Puritan Corner - Heart & Prayer

“In prayer, it is better to have heart without words, than to have words without heart.”
by John Bunyan (1628-1688)
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not Thy peace at my tears.... Psalm 38:12

The Great Controversy in Esther Synopsis SERIES: An investigation

An investigation was conducted and Bigthan and Teresh were found

guilty. 

Adam and Eve were investigated and found guilty.

And when inquisition was made of the matter, it was found out; 

-*- And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done?

Esther 2:23/Genesis 3:9,11,13

IN the NEWS - Global Control of Thoughts

***Here we have world leaders calling openly for Global and government control of the primary vehicle for thought expression in the public arena today.

Q: What possibilities, IF implemented in the near future, for you how could it could be used as it relates to the Mark of the Beast crises?

The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD...Psalm 2:2

"At the WEF 2025, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez presented a vision for the digital future that should send a chill down the spine of every free citizen.
Framed as a solution to online harms, his proposal is, in reality, a
blueprint for a panopticon of digital control, perfectly aligned with the globalist agenda of the World Economic Forum.

What Sánchez Said:
He called for an end to online anonymity, demanding that every social media profile in Europe be linked to a state-issued "European Digital Identity Wallet."
He compared the internet to public streets, arguing that just as one cannot drive without a license plate, one should not post online without a state-verified ID.
What Sánchez Is Really Saying:
He is declaring that the digital public square—the last truly global

space for free, unvetted discourse—must be brought under the direct supervision of the state.
His rhetoric is a masterclass in misdirection:
"Fighting misinformation" is code for establishing a verifiable identity for dissent. Under this system, any opinion deemed inconvenient by the authorities can be traced directly back to the citizen who voiced it.
"Ending cyber-harassment" is the pretext for ending digital privacy. The principle that one can speak without fear of state retribution is being reclassified as "impunity."
"Pseudonymity" is a Trojan horse. It offers the illusion of a nickname while ensuring that a government database holds the key to your real identity, accessible whenever "public authorities" deem your speech a "crime." This is not pseudonymity; it is state-mandated identity registration for speech.
This is the ultimate goal of the WEF's "Great Reset" and "Digital ID" agenda: not safety, but control. It creates a system where participation in modern society is contingent on accepting a government-issued digital leash. 

The threat of being "banned or prosecuted" for undefined crimes will

inevitably lead to self-censorship, silencing legitimate criticism and neutralizing opposition.
Sanchez's second proposal—to "force open the black box of algorithms"—completes the picture. It is not about transparency for users, but about regulatory capture for the state. The goal is for governments to dictate what content is amplified and what is suppressed, shaping public opinion under the guise of managing "the public conversation."
This is not the path to a safer internet. It is the path to a sterile, state-managed internet where freedom is traded for the false promise of security. The globalist elite at the WEF are not solving the problems of the digital age; they are exploiting them to build the architecture of control." 

ZeroHedge

IN the NEWS - Techno-Dispensationalism?

Q: Is this sort of a new Techno-Dispensationalism of the elites?
But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies.... 2 Peter 2:1

"For about a year now, Peter Thiel—billionaire tech investor, devout Christian, major GOP kingmaker—has been publicly laying out his understanding of Biblical prophecies and how he thinks the world

might end.
We reviewed his recent lectures to piece together Thiel’s theological theories. 

First, existential risks will present themselves in the form of nuclear war, environmental disaster, dangerously engineered bioweapons and even autonomous AI-guided killer robots.
As humans race toward a last battle—the Armageddon—a one-world government will form, promising peace and safety. 

In Thiel’s reckoning, this totalitarian authoritarian regime, with real teeth and real power, will be the coming of the modern-day Antichrist.

Raised in an evangelical Christian household,...However, the fundamentalism often associated with evangelicalism did not permanently hold the intellectually restless Thiel. 

His journey toward a more heterodox faith began in earnest during his time at Stanford University. It was here, amidst the secular

environment of a top-tier academic institution, that his faith was not lost but transformed. He studied philosophy, and it was during this period that he encountered the work that would become the cornerstone of his adult Christian worldview: the mimetic theory of French Catholic theologian and historian René Girard. 

