Dig Deeper: April 2018

Sunday, April 29, 2018

IN the NEWS - Beyoncé Mass an SJW Front

Turns out the Beyoncé Mass is really a front for SJW's (so-called "social justice warriors") which is nothing more than a new name for divisive cultural Marxism...

"The pastor of a San Francisco progressive Episcopal church is defending his support for holding the first-ever “Beyoncé Mass.”

“I know there are people who will say using Beyoncé is just a cheap way of trying to get people in the church,” said Jude Harmon, the founding pastor of the Vine, a ministry of Grace Cathedral Church. “But Jesus used very provocative images in the stories he would tell to incite people to ask hard questions about their own religious assumptions. He regularly provoked. We’re following in the way of Jesus.”
The event was part of a series the church called “Speaking Truth: The Power of Story in Community,” which it said would tell stories of those traditionally marginalized in Christianity, such as women and people of color. You know, women like Beyoncé.
The series began with a program on Mary Magdalene called “The Original Nasty Woman.” The ministry equated Mary Magdalene to Hillary Clinton saying “strong, smart women being insulted and marginalized by agents of patriarchy is as old as time.” The church claims that if Mary Magdalene were here today, she would be “wearing a pink hat and marching with all who wear that epithet, ‘nasty woman,’ as a badge of honor.”

No explanation was offered as to why the devoted follower of Jesus was seen in such a light."

WND

uhmmmm.....

1- How is Beyoncé a representative of "marginalized" women? She is a successful multi-millionaire...

2- Comparing Hillary Clinton to Mary Magdalene is over the top.

3- What "patriarchy" marginalized Hillary? She was a First Lady, U.S. Senator, U.S. Secretary of State and Presidential candidate of a major party...How does she represent someone "marginalized"? Also,as for being "insulted" everyone in the public political arena gets insulted. Just ask the most maligned female politician in American history-Sarah Palin. Why should Hillary be treated any different?

4- And NO, Mary Magdalene, who became a follower of Christ, would Definitely NOT be in an angry mob of militant feminists wearing a "pink hat". She would have nothing to do with that spirit that drives that sort of bitter politics.

Soooooooo...it appears that the Beyoncé Mass is nothing more than a pastor using his church to promote his own bitter, nasty secular political worldview...

For he flattereth himself in his own eyes,

until his iniquity be found to be hateful.

Psalm 36:2

Puritan Corner - Show God...

“One way to get comfort is to plead the promise of God in prayer, show Him His handwriting; God is tender of His Word.”
by Thomas Manton (1620-1677)
That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
Hebrews 6:12

DESIRE OF AGES: Audio & Pull Quotes- Chapter 59

Priestly Plottings

Audio:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/rltG0fXCV30?list=PL4ByrircmXL6qt2QplU6IudoOYVgzBS3C

The Sadducees were now thoroughly alarmed. They did not believe in a resurrection of the dead.

Producing so-called science, they had reasoned that it would be an impossibility for a dead body to be brought to life. But by a few words from Christ their theory had been overthrown. They were shown to be ignorant both of the Scriptures and of the power of God.
Thus far the Sadducees had not encouraged the plan of putting Christ to death. But after the resurrection of Lazarus they decided that only by His death could His fearless denunciations against them be stopped.
The Pharisees believed in the resurrection, and they could not but see that this miracle was an evidence that the Messiah was among them. But they had ever opposed Christ's work. From the first they had hated Him because He had exposed their hypocritical pretensions.
---In declaring that one man should die for the nation, Caiaphas indicated that he had some knowledge of the prophecies, although it was very limited. But John, in his account of this scene, takes up the prophecy, and shows its broad and deep significance. He says, And not for that nation only, but that also He should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad. John 11:52. How blindly did the haughty Caiaphas acknowledge the Savior's mission!

Creation Moment 4/30/2018 - Biblical Biology

"Actually, all human beings belong to only one race—Adam’s race. The Apostle Paul said, “He made from one, every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth.” (Acts 17:26) God created Adam from the dust of the ground and formed Eve from one of Adam’s ribs. All other humans descended from Adam and Eve.
All people groups are able to intermarry, reproduce, and birth fertile offspring. This is biological evidence that all humans belong to a single race. Therefore the concept of race is essentially meaningless biologically.

