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Dr. Abaddon Shah discusses the importance of apologetics and creationism in the Christian faith, highlighting the benefits of resources from Answers in Genesis, including the New Answers Book series. He also shares personal anecdotes and insights on how to effectively communicate the gospel and defend one's faith in a world filled with opposing views.

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We're going to leave a couple of links right there in the description so you can do just that. Ryan, happy Thursday, my friend. Happy Thursday. It's Thursday. Thursday. Got to get down on Thursday. I don't think anybody says that, but okay.

Yeah, sure. Thursday's that weird one. It's not hump day. It's not Friday.

You're in the latter half of the week. You're just not quite at the finish line. Kind of there. It's just kind of there.

Hey, listen. Somebody wrote in to the show. They wanted to know... Oh, this is from Jeffrey P., by the way. What do you think the P. stands for? Jeffrey P. from North Carolina.

Pepper and Cheney. Jeffrey Pepper and Cheney wants to know, what's the greatest Christian pickup line you've ever given? Ooh, given?

Yeah. I'm going to tell you right now, brother. I haven't given Christian pickup lines. I haven't given very many. I don't think I even did regular pickup lines. I was so socially awkward with girls.

Yeah, I didn't do regular pickup lines either. I was like, I like you. Do you like me? You want me to go out?

I wouldn't even do that. I had just kind of made up in my mind that girls weren't attracted to me. So that even if a girl came up to me and was like, hey, I really like you, I'd be like, she's mocking me. I think she's lying. I think she's making fun of me. I'm pretty sure this is a prank and I'm being set up. And other girls would come up to me and be like, I think so.

I think they kind of have a crush on you. I'd be like, I think all of these people are lying. Yeah, no, no, no, no, no. I would tell you a couple of good ones that I've heard. Okay. Didn't you do Christian pickup lines as like a game in the youth group and stuff? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Give me some you've heard. Like, hey girl, I was doing my Bible study this morning in the book of Numbers. And I realized I didn't have yours. I don't got yours. Why don't you just let that my way? If I walk around you seven times, will you fall for me?

Like Jericho? Oh man. All right. David, David, David said, David said, you got one day. Let me sell you an indulgence because it's a sin to look as good as you do.

What does that mean? Anyway, moving on from that, if you don't deserve, if you don't deserve me, hold on, hold on, hold on. If you can't handle me at my judges for you don't deserve me at my Proverbs 31, that was just for the ladies. Excuse me, girl. I think one of these ribs might belong to you.

These ribs might belong to you. I mean, there's the classic, like, did it hurt? Did what hurt?

When you fell from heaven? Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. You know, I wondered, I always wondered why Solomon had so many wives. It's cause he never met you. I didn't believe in predestination.

Hey man, I like, I like my girls just like I like my Nintendo games. Saved. Hey, did God save you from a fiery furnace recently?

Cause you're hot. Oh man, Christian pickup lines. Christian pickup lines are really weird. Christian guys flirting with, with girls might be some of the most hilarious and pathetic stuff I've ever seen. Have you ever seen Christian boys in youth group flirt by trying to pick up so many chairs? That still happens. That's a trope that has been around since, since we were in youth, but it still happens.

You have been around student aged teenage girls, almost your entire youth group career, like your youth pastor career. Have you ever seen any of them impressed by a boy picking up more than four chairs? Visibly? Yes. No.

Not one time. They don't care. Fellas, if you're in youth group, if you're a boy and you're in youth group, they don't care about that. They don't care. You know what they do? You know what they do care about? Guys volunteering in other ministries. The guys who volunteer in other ministries in the church are usually the ones that are getting the girls. I'm just saying, I'm just saying.

That's true, man. You gotta, you gotta, you gotta do it. Let's ask Dr. Shel with some of his favorite Christian pickup lines are. I'm sure some of them are cringe. You send in some of yours cause I know you got some.

Some of y'all. Send them in. I know you got them. Some of y'all were using them in youth group, man. Some of y'all might be using them now. And if they're working, let us know.

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Amen. Let's hop back into the show. Welcome back to Clear View Today with Dr. Abbadon Shah, the daily show that engages mind and heart for the gospel of Jesus Christ. You can visit us online at Clearviewtodayshow.com. If you have any questions or suggestions for new topics, send us a text to 252-582-5028.

That's right. And we're here once again in the Clear View Today studio with Dr. Abbadon Shah, who is a PhD in New Testament textual criticism. Dr. Shah, when you were, let's say, playing the dating field, right? Before you met Nicole or even when you were dating Nicole, did you ever use pickup lines? How would you flirt?

