Puritan Corner - Enlighten Our Eyes

"Before and after you read the Scripture, pray earnestly that the

Spirit who wrote it may interpret it for you, keep you from unbelief and error, and lead you into the truth."
by Thomas Brooks (1608-1680)
I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ…may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in your knowledge of Him. I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you may know the hope of His calling, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints.
Ephesians 1:17,18

Martin Luther on Paul

"Paul takes pride in his ministry, not to his own praise but to the praise of God. 

Writing to the Romans, he declares, "Inasmuch as I am the apostle of

the Gentiles, I magnify mine office," i.e., 

*I want to be received not as Paul of Tarsus, but as Paul the apostle and ambassador of Jesus Christ, in order that people might be more eager to hear. Paul exalts his ministry out of the desire to make known the name, the grace, and the mercy of God.

Galatians 1:1 Paul, an apostle, (not of men, etc.)." 

Martin Luther

Danger of MTD [Moralistic Therapeutic Deism]

For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God. 

Romans 3:23

"Millions of Americans today describe themselves as spiritual but not religious.
When sociologists Christian Smith and Melinda Denton investigated this shift, they found that it wasn't necessarily a total loss of faith, but rather the emergence of a new set of beliefs. 

The religiously unaffiliated haven't simply stopped believing. 

They have silently adopted an unnamed religion that uses the vocabulary of Christianity while discarding its historical core.

It provides the comforting illusion of spirituality while effectively insulating the individual from any relationship that might require real sacrifice.

Central to MTD is the belief that the ultimate goal of a human life is simply to be happy and that God exists primarily to ensure that happiness. In contrast, historical Christianity teaches that free will was given to us so we could choose to love God and our neighbor.
This focus on personal comfort leads to the second major tenant
of MTD, the claim that nice people go to heaven. 

But the Biblical view of the human condition is far more complex.

It describes every person over the age of reason as a sinner who has in some way rebelled against God. From this perspective, niceness is no substitute for the true repentance and redemption found in Christ. 

--By teaching that humans are good enough as long as they are pleasant, MTD leaves people trapped in their sin.

But a purely therapeutic faith cannot sustain a person through suffering. Eventually, that ledge collapses, leading to outright atheism." 

THC

Biblical Principles Applied to Halloween

Wherefore come out from among them, 

and be ye separate, saith the Lord, 

and touch not the unclean thing; 

and I will receive you..... 

2 Corinthians 6:17

"Biblical Principles Commonly Applied:

*Avoid practices linked to sorcery, divination, or demonic influence (Exodus 22:18; Acts 8; Acts 13; Acts 19).

*Exercise Christian liberty responsibly, ensuring participation does not cause others to stumble." 

Google

Creation Moment 10/31/2026 - Bloodsuckers and Creation

"Long before the 1819 publication of The Vampyre by John Polidori, and before Bram Stoker popularized vampires with the novel Dracula in 1897, humans have been spinning tales of creatures that drink blood. Some tales were of mythological beings, some perhaps based on real people who engaged in cannibalism and blood drinking, and many are based on real animals or embellishments of real animals. Mythological creatures such as pishachas, ghouls, estries, kappas, and striges are just a few examples out of many hundreds. Even as recently as 1995, new blood-drinking creatures have been reported and entered into the pages of cryptozoology, such as the chupacabra.

Real-life creatures such as vampire bats, leeches, ticks, lampreys,

bedbugs, and mosquitoes not only exist and are constant pests and threats to humans, livestock, and aquaculture; but they are also feared because of the threat of disease, such as rabies, Lyme disease, malaria, and other bacterial and virulent agents. In addition to the physical threats though, there is also the psychological fear that they induce.

But the fact is that God created all things, including all animals, good. God gave all creatures vegetation to eat, and there was no death and bloodshed. In Genesis 1:31, at the end of day six, God looked over the entirety of creation and pronounced it “very good.” In God’s original creation, all of the above creatures were not blood-feeders but instead ate plants, water plants, and possibly pollen or nectar, as indeed vampire finches sometimes still do. Due to mankind’s rebellion and sin, this idyllic condition did not last, as all of creation was placed under the curse. 

