Creation Moment 4/13/2018 - Denisovan DNA Shown to Be Human...Again

Therefore is the name of it called Babel;

because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth:

and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

Genesis 11:9

"Denisovans are ancient humans represented by various teeth and a finger bone found in a Siberian cave. Their claim to fame is largely based on the DNA extracted from these few fragments of human remains. According to evolutionists, they are more closely related to Neanderthals than modern humans. But their DNA is essentially human, and people all over the world today carry many of the same gene variants found in Denisovans.

Homo erectus supposedly migrated out of Africa about one million years ago. About 500,000 years later, the ancient human ancestor of Neanderthals and Denisovans is claimed to have made the same migration. Then, according to this legend, anatomically modern humans migrated about 120,000 years ago and traveled to Europe and Asia, where they interbred with Neanderthals and Denisovans already living there.

New research confirms the results of previous studies showing that Denisovan-based regions of the genome are common in Asian people groups and that they interbred with modern humans. Interestingly, the largest proportion of Denisovan DNA in the human genome was found in people from the remote islands of Papua New Guinea, a long way from the Denisovan cave in Siberia. Amazingly, these island people also had a healthy dose of Neanderthal DNA. No good evolutionary reason for this anomaly was offered.

According to the data, all humans belong to the same genetic group. This agrees perfectly with the biblical view and agrees with other studies which show that the current status of the human genome can be no more than 5,000 years. After the global Genesis Flood about 4,500 years ago, Noah’s three sons and their wives formed the basis for repopulating the planet. Their descendants led to the 70 people groups comprising the Table of Nations. As these peoples dispersed from the Mediterranean region across the world, they took their own variants of the human genome with them, establishing genetic lineages unique to their ancestral founding families along with variants of genes shared by other people groups. Thus, it’s not surprising that evolutionists cannot make any sense of this genetic data with their errant timeline and convoluted Out-of-Africa dispersal model." ICR

DESIRE OF AGES: Audio & Pull Quotes- Chapter 41

The Crisis in Galilee

Audio:
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When Christ forbade the people to declare Him king, He knew that a turning point in His history was reached. Multitudes who desired to exalt Him to the throne today would turn from Him tomorrow.
The price of heaven is Jesus.
As our physical life is sustained by food, so our spiritual life is sustained by the word of God.
The way to heaven is through faith in The Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. John 1:29

Dinosaur Peninsula

And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

Genesis 7:12 

"...identified a pre-Flood land mass across the central United States that we labeled “Dinosaur Peninsula.”

We found that the deposition of the earliest Flood sediments (the Sauk, Tippecanoe, and Kaskaskia Megasequences) was thickest in the eastern and far western U.S., including Grand Canyon. In contrast, the early Flood deposits across much of the center of the country are commonly less than a few hundred yards deep, and in many places there was no deposition at all.

We concluded:

It seems the dinosaurs were able to survive through the early Flood in the West simply because they were able to congregate and scramble to the elevated remnants of land—places where the related sedimentary deposits aren’t as deep—as the floodwaters advanced.…In this way, dinosaurs were able to escape burial in the early Flood." ICR

17 Reasons SERIES: #13

17 Reasons why Christianity should NOT have succeeded....

"17 factors to be considered -- places where Christianity "did the wrong thing" in order to be a successful religion. It is my contention that the only way Christianity did succeed is because it was a truly revealed faith -- and because it had the irrefutable witness of the Resurrection." J.P.Holding

Factor #13 -- You Can't Keep a Secret!
And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away: for it was very great.
Mark 16:4

"Apologists regularly note that Christian claims would have been easy to check out and verify. Skeptics, especially G. A. Wells, counter by supposing that no one would have cared to find out such things. The skeptics are very wrong -- they operate not only against the natural human tendency to

curiousity, but also against a very important group-oriented social structure.

Ancient people controlled one another's behavior by watching them, spreading word of their behavior (what we call "gossip"), and by public dishonor.

So now the Skeptic has another conundrum. In a society where nothing escaped notice, there was indeed every reason to suppose that people hearing the Gospel message would check against the facts -- especially where a movement with a radical message like Christianity was concerned.  *The empty tomb would be checked.
*Matthew's story of resurrected saints would be checked out.
*Lazarus would be sought out for questioning.
*Excessive honor claims, such as that Jesus had been vindicated, or his claims to be divine, would have been given close scrutiny."
 J.P.Holding 

Papal Notes - Happy Vesakh?

