Draw from the Rivers of Oil from Above

Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet incense. Exodus 25:6

"My soul, how much thou needest this, for thy lamp will not long continue to burn without it. Thy snuff will smoke and become an offence if light be gone, and gone it will be if oil be absent.

Thou hast no oil well springing up in thy human nature.

Even the consecrated lamps could not give light without oil; though they shone in the tabernacle they needed to be fed, though no rough winds blew upon them they required to be trimmed, and thy need is equally as great. Under the most happy circumstances thou canst not give light for another hour unless fresh oil of grace be given thee.

It was not every oil that might be used in the Lord’s service; neither the petroleum which exudes so plentifully from the earth, nor the produce of fishes, nor that extracted from nuts would be accepted; one oil only was selected, and that the best olive oil.

Pretended grace from natural goodness, fancied grace from priestly

hands, or imaginary grace from outward ceremonies will never serve the true saint of God; he knows that the Lord would not be pleased with rivers of such oil. He goes to the olive-press of Gethsemane, and draws his supplies from Him who was crushed therein.

The oil of gospel grace is pure and free from lees and dregs, and hence the light which is fed thereon is clear and bright. Our churches are the Savior’s golden candelabra, and if they are to be lights in this dark world, they must have much holy oil.

Let us pray for ourselves, our ministers and our churches, that they may never lack oil for the light. Truth, holiness, joy, knowledge, love, these are all beams of the sacred light, but we cannot give them forth unless in private we receive oil from God the Holy Ghost." Charles Spurgeon

Creation Moment 9/3/2026 - Eyes are NOT Wired Backwards

So God created man in His own image,....And God saw every thing that He had made, and, behold, it was very good. 

Genesis 1:27,31

"Evolutionists such as Richard Dawkins have long claimed that our eyes are wired ‘backwardly’, allegedly something which no intelligent designer would do. That is, the light receptor cells are behind the nerves, which supposedly obstruct the light path.

In reality, in the last few years, researchers have shown that light doesn’t go through the nerves, but is instead funnelled through

Müller glial cells.

These act like a fiber-optic plate that increases image sharpness, so “The retina is revealed as an optimal structure designed for improving the sharpness of images.” Furthermore, they help to separate out the three primary colors, so that red and green light is funneled to the color-sensitive cones. The other type of light receptor, rods, are good for night vision, but weaker at detecting green and especially red light, so the Müller cells scatter blue light on to them.

Much of this new research comes from Technion, the Israel Institute

of Technology, in the lab of Dr Erez Ribak, an astrophysicist who turned from studying stars to studying eyes. He has now shown that the Müller cells must be just the right height and width to filter the different colours correctly: “If the retina is too thick or too thin, it’s not effective.” He proved this by shining light of different colors into human and guinea pig retinas, showing how the light was guided. Ribak says:

“The retina of the eye has been optimized so that the sizes and densities of glial cells match the colors to which the eye is sensitive (which is in itself an optimization process suited to our needs). This optimization is such that color vision during the day is enhanced, while night-time vision suffers very little.”

Mark Hankins, a professor of visual neuroscience at the University of Oxford, pointed out even another reason for the backward wiring: “clearing of worn-out cell components and having access to a fuel supply of light-sensitive molecules”. These functions are provided by a layer behind the light receptors, called the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE), which means that the nerves can’t also be behind the receptors." 

CMI

Faith crises?

"But faith crises 

**don’t happen when Christians begin asking questions. 

**They happen when we stop seeking answers. 

Having questions means that we must carefully research and seek

answers from sound apologetics resources and God Himself.

Instead of panicking about questions that may still remain, remember Peter’s response when Jesus asked if the disciples wanted to leave after His teachings became tough: “Simon Peter answered Him, ‘Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life, and we have believed, and have come to know, that You are the Holy One of God’” (John 6:68–69)." AIG

Creation Moment 9/2/2026 - Deeper Meaning of Genesis 2:7

And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. [The ability to process Functional information (FI)] Genesis 2:7

"The defining characteristic of human General Intelligence (GI) is not simply reasoning ability or the accumulation of knowledge. It is
the ability to generate genuinely new functional capabilities —

capabilities that no previous human (or other system) could perform and therefore could not have simply been acquired through training.

