True Church / Apostate Church SERIES: The Churches

TRUE CHURCH:
The Remnant of her seed

And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, 

--which keep the commandments of God, 

--and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

Revelation 12:17

... for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
Revelation 19:10

APOSTATE CHURCH:
Mother of Harlots

And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. 

Revelation 17:5

What does eternal or everlasting mean for the State of the Dead?

"Because when Adam sinned, sin entered the world. Romans 5:12, Wherefore as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin. And so people die, animals die, leaves die, you name it. Birds die, fish die, death cursed the entire creation. 

Anything cursed by sin cannot continue forever.

That's why God will one day destroy this earth, destroy the galaxy connected to this earth.

That is why it is wrong to teach people will burn in hell forever.

--Because if you're burning in hell forever, you're still alive. 

And the Bible teaches in the beginning that it is not God's will that anything tainted by sin shall live forever.

*That's why God has to make a new heaven and a new earth. But He also has to make new people because in our condition that cannot last forever.

The Bible tells us in Romans 6:23, For the wages of sin is death,

but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.  Notice the contrast.
*The Bible does not say the wages of sin is eternal life and torment. 

*It simply says the wages of sin is death.

Throughout scripture, the fate of the wicked is described using words such as perish, destroy, consume, devour, burn up, and become ashes.

Jesus Himself said in Matthew 10:28, Fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
Notice that Christ uses the word destroy.
Malachi chapter 4 declares that the coming day shall burn the wicked like stubble, leaving them neither root nor branch, and that they shall become ashes under the feet of the righteous.

Q:"What about the verses that speak of everlasting fire or eternal punishment?" 

A: The word eternal or everlasting used in those passages does not mean the fire will burn forever. It means it will not go off until 

it consumes everything it's meant to consume and the result will be eternal.

Let me give you an example. The Bible says in Jude 1:7 that Sodom and Gomorrah suffered the vengeance of eternal fire.
Yet those cities are not still burning today.

--The fire was eternal in its result because the destruction was permanent. 

--Likewise, the punishment of the wicked has eternal consequences because there will never be another resurrection after the second death."

Randy Skeete

Can YOU make your own Sabbath Day?

Q: Can YOU make your own Sabbath Day?

A: No......YOU are NOT God. It is God who Hallowed the Sabbath Day. Again, YOU are NOT God.
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

According to Merriam-Webster, hallowed is defined as holy, sacred, consecrated, or revered.

Creation Moment 8/2/2026 - Flatness Problem of the "Big Bang"

I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even My hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded. 

Isaiah 45:12

"Initial density of matter and energy in the universe is a very specific

critical value. Small deviations from these values would have had massive effects on the nature of the universe at the current time.

*If the universe started off slightly positively curved, it would be enormously positively curved today, *and the same holds for negative curvature. 

However, the curvature of matter and energy in regards to density remains very small so the probability that a Big Bang could have occurred to create the current universe is so astronomically slim that it is entirely improbable." TechReader

True Church / Apostate Church SERIES: Clothed

TRUE CHURCH: 

Clothed with the Sun
And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: 

Revelation 12:1

APOSTATE CHURCH: 

Clothed Purple and Scarlet

And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: 

Revelation 17:4

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For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 

1 Timothy 4:16

Waxing Philosophical about TRUTH

"Truth matters. 

Without truth, no one can say for certain that anything is right or wrong, good or bad. Confusion would reign. 

*We sometimes hear, “There’s no such thing as truth.” But if we

believe that idea is true, we admit at least one true thing: that there is no such thing as truth! This does not work. It is irrational—like a round square. Since the statement “There’s no such thing as truth” refutes itself, the opposite, “Truth exists,” must be true.

*Another common idea is that “You have your truth, and I have mine.” But this doesn’t work either because people can believe opposite things. For example, some people believe God is real, but others believe He is not. Opposites cannot both be true.
*Finally, claiming that nothing is knowable is another self-defeating assertion, requiring the person saying it to know that they cannot know anything. Thus, we can know truth.
Jesus said in John 14:6, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” 

Q: Is this true? We would first like to make sure the Bible is true.... But if it’s true, then Jesus is Truth incarnate, and therefore someone we can know personally." 

