Example

For even to this were you called: because Christ also suffered for us,

leaving us an example,

that you should follow his steps:

1 Peter 2:21

"...the life of Christ.

He laid aside His glory,

His high command,
His honor, and
His riches, and
humbled Himself to our necessities.

We cannot equal the example, but we should copy it."

Testimonies for the Church vol.2, p.628 E.G.W.
 

Puritan Corner - BEHOLD.....

"Behold, what manner of love is this, that Christ should be arraigned and we adorned,
that the curse should be laid on His head and the crown set on ours."
by Thomas Watson (1620-1686)
Behold, what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us,
that we should be called the children of God:
1 John 3:1

Creation Moment 1/31/2013 - Creation Moment App

Creation Moment App available
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/todays-creation-moment-podcast/id383167545?mt=8

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Genesis 1:1

First.....

"First

* set your own heart in order,
and * reform your own character;

 

* obtain a connection with God,

and * gain a daily Christian experience:

 

then you may bear burdens for souls who are out of Christ."

Testimonies for the Church vol.3, p.465 E.G.W.

But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour. If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work. 2 Timothy 2:20,21

Just like Before

For as in the days that were before the flood......so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. Matthew 24:38,39

 

And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me;

for the earth is filled with violence through them;

and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

Genesis 6:13

 

Wars, rumors of wars, crime, abortion, euthanasia, rape

Creation Moment 1/30/2013 - AIG App availabe now

Answers In Genesis App available
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/answers-in-genesis/id353046149?mt=8
In the beginning God created heaven and earth.
Genesis 1:1

Jac Colon on the Last Day Deception

Watch Jac Colon preach about the last day deception
http://www.youtube.com/embed/cmsIjXlSTck
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him,
to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass;
Revelation 1:1

Of all the days of the week....

"Of all the days of the week, none are so favorable for devotional thoughts and feelings as the sabbath."
Testimonies for the Church vol.2, p.704 E.G.W.
And on the sabbath we went out of the city by a river side, where prayer was wont to be made;
Acts 16:13

Little Horn & Saul?

Is Saul & the Little Horn (of Daniel)/Beast (of Revelation) a type & anti-type?
Think about it........

Saul was set up as a king (the little horn tried set himself up as the king of Christiandom- would Think to change times and laws Dan.7:25) and Saul tried to play the role of priest for the people, & bring the rebuke of Samuel (little horn-holy father in Rome- as Chritiandoms priest, with even the power to excommunicate you from God - He even exalted himself as high as the Prince of the host; and by him the daily sacrifices were taken away, and the place of His sanctuary was cast down. Dan. 8:11 NKJV).

The kingdom was rent from the hand of Saul and given into the hand of David. The name David means "beloved". And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased. Luke 3:22

Kingdom taken from Saul (little horn/beast/babylon-
in other words Lucifer--and given to David - in other words Christ

The kingdom is rent from a power that has, like Saul, comitted the unpardonable sin, ( And when Saul enquired of the LORD, the LORD answered him not, 1 Sam. 28:6) and given into the hand of spiritual David. (I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.
Rev. 22:6).

It has comitted the unpardonable sin (like Saul).
For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
Revelation 18:5

Kingdom taken away and given to Christ
I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.  Daniel 7:13,14

Creation Moment 1/29/2013 - Creation App available from ICR

Creation App available from ICR

http://www.icr.org/mobile-app/

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Genesis 1:1

Bride of Christ

...for I have espoused you to one husband,

that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

2 Corinthians 11:2

 

 

 

Draw me, we will run after thee:

the king hath brought me into his chambers:

we will be glad and rejoice in thee,

we will remember thy love more than wine:

the upright love thee.

Song of Solomon 1:4

No Flaming Sword

So he drove out the man;

and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims,

and a flaming sword which turned every way,

to keep the way of the tree of life.

Genesis 3:24

"The word of truth, 'It is written', is the gospel we are to preach. No flaming sword is placed before this tree of life. All who will may partake of it."
Testimonies for the Church vol.6, p.19 E.G.W.

