Lita Sanders (née Cosner)

Biography

Lita became a Christian in 2002, partially as a result of creation materials she found through CMI which answered her questions about the Bible and Christianity (see her own account).

Lita is a specialist in New Testament studies and obtained a B.A. (summa cum laude) in Biblical Studies from Oklahoma Wesleyan University in 2008. She received an M.A. (cum laude) in New Testament from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in 2012. Her thesis is titled Jesus the Honorable Broker: A Social-Scientific Exegesis of Matthew 15:21–28.

Her passion is interpreting the New Testament in a way that is understandable to the average Christian, as well as showing how the New Testament authors used the teachings of the Old Testament as the foundation for their theology, particularly in the area of Creation. She is the co-author of the booklets How Did We Get Our Bible? and Gay Marriage: Right or Wrong?. Her talk, Creation in the New Testament and Why it Matters, is available as a video download.

A selection of her articles can be seen below.

Creation magazine

• Neandertals weren’t ‘cave men’
• Jonah’s witness to the Creator God
• Smallpox. Medical victory over a devastating plague
• The victory of the Last Adam
• On good moods and bad moods
• The ridiculously poisonous Manchineel
• Our magnificent Creator
• Grandmother takes a strong stand for creation
• The majestic gorilla with Robert Carter
• Cain: The ultimate cautionary tale
• Enoch: The man who walked with God
• Sick, suffering monsters and the eugenicists who created them
• Ethiopia’s ‘little Edens’
• Do I need to be an apologist?
• Psychologist affirms creation
• What was God doing before creation?
• Communicating the truth of creation with grace
• What’s your address?
• Knock, knock … are you ready?
• Life imprisonment for ‘feeble-mindedness’?
• Where was Eden?
• Preaching the gospel in Zambia
• Creation evangelism at Mars Hill
• Conversation with an unlikely convert
• The goodness of God
• By faith … we understand!
• Pastor defends Genesis against compromise
• Immanuel: The Gospel according to Isaiah
• Wasps: Nature’s pest control
• Making disciples with creation
• The weird, wonderfully-designed sawfish
• What about those who have never heard?
• Mechanical engineer on creation
• Evangelism in the Ebola epidemic
• Eclipses
• Doctor realizes importance of creation education
• Sola Scriptura in an age of science
• Why did God give us a book?
• The cockroach: nature’s garbage men
• Is the authority of Scripture only about spiritual things?
• Evolutions’ Achilles’ Heels: A unique new book and DVD expose evolution’s fatal flaws
• Evangelizing from a creation foundation
• Mechanical engineer: physics points to God’s glory
• Broken images
• Laser expert points people to the gospel
• Creation, Islam, evangelism, and academic integrity
• How does the Bible teach 6,000 years?
• An eternal perspective on creation
• Darwinism and World War One
• Saving the other patient
• Tortoises of the Galápagos
• The birds of the Galápagos
• The Use of Genesis in the New Testament
• “A Parade of Mutants”—Pedigree Dogs and Artificial Selection
• A giant hoax

Journal of Creation

•  New textbook teaches non-Christian religion of theistic evolutionism
•  The fruit of sin vs the fruit of sanctification: a Pauline allusion to Genesis 3 in Romans 6
• A biased survey of the history of Genesis interpretation; A review of Since the Beginning: Interpreting Genesis 1 and 2 through the ages
• New book offers comprehensive critique of theistic evolution—A review of Theistic Evolution: A scientific, philosophical, and theological critique
• One-sided discussion of theistic evolution—A review of Faith and Fossils: The Bible, creation, and evolution
• Evangelical scholars still misinformed about creation—A review of The Enduring Authority of the Christian Scriptures
• Where was Eden? Part 1—examining pre-Flood geographical details in the biblical record
• Where was Eden? Part 2—geological considerations—examining pre-Flood geographical details in the biblical record
• A look into The Unseen Realm a review of The Unseen Realm: Recovering the supernatural worldview of the Bible
• Textual traditions and biblical chronology
• Genesis as ancient historical narrative
• Strong defence of the biblical Adam—a review of God, Adam, and You
• Leviathan—real or symbolic?
• Non-Christian philosopher clears up myths about Augustine and the term ‘literal’
• Dismantling the anti-Christian arguments from history
• If evolutionists inspired Scripture
• A review of The Language of Science and Faith by Karl W. Giberson and Francis S. Collins
• Christ as the last Adam: Paul’s use of the Creation narrative in 1 Corinthians 15
• The Bible’s high view of women grounded in the creation account
• G.K. Chesterton: Darwinism is “An attack upon thought itself”
• New title, same old arguments: Review of Honest to Genesis by Margaret Towne
• Strong case, but flawed by compromise: A review of The Case for a Creator by Lee Strobel
• A pathetic case for an old earth: Review of A Biblical Case for an Old Earth by David Snoke
• Romans 5:12–21: Paul’s view of a literal Adam
• Mostly masterful defence of Christianity; pity it’s slack on creation: A review of What’s So Great About Christianity? by Dinesh D’Souza
• A review of The Irrational Atheist: Dissecting the Unholy Trinity of Dawkins, Harris, and Hitchens by Vox Day
• A review of There is a God: How The World’s Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind by Antony Flew with Roy Varghese
• A review of The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism by Timothy Keller
• From Darwin to Dover—A broad overview of creation vs evolution
• A review of: The Swastika against the Cross: The Nazi War on Christianity by Bruce Walker

