Puritan Corner - Our Proper

God is the highest good of the reasonable creature. The enjoyment of Him is our proper; and is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
by Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)
Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. Ecclesiastes 12:13

Liquor-Sellers

....inventors of evil things... Romans 1:30

"What shall we say of the liquor-sellers, who imperil life, health, and property, with perfect indifference?

They are not ignorant of the result of their trade, but they become callous of heart. 

Satan has no better agents by which to prepare souls for perdition, and he uses them with the most telling effect.
The liquor-seller
--deals out his fiery draughts to men who have lost all control of reason and appetite;
--he takes their hard-earned money and gives no equivalent for it; he is the worst kind of robber."
Signs Of The Times 1878 E.G.W.

Creation Moment 12/31/2018 - CET = DESIGN(er)

"Biological systems usually operate like computer programs in which rules define different combinations of on-off settings as commands or conditional statements like “if,” “then,” “and,” “or,” and “not.”

Knowing the basics of logic-based regulatory control is necessary for understanding ICR’s adaptation model called continuous environmental tracking (CET).
We hypothesize that if human engineers can use a tracking system to detect and maintain surveillance of a moving target, then creatures might use a similar strategy to track changing conditions.
We predict that creatures would use elements corresponding to those in man-made tracking systems:
1) input sensors,
2) programmed logic mechanisms to regulate an internal selection of adaptable responses, and
3) output “actuators” to execute responses.

Innate logic-based regulatory systems are perfectly suited for the mechanisms an organism uses to effect adaptive responses to the different challenges it detects. These systems imitate the conscious logical intentions of a designer’s mind, which enables the organism’s logical systems to internally select output responses from a group of potential solutions.
When conscious organisms—or their unconscious cells—integrate sensory inputs, memory, and logical rules to make selections, they are said to express cognition. Creatures effectively use this type of programmed internal logic to self-adjust to changing conditions.

Dr. Robyn Araujo of Queensland University of Technology (QUT) has worked extensively on the mathematics underlying the internal logic that enables creatures to “function and thrive amid changing and unfavorable environments.”

In a study published in Nature Communications, she established that “all networks that exhibit robust perfect adaptation…are decomposable into well-defined modules.” Modularity is an important design principle that engineers incorporate into mechanisms to help them resist breaking down (i.e., make them “robust”).

Dr. Araujo’s study begins with this incisive question: “How does the ‘brain’ of a living cell work, allowing an organism to function and thrive in changing and unfavourable environments?” This question is exactly what ICR’s design-based CET model tries to explain. Dr. Araujo responds by saying:

Proteins form unfathomably complex networks of chemical reactions that allow cells to communicate and to “think”—essentially giving the cell a “cognitive” ability, or a “brain”….It has been a longstanding mystery in science how this cellular “brain” works.

One characteristic of biological regulatory networks is their extreme exactness, an attribute that’s consistent with purposeful design as opposed to undirected, gradual evolution. Dr. Araujo “studied all the possible ways a network can be constructed and found that to be capable of this perfect adaptation in a robust way, a network has to satisfy an extremely rigid set of mathematical principles.”

How rigid? Well, her studies represent “five years of relentless effort to solve this incredibly deep mathematical problem.”
After considering fundamental constraints on biological operation, she ponders “whether all biochemical networks, of any size, with a fundamental need to exhibit robust functionalities, are characterized by modular architectures."

On the Streets of Babylon: No Book with Moses & that Stuff

Babylon is fallen, is fallen,... 
Come out of her, my people,
Revelation 14:8/18:4

There seems to be some who want NO "Book with Moses and that stuff" to be found on the Streets of Babylon....