Thus it is legitimate to say we are all one family. We’re all relatives of each other, for we are all descendants of Adam and Eve, as well as descendants of Noah and Mrs. Noah.
The dispersion of humanity across the earth from the Tower of Babel accounts for the many different people groups. God separated and dispersed family lines by giving them different languages, and each family line had a distinct set of genes. Since they were isolated as a result of language differences, different groups exhibited, sustained, and accentuated different genetic characteristics.
Adam’s and Eve’s skin was probably middle-brown in color with a mixture of light and dark color genes in their genome. In this way their offspring could range from very light to very dark. But all are part of the single Adamic race.
Similarly, Adam and Eve undoubtedly possessed genetic variation for other traits like hair color and texture, eye color and shape, height and weight, talents and abilities, intellectual and physical gifts, etc.
Some of the original gene pool was probably lost at the Flood when the entire population of the world was wiped out except for Noah and his three sons and their four wives. The gene pool was limited to Shem, Ham, and Japheth and their three wives. Everyone today is descended from those three couples.
The human race is both unified and diverse. It is unified because everyone who ever lived descended from Adam. It is diverse because of the genetic complexity and variation that God built into Adam. The diversity eventually became apparent as a result of the dispersal from Babel."
BibleScience

They are free...

Now I pray to God that ye do no evil;

not that we should appear approved,

but that ye should do that which is honest,...

2 Corinthains 13:7

"Life's best things--

*simplicity,
*honesty,
*truthfulness,
*purity,
*unsullied integrity--
are not to be bought or sold.

They are free to the illiterate as to the educated,
to the white man as to the black man,
to the poor man as to the king upon his throne."
That I May Know Him p.85, E.G.W.

Dissecting the Psalm about Absalom SERIES: 6

"A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his Son.

I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people,

that have set themselves against me round about.

Psalm 3:6

Verse 6. Buckling on his harness for the day's battle, our hero sings, "I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set themselves against me round about."

Observe that he does not attempt to under- estimate the number or wisdom of his enemies. He

reckons them at tens of thousands, and he views them as cunning huntsmen chasing him with cruel skill. Yet he trembles not, but looking his foeman in the face he is ready for the battle.
--There may be no way of escape;
--they may hem me in as the deer are surrounded by a circle of hunters;
--they may surround me on every side,
but in the name of God I will dash through them;

But David is too wise to venture to the battle without prayer; he therefore betakes himself to his knees, and cries aloud to Jehovah."
Charles Spurgeon

IN the NEWS - Freedom March

Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites,..And such were some of you:
--but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified,
--but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus,
and by the Spirit of our God.
1 Corinthians 6:9,11

"Former transgender, bisexual, lesbian and gay men and women, including an Orlando Pulse

nightclub shooting survivor, will be gathering in the nation's capital for a worship event next weekend to proclaim how Jesus Christ liberated them.
Attendees from across the nation will assemble at the National Sylvan Theater from noon to 3 p.m. on May 5 for what is being called Freedom March.
Daren Mehl, president of the group Voice of the Voiceless, says he sees the event as "an opportunity for those of us who have a new life with Jesus to come together in fellowship and praise Him for the love and grace available to everyone who seeks it [and] to testify publicly of the life-changing grace available to leave the LGBT identity for something greater," he told The Christian Post on Friday.
Mehl, 40, is a Minnesota native who identified as a gay man for approximately 10 years. Today he is married to a woman and has two children. He will also be at next Saturday's march." CP

Saturday, April 28, 2018

LINGUISTICS Archives PAGE

LINGUISTICS Archives PAGE

Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language,

that they may not understand one another's speech.