At first, this way of thinking about AGI may sound unconventional. Yet remarkably, it is consistent with how leading AI researchers describe AGI. Not long ago, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, while discussing AGI with physicist David Deutsch, proposed that an AI would definitely qualify as AGI if it could “…figure out quantum gravity and could tell you its story.”

Notice what makes this example compelling. It is not simply that the AI possesses vast amounts of information. A library can contain vast amounts of information without being intelligent. 

--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: What allows any system to acquire capabilities it did not previously possess?
Q: What explains the origin of life?
Q: How does information convey meaning?

**A living cell is not remarkable because it contains molecules. It is remarkable because those molecules collectively perform metabolism, replication, and countless other biological functions. 

**Likewise, a generally intelligent system is not remarkable simply because it stores information.

Information itself only becomes useful when some system can use it to perform a function.

**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.

Functional information (FI).

We can describe it as FI (I, S, F), where:

I is the information.

S is the system interpreting that information.

F is the function the system is able to perform.

Functional information is information that a particular system must correctly interpret and use to perform a particular function.
Remove any one of these three components and functional information disappears."
GeorgiosMappouras

Children and the sermon

Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and Thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart. Jeremiah 15:16

"In listening to the sermon, let parents and children note the text and

the scriptures quoted, and as much as possible of the line of thought, to repeat to one another at home. 

This will go far toward relieving the weariness with which children so often listen to a sermon, and it will cultivate in all a habit of attention and of connected thought." 

E.G.W.

Creation Moment 9/1/2026 - "biology’s Einstein moment"?

... they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their stubborn way. Judges 2:19

"Matthew Haber at the University of Utah proposes “the rejection of absolute biological history, the idea that there is an invariant, privileged biological history against which other histories are

measured or deviate from.” Our comment, “If one says that something isn’t real, and yet we can know it — not far down that road lies utter incomprehension.” Haber calls it “biology’s Einstein moment,” but it feels more like a surreal state.

Now along comes a new video from New Scientist instructing us that “The Human Family Tree Has No Beginning.” No biological history and no biological beginning: 

Q: Are you seeing the trend? Both seem to be responses to being battered by evidence undermining ideas of universal common descent.

There is much doubt in the academic world these days, at a pretty fundamental level. Recently, for example, it came out that there is very little agreement among theoretical physicists about whether the basic facts of our universe imply anything about its origins.

That’s a sobering finding — all the new information over the past century did not result in a growing consensus among cosmologists." MindMatters

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Puritan Corner - Death

“God, to prevent all escape, hath sown the seeds of death in our very
constitution and nature, so that we can as soon run from ourselves, as run from death.”
by William Gurnall (1616-1679)
But he does not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol. Proverbs 9:18 RSV

Will the New Age Play a Role in End Times Events?

Q: Could the New Age play a role in End Times Events such as the impersonation of Christ?

--Not only Christians expect Christ's return, but also Muslims claim Christ will walk the earth before allah returns. Then Hindu's believe Vishnu will come in the avatar of Kalki and Buddhists await Maitreya. 

The New Age, founded by Alice Bailey, a follower of the Theosophy of Madam Blavatsky, believe in this "cosmic christ" to return and enlighten the earth.

Much of the world, via the modern environmental movement, is heavily influenced by New Age thought.

--Now picture Satan impersonating Christ. As Muslims and Christians proclaim Christ has come, so too would the Hindoos and the Buddhist proclaim their great teacher has come, possibly as an avatar of Christ. Then the secular world, embracing New Age environmentalism, declares Alice Bailey was right.

--We are told in the end there will be a time of trouble. During the natural calamities befalling the earth enters this "cosmic christ" figure and uses Ladauto Si' style arguments such as Sunday Sacredness as a day to honor not only the Father God but also the mother earth by reducing your carbon footprint. Both the Papal Encyclical Ladauto Si' and Alice Bailey as seen below will claim to be vindicated. 