Sometime after the Fall, these animals became omnivorous, carnivorous, parasitic, and/or insectivorous and then gradually started incorporating blood into their diet opportunistically and, in some cases, became obligate sanguinivores. It is therefore illogical to look at this fallen world’s creatures and try to make a judgment on God’s character, as so many atheists and agnostics have done. The truly spooky thing about these bloodsuckers is that mankind is responsible for their being here." AIG

"Mary's" Role

"Spiritualism: “Many will be confronted by the spirits of devils personating beloved relatives or friends and declaring the most dangerous heresies . These visitants will appeal to our tenderest sympathies and will work miracles Concluding Remarks to sustain their pretensions.” The Great Controversy , p. 560

Catholics say that Mary died, resurrected and ascended to heaven and that she is speaking today. 

Q: But is this really Mary? 

Q: Why would she be teaching doctrines contrary to Scripture if she is heaven and has direct access to the fountain of truth? 

Q: Would Mary contradict the truths contained in the Bible? 

A: Of course not! Then the one speaking must not be Mary. 

Q: If she is not Mary, then who? (And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead? To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. Isaiah 8:19, 20)

The acid test will be: Is Mary dead or is she alive. Your answer to this question will determine whether you are deceived or remain firm. Protestants have already opened the door to the ecumenical “Mary” When global disasters overtake civilization, people will be willing to listen to “Mary’s” explanation as to the reason for what is happening.

Satan makes people charismatic or liberal and then he can trap them

because the absolute authority of the Bible is not accepted by either group. 

Without any objective, trustworthy source of truth, both groups will be swept into the ranks of ecumenism.

Mary will be the uniting force of Protestants and Catholics because conservative Protestants have cast away the shield of truth and depend on miracles, signs and wonders and mainline Protestants do not believe in the authority of the Bible." 

Stephen Bohr

IN the NEWS - Over the Top?

And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book. Daniel 12:1

Is this story below over the top or is something going on?

We shall see......

"France’s government has issued an emergency directive, ordering citizens to hoard food and brace for World War 3 by year’s end, as

outlined in a stark 20-page survival guide packed with tips for facing terror attacks, pandemics, cyber threats, and even nuclear fallout.

According to Daniel Aldrich, Dean's Professor of Resilience at Northeastern University, "We are living through a polycrisis. Shocks no longer arrive one at a time. A storm knocks out power, the outage freezes payment systems, and a cyber intrusion lands on top of both."

Around the world, governments are increasingly advising their citizens to have provisions in the case of an emergency such as war, extreme weather and cybersecurity threats.
Japan is preparing a nationwide disaster-readiness appeal, while Britain launched its 'Be Ready' public campaign urging households to remain self-sufficient for at least 72 hours.
France and the U.K. recently advised people to have supplies for a period of 72 hours ready.

In the U.S., for example, advice published on Ready.gov, a website of the Department of Homeland Security, states: “Being prepared means having your own food, water and other supplies to last for several days.”

India’s National Disaster Management Authority advises households to have a disaster emergency kit but doesn’t stipulate a time frame.

Newsweek has compiled a map of countries where governments are advising for emergency preparedness and recommending stockpiling of food.

The advice around emergency preparedness comes as Defense

Secretary Pete Hegseth wrote in a recent memo that more U.S. military bases will need to be able to run independently for at least three months should they be cut off from external supplies in the event of a conflict.
On September 30, Hegseth unveiled the Federal Operations for Resilience, Troop Resources, Energy, Supply and Survivability (FORTRESS) initiative.
He dubbed it the “nation’s insurance policy” to ensure that the U.S. would still be able to obtain the materials it needs and carry out operations if traditional supply chains were to be cut off." 

msn

Creation Moment 10/30/2026 - Jaw-dropping discoveries = no excuse!

