Romans 1:30 & the Roots of Comic Book Heroes

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

"The significance of Edward Bulwer-Lytton's novel The Coming Race and its concept of the Vril-ya, a super human race occupying the Hollow Earth. 

This was adopted and adapted by Theosophy into their concept of Ascended Masters which when mixed with Friedrich Nietzsche's Übermensch,(The Übermensch 'Superman' or 'Beyond-Man') is a concept in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. In his 1883 book, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Nietzsche has his character Zarathustra posit the Übermensch as a goal for humanity to set for itself. 

The Übermensch represents a shift from otherworldly Christian values and manifests the grounded human ideal. 

Zarathustra proclaims the will of the Übermensch to give meaning to life on planet Earth, and admonishes his audience to ignore those who promise other-worldly fulfillment.) became the template for the early superheroes.

DC Comics editor Julius Schwartz started his career as H.P.

Lovecraft's agent, to the tantalizingly extensive influence of Madame Blavatsky's Theosophy on the birth of comics, to the mystic roots of Superman....the four basic superhero archetypes—the Messiah, the Golem, the Amazon, and the Brotherhood—and shows how the occult Bohemian underground of the early 20th century provided the inspiration for the modern comic book hero.

Captain Marvel (Parker and Beck 1939) who was a young boy who through the intervention of an ancient Egyptian wizard can transform into a Superman-like super being by shouting the magic formula SHAZAM! (for the wisdom of Solomon, the strength of Hercules, the Stamina of Atlas, the power of Zeus, the courage of Achilles, and the speed of Mercury)."

Wiki/OneDrive/KennethGranholm

Inverse WRONG Sabbath Keeping Relationship

"Jesus said, “if you love Me, you will keep My commandments” John 14:15....

In Christ’s day, the Jews were ‘keeping’ the Sabbath in the wrong way, and at the end, Christians will be keeping the wrong day. 

The Sabbath in Christ’s day was not the Sabbath of the Lord, and neither is Sun day. 

--Satan cares not if we keep the wrong day or the true Sabbath in the wrong way; the end result is the same. The Sabbath makes no person holy but rather is the visible sign that God has made the person holy." Stephen Bohr

Creation Moment 11/11/2026 - Phantom Evidence SERIES: Phantom Evidence Lives On

 ....and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. 

Revelation 21:8

"Phantom Evidence refers to data or studies that have been discredited, debunked, or retracted, yet continue to be cited as though they were still valid.

Phantom Evidence Lives On:
The Age of Reptiles, a 110-foot (34-meter) mural at the Yale Peabody Museum illustrating the prehistoric era when evolutionary theory posits that reptiles dominated the Earth. A section of this celebrated fresco was featured on the September 7, 1953, cover of Life

magazine.
The widespread acclaim and numerous awards garnered by Zallinger’s grand murals helped cement his position as a prominent member of the Yale University faculty.
The rejection of the “March of Progress” as an accurate representation of human origins is well-documented, even among secular scientists. One notable critique comes from Dr. Kevin Blake, a researcher holding a PhD in Plant and Microbial Biosciences and the Scientific Editor and Program Manager at the Washington University School of Medicine. Regarding the illustration, Blake observed:
The image is iconic… At the rear is an ape-like figure, crouched-over and walking on all fours. Ahead of it is a similar-looking figure, but one who’s walking on two feet. This trend continues, with each successive figure becoming a little taller, a little less hunched, and little less hairy until, at the front of the line, you reach Homo sapiens. Hairless, fully upright, with close-cropped hair and a neatly-trimmed beard, “Modern Man” boldly strides into the future. Instantly recognizable and universally understood to depict the evolution of man, this image is one of the most famous scientific illustrations of all time. It is also wrong." 

CEH

Lesson in the Question Based on Eve

I also am formed out of the clay. Job 33:6

"Q: How is it possible that Satan could deceive Eve when she is fresh
from the hand of God?
Q: How is it possible that somebody that God just made, she wasn't born in sin and shaped in iniquity like us, she was born fresh from the hand of God in an environment that is perfect and pure. 

Q: How is it possible that even in that environment, Satan could deceive somebody like Eve? 

