Duffield on Prophecy, p. 373, says: "The word translated, run to and fro, is metaphorically used to denote investigation, close, diligent, accurate observation—just as the eyes of the Lord are said to run to and fro. The reference is not to missionary exertions in particular, but to the study of the Scriptures, especially the sealed book of prophecy."
Dig Deeper
And the Spirit & the bride say, come.... Reveaaltion 22:17
And the Spirit & the bride say, come...Revelation 22:17 - May We One Day Bow Down In The DUST At HIS FEET ...... {click on blog TITLE at top to refresh page}---QUESTION: ...when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth? LUKE 18:8
Sunday, September 27, 2026
Creation Moment 9/28/2026 - TRACE
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
"Q: What if the “ghosts” in our DNA are not lost steps in human evolution?
Yulin Zhang of UC Berkeley and his team built a computer tool called TRACE that studies small sections of DNA in people alive today. The tool built family trees for those DNA sections and looked for parts that seem to have very old ancestry. The team then compared those patterns with known Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA.
Some DNA sections did not match either ancient people group. The team said they may have come from two unknown groups. They called one a “ghost” group and the other a “super-archaic” group.
An engineer would ask what goes into the model. TRACE used DNA data, family tree rules, and ideas about how DNA changes through time. Like any model, its answer depended on the data, rules, and starting ideas. A model can be useful, but it is not a direct record of the past.
The study also points to a strong pattern of genetic mixing in humans. The ghost group may have passed DNA to ancestors of people alive today, and the super-archaic group may have passed DNA through Denisovans. The researchers described human history as “more like a complex web” instead of a simple branching tree because mixing appears to have happened many times. This makes sense in light of the genealogical records listed throughout Scripture.
Other DNA makes the evidence of mixed genetics even clearer. Scientists have sequenced DNA from a person who had a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father. That is direct confirmation that these two groups could have children together. This mixing matters because successful gene flow requires reproductive compatibility. The DNA evidence shows that there was no reproductive barrier between these two groups. They could exchange genes and pass them to later generations.
The new study adds to our understanding of human genetics, but its evolutionary timeline should not be confused with the genetic evidence itself. What researchers found is simply a network of related human groups, which fits the history that the Bible portrays: one human family spread after Babel,
Genesis 11:9
"Q: What if the “ghosts” in our DNA are not lost steps in human evolution?
A new Science study found DNA patterns that may point to two unknown human groups. Conventional scientists place these groups deep in the past. But the key finding is simpler: ancient human groups were closely related and could mix with one another. That fits well with a Biblical view of one human family.
Yulin Zhang of UC Berkeley and his team built a computer tool called TRACE that studies small sections of DNA in people alive today. The tool built family trees for those DNA sections and looked for parts that seem to have very old ancestry. The team then compared those patterns with known Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA.
Some DNA sections did not match either ancient people group. The team said they may have come from two unknown groups. They called one a “ghost” group and the other a “super-archaic” group.
A Berkeley news release said these groups may have split from other human lines about 800,000 and 1.8 million years ago.
Yet no DNA from these proposed groups has been found and tested. Their ages and family links come from a computer model built from DNA in people living now.
Yet no DNA from these proposed groups has been found and tested. Their ages and family links come from a computer model built from DNA in people living now.
That difference is important.
The DNA patterns are real,
but the long ages and family tree are model results.
An engineer would ask what goes into the model. TRACE used DNA data, family tree rules, and ideas about how DNA changes through time. Like any model, its answer depended on the data, rules, and starting ideas. A model can be useful, but it is not a direct record of the past.
The study also points to a strong pattern of genetic mixing in humans. The ghost group may have passed DNA to ancestors of people alive today, and the super-archaic group may have passed DNA through Denisovans. The researchers described human history as “more like a complex web” instead of a simple branching tree because mixing appears to have happened many times. This makes sense in light of the genealogical records listed throughout Scripture.
Other DNA makes the evidence of mixed genetics even clearer. Scientists have sequenced DNA from a person who had a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father. That is direct confirmation that these two groups could have children together. This mixing matters because successful gene flow requires reproductive compatibility. The DNA evidence shows that there was no reproductive barrier between these two groups. They could exchange genes and pass them to later generations.
The new study adds to our understanding of human genetics, but its evolutionary timeline should not be confused with the genetic evidence itself. What researchers found is simply a network of related human groups, which fits the history that the Bible portrays: one human family spread after Babel,
formed distinct populations,
and later mixed again.
Human variety and human unity appear together in the data." ICR
Saturday, September 26, 2026
One thing ONLY God the Father KNOWS
"Mark 13:32 But of that day and that hour knows no man, no, not the angels which are in Heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.
If the text proves that men will know nothing of the period of the second advent, it also proves that angels will know nothing of it, and also that the Son will know nothing of it, till the event takes place!
1 Corinthians 2:2 For I determined not to know [make known] anything among you save Jesus Christ and Him crucified.
Men will not make known the day and hour, angels will not make it known, neither will the Son; but the Father will make it known."
James White
Creation Moment 9/27/2026 - Q & A on Who God Is
"Do you understand who God is?
After Job’s complaints and the dialogue with his friends, God spoke to Job: “Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind and said: ‘Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? Dress for action like a man; I will question you, and you make it known to Me’” (Job 38:1–3).