ICR

Creation Moment 8/1/2026 - Cracks of the "Big Bang" theory

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 

Genesis 1:1

"Does dark energy really exist? Our work identifies cracks in the foundations of today’s cosmological model (The Conversation, 21 July 2026). The author of this article, Subir Sarkar, is an emeritus professor of physics at Oxford University. Perhaps being emeritus gives him more liberty to open his mouth without fear of losing his job.

There’s only one model taken seriously by the astronomical community: the Lambda Cold Dark Matter (ΛCDM) theory, which includes a 

--Big Bang from nothing (nobody understands why), 

--inflation (whatever that is), 

--lots of dark matter (nobody knows what that is either), 

--with matter emerging from energy and rapidly accelerating outward because of dark energy (another completely unknown phenomenon).

From that beginning, everything evolved, and here we are. This has been Scientific Truth that must be learned in school because anything else is, well, religious. And we must not allow a Divine Foot in the door.

But there’s a problem. Observations do not fit this picture. Dr Sarkar leads off with one: the Nobel-prize winning “discovery” of dark energy. It may not exist.
The accelerating expansion of the universe is thought to be due to negative pressure, an unusual property of dark energy that allows it to overcome the attractive force of gravity. 

Yet the exact nature of dark energy remains a puzzle. 

It cannot be explained by our best theory for the fundamental building blocks of the universe – known as the standard model of particle physics.

Translated, this means that the mysterious unknown stuff (which they tell us makes up 70% of the universe) has unusual properties. Ah, science! But wait; the stuff has no explanation, and may not even exist. That’s proof that it is unusual, isn’t it? But it has to exist: the ΛCDM Big Bang needs it!

"However, it [dark energy] is an integral part of another theory, devised to explain how the large-scale universe came to be. This is the standard model of cosmology, also called the lambda cold dark matter (ΛCDM) model."

Dr Sarkar points out numerous “cracks in the foundations” of the accepted model. Among them:
1. The basis of belief in dark energy relies on Type Ia supernovae, which could have been misinterpreted.
2. If the local universe takes part in Bulk Flow (a streaming motion in our neighborhood), the interpretations of supernovae brightness could be skewed.
3. If supernovae brightness depend on their age, the universe could be decelerating, not accelerating! (Give back that Nobel prize money, please.)
4. The Hubble tension remains a serious inconsistency with age and distance assumptions.
5. Temperature differences in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and measurements of the Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) may need reinterpretation.
6. Prior support for the ΛCDM Big Bang model may be the result of confirmation bias:

"...the ΛCDM model has come under increasing scrutiny as new data has emerged. A conference hosted by the UK’s Royal Society debated emerging cracks in the standard cosmological model. It has been noted that the model’s past successes may partly be due to “confirmation bias” – the unconscious tendency to favor information that supports our existing beliefs while giving less attention to information that challenges them."

7. Even worse, the Cosmological Principle is under threat. The leading solution to Einstein’s equations of general relativity, the FLRW (Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker) framework, depends on the Cosmological Principle, that the universe is uniform and isotropic in all directions.

"However, our recent study found evidence to falsify the FLRW framework, presenting results showing that the universe is asymmetric, or lopsided. We believe this presents a fundamental challenge to dark energy by undermining the very basis for standard analyses of cosmological data."

*This means that the very basis of everything we have been told about Big Bang cosmology could be wrong. The observations contradict the Cosmological Principle, says Dr Sarkar. 

Q: So where does this leave modern cosmology? “

A: f these findings are confirmed, they could signal a paradigm shift in cosmology." CEH

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Puritan Corner - Are you like that "angel of light"?

“He who has knowledge of God’s will, but does not do it, where does he excel the devil ‘who transforms himself into an angel of light’?”
by Thomas Watson (1620-1686)
And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. 2 Corinthians 11:14

YOU and MUSIC

"Music has power to enter the human organism and transmit its messages and influence throughout the body, but its mechanism for doing so is not widely understood. Most people do understand the

basic processes of the ear—how sound waves (vibrations), acting upon the ear drum, are transformed to chemical and nerve impulses which register in our minds the different qualities of the sounds we are hearing.