This intellectual evolution marked a significant departure from his early religious instruction, setting him on a path to articulate a version of Christianity that was uniquely his own. Mimetic Theory can be broken down into a few core concepts: Mimetic Desire: Girard argued that human desire is not original but imitative. We learn to want things because other people want them. This creates a powerful, often unconscious, dynamic of rivalry and competition. Thiel sees this everywhere, from Silicon Valley startup culture to geopolitical conflict.

The Scapegoat Mechanism: When mimetic rivalry escalates to the

point of societal crisis, communities instinctively and unconsciously resolve the tension by uniting against a single individual or group the scapegoat. This victim is blamed for the crisis, and their expulsion or sacrifice brings a temporary, fragile peace. Thiel applies this lens to understand everything from ancient myths to modern social media mobs.

The Uniqueness of the Gospels: For Girard, and by extension Thiel, the story of Christ’s crucifixion is the ultimate revelation and subversion of the scapegoat mechanism. 

Unlike ancient myths that tell the story from the perspective of the persecuting crowd, the Gospels tell it from the perspective of the innocent victim. 

They expose the scapegoat mechanism for what it is: the murder of an innocent. This act, in Girard’s view, makes the old ways of achieving social peace through sacrifice obsolete and reveals a new path based on forgiveness and non-violence.

This Girardian framework allows Thiel to see the world in a specific way. It informs his critique of competition (which he views as destructive mimetic rivalry) and his belief in the power of “secrets” (truths that are not subject to mimetic consensus). 

His commitment to these ideas is not just theoretical. 

Through his Thiel Foundation, he established the Imitatio project, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting and researching Girard’s work, ensuring its continued study and application. 

In 2017, Thiel married his long-term partner, Matt Danzeisen, in a ceremony in Vienna, Austria. Danzeisen is a portfolio manager at Thiel Capital, and the two share a professional as well as a personal

life. 

Thiel’s most famous business axiom, laid out in his book Zero to One, is a direct application of his religious and philosophical views. He argues that competition is for losers and that entrepreneurs should strive to build monopolies. This isn’t just a ruthless business tactic; it’s a Girardian insight. For Thiel, “perfect competition” is a state of destructive mimetic rivalry where companies imitate each other into oblivion, fighting over scraps of profit. 

A monopoly, by contrast, is a company that has discovered a unique “secret” a truth that no one else sees. 

By creating something new, it escapes the destructive cycle of imitation. 

 

His critique of established institutions, from universities to governments, can be seen through the scapegoat mechanism lens, viewing them as ossified systems that create conflict and persecute outsiders to maintain their own power. 

He is an eschatological thinker, meaning he is profoundly interested in the “end times.” He injects ancient theological concepts—the scapegoat, the Antichrist, the apocalypse into conversations about artificial intelligence, global politics, and the future of civilization. "

WallStreetJournal/ReligionInfo

Creation Moment 9/30/2025 - 15 Questions for Evolutionists SERIES: Gender

So God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them. 

Genesis 1:27

"How did Gender originate? 

Q: How could mere physics and chemistry invent the complementary apparatuses needed at the same time (non-intelligent processes cannot plan for future coordination of male and female organs)?"
CMI

The Great Controversy in Esther Synopsis SERIES: Adam & Eve

Bigthan and Teresh were 2 who had a special place in the kingdom. Adam and Eve were 2 with a special place in the Creation. 

Bigthan and Teresh sought to raise their hands to the king. Adam and Eve raised their hands to God by disobedience.