"Jax Taylor is an actor and model and currently stars in a Bravo reality television series entitled Vanderpump Rules. Most recently, he’s been known as the boyfriend of Brittany Cartwright, another

reality star.
Taylor also attends Hillsong Church in Los Angeles and has some interesting reasons for attending the congregation.
He is just one of many celebrities who are drawn to the lights, glitz and glamor of the Christianity-lite worship experiences of the Charismatic Hillsong, the quickest growing church on the planet. The question is why do so many celebrities – especially those known for their carnality, worldly behavior, – attend Hillsong?
.....Taylor said, “But it’s actually a fun church. It just relates God to today and what you’re going through today. It’s not really in the book with Moses and all that stuff; it’s just kind of dealing with today.”
P&P

IN the NEWS - Pelosi to Push Green Religion

I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: Galatians 1:6

"House Democrats are preparing to take control of the lower chamber next week by forming a new Select Committee on the Climate Crisis -- ....

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), the caucus' choice for the next speaker of the House, today announced the

appointment of Rep. Kathy Castor (D-Fla.), a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, to lead the select panel.
 

"She will bring great experience, energy and urgency to the existential threat of the climate crisis," Pelosi said in a statement. "This committee will be critical to the entire Congress’s mission to respond to the urgency of this threat, while creating the good-paying, green jobs of the future."
 

Pelosi noted that "the climate issue was my flagship issue" last time she wielded the speaker's gavel.

"This was a national security issue, from healthcare providers, that this was a public health issue, clean air, clean water; on our economy, that we must remain preeminent, as No. 1 in the world, on green technologies; and that it is a moral issue," she said. "If you believe -- as do I -- that this is God's creation, and evangelicals certainly do -- and that we must be good stewards, then we must act upon it. Even if you don't share that religious belief, if you understand that we have a moral responsibility to the next generation, to pass the planet on in a responsible way."

PJMedia

1884 Lesson

To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD: Exodus 16:23

"Did American Jews really once think about changing the Sabbath?
The short answer is yes—, some Jews in America discussed the idea of changing the day of worship from the Sabbath to Sunday.

This public discussion took place in 1884. Around that time,

roughly 250,000 Jewish people were living in the United States—a number that was to increase dramatically over the next 20 years. But at the start of the so-called “Gilded Age,” many of the Jews in America were highly secular and not always observant of their religious traditions.

Finding a newspaper article headlined “HEBREWS — The Agitation on the Question of Changing the Jewish Sabbath,” as you might imagine, stirred interest in the circumstances of that discussion. It turns out that less-observant members of the Jewish community were taking what they saw as a “practical” view of things.
“We are all businessmen, and as Saturday is the busiest day in the week, we cannot close our shops to attend services,” a shop owner identified as Mr. Liebman told the Brooklyn Daily Eagle newspaper in May 1884. “I can’t do it because I can’t afford to hire a man in my place,” he added.

The newspaper, at the time one of the country’s largest and most influential dailies, took an interest in the situation of people they called “Hebrews” because a reader had noticed a consistent lack of attendance at a congregation called Temple Israel, which was then part of the nascent reform movement in American Judaism.

The Eagle dispatched a reporter to investigate, and back came a survey of Jewish thought about the Sabbath in late nineteenth-century Brooklyn. From what the reporter could find, members of local congregations were happy to financially support these bodies but were less enthused about attending Sabbath services. Mr. Liebman, the merchant, said he found it depressing to find only a handful of worshipers on a given Sabbath.

Other members of Temple Israel were less resistant to change. The Eagle reporter visited with a “Mr. Abraham,” believed to be Abraham Abraham—founder of the dry goods store that became the Abraham & Strauss department store chain popular in

twentieth-century New York—who endorsed a switch.
“I am a reformed Jew and am in favor of worshiping on Sunday. It makes little difference on what day we hold our religious services so long as we set apart at least one day in the week for that purpose,” Mr. Abraham said. “We are living in a Christian community and of course cannot expect the Christians to change from Sunday to Saturday, so all we can do is conform to their customs.”
Interestingly, Joseph Wechsler, Abraham’s original business partner, opposed the notion.