Selected CMI website articles

Apologetics

• “If you can’t say something nice … ?” with Gary Bates
• Exercising discernment in an age of misinformation
• New survey of biblical archaeology (with Keaton Halley)
• Biblical creation gives us the answer to modern insanity
• William Lane Craig on creation and anthropology (with Paul Price & Robert Carter)
• A new resource to help Christians answer transgenderism
• Racial reconciliation: where do we begin?
• New book examines the DSS witness to Creation
• Important book confronts secular gender confusion. Review of Love Thy Body by Nancy Pearcey
• Lutheran Church Missouri Synod affirms creation in six days
• Andy Stanley takes the easy way out
• Is the Septuagint a superior text for the Genesis genealogies?
• Can you love Jesus and reject His Word? (with Gary Bates)
• The Case for Miracles presents evidence of the Creator’s activity in the world
• Punching holes in Scripture
• Carriers trying to eliminate the plague
• Christianity in America is not dying!
• A classic celebrates 20 years
• Initial reviews rave: Alien Intrusion is another hit for CMI!
• US government spends millions researching UFOs
• Why CMI doesn’t answer all your questions
• CMI on the silver screen!
• Science magazine attacks the Bible
• The problem with most Christian movies
• Emulating the mind of Christ in an age of misinformation
• Are you a radical Christian?
• Evolutionists are wrong. Do we hate them?
• “I’m a New Testament Christian”
• Can we know God?
• What The Shack gets right
• Evolutionists less likely to believe in God
• Apologetics in the information age
• Pastor Andy Stanley says the Bible is too hard to defend
• Racial reconciliation: The Gospel is the answer
• The debate over gender identity and bathrooms
• Timescale and theology
• Was reincarnation removed from the Bible?
• Can we know anything about the past? Answering an agnostic’s radical skepticism
• It’s storytime!: BioLogos’ serpentine retelling of Genesis
• The Good Dinosaur: A review
• The Bible: the only basis for objective morality
• Roadmap Genesis documentary: What is the meaning of Genesis for today?
• The Birmingham Qur’an Fragment: What should Christians Think?
• Jurassic World: A review
• US Supreme Court legalizes same-sex marriage—now what?
• Winning a dumbed-down debate—no cause for celebration
• Is creation irrelevant?
• Defending the Bible?
• National Geographic claims creationists are at war with science
• Does the Bible condone torture?
• Newsweek attacks belief in Scripture
• Should animals be given “human rights?”
• The Bible Tells Me So: a review
• The Unbelievers: A Review
• The Pope on evolution
• Skeptical tactic for shutting down debates
• How do we love our neighbor?
• Noah movie Making Waves
• Camels and the Bible
• Reza Aslan’s Zealot, a second-rate rehashing of discredited theories
• Evolution vs. God: A powerful new resource from Ray Comfort
• SCOTUS gay marriage rulings: what should we think?
• Can we ‘conclusively’ say that dinosaurs were created on Day 6?
• Is nature clearer than written language?
• Creation Answer Book raises questions
• What part of Genesis should we believe? All of it!
• Dawkins calls Texas Governor a ‘fool’ for questioning ‘fact’ of evolution
• Who has an answer?
• The lies of Free Inquiry—a response
• Going ape about human rights: Are monkeys people, too?
• ‘Plants rights’? The latest evolutionary absurdity
• Does an old universe better display God’s power?
• Evolutionary Christianity?
• The Star of Bethlehem: A Review
• Racism—a consequence of evolution?
• UFOlogy: the world’s fastest-growing ‘scientific’ religion?
• When was the Last Supper?
• How does Göbekli Tepe fit with biblical history?
• Not Finding Noah—A review of the film Finding Noah: An Adventure of Faith