Uhmmm...would PAUL have sent "best wishes for the festival of Vesakh"?

"The Vatican on April 11, 2018, called for cooperation between Christians and Buddhists to end corruption.

The appeal came in a message of best wishes for the festival of Vesakh, sent by the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue (PCID) to Buddhists.

Vesakh is the most important event on the Buddhist calendar and commemorates the birth,

enlightenment, and death of Buddha. Most countries celebrate the event on May 29."
Zenit
Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
2 Thessalonians 2:3

Creation Moment 4/12/2018 - Pseudo Science of Astrobiology

as·tro·bi·o·lo·gy

ˌastrōbīˈäləjē/

noun

noun: astrobiology

1. the branch of biology concerned with the study of life on earth and in space.

"Number of worlds beyond Earth where life has been discovered:

zero. Number of optimistic articles about life in outer space: hundreds per year.

What happens when you take “bio” out of the fake science called Astrobiology? It becomes a pseudoscience. Since there is no “bio” yet found beyond earth, except in the imaginations of storytellers who believe in evolution, maybe that is a more accurate label. Here are some samples of fact-free, evidence-free stories circulating on science news sites."
CEH
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,..
Romans 1:22

DESIRE OF AGES: Audio & Pull Quotes- Chapter 40

A Night on the Lake

Audio:
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At the moment when they believe themselves lost, a gleam of light reveals a mysterious figure

approaching them upon the water.
The Watcher on the shore saw those fear-stricken men battling with the tempest. Not for a moment did He lose sight of His disciples.
 Peter walks securely; but as in self-satisfaction he glances back toward his companions in the boat, his eyes are turned from the Savior. He begins to sink. Peter lifts his eyes from the angry waters, and fixing them upon Jesus, cries, Lord, save me. Immediately Jesus grasps the outstretched hand, saying, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?" Matthew 14:30,31
When trouble comes upon us, how often we are like Peter! We look upon the waves, instead of keeping our eyes fixed upon the Savior. Our footsteps slide, and the proud waters go over our souls.

17 Reasons SERIES: #12

17 Reasons why Christianity should NOT have succeeded....

"17 factors to be considered -- places where Christianity "did the wrong thing" in order to be a successful religion. It is my contention that the only way Christianity did succeed is because it was a truly revealed faith -- and because it had the irrefutable witness of the Resurrection." J.P.Holding

Factor #12 -- Don't Rely on Bumpkins, Either!
Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.
Acts 4:13

"Peter and John were dismissed based on their social standing (Acts 4:13) and this reflects a much larger point of view among the ancients. We have noted above the problem of having Jesus hail from Galilee and Nazareth. This was as much a problem for the disciples as well -- and would have

hindered their preaching. The Jews themselves had no trust in such people, if we are to believe later witness in the Talmud: of men such as Peter and John, called "people of the land," it was said: "...we do not commit testimony to them; we do not accept testimony from them."

There's another complexity to this factor: Christianity held none of the power cards. It was not endorsed by the "power structure" of the day, neither Roman nor Jewish. It could have been crushed merely by authority if necessary. Why wasn't it?"
J.P.Holding

The "Really" File - (Really Snoop?)

And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth,

and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Genesis 6:5

"Kimmel also made a point of asking Snoop Dogg, "Do you think they have pot in heaven?" His response was, "I know they do."



From the "Really" File
 

Snoop Dogg's latest album, titled "Bible of Love," dropped last month."REALLY?
Newsbusters


 

Creation Moment 4/11/2018 - March of Man Disbanded

The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the LORD.
Psalm 19:3

"For decades, the story of human evolution was effectively told in a set of drawings called the March of Man, the Parade of Human Evolution, or simply the Progression. It showed evolution from some ape animal, to a stooped over ape-like man, to modern man. These pictures are seen in articles, on book covers, and even on many postage stamps. This icon is the most common picture of human evolution in the public’s mind. The story varies, but usually begins with a modern looking ape, then showing Dryopithecus, Australopithecus, then Homo erectus, Homo sapiens, Neanderthal man, and lastly, modern humans: Homo sapiens sapiens.

The two currently dominant theories of human evolution reject the Progression theory.
The theory that replaced the Progression are the Out-of-Africa Theory and the Multiregional Theory.

