Puritan Corner - Eternity

"Eternity to the godly is a day that has no sunset; eternity to the
wicked is a night that has no sunrise."
by Thomas Watson (1620-1686)
He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death. Revelation 2:11

Creation Moment 12/31/2025 - Faith

By faith we understand that the entire universe was formed at God’s command, that what we now see did not come from anything that can be seen. Hebrews 11:3 NLT 

"Science can't even conceivably give us anything more certain than the

faith we place in the essential propositions undergirding science, which means science will never be the primary path to knowing, much less the only path to knowing. 

Faith has always been more fundamental to human knowledge than science, and this will never change."

Douglas Axe, Undeniable: How Biology Confirms Our Intuition that Life Is Designed (2016), p. 233

What are we SAVED from?

"What does Jesus save us from?

 Well, to answer, we could go to Romans 3:23, where it states, 

“All have sinned,” or point out Romans 6:23, which says, “The wages of sin is death.” 

Ultimately, sin is disobedience to God’s laws." 

AIG

Creation Moment 12/30/2025 - We are merely tracing the hand of God when we study His creation

"It is impossible to rely on Chemistry and Physical Laws alone to explain life’s origin. 

It is as Job 12:10 states:

“In His [God’s] hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind.”

The chemistry of life reminds us that we all should stand in awe of the infinite wisdom of our Creator God! 

May more scientists come to the realization that we are merely tracing the hand of God when we study His creation!" CEH

IN the NEWS - A Shared Sabbath?

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes.

Proverbs 21:2

"The political left and right in the United States are more divided than ever, embroiled in cultural, moral, and ideological battles with no common ground in sight.

Yet amazingly, MSN News is making a radical, and even prophetic, claim: that the idea of ​​the Sabbath, and of a national day of rest, promoted in Charlie Kirk’s book, could succeed in bridging the political divide in the United States.

What decades of political division failed to achieve could now be accomplished through a shared Sabbath, a collective day of rest, which is being presented as a moral and cultural remedy for America’s problems. 

This represents a radical shift in public discourse, where a religious day of rest, Sunday, is being elevated as the solution capable of uniting Democrats and Republicans, forging a new dawn in political relations, and healing the nation.

On December 22, 2025, MSN News published the following:
• “Charlie Kirk’s last book, Stop, in the Name of God, was released on the morning of December 9. By afternoon, it had jumped to No. 1 on Amazon and then sold out.”
• “I can’t think of any other work of Sabbatarian theology that has attained instant best-seller status.”
• “Americans, religious or not, kept the Sabbath for centuries. Blue

laws, or Sunday-closing mandates that decreed a 24-hour pause from most work and commerce, were a legacy of the Puritans, who believed in keeping the Sabbath as stringently as possible. Over the past century or so, however, Sunday has come to mean mainly football and kids’ soccer and shopping, and the faithful adding church into the mix.”
• “The Sabbath goes back thousands of years and is a cornerstone of Western civilization. The rhythm in which six days of work were followed by one day of rest produced basic units of time such as the seven-day week and, ultimately, the weekend, along with foundational principles such as universal equality.”
• “The point that I suspect will really resonate with readers, though, is also the most nonpartisan. If one sentiment unites the left and right in the United States today, it is that technology exercises a tyrannical control over our habits of mind. You don’t have to be religious to understand the discomfort—or allure—of spending a day a week without a cell phone. This is why a secular “tech sabbath” has gained cultural currency over the past decade. The Sabbath can promote physical as well as spiritual healing, Kirk says. It can interrupt the cycle of social media addiction.”

Social media addiction has become a genuine public health crisis in America, marked by rising anxiety, depression, attention deficits, and burnout across all age groups. Against this backdrop, MSN News is advancing the idea of a bipartisan proposal—embraced by both Democrats and Republicans (left and right)—for a structured national day of rest, a so-called “tech Sabbath,” as a remedy for digital overload.