**Common ground ACHIEVED. ...and all the world wondered after the beast. Revelation 13:3

-*-Just some random thoughts...nothing to be dogmatic about.

***Also, it is my opinion, (only an opinion) that Lucifer's bag-of-tricks show at the end will likely be near the close of probation. It will be the impetus for a global death decree to offer up the resisters to the mark of the beast (to what amounts to a sort of  human sacrifice to Lucifer without realizing it). 

For IF someone appeared as Christ on earth, and convinced the earth it was he...then if he leaves and calamities begin to fall again they will wonder what they did now? 

And the answer will be that they suffer to live those opposed to their global policies (Mark of the Beast policies--which were rubber stamped as the right thing by this visiting christ to earth). 

"......titled The Reappearance of The Christ published in 1948 this book was a treatise about the return of the worshiped Lord Jesus Christ but its scope went beyond traditional Christianity. In Chapter one titled the doctrine of the coming one Alice Bailey wrote "Ever down the ages and at every great human crisis always in the hours of necessity at the founding of a new race or in the awakening of a prepared humanity to a new and wider vision the heart of God impelled by the law of compassion sends forth a teacher a world Savior an illuminator an avatar a transmitting intermediary a Christ. Christ gives the message which will heal which will indicate the next step to be taken by the race of men which will illumine a

dark world problem and give to man an expression of some hitherto unrealized aspect of divinity. Our planetary crisis is due to bad karma meaning the retribution of unwholesome deeds. It is the law of karma or cause and retribution that is at work right now and human need a change of heart because a change of human's heart will determine whether we can save the planet or not the best way and the easiest way to free ourselves from this bad retribution is to reverse our action." AliceBaileyFromSunLight/YouTube

***Listen to Alice Bailey herself, who claimed to write under inspiration (spirits) of so-called "masters".

From her book The Destiny of Nations p.59: "Upon the spiritual side, as I told you in an earlier book, the whole field of religion will be re-

inspired and re-orientated from Rome because the Master Jesus will again take hold of the Christian Church in an effort to re-spiritualize it and to re-organize it. From the chair of the Pope of Rome, the Master Jesus will attempt to swing that great branch of the religious beliefs of the world again into a position of spiritual power and away from its present authoritative and temporary political potency."

***They (Lucifer's inspired host) are telling you what they are planning to do --- from Ladauto Si' to Alice Bailey. They are blunt.

Creation Moment 8/31/2026 - Astrocytes

I will praise Thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: Psalm 139:14

"Focal astrocyte loss reveals nuclear translocation during lesion repopulation (Herwerth et al, Nature Neuroscience, 23 July 2026). The authors found that an adult’s brain may have a much greater regenerative capacity than previously assumed. This new discovery focuses on a star-shaped type of cell (called ‘astrocytes’) that have been seen to repopulate damaged areas, sending nuclei into lesions and rebuilding networks.

In a press release by the University of Zurich (August 2026), the authors state that “The findings of our study reveal a previously unknown ability of the adult brain to repair itself”.

In addition to bringing some hope to families who have watched loved ones with traumatic injuries struggle, without medical reassurance, this previously unknown healing functional process involving astrocytes is worth deeper examination from the lens of the origins and design debate.

In conventional medicine, astrocytes are recognized as a type of glial cells (with the term ‘glia’ meaning ‘glue’, as early scientists thought

they were simply the ‘glue’ holding the brain together). It was already known that these cells support the nervous system, in that, while they do not carry electrical signals like neurons, they perform essential roles that keep neurons alive, nourished, and functioning properly.

In this way, astrocytes as a type of glial cell were viewed as reactive, rather than regenerative, where upon a brain injury, astrocytes were observed to form borders around lesions that were often considered a barrier to regeneration rather than a repair mechanism. As it was assumed that the border made by astrocytes did not include repair, neurons were seen as irreplaceable.