The newspaper also quoted a gentleman described as “one of the more prominent members” of an area congregation by the name of Moses May. Mr. May was adamant against changing the day of worship, the paper noted.
“What would you think of a Christian who allowed his business to interfere with his religion and change his day of worship to suit his own convenience,” May asked the newspaper reporter.

By the end of the newspaper article, readers of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle could easily conclude that while changing the day of worship might have been discussed in some circles, there wasn’t much enthusiasm for formalizing a shift. The less observant among the Jewish people of that moment in time would largely continue to do business on the Sabbath but attend worship services on the faith’s main holy days.

Interestingly, it was the persecution of the Jews in Eastern Europe that led to a reinforcement of Sabbath worship among Jews in the United States. But the Bible tells us about a time when those who do observe the Sabbath will suffer even greater tribulation."
7thDayTruth

IN the NEWS - New state of U.S. Navy? Sign 'O the Times...

But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.
Luke 17:29,30

"A gay Navy sailor has recreated the iconic Second World War kissing photo with his teacher husband.

Bryan Woodington, 33, returned home after seven months in the Persian Gulf and Europe on December 21, to greet husband of one year Kenneth Woodington, 30. 

The couple won a lottery to perform the ceremonial first kiss, a naval tradition that was captured on Jacksonville station News 4 Jax. 

But the station reports that not all their viewers were pleased with the same-sex couple's intimate moment.

The couple had won the lottery that allows for one sailor to disembark first and greet their loved ones with a smooch."

DailyMail

Papal Notes - Courting Baptists

'The second meeting of the third phase of international ecumenical conversations between the Baptist World Alliance (BWA) and the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity took place Dec. 10-14 in Rome at the Domus Internationalis Paulus VI.

The meeting took up the theme of the “Context of Common Witness.” This discussion reflected on the global cultural context in which common Christian witness is being conducted today in six continents of the world.
This sub-theme helps to illuminate the overall theme of the third phase of dialogue, “The Dynamic of the Gospel and the Witness of the Church.” The Baptist-Catholic group will meet annually through 2021 for this third phase of conversations.
Included in the week of ecumenical conversations was a meeting with Pope Francis during the general papal audience on Dec. 12. The following day, the participants visited a local Baptist church in Trastevere.
The Baptist-Catholic group will convene for its third round of the current phase of conversations on Dec. 9-13, 2019, in Warsaw, Poland, hosted by the Baptist Union of Poland at the Baptist Theological Seminary in Warsaw." P&P
And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast. Revelation 13:3

IN the NEWS - Clash between the Big Boys of U.S. Catholicism

"Boston's Cdl. Sean O'Malley has reported a case of predatory homosexual sex abuse by a New York priest and the ensuing cover-up by New York's Cdl. Timothy Dolan to the papal nuncio to the United States, Abp. Christophe Pierre.

In a letter dated Dec. 21, O'Malley draws the nuncio's attention to the case of Fr. Donald Timone, a priest of the archdiocese of New York, whom Dolan allowed to remain in active ministry — even calling him "remarkably tender and holy" in 2013 — after he knew of the credible allegations of sex abuse.

The story about Timone broke in a recent New York Times article, which detailed that Dolan compensated two of Timone's victims and allowed him to remain in active ministry, even as recently as this week.

O'Malley, who is president of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, seems to have fallen out of favor, at least to a degree, with Rome and Pope Francis, perhaps relating back to his revelations regarding the involvement of multiple Chilean bishops in homosexual sex abuse and cover-up and his own criticism of the Holy Father's mishandling of the case of Bp. Juan Barros.

O'Malley's public declaration that he had indeed passed a letter to Pope Francis from Juan Carlos Cruz, a sex abuse victim of Fr. Fernando Karadima, whom Barros protected, became an enormous embarrassment for the pope and high-ranking Vatican officials, with the pope having to go as far as publicly acknowledging his own personal failure in the case and apologizing for his actions."