Sunday rest is being proposed as the answer to endless scrolling, algorithm-driven burnout, and a 24/7 digital news cycle that has intensified political polarization and hostilities in American life. According to major media voices, a weekly day of rest is a rare point of agreement—appealing to conservatives concerned about moral order and family stability and to liberals focused on mental health and worker stress. In a deeply divided nation, Sunday rest has become a cure-all and a shared solution at a time when almost nothing else seems capable of uniting both political parties." AdventMessenger

Creation Moment 12/29/2025 - "unpersuasive"

Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes. Deuteronomy 12:8

"Temperate and considerate in his own life, Darwin may have

sincerely believed that his biology supported traditional morality. Nevertheless, the internal logic of his theory did not allow any permanent foundation for ethics other than the struggle to survive, and for that reason his attempt to square a biological understanding of ethics with traditional morality is ultimately unpersuasive... Darwin's account of the moral sense ultimately implies the abolition of transcendent moral standards." 

John West, Darwin Day in America, pp. 30-31

538 A.D. - 1798 A.D.

"Daniel 7 reveals the kingdoms that would rule ancient Israel, and the great controversy between God and Satan and how it will end.

Four kingdoms ruled ancient Israel: 

Babylon, Media-Persia, Greece, and Rome. 

Rome was the last kingdom to rule ancient Israel and its western

empire ended in 476 AD, when Odoacer, a Germanic chieftain, deposed the last Roman emperor, Romulus Augustulus.
Also, in the midst of this reality, Jesus Christ the Messiah walked among people and ministered to their needs, died for the sins of human beings, and rose from the dead to return to heaven. 

During His tenure, He said: “I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it” (Matthew 16:18).

Another kingdom would arise amidst the ten kingdoms that survived the collapse of the Western Roman Empire and would displace three of those ten kingdoms.
This kingdom would speak pompous words against God, persecute the church members that Jesus left on the earth, and change times and laws (Daniel 7:25). This power would dominate the world for 1,260 years. The Roman Catholic Church is the only world-wide power that meets this description.

The Roman Catholic Church placed the Bible beyond the reach of common people and interposed priests between God and the people, despite the apostolic teaching that there is now only one mediator, Jesus Christ, between God and man. (1 Timothy 2:5). 

These priests instructed the people in doctrines that were not Biblically based. During “the 1260 year rule”, the Roman Catholic Church attempted to replace the church Jesus built on the rock.

Q: How and when did it start?
A: The Western Roman Empire fell in 476 AD but the Bishop of Rome remained a dominant religious figure. In 538 AD, Emperor Justinian, the ruler of the Byzantine Empire, declared himself to be a theologian and no longer a soldier.

He crossed the barrier of his mandate between what is purely civil obligation and what is religious obligation, similarly to Constantine before him, and entered in competition with the papal function and this role is evidence of Justinian’s ongoing caesaro-papism. 

The quest for unification of the empire by unification of the church, the fever for church-building projects with his wife Theodora, the persecution of enemies of the church and heretics, his disdain with the Sabbath although his second name was Sabbatini, his support for suppressing any eschatological fever in line with the church fathers and Oecumenius (the name under which are transmitted several commentaries in Greek on the New Testament) and yet trying to build the ‘Kingdom of God’ on earth. All this indicates the problem 538 AD was for the Roman Empire and the Catholic Church.

Archaeological and historical original sources of Justinian and contemporaries of popes, biographer of Justinian and a commentator on Revelation (Oecumenius) are very revealing of these times and the shift or transition of what belonged to the Roman Empire handed over since 538 A.D. to the church and the papal function.

The Code of Justinian was a persecuting instrument. Justinian upheld the supremacy of the papacy. 

He permitted, through the Council of Orleans, actions to be done on Sunday that Constantine had prohibited, such as travel, food preparation, and house-cleaning. In Novellae CXLIV Justinian instituted a Seventh-day Sabbath persecution. 

He changed the times and laws ad hoc as his Novellae XLVI and coins of 538 A.D. (XII year) indicate. Private gatherings were persecuted. He had church-manual laws. He studied Systematic Theology on the nature of Christ and wrote homiletical rules for preachers. He gave text critical advice to Jews and condemned their doctrinal deviations.

However, this theological hobby of the ruler of the once mighty

Roman Empire was to be taken over by a more theological competent power that would eventually lead to papal-caesarism, which lasted until 1798, when the Directory, the government of France from 1795 to 1799, deposed Pope Pius VI. 

