This is Bible election

Wherefore, my beloved, 

as ye have always obeyed, 

not as in my presence only, 

but now much more in my absence, 

work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. 

Philippians 2:12

“There is an election of individuals and a people, the only election

found in the word of God, where man is elected to be saved. 

Many have looked at the end, thinking they were surely elected to have heavenly bliss; but this is not the election the Bible reveals. Man is elected to work out his own salvation with fear and trembling. He is elected to put on the armor, to fight the good fight of faith. 

He is elected to use the means God has placed within his reach to war against every unholy lust, 

while Satan is playing the game of life for his soul. 

He is elected to watch unto prayer, 

to search the Scriptures, 

and to avoid entering into temptation. 

He is elected to have faith continually. 

He is elected to be obedient to every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God, and that he may be, not a hearer only, but a doer of the word. This is Bible election.” 

E.G.W.

Creation Moment 8/25/2025 - "shocking study" to evolutionists

And God said, Let us make man in Our image, after Our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 

Genesis 1:26

"Yes, it’s a shocking study—humans had babies with other humans in the past. I know that’s probably very surprising. . . well, that is, if you’re an evolutionist and believe mankind evolved slowly, with a variety of different species, over hundreds of thousands of years! If you’re a creationist who starts with God’s Word, a new study that reveals Homo erectus and Homo sapiens (anatomically modern man) may have had children together is not surprising at all.

A new study of fossilized teeth from China, belonging to the Hualongdong people, found “a mix of archaic and modern tooth features.” The teeth have features that appear “modern,” such as “the small size of the wisdom teeth.” But the molars have thick roots, “more similar to those found in H. erectus.” A previous study of the skeletons found something similar—the facial features look like modern humans, but the limb proportions point toward Homo erectus.
Regarding the teeth, a study co-author said,

"It’s a mosaic of. . . traits never seen before—almost as if the evolutionary clock were ticking at different speeds in different parts of the body."

They assume it’s likely a result of what they call “interbreeding” between modern humans and Homo erectus, and it complicates the evolutionary picture yet again.

Q: So how do we understand this fossil analysis in light of Biblical history?

Well, there aren’t multiple species of humans—there’s one: humans.

A: Every person is made in God’s image and descended from Adam, who was created just 6,000 years ago. Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis, Denisovans, and any other human “species” just represent variety within the human kind. These were all peoples who split off from Babel and became isolated (for a time) due to geography, the language barrier, and other factors. Specific genetic variants become common within individual groups, including minor variations in skeletal anatomy and dental features.

Yes, God created each kind, including the human kind, with a tremendous amount of genetic variability. Some of that variability has since died out, but we still see genetic variation within humans today. Still, all humans—including “archaic” ones—are one race: the human race.

This new study has nothing to do with evolution and everything to do with created genetic variety." 

AIG

What will take possession of the world?

"An intensity such as never before was seen is taking possession of

the world. 

In amusement, in moneymaking, in the contest for power, in the very struggle for existence, there is a terrible force that engrosses body and mind and soul. 

In the midst of this maddening rush, God is speaking. 

He bids us come apart and commune with Him. ‘Be still, and know that I am God’ (Psalm 46:10)."

E.G.W.

IN the NEWS - Tulsi Gabbard on UFO's

"You don’t have to wait for Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard to fulfill her recent promise of “continuing to look for the truth [about aliens] and shar[ing] that truth with the American people” to get the truth about extraterrestrials—you can just look to God’s Word!

During a recent interview, Gabbard was asked about videos of “UFOs”:
Is there anything—we’ve had some declassification of some very

strange videos that look like they are unidentified flying objects. Is there anything in the files that you think you could find or have found?
And her response was rather cryptic:
"Nothing that I am prepared to talk about today . . .
There are a lot of questions. There’s a lot that’s been put out there. I’m still going through and looking through what do we know and what is it that we don’t know."