Biblical theology

• How long were the Israelites in Egypt? Using their own family tree to resolve a debate
• The Israelites: Forging of a nation
• What is sin?
• Helpful survey on demons, but unclear in places a review of Demons: What the Bible Really Says About the Powers of Darkness
• Are there contradictions in the Bible’s accounts of Judas’ death?
• He is risen!
• Is God our ‘mother’?
• Jesus’ family tree
• Is God unjust for sending people to Hell?
• Evidence for the Bible’s history in Egypt
• ‘Unlikely’ encounters
• Bad arguments for the Masoretic Text
• Patterns of Evidence: The Red Sea Miracle provides compelling evidence for the Bible
• Were the Egyptian pyramids built before the Flood?
• Simple, pastoral book encourages Christians to believe Genesis
• Being salt and light in a Genesis 3 world
• Does CMI deal with end times?
• The inspiration of Scripture comes in various forms
• If Christ is not raised
• The Masoretic text of Genesis 5 and 11 is still the most reliable
• Movie review: Patterns of Evidence: The Moses Controversy
• Redemptive history and evolution don’t mix
• Almost-great Bible study has fatal flaws
• How should Christians think about homosexuality and transgenderism?
• How can we be sure we have the Word of God?
• God’s wisdom in creation
• Mary: the biblical woman behind the cultural legend
• The vital importance of the historical Adam
• Would Christ create through evolution?
• If Jesus paid the penalty for sin, why do Christians die?
• Reconciled with God
• Celebrating gender confusion
• A review of A Peculiar Glory: How the Christian Scriptures Reveal Their Complete Truthfulness by John Piper
• Part 1: David the Young Earth Creationist
• Part 2: Praising the Creator in the Psalms
• Part 3: The Creator’s relationship with Israel and the Church
• Was the Bethlehem star a comet?
• Has the New Testament been corrupted?
• Did God create an ‘open’ universe?
• What does the Bible really say about homosexuality?
• Biblical reasons to affirm the creation days were 24 hour periods
• Thinking about chronology
• The incarnate Word in John 1
• Are there gaps in the biblical genealogies?
• Eve’s offspring, the serpent, and his offspring—Part 1
• Eve’s offspring, the serpent, and his offspring—Part 2
• Eve’s offspring, the serpent, and his offspring—Part 3
• The new earth
• Is God a ‘moral monster’?
• God’s Not Dead movie review
• Are there side issues in Scripture?
• Broken images
• Is God inconsistent?
• Politicizing Jesus: A review of Killing Jesus: A history by Bill O’reilly and Martin Dugard
• Adam and Eve
• Human/animal hybrids: are they possible, and could they be saved?
• An entire universe … wasted on us?
• The use of creation in the Old Testament
• Yahweh the Creator God of Israel
• Does God care what I wear?
• Hell questions answered
• Did the Fall destroy God’s image in man?
• Interpreting the early chapters of Genesis
• Our Triune God
• Why would a loving God send people to Hell?
• Correcting misconceptions on creation and the gospel
• Did Jesus have a wife?
• The Bible: is it guilty until proven innocent?
• It’s not Christianity!
• What the New Testament doesn’t say
• The global flood—according to the New Testament
• A review of The Sign: The Shroud of Turin and the Secret of the Resurrection by Thomas de Wesselow
• A riff on Genesis hits a few sour notes. A review of Rob Bell’s Everything is Spiritual
• Is Christianity ‘for whites only’?
• The genealogies of Jesus
• Did Matthew misuse the Old Testament?
• Christianity Today?
• What happens when speculative science and questionable exegesis collide
• Did God create over billions of years?
• The Resurrection and Genesis (available in Polish)
• Did Joseph of Arimathea move the body?
• Evolutionary syncretism: a critique of Biologos
• “Evolutionary creation”, round squares, and other nonsense
• Is the Bible one book or 66?
• A response to Timothy Keller’s ‘Creation, Evolution and Christian Laypeople’
• What’s in a pronoun? The divine gender controversy
• London Times reports that the Bible is not anti-female: is this news?
• The ‘gender neutral’ Bible Emasculating Scripture for political correctness
• A ‘Wicked Bible’ for the 21^st century?
• Politicizing Scripture: Should Christians welcome a ‘conservative Bible translation’?
• Do creationists hate science?
• Compromising chaplain castigates creation
• Compromising chaplain castigates creation, round 2
• Animal cruelty and vegetarianism
• Can compromisers really be saved?
• The failure of evolutionary orthodoxy
• Pew survey reveals basic ignorance of Christian belief
• The Emergent Deception—the evolution factor
• The lead codices—this year’s ‘Gospel of Judas’?
• Hidden messages in Scripture?
• Is the Bible an immoral book?