..two of the king's chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those which kept the door, were wroth, and sought to lay hand on the
king Ahasuerus. -*- And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion....But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die....she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
Esther 2:21/Genesis 1:26/3:3,6

IN the NEWS - 16 States that want YOUR children

These wicked politicians in these 16 states want YOUR children for INDOCTRINATION with YOUR tax dollars.
And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. Genesis 6:5

"A coalition of 16 states and the District of Columbia is suing the Trump administration to keep materials they say “recognize and affirm gender identity” in their federally funded K-12 sex education programs.
The lawsuit, filed Friday in the U.S. District Court in Oregon, is co-led by the attorneys general of Minnesota, Oregon, and Washington.
At issue is an order from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that prohibits what it calls “gender ideology” in lessons supported by two federal grants: the Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) and the Title V Sexual Risk Avoidance Education (SRAE) program.

Citing President Donald Trump’s order that no federal dollar should go into indoctrinating children in “radical, anti-American ideologies,” the HHS in August demanded that 46 states and territories remove references to gender identity from teaching materials or risk penalties, including the suspension or termination of funding. The deadline for them to comply with the conditions is Oct. 27.
“Federal funds will not be used to poison the minds of the next generation or advance dangerous ideological agendas,” Andrew Gradison, acting assistant secretary for HHS’s Administration for Children and Families, said at that time. “The Trump Administration will ensure that PREP reflects the intent of Congress, not the priorities of the left.”
The suing coalition argued that the order violated Congress’s spending power, and that terminating the funding through these programs will result in a loss of at least $35 million and will “harm the very populations Congress intended to help.” 

The coalition members also argued that compliance would conflict with their own laws and policies requiring “inclusive” sex education curricula.

For example, Washington’s K-12 health standards on “self-identity” outline how kindergarteners should “understand there are many ways to express gender.” Oregon similarly requires teachers to use “inclusive materials, language, and strategies that [recognize] different sexual orientations, gender identities and gender expression.” 

ZeroHedge

Creation Moment 9/29/2025 - 15 Questions for Evolutionists SERIES: Learning Cells

How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity?

and the scorners delight in their scorning,

and fools hate knowledge?

Proverbs 1:22

"How did multi-cellular life originate? 

Q: How did cells adapted to individual survival ‘learn’ to cooperate and specialize (including undergoing programmed cell death) to create complex plants and animals?"
CMI

The Great Controversy in Esther Synopsis SERIES: Both Jew and Royalty

Esther was only able to save her people because she was both a Jew

and Queen. Christ was able to save His people by becoming a man while also being God.

Now in Shushan the palace there was a certain Jew,..., that is, Esther....And the king loved Esther above all the women, ... so that he set the royal crown upon her head, and made her queen -*- Christ Jesus, who, though He was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
Esther 2:5.7,17/Philippians 2:6,7

IN the NEWS - Got your Brit Card?

And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. 

Revelation 13:17

--A Tool, Mechanism that could be used for controlling buying and selling by the government.

"A petition calling on Sir Keir Starmer not to push ahead with plans to introduce digital ID for all British adults has surged past 1.5 million signatures.
The petition, still awaiting a response from Sir Keir's Government,

soared by more than a million in fewer than 24 hours from Thursday into Friday.
Among the most engaged constituencies include Nigel Farage's seat of Clacton, with the Prime Minister also facing a local fight from hundreds of residents in his own seat of Holborn & St Pancras.
The one million signature milestone was reached just hours after Sir Keir unveiled his proposal to introduce mandatory digital ID cards during a keynote speech.
"You will not be able to work in the UK if you don't have a digital ID, it's as simple as that," the Prime Minister told attendees at the Global Progress Action Summit in London.
The card, which is reportedly called a "Brit Card", should be able to verify an individual’s right to live and work in the UK.

Despite growing support, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has come out against the introduction of digital ID.
Mr. Farage said: "All that digital ID will be is a means of controlling the population, of telling us what we can and can't do, of fining the innocent. And didn't we see it all when we had the pandemic when

you had to have vaccine ID to travel, to do various things?
Did that stop the Covid pandemic spreading? 

All it did was put cost and inconvenience on everyone else. I also worry about massive data banks being held by the Government being hacked by foreign governments, by private companies, by criminals. I do not see a single benefit to the Government having digital ID, other than them controlling what we do, what we spend and where we go."