God was now going to help Job understand who God is.
The first thing God said to teach Job was this: “‘Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding. Who determined its measurements—surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it? On what were its bases sunk, or who laid its cornerstone, when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?’” (Job 38:4–7).
God was making it clear to Job that he wasn’t there when God made the earth. God asked, “Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?” It’s significant that God began by speaking about the fact He created the earth." Ken Ham
Friday, September 25, 2026
Creation Moment 9/26/2026 - Rust Analogy and YOU
For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. Romans 8:22
"After the landmark publication of Genetic Entropy and the Mystery of the Genome by Cornell University Professor Dr John Sanford, we have often been asked to supply further details of this major challenge to evolutionary theory. The central part of Sanford’s argument is that mutations (spelling mistakes in DNA) are accumulating so quickly in some creatures (particularly people) that natural selection cannot stop the functional degradation of the genome—let alone drive an evolutionary process that can turn apes into people.
A simple analogy would be rust slowly spreading throughout a car over time. Each little bit of rust (akin to a single mutation in an organism) is almost inconsequential on its own, but if the rusting process cannot be stopped it will eventually destroy the car." CMI
"After the landmark publication of Genetic Entropy and the Mystery of the Genome by Cornell University Professor Dr John Sanford, we have often been asked to supply further details of this major challenge to evolutionary theory. The central part of Sanford’s argument is that mutations (spelling mistakes in DNA) are accumulating so quickly in some creatures (particularly people) that natural selection cannot stop the functional degradation of the genome—let alone drive an evolutionary process that can turn apes into people.
A simple analogy would be rust slowly spreading throughout a car over time. Each little bit of rust (akin to a single mutation in an organism) is almost inconsequential on its own, but if the rusting process cannot be stopped it will eventually destroy the car." CMI
Thursday, September 24, 2026
It's ALL About Reflecting HIS Character
This is what it is all about.....
This is what God is looking for in your Judgemt....
"Those who "overcome the world, the flesh, and the devil, will be the favored ones who shall receive the seal of the living God" (Testimonies to Ministers, p. 445).In order to "bear a likeness to Christ in character" (7BC 970), we are exhorted to study "more earnestly the character of our Savior."...."holiness of character" (Testimonies to Ministers, p. 446). Indeed, the cleansing of the "soul temple of every defilement," will produce characters without "one spot or stain" (Sons and Daughters of God, p. 342; Testimonies, 5:214).
Those who receive God's seal upon their foreheads are "God's commandment-keeping people." "Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus" (Revelation 14:12; Testimonies, 6:15)."
P. Gerard Damsteegt
Creation Moment 9/25/2026 - Pointing to the Creator
"The Bible makes it clear that consciousness exists beyond the physical. As Acts 17:28 states: “For in Him we live and move and have our being.”A Biblical worldview confirmed all along that consciousness is not confined to neurons but participates in divine reality.
While the scientific method may not be the most efficient way to investigate the depths of such a reality, at least opening the conversation about consciousness beyond the brain, and by extent, beyond the physical, may be an opportunity for broader engagement on the limits of materialism, as one step closer to a clue about the grandeur of a reality that points to the Creator Himself."
CEH
IN the NEWS - The "Seminarian" Senate candidate who likes Drag
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
"Texas Democrat and U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico is at it again. This time, video footage has surfaced of his "favorite" drag queen teaching minors how to dance, with the midterm elections just weeks away.Talarico was approached during a campaign event earlier this week and asked to name his favorite drag queen.
Talarico didn't even hesitate: "Oh, my gosh. Probably Alyssa Edwards."
Having an answer to that question on hand is disturbing enough, but it's not nearly as troubling as the person he chose.
Edwards, also known as Justin Dwayne Lee Johnson, has been an outspoken proponent of youth drag shows and has publicly bragged about "working with children," according to an exclusive report by Fox News.
"Libs of TikTok" posted a resurfaced video on X from Netflix's 2018 docuseries "Dancing Queens" Wednesday, showing Edwards coaching minors and referring to one of them as his "mini-me."
"Oh, I cannot wait to see what his future holds for him," Edwards said. "Although I see my mini-me, Justin Johnson in a million years never could have been that at nine years old."
The Dallas Observer reported in 2018 that Johnson was referring to J.J. Garza, one of the few male children in the group.
At one point, Garza dressed up like Edwards and pranced around, earning the drag queen's praise.
Brandon Gill of Texas rightly pointed out that "It's completely bizarre for any 'man' to be able to instantly name their 'favorite drag queen,' let alone the name of any drag queen at all."
Talarico presents himself as a “Presbyterian seminarian," yet in an unearthed clip from 2021, during an interview with a “TransQueer” activist, Talarico said: “I always think of myself as a Christian who hates Christianity, right? And, like, I always get drawn back into it.”
That same year, he called God “non-binary,” and he has implied that Jesus Christ was a “radical feminist.” When it comes to biological sexes, he proudly declared there were six genders, before realizing his campaign was spiraling and meekly walking it back.