"At the time that Charles Darwin published his Origin of Species, a cell was considered a simple ‘blob of protoplasm’—a basic building block of life. 

But with the development of technology allowing us to study living things at a molecular level, it’s now realized that a single cell is enormously complex. And new jaw-dropping discoveries of its hitherto-unrealized complexity are continuing to be made. E.g. the cell has a ‘switchboard system’ to coordinate the multiplicity of biochemical events happening within.

And there are linear motors, too, including the kinesin protein that

‘walks’ as it transports essential components to where they are needed in the cell.
Note that every ‘step’ the kinesin protein takes requires one ATP molecule for energy—i.e. the ATP which is generated by the rotary ATP synthase motor. The eukaryotic cell needs both of these highly complex motors to be present and fully functional—and much more besides. No wonder the Psalmist wrote …
I praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Your works are wonderful, I know that full well. (Psalm 139:14)

… and the Apostle Paul said:
For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—His eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse. (Romans 1:20)
Indeed, there’s no excuse! Especially as modern science continues to reveal the irreducible complexity in life’s biochemistry." 

CMI

Question posed by Christ on FAITH

Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, 

which to day is, 

and to morrow is cast into the oven, 

Q: shall He not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? 

Matthew 6:30

Creation Moment 10/29/2026 - Obvious Evidence

I will praise Thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: 

Psalm 139:14

"If we look at even just one aspect of our bodies, such as the dexterity of our hand, wrist and fingers, it speaks of design, and therefore, a

Designer. Robotics engineers are still striving to copy that dexterity!

And our movements are controlled by our brains—no mean feat! 

The immense complexity of the human brain, its creativity and power of abstract reasoning, with capacities vastly beyond that required for sheer survival, is perhaps the most obvious evidence for intelligent creation." 

ICR

Papal Hypocrisy

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

"Apostolic Letter Dies Domini and Francis I (in the encyclical Laudato Si) have declared that the seventh day Sabbath is Jewish and that sun day is the Christian sabbath. 

--Yet the Bible never refers to the Sabbath as Jewish. In every single instance, the Sabbath is God’s holy rest day because He made it holy by His rest. 

--The papacy claims that the Sabbath is a relic of the Jewish old Covenant, and yet it continues a plethora of old Covenant practices such as 

sacrifices on altars, 

the use of holy vestments, 

the sprinkling holy water, 

the burning incense, 

the lighting candles, 

and the building of shrines to the saints. 

By doing this, the papacy strains the gnat and swallows the camel. The papacy enjoins all of these practices that God does not command and yet discards God’s explicit command to rest on the Sabbath!" 

Stephen Bohr

Creation Moment 10/28/2026 - Vesuvius eruption calibration study

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,... 

Romans 1:22

"Pliny the Younger advances geochronology (Renne et al, Science Advances, 25 September 2026). In this compelling article, the authors

utilize ancient records of the historical eruption, as documented by historian Pliny the Younger, to refine argon-argon (⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar) dating: a technique routinely used to assign ages to volcanic rocks and to build timelines for major events in Earth’s history.

For those interested in origins and the age of the earth, the study raises fascinating questions. Ironically, while the research is presented as strengthening the geological timescale, it also highlights how heavily radiometric dating depends upon 

calibration, 

assumptions,

corrections, 

standardization, 

historical benchmarks, 

and continual revision. 

From a creation science perspective, the paper provides a reminder that radiometric dating is not a simple matter of reading ages directly from rocks.

One of the most interesting features of the research approaches that Renne et al (2026) did not rely solely on radioactive decay. Instead, they relied heavily on historical documents. The paper spends considerable space defending the historical date of the eruption through the writings of Pliny the Younger, Cassius Dio, Suetonius, Roman chronology, archaeological evidence, and coin analysis. This raises an important question. 

Q: If radiometric dating methods are entirely self-validating, why was a historically known event necessary to calibrate the system?

A: The answer is that radiometric dating methods are not independent of external information. 

