Puritan Corner - Ultimate Doctrine

"No doctrine is more excellent, or necessary to be preached and studied, than Jesus Christ, and Him crucified."
by John Flavel (1627-1691)
For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and Him crucified. 1 Corinthians 2:2

Luther on "Enemies of the Cross of Christ"

Brethren, join in imitating me, and mark those who so live as you have an example in us. For many, of whom I have often told you and now tell you even with tears, live as enemies of the cross of Christ. 

--Their end is destruction, 

--their god is the belly, 

--and they glory in their shame, 

--with minds set on earthly things. 

But our commonwealth is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will change our lowly body to be like His glorious body, by the power which enables Him even to subject all things to Himself. Philippians 3:17-21

"Of the sensual papistical dolts at Rome, cardinals, bishops, priests

and the like, it is not necessary to speak here. Their works are manifest. 

All honorable secular authorities must confess they are simply abandoned knaves, living shameless lives of open scandal, avarice, arrogance, unchastity, vanity, robbery and wickedness of every kind. Not only are they guilty of such living, but shamelessly endeavor to defend their conduct. They must, then, be regarded enemies of Christ and of all honesty and virtue. 

Hence every respectable man is justly antagonistic toward them. 

But, as before said, Paul is not here referring to this class, but to eminent, godly individuals, whose lives are beyond reproach. These very ones, when Christians are encountered, are hostile and heinous enough to be able to forget all their own faults in the sight of God, and to magnify to huge beams the motes we Christians have. In fact, they must style the Gospel heresy and satanic doctrine for the purpose of exalting their own holiness and zeal for God.
The apostle makes his accusation yet more galling with the words “whose god is their belly.” Thus you hear how human righteousness, even at its best, extends no higher than to service of the sensual appetites." 

Martin Luther

Halloween: one of the four Great Sabbats of the Witches

For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil. 1 John 3:8

"When we examine the history of Halloween, one thing we find out very quickly is that it is based on the ancient pagan religion of the Celtics in Northern Ireland and their celebration of the festival of the dead, known as Samhain.

According to Ronald Hutton in The Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain, ‘Samhain’ referred to Celtic Halloween customs all the way up until the 19th century.

Halloween, as we know it today, is a modernized version of the Druidic festival of the dead. The powerful Druid priests were

deemed kings of the occult practitioners, and were known for worshipping evil spirits and sacrificing humans to their demon gods!

The Celts celebrated the day of death in anticipation of the dark, cold winter months. The eve of Samhain marked the special time of the year when the Druids taught that demons, souls and gods were unleashed on the world to bring blessing or wreak havoc and destruction on unsuspecting souls.

“In ancient Britain and Ireland, the Celtic festival of Samhain was observed on October 31 at the end of the summer … The souls of the dead were supposed to revisit their homes on this day and the autumnal festival acquired sinister significance, with ghosts, witches, goblins, black cats, fairies and demons of all kinds said to be roaming about. It was the time to placate the supernatural powers controlling the processes of nature. In addition, Halloween was thought to be the most favorable time for divinations concerning marriage, luck, health, and death. It was the only day on which the help of the devil was invoked for such purposes.” (Encyclopedia Britannica, 2005, "Halloween").

Witch and Wiccan high priestess, Doreen Valiente, who authored "The Witches’ Rune"....Valiente helped formulate modern Wicca

(known as Gardnerian Wicca) after it was first created by Satanist Gerald Gardner, who was also a disciple of Satanist Aleister Crowley and a member of Crowley’s satanic organization known as the O.T.O. Unknown to most Wiccan’s, Gardner subsumed many of Crowley’s satanic teachings on ceremonial "magick" into Wicca and used a variation of Crowley’s satanic maxim “Do What Thou Wilt” for the wiccan Rede.
Wiccan high priestess, Valiente, said of Halloween:
“Halloween is one of the four Great Sabbats of the witches that everyone has heard about. To witches, Halloween is a serious occasion, however merrily celebrated. It is the old Celtic Eve of Samhain.” 