As Gabbard and her team continue to investigate strange videos and objects that are difficult to fully identify, 

Q: will she find evidence of alien life having visited earth? 

A: No, she will not. 

Q: How can I be so confident? 

A: Well, because I have God’s Word and it gives me three primary reasons not to believe intelligent aliens exist:

--Earth was created to be inhabited. The book of Isaiah (Isaiah 45:18) tells us that God specifically formed earth to be inhabited—and we certainly see that to be true! 

It doesn’t matter what extreme environment scientists visit—from the dark, cold depths of the ocean floor to piping hot ocean vents to intensely salty or chemical-laden pools in remote places—they always find some form of life flourishing. 

Yes, God designed our planet to be inhabited. No such statement is made about Mars, Jupiter, or some far-off planet (and, of course, we have zero evidence of life on any of those places!). So we don’t expect to find life in outer space.

--Earth is the focus of God’s attention. When you read through Genesis 1, you will notice that it is earth that has God’s focus. We are given detail as God forms and fills the earth over five of the six days of creation. But when it comes to the heavens (which are mind-bendingly vast), we’re told God created two great lights for earth’s sake (Genesis 1:16 KJV). 

Yes, earth is the focus, not the universe.
--The gospel is for humans, not ET. When Adam fell, everything began to groan from the effects of sin (Romans 8:22). So if there are intelligent beings living on a distant planet or next-door on Mars, they too suffer from the effects of sin, and yet they cannot be saved. Jesus became the God-man—not the God-Martian or the God-Klingon—and stepped into history to die on the cross and rise again, paying the penalty for human sin. He’s called the last Adam because he’s directly related to Adam and therefore the only perfect substitute for us. It is only humans that can be saved, so by extension, we understand aliens don’t exist (now, please note, this is not me saying aliens are going to hell, as reporters have accused me of saying in the past! This is me saying the gospel message being only for Adam’s race means aliens do not exist!).

There are certainly strange phenomena out there that are difficult to explain, but the answer won’t be visits from extraterrestrials.
Forget visits from aliens—are you ready for when you stand before the King of kings, Creator, Judge, and Savior of the world?
The heavens are the heavens of Yahweh,
But the earth He has given to the sons of men. (Psalm 115:16 LSB)." 

Ken Ham

ARCHAEOLOGY: Glimpse into Pre-Flood animal kingdom

All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died. Genesis 7:22

"For more than 15 years, an international group of paleontologists has been uncovering and analyzing fossils in Africa to better understand the Permian, a geologic period that....ended with the most catastrophic mass extinction in Earth’s history.

“This mass extinction was nothing short of a cataclysm for life on Earth,...,” said Christian Sidor, a UW professor of biology and

curator of vertebrate paleontology at the UW Burke Museum of Natural History & Culture.

The series highlights recent findings about the wide variety of animals that once inhabited Permian Africa, including saber-toothed predators, burrowing herbivores, and a large amphibian resembling a salamander.

All these finds were excavated in three basins across southern Africa: the Ruhuhu Basin in southern Tanzania, the Luangwa Basin in eastern Zambia, and the Mid-Zambezi Basin in southern Zambia.

For decades, scientists’ best understanding of the Permian, the Great Dying and the start of the Mesozoic came from the Karoo Basin in South Africa, which contains a near-complete fossil record of periods before and after the mass extinction.

"The number of specimens we’ve found in Zambia and Tanzania is so high and their condition is so exquisite that we can make species-level comparisons to what paleontologists have found in South Africa,” said Sidor." 

SciTechDaily

IN the NEWS - Is it slowing down--this taste of the Future?

It has been continuing---the massive weird global natural calamities--crammed into a small window of time of the last few weeks....although this week makes it seem to be slowing down.

For nation shall rise against nation,

and kingdom against kingdom:

and there shall be famines,

and pestilences and earthquakes,

in divers places.

All these are the beginning of sorrows.