In addition, Talarico has bragged about being part of a church that was “active” in LGBT rights, and which housed an illegal alien family to prevent them from being deported by federal authorities." msn
"Texas Democrat and U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico is at it again. This time, video footage has surfaced of his "favorite" drag queen teaching minors how to dance, with the midterm elections just weeks away.Talarico was approached during a campaign event earlier this week and asked to name his favorite drag queen.
Talarico didn't even hesitate: "Oh, my gosh. Probably Alyssa Edwards."
Having an answer to that question on hand is disturbing enough, but it's not nearly as troubling as the person he chose.
Edwards, also known as Justin Dwayne Lee Johnson, has been an outspoken proponent of youth drag shows and has publicly bragged about "working with children," according to an exclusive report by Fox News.
"Libs of TikTok" posted a resurfaced video on X from Netflix's 2018 docuseries "Dancing Queens" Wednesday, showing Edwards coaching minors and referring to one of them as his "mini-me."
"Oh, I cannot wait to see what his future holds for him," Edwards said. "Although I see my mini-me, Justin Johnson in a million years never could have been that at nine years old."
The Dallas Observer reported in 2018 that Johnson was referring to J.J. Garza, one of the few male children in the group.
At one point, Garza dressed up like Edwards and pranced around, earning the drag queen's praise.
Brandon Gill of Texas rightly pointed out that "It's completely bizarre for any 'man' to be able to instantly name their 'favorite drag queen,' let alone the name of any drag queen at all."
Talarico presents himself as a “Presbyterian seminarian," yet in an unearthed clip from 2021, during an interview with a “TransQueer” activist, Talarico said: “I always think of myself as a Christian who hates Christianity, right? And, like, I always get drawn back into it.”
That same year, he called God “non-binary,” and he has implied that Jesus Christ was a “radical feminist.” When it comes to biological sexes, he proudly declared there were six genders, before realizing his campaign was spiraling and meekly walking it back.
In addition, Talarico has bragged about being part of a church that was “active” in LGBT rights, and which housed an illegal alien family to prevent them from being deported by federal authorities." msn
Creation Moment 9/24/2026 - Sign of Allegiance to the CREATOR
But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God:
Exodus 20:10
“Pointing to God as the Maker of the heavens and the earth, it [theSabbath] distinguishes the true God from all false gods.
*All who keep the seventh day signify by this act that they are worshipers of Jehovah.
*Thus the Sabbath is the visible sign of man’s allegiance to God as long as there are any upon the earth to serve Him.”
PP, p. 307
Tuesday, September 22, 2026
From the "Really File" - (Hollywood Decadence in Full BLOOM)
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
"Orlando Bloom is dishing on his “sincere” threesome scene with Rooney Mara and Kate Mara in “Bucking Fastard.”
The “Lord of the Rings” actor discussed the intimate moment while presenting the film at the San Sebastián Film Festival in Spain alongside German writer-director Werner Herzog.
“There is such simplicity to the characters and their carnal desires, but also an innocence to the sisters,” Bloom, 49, said, according to Variety.
Bloom plays Gareth Mulroney, a “sensitive” man who finds himself caught between twin sisters Joan and Jean Holbrooke, played by real-life sisters Rooney, 41, and Kate, 43, respectively.
“Bucking Fastard” is loosely based on the lives of identical twin sisters Freda and Greta Chaplin, per IMDb.
Bloom added, “My character, the ‘Bucking Fastard,’ is sensitive too, and he’s quite quickly out of his depth in some ways.”
He said the threesome was a “very sincere sort of moment” that he, Rooney and Kate created together.
Herzog, for his part, also weighed in on the scene, explaining that there are times when a director “has to step back.”
Herzog, 84, described the moment as “beautiful,” adding that the scene has “such charm and depth.” msn
"Orlando Bloom is dishing on his “sincere” threesome scene with Rooney Mara and Kate Mara in “Bucking Fastard.”
The “Lord of the Rings” actor discussed the intimate moment while presenting the film at the San Sebastián Film Festival in Spain alongside German writer-director Werner Herzog.
“There is such simplicity to the characters and their carnal desires, but also an innocence to the sisters,” Bloom, 49, said, according to Variety.
Bloom plays Gareth Mulroney, a “sensitive” man who finds himself caught between twin sisters Joan and Jean Holbrooke, played by real-life sisters Rooney, 41, and Kate, 43, respectively.
“Bucking Fastard” is loosely based on the lives of identical twin sisters Freda and Greta Chaplin, per IMDb.
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Bloom added, “My character, the ‘Bucking Fastard,’ is sensitive too, and he’s quite quickly out of his depth in some ways.”
He said the threesome was a “very sincere sort of moment” that he, Rooney and Kate created together.
Herzog, for his part, also weighed in on the scene, explaining that there are times when a director “has to step back.”
Herzog, 84, described the moment as “beautiful,” adding that the scene has “such charm and depth.” msn
Creation Moment 9/23/2026 - Reversing Genesis 1:2
"This illustrates a common Biblical principle: a judgment is areversal of creation. So the Flood reverses the events of Genesis 1 where land and sea were separated. And Jeremiah 4:23 speaks of a judgment so severe that it's like reversing the creation back to the unformed and unfilled state of Genesis 1:2 (And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.)."