 

 

 

 

 

To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life,

which is in the midst of the paradise of God.

Revelation 2:7

Simplicity of the Sanctuary Doctrine

Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle:

Hebrews 8:5

The Most Beautiful of Doctrines

It is simple:
* The 2,300 days (years) had a specific starting point.

* The Messiah cut off in the midst of the 70th week was Christ crucified, the first article of furniture in the outlay of the Sanctuary (plan of redemption) which was the Cross.

* Next, we are told at the end of the time period, the Sanctuary would be cleansed. It was cleansed once a year on the day of atonement, which Jews called Yom Kippur (Day of Judgment).

* The Shadow of these things (the plan of redemption laid out in the sanctuary) began with the cross (altar of sacrifice) and ends with the actual process of the atonement (Judgment) to cleanse the sanctuary once & for all.

Don't listen to "scholars" or others, who claim Dan. 8:14 was just a judgment of the little horn. On the day of the cleansing it was God's people who were judged-(not Egypt, Babylon, the Greek city states, Rome, Persia, etc.). The cross began the actual process of which the sanctuary economy was a "shadow" of. That process ends with an actual cleansing of the sanctuary too.

The Bible was given for you to read, not just to "scholars".

The SHADOW of the plan of redemption laid out for all to see & study

But the Lord has plainly pointed out the work that Seventh Day Adventists are to do. The truth for this time is to be proclaimed. And the discourses are to be so simple that children can understand them." Testimonies for the Church vol.8, p.184,185 E.G.W.

But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty,

so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

2 Corinthians 11:3

"Mysteries into which angels desire to look, the remnant church will carry in messages from God to the world." Testimonies for the Church vol.6, p.19 E.G.W.

Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven;

which things the angels desire to look into.

1 Peter 1:12

 

Creation Moment 1/28/2013 - Dating Discordance in Uranium-Lead

"Behind the confidence of uranium-lead dates hides worry about numbers that don’t match up.
Uranium-lead (U-Pb) dating is a staple of the billions-of-years claims about igneous and metamorphic rocks and meteorites – giving rise to the consensus age of the solar system at 4.55 billion years. The technique has been refined over the last century, but “discordances” (mismatches) remain. That’s because there are two “isotopically distinct yet chemically identical” decay chains, F. Corfu described in the Geological Society of America Bulletin this month: the ²³⁵U to ²⁰⁷Pb pathway, and the ²³⁸U to ²⁰⁶Pb pathway. (The ratios of the products, ²⁰⁷Pb/²⁰⁶Pb, can also be measured.) “These twin decay systems, running at different speeds, allow an immediate verification of the validity of their ages, which must be concordant to be considered valid, although under favorable circumstances, discordant data can be extrapolated to the correct age.” Since uranium is often locked in tightly-bound minerals called zircons, from which parent and daughter product are locked in, the method is thought by modern geologists to provide a reliable clock.

Discordance, however, remains a general problem, the minimization of which still requires work and creative solutions, unless, out of convenience, the historical consciousness of discordance simply disappears from the collective awareness.

In that last sentence, Corfu warns that researchers could simply ignore discordance out of “convenience.” They could pretend that the problems don’t exist or aren’t important, because it’s too much work to get to the one right answer that Tom Krogh said is the only one that’s good enough. If ignoring the problem becomes the choice of the “collective awareness,” credibility of the U-Pb dating method—or any other method—will suffer as a result." CEH

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God.

1 Corinthians 3:19

"Where T is the time from starting point,B₀ the original amount of uranium,B_T the amount of uranium at the measurement,A₀ the original amount of lead,A_T the amount of lead at the measurement,R_T the rate uranium changes to lead,Da the average rate of loss and gain in the amount of lead,Db the average rate of loss and gain in the amount of uranium.