Q: And if he could do that to somebody who God just created in perfection, what will he do to you born in sin shaped in iniquity?" Shion O'connor

From the "Really" File - (For Crying Out Loud People)

And they will deceive every one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies...

Jeremiah 9:5

"Pellegrino Ernetti (1925–1994) was an Italian Benedictine priest...Father Pellegrino Ernetti allegedly developed the

Chronovisor, a device said to capture sights and sounds from the past.
The story credits it with revealing historical speeches, a lost Roman play, and even the crucifixion of Jesus.
An unverified legend, not an established invention or authenticated photograph of the crucifixion.
According to accounts such as those in Father François Brune’s 2002 book Le Nouveau Mystère du Vatican, Ernetti allegedly developed the Chronovisor in the 1950s with a team of 12 scientists, reportedly including Nobel laureate Enrico Fermi and Wernher von Braun.
Despite the intrigue, no working Chronovisor has ever been demonstrated, and no credible technical documentation exists. Investigations have found that some “evidence” cited in the story — such as a 1972 photograph of the crucifixion — was later proven to be a reversed 1931 commercial postcard.
There were at least two notable books about the Chronovisor written in the years after Ernetti's death: a 1997 book in German by Peter

From the "Really" File

Krassa, Father Ernetti's Chronovisor: The Creation and Disappearance of the World's First Time Machine; and a 2002 book in French, The Vatican's New Mystery by Father François Brune, a French priest who was a friend of Ernetti's. Between themselves, these two volumes collected about all of Ernetti's writings and interviews.
As to the question of where the Chronovisor was, and could we please see it and try it out, Ernetti told Brune that it no longer existed. Fearful of such a powerful technology falling into the wrong hands." ChatGPT

REALLY?

The Drying Up

"So it says the waters are dried up. (And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.)

Now the greatest support of ancient Babylon was its river. 

As long as the river flowed, Babylon was secure.

But Cyrus came from the east and he dried up the Euphrates and that led to the fall of Babylon. 

This is picked up in the end time. 

The symbolic Babylon harlot, a global system, the papacy sits on multitudes, nations, tongues, and peoples. In other words, rules over them. 

And as long as the multitudes support this system, the system does not fall.
But at some point, the waters, multitudes, nations, tongues, and peoples that supported the harlot are going to dry up on her. 

And then, just like ancient Babylon, global Babylon, is going to fall." Stephen Bohr

Creation Moment 11/10/2026 - Phantom Evidence SERIES: The “March of Progress”

....and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. 

Revelation 21:8

"Phantom Evidence refers to data or studies that have been discredited, debunked, or retracted, yet continue to be cited as though they were still valid.

B. The “March of Progress”
A prominent modern example of phantom evidence is arguably the most recognizable visual in the history of evolutionary advocacy and is still promoted in modern media.
This ubiquitous and influential illustration—frequently referred to as “The Progression” or the “March of Progress”—has been

instrumental in convincing millions of people to accept human evolutionary descent, even though anthropologists have long recognized its linear narrative as misleading and reliant on obsolete reconstructions.
The graphic presents a seemingly irrefutable visual case for human ancestry without requiring a single paragraph of text.
In his comprehensive study, Professor Gowan Dawson traces the interconnected history of the image’s two most influential iterations across more than a century—from Victorian Britain to Space Age America. These include the frontispiece to Thomas Henry Huxley’s

