One of the difficult things about getting along with insecure people is that if you do not believe just as
they do they no longer want to have anything to do with you. There are some people who are very
idolatrous about what they believe and are ready to break-up a friendship over things that do not really
matter. Many times those are the people who are always talking about being tolerant. My question to
them is are they going to be tolerant about what I believe or others beleive if they are so tolerant.
I believe the Bible is the infallible, inerrant, inspired word of God. I just let the Bible speak for itself.
1) I believe in a young earth
Read Genesis 1-6
2) Universal flood
Read Genesis 1-6
3) Six day, 24 hour literal creation. Yes my God is so big that he is not bound by time. If he said that it
only took him six days to create the heaven and the earth then I believe it. I am not so intellectual that I
cannot take God at his word.
2Ti 3:7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
2Ti 4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall
they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
Read Genesis 1-6
4) I believe that Jesus is God
1Co 8:6 But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord
Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
5) I believe in the Trinity
6) I believe that Jesus died for my sins and rose from the dead on the third day just like scripture
teaches.
Lu 16:31 And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded,
though one rose from the dead.
Ac 10:41 Not to all the people, but unto witnesses chosen before of God, even to us, who did eat and
drink with him after he rose from the dead.
1Co 15:12 ¶ Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there
is no resurrection of the dead?
7) I believe that there is only on Baptism just like scripture teaches.
Eph 4:5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism,
Ac 2:41 Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added
unto them about three thousand souls.
8) I believe that it takes simple faith not works to be saved from our sins.
Eph 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
9) I believe that one must be saved through faith and must repent from ones sins to receive Christ.
Lu 13:3 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
Ac 3:19 Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of
refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;
10) I believe that the word of God is complete and we do not need any new revelations, the "sign gifts"
were done away with. 1Co 13:10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall
be done away. The word that is a nueter pronoun so it cannot be talking about Jesus Christ it can only
be talking about the word of God. Jesus is not a "that".
Many times I am asked about my scientific background and education. This is why I call my creation
science ministry David and Goliath Ministries. Please read Why David and Goliath Ministries Science
Versus Evolution.
1 Cor 1:25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger
than men.
26 For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not
many noble, are called:
I believe that 1 Corinthians 13 is probably the most important teaching in the Bible for the Christian.
You can have all the right ideas and beliefs but if you do not have charity you are a big nothing a zero,
worthless, benign. I have known a few pastors that had alot of right ideas but did not have charity. They
would never learn. They sounded like a loud obnoxious trumpet that was being played by a person
who was just learning to play and could not play any notes, it was just alot of banging and clanging. It
just repulsed you not convicted you.
God gave me a burning desire in my bosom when I was 25 years old to teach the Bible and science.
This is a desire I could never of given to myself. I believe this desire is pure super-natural.
I believe that God has chosen me to teach the subject of the Bible and science. I can tell you that when I
was in Kindergarten I already had a desire for math and science.
Because of my background and upbringing I especially love to teach young people the Bible and
science and encourage them to put Jesus Christ first in their lives.
My education and experience
First of all let me make one thing very clear an education does not qualify one to go into the ministry;
the Bible and I are very anti-elitist. I do not believe that God gives only some people extra-biblical
revelation. God’s word is complete and we all have the same truth available to us. It is called the Bible.
If you are saved you have just as much of the Holy Spirit as I do. I do not need to go to some scholar or
someone with some fancy degree to find out what the Bible says. I have three teachers and counselors
they are God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.
Ac 17:11 These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all
readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
God does not call the qualified he qualifies the called.
1 Cor 1:25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger
than men.
26 For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not
many noble, are called:
My educational background: I majored in Criminal Justice, Automotive Technology. I have taken
college level classes in Biology and Geology and I am self-taught in chemistry and geology. I guess
you could say that i am an amateur chemist and geologist
Up date: I will be majoring in Physical Science at WSU
I graduated from two police academies. I was a police officer for about 5 years.
I am currently a Park Ranger of 12 years.
My Experience
Mark Finkbeiner: has had five years of law enforcement experience and about five years of experience
in the juvenile jail ministry. He has also taught about 200 home schoolers in a three year period on the
subject of Biblical science. Has done many creation science and Bible prophecy seminars at different
churches and schools. He has taught in a Bible college several times. He is currently holding creation
science meetings the third Tuesday of each month at Temple Baptist Church in Richland WA.
I have been actively studying science and the Bible for 20 plus years. I have taught Elementary school
age through high-school level Geology, Biology, Astronomy and Chemistry for four years. I have been
the guest speaker and teacher at a church Bible College several times.
If Charles Darwin and Charles Lyell can claim to be scientists then just about anybody can be one. If
John Wesley Powell who trained himself to be a scientist and received recognition as a scientist from
evolutionists as an authority on the geology of the Grand Canyon then it is only fair and reasonable
that I am a scientist as well. The evolutionists will make a scientist out of anyone as long as they agree
to believe in the religion of evolution
Just a quick side note as far as chemistry goes in the science class I teach I do science experiments
that even most government funded schools do not experience. This is why my life Bible verse is 1
Cor1:27 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath
chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
I have traveled to many churches holding creation science and prophecy seminars and just simply
filling pulpits for absentee pastors.
About Me and What I believe