The prophetic embedding of the 1260 days as “years” prophecies in both Daniel 7 and Revelation 12 definitely started in 538 AD."

Dr. Davis

Creation Moment 12/28/2025 - Looking for the Answer to "WHY"?

"Newton’s three laws of motion

describes how objects move
in response to forces, but they don’t reveal why. 

The second law of thermodynamics tells us that the entropy in any isolated system never decreases, but it doesn’t explain why. 

Statistical mechanics goes a bit deeper to describe at a microscopic level how the entropy of the universe increases, but it doesn’t tell us why. 

Snell’s law describes how light refracts as it moves from one medium to another, but it doesn’t tell us why. 

The laws of electricity and magnetism tell us how electrical charges and magnets behave, but they don’t tell us why they behave that way.

Lest you despair over how little we actually know about the universe, consider that, perhaps, 

we are expecting too much of science. 

Any system of knowledge must begin with a few assumptions, things that appear to be obvious to all, such as axioms, postulates, and definitions. 

One then builds upon these starting assumptions, and without these assumptions, nothing can be built.

The question of why ultimately belongs to philosophy and theology, not to empirical science. Yet most scientists unknowingly start with the assumption of naturalism, that only the natural world exists. In other words, naturalism assumes that there is no God or at the very least, that God is irrelevant to the natural world.

The world exists the way it does because that is the way the world evolved. The worldview of most scientists excludes the possibility of God designing the world, so why look for design that they don’t think is there? It makes no sense to ask why questions about the world. All that matters is the question of how the world operates.

What we see in the universe goes beyond simply making life possible. The design reveals something about God. 

*Psalm 19:1 [The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky

above proclaims His handiwork.] tells us that the heavens declare God’s glory. 

*Romans 1:19–20 [For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For His invisible attributes, namely, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.] goes further, telling us that the world around us demonstrates that God exists and that he is very powerful. 

*We ignore this warning of Romans 1:19–20 at our eternal peril." AIG

POST #22,000

Give me understanding, 

and I shall keep Thy law; 

yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart. 

Psalm 119:34

Last Sabbath of 2025

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

 And on the seventh day God ended His work

which He had made; and He rested on the seventh day

 from all His work which He had made.

And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it:

because that in it He had rested from all His work which God created and made. 

Genesis 2:1-3

But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God:

in it thou shalt not do any work,...For in six days the LORD

made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is,

and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the

sabbath day, and hallowed it. 

Exodus 20:10,11

And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven,

having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them

 that dwell onthe earth, .... Saying with a loud voice, 

Fear God,

and give glory to Him; 

for the hour of His judgment is come: 

and worship Him that made heaven,

and earth, and the sea,

and the fountains of waters. 

Revelation 14:6,7

Sin and the Sinner

"The sinner cannot be convinced of his guilt unless he understands what constitutes sin. 

A terrible doom awaits the sinner, and therefore it is necessary that we know what sin is, in order that we may escape from its power. John says, "Whosoever commits sin transgresses also the law; for sin is the transgression of the law" (1 John 3:4). "Sin is the transgression of the law" (1 John 3:4). "I had not known sin, but by the law" (Romans 7:7).

God has not separated from you,

 but your sins and your iniquities 

have separated your soul from God. 

You are sin-sick, and you need a physician. 

Look into the mirror, God's holy law, which is the only standard of righteousness. 

It is the sin detector. 

Q: Will you see your sins in the light of the law? 

Q: Will you have faith in Jesus as the sin-pardoning Savior? 

The royal law is before you, and you must meet its requirements. 

It is the only standard of righteousness; it measures your life and your character..... the precious blood of Jesus alone will cleanse from every spot and stain of sin.

The sinner must be made to feel that he is a transgressor. 

Christ dying upon the cross of Calvary is drawing his attention. 

Q: Why did Christ die? 

A: Because it was the only means for man to be saved. 

He took upon Himself our sins that He might impute His righteousness to all who believe in Him.
The awakened sinner is pointed to the law he has transgressed. 

---It calls to him to repent, yet there is no saving quality in law to pardon the transgression of law, and his case seems hopeless. 