For Uranium-Lead dating to work, scientists have to make three assumptions. These assumptions are that the system being dated is a closed system; at the beginning of the time period, there are no daughter isotopes present; and the rate of radioactive decay stays the same through the whole time period. Once all these assumptions are taken, the equation above simplifies to .
Without a closed system, uranium-lead dating, like all other radiometric dating methods, falls apart. Assuming a closed system means that nothing on the outside of the rock affected the sample. This means that none of the parent or daughter isotope leaked in or out. It also implies that none of the factors that might affect the rate of the radioactive decay could not. This is an ideal concept that cannot happen.
All radiometric dating systems depend on the idea that radioactive decay happens at a constant rate. It has been found that the rates fluctuate for an unknown reason. One of the explanations has been found that the rates of decay of some radioactive isotopes change depending on the its proximity to the sun. Two examples of an isotope that exhibits this behavior is silicon-32 and radon-222. Not all radioactive isotopes follow this kind of behavior; others have irregular rate changes that still have no explanation." CreationWiki

America Too

......behold, I say unto you,

Lift up your eyes,

and look on the fields;

for they are white already to harvest.

John 4:35

 

"....enter the fields in America that have never been worked. After you have given something for foriegn fields, do not think your duty done. There is a work to be done in foriegn fields, but there is a work to be done in  America that is just as important. In the cities of  America there are people of almost every language."
Testimonies for the Church vol.8, p.36 E.G.W.

 

Think of all those people in the early-mid 20th century in America of other languages who were converted and used as missionaries for those around the world of their native tongues or for translating literature for their homeland. So when God called up America into existence-HE made it a "melting pot" for a reason.....Hmmm....

All That Is In Me performed by Harvest

All That Is In Me performed by Harvest
http://www.youtube.com/embed/l65uAhP2QHU

That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God,
even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Romans 15:16

Puritan Corner - Love Like An Echo

We love him, because he first loved us.

1 John 4:19

 "Love is like an echo, it returneth what it receiveth”

by Thomas Manton (1620-1677)

The 6 Cities of Refuge

Ye shall give three cities on this side Jordan, and three cities shall ye give in the land of Canaan, which shall be cities of refuge.

Numbers 35:14

The cities of refuge were for people to flee to until a trial for deciding their innocence or guilt. These cities were a type of christ for us to flee to before our judgment.

That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:

Hebrews 6:18

 

Death of the High Priest

Because he should have remained in the city of his refuge until the death of the high priest:

but after the death of the high priest the slayer shall return into the land of his possession.

Numbers 35:28

 

Our High Priest died for us to be able to return one day-

Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens,

Jesus the Son of God,

Hebrews 4:14

 

 

The 6 Cities

Kedesh - "The name Kedesh comes from the verb (qadash) to be consecrated, hallowed, sanctified."

Shechem - " The name Shechem probably comes from the root  (shkm) that yields the verb  (shakam) meaning rise early, and the noun (shekem) meaning shoulder, ... HAW Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament looks a bit deeper in the matter and notes that in Scriptures a rising early most often has to do with the diligence/ persistence of the riser (to get a good start of the day), and so does the carrying of an actual load or a task or position upon the shoulders."

Hebron - "The name Hebron comes from  (habar) meaning be joined, coupled, allied. Derivatives are: (heber), meaning company, association; The waw-nun extension denotes a localization of the root. The name Hebron means Place Of Alliance."

Bezer  - "Bezer means "strong hiding place."

Ramoth - "Means "high place,"

Golan - "Apparently means "enclosure for captives,"

ICR & Abarim-Publications

And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali,

and Shechem in mount Ephraim,

and Kirjatharba, which is Hebron, in the mountain of Judah.

And on the other side Jordan by Jericho eastward,

they assigned Bezer in the wilderness upon the plain out of the tribe of Reuben,

and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad,

and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.