Batten, 2011
Monday, September 21, 2026
Endtime Dual of the 2 days: Sabbath vs. Sunday
"Two days at either end of the week will be a token, [Seal of God vs. Mark of the Beast] a sign, an avowal, a seal of allegiance to one power or the other.
The Sabbath will be an outward sign of an inward experience. God’s people will not be willing to die for the Sabbath but rather be cause they love the Lord of the Sabbath. Jesus said, “if you love Me, you will keep My commandments” John 14:15 ESV."Stephen Bohr
Creation Moment 9/22/2026 - Redundancy of Genesis 1
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
"God, through the 'pen' of Moses, is being redundant for redundancy's sake. God is going out of His way to tell us that the 'days' of Creation were literal solar days. He has used the word yôm and combined this with a number and the words' morning' and 'evening.' God has communicated the words of Genesis 1 in a specific manner, so that the interpreter could not miss His point. God could not have communicated the timing of creation more clearly than He did in Genesis 1." Stambaugh, 1991
Sunday, September 20, 2026
What is the Seal of God?
"What is the seal of God?" As life continues on as usual from day to day, scarcely any attention is paid to the seal of God.....arguments that the seal of God is the Sabbath was that the Sabbath commandment contains the characteristics of a seal.
If the Sabbath is the seal of the living God, what is the seal that the angel will place in the forehead (And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads. Revelation 7:2-3)?
A seal, she observed in our early days and reiterated many years later, is attached to a law to show the name, title, and authority of the lawgiver. The Sabbath commandment can therefore be considered a seal because it "is the only one of all the ten in which are found both the name and the title of the Lawgiver. It is the only one that shows by whose authority the law is given. Thus it contains the seal of God, affixed to His law as evidence of its authenticity and binding force" (Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 307).
If the Sabbath is the seal of the living God, what is the seal that the angel will place in the forehead (And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads. Revelation 7:2-3)?
The seal to be placed in the forehead is a mark which angels, but not human eyes, can read; for the destroying angel must see this mark of redemption."
P. Gerard Damsteegt
Creation Moment 9/21/2026 - They don't agree....
Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out... Isaiah 42:5
"Physicists can’t agree on how the universe works (ScienceDaily, 13 September 2026). Citing a landmark survey led by the Perimeter Institute and University of Waterloo and published in Physics Magazine, the largest worldwide survey of physicists on this topic ever conducted shows that experts are hopelessly divided on fundamental questions about how the cosmos works.
The Consensus Mask
For as long as I can remember, we’ve been told that scientists agree: modern astrophysics has reconstructed cosmic history with high-precision certainty.
"Physicists can’t agree on how the universe works (ScienceDaily, 13 September 2026). Citing a landmark survey led by the Perimeter Institute and University of Waterloo and published in Physics Magazine, the largest worldwide survey of physicists on this topic ever conducted shows that experts are hopelessly divided on fundamental questions about how the cosmos works.
The Consensus Mask
For as long as I can remember, we’ve been told that scientists agree: modern astrophysics has reconstructed cosmic history with high-precision certainty.
--The survey results, however, make it clear that “scientific consensus” on a variety of fundamental issues is an imaginative ideal that isn’t even being approached, except for one notable exception:
The Standard Model of cosmology (or Lambda Cold Dark Matter) failed to secure majority support among surveyed physicists. Recent observational surprises (such as shifting dark energy signals from DESI) have left theorists scrambling.
Dark Matter: Only 17% back the standard hypothesis of an undiscovered low-mass particle. 12% think gravity equations need rewriting, while the largest single bloc (21%) can only suggest “some combination” of conflicting guesses.
Quantum Gravity? After nearly a half-century of hype, String Theory managed 19% support. Loop Quantum Gravity took 12%, while 18% think gravity cannot be quantized. Others, like Sean Carroll, abandon fundamental spacetime altogether, trying to conjure gravity out of pure quantum abstraction. See below.
Cosmic Inflation? Alan Guth’s unobserved hyper-expansion engine, concocted to save the secular origins story from its horizon and flatness problems, was one of the rare items to achieve a majority at 51%.
Cosmic Inflation? Alan Guth’s unobserved hyper-expansion engine, concocted to save the secular origins story from its horizon and flatness problems, was one of the rare items to achieve a majority at 51%.
**We agree! The solitary point of solid agreement was telling: 68% agreed that the Big Bang does not represent an absolute beginning of time."
CEH
Saturday, September 19, 2026
The Agent of Sanctification
"Paul wrote that the Holy Spirit is the agent that sanctifies the heart:“But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God from the beginning chose you for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth.” (2 Thessalonians 2:13).
It is the Holy Spirit who trans forms the life and leads us to obey God’s law."
Stephen Bohr
Creation Moment 9/20/2026 - "Thinking "
Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things,.... Isaiah 40:26
"The Naturalists have been engaged in thinking about Nature. They have not attended to the fact that they were thinking. The moment one attends to this it is obvious that one’s own thinking cannot be merely a natural event, and that therefore something other than Nature exists. The Supernatural is not remote and abstruse: it is a matter of daily and hourly experience, as intimate as breathing."