How does Dr. Shah flirt? I mean, I didn't have pickup lines. I was like, you know, lo, you look so hot or something weird.

I just didn't have that. I just, I'm not built like that. So you wouldn't be like, Hey, uh, Hey, did it hurt? And they said, what do you mean? Would it hurt?

And when you fell from heaven, you didn't, none of that. Definitely. I'm not built that way. Are you from Nashville? Cause you're the only 10 I see.

What do you say again? Are you from Nashville? Cause you're the only 10 I see. Like a Tennessee.

Like she's a 10 out of 10. Yeah. We talked about some of the worst. Yeah. I have a little smart one for that.

Yeah. See, see, we talked about some of the worst Christian pickup lines, um, in, in all of, I would say, um, Christianity cause Christians, Christians, you know, they gotta be a little bit more clever with theirs. I was doing my Bible study reading the book of numbers and I realized I didn't have yours. Your pickup lines are so fast.

I'm not even catching them. Say it again. I was doing my Bible study in the book of numbers today and I realized I didn't have yours. Oh, see, that's the thing. Christians, when Christians have a pickup line, it's gotta be, it's gotta be a double whammy cause it not only has to be smart and charming and attractive, it's gotta be honoring to the Lord. So, but I have one from someone in this room and we didn't say this on the intro.

The three of us sitting around the table are married. Yeah. We, it was not, it was not issued by anyone at this table and it was not issued by anybody running sound. So I'm not going to say who it was. It might've been someone on the video switcher.

It could have been. We don't know. This person texted a young lady, are you today's date? With two question marks. She responds by putting a question mark on that.

She, she did the question mark. Never a good sign. She said, he said, cause you're a 10 out of 10. Like you're a 10-10. We're recording this on October 10th.

You're listening to it about a week later. But he said, are you today's date? She questions it. He said, cause you're a 10-10 and sent a kissy face emoji, like the little emoji with the kissy face. She responds, I can't stand you.

Yikes. That's not the response he wants. Bad, bad response. He sends a tearful puppy dog eye emoji. She said, do your pickup lines normally work? He says, why are you being so hurtful? And what did she say to that?

I don't, I didn't get anything. What did she say to that? Nicholas, did she send anything beyond that? She did. Are you going to share it with us?

What did she, what did she say after that? Is it positive or negative? Is it positive or negative? It's negative. A hundred percent.

It's negative. She blocked him. Nice dude. Yeah.

She blocked him. I, I think, I think, so here's the thing. I think you're going the charming route, like the whole self-deprecating, Hey, I'm kind of a dork, but anybody who, it worked with me, it worked with Ryan. I don't think it's going to work with you because anybody who looks at you sees you are not a dork.

Right. You know what I mean? It only works if you are genuinely a dork.

You have to be genuinely a dork and then you can kind of do like the charming, Hey, I'm kind of dorky, but it's a dorkable. So I feel like, Oh, okay, I'll take care of you. So I don't, I don't know what's going to come of this.

I can't stand you is not a great, is not a great response. This is coming from the other bachelor in the room. Oh yeah, we just got another one. Oh my goodness.

You're just like, oh, you go ahead and say it, baby. You're just like water, except Jesus turned you into fine. No, I don't like that one. That was is your name? Faith. Cause you're the substance of things I've hoped for.

I didn't believe that predestination until I met you tonight. I need to come up with those. You found those.

Yikes. Where'd you find them? Wiki how did you say that in the mind? There's a wiki how for anybody wanting to know, what did you, please, please tell me what you searched on Wiki.

How, what was the search term? It's even Biden's a little confused like Christian pickup line. I feel like we need to move on. I don't have a good segue out of Christian pickup lines. Can you just get us into the word of the day?

I would love to. The verse of the day is coming from Deuteronomy chapter 10, verse 17 for the Lord. Your God is God of gods and Lord of Lords, the great God, mighty and awesome who shows no partiality nor takes a bribe. Trying to segue out of a pickup lines into how good our God is. I remember Dr. Shaw. I don't know if you remember this. He never turns it down. That's right. He never turns us down.

He's always there. Do you remember when we started setting themes for ourself every year and the very first theme that we set, I don't know if you remember this, it was in 2018. It was when our new, our current sanctuary, which was our new sanctuary at the time was being built. Our theme was God is awesome. Yes. That every single thing that we did, every single message that we put out, every video, every sermon, somehow we were going to communicate how awesome our God was. Yes. And then we, when we moved into our new sanctuary, which is now our older sanctuary, which will become our children and our youth wing, I think it was thankful, right?