Joshua 20:7,8

 

Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it. Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee thither. And this is the case of the slayer, which shall flee thither, that he may live: Whoso killeth his neighbour ignorantly, whom he hated not in time past;

Deuteronomy 19:2-4

Creation Moment 1/27/2013 - Doug Batchelor defends Creation

Watch Doug Batchelor defending Creation
http://www.amazingfacts.org/media-library/media/e/6233/t/Creation--a-Biblical-Theme.aspx

Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?
declare, if thou hast understanding.
Job 38:4

 

4 points of advice from E.G.W.

"Sister R, your brain is wearied and taxed by reading. You should deny your propensity for crowding your mind with everything it can devour.

My sister,...

* eat less.

* engage in physical labor,

* devote your mind to spiritual things.

* Keep your mind from dwelling upon yourself."

Testimonies for the Church vol.2, p.434 E.G.W.

 

Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Matthew 11:28

ESRA- Constitution & word "Sabbath"

ESRA–

Environmental &

Social Responsibility Amendment

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes:

Proverbs 12:15

ESRA was proposed by the so-called spiritual left & a group called Red Letter Christians joined by some of the secualr left. It was entered into congress as an amendment for the Constitution in 2011 by ultra left wing then Congressman Dennis Kucinich. The bill didn't make it through committee (this time).

 

What the bill/amendment was-is a long laundry list of leftist causes to be added to the Constitution. The word "SABBATH" appeared in Article 3, paragraph B1- "the valuing of time in life for rest and Sabbath, inner reflection and meditation and celebration of all the goodness in life, the skills of repentance, forgiveness and compassion, and skills in organizing fellow citizens for non-violent political action and engagement in support of causes not-yet-popular;"

 

This reference to a "SABBATH" occurs in Article 3 which is all about the environment and how to make people go along with these causes by law. If you read all article 3 you will see that is what is meant by "Causes not-yet-popular"-environmentalism (their version of it). And by "SABBATH", do you think they mean the 7th day? I doubt it......Why is the word "SABBATH" finding its way into any legislation, especially relating to the Constitution?

 

This ties into the idea posted elsewhere on this blog that the way the Christian Right & Papal Rome get the secular (and spiritual) left to go along with the implementation of the mark of the beast will by  reaching out on the environment-specifically in dealing with so-called man made global warming. (the new PC term is "climate change"). 

 

One side sets aside a day of worship to appease an angry "Father God" and to get the other side to go along - to appease an angry "Mother Earth". The purpose of these posts is to demonstrate to those who are calling for a change in our eschatology (end of time events) by claiming that with the current secularlism in the U.S. that we could never implement as a holy day the day of the sun. (Such as some academics on the west coast). --well-think again. That is the purpose of these posts on this topic-SEE BELOW

http://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2012/12/in-news-death-penalty-from-mother-earth.html

 

http://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2012/11/gospel-vs-global-warming.html

 

http://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2012/11/mark-of-beast-politics-republicans.html

 

http://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2011/08/green-religion-of-egypt.html

 

Some of the Psycho-babbel from a

magazine of the spiritual left that

supported ESRA in 2011

But notice that the laundry list of leftist causes in ESRA-- "Climate Change", economic redistribution of money & resources, gun control, limiting free speech by requiring so-called "equal time" in media outlets (a way to silence talk radio, etc), public funding of campaigns, forcing fianancial institutions to direct their money to social & environmental causes (who gives them that right to determine which causes though?), etc......

Notice and compare & contrast-Our CONSTITUTION is a document that limits the power of government-while ESRA expands the power of government and dictates how you live your life and run your business-and even gives you guidelines in how to enjoy your "Sabbath".....

 

The old global RED (marxism) has been replaced by GREEN (modern evnironmentalism)

 

Here is their entire bill- http://spiritualprogressives.org/newsite/?page_id=926

 

 

 

Creation Moment 1/26/2013 - Government by Scientocracy?

“Time for science to seize political power” blazes a headline on New Scientist by Michael Brooks.

In your wildest dreams, could you imagine a government that builds its policies on carefully gathered scientific evidence? One that publishes the rationale behind its decisions, complete with data, analysis and supporting arguments? Well, dream no longer: that’s where the UK is heading.