Evidence as to Man’s Place in Nature (1863) and Rudolph Zallinger’s iconic fold-out illustration, “The Road to Homo Sapiens,” featured in F. Clark Howell’s best-selling Time-Life volume Early Man (1965).
One of the earliest public three-dimensional installations of the “March of Progress” was a series of sculpted plaster busts displayed in the “Hall of Man” at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History in New Haven, Connecticut. Installed in 1925—the same year the Scopes Trial thrust the evolutionary debate into the global spotlight—the exhibit presented an orderly lineage moving from ape-like ancestors to modern humanity.
The busts from 1925 include the following, all of which have been refuted by modern research:
1. Java Man (Pithecanthropus erectus): Presented as a primitive, transitional proto-human prehuman. Creationists and several anatomical specialists have long pointed out that Homo erectus fits squarely within the range of true human variability rather than representing a sub-human precursor.
2. Piltdown Man (Eoanthropus dawsoni): Showcased at the time as a pivotal “missing link” confirming human brain evolution, it was exposed in 1953 as an outright forgery constructed from an altered modern human cranium and an orangutan jaw.
3. Neanderthal Man (Homo neanderthalensis): Originally reconstructed as a stooped, brutish, ape-like caveman; modern genetics and physical anthropology have since demonstrated that Neanderthals possessed sophisticated culture, made complex tools, and interbred with anatomically modern humans, affirming they were fully human.
4. Cro-Magnon Man (Homo sapiens): The final stage shown in the progression, representing modern European man, is an anatomically modern Homo sapiens.
These anatomical restorations of prehistoric busts were installed in 1925 in response to the 1925 Scopes Trial. I collect postage stamps and have over 100 stamps that illustrate ‘The Progression,’ which has enabled evolutionists to present Phantom Evidence of human evolution to people groups around the globe. As of 2026, The Progression is still displayed in many countries around the world.
The visual momentum of this sequence was carried far beyond museum walls. For instance, postage stamps from around the globe have repeatedly depicted the progressive silhouettes, popularizing evolutionary transitions in households worldwide.
I have over 100 stamps in my collection commemorating this world-famous evolutionary illustration referred to as ‘the Progression.’ Decades after the scientific obsolescence of linear human progression was recognized, variants of this imagery continue to appear on public monuments, educational posters, and commercial designs worldwide." 

CEH

What Lucifer's angelic host is capable of

For we wrestle not 

against flesh and blood, 

but against principalities, 

against powers, 

against the rulers of 

the darkness 

of this world, 

against spiritual wickedness 

in high places.
Ephesians 6:12

"We carefully secure our houses with bolts and locks to protect our property and our lives from evil men; but we seldom think of the evil angels who are constantly seeking access to us--If permitted, they can

 distract OUR MINDS, 

disorder and torment OUR BODIES, 

destroy OUR POSSESSIONS 

and OUR LIVES." 

E.G.W.

IN the NEWS - In the Imagination of Welch & Sullivan

......and in the imagination of their evil heart, 

and went backward, 

and not forward. 

Jeremiah 7:24

"A 39-second clip of podcasters Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan laughing after Welch read out a post joking that "we're digging up Charlie Kirk and doing it again" spread across X on Thursday, with accounts calling it a celebration of Kirk's murder. 

Collin Rugg posted it to his followers with the line that the two "can't stop laughing at the thought of digging up Charlie Kirk's corpse."
Welch and Sullivan host the I've Had It podcast. Welch has been in this fight before: in December, Fox News reported that she told Don Lemon on her show that Kirk "justified" his own killing, saying "The person that I heard that justified his death was him." 

ZeroHedge

P.S. - "Cash App, Chewy, Boll & Branch, and Lola Blankets said on Friday that they no longer sponsor or advertise leftist Jennifer

Welch’s I’ve Had It podcast, according to company statements and customer service messages shared online amid backlash.
Chewy said it was no longer connected to the podcast in a customer service response shared by X user Val Candee. “I do want to clarify that Chewy is no longer affiliated with or sponsoring the ‘I’ve Had It’ podcast,” the representative wrote." 

Breitbart

From the "Really" File - [On Full Display -- It's Back]

...until they were filled (permeated, saturated) with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, ... evil; full of ...strife, deceit, malice and mean-spiritedness. Romans 1:29 AMP

It's Back - On Full Display --old fashioned anti-semitism --- emboldened by the midterm elections.

White "liberals" are truly mentally unstable. It's like 1938 Berlin all over again....has been for the last 3 years globally.

"Local leaders have strongly condemned a protest planned for this weekend in Philadelphia that targets Jewish-owned businesses,

calling it antisemitic and unacceptable.
Several local activist groups promoted the protest, which is expected Sunday as a bicycle “boycott ride” past Jewish-owned restaurants in the city’s Rittenhouse Square neighborhood. 

