowan, Utah). He said God speaks to him and he is the true prophet of God. According to him Obama will not be the next President of the U.S. because Russia will drop nuclear bombs all over the U.S. Millions of us will die. It will happen on December 21, 2008. Of course I am sure it is no problem for "The Prophet" of Parowan that today is January 19, 2009 and there has been no reports of a nuclear attack by anybody (much less the Russians). Maybe we're all dead and just don't know it - we must be living in a "Matrix" kind of reality.
If you have tickets for tomorrows inaugeration you better sell them on ebay tonight, but what good will money do you when you're dead, or very sick from nuclear fall-0ut.
I could never be deceived by a "PROPHET" - why, because I know there are no "Prophets" of God since August 70 a.d. when all prophecies ceased. If you do not believe in the "full preterist" view you could be deceived, oh yes you can. A billion people have been deceived into believing that Mohammad was the last Prophet of God. The Jehovah's Witnesses have been deceived by False Prophets. The Seventh-Day-Adventists have been deceived over and over again by false prophets. Cults exists because of False Prophets. Don't be deceived - THE LAST DAYS ended by 70 a.d.
If you have tickets for tomorrows inaugeration you better sell them on ebay tonight, but what good will money do you when you're dead, or very sick from nuclear fall-0ut.
I could never be deceived by a "PROPHET" - why, because I know there are no "Prophets" of God since August 70 a.d. when all prophecies ceased. If you do not believe in the "full preterist" view you could be deceived, oh yes you can. A billion people have been deceived into believing that Mohammad was the last Prophet of God. The Jehovah's Witnesses have been deceived by False Prophets. The Seventh-Day-Adventists have been deceived over and over again by false prophets. Cults exists because of False Prophets. Don't be deceived - THE LAST DAYS ended by 70 a.d.
The War is Over
By Jeromy Johnson,
The War is Over.
That is what the leaflets dropped over the Philippines by the U.S. after WWII read. The War is Over. In other words, we, as the United States of America, were saying: We are no longer trying to kill you. As far as we are concerned, you are no longer our enemy.
But there were some who heard and read this good news and did not believe it. They thought these leaflets were lies and propaganda from the enemy. These people were known as “holdouts.” They hid in the Philippines believing that the U.S. and her allies were still fighting against them. They believed they were still at war with an enemy that, in truth, had declared peace on December 31, 1946.
One of these Japanese Solider Holdouts was named Onoda. He was the lone survivor of a group of four other holdouts. In fact, 14 years after the war ended he was (incorrectly) declared legally dead in Japan. But in 1974 he realized, through a series of circumstances, that the war was over:
“On March 9, 1974, intelligence Officer 2nd Lt. Hiroo Onoda emerged from the jungle of Lubang Island with his .25 caliber rifle, 500 rounds of ammunition and several hand grenades. He surrendered 29 years after Japan’s formal surrender. When he accepted that the war was over, he wept openly.” (read more)
Did you catch that? After he accepted — or believed — that the war was over, he wept openly.
The War is Over.
That is what the leaflets dropped over the Philippines by the U.S. after WWII read. The War is Over. In other words, we, as the United States of America, were saying: We are no longer trying to kill you. As far as we are concerned, you are no longer our enemy.
But there were some who heard and read this good news and did not believe it. They thought these leaflets were lies and propaganda from the enemy. These people were known as “holdouts.” They hid in the Philippines believing that the U.S. and her allies were still fighting against them. They believed they were still at war with an enemy that, in truth, had declared peace on December 31, 1946.
One of these Japanese Solider Holdouts was named Onoda. He was the lone survivor of a group of four other holdouts. In fact, 14 years after the war ended he was (incorrectly) declared legally dead in Japan. But in 1974 he realized, through a series of circumstances, that the war was over:
“On March 9, 1974, intelligence Officer 2nd Lt. Hiroo Onoda emerged from the jungle of Lubang Island with his .25 caliber rifle, 500 rounds of ammunition and several hand grenades. He surrendered 29 years after Japan’s formal surrender. When he accepted that the war was over, he wept openly.” (read more)
Did you catch that? After he accepted — or believed — that the war was over, he wept openly.
The statement to Onoda was not, “The war is over IF you believe it.” The statement was, “The war is over, DO you believe it?” The war was over. Period.
But for 29 years he continued to hide and clutch his weapons and ration his ammo and clean his grenades. His belief that the war was still going on caused him to act accordingly.
A lot of us do the same thing. (read more here)