What many people do not know is that the "roots of the auditory nerves—the nerves of the ear—are more widely distributed and have more extensive connections than those of any other nerves in the body.... [Due to this extensive networking] there is scarcely a function of the body which may not be affected by the pulsations and harmonic combinations of musical tones."

This means that while "music attacks the nervous system directly..." we can say also that "music, which does not depend upon the master brain (centers of reason) to gain entrance into the organism, can still arouse by way of the thalamus the relay station of all emotions, sensations and feelings. Once a stimulus has been able to reach the thalamus, the master brain is automatically invaded."

The significance of these statements lies in their observation that music, even when bypassing the centers of judgment, can still affect the judgment centers by stimulating emotional responses through the thalamus.

Q: Where can we see the effects that music has on the system? 

A: Probably the two most important areas are the nerve or message

pathways of the body and the emotional changes brought about by the thalamus. These changes affect other processes, such as heart rate, respiration, blood pressure, digestion, hormonal balance and swings, and electrolyte balance, and show up in our emotions, moods and attitudes.

--Now exposure to "harmonic" music reinforces the rhythmic cycles of the body. Harmonic music helps to balance body processes, synchronize nerve messages, enhance coordination, and bring moods and emotions into a rest state of homeostasis. 

--However, exposure to "disharmonic" music—characterized by the "tension" caused by dissonance and "noise," or by the unnatural

swings of misplaced rhythmical accents (syncopation and polyrhythms), or by inappropriate tempo—can result in a variety of negative changes. Research has found that if the tempo of music is much faster than the normal tempo of the body, it generally produces a quickening and over-stimulation of body processes. 

Analogously, the opposite has been found true of very slow music. Indeed, "tempo may be the most important factor for our hearts and our heads. Our hearts normally beat 70 or 80 times per minute. Most western music is set (coincidentally) to this tempo."

A person whose inhibitory and excitatory processes are seriously

unbalanced is described as suffering from "neurosis," a condition we associate with introversion, despondency, depression, nervousness, wild unpredictable behavior, and extreme aggression. Such a state can also cause hyperactivity, heightened mob instinct, abnormal fear, bad attitudes, lethargic or lazy behavior, and impaired learning and memory. This last fact is what has educators and learning/memory specialists all excited.

When it was discovered that rock music is disharmonic and that it causes behavior disorders including problems with learning and memory, a very quick mandate spread around—"Don't study while listening to rock music."

Rhythm rules. Our only choice in the matter is, To which rhythms

will we expose ourselves—to the rhythms of harmony, or to the rhythms that disturb harmony? There truly is no middle ground with music. It either enhances the Creator's design and nature's pull "toward optimum (harmonic) balance" or it interferes with the balance so necessary for our mental, physical, emotional and spiritual health.

May our choice ever be to cooperate with our God, that His desire for our lives can be realized, "that [we] might have life, and have it more abundantly" (John 10:10)." 

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Creation Moment 7/31/2026 -Laying bare the fairy tale nature of Darwinian theory

For His invisible attributes, namely, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. Romans 1:20 ESV

"A best-selling book by Concordia University marketing prof Gad Saad is called Suicidal Empathy (2026).
Published by Broadside Books in 2026

The Montreal professor’s book is centered on evolutionary psychology, the idea that evolution can explain human psychology.

It’s been a bestseller; one thing that probably helped elevate its status was that the basic thesis has been panned by just the people you’d expect.

Suicidal empathy is a purported phenomenon in which excessive, misdirected and pathological forms of empathy are claimed to be destructive for the party that exhibits it. This is often claimed to happen through prioritizing compassion, understanding and empathy over logic and long-term consequences. – Wikipedia, July 19, 2026

You can hear the elite sneering, right?
As it happens, many people understand the gist of what Saad is talking about. A counselor friend once told me, “I have women in my practice who are harboring and protecting men who will probably kill them one day.” That’s pretty much a definition of the phenomenon.

My take on evolutionary psychology is that it is obviously ridiculous. The reason that Darwinism has any cachet whatsoever with the public is that most of the explanations that Darwinists offer involve issues of cladistics, speciation, and molecular biology, that the public doesn’t really know anything about. So they just take them at their word.