Genesis 11:7

Linguistics Question of Pagel
https://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2017/04/linguistics-question-of-pagel.html

Language Diversification Process

http://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2021/01/language-diversification-process.html

PIE anyone?
https://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2014/01/pie-anyone.html
Languages from the Plain of Shinar

No Linguistic Trunk

http://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2021/09/creation-moment-9182021-no-linguistic.html

Sumerian Language Isolate tells us......

https://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2021/11/sumerian-language-isolate-tells-us.html

Universal Language Network

http://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2022/07/creation-moment-7222022-universal.html

Brain-to-Brain Coupling

Dig Deeper: Creation Moment 8/11/2024 - Brain-to-Brain Coupling (master1844-dc.blogspot.com)

Brain & Language (Amazing)

Brain & Language (Amazing) (master1844-dc.blogspot.com)

LANGUAGE Undermines evolution

LANGUAGE Undermines evolution (master1844-dc.blogspot.com)

Brain's shortcut for processing our first language

Brain's shortcut for processing our first language (master1844-dc.blogspot.com)

The Production of Speech

The Production of Speech (master1844-dc.blogspot.com)

Your Temporal Windows

Dig Deeper: Creation Moment 9/8/2024 - Your Temporal Windows (master1844-dc.blogspot.com)

DESIRE OF AGES: Audio & Pull Quotes- Chapter 58

Lazarus,Come Forth

Audio:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/ufQiFAUkzT8?list=PL4ByrircmXL6qt2QplU6IudoOYVgzBS3C

Had Christ been in the sickroom, Lazarus would not have died; for Satan would have had no power

over him. Death could not have aimed his dart at Lazarus in the presence of the Life-giver. Therefore Christ remained away. He suffered the enemy to exercise his power, that He might drive him back, a conquered foe. He permitted Lazarus to pass under the dominion of death; and the suffering sisters saw their brother laid in the grave.
When the Lord is about to do a work, Satan moves upon someone to object. Take ye away the stone, Christ said. (John 11:39) As far as possible, prepare the way for My work. But Martha's positive and ambitious nature asserted itself. She was unwilling that the decomposing body should be brought to view.
The command is obeyed. The stone is rolled away. Everything is done openly and deliberately. All are given a chance to see that no deception is practiced. There lies the body of Lazarus in its rocky grave, cold and silent in death.
He cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth. (John 11:43) His voice, clear and penetrating, pierces the ear of the dead. There is a stir in the silent tomb, and he who was dead stands at the door of the sepulcher.

Christ in All

Acquaint now thyself with Him, and be at peace.
Job 22:21

"When the people are shown that though Jesus was once dead and came to life again, He brought no

message from the grave; and that, though Jesus personally called Lazarus from the grave, Lazarus likewise came forth with no message from the dead, they are ready to believe that the dead know not anything.

When they are shown that Jesus respected the seventh-day Sabbath, it is not difficult to inspire belief in the Sabbath that He observed.

So with all doctrinal truths when presented in Him."
G.A.Roberts,1932

Dissecting the Psalm about Absalom SERIES: 5

"A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his Son.

I laid me down and slept;

I awaked;

for the LORD sustained me.

Psalm 3:5

Verse 5. David's faith enabled him to lie down; anxiety would certainly have kept him on

tiptoe, watching for an enemy. Yea, he was able to sleep, to sleep in the midst of trouble, surrounded by foes.

But David says he awaked also. Some sleep the sleep of death; but he, though exposed to many enemies, reclined his head on the bosom of his God, slept happily beneath the wing of Providence in sweet security, and then awoke in safety. "For the Lord sustained me."
Charles Spurgeon

On the Streets of Babylon: Grave Sucking?

Babylon is fallen, is fallen,... Come out of her, my people,

Revelation 14:8/18:4

There seems to be some "Grave Sucking" on the Streets of Babylon....

"Jesus Culture founder and director Banning Liebscher addressed several controversies surrounding Bethel Church in Redding, California—including grave sucking. His comments here were part of a larger conversation between Liebscher and Preston Sprinkle, starting at 13 minutes into the interview.
"I'm not a proponent for it, I'm just saying like there's an anointing on Elijah or Elisha, there's an anointing on his grave that made the guy come back to life, and maybe there's an anointing here,"

says Liebscher. "And then it started getting to where like, I don't know man, I don't know what students were doing. But it was weird. But that's the stuff that all of a sudden has blown up all over the place."
Grave sucking, sometimes called grave soaking, is the process by which someone lays on the grave of a deceased Christian in order to absorb their mantle or anointing.
Apostolic leader Joseph Mattera called out the practice sweeping through charismatic circles in recent years.
"Many charismatics want shortcuts to the anointing and desire results from an instant microwave experience or a one-time event. Instead of wasting their time traveling to 'grave suck,' they should discipline themselves to seek God, pour over His Word and dig down deep in His presence," ...
Charisma

