I know you might be confused – “What? Deborah is giving out Charles Darwin’s ‘Origin of Species’! Are you kidding me?”

Well, I think it is only fair to give both sides of an argument. Ray Comfort, of Living Waters, has taken Charles Darwin’s original book and added a 50 page special introduction. This includes the History of evolution, Timelines of Darwin’s life, Intelligent Design vs. Evolution, as well as a clear gospel message. You can hear more about the Special Edition here.

If you want to buy some to donate to your library or local school then you can buy them here.

You can see how God blessed us in Oxford below.

Have a great day,

Deborah Drapper

Tony Miano and Me

Eric Hovind practicing openair preaching and me pretending to be a heckler.

Me trying to witness to some girls. But they weren’t very open to the gospel.

August Academy 2009

All these people mean so much to me now.

Me in Hollywood

As a result of the Documentary “Deborah 13: Servant of God” I have been invited out to meet with some of the people who have most influenced my Christian life. The first week I meet with Ray Comfort and the ‘Way of the Master’ team, and even get to join him on the streets doing outreach. Then I fly over to Florida to meet with Eric Hovind from Creation Science Evangelism ministry and then Rick Wiles of TruNews.

If you want to keep up with our trip you can see what we’re up to on Bible-matters twitter. Look down the left hand side of the Bible-Matters page and follow our tweets.

Thank you to everyone who has made this trip possible and I’ll try and write again after I get home.

Have a great day,

Deborah Drapper

Have a great day,

Deborah Drapper

The first week will be spent with some very good friends then Dad and I go to meet Ray Comfort and the Way of the Master evangelism team while Kirsty continues with our friends. Ray Comfort will let you know more about what we will be doing as you listen to a short clip from a recent radio interview below….

The second week we all fly from Los Angeles, on the West coast, across to Florida, on the East coast, and share a few days fellowshipping with Eric Hovind from Creation Science Evangelism ministry. I am really looking forward to being able to ask him lots of questions about creation and evolution and visit their creation museum/Dinosaur Adventure-land.

From here we fly again down to West Palm Beach where we meet Rick Wiles from TruNews Radio and may be his son who has been researching Noah’s Ark. On the Saturday Rick will be showing us his new 1000 seater mission tent.

We set off from America on the Sunday evening and arrive back in Great Britain at lunch time on Monday!!

It will be such an amazing opportunity and privilege to meet so many Godly people who are excited about God and the Bible.

So many of you have invited us to pop in and stop off at your houses. Thank you, but unfortunately there just wouldn’t be time on this trip. If anyone happens to be in Los Angeles, Pensacola, or West Palm Beach when we are then please contact me and it would be great to meet up and chat if we can fit it in.

Have a great day,

Deborah Drapper

This week I have been working on an article for a magazine called Earthen Vessels. This is a quarterly print magazine edited and published by an 18 year old, homeschool graduate, Emily Berge, and it’s purpose is to encourage, educate, and strengthen our commitment, as Christians, to the Great Commission.

Articles are written by adults, youth, and children, and frequently include topics such as large families, adoption, missions, and teens who are pro-actively making a difference.

If you would like to order a copy of this magazine then send your details to: Earthen Vessels, c/o Emily Berger, RR4, Lacombe AB, T4L 2N4, Canada

Or email djberger@platinum.ca

I hope you manage to get your own copy of this magazine and encourage Emily in her amazing publication.

“But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us.” 2 Corinthians 4:7

Have a great day,

Deborah Drapper

“If God is the so called “Supreme Being”, why is there War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime and corruption?”

This is a question that I have received several times in my emails so I thought I would post the answer on here so others can read my answer.

There hasn’t always been War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime and corruption. In Genesis Chapter one we hear the account of how God created the Earth. Several times He says that it was good, but in Verse 31 it says, “And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.” Everything that God made was perfect.

So what happened?
Adam and Eve, the first Man and Woman, were allowed to live in the garden of Eden and were given the fruit of EVERY tree in the garden to eat, except for ONE: The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

But Satan, disguised as a serpent, tricked Eve by lying to her, and she disobeyed God. She ate the fruit from that tree and gave some to Adam to eat too. They had disobeyed the one rule that God had made. They had disobeyed God. Now because God is Holy and righteous (without sin) He has to punish sin and He judged Adam and Eve. (You can read these judgements in detail in Genesis Chapter 3) Basically their sin brought death into the world. Instant spiritual death and also the beginning of physical death.

So what has that to do with War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime and corruption?
The events that took place in the garden of Eden were the beginning of all these things. Sin, hatred, sickness disease etc all became worse and worse and all people will now die. The ultimate proof of your sin is your death. (Romans 6:23, “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”)

In a way death was a gift from God to escape from this wicked sinful world. Possibly God had to throw Adam and Eve out of the garden so they didn’t eat of the fruit of the Tree of Life because if they had they may have been stuck on this earth forever. Now we can get rid of these sinful bodies and be given new bodies. This world is going to get worse and worse until finally Jesus returns to destroy this fallen earth and make a new earth. In the meantime if we recognise our sin, repent of it, ask Jesus to take our punishment for us, then trust in Him, we can have eternal life with God.