They require 

calibration standards, 

known-age samples, 

correction factors, 

and assumptions regarding decay constants. 

*Oftentimes, the reasoning applied is also circular: dependent on the theorized age of the surrounding rocks, which are in turn dependent on radiometric decay assumptions and the fossils found within them. As this study highlights, rather than radiometric dating proving the historical age, the historical age was used to refine radiometric dating itself. From a creationist perspective, this illustrates that dating systems are not isolated measurements but interconnected models.

Another surprising aspect of the paper is the authors’ acknowledgement that different dating methods have not always agreed. 

--Specifically, the researchers describe a recent Bayesian calibration effort involving both potassium-argon and uranium-lead dating systems because these methods have been yielding inconsistent results. They note that these “most important geochronometers” have “not been giving us consistent results over the years.”

This admission is significant, as radiometric dating is often presented to the public as if multiple techniques independently converge on

identical answers. Yet here, the researchers openly discuss the need to reconcile disagreements among major dating systems. Creation scientists have long pointed out such discrepancies, arguing that agreement between methods often requires adjustments, recalibrations, and statistical alignment rather than emerging automatically from the raw data.

The paper also acknowledges another problem: the presence of excess argon in their samples. The measured sample trapped ⁴⁰Ar/³⁶Ar ratio that differed from atmospheric values, leading the authors to conclude:

“The supra-atmospheric ratio suggests a minor component of magmatic excess ⁴⁰Ar.”

This problem is not new as excess argon has long been a challenge for potassium-argon and argon-argon dating, as the underlying assumption of these methods is that the isotopic clock starts when molten rock cools and that the mineral initially contains no inherited radiogenic argon. However, if some “old” argon is already present, the rock may appear older than its actual age.

Perhaps the most revealing section of Renne et al’s study concerns decay constants. The paper acknowledges that absolute dating depends on constants and calibrations that are still being refined. The authors themselves critiqued the evidence basis for the decay constants in use today. Quoting from the article, they state:

“The underlying U-Pb decay constants in ubiquitous use are based on a single study with poorly quantified systematic uncertainties.”

While the author’s calibrated revision did not substantially alter the accepted decay constant for potassium-40, the study illustrates that geologic age determinations depend on continually improving calibrations and standards rather than on immutable quantities that were settled once and for all.

Understanding these assumptions is important, as long-age interpretations depend not merely upon measured isotope ratios but also upon confidence in 

decay constants, 

calibration standards, 

correction factors, 

and statistical models. 

--If these foundational values continue to be refined, then age calculations across geological time may also shift. 

Creationists have frequently argued that confidence intervals expressed in millions or billions of years often underestimate uncertainty because they do not fully capture uncertainties in the underlying assumptions.

Demonstrating this even more clearly, the article discusses a particularly revealing example: the “Millennium Eruption” of Changbaishan volcano. In this case study, the authors reported that many argon-age measurements had to be rejected because they appeared anomalously old due to excess argon. They mention another study that concluded no reliable eruption age could be obtained from the data.

These examples illustrate something often missed in popular science reporting: dating methods do not always converge neatly. Real-world geological samples can produce conflicting answers that must be interpreted through additional assumptions and human judgment.

While this study’s transparency is commendable, we are left with several emerging questions for gradualist interpretations of geology that remain unanswered:

Q: If radiometric systems require continual recalibration, how

confidently can we project these methods into deep time?

Q: If contamination produced ages exceeding 20,000 years in a known AD 79 sample, how can similar effects always be recognized in prehistoric rocks?

Q: If foundational decay constants continue to be refined, how stable are absolute geological ages over long timescales?

Q: Does increasing precision necessarily guarantee increasing accuracy, or does it simply produce more precise answers within an assumed framework?

While Renne et al’s Vesuvius calibration study is undoubtedly an impressive achievement, its greatest significance is in revealing how much the geological timescale depends on calibration, interpretation, assumptions, and continual adjustment. Far from eliminating questions about Earth’s history, the study reminds us that the deeper we probe the past, the more important those foundational assumptions become." 