The main organizer, Philly Bike On Your Left, describes itself as being “anti-Zionist.”
Attorney General Dave Sunday said the boycott on the eve of the 88th anniversary of Kristallnacht is “deeply unsettling.” Kristallnacht, or the “Night of Broken Glass,” was a Nazi-organized riot in which synagogues were burned, Jewish-owned businesses and homes were vandalized, and Jews were assaulted, killed and imprisoned in concentration camps in Nazi Germany.
“The bike ride, masquerading as a protest to advance the cause of justice, is nothing more than blatant antisemitism designed to intimidate and drive Jewish businesses out of our communities,”

From the "Really" File

according to a statement from Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s office. “There is no place for that in our Commonwealth.”
Pennsylvania State Police are “engaged with our local partners to ensure the safety and wellbeing of our neighbors in Philadelphia.”
The planned bike-ride-boycott organizers name six restaurants that officials and local Jewish organizations say are run by Jewish owners.
“Ride around Rittenhouse with us as we show these zionist business owners that we see them for the disgusting humans they are,” reads a post from Philly Bike On Your Left, the main organizer of the protest. “We’ll flag as many bikes as we can and show our solidarity with the Palestinian community .....” msn

REALLY?

Creation Moment 11/9/2026 - Phantom Evidence SERIES: Haeckel’s Embryos

....and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. 

Revelation 21:8

"Phantom Evidence refers to data or studies that have been discredited, debunked, or retracted, yet continue to be cited as though they were still valid.

A. Haeckel’s Embryos
A classic case is Haeckel’s embryos, in which the 19th-century German biologist and artist Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919) used comparative embryology to advocate for Charles Darwin’s theory of common descent. 

Haeckel proposed “The Biogenetic Law”: that an organism’s development from embryo to adult (ontogeny) retraces the evolutionary history of its species (phylogeny).

To manufacture support for this claim, Haeckel doctored his illustrations, exaggerating early-stage similarities across different vertebrate classes. 

As shown in the illustration, comparing Haeckel’s original drawings (top row) with actual photographs of vertebrate embryos at corresponding developmental stages (bottom row) reveals the extent of the distortion.
Despite being exposed as inaccurate, these drawings remained a staple of standard biology textbooks for well over a century, and variations of them still surface occasionally today." 

CEH

How do we know that Babylon in Revelation is symbolic of a Global system?

"The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates and

something happens. 

Q: What do the waters represent? 

A: Revelation 17 tells us it represents peoples, multitudes, nations, and tongues,

--So if the river is symbolic, that must mean that Babylon that sits on the river must also be global and symbolic." 

Stephen Bohr

Wycliffe the detector of error

And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days. Daniel 11:33

"Wycliffe was a keen detector of error, and he struck fearlessly against many of the abuses sanctioned by the authority of Rome.

*While acting as chaplain for the king, he took a bold stand against the payment of tribute claimed by the pope from the English monarch and showed that the papal assumption of authority over

secular rulers was contrary to both reason and revelation.

*Another evil against which the Reformer waged long and resolute battle was the institution of the orders of mendicant friars. 

These friars swarmed in England, casting a blight upon the greatness and prosperity of the nation. Industry, education, morals, all felt the withering influence. 

The monk's life of idleness and beggary was not only a heavy drain upon the resources of the people, but it brought useful labor into contempt.

By the influence of the friars many were induced to enter a cloister and devote themselves to a monastic life. Wycliffe, with clearer insight, struck at the root of the evil, declaring that the system itself was false and that it should be abolished." 

E.G.W.

Creation Moment 11/8/2026 - The nagging problem for THEM

"In the 1950s, Nobel prizewinner and pioneer of atomic energy, Enrico Fermi, while working at Los Alamos nuclear facility in New

Mexico, raised some straightforward questions: 

Q: Are we the only technologically advanced civilization in the universe, and if we are not, then where are they? 

Q: Why haven’t we seen any traces of extraterrestrial life such as probes or transmissions? 

Q: Why haven’t we found their artifacts on Earth or in our solar system?

Fermi (not unreasonably, based upon his evolutionary precepts) also suggested that intelligent aliens would be curious explorers just like us. 

*In a 14-billion-year-old universe, he said, 

--there should have been plenty of time for at least the very first advanced race to send starships to colonize planets. 