Meanwhile, Tory leader Kemi Badenoch stopped short of taking a side on digital ID.
She instead warned: “This announcement is a desperate gimmick that will do nothing to stop the boats. There are arguments for and against digital ID, but mandating its use would be a very serious step that requires a proper national debate." 

GBNEWS

Creation Moment 9/28/2025 - 15 Questions for Evolutionists SERIES: DESIGN

And God said, Let the earth bring forth 

the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing,

 and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. 

Genesis 1:24

"Living things look like they were designed, so how do evolutionists know that they were not designed? 

Richard Dawkins wrote, “biology is the study of complicated things that have the appearance of having been designed with a purpose.”

Francis Crick, the co-discoverer of the double helix structure of DNA, wrote, “Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved.” 

The problem for evolutionists is that 

living things show too much design. 

Q: Who objects when an archaeologist says that pottery points to human design? Yet if someone attributes the design in living things to a designer, that is not acceptable. 

Q: Why should science be restricted to naturalistic causes rather than logical causes?" 

CMI

The Great Controversy in Esther Synopsis SERIES: Orphaned

Esther was orphaned and raised by an adoptive father. Christ came to
earth, an orphan among mankind, raised by an adoptive father if you will, Joseph.

And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter. -*- Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
Esther 2:7/Matthew 1:18

Creation Moment 9/27/2025 - 15 Questions for Evolutionists SERIES: The new biochemical pathways

How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity?

and the scorners delight in their scorning,

and fools hate knowledge?

Proverbs 1:22

"How did new biochemical pathways, which involve multiple enzymes working together in sequence, originate? 

Every pathway and nano-machine requires multiple protein/enzyme components to work. 

Q: How did lucky accidents create even one of the components, let alone 10 or 20 or 30 at the same time, often in a necessary programmed sequence? 

Evolutionary biochemist Franklin Harold wrote, “we must concede that there are presently no detailed Darwinian accounts of the evolution of any biochemical or cellular system, only a variety of wishful speculations.”
CMI

The Great Controversy in Esther Synopsis SERIES: 7 days

Opening is during a 7 day wine feast (wine = doctrine in Revelation)

where men drank of the wine they chose. Lucifer had free will to drink the wine (doctrines he would follow in his heart). 

The opening scene on earth began with 7 days of Creation Week. Men on earth would also have the free will to drink the wine (doctrine) they chose.
And the drinking was according to the law; none did compel: for so the king had appointed to all the officers of his house, that they should do according to every man's pleasure. -*- With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
Esther 1:8/Revelation 17:2

Creation Moment 9/26/2025 - 15 Questions for Evolutionists SERIES: Why is natural selection......

That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, 

and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, 

and maketh their knowledge foolish; 

Isaiah 44:25

"Why is natural selection, a principle recognized by creationists, taught as ‘evolution’, as if it explains the origin of the diversity of life? 

*By definition it is a selective process (selecting from already existing information), so is not a creative process. 

--It might explain the survival of the fittest (why certain genes benefit creatures more in certain environments), but not the arrival of the fittest (where the genes and creatures came from in the first place). 

The death of individuals not adapted to an environment and the survival of those that are suited does not explain the origin of the traits that make an organism adapted to an environment. E.g., how do minor back-and-forth variations in finch beaks explain the origin of beaks or finches? 

Q: How does natural selection explain goo-to-you evolution?" 

CMI

The Great Controversy in Esther Synopsis SERIES: Expelled

Vashti was expelled---but not killed. Lucifer was expelled---but not killed.
That Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus -*- And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.... Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you.
Esther 1:19/Revelation 12:9

IN the NEWS - This is why you don't get your theology from Tik Tok

"If you get your theology from TikTok — Seriously, why would you? — you might believe that Jesus is coming on September 23 (or 24, in the case of those who want to give themselves a little wiggle room).
Q: Where did this idea come from? 

A: The Boston Globe explains:

"The date of Sept. 23, 2025, appears to have originated from Joshua Mhlakela of South Africa. Though news reports have widely

described him as a pastor, he said in a YouTube video from June: “I’m just a simple person, no title. I’m not an apostle, I’m not a pastor, I’m not a bishop. I’m just a believer.”