CM

But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.
Genesis 13:13

IN the NEWS - Wisconsin Judge sides with Religous Freedom

"A Wisconsin judge has ruled that the town of De Pere must provide churches and religious organizations exemptions to an LGBT non-discrimination ordinance that among other things would have required them to allow access to bathrooms on the basis of a person’s gender identity.

Brown County Judge William Atkinson ruled last Friday that the ordinance barring employment, housing and public accommodation discrimination that protects on the basis of gender identity and sexual orientation cannot be applied to five churches and the parent company of a local Christian radio station.
Violation of the ordinance could have resulted in the churches and organization being issued a fine or infraction." CP
Amen, amen. Numbers 5:22

Creation Moment 12/30/2018 - Mysticism of Evolution

"Materialistic literature transports observers into a magical world

where analytical principles that explain cause in man-made things inexplicably don’t apply to living things, and where invoking a mystical environmental volition to explain cause displaces everything engineers know about design.
The irony is that evolutionists insert these mystical elements into a theory that is supposed to explain life solely by the material properties of physics and chemistry."
Dr. Randy Guliuzza, ICR Acts & Facts July 2017
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: Romans 8:7

Last Sabbath of 2018

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

 

And on the seventh day God ended his work

which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day

 from all his work which he had made.

And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it:

because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. 

Genesis 2:1-3

But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God:

in it thou shalt not do any work,...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 20:10,11

And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven,

having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on

the earth, .... Saying with a loud voice, Fear God,

and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and

worship him that made heaven,

and earth, and the sea,

and the fountains of waters. 

Revelation 14:6,7

Bosom of the Decalogue

"The Sabbath commandment is placed in the very bosom of the Decalogue, amid the unchangeable precepts of Jehovah.

And yet from many pulpits of our land a contemptuous cry is raised against the Sabbath instituted by the Lord God of heaven, and it is stigmatized as "the old Jewish Sabbath."

Let all who are seeking for truth remember that the Sabbath was instituted in Eden before there was a Jew in existence, and that the Savior said, "The Sabbath was made for man."

--The fourth commandment was spoken with the other nine of God's moral precepts, amid the thunders and grandeur of Mount Sinai, and in the holy of holies in the heavenly sanctuary above, is the ark of God.
--It is called the ark of the testament, and under its cover,--the mercy seat,--are the ten commandments that were written with the finger of God."
Signs Of The Times 1894 E.G.W./Mark 2:27

1300's Sabbath Revival in Scandinavia?

14th Century

"Also the priests have caused the people to keep Saturdays as Sundays."
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Norway, Vol.1, p.184 Oslo

IN the NEWS - First Prison Sentence in Pennsylvania Abuse Case

But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.
Genesis 13:13
"A priest who once served in the Diocese of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to prison for sexually molesting a boy in the 1990s.

Father John T. Sweeney, 76, received a sentence of 11 months to five years in state prison and must register as a sex offender for 10 years, a judge in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, said Dec. 21.
The priest pled guilty in July to misdemeanor indecent assault on a minor after he was accused of abusing a 10-year-old boy while counseling him about misbehaving on a school bus.
Sweeney, who retired in 2016, is the first priest convicted of charges stemming from a Pennsylvania grand jury investigation that focused on allegations of abuse." CRUX 

Creation Moment 12/29/2018 - Layman's Intuition Correct

"Darwinists dismiss the layman’s intuition that there is something terribly “unnatural” about evolution, and claim that while it may

seem implausible to the uneducated, there is no scientific principle that prevents the basic, unintelligent, forces of physics alone from reorganizing the basic particles of physics into computers and science texts and jet airplanes.
But there is such a principle, and the layman understands it perfectly well: unintelligent forces cannot do intelligent things. And in recent years, a number of people have attempted to take this simple layman’s principle and state it in more precise, scientific terms." EN&V
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Genesis 1:1

ARCHAEOLOGY: Pre-Flood Find of Synapsid

....the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. Genesis 7:11

"A Polish research duo described the remains of an elephant-size synapsid from upper Triassic rocks. Only it’s not supposed to be there. Secular reactions express shock at this turn from a

longstanding evolutionary tale.