GoodFight

Green Earth Witchcraft

A DANGER of getting caught up in the Modern Environmental Movement and Climate Change CULT is seen below where it can lead one.....

"Wiccan Sabbats are festivals that mark the changing seasons and

cycles of the Earth. 

Earth Mother is a sustaining goddess and source from which “nature” derives and is ordered.... belief that all things thriving or existing upon, below, or within the realm of her sphere are connected (energetically, spiritually, emotionally, magically) allowing us to become spirit allies in our various workings and paths. The bond between Wicca and nature is sacred. Wiccans view nature not just as a resource, but as a living, breathing entity that deserves respect and reverence." 

ProudWiccan 

OH FOOLISH GALATIANS! 

Q: WHO HAS BEWITCHED YOU? 

Galatians 3:1

Moon Worship is Alive & Well Among "Modern Man" pt. 1

"Esbat is a term used to describe a monthly meeting held by Wiccans and pagans to celebrate the cycles of the moon. 

These gatherings are a time for reflection, meditation, and celebration of the changing phases of the moon, as well as a time for

communing with nature. 

During these gatherings, Wiccans may engage in rituals, spells, and other spiritual practices to honor the moon and connect with the divine. 

Esbats are also seen as an opportunity to work magic, as the energy of the full moon is said to be particularly powerful. 

When esbat rituals occur during a NEW MOON (also known as a dark moon), it is an occasion to worship the darker aspects of witchcraft. 

The FULL MOON esbat tends to be a frenetic celebration. Spells for wholeness, children, mothers, families, clairvoyance, and love are performed." 

CraftOfWicca/wiki..........

And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or MOON, or any of the host of heaven, WHICH I HAVE NOT COMMANDED; Deuteronomy 17:3

Moon Worship is Alive & Well Among "Modern Man" pt. 2

"One major component of full moon esbats is drawing down the moon. 

The idea is to draw the essence of the lunar goddess into the body of a coven member, usually a priestess or leader. 

This is done by another member who channels lunar energy down through a receptacle such as a chalice or knife. The two stand facing each other in the center of the circle and the group asks the goddess to come down. Once the divine energy enters the tool, it is touched to the head, chest, or abdomen of the priestess. Through her body, the goddess speaks to the group by answering questions, giving instructions, offering blessings, or simply pouring her loving energy into the circle and leading you in a merry spiral dance. After returning the energy to the goddess, the sign of a pentagram may be used as a dismissal.

Witches invoked their Goddess by ‘drawing down the moon,’ a rite dating back to the moon-worshipping Thessaly, centuries before the Christian era. 

Thessalian priestesses also prefigured ‘witchcraft’ by laying curses with ‘moon-dew,’ said to be the first menstrual blood of girls gathered during a lunar eclipse. 

St. Augustine berated women for dancing ‘impudently and filthily all the day long upon the days of the new moon.' 

The phases of the moon are to be compared to the three ages of woman: the new moon representing the young virgin, the full moon representing woman in her full sexual potential and the waning moon representing the wisdom of old age." 

wiki
And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or MOON, or any of the host of heaven, WHICH I HAVE NOT COMMANDED; Deuteronomy 17:3

This Halloween: Remember what God says about Witchcraft

Q: What does God think of Witchcraft?

For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft

,....Now the works of the
flesh are manifest, which are these; 

Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, WITCHCRAFT, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things SHALL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD. 

1 Samuel 15:23/Galatians 5:19-21

This Halloween: What does God say about werewolves?

Q: What does God say about werewolves?
A:  So God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He Him; male and female created He them. Genesis 1:27
Only mankind in 2 genders. NOTHING about any interchangeable creatures from human to animal and back.....On fact God gave mankind DOMINION over the animals, hence he is not part of---nor part---animal. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. 

Genesis 1:28

"A werewolf is a man that has been cursed or charmed into a beast that hunts at night and craves human flesh. The word ‘werewolf’

literally translates to man-wolf (‘were’ meaning man).
Many legends claim that a man would transform into a werewolf if he was bitten or scratched by another werewolf in its animal form.
There are also tales of magic salves that could transform a person. Other sources tell of enchanted streams that gave people the ability to transform. Other transformation rituals include drinking rainwater out of the footprint of a wolf and sleeping with the light of a full moon on one’s face during a Wednesday or Friday summer night.
Many areas where Christianity was the dominant religion tell of werewolf transformations through an alliance with the Devil. 