In the video, he says that Jesus came to him in a dream in 2018 and told him, “On the 23rd and the 24th of September, 2025, I will come to take my church.”

The context, as Mhlakela understood it, was the 2026 FIFA World Cup. “He was telling me that by June 2026, the world is gearing up toward the World Cup,” he said, but because chaos would descend after the rapture, “there will be no World Cup in 2026.”

The idea of a rapture before the second coming of Christ and the final judgment flows from a theology called dispensationalism. Dispensationalism is a Biblical framework that sees history in distinct eras and teaches that Christ will rapture believers before a future tribulation and His return."

The Lexham Survey of Theology tells us that the word “rapture” refers to the act of believers ascending to heaven, whether at the end of days or in a dispensational pre-millennial gathering of Jesus’ followers:
"The word “rapture” is derived from the Latin translation of 

1 Thessalonians 4:17. English translations translate the key word in that verse with “caught up” or “snatched up.” There are several views among Christians about the exact nature and timing of this rapture, this “snatching up,” primarily due to its relationship to other eschatological events in Scripture."

Side note: I don’t subscribe to dispensational theology, and I believe that the Lord will rapture Christians, both living and dead, into heaven at Christ’s second coming at the end of days." 

PJMedia

Creation Moment 9/25/2025 - 15 Questions for Evolutionists SERIES: How could mutations.....

How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? 

and the scorners delight in their scorning, 

and fools hate knowledge? 

Proverbs 1:22

"How could mutations—accidental copying mistakes (DNA ‘letters’ exchanged, deleted or added, genes duplicated, chromosome inversions, etc.)—create the huge volumes of information in the DNA of living things? 

Q: How could such errors create 3 billion letters of DNA information to change a microbe into a microbiologist? 

--There is information for how to make proteins but also for controlling their use—much like a cookbook contains the ingredients as well as the instructions for how and when to use them. 

--One without the other is useless.--

Mutations are known for their destructive effects, including over 1,000 human diseases such as hemophilia. Rarely are they even helpful. 

Q: But how can scrambling existing DNA information create a new biochemical pathway or nano-machines with many components, to make ‘goo-to-you’ evolution possible? 

Q: E.g., How did a 32-component rotary motor like ATP synthase (which produces the energy currency, ATP, for all life), or robots like kinesin (a ‘postman’ delivering parcels inside cells) originate?"
CMI

The Great Controversy in Esther Synopsis SERIES: Vashti was beautiful

Vashti was beautiful. Lucifer the covering cherub, was beautiful.

To bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown royal, to
shew the people and the princes her beauty: for she was fair to look on. -*- O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty.
Esther 1:11/Ezekiel 28:16.17

Creation Moment 9/24/2025 - 15 Questions for Evolutionists SERIES: How did the DNA code originate?

Because that, when they knew God, 

they glorified Him not as God, 

neither were thankful; 

but became vain in their imaginations, 

and their foolish heart was darkened. 

Romans 1:21

"The code is a sophisticated language system with letters and words where the meaning of the words is unrelated to the chemical properties of the letters—just as the information on this page is not a product of the chemical properties of the ink (or pixels on a screen).

Q: What other coding system has existed without intelligent design? How did the DNA coding system arise without it being created?" 

CMI

The Great Controversy in Esther Synopsis SERIES: Insubordination

Queen Vashti was insubordinate to the king. Lucifer was insubordinate
to God the Father.

But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king's commandment by his chamberlains: therefore was the king very wroth, -*- For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
Esther 1:8/Isaiah 14:13

Creation Moment 9/23/2025 - 15 Questions for Evolutionists SERIES: How did life originate?

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

Romans 1:22

"Evolutionist Professor Paul Davies admitted, “Nobody knows how a mixture of lifeless chemicals spontaneously organized themselves into the first living cell.”

Andrew Knoll, professor of biology, Harvard, said, “we don’t really know how life originated on this planet”. 

A minimal cell needs several hundred proteins. 