Synapsids are commonly referred to as “mammal-like reptiles,” but were neither reptiles nor mammals. They were unique—the sail-finned dimetrodon was a synapsid. Like dinosaurs, the whole group has gone extinct. Most, for example Moschops or the gorgonopsids, had front legs that bowed out. The newfound giant has straight front legs. From an engineering standpoint, that would help bear its bulk.

The Polish pair published in Science. They used magic phrases in place of scientifically rigorous explanations for how straight-legged design arose in this synapsid they named Lisowicia bojani. For example, they wrote, “ecological pressures may have been driving the process” of this unique body construction.
That’s like saying air can engineer wings or that water somehow forms fish fins. In contrast, the idea that God created synapsids as “beasts of the earth” along with every other land creature category—including dinosaurs—explains good design as an act of purposeful creation.

University of Edinburgh paleontologist Stephen Brusatte, who was not involved in the study, told Science the standard evolutionary story for upper Triassic fossils. Supposedly, mammals and their relatives (including synapsids) “retreated to the shadows while dinosaurs rose up and grew to huge sizes.” He said this newfound monstrous synapsid now “throws a wrench into that simple tale.”

Lisowicia fits right in with the Flood model.
--The standard secular model proposes that Earth’s ascending rock layers reveal eons of progressive evolution.
--Flood models instead propose that Earth’s ascending rock layers reveal an order in which pre-Flood ecologies were buried, from sea floor to high ground.

According to the Bible, dinosaurs, synapsids, birds, and mammals

all lived at the same time, but not necessarily in the same places. Early in the Flood year, waters buried sea floors. Later waters buried shallow sea creatures before the Flood devastated pre-Flood coastlands when it laid down Triassic layers." ICR

Sabbath in Scotland

But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God:
Exodus 20:10
"They worked on Sunday, but kept Saturday in a Sabbatical manner."
A history of Scotland from the Roman Occupation, Vol. I, p.96. Andrew Lang

ALONE

"No one ever so yearned to express his affection, so longed and tried to explain himself and his mission.
--Yet His own mother understood Him not;
--His brethren did not believe in Him;

--every human companion seems to have been a broken reed piercing Him to the heart;
--His disciples, until the day of His death, were loyal mainly from self­ish motives;
--a disciple whose feet He had washed betrayed Him;
--the sturdi­est of them all denied Him;
--they all forsook Him and fled;
--the multitudes who had felt the healing power of His compassion, the authority of His words, the divineness of His being, and witnessed the miraculous and beneficent demonstrations of His power, shouted for His crucifixion;
--His own nation rejected Him;
--His own religion crucified Him;
*and thus He presented Himself, the willing victim of our sins, to be rent in soul, man­gled in flesh, broken in heart, that He might show us the Father, show us ourselves, and lead us back to our Father's house."
The Larger Christ, by George D. Herron, pp. 59, 60

IN the NEWS - Euthanasia via Telemedicine?

 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; Ecclesiastes 1:14

"House Bill 90 was introduced in New Mexico by Deborah Armstrong (Dem) to legalize assisted

suicide. The bill is referred to as The Elizabeth Whitefield End of Life Options Act.
It allows assisted suicide for psychiatric conditions, to be done to someone with an undefined "terminal prognosis," to be done by nurses and physician assistants, and it even allows it to be approved via telemedicine.
The language of the legislation determines parameters of the law. HB 90 is wider than any previous assisted suicide bill:

1. The bill allows nurses and physician assistants to participate in assisted suicide by defining "health care provider" to include: a licensed physician, a licensed osteopathic physician, a licensed nurse, and a licensed physician assistant. 
2. The bill does not require the person to "self administer." The bill states "may self-administer." This means that euthanasia is possible.
3. The bill allows people with mental health disorders to die by assisted suicide. The bill enables a licensed psychiatrist, psychologist, master social worker, psychiatric nurse practitioner or professional clinical mental health counselor to approve assisted suicide for these people.
4. The bill does not require a second assessor unless the person has a mental health disorder or intellectual disability. 
5. The bill allows the "health care provider" to approve death via "telemedicine."
6. The bill replaces a 6 month terminal diagnosis with an undefined term: "foreseeable future." What does it mean that your terminal illness may cause death in the foreseeable future?
7. The bill reduces the waiting period to 48 hours to receive the lethal drugs.
8. The bill requires health care providers to falsify the death certificate.
9. The bill provides legal protection for anyone who participates in the act.
10. The bill removes conscience rights for health care providers who object to assisted suicide by requiring them to refer patients to a health care provider who is willing to prescribe assisted suicide.
11. The bill lacks a residency requirement. Combined with the telemedicine provision, the bill would legalize assisted suicide in all 50 US States.
12. The bill basis decisions and action on a "good faith compliance." "Good faith compliance" is the lowest level of oversight. It is impossible to prove that someone who participated in the act did not do so in "good faith."

Section 4 of the bill enables people with mental health disorders and intellectual disabilities to die by assisted suicide. The bill requires people with a mental health disorder or intellectual disability to be evaluated by one of the persons listed above (#3). The bill enables the mental health counselor to approve assisted suicide after one visit or after an assessment by "telemedicine."
Therefore a person who lives with intellectual disabilities or a mental health disorder can be approved for assisted suicide after speaking to a mental health counselor by telemedicine."
Lifesite

The Cost of WW 1

"What is the cost of liberty by force of arms?

--A mathematician declares that in the four years of war 11,000,­000 people found death; one for every thirteen times the clock ticked.
--Over 19,000,000 were mutilated—just enough to repopulate Spain if it were suddenly wiped out.
--With the war cost of $100­000,000,000 it would have been possible to present every family in the United States, Canada, Australia, Great Brit­ain, France, Belgium, Germany, and Russia with a $2,500 house standing in a five-acre plot and containing $1,250 worth of furniture, besides providing for each group of 20,000 families a hospital, university, and schools, in­cluding the salaries of teachers, nurses, doctors, and professors.

--Lastly, if those little crosses over the graves of the nation's dead were placed side by side, they would stretch from Paris through Europe and Asia right to Vladivostok, and the last would be washed by the waves of the Sea of Japan."
The Expositor, July, 1931
Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war.
Psalm 140:2

Creation Moment 12/28/2018 - Simplifying Evolutionary Dogma

"No matter what is observed in the cosmos the new results are always fitted into the story. The story is pliable. This is good storytelling. Nothing can disprove the story, because anything you find can be made to fit into it." CMI
Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 4:7

"Shadow" of the Sanctuary

"A shadow must resemble its body, and a figure or pattern must

be in fashion at least, like the thing itself, therefore the Heavenly Sanctuary must be a literal Temple containing two Holies, the

Holy Place, represented by the tabernacle of the congregation, and the Most Holy Place, represented by the "tabernacle of the testimony."
The Sanctuary & 2300 Days James White

Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God

when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.
Hebrews 8:5

 

 

 

 

IN the NEWS - Ocasio-Cortez Christmas Gaffe

And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. Luke 2:1
"Usually when we cover someone butchering the Scriptural narrative to push Marxist ideology it’s Timothy Keller. This time around it’s another New York liberal, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Ocasio-Cortez, the congresswoman-elect for New York’s

congressional district has apparently picked up on cues from leftist evangelicals who insist that Jesus was an illegal immigrant and refugee despite Egypt being a part of the Roman Empire.