Papal Notes - Pope's Message

"Pope Francis sent greetings to the participants of the Global

Christian Forum meeting in Colombia. Fr Juan Usma-Gomez, attending the meeting on behalf of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity read the Pope’s message yesterday. The gathering was in its 3rd of a 5 day meeting.
The Pope said that he was uniting himself with the participants. He recognizes the event as a graced opportunity giving the representatives of various Christian communities the possibility of joining together as brothers and sisters to fulfill Jesus’ prayer of

unity. Pope Francis said he was praying that the meeting might provide time for the “sharing of experiences and faith,” both personal and ecclesial in an “open and respectful” space. “Humanity greatly needs this solidarity,” he said, “which encourages respect, esteem, mutual pardon, and the real defense of human dignity in every situation.”
VaticanNews
...and all the world wondered after the beast.
Revelation 13:3

SDA News - Remembering Barbara Bush

"The death of Barbara Bush this week brought a story in The Sharon Herald remembering when she spoke at the centennial celebration of the Adventist Church in nearby small town of

Sharpsville.

The town is in western Pennsylvania and is the ancestral home of the Pierce family into which Mrs. Bush was born. The church was built by her great-great-grandfather, James Pierce and later sold to the Adventists. Mrs. Bush’s father, Marvin Pierce, was born across the street from the church. She spoke there on 19 July 1982, when her husband was Vice President of the United States. He later was elected President." NewsBriefs
Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary:
who is so great a God as our God?
Psalm 77:13

Creation Moment 4/29/2018 - 2 Purposes of DNA

And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold,

it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

Genesis 1:31

"God designed and formed a highly complex reproductive program for each of the kinds implanting that ‘code’ in what is now known as DNA.

This would permit a tremendous latitude of variation for the twofold purpose of

* assuring that each individual would be unique and recognizable as an individual,
* and also of enabling characteristics of the kind to shift sufficiently to adapt to a wide range of possible future environments, but never so much as to become a basically different kind of organism."
CMI

Friday, April 27, 2018

DESIRE OF AGES: Audio & Pull Quotes- Chapter 57

One Thing Thou Lackest

Audio:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/PBFeN1qwg5I?list=PL4ByrircmXL6qt2QplU6IudoOYVgzBS3C

And when He was gone forth into the way, there came one running, and kneeled to Him, and

asked Him, Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life? Mark 10:17
He was so deeply moved that as Christ was going on His way, he ran after Him, and kneeling at His feet, asked with sincerity and earnestness the question so important to his soul and to the soul of every human being, Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?
Only one thing he lacked, but that was a vital principle. He needed the love of God in the soul. This lack, unless supplied, would prove fatal to him; his whole nature would become corrupted.
The ruler was quick to discern all that Christ's words involved, and he became sad. The cost of eternal life seemed too great, and he went away sorrowful; for he had great possessions. Mark 10:22.
His claim that he had kept the law of God was a deception. He showed that riches were his idol.
Thousands are passing through this ordeal, weighing Christ against the world; and many choose the world.

Britains Flood Evidence

"England’s highest peak is Sca Fell, in the Lake District, at just short of 1,000 metres. The area is one of structural complexity with rocks of the Borrowdale volcanic group (BVG) deposited supposedly in the ‘Ordovician’ period (~450 Ma) being the dominant surface rocks. However, these are underlain by the Tarn Moor Mudstones deposited in water. So the area was once under water at least 450 Ma.

There are four reasons Garner gives for the possible watery origin of the BVG rocks:

1-The welding of ignimbrites has been cited in support of the subaerial interpretation, but this has been strongly challenged by field and theoretical studies demonstrating that welding can take place underwater and may even be more likely underwater. Notably, BVG ignimbrites are often underlain or overlain by subaqueously deposited pyroclastics.
2-Attention has been drawn to lava flows with features suggesting weathering in a subaerial environment. However, many of these ‘extrusive lava flows’ have now been reinterpreted as ‘intrusive sills’, which were never exposed to the atmosphere. Their weathered appearance is due to interaction between the hot magmas and the wet sediments into which they were intruded.
3-Many of the bedded tuffs in the BVG display evidence of having been deposited underwater or reworked by water. Observed structures include ripples, channels, slumps, cross bedding, graded bedding, flute marks and load casts. In some locations, such as Pavey Ark, the volcanic breccias are interpreted as hyaloclastites (glassy) which formed when lava was rapidly chilled and fragmented by contact with water.
4-Fossil-bearing marine mudstones of the Holehouse Gill Formation occur in the upper part of the BVG, although this is regarded as a brief, localised incursion into an otherwise subaerial succession.