--Even if the first colonizing expedition took a million years (assuming numerous generations of explorers), the new colony, once established, and the original civilization, could then both send out another expedition apiece to colonize other planets, doubling the number of new colonies every million years. 

--After 10 million years, there would be 1,023 alien colonies, and after 20 million years, there would be one million. 

--At that rate, in 40 million years, there would be one trillion civilizations. 

--After 14 billion years, the number of alien civilizations in the universe would be tripping over each other—and this overpopulation assumes the evolution of only one race of intelligent aliens. The problem would be compounded further if intelligent life had independently evolved in more than one planetary system.

This is a nagging problem for those who believe in the big bang and the evolution of life on Earth.

This ‘lack of ETs’ idea has become known as the Fermi paradox—in short, “Where is everybody?”

There is a simple answer to why we have not found (or been visited by) intelligent, sentient life that is like, or even more advanced than, humans—there is none! There was no big bang and no billions of years, and it is no accident that the earth occupies a special position and appears unique. It is because it was uniquely designed that way by a unique Creator God. Isaiah 45:18 reminds us:
“For thus says the LORD, who created the heavens (He is God!), who formed the earth and made it (He established it; He did not create it empty, He formed it to be inhabited!): ‘I am the LORD, and there is no other.’” 

CMI

The restrictive clause verse 17

"Another as serts that “the term cannot refer to any ceremonial sabbaths of the Jews, because they had no annual festivals which could properly be called ‘sabbaths;’ that the word sabbaton used in Col.2:16, is the one always used to designate the weekly Sabbath; and therefore the word there must refer to the weekly Sabbath, and that alone, all the Jewish festivals being included in the word holy-day (or feast-day) used just before.” 

Thus the fourth commandment seems to be a source of perplexity to many people. 

--It is so, however, only to those who wish to avoid its obligations. 

--Such, we are happy to say, will always find it a thorn in their side and a prick in their eyes. 

*To all others, it is a “delight, the holy of the Lord, honorable.” (Isaiah 58:13)

--There is, therefore, no necessity of going outside of the limits prescribed by the apostle’s language, and invading the realm of the moral law, and bringing in the weekly Sabbath of the Lord, which is just as distinct from these other sabbaths in its origin, nature, office, and destiny, as can possibly be. 

**Moreover, Paul is careful to guard still further against any

misunderstanding in this matter, by immediately adding (verse 17) this restrictive clause: “Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.” 

--Thus he points out in just as plain language as could be used, just what sabbaths he refers to; it is only to those which belong to the system of types and shadows, and which are a part and parcel of that system. 

*But this was never true of the weekly Sabbath, which originated, as the record in Genesis shows, before any type or shadow had, or could have had, a place in the economy of God’s grace in behalf of men." Uriah Smith

SDA Issues - Threat of Theological pluralism

O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged. 2 Corinthians 6:11

"In orthodox theology "the emphasis is on God's revelation, not our response. The test for Christian doctrine is whether it is true to that revelation". Unless, of course, it is no longer believed that the writers of the Bible perceived God's revelation accurately. To focus on the human response as the basis for doctrine is a major shift in theological method and hermeneutics.

The substitution of human experience for Scripture as the authoritative source for doctrine and direction for Christian living. This is the reduction of "statements about God and alleged supernatural events merely to claims about man and his experience."

Theological pluralism by its very nature has to be satisfied with

tentative truth. "Anyone who insists on any truth claim at all cannot embrace the principles of pluralism without thereby calling his own truth claim into question."

When the Bible is no longer seen as the final authority for doctrine, faith, and life, other claims to authority are made—the authority of the church, or of religious experience, or of theological pluralism.

Theological pluralism suggests theological evolution, implying that the religious experience of today's believer is a much more mature faith than that of the Biblical writers, and that the thought of contemporary theologians is more reliable than that of the Biblical writers. 

Theological pluralism sets itself up as the judge of all theological claims. It excludes as unacceptable all who dare to claim more than a tentative status for doctrine. Thus an approach which demands such wide tolerance is most intolerant of traditional orthodox views. It does not hesitate to engage in name-calling, using terms such as "fundamentalist," "reactionary," "divisive," "ignorant," "unsophisticated," and "traditionalist" to brand those who hold to unchangeable and absolute propositional truth.