Even if every atom in the universe were an experiment with all the correct amino acids present for every possible molecular vibration in the supposed evolutionary age of the universe, not even one average-sized functional protein would form.

Q: So how did life with hundreds of proteins originate just by chemistry without intelligent design?" 

CMI

The Great Controversy in Esther Synopsis SERIES: King Ahasuerus

King Ahasuerus ruled over the "known" world. God the Father rules

over the universe.
Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, (this is Ahasuerus which reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, over an hundred and seven and twenty provinces:) -*- The heavens are Thine....
Esther 1:1/Psalm 88:11

IN the NEWS - Vietnam: Test Run for the Future?

And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark,... Revelation 13:7

"Vietnam has frozen 86 million bank accounts due to a lack of biometric verification, as part of a broader effort to enhance security and transition to a cashless economy.

Background of the Decision

In late 2024, the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) initiated a significant overhaul of the banking system, requiring all bank account holders to provide biometric identification, such as fingerprints or facial scans. 

As of September 2025, accounts that have not complied with these

requirements have been frozen or erased, impacting approximately 86 million accounts out of a total of 200 million registered in the country. Account holders must now provide updated biometric data to maintain their accounts. Those who fail to comply risk losing access to their funds and services.

This move is part of Vietnam's broader strategy to promote digital payments and reduce cash transactions, aligning with global trends towards a cashless society.
The freezing of 86 million bank accounts in Vietnam marks a significant shift in the country's banking practices, emphasizing the importance of biometric verification in enhancing security and preventing fraud. As the government continues to implement these changes, account holders are urged to comply with the new requirements to avoid disruptions in their banking services." 

Bing

IN the NEWS - Calls for KILLING by any means possible

They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice.... Romans 1:29 NIV

"ISIS reportedly called upon Muslims to use any means necessary to kill “Christians and Jews” in the United States and Europe, with a specific focus on France, in an edition of its Arabic-language magazine.

Although the so-called Islamic State has lost its physical Caliphate after it was defeated under the first Trump administration, ISIS radicals continue to advocate for their strict interpretation of the Islamic religion and seek to influence impressionable young Muslims in the West to commit acts of terror in its name.

In a copy of its al-Naba obtained by the Centre for the Analysis of Terrorism (CAT) and shared with the 
In a copy of its al-Naba obtained by the Centre for the Analysis of Terrorism (CAT) and shared with the French paper of record Le Figaro, ISIS wrote: “O monotheistic Muslims… Hit Jews and Christians, their crowds and convoys, in the streets and on the roads of America and Europe, and especially in France. Do not spare them, attack them, kill them by all means: by car, with a knife, a gun or by causing a fire.” 

Breitbart

Creation Moment 9/22/2025 - Those “formidable entropic and informational barriers"

"A recent popular science article begins with the words, “A new study published in July 2025 tackles one of science’s most profound mysteries – how did life first emerge from non-living matter on early Earth?” 

As is so typical in such articles, the author simply assumes that life

did naturally arise from nonliving chemicals. It is almost as if he is attempting to frame the debate by excluding from the outset even the possibility of supernatural creation. Instead of asking how life naturally arose, scientists (and thinking people everywhere) would do well to ask the question: Did life naturally arise, or was it created?

As described in both popular and technical papers, systems biology professor Robert G. Endres attempted to estimate the requirements for the spontaneous generation of a hypothetical protocell from a primordial soup on early Earth. He concluded that such a protocell, with an information content of about a billion bits, could, in principle, spontaneously arise from primordial soup in 500 million years—but only if a small fraction of the interactions leading to the protocell are consistently preserved over “vast stretches of time.” Endres acknowledged the “formidable entropic and informational barriers” to the formation of such a protocell. 

In spite of these barriers, Endres stated that “abiotic evolution, however slow and strange, remains a viable (if mind-bending) explanation.” 

Q: But if abiotic (or chemical) evolution really is viable, why is it “strange” and “mind-bending”?