*But when you tell people that the reason that men have more propensity to promiscuity than women, is because male apes were able to spread their seed, but they didn’t have to or carry the babies for 9 months or take care of them after they were born, everybody knows it’s kind of nonsense.

Evolutionary psychology just lays bare 

the fairy tale nature of Darwinian theory

If Darwin’s theory of evolution were true, there would be in every species a constant and ruthless competition to survive: a competition in which only a few in any generation can be winners. But it is perfectly obvious that human life is not like that, however it may be with other species.

This inconsistency, between Darwin’s theory and the facts of human life, is what I mean by ‘Darwinism’s Dilemma’. The inconsistency is so very obvious that no Darwinian has ever been altogether unconscious of it. There have been, accordingly, very many attempts by Darwinians to wriggle out of the dilemma. But the inconsistency is just too simple and direct to be wriggled out of, and all these attempts are conspicuously unsuccessful. They are not uninstructive, though, or unamusing." 

MindMatters

Why repentance is a requirement for salvation

As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: there is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. Romans 3:10–11

"From the moment Adam and Eve disobeyed their Creator in the Garden, humanity has attempted to deflect conscious acceptance of guilt. 

Adam blamed God because “the woman” was given to him by the

Creator. 

Eve blamed the serpent—and you and I have continued that reaction ever since.

--That is precisely why repentance is a requirement for salvation. When Adam rebelled, the relationship between man and God was destroyed: “By the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation,” and “by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners” (Romans 5:18–19). 

Each of us must change our mind and admit we are sinful and desperately need God’s gracious forgiveness, praying, “God be merciful to me a sinner” (Luke 18:13). 

HMM III

Language Research Fits Babel

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

"To believe the evolutionary story, one has to presume that early grunts gave rise to thousands of complex languages with syntax, grammar, and semantics: the ability to arrange complex thoughts into words by primitive humans freshly emerging from apedom. 

--Instead, scientists are finding a steady decline in languages that continues to this day. This fits the Genesis 11 account of a high diversity of languages beginning at the Tower of Babel.

The rise and fall of language diversity through the Holocene (Blasi et al., Science Magazine, 23 July 2026). The history of language, these researchers say, is one of loss, not gain. The Editors’ Summary of the paper by Bianca Lopez says,

"More than four languages are lost every year, and this rate is predicted to increase. Blasi et al. investigated how language diversity has changed over the Holocene using a Bayesian modeling approach, ethnographic data, and estimates of the total human population size over time. They assumed a maximum size of ethnolinguistic groups and that the number of different ethnolinguistic groups is related to the number of languages. Their findings suggested that language loss is not a new phenomenon, and that language diversity has been decreasing rapidly over the past one to three millennia following a peak of an order of magnitude higher diversity than we see today."

Estimating the number of languages in ancient history is admittedly speculative, riddled with assumptions. Nevertheless, it is interesting that evolutionary linguists arrive at a story of decline of language diversity rather than progress from few to many languages. Using the evolutionary timeline, the authors state:

"In the absence of direct evidence, researchers have speculated on the global trajectory of the total number of languages over the Holocene. The Megadiverse Paleolithic Hypothesis suggests that the total number of languages has been declining over the last 12,000

years, when agriculture-led language expansions began replacing hunter-gatherer language diversity. Although peak numbers are unknown, estimates range between 12,000 and “tens of thousands” of languages just before the advent of agriculture; such estimates extrapolate from the diversity now found only in New Guinea and Vanuatu. Under this view, proximate causes of the current linguistic diversity crisis (such as warfare, genocide, and the expansion of colonial powers along with their languages, cultures, and pathogens) have accelerated a process of language loss already in place throughout much of the Holocene."

The Genesis record portrays mankind speaking from the beginning. It’s a manifestation of the body and mind of humanity granted by their creation in the image of God. Genesis presents a top-down picture of language: originally one language, but purposely diversified at Babel due to sinful man’s disobedience to God’s order to multiply and fill the earth as stewards of the creation.

To the evolutionist, all of our exceptional capabilities require explaining by gradual material processes. 

Q: Do these authors give an account for the origin of language? 

A: Not really; they assume that groups of humans each had their own languages, and there were lots of them. Their only graph of the Holocene begins with thousands of languages already being used.