---But the law draws him to Christ. However deep are his sins of transgression, the blood of Jesus Christ can cleanse him from all sin." 

E.G.W.

IN the NEWS - "Merry Christmas" from allah

If the world hate you, ye know that it hated Me before it hated you. John 15:18

"Morning Star News noted that Muslims “from outside Jayasampurna village, Serang Baru Sub-District, Bekasi Regency near Jakarta blocked the congregation of the Huria Kristen Batak Protestant Church (Huria Kristen Batak Protestant, HKBP) from celebrating Christmas at a prayer post near the Green Cikarang housing complex.”

Local cops and a goggle-eyed crowd watched as “dozens of Muslim men and women holding hands to form the human chain, making anti-Christian comments and shouting the jihadist slogan ‘Allahu Akbar [God is Greatest).’” 

One of the most mistranslated phrases in the entire world, “Allahu akbar” does not actually mean “God is greatest,” or the difficult-to-contest alternative “God is great,” which is the establishment media’s favorite way of misrepresenting what is actually being said.

“Allahu akbar” really means “Allah is greater,” that is, the deity of Islam is superior to, and has won a victory over, whatever God the infidels may be worshiping at any particular time or place. In Jayasampurna village, the Muslims were proclaiming that Allah had defeated Christianity, and thus they were in the right to prevent the Christians from engaging in their false worship.

The Qur’an tells Muslims that they are the instruments of Allah’s wrath, through whom he punishes the unbelievers: “Fight them, and Allah will punish them by your hands, and he will lay them low and give you victory over them, and he will heal the hearts of people who are believers. And he will remove the anger of their hearts.” (Qur’an 9:14-5)

Consequently, the Muslims who were blocking the door to the church likely thought of themselves as committing a righteous act, allowing Allah to use them to punish the wayward Christians. And punish they did: “The Muslims held back and pushed members of the church as they struggled to make their way to prayer post for Christmas services.” PJMedia

IN the NEWS - Indian Christians feeling the Wrath of "Rama"?

If the world hate you, ye know that it hated Me before it hated you. John 15:18

"A Hindu extremist mob in northern India last month assaulted two Christian couples and an attorney for several hours, accusing them of forced conversion, sources said.
In Harayana state’s Titoli village, five miles from the city of Rohtak, the mob forced one of the Christians, a pastor, to set fire to a heap of Bibles while the Hindu extremists recorded videos that immediately went viral, resulting in 32 complaints to police.

Pastor Jehovah Das, 65, and Vinod Masih, 42, along with their wives had been invited to a Christian family’s home in the village to pray and bless the arrival of their second child on Nov. 7, sources said.
About 10 to 12 members of the Arya Samaj (Noble Society), a Hindu reform movement, found out about the Christians’ visit. They phoned several of their associates and gathered a mob of about 50 people that barged into the house.
“They began to beat us with slaps, punches, elbows, kicked us with their legs and held us hostage,” Masih told Morning Star News, adding that they beat the Christians from 10:30 a.m. until 3 p.m.
The Hindu extremists, whose number had then reached 80, searched their car, pulled out all Bibles and tracts and cast them onto the ground into a heap. They shot videos that showed the two couples, disoriented and in shock, forced to repeat that they intended “conversion” in the village and that they would never return.
The mob kicked the Bibles and spoke disrespectfully about Christ, Masih said.
Pastor Das was made to write a letter of apology that the video shows in his hand. A member of the mob then took a bottle of flammable liquid from the hands of a boy standing with the mob and forced