Why is it God’s fault?
If you drive down the road and see a car all crashed up and bent with it’s windows smashed, do you say, ” Hey, Henry Ford, why is that car like that? You made it, it must be your fault!!” No! It isn’t Henry Ford’s fault that the car is in a mess. Neither is it God’s fault that the world is in a mess. When He made it, it was perfect. He gave man the opportunity to live in the garden of Eden, in a perfect paradise, for as long as they wanted. No suffering, no weeds, no backache!! But they chose to sin against God. They only had one rule and they sinned!! Just like you and I would have done too. Wars are caused by hatred and greed in man’s heart, as is hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime and corruption.

As well as God’s curse on mankind He also cursed the ground, and the earth is groaning as it falls apart. There are going to be more earthquakes, disasters, disease, etc. The only thing God promises He will never do again is flood the whole earth with water, as He did in Noah’s day. The flood was God’s judgement on wicked man and He gave mankind the chance to start again and guess what we did? Exactly the same as we did before. The Bible says that God is going to destroy this earth, and make a New Heaven and a New earth. We don’t know exactly when God is going to do this, but He gives us signs to look out for and it appears that there isn’t much time left. God is very patient and is giving people the chance to turn to Him first, but one day He will keep His word and it will be too late.

So instead of asking, “Why is there so much suffering in the world?” shouldn’t the question be, “Why doesn’t God just destroy us all? Why does He allow us to drink a cool glass of water and see a beautiful sunset?”

God is very patient. As we see a glimpse of what God’s wrath is going to be like we need to count it as a warning of what is to come. God made Hell for the devil and his angels, but God can’t and wont let sinners in to Heaven. The results of our sin is hurting others around the world, but most of all it is hurting God. He will not force anyone to come to Him, but He wants us to look around and see the results of our sin and call out to Him.

If you want to follow through a study that will help you understand better you can go to Finding God’s Way. This is a 4 lesson study from the Bible that will explain what God has done for you in more detail.

I hope this has helped to answer some of your questions. If you have any further questions after you have gone through Finding God’s Way then let me know.

Have a great day

Deborah Drapper

Take a look at Paul Grover’s website and see some of the suffering caused by wars and conflicts around the world today. Paul is an amazing photographer that I met when “The Telegraph” did an article about me back in March. Thanks Paul for letting me use your photo.

It started on Monday speaking with the Christian Union at Woodroffe School in Lyme Regis, then Tuesday was my Brother, Joel’s, sixteenth Birthday, and then Wednesday to Friday I was in London helping at the Living Waters Europe stand at the Christian Resources Exhibition.

Woodroffe School
Dad and I turned up early to make the most of the limited time we had at the lunch-time CU. After some games run by the Christian School’s Worker we ended up with only 30 minutes to answer questions that the students had about the film, my faith and other issues. There were a few questions on the filming and then about evolution v creation and one about hell. Then I was able to share the gospel and motivate the Christians to stand up for Christ even in the crowd with their friends. It felt so short, but we had to stop because their next lessons were calling!

There were around 30 students all together and I think about 20 of those were unbelievers. Several went home with Finding God’s Way books and Bibles and most took my contact details. I have been contacted by a few with further questions and am hoping to meet up and talk more about evolution and creation with one student.

Now I’m getting ready to do a web Conference with a Christian School in Canada on Thursday, so please pray for me. It will be great to be able to inspire and encourage them in their outreach using WOTM.

Christian Resources Exhibition
This was brilliant. A massive room full of Christian’s all sharing resources with each other and encouraging one another. Well, that is what it should have been!! But it was full of some very strange people, beliefs, and ideas, as well as the Bible believing Christians.

I was able to show people how to use the WOTM tracts and encourage them in their evangelism, but what was most fun was the fellowship with other like-minded Christians.

Dad got his video camera and I set off with microphone in hand and started to chat to Christians around the hall. I wanted to get different people’s opinions about their Christian faith and wasn’t surprised with what I heard.

The most interesting was a conversation I had with a New Testament Lecturer for Christian Theology form a University in Wales. After asking him a few basic questions about creation, Heaven and Hell, the Bible, Jesus etc, it was obvious that he had his theology up-side-down, in-side-out, and back-to-front. After 30 mins into the interview I was wondering why he wanted to lecture on the Bible when he didn’t even appear to believe or understand it himself? What was funny was that after the camera was off he handed me a leaflet and said – when you are older you can come along and study Theology for yourself. Oh, boy! You must be kidding me!!

I hope to get the interviews edited together and put them up here soon, so keep an eye out.

Have a great day

Deborah Drapper

I would like to ask these Christians a few questions.