However, Ocasio-Cortez apparently didn’t catch that Jesus wasn’t born as a “refugee,” but was born in Bethlehem because of an intrusive registration as a part of the oppressive tax system of a centralized and overbearing government, not because of the threat from Herod. That threat would lead to Jesus’ family’s departure to Egypt until months later." P&P

Creation Moment - Some People

"Some people ... still maintain that since science has provided us

with so many answers the day will soon arrive when we will be able to understand even the creation of the fundamental laws of nature without a Divine intent. They challenge science to prove the existence of God. But must we really light a candle to see the sun?"
 Wernher von Braun, rocket pioneer, 1972  
Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.
Job 38:4

2 Points to Knowledge about Christ

For if these things be in you, and abound,
they make you that ye

--shall neither be barren
--nor unfruitful

in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Peter 1:8

Spiritualism

"The word of God declares in positive terms that "the dead know not anything." (Ecclesiastes 9:5, 6): "For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun."

The teachers of spiritualism come in a pleasing, bewitching manner to deceive you, and if you listen to their fables you are beguiled by the enemy of righteousness and will surely lose your reward.

When once the fascinating influence of the archdeceiver overcomes you, you are poisoned, and its deadly influence adulterates and destroys your faith in Christ's being the Son of God, and you cease to rely on the merits of His blood.
Those deceived by this philosophy are beguiled of their reward through the deceptions of Satan.
They rely upon their own merits and yield their minds to the belief of supreme nonsense, receiving the most absurd ideas through those whom they believe to be their dead friends.
Satan has so blinded their eyes and perverted their judgment that they perceive not the evil; and they follow out the instructions purporting to be from their dead friends now angels in a higher sphere.

Satan has chosen a most certain, fascinating delusion, one that is calculated to take hold of the sympathies of those who have laid their loved ones in the grave.

Evil angels assume the form of these loved ones and relate incidents connected with their lives and perform acts which their friends performed while living.
In this way they deceive and lead the relatives of the dead to believe that their deceased friends are angels hovering about them and communing with them.

The only safety now is to search for the truth as revealed in the word of God, as for hid treasure.
But the mass of mankind despise the truths of God's word and prefer fables. (2 Thessalonians 2:10, 11): "Because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie."

Those who have tempted the devil to tempt them will have to make desperate efforts to free themselves from his power. 

 Satan and his angels are unwilling

 to lose their prey.

They contend and battle with the holy angels,

and the conflict is severe."

Testimony Treasures E.G.W.

The "Really" File - (Brits Fight Over Gender Neutral Toilets)

The Lord shall laugh at him: Psalm 37:13

"A POLICE force spent more than £4million providing officers with gender-neutral toilets.

Almost 10% of the budget for a new HQ was spent on mixed loos and changing facilities.

A women's campaign group branded the move "insane and an absolute scandal". 
Merseyside Police forked out almost £50m for the new complex in Speke, Liverpool.

It opened in February and houses 1,200 officers and support staff.


From the "Really" File

As well as gender-neutral toilets, there are showers, changing cubicles and locker rooms.
Freedom of Information request revealed that £2.7m was spent on 819sq metres of gender-neutral locker room space.

Merseyside Police said it was "the most efficient way of providing the facilities".
But Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, from Standing for Women, slammed the decision not to provide separate female toilets."
DailyStar.UK

REALLY?

Creation Moment 12/26/2018 - Natural Selection Simplified

"As pointed out many times, natural selection has been amply observed happening in many populations of insects, animals, fish, and plants, but in all instances it is not evolution.
Whether by differential reproduction or differential survival, natural selection results in the culling or loss of genetic information, not its creation.
That last point was certainly obvious to another noted evolutionist who spoke out against the natural-selection-equals-evolution sham, viz., the late Lynn Margulis. Just before her death in 2011, she said in an interview:

Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn’t create.

That’s telling it like it is: natural selection by itself generates no new genetic information. It can eliminate genes that already exist, but never create."
CMI
.....God created... Genesis 1:1