Many historians believe this was a way to explain the violent and cannibalistic impulses of predatory serial killers in the Middle Ages.
One of the easiest ways to identify a suspected werewolf was to try to injure the werewolf with a mark that would be easily identifiable. It was believed that when a werewolf was injured in animal form, the same injury would manifest itself in the being’s human form." Mythology.net

This Halloween: What does God say about Vampires?

Q: What does God say about Vampires?
A: there are NONE
For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. 

Ecclesiastes 9:5 / Revelation 20:5

"In folklore, a vampire is a malign spirit — usually believed to be a restless soul. The restless undead — that refuses to join the ranks of the dead but instead leaves its burial place — in its original body or

taking possession of another's corpse — and becomes a bloodsucking creature in order to continue enjoying the pleasures of the living. Mesopotamians, Egyptians, Romans, and even the Greeks — all had some version of a mythical vampire. But these Halloween monsters were greatly influenced by a particular novel. 

In the English language, the word “vampire” has existed since 1734, but it wasn’t until Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel, Dracula that the archetypal sophisticated vampire was established. 

During the vampire panic in New England, vampires were finding a new role in European books like The Vampyre (1819), Carmilla (1871-72), and Dracula (1897), as well as in vampire-themed plays.....there was a strange resurgence in the late 1960s, when Seán Manchester, the president of the British Occult Society, said that a vampire was causing people to see strange things in London’s Highgate Cemetery."

ZMEscience/NatGeo

Creation Moment 10/31/2025 - Evidence for a Young Earth SERIES: DNA in “Ancient” Bacteria

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, 

and all the host of them. Genesis 2:1

"Scientists were surprised to find that DNA was still intact after a supposed 250 million years.

In 2000, scientists claimed to have “resurrected” bacteria, named Lazarus bacteria, discovered in a salt crystal conventionally dated at 250 million years old. They were shocked that the bacteria’s DNA was very similar to modern bacterial DNA. If the modern bacteria were the result of 250 million years of evolution, its DNA should be very different from the Lazarus bacteria (based on known mutation rates).

In addition, the scientists were surprised to find that the DNA was still intact after the supposed 250 million years. DNA normally breaks down quickly, even in ideal conditions. Even evolutionists agree that DNA in bacterial spores (a dormant state) should not last more than a million years. Their quandary is quite substantial.

However, the discovery of Lazarus bacteria is not shocking or surprising when we base our expectations on the Bible accounts. For instance, Noah’s Flood likely deposited the salt beds that were home to the bacteria. If the Lazarus bacteria are only about 4,500 years old (the approximate number of years that have passed since the worldwide flood), their DNA is more likely to be intact and similar to modern bacteria.

Some scientists have dismissed the finding and believe the Lazarus bacteria are contamination from modern bacteria. But the scientists who discovered the bacteria defend the rigorous procedures used to avoid contamination. They claim the old age is valid if the bacteria had longer generation times, different mutation rates, and/or similar selection pressures compared to modern bacteria. Of course these “rescuing devices” are only conjectures to make the data fit their worldview." 

AIG

Christ our sap

The trees of the LORD are full of sap; the cedars of Lebanon, which He hath planted; Psalm 104:16

"Without sap the tree cannot flourish or even exist. 

Vitality is essential to a Christian. 

There must be life—The mere name of being a Christian is but a dead thing, we must be filled with the spirit of divine life.

This life is mysterious. 

We do not understand the circulation of the sap, by what force it rises, and by what power it descends again. 

So the life within us is a sacred mystery.

Regeneration is wrought by the Holy Ghost entering into man and becoming man’s life; and this divine life in a believer afterwards feeds upon the flesh and blood of Christ and is thus sustained by divine food, 

Q: but whence it cometh and whither it goeth who shall explain to us?