The Out-of-Africa Theory is, or was until now, the dominant model of the geographic origin and early migration of humans. The new model proposes a single origin of Homo sapiens, precluding parallel evolution of anatomically similar modern traits.

The other theory, the multiregional hypothesis, also teaches Homo erectus evolved through independent multiple origins in Africa and Eurasia with continuous gene flow between continental populations.

The problem was that neither fossil “excavations nor lab work has been able to reconstruct …  the earliest chapters of the Homo sapiens’ story.” Professor Tarlach adds as “debate between the two proponents of the two models rages on, there is one big problem. Researchers keep finding fossils and genomic evidence that don’t fit the evidence” for their evolution of human theory.
 The 2018 review of the evidence in Science acknowledged the evidence has now reached a tipping point.

The new model proposes modern humans evolved in Africa far earlier, actually close to 300,000 years ago, and left Africa in multiple waves. They ended up traveling to Australia and East Asia, and on the way interbred with Neanderthals in Europe and Denisovans in Asia.
This new theory was proposed in the face of other controversies which include “most molecular biologists who insist on the replacement of archaic populations by modern humans dispersed from Africa, while most paleoanthropologists and archaeologists propose an enhanced ‘Continuity with Hybridization’ model.”

As more and more human and primate fossil fragments were discovered, it became clear a simple

progression did not exist as once almost universally believed. Several alleged fossil men ancestors of modern man were shown to live contemporaneously with their supposed ancestor, and some even interbred.

Another discovery was that “modern human morphological characteristics appeared quite early, as documented in fossils from the late Middle Pleistocene.”
Furthermore, fossils with “fully modern human morphology” have been found that are believed by evolutionists to date very early in their evolutionary history theory. New DNA research has come to the same conclusion. Thus, instead of a progression, we have a great deal of variety in both humans and the great apes, as is also true with dogs, cats and most all other varieties of life.

A major problem is that modern humans, in evolutionary terms, lived contemporaneously with the claimed human evolutionary links. The evidence seems to support the view that anatomist Dr. David Menton has documented, namely all of the claimed links connecting humans to lower primates are either fully human or fully ape.

Life-long evolutionist A. N. Wilson, in a study of Darwin, ended up rejecting human evolution based largely on the fact that so much disagreement exists among the leading experts even about the core ideas of the theory." CEH

DESIRE OF AGES: Audio & Pull Quotes- Chapter 39

Give Ye Them to Eat

Audio:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/02AoHvlpTLg?list=PL4ByrircmXL6qt2QplU6IudoOYVgzBS3C

Jesus did not seek to attract the people to Him by gratifying the desire for luxury.

 It was humble fare that had been provided; the fishes and barley loaves were the daily food of the fisher folk about the Sea of Galilee. Christ could have spread before the people a rich repast, but food prepared merely for the gratification of appetite would have conveyed no lesson for their good. Christ taught them in this lesson that the natural provisions of God for man had been perverted.
If men today were simple in their habits, living in harmony with nature's laws, as did Adam and Eve in the beginning, there would be an abundant supply for the needs of the human family. But selfishness and the indulgence of unnatural taste have brought sin and misery into the world, from excess on the one hand, and from want on the other.
. It is God's rain and air and sunshine that cause it to put forth, first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear. Mark 4:28

IN the NEWS - California Insane?

And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge,

God gave them over to a reprobate mind,

to do those things which are not convenient;

Romans 1:28

"In a brazen assault on our most fundamental freedoms, California legislators are considering a bill that would make it illegal for anyone to receive professional help to resolve unwanted same-sex attractions or gender confusion. This would apply to people of all ages. People of all religious and moral convictions. It is an absolute outrage, and it must be opposed vigorously.

For the last few years, a growing number of states and cities have embraced legislation making it illegal for minors struggling with unwanted same-sex attractions or gender confusion to receive professional help, even with the full support of their parents.
California wants to take this one dangerous step farther, making it illegal for anyone of any age to receive such help. This defies all logic and can only be seen for what it is: a frontal assault on our freedom to self-determination. A frontal assault on our freedom of religion. And a frontal assault on our freedom of conscience.
As ADF attorney Matt Sharp explained, this legislation would extend into the churches.
For example, let's say that your church has the policy of offering free pastoral counseling for all tithing members. That would mean a financial transaction is involved in those services. So, you, a member in good standing want to receive some much-needed counseling." MichaelBrown