three of the Christians to sprinkle it on the Bibles and literature. After forcing Pastor Das to set the Bibles on fire, the mob then shouted praises to the Hindu god Rama.
The mob dragged the Christians to their car and locked them inside.
“We were locked in our car for two hours – we were not allowed food, water or to relieve ourselves during this time,” said Masih.
While held hostage, Masih’s wife Reena called attorney Satish Arya for help. Arya, who once belonged to the Arya Samaj sect, has been a practicing Christian for five years. He quickly drove 10 kilometers (six miles) to reach Titoli village.
“While on my way to the village, I called the police helpline and informed them about the hostage situation and requested that any inquiry against the Christians be taken up in the police station, and that they should not let the mob take the law in their hands,” Arya told Morning Star News. “Police assured me that they will arrive soon.”
When Arya reached the village, he saw that the Christians were gathered at one area and about 20 to 25 Hindu women were assaulting the two Christian women.
“They were slapping the Christian women, pulling their hair, punching them. The scene was terrible,” said Arya. 
Arya stood at some distance waiting for police, but they did not arrive, he said. The mob called police, and responding officers soon arrived, he said.
One of the Hindu extremists noticed Arya and the words, “Jai Masih Ki [Praise the Lord]” written on his car’s back window, and about 12 of them approached and asked about his background. They quickly learned that he was a Christian.
Arya told them that he was an attorney and insisted that they take the Christians to the police station and let officers, rather than the mob, question them.
“I objected to their act of holding the Christians hostage for four hours and questioned their inhumane behavior,” Arya said.
Wearing his black court robe, he was dragged to the site where the other Christians were being beaten and was assaulted.

“They tore my black gown, my shirt and my innerwear,” he said. “They stripped my upper body and continued to beat me for 25 minutes, and that too in the presence of the police.”
The mob proposed that they put all five Christians in a car and set them on fire within, and Arya told them the law would not spare them for such a horrendous act.
A man from among the Hindu mob somehow managed to set Arya free, and the attorney left and called his wife, asking her to bring him a fresh set of clothes.
Officers responding to Arya’s initial helpline call finally arrived, detained the Christians and took them to the police station, sources said. After Arya went to a doctor and received first aid, he then went to the police station.
“By the time I reached the police station, the Christians were pressured to give a written statement that they did not want to press charges against the mob and promised that they would not enter that village in the future,” he said.
Arya wanted to take legal action, but when he held a meeting with the host family in Titoli village, he learned Hindu residents had threatened to drive them from the area if they sided with the Christians." MSN

IN the NEWS - Appears a "Ruler" Punished Evildoers

....or to rulers as sent by Him, 

for vengeance on evildoers, 

and praise to them that do well. 

1 Peter 2:14 DBY

"President Trump announced Thursday that the U.S. military hit ISIS terrorists in Nigeria targeting Christians with “numerous” deadly
airstrikes.

“Tonight, at my direction as Commander in Chief, the United States launched a powerful and deadly strike against ISIS Terrorist Scum in Northwest Nigeria, who have been targeting and viciously killing, primarily, innocent Christians, at levels not seen for many years, and even Centuries!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
“I have previously warned these Terrorists that if they did not stop the slaughtering of Christians, there would be hell to pay, and tonight, there was,” the president continued."
NYP

Creation Moment 12/27/2025 - KCC2 protein Learning Switch

Thank You for making me so wonderfully complex!

Psalm 139:14 NLT

"Scientists discovered that altering levels of the KCC2 protein can dramatically change how the brain forms reward associations.
New research from Georgetown University Medical Center shows that the brain’s ability to link cues with rewards can shift depending on the activity level of a specific protein. This process helps us decide when to respond to signals that lead to beneficial outcomes and when to ignore cues that reinforce harmful behaviors, such as those involved in smoking addiction.

“Our ability to link certain cues or stimuli with positive or rewarding experiences is a basic brain process, and it is disrupted in many conditions such as addiction, depression, and schizophrenia,” says Alexey Ostroumov, PhD,. “For example, drug abuse can cause changes in the KCC2 protein that is crucial for normal learning. By interfering with this mechanism, addictive substances can hijack the learning process.”
The investigators found that shifts in learning can arise when levels of the KCC2 protein change. When KCC2 levels drop, dopamine neurons tend to fire more often. This increase in dopamine activity can promote the formation of new reward links. Dopamine neurons are specialized nerve cells responsible for producing and releasing dopamine, a neurotransmitter involved in reward, motivation, and movement.
In addition to tracking how changes in KCC2 affected the speed of neuron firing, the team discovered that synchronized bursts of activity among neurons could unexpectedly boost dopamine release.
“Our findings help explain why powerful and unwanted associations form so easily, like when a smoker who always pairs morning coffee with a cigarette later finds that just drinking coffee triggers a strong craving to smoke,” notes Ostroumov." 

msn

IN the NEWS - CULTURE OF DEATH: CULTURE OF WICKEDNESS

Rescue those who are being taken away to death; hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter. 