Am I right? Grateful or gratitude? Gratitude. And I think having those kinds of themes are so helpful because you can sort of narrow your focus and how you're seeing God work. Themes do not necessarily encompass everything that you're learning about God, but it at least gives you a focus, a destination like this is where God is taking us. And I hope if you don't have a theme for your life, or maybe this is now we're in October, sort of a little past the start of school, you can still pick a theme.

That's right. Pick something, say, you know, this will be my year of accomplishment, or this is the year of gratefulness, or this is the year of prayerfulness. Definitely can use the prayerfulness one with election coming up around the corner. This is a year of prayerfulness. Yeah. Oh, this is a year of productivity. That's right.

Yeah. And maybe that's your theme, is your first theme, like our first theme was, was how awesome our God is. It's just our theme, it's our year of wonder, our year of being in awe of God. And that sort of kind of gets us into what we're talking about today with ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, Dr. Shah's book club. Dr. Shah's book club. Dr. Shah, I don't have a theme song for this. We've been doing this for months and I still don't have a little sound for Dr. Shah's theme book club. Play something. Yeah, Dr. Shah's book club has got me reaching for the stars, baby. That's a good one. Yeah, Dr. Shah's book club got me reaching for the stars. We're going to get, we're going to get a theme song for Dr. Shah's book club, but this is the segment we do every single month. Shout out Nintendo.

I might want to play Mario. Shout out to Miyamoto himself. So he's alive, right? Isn't he alive? Isn't he still alive?

Anyway. I don't know. All that to say Dr. Shah's book club is the segment we do every month where Dr. Shah shares with us the books that he's been reading and the books that we are recommending to you, the resources that you can have in your church or just in your life and ministry.

Dr. Shah, what do we have on the docket for this month? Today, I want to talk a little bit about not just a book, but books, but not just a series of books, but also an organization that I feel like has so far done a great job in being service to the church at large. And that is Answers in Genesis. Answers in Genesis with Ken Ham has been around for some time. And I know there are controversies here and there all the time about this and that and the others.

I don't want to get into that. All I'm saying is the materials that have come through them overall have been very, very, very beneficial to churches, to pastors, to families, to homeschoolers. They've been very helpful. Very much so. And I have benefited from them and I have recommended them to people left and right. Yeah.

We've got lots of their resources on hand. We use that curriculum as part of our Sunday school here at church. One of the most attractive things about that curriculum is that it's broken up in different age graded classes, but everybody is at the same pace. So everybody, if you go to Sunday school at Clearview, everybody is studying the same thing at the 945 hour from our youngest, like four years old, all the way up through adults.

Which is something helpful that you don't even realize that you need. You don't even realize the benefit of having everybody teaching the same curriculum the same week until you start doing it. Because that was something that I was like, well, I mean, I understand they want to teach their class and they want to teach their class. And it's not meant to be dis-unified.

I don't even know if that's a word, but it becomes that. You know what I mean? It becomes people are like, well, I really like my Sunday school teacher, but I want to be over there.

Or I really like what they're doing, but I already know all this stuff. But once everyone's on the same curriculum, especially I loved Answers in Genesis because it went along with what you were doing, Dr. Shah, in the content series. We hit apologetics really hard over the past couple of years. Yeah. This was in 2020 that I felt like with all the shutdowns happening and the major shift and by the way, if you don't believe that, believe it, a shift has taken place very much in our culture.

It was already coming, but it was turbo. It took on turbo speed in 2020 and shifting the mindset, the philosophy, the cultural equilibrium has shifted very much. And so that year I felt like God was laying on our heart or our hearts as a team to emphasize apologetics, to help people defend their faith and know why they believe what they believe. And partly it's because it came through our series on Peter, where Peter says, you know, always be ready to give a reason for the hope that is within you with meekness and fear. And that led us into this apologetic series.

Plus the cultural milieu was changing and has changed and continues to change. And so already I knew about answers in Genesis. I knew about master's books.

And so this was a master book, not master's books, master books. And so I was like, you know, I want to give our people some resources that they can study on their own. Yeah. A hundred percent. I'm going to talk about everything from Genesis 1.1, but I want people to be able to have resources that they can dig into and study and teach their children, their grandchildren.

And so one set of resources that have been very helpful to me over the years has been the new answers book, volume one, two, three, four, and the quadrilogy you see before you quadrilogy. Yes. And here I have it.