But why would they need to “seize” political power instead of use the methods of democracy? If a scientific government sounds appealing, it will not grant equal rights for all. The scientific community is largely controlled by leftists who abhor conservatives and embrace Darwinism, with its principle of survival of the fittest. They also embrace liberal causes like unfettered abortion.  

 Consequently, advocates of scientocracy may have less concern than conservatives about the lives of other humans: the elderly, the mentally ill, the disabled. Ironically, they will promote the rights of criminals to escape punishment on the grounds that evolution made them do what they do. Meanwhile, their idealistic schemes of protecting the planet will undoubtedly severely weaken individual rights and national economies." CEH

 The fool hath said in his heart,

There is no God. Corrupt are they,

and have done abominable iniquity:

Psalm 53:1

 

Puritan Corner - Cleave Close

"My soul, rejoice thou in thy God,
Boast of Him all the day,
Walk in His law, and kiss His rod
Cleave close to Him alway."

by Anne Bradford 1600's

 

In God we boast all the day long,

and praise thy name for ever.

Psalm 44:8

 

Spiritually Man Up on spectrum & AT

After reading posts out there on spectrum & AT (those sites dedicated to attacking the Church from within) ---I just have to say to you out there-spiritually man up....or as God put it- Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me. Job 38:3

"A storm is arising that will wrench and test the spiritual foundation of every one to the utmost. Therefore avoid the sand bed; hunt for the rock. Dig deep;"
Testimonies for the Church vol.5, p.129,130 E.G..W.

IN the NEWS - The Fewer than 10,000

"The Seed Company has set its sights on translating Scripture into languages with 10,000 or fewer native speakers.
MNOnline reports that the project is receiving support from The Bolthouse Foundation.
While Bible translation projects often focus on the largest language groups first, the two organisations felt a shared concern for the 2,000 remaining Bible-less language groups.
The language groups being prioritised by the initiative are located within the Amazon, Africa, Papua and parts of the Pacific." ChristianToday

And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world

for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

Matthew 24:14

What about the Salvation Army?

"As a people we are not to imitate and fall in with Salvation Army methods. This is not the work the Lord has given us to do. Neither is it our work to condemn them and speak harsh words against them. There are precious, self-sacrificing souls in the Salvation Army. There are in the Army honest souls. The Salvation Army workers are trying to save the neglected, downtrodden ones. Discourage them not.

But the Lord has plainly pointed out the work that Seventh Day Adventists are to do. The truth for this time is to be proclaimed. And the discourses are to be so simple that children can understand them."
Testimonies for the Church vol.8, p.184,185 E.G.W.

But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:

And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee:

for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.

Luke 14:13,14

Creation Moment 1/25/2013 - Okapi of Creation

An okapi is an animal that looks like a cross between a giraffe (its head) and a zebra. They reside in the forests of the northeast Congo. Sir Henry Morton Stanley brought them to the attention of the western world while searching for Dr. Livingstone (he famously said "Dr. Livingtstone, I presume").
The okapi were also known to the ancient Egyptians. Okapi apparently eat charcoal of trees burned by lightning and red clay by streams. An interesting, little known animal of the Creator.

Okapi were known to the ancient Egyptians

And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
Genesis 1:24

Lesson of the 1st Born

"It is unsafe to cherish doubt in the heart even for a moment. The seeds of doubt which Pharoah sowed when he rejected the first miracle were allowed to grow, and they produced such an abundant harvest that all subsequent miracles could not persuade him that his position was wrong.... and his heart became more and more hardened until he was called to look upon the cold, dead faces of the first born."
Testimonies for the Church vol.5, p.274 E.G.W.
And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon;
Exodus 12:29
 

Babbling with Red, Pink, Grey & Black

A Fallacy of the so-called"Jesus Seminar", ( a group of radical, liberal scholars dedicated to trying to undermine the 4 Gospels by voting on what is true & not true in them--by voting with colored beads), is that they begin from the premise that the miracles could not have happened.....