"The Naturalists have been engaged in thinking about Nature. They have not attended to the fact that they were thinking. The moment one attends to this it is obvious that one’s own thinking cannot be merely a natural event, and that therefore something other than Nature exists. The Supernatural is not remote and abstruse: it is a matter of daily and hourly experience, as intimate as breathing."
C. S. Lewis, Miracles
Friday, September 18, 2026
Symbol of The Cross
And, having made peace through the blood of His cross, by Him to reconcile all things unto Himself; by Him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven. Colossians 1:20
"The cross is one of the most universally recognized symbols in the world. And honestly,
It was an implement of torture, a symbol of supreme humiliation, and a curse.
Yet, Jesus Christ—innocent, flawless, and perfect—embraced it.
Through the cross, He made peace between the Creator and the creation. He took the world’s greatest symbol of shame and transformed it into the world’s greatest symbol of love."
Matt Dooley
most of us really like the idea of the cross—as long as someone else is on it.
It was an implement of torture, a symbol of supreme humiliation, and a curse.
Yet, Jesus Christ—innocent, flawless, and perfect—embraced it.
Through the cross, He made peace between the Creator and the creation. He took the world’s greatest symbol of shame and transformed it into the world’s greatest symbol of love."
Matt Dooley
Creation Moment 9/19/2026 - The two books laid before us to study
For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made...
Romans 1:20
Thursday, September 17, 2026
It was never said, "Fear not, big flock"
"Many false and apostate churches have received aid from the State, as notably the Roman Catholic Church, the Greek Church, and others that might be mentioned ; but the true church has never been recognized by the State, and was therefore never in a position to receive aid from it.
---The church to which the State gives its aid and sup port is always the largest and most powerful within the limits of the State.
The State has no spiritual discernment, and naturally looks upon numbers, wealth, and influence as credentials of Divine favor and authority ; but they are far from being such in reality.
--The true church was never the greatest in numbers, or the most wealthy, or influential. To the true church it is said, "Fear not, little flock ; it is My Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom;" (Luke 12:32) but it was never said, "Fear not, big flock."
PresentTruth1893
Creation Moment 9/18/2026 - Information and YOU
For by Him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible,... all things were created by Him, and for Him: Colossians 1:16
Information = DESIGN
"Information is not meaningful simply because it exists or because it is improbable. It becomes meaningful only if there exists a system that can interpret it and use it to perform a function.Q: What do a software engineer, an information theorist, and a biologist have in common?
It is not simply that the AI possesses vast amounts of information.
A library can contain vast amounts of information without being intelligent.
Rather, the AI would have expanded the set of functions it can perform by making a scientific discovery that no previous system had achieved. Therefore, the defining characteristic of a generally intelligent system (or AGI) is not that it can perform existing functions, but that it can generate new functional capabilities that were not initially part of the system and were not transferred from another system that already possessed them.
But this immediately raises a deeper question:
Q: What allows any system to acquire capabilities it did not previously possess?
Information only becomes useful when some system can use it to perform a function."
Q: What allows any system to acquire capabilities it did not previously possess?
Information only becomes useful when some system can use it to perform a function."
MindMatters
Wednesday, September 16, 2026
Under Surveillance
Lead me, O LORD, in Thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make Thy way straight before my face. Psalms 5:8
"Very bitter is the enmity of the world against the people of Christ.
In the presence of adversaries who will misrepresent our best deeds, and impugn our motives where they cannot censure our actions, how circumspect should we be!
"Very bitter is the enmity of the world against the people of Christ.
--Men will forgive a thousand faults in others, but they will magnify the most trivial offence in the followers of Jesus.
--If we live carelessly, the lynx-eyed world will soon see it, and with its hundred tongues, it will spread the story, exaggerated and emblazoned by the zeal of slander.
The cross of Christ is in itself an offence to the world; let us take heed that we add no offence of our own.
The cross of Christ is in itself an offence to the world; let us take heed that we add no offence of our own.
In the presence of adversaries who will misrepresent our best deeds, and impugn our motives where they cannot censure our actions, how circumspect should we be!
Not only are we under surveillance,
but there are more spies than we know of.
The espionage is everywhere, at home and abroad."
Charles Spurgeon
IN the NEWS - Christians in Algeria Go Underground
Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept My saying, they will keep yours also. John 15:20
"Following Algeria’s closure of nearly all evangelical churches in waves of repression that began in 2017, Christians have been forced underground in what they describe as an internal exile, sources said.
Christians in the 99-percent Muslim country gather discreetly in homes, garages or under olive trees, isolating many who are deprived of regular spiritual guidance. Some turn to the internet and social media, where heresies proliferate, thus fostering internal divisions, the spread of false teaching and the rise of conflicts.
Despite such challenges, some Christians express gratitude to God, viewing this period as a spiritual cleansing to build stronger and more mature churches.
One church leader continues to serve by visiting families in various villages to offer moral and spiritual support. Like all pastors mentioned in this story, his name cannot be published for security reasons." Morning News
"Following Algeria’s closure of nearly all evangelical churches in waves of repression that began in 2017, Christians have been forced underground in what they describe as an internal exile, sources said.
Christians in the 99-percent Muslim country gather discreetly in homes, garages or under olive trees, isolating many who are deprived of regular spiritual guidance. Some turn to the internet and social media, where heresies proliferate, thus fostering internal divisions, the spread of false teaching and the rise of conflicts.