Turning our attention to other high spots in the UK, the highest mountain in Wales is Snowdon

(1,085 m). At its simplest, it is now a series of irregular-shaped plugs of igneous rock, but these plugs pierced a series of layers of mudstone, which had been laid down under water supposedly around 500 Ma (‘Cambrian’). The mudstone has been tilted almost to the vertical and has been compressed and heated into slate.

Scotland’s highest mountain, and the highest in the UK, is Ben Nevis at 1,343 m. The reason we can be sure the area was once under water is similar to the story for Sca Fell and Snowdon. Much of the

area is metamorphic rock, but Ben Nevis emerged from depth as a granite intrusion, displacing the water-deposited sediments, which then transformed the surrounding country rock into metamorphic rock by the heat from the granite.

In Northern Ireland, the highest mountain is in the Mourne range (852 m). Though the mountain range is granite, it is underlain by slate and shale. Thus the area was under water supposedly 440 Ma.

In order to validate the biblical account of the Flood from geological evidence, it is not sufficient, though it was helpful as a precursor, to show that all our mountains were once under water.

The retreat of the Flood

The uniformitarian understanding of what happened after this total (or almost total) immersion of the UK ~65 Ma was that the area started to uplift in the Irish Sea because of thermal doming.This is seen as one cause of a general stratigraphical tilt towards the southeast in England and Wales. Copeplaces the apex of the dome between Anglesey and the Isle of Man. So the overlying water would have had to run off radially from this position because a cone-like structure would be emerging. Thus over England and Wales the flow would be towards the south and east.
Thompsonobjects to the doming because the thermal dome would have eventually subsided, to which Copereplies that that is why the Irish Sea is now sea, rather than land. Both authors agree that some kind of ‘igneous underplating’ (bolstering up) would also have been necessary to explain the runoff processes.

Uniformitarian geologists have traced the subsequent events. Initially, short rivers developed in the northwest, creating a large delta lagoonal complex covering much of what was to become England. The ancient rivers have been named either after modern day rivers that follow similar courses (Trent and Thames) or geographical names (Solent and Hampshire). These earlier tracks have been ascertained by discoveries of gravel deposits consistent with erosion at upstream positions.The present-day river courses are due to recent earth movements, and the ice age adjusting the drainage patterns.
The key question in our minds, once we free ourselves from the bondage of uniformitarianism, is what sustained these UK rivers of Amazonian size in terms of width and ability to create that amazingly large lagoonal complex basin. The rivers were only fractions of the length of the Amazon and Mississippi, which need large rain-catchment areas to sustain them. So either it rained 100 to 1,000 times as much as it does today in the UK (an average of about 1 m per year) or the life of these ‘Eocene Amazons’ was short-lived (just days). This would have been because the land was uplifting in the NW (with a corresponding tilting down towards the SE, shedding huge volumes of floodwater)—not at the rate of around 1 mm/20 years that uniformitarian Cope offers, but centimetres to metres a day.

The result of the rainfall figures suggested would leave all the ground continuously flooded with sheets of water, except for the highest ground. The most obvious answer to what sustained these rivers is therefore the rapid uplift of the ocean floor so that water flow was generated by retreat of the ocean. Note that the rates of uplift mentioned are in ballpark agreement with those described in Genesis about the rate of the retreat of the Flood.
Large portions of the UK would then have been out of the water within months. By making this choice of answer we have removed 10–30 Ma from Earth’s recent history, condensing the Palaeocene’, and parts of the ‘Eocene’ into a matter of months." CMI
For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights;
Genesis 7:4

Ecclesiastes Summarized

Ecclesiastes Summarized

--Not satisfied with life--

All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full;