While conventional medicine supported the idea of some amount of recovery possible via physiotherapy, this ‘recovery’ was thought of as only functional compensation, traditionally explained by surviving areas of the brain taking over lost functions, not by true tissue repair. For example, according to conventional medicine, patients could relearn speech after left-hemisphere damage because other regions adapted, not because cells regrew.

The findings by Herwerth et al (2026) provide insights that may form the basis of an important medical paradigm shift. The adult brain is no longer seen as incapable of structural repair. Since astrocytes are now seen to demonstrate a regenerative plasticity, this could inspire new therapies and provide renewed hope for patients with traumatic brain injuries that may benefit from treatments that harness astrocyte regeneration.

Herwerth et al (2026) outline four steps in the process of cell regeneration through astrocyte action, namely, structural remodeling, proliferation and nuclei migration, multinucleated states, and transient gene activation. As outlined, each of these steps involved complex processes that build upon the previous step toward the unified goal of cell recovery. The process may be summarized in more detail as follows:

Step 1: Structural Remodeling: After a traumatic injury, there is a loss of astrocytes in the region of injury. The first step of healing occurs at the site of focal astrocyte loss, where astrocytes around the injury (i.e. perilesional astrocytes), orient themselves toward the

center of the lesion or injury. Not only do these cells change their orientation at the site of injury, but their star-shaped extensions become more elongated. According to the authors, this elongation is the highest on day 5 after the injury.
The orientation and elongation of the astrocytes around the injured section of the brain functions similar to scaffolds erected around a damaged building. 

Q: From an evolutionary standpoint of chance processes, what would be the probability for random mutations to explain why astrocytes consistently extend toward injury?

Step 2: Proliferation and Daughter Nuclei Migration: In the next step of the process, Herwerth et al (2026) found that astrocyte division took place. In Herwerth’s study, roughly 60% of perilesional astrocytes proliferated, and sent nuclei gliding through cytoplasmic extensions into the lesion. The authors explain that the gliding nuclei move “…across long distances to repopulate the damaged area of the brain and knit the astrocyte network back together.”
This observation is noteworthy as most cell migration involves the whole cell moving, rather than just the cell nucleus. However, in the case of astrocytes working on repairing a damaged cell, this approach is efficient to repopulate damaged areas quickly without uprooting the entire cell. In the case of astrocytes, the nucleus itself relocates while still sharing cytoplasm with the mother cell for a time. This phenomenon is often known by the term ‘nucleokinesis’.
One of the reasons this observation is surprising is that adult astrocytes were long thought to be static support cells. Nucleokinesis processes are often associated with neural development (e.g., in embryos); however, this process also remains built-into the adult brain structures and activates upon injury. With this process, the nucleus (the genetic blueprint) is transported like a seed into barren territory. 

Q: From an evolutionary standpoint, why would a cell evolve to move nuclei independently? What is the probability of such a mechanism arising piecemeal?

Step 3: Multinucleated States and Cytoplasmic Sharing: Herworth et al’s (2026) discovery also revealed another surprising aspect of the astrocyte’s role and context in the brain cell regeneration process. Specifically, during migration of the cell nuclei, electron microscopy revealed that mother and daughter nuclei often shared the same cytoplasm during migration. The authors explained why this was surprising. In their words: “Despite their distance from each other, mother and daughter nuclei share the same cytoplasm.” This design feature, even in this transitional state, ensures resources and signaling continuity until the daughter nuclei could survive alone.

Q: Could evolutionary chance really account for such foresight?

Step 4: Transient Gene Activation: A fourth aspect of the astrocyte healing process was the discovery that astrocytes’ repair functions only activate when needed and where needed, with this function deactivating after the cell regeneration process has been completed. This prevents constant overgrowth or inflammation, ensuring balance in the brain.
Using spatial transcriptomics as a method to show which genes are active in specific locations of tissue, the authors found a distinct “injury-associated” gene pattern that activates after astrocyte loss. These genes helped the astrocytes remodel, proliferate, and move nuclei into the damaged area. Once the astrocyte network was rebuilt, those genes quieted down and returned to normal baseline activity.
The transient-nature of the repair process triggered by injury points to the existence of a built-in emergency programme within the cellular network inside our brains. This dynamic regulation is like a fail-safe system in engineering: automatically triggered during damage, guiding repair, and then resetting to normal once stability is restored. Additionally, because the repair program is transient, the fact that the genes are only switched on temporarily at a precise timing prevents permanent changes and maladaptive overgrowth. From a design perspective, the improbability of such coordinated processes arising by chance is a strong testimony to intelligent design; astrocytes act with foresight, precision, and purpose. 