Despite such challenges, some Christians express gratitude to God, viewing this period as a spiritual cleansing to build stronger and more mature churches.
One church leader continues to serve by visiting families in various villages to offer moral and spiritual support. Like all pastors mentioned in this story, his name cannot be published for security reasons." Morning News
Creation Moment 9/17/2026 - Sabbath of Creation
For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. Exodus 20:11
"Some have argued that the Sabbath in Genesis is different from the Sabbath that God gave to Israel.
*However, this is not tenable because there are several commonalities between the Genesis and Exodus accounts.
In both:
✓ The Sabbath is a memorial of creation
✓ The Sabbath comes after six days of labor
✓ The Sabbath is the seventh day of the week
✓ In both accounts God rested and then blessed and sanctified the seventh day."
PT
Tuesday, September 15, 2026
Bible Study not to be conducted like the "scholars"
"It is the first and highest duty of every rational being to learn from the scriptures what is truth and then to walk in the light and encourage others to follow this example.
We should day by day study the Bible diligently,
weighing very thought and comparing scripture with scripture.
With divine help, we are to form our opinions for ourselves as we are to answer for ourselves before God.
The truths most plainly revealed in the Bible have been involved in doubt and darkness by learned scholars who with a pretense of great wisdom teach that the Scriptures have a mystical, a secret spiritual meaning not apparent in the language employed. These are false teachers. It was to such a class that Jesus declared, "Ye know not the
scriptures, neither the power of God." Mark 12:24.
*The language of the Bible should be explained according to its obvious meaning unless a symbol or figure is employed.
The truths most plainly revealed in the Bible have been involved in doubt and darkness by learned scholars who with a pretense of great wisdom teach that the Scriptures have a mystical, a secret spiritual meaning not apparent in the language employed. These are false teachers. It was to such a class that Jesus declared, "Ye know not the
scriptures, neither the power of God." Mark 12:24.
*The language of the Bible should be explained according to its obvious meaning unless a symbol or figure is employed.
If people would but take the Bible as it reads, if there were no false teachers to mislead and confuse their minds."
E.G.W.
Creation Moment 9/16/2026 - Idolatry and natural selection
"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1). The Creator of all things is the Lord Jesus Christ, who has no equal in authority and status. The first two commandments reiterate that this high position is His alone: “You shall have no other gods before Me. . . . You shall not make any . . . likeness . . . . You shall not bow down to them nor serve them” (Exodus 20:3, 4).
Darwin’s clever link between idolatry and the evolutionary worldview is natural selection and the concept behind that term. Scientists initially criticized natural selection as a personification. As a science historian explains, “One source of trouble was that Darwin liked the term ‘natural selection’ because it [a mental concept] could be ‘used as a substantive governing a verb [a real agent that can act]’ (F. Darwin, 1887, vol. 3, p. 46). But such uses appeared to reify, even to deify, natural selection as an agent.”
Q: Do evolutionists invoke natural selection as a substitute creator?
Natural selection is venerated as the creator of biology, so why not for the entire universe? As one evolutionist put it, “Charles Darwin . . . [has] brought the entire natural world under a single law of natural selection . . . [the] starting point [of my theory about the universe’s evolution] is the remarkable theory of cosmological natural selection proposed by the physicist Lee Smolin.” It follows that “the universe could be further understood as a self-coherent and self-creating whole, without the need for anything outside itself to give it law, meaning or complexity.”
Natural selection is idolatrous in the basest of ways. Not only does it ascribe rational powers to unconscious environmental features, like any other idol, but it also induces people not to give the Lord Jesus credit for the incredible intelligence and machinery He has built into His creatures that enable them to adapt to their environment. Consider the Lord’s declaration in Isaiah 42:8: “I am the LORD: that is My name: and My glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images” . . . or to nature as creator." ICR
Darwin’s clever link between idolatry and the evolutionary worldview is natural selection and the concept behind that term. Scientists initially criticized natural selection as a personification. As a science historian explains, “One source of trouble was that Darwin liked the term ‘natural selection’ because it [a mental concept] could be ‘used as a substantive governing a verb [a real agent that can act]’ (F. Darwin, 1887, vol. 3, p. 46). But such uses appeared to reify, even to deify, natural selection as an agent.”
Q: Do evolutionists invoke natural selection as a substitute creator?
A: Let’s hear from them.
"This was Darwin’s fundamental discovery, that there is a process that is creative, although not conscious. . . . It was Darwin’s greatest accomplishment to show that the complex organization and functionality of living beings can be explained as the result of a natural process—natural selection—without any need to resort to a Creator or other external agent."
"Natural selection is a creative process that can explain the appearance of genuine novelty."
Natural selection is venerated as the creator of biology, so why not for the entire universe? As one evolutionist put it, “Charles Darwin . . . [has] brought the entire natural world under a single law of natural selection . . . [the] starting point [of my theory about the universe’s evolution] is the remarkable theory of cosmological natural selection proposed by the physicist Lee Smolin.” It follows that “the universe could be further understood as a self-coherent and self-creating whole, without the need for anything outside itself to give it law, meaning or complexity.”