If you say, Behold, we did not know this, does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? 

Proverbs 24:11-12

"Illinois residents with terminal illnesses may choose to end their lives on their own terms under a law Gov. JB Pritzker signed.
Legalized medically assisted suicide takes effect in September 2026 to give the Illinois Department of Public Health and other medical participants time to develop “stringent processes and protections” for implementing the provision, according to the Democratic governor’s office.

It is also known as “Deb’s Law,” honoring Deb Robertson, a lifelong resident of the state living with a rare terminal illness who has pushed for the measure’s approval and testified to the suffering of people and their families wanting the chance to decide for themselves how and when their lives should end.
“This legislation will be thoughtfully implemented so that physicians can consult patients on making deeply personal decisions with authority, autonomy, and empathy,” Pritzker said after signing the measure in Chicago.
Sponsoring Sen. Linda Holmes, a suburban Chicago Democrat, said both her parents died of cancer.
The Illinois House approved the measure 63-42 in late May at the end of the legislative spring session. The Senate didn’t take it up until October, when it was approved 30-27. In both chambers, there were prominent Democratic “no” votes.
“Assisted suicide plunges Illinoisans with disabilities and other vulnerable people into conversations about death, instead of the care and support they deserve from their medical teams,” said Matt Valliere, the group’s president and CEO.
Deb Robertson, the retired social worker from suburban Chicago who gave a name to the law, thanked Pritzker for signing the law providing “the full range of end-of-life options.”
Here’s the bottom line: autonomy is real, but limited. You don’t choose your birth, and you don’t choose the length of your days. That’s in God’s hands. When a nation makes autonomy absolute—when it bows to it as an idol—there’s no logical stopping point. If death on demand is a “right,” then eventually everyone qualifies.
This is what’s unfolding in America. 

Not compassion. 

Not dignity. 

Just the machinery of a society convinced that killing is caring."

Fulcrum7

Creation Moment 12/26/2025 - Windkessel

Thank You for making me so wonderfully complex! 

Psalm 139:14 NLT

"Michael Egnor investigated why blood flow into the brain appears out of sync with the heartbeat. His assumption that the human brain is a
designed system inspired him to collaborate with engineers to identify the design principles behind this observation. 

His team discovered that the anatomy of the skull, brain, and blood vessels form a cerebral Windkessel: a system employing bandstop and bandpass filters to generate a steady blood flow into the brain. Without these filters, the pulsing blood flow would burst the brain’s fragile capillaries." 

EN&V

Spurgeon on Christmas

For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord. Luke 2:11

“We have no superstitious regard for times and seasons. 

*Certainly we do not believe in the present ecclesiastical arrangement called Christmas. 

First, because we do not believe in the mass at all, but abhor it, whether it be sung in Latin or in English; 

and secondly, because we find no Scriptural warrant whatever for observing any day as the birthday of the Savior; and consequently, its observance is a superstition, because not of divine authority.

Superstition has fixed most positively the day of our Savior’s birth,

although there is no possibility of discovering when it occurred. … It was not till the middle of the third century that any part of the church celebrated the nativity of our Lord; and it was not till very long after the Western church had set the example, that the Eastern adopted it. … Probably the fact is that the “holy” days were arranged to fit in with the heathen festivals.

We venture to assert, that if there be any day in the year, of which we may be pretty sure that it was not the day on which the Savior was born, it is the twenty-fifth of December. 

Nevertheless since, the current of men’s thoughts is led this way just now, and I see no evil in the current itself, I shall launch the bark of our discourse upon that stream, and make use of the fact, which I shall neither justify nor condemn, by endeavoring to lead your thoughts in the same direction. Since it is lawful, and even laudable, to meditate upon the incarnation of the Lord upon any day in the year, it cannot be in the power of other men’s superstitions to render such a meditation improper for to-day. 

Regarding not the day, 

let us, nevertheless, 

give God thanks for the gift of His dear Son.” 