Education

• Playing games with evolution
• Who is going to give your children their worldview?
• What is your child’s authority?
• Erring on the side of censorship: US government schools are becoming Christ-free zones
• The ‘indoctrination’ of children
• Faith-based attacks on religious schools
• Do parents have the right to teach their children?

Pro-life

• Just let the baby die—it’s Darwinism! with Gary Bates
• US States’ abortion bills reveal culture clash over unborn human life
• The horrifying calculations of utilitarian ethics
• New York State introduces Molech-honouring law legalizing abortions up to birth
• Gene editing babies? A dangerous, pointless experiment
• ‘Bioethicists’ obsessed with killing babies—why?
• Why does Richard Dawkins want to eat human meat?
• Is human life special?
• Can we choose our end?
• Richard Dawkins: Dolphins worth more than babies with Down Syndrome?
• Abortion: an indispensable right or violence against women?
• Blurring the line between abortion and infanticide?
• When does the unborn baby feel pain? And does it matter for abortion opposition?
• Answering another abortion argument
• President Obama okays funding embryonic stem cell research (but removes adult stem cell funding): What are the issues involved?
• US Senate passes embryonic stem cell bill; President vetoes
• The gift of death? Planned Parenthood offers abortion gift cards for Christmas
• A “wrongful birth”? A Florida court case highlights America’s heightened devaluing of human life
• Refuting contrived pro-abortion arguments
• Is the unborn child a person?
• Planned Parenthood selling baby parts

Science

• Dystopian science: Part 1: Why the Bible enables science to work
• Dystopian science: Part 2: Conspiracy theories require a magical world
• Dystopian science: Part 3: Rebuilding science from the ground up
• Human/animal hybrids?
• Are there out-of-sequence fossils that are problematic for evolution?
• Clash over worldviews
• Does it matter if endogenous retroviruses have functions?
• Is evolution compatible with religion and free will?
• The “God spot”
• Monkeying around with the origins of language
• Project Nim: Can a chimp learn language?
• Spore: new game allows players to “evolve” creatures; should creationists be concerned? (see also a response to critics of this article)
• Does CMI misunderstand how science works?
• Martian Fossils? Dissecting the media hype
• Did the moon landing bring evolutionary insights?
• ‘Carnivorous’ dinosaurs had plant diet
• Top 10 Consequences of evolution?
• The Paracas skulls: they’re not aliens