What a secret thing the sap is! 
Our root is Christ Jesus, and our life is hid in Him; this is the secret of the Lord. 

*If you talk with Him, he cannot help speaking about Jesus. 

*If you notice his actions you will see that he has been with Jesus. 

--He has so much sap within, that it must fill his conduct and conversation with life." 

Charles Spurgeon

Creation Moment 10/30/2025 - Evidence for a Young Earth SERIES: Very Little Salt in the Sea

And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:10

"If the world’s oceans have been around for three billion years as evolutionists believe, they should be filled with vastly more salt than the oceans contain today.

Every year rivers, glaciers, underground seepage, and atmospheric and volcanic dust dump large amounts of salts into the oceans. Consider the influx of the predominant salt, sodium chloride (common table salt). Some 458 million tons of sodium mix in with ocean water each year, but only 122 million tons (27%) are removed by other natural processes.

If seawater originally contained no sodium (salt) and the sodium accumulated at today’s rates, then today’s ocean saltiness would be reached in only 42 million years—only about 1/70 the three billion years evolutionists propose. But those assumptions fail to take into account the likelihood that God created a saltwater ocean for all the sea creatures He made on Day Five. Also, the year-long global Flood cataclysm must have dumped an unprecedented amount of salt into the ocean through erosion, sedimentation, and volcanism. So today’s ocean saltiness makes much more sense within the Biblical timescale of about six thousand years.

Those who believe in a three-billion-year-old ocean say that past sodium inputs had to be less and outputs greater. However, even the most generous estimates can only stretch the accumulation timeframe to 62 million years. Long-agers also argue that huge amounts of sodium are removed during the formation of basalts at mid-ocean ridges, but this ignores the fact that the sodium returns to the ocean as seafloor basalts move away from the ridges." 

AIG

LUTHER on Christ as HIGH PRIEST

But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by His own blood He entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. 

For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? 

And for this cause He is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. Hebrews 9:11-15

"Christ Our Great High Priest:
1.Briefly, the epistle treats of a twofold priesthood. The former priesthood was a material one, with material adornment, tabernacle, sacrifices and with pardon couched in ritual; material were all its

appointments. The new order is a spiritual priesthood, with spiritual adornments, spiritual tabernacle and sacrifices—spiritual in all that pertains to it. Christ, in the exercise of His priestly office, in the sacrifice on the cross, was not adorned with silk and gold and precious stones, but with divine love, wisdom, patience, obedience and all virtues.

2. Christ sacrificed not goats nor calves nor birds; not bread; not blood nor flesh, as did Aaron and his posterity: He offered His own body and blood, and the manner of the sacrifice was spiritual; for it took place through the Holy Spirit, as here stated. Though the body and blood of Christ were visible the same as any other material object, the fact that he offered them as a sacrifice was not apparent. It was not a visible sacrifice, as in the case of offerings at the hands of Aaron. Christ offered Himself in the heart before God.

3. Again, in the new order, the tabernacle or house is spiritual; for it

is heaven, or the presence of God. Christ hung upon a cross; He was not offered in a temple. He was offered before the eyes of God, and there He still abides. The cross is an altar in a spiritual sense. The material cross was indeed visible, but none knew it as Christ’s altar. Again, His prayer, His sprinkled blood, His burnt incense, were all spiritual, for it was all wrought through His spirit.

4. Concerning the water of separation and the ashes of the red heifer, read Numbers 19; and concerning the blood of bulls and goats, Leviticus 16:14-15. According to Paul, these were formal and temporal purifications, as I stated above. But Christ, in God’s sight, purifies the conscience of dead works; that is, of sins meriting death, and of works performed in sin and therefore dead. Christ purifies from these, that we may serve the living God by living works." Martin Luther

Creation Moment 10/29/2025 - Evidence for a Young Earth SERIES: Short-Lived Comets

Where is the wise man (philosopher)? Where is the scribe (scholar)? Where is the debater (logician, orator) of this age? 

Has God not exposed the foolishness of this world’s wisdom? 