God's 3 Roles in Genesis

 
God is Creator
The first thing God tells us about Himself in Genesis is that He is Creator. The very first verse of the Bible reads: ‘In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth’
Genesis 1:1

God is Lawgiver
A second thing God tells us about Himself in Genesis is that He is Lawgiver,⁶ when He says to Adam: ‘Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die’
 Genesis 2:16–17

God is Judge
A third thing that God tells us about Himself in Genesis is that He is Judge. After Adam and Eve had eaten the forbidden fruit, the record states: ‘And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed … Unto the woman He said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow … And unto Adam He said … cursed is the ground for thy sake … and unto dust shalt thou return’
Genesis 3:14-19

17 Reasons SERIES: #11

17 Reasons why Christianity should NOT have succeeded....

"17 factors to be considered -- places where Christianity "did the wrong thing" in order to be a successful religion. It is my contention that the only way Christianity did succeed is because it was a truly revealed faith -- and because it had the irrefutable witness of the Resurrection." J.P.Holding

Factor #11 -- Don't Rely on Women!
And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him. Mark 16:1 
"If Christianity wanted to succeed, it should never have admitted that women were the first to discover the empty tomb or the first to see the Risen Jesus. It also never should have admitted that women were main supporters (Luke 8:3) or lead converts (Acts 16).

Many have pointed out that women were regarded as "bad witnesses" in the ancient world. We need to emphasize that this was not a peculiarity as it would be seen today, but an ingrained stereotype. As Malina and Neyrey note, gender in antiquity came laden with "elaborate stereotypes of what was appropriate male or female behavior."

In general Greek and Roman courts excluded as witnesses women, slaves, and children...According to Josephus...[women] are unacceptable because of the 'levity and temerity of their sex'."  Women were so untrustworthy that they were not even allowed to be witnesses to the rising of the moon as a sign of the beginning of festivals.

It would have been much easier to put the finding of the tomb on the male disciples."
J.P.Holding

Creation Moment 4/10/2018 - Azuma Hikari & Evolutionary thought

....inventors of evil things...Romans 1:30

"A Japanese company, Gatebox, evidently felt that Alexa from Amazon isn’t disturbing enough as something to have around your house. They’ve gone several steps further with a diminutive virtual “wife” in a glass tube, a holographic cartoon character, Azuma Hikari. Motherboard summarizes:

Hikari was created to be a “comforting character that is great for those living alone.” The purpose of this cutesy anime character, blue hair, mini skirt, knee high socks and all, is to “do all she can just

 for the owner” — also referred to as “master.”
 
It seems designed specifically to appeal to lonely bachelors.

In this ad, Azuma wakes her master up in the morning, notifies him of the weather (“Take your umbrella”), and even coddles him with emotional support. During the day, while he’s at work she texts him things like “Come home early”

or “I can’t wait to see you.” When he finally gets home at the end of the day,

 she’s already made sure all the lights are on and jumps up and down

inside her little glass frame, exclaiming “Missed you, darling.”

 

In growing and developing your healthy love for a robot, that would seem to be a major stumbling block. Danaher, interestingly, handles this with a pass to evolution. He offers two reasons why we might doubt there can be a “meaningful relationship” with an AI robot.

(I) Because the robot has a different developmental origin to a human lover and/or

 (ii) because it is ultimately programmed (and controlled) by others,

who might have ulterior motives,

 there is no reason to think that you are in a meaningful relationship with it.

Danaher:

But (i) is difficult to justify in this context. Unless you think that biological tissue is

magic, or you are a firm believer in mind-body dualism, there is little reason to doubt that a robot that is behaviourally and functionally equivalent to a human cannot sustain a meaningful relationship. There is, after all, every reason to suspect that we are programmed, by evolution and culture, to develop loving attachments to one another. It might be difficult to reverse-engineer our programming, but this is increasingly true of robots too, particularly when they are programmed with learning rules that help them to develop their own responses to the world.