Ecclesiastes 1:7

--Where is meaning?--

--Not in wisdom (Chapter 1)--

And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. Ecclesiastes 1:17,18

--Not in withdrawl (Chapter 2)--

Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me. Ecclesiastes 2:18

--Not in your fellow man (Chapter 3)--

I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts. Ecclesiastes 3:18

--Not in the world around us (Chapter 4)--

So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter. Ecclesiastes 4:1

--Not in wealth (Chapter 5)--

He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: Ecclesiastes 5:5

--Not in works (Chapter 6)--

All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled. Ecclesiastes 6:7

--Not in flattery or gifts (Chapter 7)--

....and a gift destroyeth the heart. Ecclesiastes 7:7

--Not in knowing all that shall be (Chapter 8)--

For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be? Ecclesiastes 8:7

--Not in accomplishments (Chapter 9)--

Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man. Ecclesiastes 9:15

--Not in folly (Chapter 10)--

Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour: so doth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and honor. Ecclesiastes 10:1

--Not in a long life (Chapter 11)--

But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity. Ecclesiastes 11:8

So what is the ADVICE? -- Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them; Ecclisiastes 12:1

CONCLUSION: -- Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. Ecclesiates 12:13 12:13

Dissecting the Psalm about Absalom SERIES: 4

"A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his Son.

I cried unto the LORD with my voice,

and he heard me out of his holy hill.

Selah.

Psalm 3:4

Verse 4. "I cried unto the Lord with my voice." Why doth he say, "with my voice?" Surely, silent prayers are heard. Yes, but good men often find that, even in secret, they pray better aloud than they

do when they utter no vocal sound. ....the cry of my voice in great distress pierces the very skies, hath, "heard me out of his holy hill."

Answers to prayers are sweet cordials for the soul.
Here stands another Selah.
Rest awhile, O tried believer, and change the strain to a softer air."
Charles Spurgeon

CHINESE DYNASTIES Archives PAGE

CHINESE DYNASTIES Archives PAGE

Yes, they knew God, but they wouldn’t worship him as God or even give him thanks. And they began to think up foolish ideas of what God was like. As a result, their minds became dark and confused.And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.Romans 1:21NLT/23

Who is ShangDi?
https://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2017/11/who-is-shangdi.html
Chinese Dynasties
https://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2017/07/chinese-dynasties.html
ARCHAEOLOGY: Liangzhu- Early Post Babel China?
https://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2019/04/archaeology-liangzhu-early-post-babel.html
IN the NEWS - Chang'e 3

https://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2017/12/in-news-change-3.html
(April Showers) Global Flood # 24
https://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2012/04/april-showers-global-flood-24.html
Book Review: The Discovery of Genesis
https://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2016/04/book-review-discovery-of-genesis.html
Teeth Chip Away at Evolutionary Timescale
https://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2015/11/creation-moment-1142015-teeth-chip-away.html
Chinese Taoism and the Dead
https://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2011/10/chinese-taoism-and-dead.html
Paul vs. Taoism
https://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2015/11/paul-vs-taoism.html
Book Review: God's Promise To The Chinese
https://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2019/03/book-review-gods-promise-to-chinese.html

Creation Moment 4/28/2018 - Koop

So God created man in his own image,

in the image of God created he him;

Genesis 1:27

"Dr. Charles Everett Koop (1916-2013) served as the Surgeon General of the United States from 1982 to 1989 under Ronald Reagan’s presidency.

For most of his career he was Surgeon-in-Chief at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Professor of Pediatric Surgery and Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
He wrote the textbook in his field and, thanks mostly to his work, some

procedures that carried a 95% mortality rate when Koop began his work have improved to a 95% survival rate. For his exemplary scholarly work, he received a total of 35 honorary doctorates.

His spiritual journey was fostered partly by the fact that he became pro-life when practicing medicine. Koop explained he was faced “with the pain and suffering of my patients and their parents”, and “needed the assurance that there was some greater plan—both for them and for myself.”His concern about the unborn followed his

“ … concern about the newly born. How could I ever accept the destruction of the unborn after a career devoted to the repair of imperfect newborns, knowing the joy and fulfilment they brought to their families?”