Volume one is red, volume two blue, volume three is sort of yellow golden and volume four is green. It makes a very nice box set by the way. It does. And again, we're not getting any commission. I was just about to make the same joke. Maybe we should. Maybe we should get some commission. I was just about to say we are not sponsored by answers in Genesis.

But great resource. If you can get your hands on this, especially if you're teaching children at home, even if you're not, this is a good book to have because they, each of these volumes has in the table of contents, it has about 27. This one has 27 questions. This one here, the second one has 31 questions.

Well, it already says that in the upfront. Third one has 35, fourth one has 30. So you all together, you're looking at what?

30 times 120. Just about 120 questions. And some of the questions are, let me just go to volume one. Yeah. Cause these are big questions.

Yeah. Question number one, is there really a God? That's a very good place to start. And I'm sure, you know, you'll say, yes, there is, of course, you know, what do you mean there's no, but it gives you plenty of information, a little bit of history, you know, something about evolution and how things have shifted. And then it kind of goes into how God has designed us, the complexity of the human cell, how human beings and animals are different and all those kinds of things. So all this just right there with you.

Let me drop down to, let's say question number 15. Don't creationists believe some wacky things? Yeah. Right now the like, big word that is used is you're weird. Yeah. You're weird. That's a big word right now.

Yup. They've been spent, especially people who are more on the liberal side of things, you're weird. And they've been doing it because it's such a, it's such a quote unquote, innocent thing. They want to see how mad you get, especially with Trump supporters.

They do that. How much can I, can I push your buttons by saying that? So no longer is Trump a hate monger. He's just weird. He's a weirdo.

And the problem is we Christians are so hesitant to put on labels on people. Now, of course, even one-on-one we might do that and say, man, some of those liberal leftist people, they're just weird. Yeah. They're weird. They're odd. Yeah.

This is odd. It's some of the odd things they're doing, but we may not do that in public. Yeah. It's not part of our public discourse. Yeah. And I know somebody may say that's kind of hypocritical because you're doing it in private, but not in public.

No, because we may not want to hurt people's feelings. Right. I'm expressing an opinion. I'm not using it as a weapon against somebody. It's not, it's not my argument. Yes. I'm not going to use it as a baseball bat to hit you over the head with saying you're weird. Right. Well, shoot.

It's like, do you have an actual argument against my stance? Yeah. You're odd. You're weird. You're a weirdo.

It's a weird stance and you're weird providence. Yeah. I mean, it's completely fine to have an opinion about someone.

You can do that. But when that becomes your actual tactic to convince people that you're right, it's just a bad argument. Right.

It is. But imagine if we were out there in the public square and we were saying that to the other side. Can you imagine how that is so painful and you call yourself Christians? That's exactly what they would say. That's why I love these books because they have actual arguments. They have actual arguments with actual evidence that's there. Like the question, don't Christians or creationists believe some wacky things?

No. And then it begins to take claim after claim. Like biblical creationists believe the earth is flat. Huh? Yeah. That's one of the claims they have.

It's like, no, we don't believe that. Claim number two, biblical creationists believe that there are beneficial mutations. Not true. Yeah. Claim number three, you can't be a Christian if you don't believe in a young earth. I never said that.

Yeah. Although I believe it's more biblical when you believe in the young earth. But I'm not going to say that somebody who believes in an old earth is not a Christian.

Yeah, day, age or whatever. I know some of those people and they're godly Christians. They're just mistaken. Yeah. You're allowed to be wrong and be a Christian. Right.

Christianity is really about Jesus Christ, Son of God gave his life for you. That's right. That's right.

That's what it means. Claim number four, biblical creationists take the whole Bible literally. And Judas went and hung himself.

Go thou and do likewise. No, we don't believe that. We don't believe that.

Claim number six. I mean, that's how people look at it. It's like, really? Oh, that was really funny.

That was funny. Go thou and do likewise. Biblical creationists believe the earth is same now as it was at the beginning of creation. No, we don't believe that.

And claim number seven, biblical creationists are anti-science and anti-logic. Makes sense. Yeah.

That's me. So this book is just volume one. Yeah, that's just the first one. Volume two. Again, I'm just going to take one or two questions, but it's okay. In fact, you can pick a couple of questions and just read the questions for us. Okay.

And Jon, be ready for volume three. There we go. Okay, so we have, what's the best proof of creation?

Are biblical creationists divisive? How old is the earth? So I'm kind of circling back to that. And it's like, how many pages is the answer? Oh, 10 to 12. Yeah, most of these look like they're about 10 page answers. Yeah. So it's bite size. You can read them.