Uhmmm....But if God exists-then

Look--More Beads....

the miracles can actually have occured....

Red beads – indicated the voter believed Jesus did say the passage quoted, or something very much like the passage. (3 Points)

Pink beads – indicated the voter believed Jesus probably said something like the passage. (2 Points)

Grey beads – indicated the voter believed Jesus did not say the passage, but it contains Jesus' ideas. (1 Point)

Black beads – indicated the voter believed Jesus did not say the passage—it comes from later admirers or a different tradition. (0 Points)

But shun profane and vain babblings:

2 Timothy 2:16

 

 

Creation Moment 1/24/2013 - The "Him" of Creation

For by HIM were all things created,
that are in heaven, and that are in earth,
visible and invisible,
Colossians 1:16
The "Him" of Creation is Christ

Remind Me

Just a Reminder to Get your Priorities Straight

LORD, remind me how brief my time on earth will be.

Remind me that my days are numbered—

how fleeting my life is. Psalm 39:4 NLT

Creation Moment 1/23/2013 - Lily Lesson from the Creation

"You have all seen on the bosom of the lake the beautiful white lily. How anxious we have been, how we have wished and worked that we might get that blossom. No matter how much scum and debris and filth there is around it, yet that does not destroy your desire for the lily. We wonder how the lily can be so beautiful and white where there is so much filth.

Well, there is a stem that strikes down to the golden sands beneath and gathers nothing but the purest substance that feeds the lily until it develops into the pure and spotless flower, as we see it. Should not this teach us a lesson? It ought to. It shows that although there is iniquity all around us we should not approach it. Do not talk of the iniquity and wickedness that are in the world but elevate your minds and talk of your Saviour. When you see iniquity all around you, it makes you all the more glad that He is your Saviour and we are His children.

Then shall we look at the iniquity around us and dwell upon the dark side? You cannot cure it; then talk of something that is higher, better, and more noble. Talk of those things that will leave a good impression on the mind, and it will lift every soul up out of this iniquity into light beyond." MS 7, 1888 E.G.W.

I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.
Hosea 14:15

8,352

When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)
Matthew 24:15
Out of 31,124 verses in the Holy Writ, 8,352 are prophetic in nature--over 1/4.............

 

The Wedding Day performed by Harvest

The Wedding Day performed by Harvest
https://www.youtube.com/embed/r4nNq1Lyx8c?list=PLT70zxsi10M-UFKccp7Zn11klRwN9I009

And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage:

Matthew 25:10

Heavenly Marriage

And the Spirit and the bride say, Come.

Revelation 22:17

The Bride is His Church/People
The Bridegroom is Christ
Think of the Holy Spirit as the Best man
God the Father as the one who performs the ceremony

But who calls people to the wedding? The Best man (Holy Spirit) and the Bride herself (His people do). The Spirit & the Church stand out in the world calling people to the wedding feast.

Intellectual Foolishness

"The times demand an intelligent, educated ministry, not novice. False doctrines are being multiplied.The world is becoming educated to a high standard of literacy attainment; and sin, unbelief, and infildelity are becoming more bold and defiant, as intellectual knowledge and acuteness are aquired."
Testimonies for the Church vol.5, p.528 E.G.W.
So where does this leave the philosophers,
the scholars,
and the world's brilliant debaters?
God has made the wisdom of this world look foolish.
1 Corinthians 1:20 NLT

IN the NEWS - New McCarthyism

Actual Newsweek Cover from
the 2012 Election cycle

Pastor Louie Giglio had to remove himself from giving the inaugural prayer. The reason-The New McCarthyism of the secular world. Almost 20 years Giglio preached a sermon and refered to homosexuality as "sin".

1) He was correct
2) Who went through sermons from 2 decades ago?
3) So holding a Biblical worldview disqualifies you from giving a "prayer"?
4) He wasn't going to give a sermon on the sins of the apples of Sodom, he was just gonna give a prayer....
5) U know, this wouldn't have been an issue if they wouldn't have made it one-no one would have known, or cared, about a sermon 2 decades ago, which btw-held to commonly known Biblical principles-but rather the White House is trying to be PC.....