1 Corinthians 1:20 AMP

"A comet spends most of its time far from the sun in the deep freeze of space. But once each orbit a comet comes very close to the sun, allowing the sun’s heat to evaporate much of the comet’s ice and dislodge dust to form a beautiful tail. Comets have little mass, so each close pass to the sun greatly reduces a comet’s size, and eventually comets fade away. They can’t survive billions of years.

Two other mechanisms can destroy comets—ejections from the solar

system and collisions with planets. Ejections happen as comets pass too close to the large planets, particularly Jupiter, and the planets’ gravity kicks them out of the solar system. While ejections have been observed many times, the first observed collision was in 1994, when Comet Shoemaker-Levi IX slammed into Jupiter.

Given the loss rates, it’s easy to compute a maximum age of comets. That maximum age is only a few million years. Obviously, their prevalence makes sense if the entire solar system was created just a few thousand years ago, but not if it arose billions of years ago.

Evolutionary astronomers have answered this problem by claiming that comets must come from two sources. 

---They propose that a Kuiper belt beyond the orbit of Neptune hosts short-period comets (comets with orbits under 200 years), 

---and a much larger, distant Oort cloud hosts long-period comets (comets with orbits over 200 years).

Yet there is no evidence for the supposed Oort cloud, and there likely never will be. In the past twenty years astronomers have found thousands of asteroids orbiting beyond Neptune, and they are assumed to be the Kuiper belt. However, the large size of these asteroids (Pluto is one of the larger ones) and the difference in composition between these asteroids and comets argue against this conclusion." 

AIG

Calvin on Christ as High Priest

"Regarding the priestly office, Calvin highlights the twofold work of Jesus as outlined in Hebrews - namely, the reconciliation and intercession of Jesus. 

First, “as has been said, we or our prayers have no access to God

unless Christ, as our High Priest, having washed away our sins, sanctifies us and obtains for us that grace from which the uncleanness of our transgressions and vices debars us. Thus we see that we must begin from the death of Christ in order that the efficacy and benefit of his priesthood may reach us. It follows that He is an everlasting intercessor: through His pleading we obtain favor” (Calvin, p. 502). 

Christ inaugurated a new covenant wherein He is both priest and sacrifice: Unlike the other high priests, He does not need to offer sacrifices day after day, first for His own sins, and then for the sins of the people. 

He sacrificed for their sins once for all when he offered Himself (Hebrews 7.27). 

The mediatorial work of the Levitical priesthood, in itself insufficient to atone for sins in an ultimate way, anticipated the final work of salvation completed by Jesus’ perfect sacrifice of Himself (Hebrews 9.26). 

Jesus’ sacrifice fulfilled God’s righteous demands: But the ministry Jesus has received is as superior to theirs as the covenant of which He is mediator is superior to the old one, and it is founded on better promises (Hebrews 8.6).
For Christ has entered, not into holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true things, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf. 

Nor was it to offer Himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters the holy places every year with blood not His own, for then He would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. 

But as it is, He has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. 

In the Jewish temple there were no chairs because the priest’s work was never done. By contrast, the author of Hebrews informs us that when Jesus finished His work He sat down at the right hand of God (Hebrews 10.12)." 

MyEvenSong

Creation Moment 10/28/2025 - Evidence for a Young Earth SERIES: Carbon-14 in Fossils, Coal, and Diamonds

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

"Carbon-14 (or radiocarbon) is a radioactive form of carbon that

scientists use to date fossils. But it decays quickly.

Carbon-14 (or radiocarbon) is a radioactive form of carbon that scientists use to date fossils. But it decays so quickly—with a half-life of only 5,730 years—that none is expected to remain in fossils after only a few hundred thousand years. Yet carbon-14 has been detected in “ancient” fossils—supposedly up to hundreds of millions of years old—ever since the earliest days of radiocarbon dating.