Charles Spurgeon

Creation Moment 12/25/2025 - Darwinian Blessing of Marxism

Their lives became full of every kind of

 wickedness, 

sin, 

greed, 

hate, 

envy, 

murder, 

quarreling, 

deception.... 

Romans 1:29 NLT

"I heartily wish I was more worthy to receive it, by understanding

more of the deep & important subject of political economy. Though our studies have been so different, I believe that we both earnestly desire the extension of knowledge & that this in the long run is sure to add to the happiness of mankind." 

Charles Darwin to Karl Marx. Darwin wrote this upon receiving a copy of Das Kapital inscribed, “Mr. Charles Darwin on the part of his sincere admirer Karl Marx.” An estimated 148 million people perished under communist regimes.

When He laid aside His perfumed, royal clothing

“All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.” (Psalm 45:8) One of the most beautiful of the Christmas hymns (though rarely sung

at Christmas) is “Out of the Ivory Palaces,” telling how the King of heaven left His heavenly home and laid aside His perfumed, royal clothing to enter a world of woe. 

That this 45th Psalm is symbolic in part is obvious, but that it refers to Christ is also..." 

HenryMorris

Creation Moment 12/24/2025 - Nature’s greatest riddles are written upon the Universe itself

The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth His handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. Psalm 19:1-2

"Ethan Siegel begins his new piece in BigThink, “The 9 biggest gaps in our understanding of cosmic history,” December 1, 2025, with a remarkable sentence:

"The answers to nature’s greatest riddles are written upon the Universe itself."

Readers may glide past this first sentence, but they should stop and

reflect. That line is a confession, a creed, a secular rewrite of cosmogony, the modern creation myth. 

It tells us (implicitly, of course, as such sentiment would never be explicitly tolerated) that the universe is not simply matter, energy, heat, and light. 

It is a revelation. 

It holds answers. 

It carries meaning. 

It speaks.

It is a text." 

CEH

"Surprising Deeds"

Here is what secular msn news says about Josephus and Jesus.....

"First-century Jewish historian Flavius Josephus is known to have

mentioned Jesus twice in his extensive 20-volume history of the Jewish people. 

His work provides an early account of Jesus, including references to an unlawful execution and a man who “did surprising deeds” and was thus sentenced to death by crucifixion by Pontius Pilate." 

msn
This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth His glory; and His disciples believed on Him. 

John 2:11

IN the NEWS - Bibles Banned

If the world hate you, 

ye know that it hated Me before it hated you. 

John 15:18

"Tourists entering Nicaragua are no longer permitted to bring Bibles into the country, according to new reports that deepen concerns about religious freedom under President Daniel Ortega’s government.

The U.K.-based advocacy group Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) reported this month that notices posted at Tica Bus terminals in Costa Rica — which operate routes into Nicaragua’s capital, Managua — warn passengers that magazines, newspapers, cameras, and books, including the Bible, are prohibited from entry.
The reported ban arrives amid the continuing crackdown on religious and civil society groups. In the spring, Nicaragua withdrew from the United Nations Human Rights Council after facing international condemnation for what critics described as a systematic assault on human rights, democratic institutions, and religious communities.
Numerous pastors and lay leaders have been jailed or forced into exile, and Church-run charities, schools, and media outlets have been shuttered." 

Aleteia

Jehoshaphat: The road of compromise

And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the LORD? therefore is wrath upon thee from before the LORD. 2 Chronicles 19:2

"Jehoshaphat was a godly king of Judah who faithfully served the

Lord, but he made the tragic mistake of forming an alliance with ungodly king Ahab of Israel in fighting against their common enemy Syria.

After all, he reasoned, they were “brothers,” both descended from Abraham, so they could join together in battling the Syrians.

As a result, although God continued to bless Jehoshaphat during his lifetime, this compromise eventually resulted in great tragedy in his family when his son and successor, Jehoram, married Ahab’s wicked daughter Athaliah and then slew all his own brothers, and soon he himself died of a loathsome disease.

The road of compromise eventually ends in a precipice, 

especially in matters regarding the integrity of God’s Word 

and His saving gospel.

The timeless principle for Christians today is given in 2 Corinthians 6:14-15: “Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?...or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?” 

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