Pluralism allows for contradictory theological statements to be credited with equal validity. Thus both of the following statements can be recognized as truth if the principle of theological pluralism is applied: "The Bible teaches that the seventh-day Sabbath, Saturday, is the day on which Christians should worship God." 

"The Bible teaches that the Lord's Day, Sunday, is the day on which Christians should worship God." Yet both of these statements cannot be true because they are neither consistent nor complementary, but contradictory. One of them is false.

Theological pluralism inevitably leads to religious pluralism. That is to say, when the principle of pluralism is applied to the spectrum of the religious world it leads to the conclusion that Christianity is not unique among world religions. 

*Likewise it leads to the conclusion that the Seventh-day Adventist Church is not unique among Protestant churches. Thus pluralism threatens the very identity of the SDA Church." 

Raymond Holmes

Creation Moment 11/7/2026 - Just "Popping" into existence?

For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: Romans 1:20

"“Nothing comes from nothing, nothing ever could!” is a line from a popular musical; but it speaks to a profound question that is relevant

to some of the most complex phenomena that physicists continue to grapple with: 

Q: Why is there something rather than nothing?

Behind particles ‘popping into existence’ by quantum fluctuations lies a deeper challenge for cosmological evolution. 

Q: While particles may appear from energy, what explains the origin of energy, laws, and fields?

In dialogue with atheists or agnostics at university, when the topic of the universe’s origins came up in conversations, the ‘go-to’ explanation was always “quantum fluctuations.” 

Whether or not that atheist had a background in Physics, the appeal to “quantum fluctuations” has become a scapegoat answer thought to provide a satisfying explanation for a lack of belief that a Supreme Creator is necessary for the creation of the world.

In one of the most recent attempts at examining one of the mechanisms popularly referenced to answer this question, Arinjoy De and colleagues used a programmable trapped-ion quantum computer to simulate a phenomenon known as string breaking (simply put, a process where energy stored between particles is converted into new particles) – or as described in ScienceDaily, it is a process

“…in which two connected building blocks of matter are pulled apart until so much energy accumulates that new particles can effectively “pop into existence” when the connection breaks.”

In their simulation, De et al’s team created a controllable quantum system consisting of 13 trapped ions and investigated how energy stored in a simulated “string” connecting charges could lead to the formation of additional charge pairs. Their experiments revealed evidence of a previously unrecognized mechanism of string breaking and demonstrated how quantum simulators are becoming powerful tools for studying how matter behaves and may help scientists explore ideas about the early universe.

For one, 

the experiment did not create matter from absolute nothingness.

 

---Instead, the system already contained trapped ions, laser beams, stored energy, quantum fields, a carefully engineered Hamiltonian (the mathematical rule that describes the total energy of a system and how that system changes over time) and scientists directing and

controlling every aspect of the experiment. 

In fact, quoting from the ScienceDaily article, the authors described “precise” and “controlled” conditions to view this phenomenon. In their words:
“Quantum simulators are especially useful for this kind of work because researchers can precisely control them and program them to imitate physical processes that occur at atomic and subatomic scales… “Working at the intersection of quantum simulation and high-energy physics is incredibly exciting,” said Arinjoy De, first author on the paper, former PhD student in Monroe’s lab and now production machine lead at QuEra Computing. “By simulating quark confinement and string-breaking phenomena in a controlled lab environment, we’re opening up new pathways for experimental investigations into the behavior of matter at its most fundamental level.””

*Far from sounding like proof for undirected naturalistic origins of matter, the precisions required to even view one particle appearing from existing energy seems to require much intentionality and pre-designed conditions! 

Q: If scientists must carefully design and control every aspect of a quantum simulator to reproduce these phenomena, how did the extraordinarily precise conditions required for such particle-forming processes arise in the universe itself?" 

CEH

6 Points on Colossians 2:16

"There are many considerations which show that the weekly Sabbath cannot by any possibility be included in the sabbaths of which the apostle speaks in Col.2:16: 

1. The weekly Sabbath did not have its origin with meats, drinks, festivals, new moons, and ceremonial, or annual, sabbaths. It originated during man’s independent, innocent condition before the fall (Gen.2:2,3,) and was thus placed among the original, primary laws which would always have governed him though he had never sinned; while the latter originated with the ceremonial system

introduced at Horeb. 