Natural selection is idolatrous in the basest of ways. Not only does it ascribe rational powers to unconscious environmental features, like any other idol, but it also induces people not to give the Lord Jesus credit for the incredible intelligence and machinery He has built into His creatures that enable them to adapt to their environment. Consider the Lord’s declaration in Isaiah 42:8: “I am the LORD: that is My name: and My glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images” . . . or to nature as creator." ICR
Monday, September 14, 2026
Modern culture vs. Christ
"Jesus said in Matthew 16:24, If anyone would come after Me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Me.
Modern culture says follow your heart.
Jesus said deny yourself."
MattMason
IN the NEWS - Father in Uganda Beaten by Muslim Sons for Accepting Christ
Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for My sake. Matthew 5:11
"A 52-year-old Christian in eastern Uganda was recovering from injuries after his Muslim sons attacked him for leaving Islam, sources said.
In Nakalama village, Iganga Town Council, Kibirige Abumusa returned home on Aug. 9 after an extended stay in Jinja City, where he had put his faith in Christ on June 1. One of his adult sons, 28-year-old Kibirige Budallah, confronted him about his conversion, said neighbor and eyewitness Alice Naigaga.
Abumusa converted to Christianity after attending an open-air evangelistic event organized by Pastor Zakalia Sserwada of Evangel Church in Jinja City.Abumusa’s son, Budallah, had learned about his conversion from Imam Kisige Musitafa of Jinja mosque, which Abumusa had previously attended. The imam had accompanied Abumusa to the evangelistic event, according to the friend. Immediately after Abumusa’s conversion, the imam informed Budallah, the source said.
Budallah questioned his father upon his return about abandoning Islam, calling him a kafir (infidel), and told him that he did not deserve to live because of his decision to leave Islam, Naigaga said. Budallah struck Abumusa with a stick, and his four other sons joined in beating him, said Naigaga, who took photographs of the attack from a distance before calling for neighborhood help.
By the time neighbors arrived, Abumusa was weak, bleeding from the nose and had wounds on his hands, legs and back, she said.
Naigaga said she heard Budallah referring to Islamic teachings concerning Muslims who leave Islam and claiming that killing such persons would earn the killer paradise.
Abumusa was taken to Iganga Hospital, where he received treatment for about a week. After being discharged, he took refuge at a friend’s house in another village, where he was continuing to recover.
Abumusa said he has not reported the assault to police, fearing his sons could further endanger him." MorningNews
"A 52-year-old Christian in eastern Uganda was recovering from injuries after his Muslim sons attacked him for leaving Islam, sources said.
In Nakalama village, Iganga Town Council, Kibirige Abumusa returned home on Aug. 9 after an extended stay in Jinja City, where he had put his faith in Christ on June 1. One of his adult sons, 28-year-old Kibirige Budallah, confronted him about his conversion, said neighbor and eyewitness Alice Naigaga.
Abumusa converted to Christianity after attending an open-air evangelistic event organized by Pastor Zakalia Sserwada of Evangel Church in Jinja City.Abumusa’s son, Budallah, had learned about his conversion from Imam Kisige Musitafa of Jinja mosque, which Abumusa had previously attended. The imam had accompanied Abumusa to the evangelistic event, according to the friend. Immediately after Abumusa’s conversion, the imam informed Budallah, the source said.
Budallah questioned his father upon his return about abandoning Islam, calling him a kafir (infidel), and told him that he did not deserve to live because of his decision to leave Islam, Naigaga said. Budallah struck Abumusa with a stick, and his four other sons joined in beating him, said Naigaga, who took photographs of the attack from a distance before calling for neighborhood help.
By the time neighbors arrived, Abumusa was weak, bleeding from the nose and had wounds on his hands, legs and back, she said.
Naigaga said she heard Budallah referring to Islamic teachings concerning Muslims who leave Islam and claiming that killing such persons would earn the killer paradise.
Abumusa was taken to Iganga Hospital, where he received treatment for about a week. After being discharged, he took refuge at a friend’s house in another village, where he was continuing to recover.
Abumusa said he has not reported the assault to police, fearing his sons could further endanger him." MorningNews
Creation Moment 9/15/2026 - Effects of the Curse
"At the end of the sixth day of creation, God saw that everything He had made was very good: “Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them” (Genesis 2:1, KJV). The creation was now complete, functional, and interactive from heaven to Earth and throughout the waters.
Following his temptation, man’s disobedience to God’s command regarding “the tree of the knowledge of good and evil” brought sin into this world, and with it the full force of God’s Curse fell upon the first man, Adam (Genesis 2:17, KJV). As the creation was comprehensive, so was the punishment.
Since then, effects of the Curse have continued into recent history. Over the last 200 years, a progressive accumulation of philosophers and scientists have promoted a purely imaginative story: the ground (earth), all elements within it, all plants and animals made from it, mankind with dominion over it, and the vast complexity of the cosmos have evolved through a lifeless force described as nature. Therefore, Darwin’s false god of natural selection (selectionism) became an alternative creator of the universe and everything in it. Clearly, man has “changed the truth of God into a lie” and worships the creature more than the Creator (Romans 1:25, KJV).
God’s Word reveals the true history of creation.