This is the kind of “sophisticated” reasoning that only a professor could truly love." EN&V

DESIRE OF AGES: Audio & Pull Quotes- Chapter 38

Come Rest Awhile

Audio:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/2asG-hvRz_Y?list=PL4ByrircmXL6qt2QplU6IudoOYVgzBS3C

As the disciples had seen the success of their labors, they were in danger of taking credit to themselves, in danger of cherishing spiritual pride, and thus falling under Satan's temptations.
--Like Moses in the wilderness of Sinai,
--like David among the hills of Judea,
--or Elijah by the brook Cherith, the disciples needed to come apart from the scenes of their busy activity, to commune with Christ, with nature, and with their own hearts.
The rest which Christ and His disciples took was not self-indulgent rest. The time they spent in retirement was not devoted to pleasure seeking. They talked together regarding the work of God, and the possibility of bringing greater efficiency to the work. The disciples had been with Christ, and could understand Him; to them He need not talk in parables. He corrected their errors, and made plain to them the right way of approaching the people. He opened more fully to them the precious treasures of divine truth. They were vitalized by divine power, and inspired with hope and courage.
 He bids us, Be still, and know that I am God. Psalm 46:10

Question for Atheists

The heart is deceitful above all things,

and desperately wicked:

who can know it?

Jeremiah 17:9

IF Man is the Measure of all things--IF we are our own god--deciding for ourselves right & wrong--then it applies to all including Hitler...

Hitler following his own whims-

*gave us the Holocaust
*plunged the earth into a global war
*killed himself in the end
*...........Is this all there is to life?

17 Reasons SERIES: #10

17 Reasons why Christianity should NOT have succeeded....

"17 factors to be considered -- places where Christianity "did the wrong thing" in order to be a successful religion. It is my contention that the only way Christianity did succeed is because it was a truly revealed faith -- and because it had the irrefutable witness of the Resurrection." J.P.Holding

Factor #10 -- No Class!
In this new life, it doesn’t matter if you are a Jew or a Gentile, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbaric, uncivilized, slave, or free. Christ is all that matters, and he lives in all of us.
Colossians 3:11 NLT

"Neither male nor female, neither slave not free." You might be so used to applauding this sort of concept that you don't realize what a radical message it was for the ancient world. And this is another reason why Christianity should have petered out in the cradle if it were a fake.
 

Malina and Neyrey note that in the ancient world, people took their major identity from the various groups to which they belonged. Whatever group(s) they were embedded in determined their idenitity. Changes in persons (such as Paul's conversion) were abnormal. Each person had certain role expectations they were expected to fulfill. The erasure or blurring of these various distinctions -- stated clearly in Paul, but also done in practice by Jesus during his ministry -- would have made Christianity seem radical and offensive.

Christianity turned the norms upside down and said that birth, ethnicity, gender, and wealth -- that which determined a person's honor and worth in this setting -- meant zipola.

The group-identity factor makes for another proof of Christianity's authenticity. In a group-oriented society, you took your identity from your group leader, and people needed the support and endorsement of others to support their identity. Christianity forced a severing of social and religious ties, the things which made an ancient person "human" in standing."
J.P.Holding

1 in 10

And Jesus answering said,

Were there not ten cleansed?

but where are the nine?

Luke 17:17

"Ten lepers, hopeless and incurable, had come to Jesus, begging for His help, and He had miraculously healed them. All ten should have fallen down to worship and thank Him, but only one praised God and thanked Jesus for His marvelous deliverance, while the others rushed away.

We are at first amazed at such ingratitude, until we realize that not more than 10% of even those people who know about Christ ever stop to give Him thanks for His innumerable blessings -- especially easy access to the Bible and His gracious offer of salvation -- far greater in value than the gift of special healing received by the ten lepers.

They had received an outward cleansing of the body, he an inward cleansing of the soul!

Ten lepers were healed, but only one was saved, and the proof of his salvation, received through genuine faith in Christ, was his gratitude, giving glory to God. The primary evidence of being "filled with the Spirit" (Ephesians 5:18) is that the one so controlled by God's regenerating Spirit will be "Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ" (Ephesians 5:20).

Those who are not thankful to their saving Lord are the 90% who have not been made whole." HMM

IN the NEWS - Hawaii opens the door to the slippery slope

I, the LORD, search the heart,
I test the mind,
Even to give every man according to his ways,
According to the fruit of his doings.
Jeremiah 17:10 NKJV
"On Thursday, the governor of Hawaii signed legislation making it the sixth state to allow doctor-assisted suicide.