CEH

Coming Latter Rain

"Jesus said in the book of Acts: “You will receive power to be My witnesses.” In Revelation 18 a mighty angel descends from heaven having great power and the whole world is filled with his glory. Pentecost began the harvest and the latter rain will conclude it.
At the end of human history 

--God’s remnant church will receive the latter rain 

--proclaim to the world what Jesus is doing in the most holy place and they will . 

*God’s people will announce that Jesus is in the process of judging the living , temple that sin must be cleansed from the soul while Jesus is cleansing the record of sin in the sanctuary so that God’s people can receive the times of refreshing to empower them to preach the message with power world so that Jesus can come." 

Stephen Bohr

Creation Moment 10/27/2026 - The Gaping Hole in Evolutionary Theory

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,... 

Romans 1:22

"The Gaping Hole in Evolutionary Theory: Evolutionary theory ascribes inventive power to natural selection alone. 

*However, because selection can only home in on the fitness signal from an invention after that invention already exists, it can't actually invent." 

Douglas Axe, Undeniable: How Biology Confirms Our Intuition that Life Is Designed (2016), p. 97

The heredity of Christ

"He took humanity in its fallen condition. 

When the fullness of time was come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the law [For what purpose was He made under the law?] to redeem them that were UNDER THE LAW, that we might receive the adoption of sons,” Galatians. 4:4, 5. 

Had not Christ been made under the law, as all mankind was by sin,

He could not have redeemed them, so as to call them sons. 

He who was as spotless while on earth as when in heaven took our nature, that He might lift man to the exaltation of Himself by His righteousness. "Jesus accepted humanity when the race had been weakened by four thousand years of sin. Like every child of Adam, He accepted the results of the working of the great law of heredity."

What these results were is shown in the history of His earthly ancestors. 

*He came with such a heredity to share our sorrows and temptations, and to give us the example of a sinless life. It was Christ through David who said: “Behold I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.”

*Our Savior, then, is a holy Christ in sinful human nature, who by His presence in sinful nature sanctifies fallen humanity, so that humanity, by the presence and holiness of the sinless Savior, can be saved to the uttermost." 

Stephen Haskell

IN the NEWS - “Allahu Akbar” strikes Christians again

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. John 8:44

"At least nine people were killed and another 40 injured after gunmen opened fire on a church in Jordan’s southern Karak province.
The “unidentified” gunmen have not yet been captured, the public security agency said in a news conference adding that the shooting was a terrorist attack against Christians attending a funeral in the town of Hmoud.

Jordan’s King Abdullah said Jordan will “harshly” respond against those responsible for the “terrorist act.”
“The blood of Jordanians is precious, and we will strike those who transgress against this country with an iron fist,” the king said on X.
The Prime Minister of Jordan Jafar Hassan said all state agencies are working to bring the perpetrators to justice, according to the kingdom’s official news agency Petra.
“What happened in Karak was the result of extremist terrorist ideology rooted in takfir (declaring others to be infidels), and we will not allow society to go down this path,” Petra quoted Hassan as saying.
A witness told state-run Al-Mamlaka television that one attacker was carrying an AK-47 assault rifle, and the shooting continued for several minutes.
Another witness speaking to CNN confirmed that the attack lasted a long time with gunmen shouting “Allahu Akbar” while targeting the courtyard of the church, where most people were standing.
The town has been home to a predominantly Christian community for centuries. On Friday, people had gathered at St. George’s Greek Orthodox Church to mourn the death of a community member.
“Some guys were standing outside the church before two people got out of a vehicle and started shooting,” Tamer Halasa, an eyewitness told Al-Mamlaka television." 

msn

Creation Moment 10/26/2026 - Christians playing the harlot

"The Bible uses strong language to describe any form of compromise with worldly thinking. And it doesn’t just apply to the ancient Israelites. Hosea 4:12 says, “My people ask their wooden idol, and their diviner’s wand declares to them; for a spirit of harlotry has led them astray, and they have played the harlot, departing from their God.” 