Following his temptation, man’s disobedience to God’s command regarding “the tree of the knowledge of good and evil” brought sin into this world, and with it the full force of God’s Curse fell upon the first man, Adam (Genesis 2:17, KJV). As the creation was comprehensive, so was the punishment.
This same Curse affected all of mankind during about the first 1,656 years of history, culminating in a global judgment and repopulation of Earth through one righteous man and his family.
Since then, effects of the Curse have continued into recent history. Over the last 200 years, a progressive accumulation of philosophers and scientists have promoted a purely imaginative story: the ground (earth), all elements within it, all plants and animals made from it, mankind with dominion over it, and the vast complexity of the cosmos have evolved through a lifeless force described as nature. Therefore, Darwin’s false god of natural selection (selectionism) became an alternative creator of the universe and everything in it. Clearly, man has “changed the truth of God into a lie” and worships the creature more than the Creator (Romans 1:25, KJV).
God’s Word reveals the true history of creation.
We never observe nature as a creative mechanism of increasing order and complexity.."
ICR
Sunday, September 13, 2026
The way God phrases things
I will go before you and make the rough places smooth;
I will shatter the doors of bronze
and cut through their iron bars.
I will give you the treasures of darkness and hidden wealth of secret places, so that you may know that it is I, the Lord,.... who calls you by your name.
Isaiah 45:2-3
Creation Moment 9/14/2026 - A bad worldview
Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things.... Isaiah 40:26
"In the evolutionary view, early earth was not a pleasant place to live. A recent article summarizing research on the “origin of life” described early earth this way: “Earth’s first few hundred million years brought relentless impacts, intense volcanism and an atmosphere almost entirely devoid of oxygen.” And yet this new research claims the “last universal common ancestor” (LUCA) somehow evolved a mere 400 million years after earth formed.
New genetics research—entirely based on evolutionary assumptions and interpretations of genomes—now places LUCA “astonishingly early” in earth’s history. That’s surprising in the evolutionary view, given how complex life is and how uninhabitable early earth is assumed to be. But the problem is actually worse than that because they don’t believe LUCA was the first life-form.
In other words, our supposed last common ancestor evolved 400 million years after earth’s formation, but before it evolved, other life-forms surely must have evolved and died out, leaving just LUCA to continue evolving; so the origin of the very first life-form must have occurred even closer to the origin of the earth. Even with over 4.5 billion years to work with, evolutionists are running out of time!
This is why many evolutionists now believe that life didn’t evolve here on earth at all but rather was brought here from a distant planet, either intentionally by aliens or by lucky accident. But that just shifts the same problem to another planet! So the answer to a lack of time for life to have evolved here is to push the origin of life out into the universe where there’s more time (in the evolutionary view, the universe is believed to be 13.8 billion years old).
It doesn’t matter how much the evidence contradicts the evolutionary worldview, the model will mold to fit the new evidence or the problem will just be pushed out to where we can’t study it (the depths of outer space).
Evolution isn’t science; it’s a worldview being used to interpret the evidence we have in the present. And I would argue it’s a bad worldview that doesn’t explain the evidence consistently." AIG
"In the evolutionary view, early earth was not a pleasant place to live. A recent article summarizing research on the “origin of life” described early earth this way: “Earth’s first few hundred million years brought relentless impacts, intense volcanism and an atmosphere almost entirely devoid of oxygen.” And yet this new research claims the “last universal common ancestor” (LUCA) somehow evolved a mere 400 million years after earth formed.
New genetics research—entirely based on evolutionary assumptions and interpretations of genomes—now places LUCA “astonishingly early” in earth’s history. That’s surprising in the evolutionary view, given how complex life is and how uninhabitable early earth is assumed to be. But the problem is actually worse than that because they don’t believe LUCA was the first life-form.
"The name can be misleading. “Last” means most recent in relation to all living lineages, while “universal” refers to the sampledcellular tree. LUCA was not necessarily one individual, the only organism alive, or the first self-replicating system. It is better imagined as a population whose descendants won a vast evolutionary survival contest. . . This boundary changes the timing implication. If LUCA already lived 4.2 billion years ago, the origin of life must be older still. The estimate does not say how much older, because lineages that vanished without contributing genes cannot be reconstructed from modern genomes."
In other words, our supposed last common ancestor evolved 400 million years after earth’s formation, but before it evolved, other life-forms surely must have evolved and died out, leaving just LUCA to continue evolving; so the origin of the very first life-form must have occurred even closer to the origin of the earth. Even with over 4.5 billion years to work with, evolutionists are running out of time!
This is why many evolutionists now believe that life didn’t evolve here on earth at all but rather was brought here from a distant planet, either intentionally by aliens or by lucky accident. But that just shifts the same problem to another planet! So the answer to a lack of time for life to have evolved here is to push the origin of life out into the universe where there’s more time (in the evolutionary view, the universe is believed to be 13.8 billion years old).
It doesn’t matter how much the evidence contradicts the evolutionary worldview, the model will mold to fit the new evidence or the problem will just be pushed out to where we can’t study it (the depths of outer space).
Evolution isn’t science; it’s a worldview being used to interpret the evidence we have in the present. And I would argue it’s a bad worldview that doesn’t explain the evidence consistently." AIG
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