Even if every atom in the whole earth were carbon-14, they would decay so quickly that no carbon-14 would be left on earth after only 1 million years. Contrary to expectations, between 1984 and 1998 alone, the scientific literature reported carbon-14 in 70 samples that came from fossils, coal, oil, natural gas, and marble representing the fossil-bearing portion of the geologic record, supposedly spanning more than 500 million years. All contained radiocarbon. Further, analyses of fossilized wood and coal samples, supposedly spanning 32–350 million years in age, yielded ages between 20,000 and 50,000 years using carbon-14 dating. Diamonds supposedly 1–3 billion years old similarly yielded carbon-14 ages of only 55,000 years.

Even that is too old when you realize that these ages assume that the earth’s magnetic field has always been constant. But it was stronger in the past, protecting the atmosphere from solar radiation and reducing the radiocarbon production. As a result, past creatures had much less radiocarbon in their bodies, and their deaths occurred much more recently than reported!
So the radiocarbon ages of all fossils and coal should be reduced to less than 5,000 years, matching the timing of their burial during the Flood. The age of diamonds should be reduced to the approximate time of Biblical creation—about 6,000 years ago.

Old-earth advocates repeat the same two hackneyed defenses, even though they were resoundingly demolished years ago. The first cry is, “It’s all contamination.” Yet for thirty years AMS radiocarbon laboratories have subjected all samples, before they carbon-14 date them, to repeated brutal treatments with strong acids and bleaches to rid them of all contamination. And when the instruments are tested with blank samples, they yield zero radiocarbon, so there can’t be any contamination or instrument problems.

The second cry is, “New radiocarbon was formed directly in the fossils when nearby decaying uranium bombarded traces of nitrogen in the buried fossils.” Carbon-14 does form from such transformation of nitrogen, but actual calculations demonstrate conclusively this process does not produce the levels of radiocarbon that world-class laboratories have found in fossils, coal, and diamonds." 

AIG

Health Note - When Cannabis and Tobacco Combine........

Beloved, 

I wish above all things that thou mayest...be in health,.. 

3 John 1:2

"If you’re one of the millions of people who mix tobacco with cannabis — in a joint, a blunt, or a vape — your brain may be doing more than catching a buzz. It might be reprogramming its own chemistry for stress, pleasure, and addiction.

A new McGill University study found that people who use both tobacco and cannabis show striking differences in brain activity compared to those who use cannabis alone.
*Specifically, they have higher levels of a brain enzyme that breaks down anandamide — the so-called “bliss molecule” that helps regulate mood, stress, and emotional balance.
This is the first evidence in humans of a molecular mechanism that

may underlie why people who use both cannabis and tobacco experience worse outcomes.
The problem is that the two drugs act on overlapping chemical systems in the brain.
---Both nicotine and THC influence the endocannabinoid system, a network of molecules and receptors that help control stress, reward, and motivation.
One molecule of note in this system is anandamide, a neurotransmitter whose name comes from the Sanskrit word for “bliss.” Anandamide’s job is to keep our emotional state stable. *When it’s depleted, people tend to feel more anxious or depressed.
Anandamide doesn’t stick around forever. It’s broken down by an enzyme called fatty acid amide hydrolase, or FAAH. More FAAH means less anandamide, and that imbalance has been linked to depression, anxiety, and greater vulnerability to addiction.
The results suggest that smoking tobacco on top of cannabis may intensify brain changes associated with mood instability and withdrawal.
FAAH levels in the cerebellum — a region involved not just in movement but also emotion and cognition — were strongly correlated with the number of cigarettes smoked per day. The more participants smoked, the higher their FAAH levels climbed.
That connection, said Romina Mizrahi, co-author and director of the McGill Research Center for Cannabis, was surprisingly strong: “What surprised us was how strong the effect was, and how different it was from those who only used cannabis, compared to those who used both tobacco and cannabis.”
Rabin’s team believes this might explain why people who use both substances tend to experience worse outcomes when trying to quit. “Identifying this mechanism is an important step toward finding targets for future medications to treat cannabis use disorder,” she said."
ZME

"it is finished" meant.....

"Matthew 27:50, 51: When Jesus uttered on the cross the words ―it is finished, He meant that He had legally paid for all of the IOU‘S. 

As a result many of those who were captive in the grave came out and ascended with Jesus forty days later as the first-fruits of the great harvest when Jesus comes again." 