Selected feedbacks

• Is science more true than the Bible?
• The ‘interpretation argument’: an irrefutable argument against Christianity?
• Is repentance a ‘good work’?
• Is God “not a very nice guy”?
• Could Jesus have sinned?
• The sophisticated Neandertal
• Added details to Christ’s birth story?
• The deficiency of ‘red letter’ Christianity
• Do past life memories prove reincarnation? with Gary Bates
• Does Genesis give us reasons to compromise?
• “Theology made me reject creation”
• Could God inspire error?
• How do we know who wrote the Gospels?
• Do animals have spirits? with Dr Robert Carter
• Was the Bible updated?
• Answering coronavirus and flat earth questions
• Progressive revelation?
• Does God give permission to eat meat?
• Answering questions from young people
• A trinitarian understanding of creation
• New Testament reliability questions
• Is it ok to be a blunt instrument?
• Murdering babies because they’re expensive is wrong
• Why do Christians have differing views?
• Explaining resurrection details
• Is biblical creation anti-science?
• Iron sharpening iron: the MT-LXX debate as a case study of Christian disagreement
• “CMI gave me a faith worth sharing”
• Should CMI ‘stick to the science’?
• Do creationists need to prove God exists?
• Creation isn’t ‘science’?
• Defending the Resurrection
• Medicine and miracles
• How should we love and pray for those with whom we disagree?
• Is the resurrection physical or spiritual?
• Why refer someone to a pastor?
• Confidence in the face of death
• Biblical creation isn’t a salvation issue, but it is a Gospel issue
• Is bias a bad thing?
• Must people hear the Gospel to come to faith?
• Discussing the Trinity
• Will Heaven ever get boring?
• Do oral traditions have any authority?
• Is God’s love conditional?
• Does the Bible say polygamy is wrong?
• Is the Bible’s historical record reliable?
• How can we tell when the Bible condones what it records?
• Correcting a cultist with truth and grace
• Does the Bible condone slavery?
• Answering questions about the pre-Fall world
• Effective witnessing with creation evangelism
• Does animal death glorify God?
• Animals eating animals
• Esther Mark
• Must we believe in Christ to be saved?
• The authorship of the Gospels and answering the Christ myth
• What about those who have never heard the Gospel?
• Are all evolutionists atheists?
• Why doesn’t God answer all our questions?
• Religion in schools?
• God’s justice, mercy, and creation
• Is the Bible a reliable historical record?
• Answering atheist arguments
• Can you be a gay Christian?
• What is the problem with starlight in transit?
• Is the Torah historical?
• Was there really no death before the Fall?
• Are there other valid interpretations of Genesis?
• Priest calls CMI heretical
• Does God repent?
• Adam’s sin: Are we punished for it?
• Why Christianity?
• Did Jesus believe Genesis?
• Should I attend a gay wedding?
• Near–death experiences and the authority of Scripture
• Will Heaven be boring?
• How should we interpret the numbers in the Bible?
• Does creation damage Christianity’s credibility?
• What about asexuality??
• Why does CMI focus on creation?
• The Trinity vs Unitarianism, and explaining the Bible on homosexual behavior
• Is Genesis infallible?
• The essential doctrine of the Trinity
• ‘What if Jesus tells you you’re wrong?’
• Buddhism and other religions
• Evidence for an old earth?
• The Gospel and Transsexuals
• Why did Jesus have to die?
• Can CMI refute … ?
• Answering moral nihilism
• Why is Jesus crucial for Creation?
• Should we be open-minded?
• What is our motivation?
• The reality of suffering, and the Gospel confronting culture
• Is the Bible reliable as a historical record?
• Is creation apologetics a problem?
• Muhammad was wrong … what about Moses?
• Evolutionary psychology: explaining everything … and nothing
• What distinguishes origins and operational science?
• Communicating truth with grace
• Do Christians worship the one and only God?
• The secular ‘ten commandments’?
• Are women genetically superior to men?
• Talking and mythological animals in the Old Testament
• Abortions vs miscarriages
• Virtual debates, real-world doubts
• Does God have a ‘moral obligation’ to His creation?
• Why do some Christians suffer more than others?
• Do animals possess morality?
• ‘One long ad hominem’
• Immigration, culture, and Christ
• The Fall and the existence of other religions
• Copycat copout: Jesus was not made up from pagan myths
• Hitler, the Dalai Lama, sin and salvation; and the religion of North Korea
• Was the Virgin Birth non-miraculous?; and should Christians bother with atheists?
• Can we know the truth?
• Is charity more important than apologetics?
• Is Belief in God a case of Christian wish fulfillment?
• Does a worldview have to be livable?
• Is Genesis poetry? and Who was the father of hermeneutics?
• Is the Bible our sole final authority?
• The limitations of physical evidence
• Ghosts, experience, and the Bible
• Gospel Dates and Reliability
• Out of Egypt: Could so many Israelites have crossed the Red Sea?
• Logistics of the Exodus
• Did Eve have a “Moral compass”?; and the “120 years” of Genesis 6:3
• Does CMI think women are inferior?
• Is the whole creation fallen?
• Can pantheism explain morality? And, the fight-or-flight response and the Fall
• Badly designed arguments—‘vestigial organs’ revisited
• Errors in the Bible?
• Deny vote to creationists?
• 6,000 years of biblical history: Questions and answers
• Biblical vs evolutionary perspectives on attraction

Resources

Creation in the New Testament (Video Download)

How Did We Get Our Bible?

Gay Marriage: right or wrong? And who decides?

Evolutionists Say the Oddest Things

Creation Restored: The New Heavens and Earth

From Creation to Salvation