"Before the onset of plant and animal domestication, the number of languages was smaller than it is today (4500 to 6000 compared with 7500). Subsequent increases in global population precipitated increased linguistic diversity. We uncovered a linguistic “golden age” with tens of thousands of languages 3000 to 1000 years ago. Great loss of linguistic diversity did not begin with recent colonial expansion but as multinational empires first spread along with their languages, pathogens, and cultures. Thus, extinction has likely played a much greater role in shaping linguistic and cultural diversity than previously thought."

This simply begs the question. Language is assumed to exist at the beginning, then it declines. This assumption offers no explanation for complex communication using rational thought. It’s like assuming a biosphere full of life, then spending a whole paper explaining how most of it went extinct.

Humanity spoke thousands of languages at the dawn of farming — now many of them are lost (Nature News, 23 July 2026). Nature commented on this paper, agreeing that language extinction has been the main trend throughout human history. It’s a crazy way to look at evolution, reports Freda Kreier for Nature:

"Humanity might once have spoken many more languages than it does today, with tens of thousands in use between 3,000 and 1,000 years ago. This far exceeds the more than 7,500 unique languages now used worldwide."

The findings, published on 23 July in Science, suggest that the rise of agriculture spurred an initial language boom as people shifted from a nomadic, hunter-gatherer lifestyle and settled into small, isolated communities. If accurate, these results suggest that language extinction is not a uniquely modern phenomenon, says Heidi Harley, a linguist at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

The true historical diversity of languages suggested by this analysis is “mind-blowing”, she says. “The sheer number of languages that they projected to have existed is like, ‘What? That’s crazy’.”

Indeed, it is rather crazy to think that language is an evolutionary product of mindless, thoughtless, irrational material processes.
Notice the “suggestion” that “the rise of agriculture spurred” a language boom. 

Q: How did a spur arise, and what made it drive the horse to speak? 

Or you can get smart and read the Bible, where people act like real people, and complex things like human language have a rational source: a Mind with power, foresight, and purpose, whose works are revealed in history." CEH

Creation Moment 7/30/2026 - Geometric Morphometrics FLAWED

And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. Genesis 1:24

"Living alligators expose why juvenile fossils can fool classification methods, (Phys.org, 16 July 2026). This recent article in Phys.org summarizes new research by paleontologist James Napoli, a researcher at Stony Brook University’s Renaissance School of Medicine:

"The challenge of correctly identifying a vertebrate fossil is that, as

all creatures grow, their skeletons change dramatically. Young and adult animals often look so different that it is difficult to tell whether they are the same species, an issue long recognized by paleontologists. Additionally, without being able to witness a species grow or sequence its DNA, proper identification becomes even more uncertain."

The author proposes a way to reduce those mistakes and uncertainties by focusing on anatomical features that remain relatively constant throughout development. That’s the splashy announcement. However, the real core (and lasting importance, I believe) of this research is found in the details of the journal article:

Resolving the “ontogeny problem” in vertebrate paleontology (James G. Napoli, Paleobiology, 2 July 2026). In this research, Napoli is not merely proposing a minor refinement to a niche discipline. He is demonstrating one of the highest virtues of science: the courage to calibrate its methods against the reality science is supposed to be researching.

Measuring the Measuring Stick

Historical sciences face unique challenges. Unlike repeatable laboratory experiments in the present, they try to reconstruct unobservable events in the past. Whether the subject is paleontology, archaeology, or cosmology, researchers must infer past events from

evidence in the present.
There is nothing inherently wrong with analysis aimed at reconstructive historical conjecture; every historical science depends upon it. But its practice begs a fundamental question: 

Q: how do we know our reconstructive methods are trustworthy when we cannot travel back in time to check the results?

Noting this, Napoli’s experimental design is brilliantly simple. Instead of testing paleontology’s standard inferential procedures on fragmentary fossils whose histories are unknown, he applies the field’s analytical tools to living crocodilians whose developmental and taxonomic histories are well understood in the present.
In other words, he chooses a case where reality can answer back in order to verify the methodological warrant for those in the past.