And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars:

And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, ...and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

Matthew 24:7,8,6/Luke 21:11

China: Wildfires near Beijing out-of-control.

Japan: Quake off east coast.

Pakistan: Cloud burst triggers flood killing hundreds. Other flooding and landslides across country.

Indonesia: Several more quakes. Multiple volcanic eruptions.

Argentina: Quake on border with Chile. Major quake off southern coast between it and Antarctica.

Greece: Caldera cause rock landslide in Santorini town.

Italy: Sea began boiling at Bagnoli Beach.

Canada: Glacial lake outburst triggers flooding.

Denmark: Rare waterspouts on coast.

Poland: Rare waterspouts on coast.

Russia: Several quakes off eastern coast. Rare tornado in east cuts 23 mile swath.

Tunisia: Major quake.

India: Mumbai flooded.

Australia: Quake rattles Queensland.

U.S.A.: Volcanic eruption in Hawaii. Area around Alaska capital flooded. Massive windstorm wreaks havoc in metro Chicago. Another large California wildfire. Quake swarms rattles L.A.

Space: Meteorites light up night skies over Japan and Australia.

Bolivia: Civil War Rumored to be breaking out.

Turkey: Rumored to be on brink of civil war despite out-of-control wildfires still sweeping country and a quake.

Creation Moment 8/24/2025 - I wouldn't bet my life their "theory" is correct either.....

"A rare cosmic explosion has revealed the hidden core of a massive star, stripped of its outer layers and bursting with silicon and sulfur.
Named SN2021yfj, the supernova challenges long-standing theories and provides the first glimpse deep inside a dying stellar giant.

Normally, when massive stars collapse in a supernova, astronomers detect strong traces of lighter elements such as hydrogen and helium. The recently observed event, named SN 2021yfj, stood out because its chemical fingerprint appeared to be very different.

For decades, scientists have proposed that giant stars are structured in layers, much like the rings of an onion. The outer shells should be made of lighter elements, while progressively heavier elements are found deeper inside, ending with an iron core at the center.
Near the end of its life, SN 2021yfj’s stripped-to-the-bone progenitor underwent two rare and extremely violent pair-instability episodes, ejecting shells rich in silicon (grey), sulphur (yellow), and argon (purple). 

The collision of these massive shells is so violent that it created a

brilliant supernova that could still be seen at a distance of 2.2 billion light-years. SN 2021yfj is so unusual that it defines a new class, Type Ien, and the star itself may have survived the event.

This rare finding provides the first direct glimpse into the long-hypothesized layered interiors of massive stars and allows scientists to see what lies deep inside, only moments before stellar death. The results were published on August 20 in the journal Nature.
“This event quite literally looks like nothing anyone has ever seen before,” added Northwestern’s Adam Miller. “It was almost so weird that we thought maybe we didn’t observe the correct object. This star is telling us that our ideas and theories for how stars evolve are too narrow. There must be more exotic pathways for a massive star to end its life that we hadn’t considered....While we have a theory for how nature created this particular explosion,” Miller said, “I wouldn’t bet my life that it’s correct.... This star really underscores the need to uncover more of these rare supernovae to better understand their nature and how they form.” 

SciTechDaily

*I wouldn't bet my life either---I'll stick with Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. Hebrews 11:3....that goes for the stars too...

Lesson of John 5:27

John 5:27 Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear His voice ,And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.
"The hour is coming - it is fixed to an hour, so very punctual is this

great appointment....there will be a resurrection both of the just and unjust, of all that are in their graves; and though all that are dead are not in graves, or interred in the earth, as some are in the sea; yet, because the greater part are in graves, this phrase is chosen to express the universality of the resurrection: and this is also a proof of the resurrection of the same body; for what else are in the graves but bodies?" 

Adam Clarke

Lawful use of the Law

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
Romans 7:7 

"The first of all lawful use of the law is to bring people to Christ,

that they may be justified by faith.
That is the object of it,—to give the knowledge of sin, and to bring people to Christ, that they may be justified by faith."