2. It did not rest on the same authority with them. Its authority rested upon the voice of God, and the writing of God upon the tables of stone; the ceremonial system was found only in the book written by Moses. 

3. It was not typical or shadowy in its nature, any more than the command, “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.”

4. It was not “against us,” as were the things of which Paul is speaking; for “the Sabbath was made for man.” Mark 2:27. 

5. It was not “contrary to us,” for there is no commandment or institution anywhere singled out to which so great blessings are attached as are promised to the keeping of the Sabbath, not to the Jews only, but to the Gentiles also. See Isa.56:6,7; Jer.17:24,25; Isa.58:13,14. 

6. There is no necessity for including the weekly Sabbath in the expression, “sabbaths which are a shadow of things to come,” inasmuch as there were other sabbaths, of the same nature as the feast-day and new moons mentioned in number amply sufficient to meet the demands of the apostle’s language." 

Uriah Smith

IN the NEWS - Oromo Liberation Army engages in ABOMINATION before God

These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto Him:....and hands that shed innocent blood,... Proverbs 6:16,17

"Two violent attacks by armed individuals — one on October 20 and another on October 24 — left 60 Christians dead and 20 homes burned to the ground in Ethiopia.
The Independent reported, “14 people were killed in Merti district”

on the 20th and another “46… [were killed] in Shirka district four days later.”
Moreover, over 20 people were injured “and 20 homes destroyed.”
The BBC noted, “A church official described the attacks on three areas in the Shirka district as a ‘massacre,’ saying security forces arrived at the scene but were unable to stop the assault.”
Concerns about the safety of Christian communities were on the rise and had been brought to the attention of authorities, but the Orthodox Church indicated, “So far there has been no solution.”
The BBC observed that “a local official blamed the attacks on a newly formed rebel coalition, the Alliance for Survival, which includes the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA).” 

msn

Creation Moment 11/6/2026 - What type of intelligence and creative power could produce such a thing?

To Him that stretched out the earth above the waters. 

Psalm 136:6

"In order for the universe to be inhabited by intelligent beings of any

kind it has to achieve an extremely high level of precise fine tuning for large numbers of variables known as “fundamental constants”. 

Obviously intelligent design was required to achieve a level of fine tuning far beyond what any spaceship would require to function. 

Q: What type of intelligence and creative power could produce such a thing?" 

EducateTruth

Health Note - How to get your BHB

Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest...be in health,.. 3 John 1:2

"In their study, published in the February 16 online issue of Nature Medicine, the researchers described how the compound ß-hydroxybutyrate (BHB) directly inhibits NLRP3, which is part of a

complex set of proteins called the inflammasome. 

The inflammasome drives the inflammatory response in several disorders including autoimmune diseases, type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease, atherosclerosis, and autoinflammatory disorders.

“These findings are important because endogenous metabolites like BHB that block the NLRP3 inflammasome could be relevant against many inflammatory diseases, including those where there are mutations in the NLRP3 genes,” said Vishwa Deep Dixit, professor in the Section of Comparative Medicine at Yale School of Medicine.

BHB is a metabolite produced by the body in response to fasting, high-intensity exercise, caloric restriction, or consumption of the low-carbohydrate ketogenic diet. Dixit said it is well known that fasting and calorie restriction reduces inflammation in the body, but it was unclear how immune cells adapt to reduced availability of glucose and if they can respond to metabolites produced from fat oxidation.

Dixit and colleagues focused on how macrophages — specialized immune cells that produce inflammation — respond when exposed to ketone bodies and whether that impacts the inflammasome complex.
The team introduced BHB to mouse models of inflammatory

diseases caused by NLP3. They found that this reduced inflammation, and that inflammation was also reduced when the mice were given a ketogenic diet, which elevates the levels of BHB in the bloodstream.
“Our results suggest that the endogenous metabolites like BHB that are produced during low-carb dieting, fasting, or high-intensity exercise can lower the NLRP3 inflammasome,” said Dixit." SciTechDaily

Creation Moment 11/5/2026 - The "or" for Uranus and Neptune... just saying....