Q: How could evolution explain such reversible, context-dependent programming?

While the design argument for astrocytes stands strong, mainstream publications continue to appeal to evolutionary processes to explain the functions of astrocytes (e.g., from Cell Stem Cell, Frontiers in Cell and Development Biology and BioRxiv). Even in August 2026, an article entitled: Written in the Stars: Astrocyte Biology from Evolution to Disease (Falcone et al), Acta Physiol (Oxf), attributed astrocytes as:

“… emerging as supportive cells of primitive sensory organs…” and driving “…a continuous expansion of astroglial complexity and functional versatility, ultimately making them indispensable neuroprotectors and homeostatic regulators.”

Falcone et al (2026) also argue that:

“…The large, morphologically elaborate astrocytes of the human brain arguably reflect an evolutionary response to increased neuronal homeostatic demands…”

As with most evolutionary explanations, the functions of astrocytes

are reduced to merely being a reaction to demands for survival. Yet the improbability of nucleokinesis, cytoplasmic sharing, and transient gene activation arising stepwise is immense. Each mechanism requires multiple coordinated components, with precise orientations, positionings and timings to manage injury, alongside the other functions that astrocytes play. Without all parts functioning together, repair would fail.

Q: With such complexities, how could the astrocyte regeneration process be born from a gradual accumulation of random mutations to function so seamlessly as a holistic, integrated design?" 

CEH

Aristobulus in Britain?

"Peter preached the first missionary sermon to representatives of at least thirteen different sections of the known world. Acts 2:9 Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia...–from the north-east are mentioned. Arabians had come from the south-west. Asia Minor to the north was represented by Jews and proselytes from Phrygia and Pamphylia, Cappadocia, Pontus, and Asia. There were pilgrims from Crete in the Mediterranean Sea, from Libya and Egypt in North Africa, and even strangers from Rome, the center of the Empire. Three thousands souls responded to that first appeal, and during the following days thousands more accepted the message of the Gospel. As these separated after the feast and returned to their various homes, they carried with them the good news of salvation, and began to raise up churches in the very uttermost parts of the Empire.

In the 13th chapter of Acts we find that Antioch, the Graeco-Syrian capital of the East, had become a center from which evangelists were being sent forth into the regions beyond, along the great trade routes which radiated in all directions from that city. Paul, Barnabas, and John Mark received their commissions, under God, from the church at Antioch and spread the message over Asia, Greece, Macedonia, and southern Europe as far as Rome, and perhaps even farther afield. In the second century Alexandria became another center from whence proceeded missionary pioneers into all the earth. It is not, therefore, unreasonable to suppose that some of these fervent Christian missionaries penetrated the forests of Gaul, found themselves on the shores of the narrow channel which separated the wild islands of the Brittani from the mainland, and crossed over to carry the good news of salvation there also.

There are many legends and traditions which suggest different leaders of the early church as the pioneers of the Gospel in Britain.
....group of ancient records identify the Christian worker Aristobulus, whose family is mentioned by Paul in his letter to the Romans,

[Salute Apelles approved in Christ. Salute them which are of Aristobulus' household. Romans 16:10] as one of the pioneers of the Gospel in Britain. Thus The Menologies [Martyrologies] of the Greek Church state: Aristobulus was one of the seventy disciples, and a follower of Paul the apostle, with whom he preached the Gospel to the whole world, and ministered to him. He was chosen by Paul to be the missionary bishop to the land of Britain, inhabited by a very war like and fierce race, by whom he was often scourged and repeatedly dragged as a criminal through their towns. Yet he converted many of them to Christianity; and after he had built churches and ordained deacons and priests for the island, he was there martyred."
W.L.Emmerson

Creation Moment 8/30/2026 - Guess what this Atheist author said?

Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, ... 2 Peter 3:3

"Most importantly, the campaign of the scientific establishment to rule out intelligent design as beyond discussion because it is not science results in the avoidance of significant questions about the relation between evolutionary theory and religious belief, questions that must be faced in order to understand the theory and evaluate the scientific evidence for it." 

Thomas Nagel, prominent philosopher of science and atheist

Today's Counterfit to God's Truth

For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel; Colossians 1:5

"The Bible is the great detector of error—light that rebukes the

darkness. 

*The only way to defeat darkness is to turn on the light. 

Yet today people put all kinds of authorities ahead and in place of the Bible, things such as science, philosophy, feelings, signs and wonders, preachers, and the testimony of the senses." 

Stephen Bohr

Creation Moment 8/29/2026 - The cosmological constant problem

And He is before all things, 

and by Him all things consist. 

Colossians 1:17

"A constant is a value that is added to make equations fit reality as determined by physical measurements. An example is the gravitational constant, which is 6.67430(15)×10−11 denoted by the capital letter G in the formula F = [G x (m1m2/r2)]. 

When the calculations are completed, the formula correctly produces the value of force (F) no matter what the value of the two masses and the distance between them.

The cosmological constant problem in this case refers to the substantial disagreement between the observed values of vacuum energy density (the small value of the cosmological constant) and the much larger value indicated by quantum field theory. 

*The problem is that the calculated energy in a vacuum that contributes to the cosmological constant is calculated to be between 50 and as much as 120 orders of magnitude greater than what is

actually observed.

To solve the problem, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Professor Steven Weinberg proposed what Chown calls “a desperate explanation.” Specifically, he proposed that the value of the cosmological constant is different in different parts of the Universe. In most regions, the cosmological constant is so large that “it blasts matter apart, preventing it from forming galaxies and stars. We find ourselves in a region where the cosmological constant is small enough to permit the existence of stars because” it must be smaller for the reason that we have galaxies and stars in our part of the universe. Therefore, it must be different in our corner of the universe.

This is similar to claiming that the speed of light in a vacuum is different in different parts of the universe. In some areas it is 186,282 miles per second and in other areas, say, it is 896,367 miles per second. The cosmologists’ response to the cosmological constants problem is a similar escape strategy:

"Since few people are happy with Weinberg’s solution, the cosmological problem represents the biggest discrepancy between a prediction and an observation in the history of physics. The previous biggest concern was how an electron can orbit in an atom before spiraling into its nucleus. Theory predicted that atoms should collapse in a split-second, yet atoms are known to have persisted for the age of the Universe…. The discrepancy was resolved in the 1920s by a revolutionary new theory: quantum theory."

Chown concludes that

".....resolving the cosmological constant problem will require a revolution in physics. Specifically, a theory that unites quantum theory (the theory of the very small) with Einstein’s theory of gravity (the theory of the very big). Such a theory, dubbed quantum gravity, has so far proved elusive."

Modern Big Bang cosmology, in contrast to claims such as Stephen Hawking in his book Brief Answers to the Big Questions, admits that the orthodox view of the Big Bang is in big trouble. Hawking, although committed to Big Bang cosmology, advocates a very different mechanism, called ‘string theory’." 

CEH

Psalm 119:37

"Psalm 119:37 Turn away my eyes from beholding vanity. And that means our own vain thoughts and actions as well as those of others.

*We all know the power of evil associations. 

--We know that it is dangerous and demoralizing for anybody 

continually to hear bad language, and to see wicked deeds. 

--Long familiarity with sin tends insensibly to cause us to lose the sense of its wickedness." 