Like in the 50's, when one would be asked -  “Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?”....Todays NEW McCARTHYISM asks "Are you now or have you ever been a member of a church which believes homosexuality is a sin?"

Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.

Leviticus 18:22

Creation Moment 1/22/2013 - Big Bang Refuted again

A high temperature (which would be expected) at the begining of the "big-bang", would prevent gas clouds, thus stars, from forming. Gas clouds at high temps fly apart.-So No "big-bang". I think they (big-bangers) are just misreading the data from when God flipped the switch and turned the lights on.

Is not God in the height of heaven?

and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!

Job 22:12

Paradoxical Propositions

To live U must die

For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it.
Mark 8:35

To gain U must give
Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.
Matthew 19:21

Blessed are U if U morn
Blessed are they that mourn:
Matthew 5:4

Why the Paradoxical Propositions?

 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Isaiah 55:8,9

Helpless yet Invincible

Exhibit A

"Nothing is apparently more helpless, yet really more invincible, than the soul that feels its nothingness and relies wholly on the merits of the Saviour. God would send every angel in heaven to the aid of such a one, than allow him to be overcome."
Testimonies for the Church vol.7, p.17 E.G.W.

Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.

There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man:

but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able;

but will with the temptation also make a way to escape,

that ye may be able to bear it.

1 Corinthians 10:12,13

He Knew Me Then performed by Dallas Holm

He Knew Me Then performed by Dallas Holm
https://www.youtube.com/embed/8Bh1nsCBYps?list=PLT70zxsi10M-wca0WK1yK9sRYwNnsL1LT

I was thrust into your arms at my birth.

You have been my God from the moment I was born.

Psalm 22:10 NLT

Creation Moment 1/21/2013 - Evolutionary Psychology

"Men who imagine themselves endowed with mental powers of so high an order that they can find an explanation of all the ways and works of God, are seeking to exalt human wisdom to an equality with the divine and to glorify man as God."

Testimonies for the Church vol.5, p.702 E.G.W.

"Evolutionary psychology is accepted as the fulfillment of Darwin’s vision that psychology will one day be based on a new foundation. Evolutionary psychology is consequently portrayed as an explanatory science and the key to unlocking the mystery of where we came from, how we arrived at our current state, and what defines who we are. This paper demonstrates that evolutionary psychology fails as an explanatory science and why it is dangerous.

 Evolutionary psychology is consequently portrayed as the “new hope of mankind,” understood as an “explanatory science of the human condition” (Pinker 2005, p. xvi).

It should be evident that evolutionary psychologists unite human beings with animals (cf. also Duntley and Buss 2008, p. 31). Evolutionary psychologists must therefore maintain continuity between animals and humans as discontinuity counts against the plausibility of the evolutionary story. The second account for the origin of life is the “seed theory” of geneticist Francis Crick—the idea that extraterrestrial entities visited earth millions of years ago and planted the seeds of life. Evolutionary psychologists are in absolute silence about this “theory.”

The third account, creationism, is “largely incapable of being verified or disproved by observation or experiment and is not a scientific theory” (Buss 1995, p. 2). If it is true that the findings of creation science cannot be verified, then it must be true of evolutionary psychology, because when life originated on earth (from either an evolutionary or a creationist perspective), there was no one present to observe it. By implication, evolutionary psychology is as much a historical science as creation science, but with one major difference: creationists have the most reliable eyewitness of how life appeared on earth, the Creator himself

When evolutionary psychologists talk about “environment,” they do not have a specific place or time in mind, but rather a period—from 2–3 million years to 10,000 years ago (Heylighen 2011, p. 2). It is referred to as the Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness. The environment was that of the life of hunter-gatherers who encountered various problems to which they had to adapt in order to survive. These are mainly problems solving activities related to feeding (gathering foods), reproduction (detecting and attracting fertile mates, raising offspring), cooperative relations (detecting cheaters, free-riders and those that could be trusted, the exchange of useful information through gossip and story-telling) and avoiding dangers (enemies, predators, poisonous plants, and snakes) (Tooby and Cosmides 2005, p. 16).