A.T. Jones

Creation Moment 8/23/2025 - TOI-6894 toys with their models

TOI-6894 toys with their models......
"The star, named TOI-6894, is a red dwarf that has just 20% of theSun’s mass. Red dwarfs are the most common type of star in our

galaxy. However, it has long been believed that stars of this size don’t have enough material around them to form or hold on to giant planets. Despite this, researchers have now detected clear evidence of a giant planet, TOI-6894b, orbiting this very star. The findings appear in the journal Nature Astronomy.

TOI-6894 now holds the record as the smallest star ever found to host a transiting giant planet. Its radius is 40% smaller than any previous known host of such a planet.

This surprising find challenges established theories that small stars lack the material to form giant planets.

According to current planet formation models, giant planets are rare around small stars. This is because their protoplanetary disks — the gas and dust reservoirs from which planets form — are thought to lack the material needed to build massive cores and accrete thick gas envelopes.

Dr. Mathilde Timmermans, member of the SPECULOOS team and ULiege astronomer at the time of the discovery, noted: “The existence of TOI-6894b is hard to reconcile with existing models. None can fully explain how it formed. This shows that our understanding is incomplete, and underscores the need to find more such planets.” SciTechDaily

**But does not toy with this model of Creation---Hath in these last days spoken unto us by His Son, whom He hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also He made the worlds; Hebrews 1:2

Parallels in Daniel & Revelation

"The 8th chapter of Daniel brings up the wicked policy, all the way through, of the two republics. Then turn to Revelation. 

---The first half of the book is to bring us to the second half. 

Just as certain parts of the book of Daniel are to bring us up to the

place where the vision is established, so the first part of Revelation is to bring us face to face with the work of the beast and his image, enforcing their worship upon all the people; and there the Lord says: Revelation 14:9,10 If any man worship the beast and his image...  [he shall] drink of the wine of the wrath of God. 

And: 12 Here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. 

Thus another great subject of these two books is the commandments of God as they were written, and not as they were thought to be changed by Satan, and by this power which he uses. 

We are to preach that. Thus from the books of Daniel and Revelation, we are to preach: 

• the coming of the Lord, 

• the sanctuary, and 

• the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus." 

A.T. Jones

Creation Moment 8/22/2025 - Reversed Evolution Nonsense

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

Romans 1:22

"Apparently, evolution (and natural selection) can do almost anything:

"If new forms appear, the credit goes to creative natural selection; if old forms fail to change, the conservative force is called stabilizing selection; and if some species survived mass extinctions while others perished, it is because the survivors were more resistant to extinction."

So for those who believe it, evolution explains everything. Even the lack of evolution is supposedly proof of evolution!
Recently, scientists at the University of California, Riverside, suggested evolution has a rewind button—that somehow evolution circles back to reacquire traits an organism once had and then supposedly lost. In other words, evolution can go backwards. And why not? After all, they think it can do anything. According to Bernstein of Phys.org,

"On the younger, black-rock islands of the Galápagos archipelago, wild-growing tomatoes are doing something peculiar. They’re shedding millions of years of evolution, reverting to a more primitive genetic state that resurrects ancient chemical defenses’"

Q: On what basis do they say that the plants are reverting to a more “primitive” genetic state or that these chemical defenses are “ancient”? 

---They work just fine in the twenty-first century.

*The chemical defenses in this case are molecules called alkaloids: a large class of organic compounds found primarily in the nightshade family that includes eggplants and tomatoes. 

The “ancient” alkaloids are a natural and bitter plant pesticide that dissuades grazing animals and insect predators. Popular examples of alkaloids are nicotine and morphine.

In this study, various samples of wild tomatoes (genus Solanum) were taken from the Galápagos Islands. It was found that plants on the eastern islands produce alkaloids—specifically steroidal glycoalkaloids (SGAs)—that are different than those on western islands.