1. The Biblical account of Creation in Genesis seems very specific with six days of creative activity, each having an evening and a morning. Also the Biblical account of creation has the order all wrong according to the evolutionary view. Do you think that God should have inspired an account more in keeping with evolution, the truth as you see it, if He did use evolution to create everything? Why do you think God had an account recorded that was not accurate to the evolution view?
2. The Bible says that Adam was created from “the dust of the ground” and when he died he would ” return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.” If you believe that the dust Adam was created from represents an ape from which he evolved, did he turn back into an ape when he died?
3. According to the evolutionist’s understanding, the fossil record shows death, disease and bloodshed before people. Doesn’t that mean that if you believe that evolution is the way God used to create the earth then you cannot believe the Bible when it says in Romans 5 :12, “Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:” and in Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death”? If death and suffering didn’t arise from Adam’s sin and the resulting curse then how can Jesus’ suffering and physical death pay the penalty for sin and give us eternal life, as the Bible clearly says in 1 Corinthians 15:21 and 22, “For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.”
4. If the Genesis account of Creation, The Fall, the origin of Nations, the Flood, and the Tower of Babel – the first 11 chapters – are not historical, although they are written as historical narrative and understood by Jesus to be so, what other parts of the Bible do you disregard? What herminutical principle do you use to determine what is myth and what is historical narrative?
5. If God created an evolutionary world, so that it is getting better and more perfect over a long time period, why should God want to destroy it and create, “new heavens and a new earth” (2Peter 3:13, Rev 21:1)
6. As I understand it, Darwin formulated the evolution theory to eliminate God from the realm of biological origins. Isn’t it a bit strange to try and put God (Theism) with evolution (naturalism)? If God created using the mode invented to make Him unnecessary, how can God’s “eternal power and Godhead” be “Clearly seen” in creation as Romans 1:20 says?
7. In Genesis 1:31 God describes His just-finished creation as “very good”. How do you understand the goodness of God if He used evolution, ‘death, destruction and survival of the fittest’ to create everything?
8. As I understand it, there is no purpose, no direction and no goal in evolution. The God of the Bible is all about purpose. How do you reconcile the purposelessness of evolution with the purposes of God? What does God have to do in an evolutionary world? Is not God an unnecessary hypothesis?
9. If you read the Genesis account of Creation, without an evolutionary mind-set, what do you actually discover about the way God created the universe? Doesn’t God warn about adding to scripture? If you cannot come up with evolution as the means of creation without outside, extra teaching, shouldn’t you be very careful?
10. Why do we use the word ‘Universe’? Doesn’t it mean ’single – Uni, spoken sentence – verse’? “And God said ‘Let there be…’”

Have a great day,

Deborah Drapper

What is Science?

Science means ‘to know’. The dictionary definitions tend to focus on systematic classification and careful collection of data: Things that can be observed, tested, and demonstrated.

Why are there lies in our text books?

So why is there so much that isn’t science being taught in our school’s science lesson? Why are there so many lies in our text books? And why are there still displays in our national museums that teach these lies as facts?

‘Lucy’

Last June I took a trip to the National History Museum in London.

As you can see the original bones of ‘Lucy’ are on display for all to see. What they forget to tell you though, in the little explanation underneath, is that there is much controversy over whether ‘Lucy’ is the ‘missing link’ between humans and apes or whether she is just simply another chimpanzee.

Donald Johanson used some very bold and imaginative language concerning his find and was very confident in his claims that ‘Lucy’ walked upright.

Perhaps these claims were a bit premature. More data has since been discovered which conflicts with Johanson’s hypothesis. Now Johanson has two choices. He either has to discard his earlier hypothesis and admit that ‘Lucy’ never walked up right, or he has to find a plausible explanation for the observations that conflict his hypothesis.

To add to his problems ‘Lucy’ is not even made up from one skeleton, but is several different finds pieced together. In fact, I believe the knee bone was found one year earlier, one and a half miles away, and in a completely different layer of strata, from where the rest of her was found. A real scientist would not put that knee bone with that skeleton. A real scientist would be brave enough to admit that ‘Lucy’, as she is, is not scientific. There is no evidence that she is a ‘missing link’ or an ancestor of humans.

Are you being lied to?

If you have Advanced Biology by Michael Roberts, Michael Reiss, and Grace Monger, then you have been lied to. Check out page 772 and see a lovely picture of Lucy! How many more lies are they telling you as facts? I can spot at least TEN!

If you would like to receive a free DVD called “Lies in the Text Books” which exposes the lies, and gives you the real science, then please contact me with your address and I will send one to you free of charge. Or you can check out a leaflet called “Are you being Brainwashed?”

Further Reading

A Case for Creation by Frair and Davis

Evolution: the fossils Still say NO by Duane T. Gish

Scientific Creationism by Henry M. Morris

Icons of Evolution by Jonathan Wells

Evolution: the Challenge of the Fossil Record by Duane T. Gish

Research Sites

Creation Science Evangelism

Answers in Genesis

Creation Science Movement