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

“Uranus and Neptune may resemble twins today, but their chemistry is telling us that they are more like cousins with very different histories,” said Dr. Olivier Mousis, a researcher at the Southwest Research Institute.
“Their atmospheric compositions may be connected to different regions of the protoplanetary disk where the planets formed, which

would make their similarities a noteworthy coincidence.”
The study authors therefore used carbon monoxide detected in the upper troposphere as an indirect probe.
By modeling that process, the researchers can work backward to estimate how much oxygen lies below.
“We can’t directly access the deep atmospheres of Uranus and Neptune, but chemical tracers allow us to probe the conditions hidden beneath their visible clouds,” Dr. Mousis said.
“Studying carbon monoxide is particularly useful because of its abundance in the upper troposphere.”
For Uranus, the model used a fresh carbon monoxide measurement from ALMA, which the team put at about 5.6 parts per billion. Neptune’s level is roughly two orders of magnitude higher.
When vertical mixing was allowed to vary with latitude, the scientists estimated that Uranus has 62 to 177 times the Sun’s oxygen-to-hydrogen ratio, while Neptune has 222 to 342 times.
They also estimated carbon-to-oxygen ratios of about 0.06 to 0.52 for Uranus and 0.02 to 0.12 for Neptune.
Next, they compared those ratios with a model of the Sun’s protoplanetary disk.
Uranus’ upper range is close to the Sun’s value, while Neptune’s is clearly lower.
The results suggest Neptune’s building blocks may have formed near the water ice line closer to the Sun.
Uranus’ lower values could fit material that formed inside the methane ice line.
“Neptune’s chemistry is difficult to reconcile with the idea that it formed where we see it today, pulling from the same reservoir of cosmic materials as Uranus,” Dr. Mousis said.
“Due to a lack of in situ access to the atmospheres of Uranus and Neptune, the full scope of understanding regarding their composition, interiors and formations are fundamentally limited.”

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OR---the Reason they are not identical in their makeup is because they were DESIGNED for different purposes by their MAKER.

Those "handwriting of ordinances"

"We say that Colossians 2:14-17 refers exclusively to the ceremonial law, having to the moral law (10 Commandments) not the remotest allusion whatever. 

And he who endeavors to hide behind this scripture as his defense for the neglect or violation of any mor al duties, will stand at last in the

judgment ashamed of his folly and speechless in his condemnation. In studying Col.2:14-17, we ought to pay some regard to the consistency of the figures which the apostle uses, lest we represent him as a simpleton in spite of his inspiration. 

It is first to be noticed that the subject of the apostle’s remark is the “handwriting of ordinances.” This expression will not apply in any sense to the ten commandments; for no abuse of language can be carried far enough to allow us to call them a “handwriting;” and they contained not a single “ordinance,” or ceremony. 

The “handwriting of ordinances” is not the ten commandments. The apostle further says that this “handwriting” was “blotted out.” 

--That only can be blotted out with the ink and pen of the scribe, which has been written by the hand of the scribe. That which is engraved in stone might be brushed over and discolored with ink; but the engraving would be there in all its distinctness still; it could not in any sense be “blotted out,” and it would be utterly inconsistent to apply that term to it. The apostle continues that this handwriting was “nailed to the cross.”

If we attempt to apply this to the ten commandments, we involve the astute and logical Paul in the absurdity of talking about nailing up tables of stone.

The figure of blotting out and nailing up the laws written by men upon parchment, as applied to what Christ accomplished by His

death upon the cross, is at once consistent and forcible. Christ was nailed to the cross. In Him all offerings met their antitype, all shadows their substance. They were there nailed in Him to the cross. 

Men could look upon Him and say, Here is the great sacrifice which supersedes all typical offerings. The laws for these are now no longer in force; they are nailed with Him to the cross. 

*But suppose we try to consider that the tables of stone were also there, in Him, nailed to the cross; in what respect was He the antitype of them? In what respect were they the shadows and He the substance? 

Q: Could men look upon him and say, Now, to-night I will plunge a dagger into the heart of my enemy; for the law, “Thou shalt not kill,” is there in Christ nailed to the cross, and is no longer binding?" Uriah Smirh