"That difference comes down to stereochemistry, or how atoms are arranged in three-dimensional space. Two molecules can contain

exactly the same atoms but behave entirely differently depending on how those atoms are arranged.

To figure out how the tomatoes made the switch, the researchers examined the enzymes that assemble these alkaloid molecules. They discovered that changing just four amino acids in a single enzyme was enough to flip the molecule’s structure from modern to ancestral."

*Creationists would say these are not modern or ancestral (which suggests evolution) molecule structures; rather, they are simply two types of enzymes ensconced within the tomato’s genome.

Regardless, researchers writing in Nature stated, “Our findings highlight how GAME8 [GLYCOALKALOID METABOLISM 8 (GAME8) cytochrome P450 hydroxylases] evolution has shaped alkaloid diversity in the genus Solanum, demonstrating a complex interplay between enzyme function, genetic variation, and evolutionary adaptation.” 

But there was no GAME8 evolution. There has always been genetic variation and alkaloid diversity in the genus Solanum since its creation, allowing the plant to fill various ecological niches (adaptation).

Jozwiak et al. in Nature appeal to gene duplication, stating,

 “Ancestral GAME8 likely favored 25R, with gene duplications giving rise to 25S-producing enzymes in more recent Solanum species [25S and 25R are tomato and eggplant type isomers].6 But “the whole idea of gene duplication being able to explain gene origins and function is now being actively refuted by empirical data produced by evolutionists themselves.”

*Evolutionists are in a quagmire, observing changes that are “reversing evolution” and thus don’t fit the Darwinian narrative.
*That’s because evolution isn’t supposed to have a rewind button. It’s generally viewed as a one-way march toward adaptation, not a circular path back to traits once lost. While organisms sometimes re-acquire features similar to those of their ancestors, doing so through the exact same genetic pathways is rare and difficult to prove.

Of course, this evolution story must force the resulting implications for people into the narrative.

"And this kind of change might not be limited to plants. If it can happen in tomatoes, it could theoretically happen in other species, too. “I think it could happen to humans,” [Jozwiak] said. “It wouldn’t happen in a year or two, but over time, maybe, if environmental conditions change enough.”

Jozwiak et al. stated, “This study reveals how enzymatic and evolutionary mechanisms drive the production of isomeric metabolite variants, tailored to function in particular ecological niches.”

Creationists on the other hand would state there are no evolutionary mechanisms. In fact, Jozwiak et al. also stated that “the evolutionary mechanisms driving stereochemical diversity among Solanum species remain poorly understood.” Instead of pointing to an evolutionary process, this study reveals how continuous environmental tracking results in “the production of isomeric metabolite variants within the Solanaceae family genome, tailored to function in particular ecological niches.”

To conclude, the Galápagos tomato plants are simply using chemical defenses that have always been part of the plant’s genome. The “biosynthetic diversity and stereochemical specialization” has been part of this amazing and diverse plant family since its creation thousands of years ago." 

 ICR

Lesson of Luke 4:38

Luke 4:38 And He arose out of the synagogue, and entered into

Simon's house. And Simon's wife's mother was taken with a great fever; and they besought Him for her.
"Here is a type of another form of the disease of sin. 

This time it is a hot and burning fever, and there are many men who have the fever of pride, or the fever of ambition, and some who have the fever of impetuous lust." 

Charles Spurgeon

Christ vs. the Sadducees on the Resurrection

"What is the issue here? The issue is whether or not there is a resurrection of the dead. “The Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection,” were arguing, by presenting Jesus with this preposterous hypothetical, that there cannot really be a resurrection of the dead.

Mark introduces the incident with the same explanatory theological note on the Sadducees: “Then the Sadducees, who say there is no

resurrection, came to Him with a question.” Mark 12:18. 