The Limits of the Digital Ruler

Paleontologists have for decades employed a technique known as Geometric Morphometrics (GM) along with a newer and more niche-method called cladistic analysis of ontogeny. These mathematical modeling tools treat ontogenetic change like evolutionary trees, promising to separate genuine species differences from the dramatic shapeshifting that naturally occurs as an animal grows from a juvenile to an adult.
But when Napoli applied these elegant computer models to living American and Chinese alligators, the methods shockingly failed to deliver on those promises.
Napoli reports:

“The failure of morphometric methods to recover obviously distinct groups in morphospace suggests that GM cannot effectively discriminate between anatomically similar species, especially when faced with ontogenetic and polymorphic variation within both… In sum, GM fails to empirically recover the known taxonomy of the trial dataset.”

Furthermore, he notes that the cladistic analysis of ontogeny failed to accurately describe the sequence of character changes in four out of five analytical trials. Of the single trial that technically “succeeded,” Napoli called it a “fluke” arising from ideal, a priori conditions, conditions physically impossible to obtain in true paleontological research.

The Circularity of ‘Baked-In’ Assumptions

Q: Why do these sophisticated and – and widely trusted – scientific methods struggle? 

Napoli exposes a subtle assumption of circular reasoning. To make the mathematics work, evolutionary modelers frequently construct

what they call an “artificial embryo,” a hypothetical, composite ancestor assembled from selected character states rather than direct observation, which is unavailable for nearly all extinct fossil species.

Additionally, because the smallest fossil specimens are commonly assumed to represent the earliest developmental stages before the software even runs, the procedure naturally “discovers” the exact evolutionary trajectory that the initial assumptions favored.

These procedures are promoted as objective tools that can reconstruct the past without human bias, but Napoli revealed a closed loop of circular reasoning. The story was already ‘baked in’ to the dataset before the analysis began. More regrettably, when the method fails, it does not just produce harmless statistical noise; it manufactures false evolutionary trends that radiate across the discipline, like claims regarding the “tendency toward a loss of tooth positions” – he says:

"No clade shows a tendency toward a loss of tooth positions, despite published claims to the contrary."

If these procedures are not empirically testable – or tested, as Napoli does here, what level of confidence should science be placing in their results?

A Lesson Beyond Paleontology

The two living alligator species have supposedly spent 50 million years evolving along separate paths, giving them ample opportunity to lock in distinct physical traits. Yet when put to the test, paleontology’s premier software tools failed to separate them. 

Q: If a method stumbles when faced with two living species separated by tens of millions of years of history, on what grounds should we trust it to decipher the subtle nuances of an incomplete fossil record?

Napoli has reminded us of a fundamental truth: before we trust a

historical reconstruction, we must calibrate the reconstructive engines. Have we? Science progresses not by crowning the most elegant narrative, but by submitting its tools and methods to the uncompromising judgment of empirical reality. It is time for historical biology to stop celebrating its computer-generated stories, and start calibrating its storytellers." 

CEH

Picture of the Buddha: So, So Sad.....

When I read this description of the Buddha, the picture in my mind was so, so sad.....picture the Buddha in the description below and remember what Scripture says:

Of people like the Buddha--

Ever learning, 

and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

2 Timothy 3:7

In contrast to what the Buddha put himself through in a never ending quest for "wisdom" and "knowledge" God says instead:

Beloved, 

I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper 

and be in health, 

even as thy soul prospereth. 

3 John 1:2 

All that self inflicted suffering in the quest for wisdom, a waste of his life, to only die and return to dust like everyone else....no rebirth despite what he thinks and no release into Nirvana despite the tricks his tortured body and mind envisioned. So, so sad....

A description from the Buddha's Wisdom:
"A man is starving beside a river 

--because he is afraid of pleasure.

--His name is Siddhārtha Gautama (the Buddha). 

--For years he has pushed his body toward death in search of awakening the early discourses describe him touching his stomach and feeling his spine they describe the pressure roaring in his ears as he suppresses his breath.

--Another account remembers periods when he survived on a single

grain of rice.

--He has mastered the highest meditative attainments..... none of them set him free now at the edge of collapse....continues past the rose apple memory he ate he recovered his strength he sat beneath a tree at Uruvelā and in the account ascended four stages through the night... the room behind that door the two roads Siddhārtha had followed demanded ever more mastery more deprivation...."