Just every day, if you read one, I mean, you're set for like four months, five months. Where did the idea of millions of years come from? Can creationists be real, quote unquote, real scientists? And how should a Christian respond to gay marriage? Yeah, see, so it's not just all about creation and evolution. This is also about morality and ethics. Questions that matter. Biblical values.

Yeah. Here's a good one that I've actually thought about before. I've never actually read this book. How can all the animals fit on the ark and eight people take care of them? I did cover that in my biblical apologetic series on Sunday mornings.

This was back in 2022, I believe. Was there death before Adam sinned? Was death really a thing? Abortion, is it really a matter of life and death? Yep. That's a big issue right now. It really is.

It really is. What is a life? Here's one before, cause it's all altogether four volumes.

And David, I've got three or four questions. Yeah. The ones that I saw that really were interesting to me is first and foremost, it says dragons. Were they real?

That was one of those. There was could the flood cataclysm deposit uniform sedimentary rock layers, which we have discussed and talked about. By the way, with all this happening in the Western side of our state, you know, we're seeing a lot of ground formation taking place and it's not millions of years. It's a matter of hours that some of these eddies and rivers and the streams have been found.

Have you noticed that? So think about that. Yeah. There are new rivers being created in a matter of hours and they're just there. And imagine the creation was far, I need to be careful how I say that. It was not radical when God separated the water from the sea, but the water receding, cause scripture talks about the water receding, that was also part of creating these rivers and mountains. When you say it's not radical, do you mean like it's not a cataclysm?

It's not like a disaster? The disaster was Noah's flood. Right.

Right. God making the heavens and the earth and then the earth was without form and void. Darkness was on the face of the deep and the spirit of the Lord was hovering over the face of the waters.

And then I'm going right here. And God said, let there be light on and on first day. Then God said, let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters that it divide the waters from the waters. Let it divide the waters from the waters. This is verse six, that division, waters dividing from waters was a movement.

Okay. So some of the seas and rivers and all oceans were founded then. And then some parts of the Bible talk about the waters retreating and God saying thus far, no more kind of thing. But then also the flood, that was also the movement of the waters, but it was more cataclysmic. Right. So all that combined together has given us this beautiful creation.

And that did not take millions of years. So also with what we're seeing today. Exactly. That's my point. What we're seeing in, in the Western part of North Carolina is less than 24 hours, less than 24 hours.

You have entirely new terrain. Right. Yeah. It can happen. And when you look at it, it seems like it must've been there for thousands of years.

It wasn't there two weeks ago. Right. Exactly. Yeah.

It wasn't there yesterday. Yeah. Yeah. It's so important for us to answer those questions and to resource people answers. The answers, the new answers book series, one, two, three, and four is a great resource available to people. Answers in Genesis does a wonderful job of equipping, you know, the lay person to answer those difficult apologetics questions and as well as be a resource for ministries to help resource their people. That's right.

That's right. And we'll link them in the description as well. Cause we've got them in our resource center. This is something that maybe we can talk about on another show, but if you don't have a resource center in your church, a lot of people think you gotta be a big, big mega church to have a bookstore.

You could have a little, we started with like a little, it was our Sunday school room and we turned it into a bookstore, but you wouldn't believe how grateful people are to have those resources. Cause everybody has those questions. Right.

If your pastor doesn't address those questions or doesn't give them, give your people a resource to answer them, they're just going to still have the questions aren't going away and that doubt will still stay there. That's right. People email me all the time. Like even today, I had questions about grief and so we feel like I can now direct them to the bookstore and say, Hey, go here. And there are plenty of books there that will help you. And we have spent thousands of dollars, especially in the past few months in stocking our resource centers so that people can go in there and find books on theology, books on apologetics, ethics, sexuality. Let's see, Bible studies, commentaries, history. We have a very good resource center. It could be so much more, but we're working towards that. But right now you can go in there.

I have, there are books in there that I would like to buy. Right. Absolutely. So every time I walk in there, my mouth starts to drool a little bit.

Again, you don't have to be a big, huge church to be able to do that. You just have to care. Right. That's it. That's it.

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Jon, anything you want to plug as we close today? One last book that I do want to plug, Dr. Shaw and Nicole's book, 30 Days Praying for America, Daily Devotions to Help Heal Our Nation. Make sure you pick it up on Amazon. It's available right now.

Has been available for a while. We've had so many people writing in telling us how much this book is helping their devotional life. Also, if you want to help out your worship life as well, you can download our album, our debut album, Heaven Here and Now.

It's available right now on iTunes and Spotify. Go ahead and pick it up. Let us know what you think.

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