As does Luke: “Some of the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus with a question.” Luke 20:27. Obviously, the only issue in this passage is whether or not there will be a resurrection of the dead.
By asking, “whose wife will she be in the resurrection,” the Sadducees thought that they had asked an unanswerable question and had thereby proved the doctrine of the resurrection to be unworthy of belief. Christ exploded the hypothetical by declaring, "In the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage."

Jesus then proceeded to the real issue, the resurrection of the dead: "But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have you not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living." Matt. 22:31-32.

Again, the only issue in this passage is whether there will be a resurrection of the dead, and a resurrection of the dead is necessary only if the dead are sleeping in the grave. 

Jesus is defending the doctrine of the resurrection from skeptical Sadducees, who, Scripture tells us in several places, did not believe what Scripture teaches regarding the resurrection." 

F.D. Nichol

Creation Moment 8/21/2025 - Sounds an awful lot like.......

For by Him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible... Colossians 1:16

"Check out Carl Zimmer’s recent article in the New York Times, “Scientists Are Learning to Rewrite the Code of Life”:
"These plans demand tremendous amounts of engineering. The genome of Escherichia coli is about four million bases long, and each type of codon appears in thousands of different places along its length. To carry out so many changes, the researchers must build entire genomes from scratch…

Some changes caused no trouble, but others caused devastating harm. Bacteria have certain genes that overlap, for instance, and changing a codon in one can accidentally wreck the sequence of the other.
The scientists had to invent a lot of repairs to undo the damage, including separating overlapping pairs of genes to create two distinct stretches of DNA.
“We definitely went through these periods where we were like, ‘Well, will this be a dead end, or can we see this through?’” Dr. Robertson recalled.
Glitch by glitch, the researchers figured out how to fix the altered DNA…
“It’s kind of crazy that they were able to pull this off,” said Yonatan Chemla, a synthetic biologist at M.I.T. who was not involved in the study. “It’s a technically demanding tour de force.”
Meanwhile, at Harvard, Dr. Nyerges and his colleagues have encountered glitches of their own. “There’s a lot more in genomes than we thought,” he said. “We are still not great at designing biology.”

“Engineering,” “building from scratch,” “inventing,” “designing”… “Rewriting the code of life,” it turns out, sounds an awful lot like intelligent design." 

EN&V

Lesson of Luke 4:40

Luke 4:40 Now when the sun was setting, all they that had any sick with divers diseases brought them unto Him; and He laid His hands on every one of them, and healed them.

"Ah, it is setting with some of you!

Those gray hairs are like the streaks of light upon the horizon

as the sun goes down; but blessed be God, He who heals the spiritually sick in the early morning, by bringing children to Himself, does not cease to work until the sun goes down." 

Charles Spurgeon

The Robe of Righteousness SIMPLIFIED

"Many are the ideas that flit round’ on the internet concerning what is the robe of covering Christ gives to us. Let us in this article place our attention on these two paragraphs in sequence from Ellen White’s book, Christ’s Object Lessons, pp. 311-312:

"Only the covering which Christ Himself has provided can make us meet to appear in God’s presence. This covering, the robe of His own righteousness, Christ will put upon every repenting, believing soul.

“I counsel thee,” He says, “to buy of Me ... white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear” (Revelation 3:18).
This robe, woven in the loom of heaven, has in it not one thread of human devising. Christ in His humanity wrought out a perfect character, and this character He offers to impart to us. “All our righteousness are as filthy rags.” Isaiah 64:6. 

Everything that we of ourselves can do is defiled by sin. 

But the Son of God “was manifested to take away our sins; and in Him is no sin.” Sin is defined to be “the transgression of the law.” 1 John 3:5, 4. 

But Christ was obedient to every requirement of the law. He said to His disciples, “I have kept My Father’s commandments.” John 15:10. 

By His perfect obedience He has made it possible for every human being to obey God’s commandments. 

When we submit ourselves to Christ, 

--the heart is united with His heart, 

--the will is merged in His will, 

--the mind becomes one with His mind, 

--the thoughts are brought into captivity to Him; 

we live His life. 