To the delight of assisted suicide activists, Democratic Gov. David Ige signed HB 2739 into law...
Effective January 1, 2019, Hawaii will be the sixth state to fully allow the practice.
State Sen. Mike Gabbard, a Democrat who voted against the bill, called attention to the fact that it requires death certificates to list patients’ cause of death as their underlying terminal illness rather than the life-ending drugs they took.
Scott Foster of the pro-assisted suicide Death with Dignity Society said that provision was meant to prevent conflicts with insurance companies over drug and treatment coverage. But Gabbard called it “ridiculous that we’re going to falsify the cause of death.”...despite the alleged origins of assisted suicide as a voluntary last resort for extreme cases, similar laws in Belgium and the Netherlands have led to involuntary euthanasia. These laws now also extend to newborns, children, people with dementia, and people without terminal diagnoses." Lifesite

Abortion, gay marriage, transgenderism celebrated in the public arena, legalizing drugs, testing the waters for cannibalism...so why not killing off the sick and the elderly (and even others as that slippery slope has now led to in Belgium and Holland)?
 

Creation Moment 4/9/2018 - Pluto's Tombaugh Regio

Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son,

whom he hath appointed heir of all things,

by whom also he made the worlds;

Hebrews 1:2

 

"Why did astronomers expect Pluto’s surface to have many craters? This idea stems from a common belief that the solar system formed naturalistically over billions of years. The solar system supposedly formed from a large cloud of gas and dust 4.5 billion years ago. According to this theory, most of the matter in the solar system fell to the center to form the sun. The remaining material flattened into a disk, in which small particles began to stick together. These planetesimals gradually grew in size to form the planets, their satellites, and asteroids and comets.

...the small bodies of the solar system, including asteroids and Pluto, supposedly lack geological and significant weather processes. So their surfaces should be covered with craters. Several spacecraft have visited asteroids and sent back images revealing many craters on their surfaces. Most of the moons (or satellites) of the planets possess many craters as well. So astronomers expected Pluto to be more heavily cratered than our moon.

To their surprise, the images from New Horizons showed very few craters on Pluto’s surface. Pluto’s largest satellite, Charon, has more craters than Pluto, but far fewer than expected.

The most outstanding feature seen on Pluto’s surface is Tombaugh Regio, a large, heart-shaped region. Tombaugh Regio is light colored because it is made of various ices. Little of this ice appears to be water. Instead, most of it is primarily made of nitrogen, with a bit of carbon monoxide and methane. These ices are not as thick (viscous) as water ice, so they flow more easily, but they would likely require a heat source to trigger the motion. Tombaugh Regio has few craters, and Sputnik Planum, the western half of Tombaugh Regio, has no visible craters. In the evolutionary paradigm, this suggests that this region formed recently, so it must be young.

Why do Pluto and Charon have so few craters? Naturalistic astronomers don’t believe that Pluto itself is young, but that the surface is young. How can the surface be young but not Pluto itself? Their assumption is that material spewed from recent geological activity must have covered many craters.
Furthermore, some of the ice on Pluto’s surface appears to have moved in what amounts to glacial activity. This is not the sort of thing that one would expect on an old, dead world, either.
There are signs of other recent geological activity. Towering mountain ranges on Pluto rival the Rockies in height. High mountains tend to sink back down under their own weight, something that should have happened long ago if the mountains are old.

What is responsible for Pluto’s geological activity? Astronomers think that this can happen one of two ways.
One possibility is an internal source of heat..........Pluto does not appear to have radioactive materials, which would make it very dense. Its density is very low, less than half the density of the earth. This low density is consistent with Pluto being a mixture of ice and rock. These rocks would not have sufficient radioactivity to heat Pluto for billions of years.
A second heating mechanism could be tidal flexing. Large astronomical objects can stretch and squeeze their smaller neighbors........it cannot work at all on Pluto. No massive bodies orbit nearby.

Another explanation—anathema to evolutionary astronomers—is possible. What if Pluto is not nearly as old as many scientists think? If Pluto is very young, its surface may not have had enough time to accumulate many craters. Or perhaps Pluto was created with internal heat that is still there. That could drive geological processes that could not only erase many craters but also explain the gases that are released from within Pluto to sustain a thin atmosphere. But if Pluto is billions of years old, none of its internal heat would remain." AIG  

DESIRE OF AGES: Audio & Pull Quotes- Chapter 37

The First Evangelists

Audio:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/rVqdNtvQy68?list=PL4ByrircmXL6qt2QplU6IudoOYVgzBS3C

Calling the twelve about Him, Jesus bade them go out two and two through the towns and villages.