Hosea used strong language against his fellow Israelites, calling them harlots because they had violated their vows to remain faithful to the one true God by adopting the false gods of the pagan nations into their own system of worship. 

In essence, they compromised God’s Word. 

Q: Is it possible that Christians today, and particularly Christian leaders—in their zeal to make Christianity more enticing—are actually “playing the harlot” too? 

Here is what I mean. “And there is nothing new under the sun” (Ecclesiastes 1:9). You see, ever since Adam sinned, man’s sin-cursed nature hasn’t changed. Paul had this battle: “For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the working out of the good is not. For the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want” (Romans 7:18–19). 

The same situation as in ancient Israel, albeit portrayed in a different way and using different terminology, is happening today. I suggest much of the church today is really no different when we consider this sin of harlotry. Sadly, many Christians, including many Christian

leaders (pastors, seminary and Bible college professors, Christian college professors, and so on), have adopted evolutionary geology, biology, astronomy, and anthropology, along with belief in millions of years, and they have mixed such beliefs with God’s Word.

Because such beliefs are founded on an antibiblical, anti-God worldview, I do humbly submit that such is harlotry no different than that of the Israelites. So I challenge those who do compromise God’s Word in Genesis by adding man’s ideas to contemplate these things." Ken Ham

Human reason can not find out God

"Human reason sees many contradictions in Christ; for human reason can not find out God. Canst thou by searching find out God? Canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? It is as high as heaven; Job 11:7, 8. 

In the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knows not God... because the foolishness of God is wiser than men... God bath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; and base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things that are not, to bring to naught things that are: that no flesh should glory in His presence. 1 Cor. 1:21-29." Stephen Haskell

Creation Moment 10/25/2026 - Faith in which? God or "science"?

If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister; Colossians 1:23

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

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

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

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

.....finished from the foundation of the world

.... the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world....For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into My rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. 

Revelation 13:8/Hebrews 4:3

"Christ was not alone in making His great sacrifice. 

It was the fulfillment of the covenant made between Him and His Father before the foundation of the world was laid. 

With clasped hands they had entered into the solemn pledge that Christ would become the surety for the human race if they were overcome by Satan’s sophistry....The covenant of grace is not a new truth, for it existed in the mind of God from all eternity. This is why it is called the everlasting covenant."

E.G.W.

Creation Moment 10/24/2026 - Fashioned in intricate unity

"The human heart does not beat like a perfect clock. 

The time between beats changes as the body breathes, moves, rests, and reacts to the world around it. New research shows that these

changes are part of a feedback system linking the heart, brain, and nerves. The heart keeps a steady rhythm while remaining flexible when needed, much like a well-built control system.

Denis Noble has studied heart rhythm for many years. In 1960, he made one of the first mathematical models of electrical work in heart cells. Real hearts proved more complex. Noble recently described heart pacing as several “interlocking physiological networks” that can help keep the heart’s rhythm going when one part of the system is disturbed. Engineers call this robustness, meaning a key job can continue when conditions change.

The heart does this through parts that work together. 

--Special cells in the sinoatrial node set the basic electrical rhythm. 

--Ion channels move charged particles across cell walls (membranes) while calcium inside heart cells helps control each beat. 

--These parts also respond to signals from the rest of the body.

That coordination is significant because no single part controls the whole system by itself. The basic rhythm begins in the heart, but breathing, blood pressure, the body’s activity, and nerve signals can modify that rhythm moment by moment. In engineering terms, the heart is not running an open-loop command. It is doing the opposite: continually receiving information, comparing conditions, and adjusting its output. This gives the system a way to respond without neglecting its main function.

A July 2026 study added another dimension to this organized network. Researchers measured heart rate variability (HRV), the small changes in time between beats, while recording brain activity. They found brain areas tied to signals moving toward the brain and other areas tied to signals moving back toward heart control.