Likewise, his conclusions about creationism were based on careful research, such as noting that

“All the way back to the dawn of … history, we find that man is still man. Wherever we turn, to the caves of the Pyrenees, to the Sumerians in Mesopotamia, and even further back to Neanderthal man’s burying his dead in flower petals, it makes no difference: men everywhere show by their art and their accomplishments that they have been … unique. They were unique, and people today are unique. What is wrong is a world-view which fails to explain that uniqueness. All people are unique because they are made in the image of God.”

Koop was very impressed with the design argument for God. He wrote in a letter to a fellow doctor, ABC News correspondent Timothy Johnson, that

“In Psalm 139 David writes about God’s role in his own life before birth: For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made.”

Koop also wrote that “all healing is of the Lord” because God has intelligently designed humans with inbuilt systems that enable the body to heal itself.

Koop has also eloquently expressed his reservations about Darwinism. In a letter to Paul Humber, he wrote,

“It has been my conviction for many years that evolution is impossible. However, I have

never been able to convince anyone who held the opposite point of view.”

Koop offered a reason for this, namely that

“I am of the firm conviction that until the scales are lifted from the eyes of those who oppose creation, no scientific evidence will be of value in proof.”

Furthermore, “the theory of evolution, the idea that by chance there is an increasing advance” teaches that progress—up from the primeval slime and the amoeba, up through the evolutionary chain, with life developing by chance from the simple carbon molecule to the complex, right up to the pinnacle, mankind and he held this was impossible.
He concluded that

“ … the concept of evolutionary progress is an illusion. Only some form of mystical jump will allow us to accept that personality comes from impersonality. No one has … explained, let alone demonstrated it to be feasible, how the impersonal plus time plus chance can give personality.”

Koop noted that evolutionists distract readers “by a flourish of words—and, lo, personality has appeared out of a hat”. He explained that one of his concerns is the moral implications of evolution:

“Unlike the evolutionary concept of an impersonal beginning plus time plus chance, the Bible gives an account of man’s origin as a finite person made in God’s image, that is, like God. We see then how man can have personality and dignity and value. Our uniqueness is guaranteed, something which is impossible in the materialistic system. If there is no qualitative distinction between man and other organic life (animals or plants), why should we feel greater concern over the death of a human being than over the death of a laboratory rat? Is man in the end any higher?" CMI

DESIRE OF AGES: Audio & Pull Quotes- Chapter 56

Blessing the Children

Audio:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/GKbTElrV-cs?list=PL4ByrircmXL6qt2QplU6IudoOYVgzBS3C

Jesus knows the burden of every mother's heart.

As the mother teaches her children to obey her because they love her, she is teaching them the first lessons in the Christian life.
When the mothers made known their desire, Jesus heard with sympathy the timid, tearful request. But He waited to see how the disciples would treat them. When He saw them send the mothers away, thinking to do Him a favor, He showed them their error, saying, Suffer the little children to come unto Me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God. Mark 10:14.
He took the children in His arms, He laid His hands upon them, and gave them the blessing for which they came.
He knew that these children would listen to Him and accept Him as their Redeemer far more readily than would grown-up people, many of whom were the worldly-wise and hardhearted. In His teaching He came down to their level.
Parents, in the training of your children, study the lessons that God has given in nature. If you would train a pink, or rose, or lily, how would you do it? Ask the gardener by what process he makes every branch and leaf to flourish so beautifully, and to develop in symmetry and loveliness. He will tell you that it was by no rude touch, no violent effort; for this would only break the delicate stems. It was by little attentions, often repeated. He moistened the soil, and protected the growing plants from the fierce blasts and from the scorching sun, and God caused them to flourish and to blossom into loveliness.

Dissecting the Psalm about Absalom SERIES: 3

"A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his Son.

But thou, O LORD,

art a shield for me; my glory,

and the lifter up of mine head.

Psalm 3:3

Verse 3. Here David avows his confidence in God. "Thou, O Lord, art a shield

for me." The word in the original signifies more than a shield; it means a buckler round about, a protection which shall surround a man entirely, a shield above, beneath, around, without and within.

Thou art "my glory." O for grace to see our future glory amid present shame!

"And the lifter up of mine head"—thou shalt yet exalt me. Though I hang my head in sorrow, I shall very soon lift it up in joy and thanksgiving. What a divine trio of mercies is contained in this verse!—
1-defence for the defenceless,
2-glory for the despised,
3-and joy for the comfortless."
Charles Spurgeon