Evolutionary psychology is also the expression of three philosophical presuppositions: scientism (science is the only source of credible knowledge of the past, human origins, and the human condition; creationism is not scientific), naturalism (natural selection is the only source or cause of intelligent life and human cognitive development, which rules out any explanations of immaterial entities such as an intelligent Creator and the human spiritual soul), and physicalism. Evolutionary psychologist Glen Geher clarified what this physicalism entails:--"it conceives of human behavior as resulting from the nervous system—including the brain—which was, according to this perspective (and to most modern scientists who studied psychological phenomena), shaped by evolutionary processes such as natural selection (Geher 2006, p. 185).

It must be said that evolutionary psychologists let us know that they have not yet been able to provide an explanation for phenomena such as music, religion, suicide, and homosexuality. With regard to music the hypothesis is that it keeps the community together, but it does not explain why we like music. Similarly, it cannot explain the propensity of people to believe “incredible religious doctrines” such as the existence of a benevolent shepherd [that is, Jesus Christ]. Suicide, we are told, “can be adaptive if an individual has no chance for reproduction but can increase future reproduction of kin by using resources they could use instead” (Nesse 2005, p. 913). It is not entirely clear what this is supposed to mean. On the one hand, it seems that suicide is functional as long as the sole consideration is the ability to reproduce. Suicide is “acceptable” when you can no longer reproduce and you are becoming a burden to your kin by using resources they could have used instead. “As for why so many individuals are exclusively homosexual, this remains unanswered, but not for want of theories” (Nesse 2005, p. 916). Why are there many “theories” but no evolutionary psychological explanation for this phenomenon? The answer is: homosexuality counters the whole evolutionary psychological edifice built on reproduction and “survival.”

In 1991, the atheist philosopher Daniel Dennett wrote that “human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery” (Dennett 1991, p. 21). Why is consciousness a mystery for evolutionists? It is widely acknowledged that consciousness is the mark of mental life.

We can identify three interrelated causes of why the existence of a self is a problem for science.

First, if science cannot explain the nature of the self, then science is unable to provide people with a plausible worldview about the kind of things that exist, their natures, and their coming to be.

The second cause is a fear of immaterial entities; subjectivity “becomes a door” through which “religious notions can enter and reassert themselves against” materialism and natural science (Robinson 1982, p. 2).

The third cause follows naturally: dualism— the idea that the material world is not all there is, and a human being is a deep unity of an immaterial spiritual soul and material body—a metaphysical view that evolutionary psychologists totally reject (Hagen 2005, p. 146).

 

According to evolutionary psychologists, an explanatory hypothesis for some emotion or cognitive faculty must begin with a theory of how that faculty would have enhanced the reproductive chances of the bearer of that faculty in an ancestral environment (Pinker 2005, p. xiv). The relevant question is, for what was the faculty (trait) useful? The most consistent answer for the evolutionary psychologist is to say the attaining of some reproduction-related goal. The follow-up question is: would it be wrong to lie or deceive someone if and when a person is presented with an opportunity to be sexually unfaithful to his spouse? V. S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee assert that the biological ability to lie and deceive evolved because “of the need to impose stability, internal consistency and coherence on behavior” and the “need to conceal the truth from other people”. The theory, which they do not find convincing, is that evolution “allow[s] you to lie . . . as a car salesman can. After all . . . it might be useful to lie—in a job interview or during courtship (‘I’m not married’).” However, they add, the problem is that “your limbic system often gives the game away” (Ramachandran and Blakeslee 2003, p. 507).

Christians and the public at large cannot afford to accept what they are being told about themselves from the perspective of evolutionary psychology."AnswersInGenesis

And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Genesis 2:7