E.J. Waggoner

Creation Moment 8/28/2026 - Darwinian Mindset Leads to Silly Studies

And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth: Genesis 5:3

"Q: “Why did anyone do this study?” And this recent study is a great example of that. The study, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, looked at ape and human skulls to see if ancient human infants were as helpless as today’s human infants—all in an effort to discover when our larger brains supposedly evolved—and, well, I don’t think you’ll be shocked by the study findings!


Here’s how they describe the “need” for this study in the abstract of the paper:

"Unlike other catarrhine primates, modern humans deliver a helpless newborn who requires prolonged extensive care. Such helpless infancy is associated with fetus-like, rapid postnatal brain growth, which is essential to produce the large human brain. In the debate about its evolution, a key question has been whether it emerged in Homo erectus, whose brain sizes were approximately 20–40% smaller than Homo sapiens."

To test this, the authors examined 1,504 “cranial specimens,” including nearly 1,000 from great apes and over 500 from modern

humans, looking for deformational plagiocephaly, otherwise known as flat head syndrome. This deformity comes from human babies lying too long on their backs or in the same position and being unable to lift their heads. Apes do not suffer from this condition as they have stronger head control from birth.

The researchers assume that if a skull shows this deformity, it must be because the infant was helpless, like today’s infants. They then looked at cranial fossils from archaic humans, Homo erectus and Homo floresiensis (the so-called “Hobbits”), and found that two of the H. erectus specimens and one of the H. floresiensis specimens exhibited this deformational plagiocephaly. The researchers’ conclusion?

"These support a deep evolutionary origin of hominin helpless infancy, and imply both elaborate parental childcare and cooperative social behaviors that could likely have accompanied it."

In other words, humans had babies that looked and acted like human babies! What a shock!" 

AIG

Pre-1900s Bible footnotes on the Nicolatians

But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. Revelation 2:6

"This is my 1863 Bible. Every Bible that's like pre-1900s will have similar things. 

So Jesus says twice in Revelation that He hates the doctrine of the

Nicolatians and He never addresses them as like being a church right like he addresses them as being outsiders people outside of the covenant. 

*Look at the definition in the 1800s Nicolatians "certain heretical

Christians referred to in Revelation 26 and 15 who taught that the knowledge of God and Christ was sufficient for salvation and that being justified by faith they were free from the restraints of the law and might indulge in sin with impunity."

Someone tried to tell me that this is not exactly what almost every Christian in the west today believes.

And you'll find that the great deception, which is that you can be in Christ and be lawless, I think, started around the time of the Scoffield Bible.
And naturally, because people have itching ears, they welcome the deception." 

KayPodgee

Creation Moment 8/27/2026 - God as our "parent" since the Creation

"It is well preached by many that when mankind fell through Adam's transgression in the Garden of Eden, the consequences of the resulting curse, which we experience daily, include:

Sinful men harming each other in innumerable ways (assault, lying, theft, murder, deception, wanton endangerment, etc.).

A corrupted creation (snakes now bite, spiders and hornets sting, cells mutate into cancer, bacteria don't just help us digest but attack our bodies, as do fungi, and viruses, etc.).
However, a 3rd immeasurable loss to add to the list above, I have never yet heard mentioned in any kind of sermon or Christian teaching. It can be noticed through one of the many symbolisms of spiritual realities God has given us in His invention of the family.
You may have been too young to remember from your own childhood, but if you have ever parented small children, you know they would be dead in short order without the intervention of their parents......If it had not been the Lord who was on our side... Psalm 124:1" CM

End Time Deception Will INCLUDE Signs

"The Bible tells us that Satan’s deceptions at the end of time will be so deceitful that practically the whole world will buy into his lies: Matthew 24:23-25: "Then if anyone says to you, 'Look, here is the Christ!' or 'There!' do not believe it. For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect [notice Satan’s target audience] See, I have told you beforehand.” 

Revelation 16:13, 14: “And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs

coming out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. For they are spirits of demons, performing signs, which go out to the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.” 

Satan will even impart counterfeit spiritual gifts to Christians in order to deceive them. Matthew 7:21-23: "Not everyone who says to Me: 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?' And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!'" 

Stephen Bohr