Clearly, the changes between heartbeats are not just useless “jitter.” Breathing, exercise, age, test conditions, and nerve signals can affect HRV. Accordingly, new scientific guidelines warn against treating HRV as if it had only one cause. Many inputs work through a linked control system that keeps adjusting the heart’s response.

This setup shows biological flexibility. The heart can change its

timing and output, but that flexibility depends on firm limits. Special tissues must carry electrical signals. Ion channels must move the right ions. Calcium must be controlled. Blood must still move in the right direction.

Engineers build reliable systems in much the same way. Sensors detect change and inform the controls, which then adjust the outputs. The heartbeat shows sensing, communication, feedback, backup pathways, and controlled responses working together.

Job said, “Your hands have made me and fashioned me, an intricate unity” (Job 10:8). Heart research gives us another reason to value that description. A healthy heart is not a rigid clock, nor is it a loose set of random events. It is a linked system that can change when needed while doing the work required for life. The heart’s changing rhythm is another sign of the Creator’s careful workmanship." ICR

Rebuttal to 4 points of the Sabbath Debate

"First, God gave all Ten Commandments to Israel at Mt. Sinai. 

Q: Does this mean that the Ten Commandments were binding only upon Israel because God revealed them to them? 

A: To answer yes would be absurd! It defies logic to say that nine of the Ten Commandments apply to every one but only one

applies exclusively to the Jews. 

God gave the Ten Commandments to Israel because they were His people at that time. However, that does not mean that they were binding only upon literal Israel. The text does not say that the 

Sabbath was a sign exclusively between God and literal Israel.

 

Second, the motivation for the observance of the Sabbath transcends literal Israel because creation is the reason why the Sabbath is a sign between God and His people. That is to say, Israel must keep the Sabbath because God established it as a sign of creation. 

Q: Would it make any sense to think that Israel alone was required to keep the Sabbath in commemoration of creation? Do not all human beings need to remember that God created the heavens, the earth and everything in them? 

Third, Galatians 3:28, 29 states that those who are ‘in Christ’ are Abraham’s seed and heirs according to the promise. 

--If Christians are Abraham’s seed, then they are members of Israel and as such should keep the Sabbath. 

Finally, Isaiah 56:4-7 clearly states that the Sabbath was intended for Gentiles as well as Jews and Jesus explicitly affirmed that the Sabbath was made for man (Mark 2:27). Thus, our Lord taught that the Sab bath was a creation institution that He made it for the benefit of man. The use of the word anthropos by Jesus in Mark 2:27 is significant. He did not say He made the Sabbath for Israel but rather for ‘humankind’ (NRSV)." 

Stephen Bohr

Creation Moment 10/23/2026 - National Geographic Comes Clean on Neanderthals

....and ye fools, when will ye be wise? Psalm 94:8

"A 2026 National Geographic “Stones and Bones” article on October 9 has contrasted the once-common, openly racist teaching (or assertions) of evolutionists with the facts unearthed by researchers over the past century. The article also tells a true story regarding an article about human evolution written in 1916 by Theodore Roosevelt that casts reproach on his otherwise stellar reputation. The real blame, however, should fall on the Darwinian scientists who influenced his thinking.

Neanderthal Man was once considered the premier evidence for human evolution. Today, it is widely acknowledged that Neanderthals were fully human like us. The revised view became evident on the cover of the October 2008 issue of National

Geographic magazine, which labeled Neanderthals “The Other Humans.” (See National Geographic cover, right.)

In the Oct 2026 National Geographic article, Cornell University graduate and science writer Nicholas St. Fleur sharply criticizes a 1916 essay written by Theodore Roosevelt.
In that essay, Roosevelt surveyed the evidence for human evolution as it was understood in the early 20th century. He accompanied his text with illustrations by famed paleoartist Charles R. Knight.