Stephen Bohr

Creation Moment 10/27/2025 - Evidence for a Young Earth SERIES: Helium in Radioactive Rocks

In the beginning God created.... Genesis 1:1

"During the radioactive decay of uranium and thorium contained in rocks, lots of helium is produced. Because helium is the second lightest element and a noble gas—meaning it does not combine with other atoms—it readily diffuses (leaks) out and eventually escapes into the atmosphere. Helium diffuses so rapidly that all the helium should have leaked out in less than 100,000 years. 

Q: So why are these rocks still full of helium atoms?

While drilling deep Precambrian (pre-Flood) granitic rocks in New Mexico, geologists extracted samples of zircon (zirconium silicate) crystals from different depths. The crystals contained not only uranium but also large amounts of helium. 

The hotter the rocks, the faster the helium should escape, so researchers were surprised to find that the deepest, and therefore hottest, zircons (at 387°F or 197°C) contained far more helium than expected. Up to 58% of the helium that the uranium could have ever generated was still present in the crystals.

The helium leakage rate has been determined in several experiments. All measurements are in agreement. Helium diffuses so rapidly that all the helium in these zircon crystals should have leaked out in less than 100,000 years. The fact that so much helium is still there means they cannot be 1.5 billion years old, as uranium-lead dating suggests. Indeed, using the measured rate of helium diffusion, these pre-Flood rocks have an average “diffusion age” of only 6,000 (± 2,000) years.

These experimentally determined and repeatable results, based on the well-understood physical process of diffusion, thus emphatically demonstrate that these zircons are only a few thousand years old. The supposed 1.5-billion-year age is based on the unverifiable assumptions of radioisotope dating that are radically wrong.

Another evidence of a young earth is the low amount of helium in the atmosphere. The leakage rate of helium gas into the atmosphere has

been measured. Even though some helium escapes into outer space, the amount still present is not nearly enough if the earth is over 4.5 billion years old. In fact, if we assume no helium was in the original atmosphere, all the helium would have accumulated in only 1.8 million years even from an evolutionary standpoint. But when the catastrophic Flood upheaval is factored in, which rapidly released huge amounts of helium into the atmosphere, it could have accumulated in only 6,000 years.

So glaring and devastating is the surprisingly large amount of helium that old-earth advocates have attempted to discredit this evidence.

One critic suggested the helium didn’t all come from uranium decay in the zircon crystals but that a lot diffused into them from the surrounding minerals. But this proposal ignores measurements showing that less helium gas is in the surrounding minerals. Due to the well-established diffusion law of physics, gases always diffuse from areas of higher concentration to surrounding areas of lower concentration.

Another critic suggested the edges of the zircon crystals must have stopped the helium from leaking out, effectively “bottling” the helium within the zircons. 

However, this postulation has also been easily refuted because the zircon crystals are wedged between flat mica sheets, not wrapped in them, so that helium could easily flow between the sheets unrestricted. All other critics have been answered. Thus all available evidence confirms that the true age of these zircons and their host granitic rock is only 6,000 (± 2,000) years." 

AIG

Forgotten Lesson of Pentecost

"There is a connection between what Jesus did on the cross and the fire that fell from heaven on the day of Pentecost. 

Most Christians focus on what happened on earth on the day of

Pentecost but the important event actually took place in heaven, not on earth! The order is offering and then fire to show God‘s approval of the sacrifice. Abel‘s Sacrifice Signs of the Times, February 6, 1879: ―"God had respect unto this sacrifice and fire came down from Heaven and consumed it."

I Chronicles 21:26: During the period of the Hebrew monarchy, David offered a sacrifice to the LORD on Ornan‘s threshing floor and God gave His sign of approval by sending fire from heaven. ―And David built there an altar to the Lord, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called on the Lord; and He answered him from heaven by fire on the altar of burnt offering.

2 Chronicles 7:1: When the Old Testament Temple service was inaugurated, animals were slain and placed on the altar and then fire fell from heaven upon the sacrifice to show that God accepted it. ―When Solomon had finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the Lord filled the temple.