Apparently, Endres is not terribly confident in life’s ability to naturally arise from nonliving chemicals, because he throws out “directed panspermia” as a fallback option. Directed panspermia, the idea that intelligent extraterrestrials in the distant past “seeded” Earth with life, is nothing new; it was suggested by molecular biologist Francis Crick, chemist Leslie Orgel, and astronomers Carl Sagan and Iosif Shklovskii in the mid-1960s and early 1970s.

A little thought, however, quickly reveals that directed panspermia doesn’t really explain life’s origin. 

Q: If life on Earth were seeded here by intelligent extraterrestrials from outer space, how did the extraterrestrials themselves come to be? 

Claiming that they, too, are the result of abiogenesis on their planet only pushes the problem further back in time, as does claiming that they are the result of another directed panspermia experiment performed by an even older civilization.

But in 2011, Scientific American, despite its strong pro-evolution bias, had already conceded this point, acknowledging that scientists “don’t have a clue how life began.” 

A supernatural creator is the only rational explanation for our existence. That Creator, the Lord Jesus Christ, is also the Savior of the world and its coming King: “In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. (John 1:4)” 

ICR

IN the NEWS - Slaughtering in the name of IslamoFascism---in New Hampshire?

...until they were filled (permeated, saturated) with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice and mean-spiritedness. 

Romans 1:29 AMP

"A gunman shouting “Free Palestine” attacked a wedding in New Hampshire on Saturday night, killing one man and wounding several others.

Officials say 23-year-old Hunter Nadeau shot and killed Robert Steven DeCesare with a handgun. The AG’s office also says that Nadeau shot and wounded two other adults.
At least half a dozen other people were taken to Nashua area hospitals with injuries that were not gunshot-related, sources told News 9 Investigates. Many were injured in the chaos of the shooting.
“He looked like a target, that he was going right for this person. So, I feel terrible for him,” [witness Tom] Bartelson said. “What he said was the children were safe and, you know, ‘free Palestine.'” 

Breitbart

The Prophetic Parable of the Jews Probation

Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a certain king, which would take account of his servants.

And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him,
which owed him ten thousand talents.
But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.

The servant therefore fell down, and worshipped him, saying, Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.
Then the lord of that servant was moved with compassion, and loosed him, and forgave him the debt.
But the same servant went out, and found one of his fellowservants, which owed him an hundred pence: and he laid hands on him, and took him by the throat, saying, Pay me that thou owest.
And his fellowservant fell down at his feet, and besought him, saying, Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.
And he would not: but went and cast him into prison, till he should pay the debt.
So when his fellowservants saw what was done, they were very sorry, and came and told unto their lord all that was done.
Then his lord, after that he had called him, said unto him, O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because thou desiredst me:
Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee?
And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him.
So likewise shall My heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.
Matthew 18:23-35

**10,000 talents is what Haman sold the Jews for. It is also what the servant owed his master in the parable: If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business, to bring it into the king's treasuries. Esther 3:9
**Timeline of Prophetic Parable:
- 474 B.C.-The King whom Esther would be married to took the throne.
- 457 B.C. The Jews returned to Jerusalem to rebuild the temple
- 31 A.D. The descendants of those Jews who begged forgiveness crucified the Christ.
- 34 A.D. Stephen stoned and Gospel goes to the gentiles. (The 70 week prophecy of Daniel came to an end)

- The Jews (the servant in the parable) torment their fellow servants, the Christians.
- 70 A.D. Jerusalem destroyed and Jews turned over to their
"tormentors".

This parable was in response to Peter's question about how many times should we forgive someone.
Christ's answer: Then came Peter to Him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven. Matthew 18:21.22
Notice: 70x7=490. Same amount of time the Jews were given in the prophecy of Daniel for their Probation as a people.

[62 weeks +7 weeks + 2 weeks then the 1 last week of the prophecy=70 weeks. A day for a year in prophetic time would mean the 70 weeks = 490 years.]

Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.

And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate. 

Daniel 9:25-27

“Christ saw in Jerusalem a symbol of the world 

hardened in unbelief and rebellion, 

and hastening on to meet the retributive judgments of God.” 

E.G.W.