This is what it means to be clothed with the garment of His righteousness. 

Then as the Lord looks upon us He sees, not the fig-leaf garment, not the nakedness and deformity of sin, but His own robe of righteousness, which is perfect obedience to the law of Jehovah."

In older English “meet” to appear means “fit” to appear." 

Larry Kirkpatrick

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Creation Moment 8/20/2025 - Aluminum-20 & the proton-emission phenomena & mysteries of the proton drip line

When I consider.... the work of Thy fingers,....What is man, that Thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that Thou visitest him? Psalm 8:3,4

Peering into the Creator's DESIGN: His Interwoven Balance of the Laws of Physics and Chemistry....

"This rare and unstable isotope doesn’t just decay, it unravels through a dramatic sequence of proton emissions that challenge long-held assumptions about nuclear structure. The finding marks the first known case of a “triple-proton decay chain,” and it may even hint at a break in the fundamental symmetry of atomic particles, opening a new frontier at the edge of nuclear stability.

What makes aluminum-20 special is not just that it exists briefly before vanishing; it’s how it vanishes. The decay pathway it follows is one of the rarest ever seen. First, it emits a single proton, turning

into magnesium-19. Then, that magnesium-19—already unstable—simultaneously ejects two more protons, collapsing into neon-17. It’s like watching a tightrope walker step forward and instantly split into three tumbling acrobats mid-air.
This process is known as three-proton emission, and aluminum-20 is the first nucleus ever discovered in which its direct decay product (magnesium-19) is itself a two-proton emitter. This extraordinary sequence provides nuclear physicists with a kind of Rosetta Stone—an intricate decay puzzle that reveals hidden information about nuclear forces, quantum behavior, and the boundaries of stability.

Currently, more than 3,300 nuclides are known, yet fewer than 300 are stable and exist naturally. The remainder are unstable nuclides that undergo radioactive decay.
Common decay modes, such as α decay, β- decay, β+ decay, electron capture, γ radiation, and fission, were discovered by the mid-20th century.
In the 21st century, two-proton radioactivity was found in the decays of some extremely neutron-deficient nuclei.
In recent years, even rarer decay phenomena such as three-, four-, and five-proton emission were observed.
“Aluminum-20 is the lightest aluminum isotope that has been discovered so far,” said Dr. Xiaodong Xu, a physicist with the Institute of Modern Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
“Located beyond the proton drip line, it has seven fewer neutrons than the stable aluminum isotope.”
Using an in-flight decay technique at the Fragment Separator of the GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research, the physicists

measured angular correlations of aluminum-20’s decay products.
Through detailed analysis of angular correlations, they found that the aluminum-20 ground state first decays by emitting one proton to the intermediate ground state of magnesium-19, followed by subsequent decay of magnesium-19 ground state via simultaneous two-proton emission.
Aluminum-20 is the first observed three-proton emitter where its one-proton decay daughter nucleus is a two-proton radioactive nucleus.
The researchers also found that the decay energy of the aluminum-20 ground state is significantly smaller than the predictions inferred from the isospin symmetry, indicating a possible isospin symmetry breaking in aluminum-20 and its mirror partner neon-20.
This finding is supported by state-of-the-art theoretical calculations that predict that the spin-parity of the aluminum-20 ground state differs from the spin-parity of the neon-20 ground state.
“This study advances our understanding of the proton-emission phenomena, and provides insights into the structure and decay of nuclei beyond the proton drip line,” Dr. Xu said." 

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There is none righteous, no, not one. 

As it is written, 

There is none righteous, no, not one: 

Romans 3:10

There is none good but one, that is God. 

And He said unto him, Why callest thou Me good? 

there is none good but one, that is, God:

 but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments. 

Matthew 19:17

Edward Beckersteth

SDA History: A.T. Jones on Preaching

It is time for You, Lord, to work: 

for they have made void Your law. 