None were sent forth alone. These disciples were to be heralds of the truth, to prepare the way for the coming of their Master. In our own time evangelistic work would be far more successful if this example were more closely followed.
It is Satan's work to fill men's hearts with doubt. He leads them to look upon God as a stern judge. He tempts them to sin, and then to regard themselves as too vile to approach their heavenly Father or to excite His pity. The Lord understands all this. Jesus assures His disciples of God's sympathy for them in their needs and weaknesses. Not a sigh is breathed, not a pain felt, not a grief pierces the soul, but the throb vibrates to the Father's heart.
Thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the Lord shall be thy rearward. Isaiah 58:8
 

Thomas Lesson

"When the apostles met after Jesus had risen,

*Thomas was the only disciple absent out of the eleven;

on the second time Thomas was there,

*and he was the only disciple doubting out of the eleven.

How much the fact of his doubting was occasioned and helped by

the fact of his former absence I cannot say; but it still looks highly probable that had he been there at the first, he would have enjoyed the same experience as the other ten, and would have been able to say as they did, “We have seen the Lord.” John 20:25."
Charles Spurgeon

The Big Question for Atheists

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth:

for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away;

Revelation 21:1

 

IF No Eternal Perspective...Then what becomes of
*LOVE?
*JUSTICE?

 

17 Reasons SERIES: #9

17 Reasons why Christianity should NOT have succeeded....

"17 factors to be considered -- places where Christianity "did the wrong thing" in order to be a successful religion. It is my contention that the only way Christianity did succeed is because it was a truly revealed faith -- and because it had the irrefutable witness of the Resurrection." J.P.Holding

Factor #9 -- Human vs. Divine: Never the Twain Shall Meet!
Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh; Romans 1:3

"Earl Doherty, a Skeptic, has referred to the incredibility of "the idea that Jews, both in Palestine and across the empire, could have come to believe-or been converted to the idea by others-that a human

man was the Son of God....To believe that ordinary Jews were willing to bestow on any human man, no matter how impressive, all the titles of divinity and full identification with the ancient God of Abraham is simply inconceivable." And so it would be: Unless it actually happened, and that "human man" proved himself to be the Son of God. Doherty's "fallacy" amounts to an argument in favor of Christianity.

And it would be no better in the Gentile world. The idea of a god condescending to material form, for more than a temporary visit, of sweating, stinking, going to the bathroom, and especially suffering and dying here on earth -- this would be too much to swallow!"
J.P.Holding

Creation Moment 4/8/2018 - Encode vs. Evolution

Declare his glory among the heathen, his wonders among all people.
Psalm 96:3
"ENCODE has uncovered spectacular computer-like machines in the human cells, particularly what are known as Chromatin complexes. There are about 100 trillion cells in the human body, and thus 100 trillion networked computer-like machines in every adult human.

In fact some have said the human nervous system has more connections than all the routers and switches on the entire global internet.
As the NIH ENCODE and ENCODE-related projects have highlighted the amazing nano-technology in the human genome which evolutionary biologists even to day insist is junk rather than exquisite technology, evolutionary biologists like Dan Graur have said, “IF ENCODE is right, then evolution is wrong.”
Sal Cordova

DESIRE OF AGES: Audio & Pull Quotes- Chapter 36

The Touch of Faith

Audio:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/jbW5H0SBDwA?list=PL4ByrircmXL6qt2QplU6IudoOYVgzBS3C

The wondering crowd that pressed close about Christ realized no accession of vital power. But when

the suffering woman put forth her hand to touch Him, believing that she would be made whole, she felt the healing virtue. So in spiritual things. To talk of religion in a casual way, to pray without soul hunger and living faith, avails nothing.
The faith that is unto salvation is not a mere intellectual assent to the truth. He who waits for entire knowledge before he will exercise faith, cannot receive blessing from God. It is not enough to believe about Christ; we must believe in Him.
Our confession of His faithfulness is Heaven's chosen agency for revealing Christ to the world.
What shall I render unto the Lord for all His benefits toward me? I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the Lord. I will pay my vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all His people. Psalm 116:12-14

Deeper Look at the 3rd Commandment

Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain;

for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

Exodus 20:7

The original Hebrew “Nasa” (pronounced naw-saw) literally reads, “Do not carry the name of the Lord your God in vain.”

2 Observations:
1) How many have carried God's name in vain----in other words have violated God's Law in the name of God which in essence turns off nonbelievers to hearing the truth.
In other words doing things like torturing to death in the name of God such as during the Inquisitions.
2) Notice- this is the only commandment God says He will not forgive for breaking.