Both the article and its illustrations represent an enormous embarrassment for evolutionists today, effectively illustrating how a handful of fragmented bones were once used to construct an elaborate evolutionary narrative complete with multi-thousand-year timelines. This bias deceived one of America’s great presidents.
The entire evolutionary case Roosevelt presented has since been thoroughly dismantled by mainline science. As is obvious, Roosevelt, a keen naturalist and published ornithologist, deeply “admired Darwin (whose work he was reading at the precocious age of ten), and he wasn’t shy about telling the world” what he believed to be the firmly established fact of human evolution from some hypothetical ape ancestor.

Furthermore, Roosevelt credited Darwin with “convincing practically all men of trained intelligence that the animal world, including man, has developed by evolution, not by an infinity of special creations,” adding that “The law of evolution is as fundamental to our understanding of life as the law of gravitation is to our understanding of the inanimate universe.”

Roosevelt’s unshakeable faith in evolution motivated his 1916 National Geographic piece. The primary evidence he cited consisted of Neanderthals, Piltdown Man, Java Man and Heidelberg Man (Homo heidelbergensis). All three of these supposed ‘missing links’ have since been discredited as evidence of transitional forms in human ancestry.

Roosevelt’s Fake Neanderthals

St. Fleur aimed his sharpest criticism at Roosevelt’s portrayal of Neanderthals, noting that Neanderthals are now recognized as our extinct cousins rather than inferior evolutionary rivals who disappeared over 40,000 years ago as had previously been claimed.
Roosevelt described Neanderthals as savages who were more advanced than Piltdown Man, yet placed them lower on the evolutionary ladder than any living human group.

Deceived by a Biased Artist

St. Fleur highlights how Charles R. Knight’s illustrations reinforced

this bias by portraying Neanderthals as hunched figures wearing makeshift fur loincloths and wielding crude wooden clubs to beat women. Directly opposite the Neanderthal stood an enlightened “Cro-Magnon Man” (i.e., anatomically modern human), shown upright painting a bison on a cave wall by the warm light of an oil lamp.
Commenting on the stark visual contrast drawn between Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon, St. Fleur noted:

"Both Roosevelt and Knight were echoing the scientific sentiment at that time that Neanderthals were dumb and brutish, imagery that has plagued Homo neanderthalensis to various degrees since its discovery in 1856. But now, more than a century after America’s “Rough Rider” president maligned Neanderthals within our yellow borders, scientists are giving the archaic species some long-overdue justice."

The reason for this is that decades of archaeological discoveries have thoroughly overturned these early caricatures:

"Decades of research have reshaped our image of Neanderthals, showing they were likely a sophisticated, intelligent branch of humanity, possibly even capable of art, culture, and empathy. Archaeological clues from scattered sites suggest that some may have buried their dead, practiced rudimentary dentistry, hunted birds at night, managed hearths, manufactured red ocher, constructed structures from cave stalagmites, and more."

Then, in 1864, a geologist named William King evaluated the

skeletal remains through an evolutionary framework, formally classifying them as Homo neanderthalensis—the first designated extinct human species. In his original paper, King emphasized the creature’s primitiveness:

“Considering that the Neanderthal skull is eminently simian, both in its general and particular characters, I feel myself constrained to believe that the thoughts and desires which once dwelt within it never soared beyond those of the brute.”

This look at the history of the attempts to document human evolution history in 1916 illustrated the firm unquestioning belief in human evolution by its adherents. This is in spite of the fact that every pillar of support for evolution in 1916 has been demolished by the progress of science made by the scientists themselves. One has to wonder how much of the proof of human evolution used to support the theory today will likewise be shown to be false in the future." 

CEH

A perversion of the Scriptures

Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary....Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by His own blood He entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us....It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
Hebrews 9:1,12,23

"There are many who try to blend these two systems, using the texts that speak of the ceremonial law to prove that the moral law has been abolished; but this is a perversion of the Scriptures. 

--The distinction between the two systems is broad and clear. 

--The ceremonial system was made up of symbols pointing to Christ, to His sacrifice and His priesthood. This ritual law, with its sacrifices and ordinances, was to be performed by the Hebrews until type met antitype in the death of Christ, the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world. Then all the sacrificial offerings were to cease." 

E.G.W.