Psalm 119:126

"I cannot preach the commandments of God without preaching the

faith of Jesus; and that I can not preach the faith of Jesus without preaching the commandments of God.

I am to preach the commandments of God so that it will be the faith of Jesus only; and I am to preach the faith of Jesus so it will be nothing but the commandments of God." 

A.T. Jones

Creation Moment 8/19/2025 - Punctum

Thou, even Thou, art LORD alone; Thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and Thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth Thee. Nehemiah 9:6

Q: What purpose could Punctum serve? Only the DESIGNER of the cosmos knows....

"It started as a side note in a high-resolution ALMA observation. Elena Shablovinskaia and her team weren’t hunting for the weird. They were mapping the bright, active heart of NGC 4945 — a nearby starburst galaxy 11 million light-years away — when they spotted a faint blip about 60 parsecs off-center.

At 50% ± 14% polarization in millimeter wavelengths, the source — now nicknamed “Punctum” from the Latin for “point” or “dot” — has one of the highest polarization degrees ever seen in an extragalactic compact object. Even stranger, it’s invisible in optical, infrared, X-ray, and lower-frequency radio data. The only window into its existence is ALMA’s millimeter eye.
Astronomers now claim Punctum could represent an entirely new astrophysical object.
Punctum isn’t just bright for its category — it may be its own category. Shablovinskaia’s team measured its millimeter luminosity at roughly 2 × 10³⁵ erg/s, making it 10,000 to 100,000 times more luminous than typical magnetars, 100 times brighter than microquasars, and rivaled only by the Crab Nebula among known stellar remnants.
The leading suspect is synchrotron radiation from an object with a highly ordered magnetic field. That’s the same basic physics behind pulsars, magnetars, supernova remnants, and non-thermal filaments in the Milky Way. But Punctum’s combination of intensity and polarization doesn’t match any of these.
Polarization is basically light with a sense of direction — instead of its electric fields wobbling every which way, they’re all lined up, like cosmic hairs brushed neatly by a magnetic field. In space, that often happens when charged particles spiral around magnetic field lines at near-light speeds, producing synchrotron radiation. The stronger and more orderly the magnetic field, the more coordinated the light’s “dance” becomes — which is why Punctum’s 50% polarization is such a smoking gun for something with an unusually well-organized magnetic environment.
Punctum could be the first detected member of an entirely new class of astrophysical object, one that hides from most of the electromagnetic spectrum and only reveals itself in polarized millimeter light." 

ZME

Contrast Between God and Man SERIES: 9

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked, Who can know it? 

The heart is deceitful above all things, 

and desperately wicked: who can know it? 

 Jeremiah 17:9

God is light and in Him is no dark ness at all.

 This then is the message which we have heard of Him, 

and declare unto you, that God is light, 

and in Him is no darkness at all. 

1 John 1:5

Edward Beckersteth

Lesson of Luke 4:41

Luke 4:41 And devils also came out of many, crying out, and saying, Thou art Christ the Son of God. And He rebuking them suffered them not to speak: for they knew that He was Christ.

"Confessions were extorted from the demoniacs.
They said, Thou art Christ the Son of God, 

but they said it crying with rage and indignation; 

it was a confession upon the rack, 

and therefore was not admitted in evidence.

*Christ rebuked them, and did not suffer them to say that they knew Him to be the Christ, that it might appear, beyond all contradiction,

 --that He had obtained a conquest over them,

--and not made a compact with them."

Adam Clarke

Nothing to indicate a disembodied consciousness

"Of the creation of man we read, "The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life." Job 33:4. 

And life is contemporaneous with that God-given breath: "All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils." Job 27:3. 

If God decided to withdraw His life-giving spirit from the world, everyone would die at once: “if He set His heart upon man, if He gather unto Himself His spirit and His breath; all flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust." Job 34:14-15. 

The spirit returns to God because it came from God and because God gathers it to Himself. There is nothing here to indicate a disembodied consciousness." 

F.D. Nichol