1 Kings 18:38: In the days of Elijah God showed His approval in the same way. ―Then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood and the stones and the dust, and it licked up the water that was in the trench." 

Stephen Bohr

Creation Moment 10/26/2025 - Evidence for a Young Earth SERIES: Rapidly Decaying Magnetic Field

"The earth is surrounded by a magnetic field that protects living things from solar radiation. Without it, life could not exist. That’s why scientists were surprised to discover that the field is quickly wearing down. At the current rate, the field and thus the earth could be no older than 20,000 years old.

Several measurements confirm this decay. Since measuring began in

1845, the total energy stored in the earth’s magnetic field has been decaying at a rate of 5% per century. Archaeological measurements show that the field was 40% stronger in AD 1000. Recent records of the International Geomagnetic Reference Field, the most accurate ever taken, show a net energy loss of 1.4% in just three decades (1970–2000). This means that the field’s energy has halved every 1,465 years or so.

Creationists have proposed that the earth’s magnetic field is caused by a freely-decaying electric current in the earth’s core. This means that the electric current naturally loses energy, or “decays,” as it flows through the metallic core. Though it differs from the most commonly accepted conventional model, it is consistent with our knowledge of what makes up the earth’s core. Furthermore, based on what we know about the conductive properties of liquid iron, this freely decaying current would have started when the earth’s outer core was formed. However, if the core were more than 20,000 years old, then the starting energy would have made the earth too hot to be covered by water, as Genesis 1:2 (The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.) reveals.

Reliable, accurate, published geological field data have emphatically confirmed the young-earth model: a freely-decaying electric current in the outer core is generating the magnetic field. Although this field reversed direction several times during the Flood cataclysm when the outer core was stirred, the field has rapidly and continuously lost total energy ever since creation. It all points to an earth and magnetic field only about 6,000 years old.

To salvage their old earth and dynamo, some have suggested the magnetic field decay is linear rather than exponential, in spite of the historic measurements and decades of experiments confirming the exponential decay. Others have suggested that the strength of some components increases to make up for other components that are decaying. That claim results from confusion about the difference between magnetic field intensity and its energy, and has been refuted categorically by creation physicists." 

AIG

Thought for not just the day....but for everyday

"We should never forget that we are placed on this earth for no other purpose than to glorify God." 

E.J. Waggoner

Revelation 4:11 You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and

honor and power: for You have created all things, and for Your pleasure they are and were created. 

1 Corinthians 10:31 Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatsoever you do, do all to the glory of God. 

1 Corinthians 6:20 For you are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.

Creation Moment 10/25/2025 - Evidence for a Young Earth SERIES: Faint Sun Paradox

And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: He made the stars also. Genesis 1:16

"Evidence now supports astronomers’ belief that the sun’s power comes from the fusion of hydrogen into helium deep in the sun’s core, but there is a huge problem. As the hydrogen fuses, it should change the composition of the sun’s core, gradually increasing the sun’s temperature. If true, this means that the earth was colder in the past. In fact, the earth would have been below freezing 3.5 billion years ago, when life supposedly evolved.

The rate of nuclear fusion depends upon the temperature. As the sun’s core temperatures increase, the sun’s energy output should also increase, causing the sun to brighten over time. Calculations show that the sun would brighten by 25% after 3.5 billion years. This means that an early sun would have been fainter, warming the earth 31°F (17°C) less than it does today. That’s below freezing.

But evolutionists acknowledge that there is no evidence of this in the geologic record. They even call this problem the faint young sun paradox. While this isn’t a problem over many thousands of years, it is a problem if the world is billions of years old.

Over the years scientists have proposed several mechanisms to explain away this problem. These suggestions require changes in the earth’s atmosphere. For instance, more greenhouse gases early in earth’s history would retain more heat, but this means that the greenhouse gases had to decrease gradually to compensate for the brightening sun.

None of these proposals can be proved, for there is no evidence. Furthermore, it is difficult to believe that a mechanism totally unrelated to the sun’s brightness could compensate for the sun’s changing emission so precisely for billions of years." 

AIG