Puritan Corner - Before and after you read the Scripture.....

"Before and after you read the Scripture, pray earnestly that the Spirit who wrote it may interpret it for you, keep you from unbelief and error, and lead you into the truth."
by Thomas Brooks (1608-1680)
Give me understanding, and I shall keep Thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart. Psalm 119:34

American Indians & Mirror image of the Genesis 10 genealogy

"Genesis 10 traces the male offspring of Noah’s sons. 

In short, it details an ancient family tree.
Genesis 11 describes the initial scattering of the peoples.
In men, fathers pass on the Y chromosome to their sons. It is a small fraction of a male’s total DNA. It’s also passed on imperfectly. On average, each generation accumulates three or so mistakes—mutations. Effectively, the Y chromosome acts like a clock. Long story short, from the Y chromosomes of men around the globe, we can reconstruct a family tree.

The base of this tree contains a mirror image 

of the Genesis 10 genealogy.

*For Native Americans, many Y chromosome test result show that both Ham’s descendants and Shem’s descendants gave rise to Native Americans. For Ham’s side, my best guess is specifically via Ham’s son Cush. On the Semitic side of the tree, my best guess is one of the 13 sons of Joktan.
DNA shows that the Americas were settled in multiple waves from Asia.

The most recent happened in the AD 900s. 

It followed a migration in the AD 300s to 600s. The 100s BC also saw a migration, as did the 1000s BC. 

All four of these migrations have clear genetic echoes. 

The only period still shrouded in genetic mystery is the earliest—the time of the Olmecs. Their genetic lineage appears to have gone extinct. Archaeologically, they disappeared in the 400s BC.

Genesis 11:1 describes the people after the flood as “the whole earth.” Genesis 10:25 says that, in Peleg’s day, the “earth” was divided. 

I presume this refers to the division and scattering of peoples described in Genesis 11:1–9. 

Peleg lived in the first few centuries after the flood. 

The genealogies from the Masoretic text put the flood date around 4,500 years ago (C. Hardy and R. Carter, “The Biblical Minimum and Maximum Age of the Earth,” Journal of Creation 28, no. 2 [2014]: 89–96). Thus, I estimate the tower of Babel incident to have taken place around 4,000 years ago." 

AIG

Book Review: They Had Names

(short) Book Review: A book that may be of some interest....
(Review by AIG)

They Had Names

by Nathanial Jeanson

Pages: 312 Publisher: Master Books

"Take a deep dive into the genetics, indigenous histories, linguistics,
and archaeology of North America! Discover pre-Columbian links

between Old and New World civilizations, ancient North American ruins still in existence, dramatic stories of peoples and kingdoms, and much more in this exciting book.

They Had Names is the result of a multiyear deep dive into genetics, indigenous histories, archaeology, and linguistics—an ambitious quest to uncover answers to the secrets of pre-Columbian North American history, to restore the rightful respect and appreciation for the peoples who were here before Europeans, and to show how creation science is making testable genetic predictions and seeing those predictions fulfilled by later experiments."

These are the sons of Ham, after their families, 

after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations. 

Genesis 10:20

Creation Moment 11/30/2025 - DESIGN by Definition

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

"The essential nature of design can be defined as  the generation of organized functional systems. 

Central to this process must be the active coordination of

independent variables, these being principally the form and materials of each component part, and the relationship of components. Coordination is required at all levels of design—whether of individual elements, systems of parts, or the integration of whole systems.

Natural selection theory, however, must assume coordinated improvements as already given. This is illustrated here with particular reference to the classic vertebrate eye sequence. At each stage this can be shown to fail Darwin’s own test of full functional gradualism, the basic premise of evolution." 

CMI

Definition of "Spiritual Egypt"

"The philosophy of Egypt can be summarized by the words of Pharaoh in Exodus 5:2 - “Who is the Lord, that I should obey His voice to let Israel go?” 

This is the spirit of atheism. 

When we speak of atheism we mean the denial of the existence or

relevance of the God of the Bible. 

Atheism moved into the political arena as the undergirding ideology of many on the political left during the disastrous experiment called the French Revolution. Revelation 11:8 describes this movement as having the characteristics of “Sodom and Egypt.”
Skip Dodson/F7

The wicked at the 1st and 2nd Advents

At the 1st Advent:

They [the stricken, deprived of all in which they had trusted] will go into the caves of the rocks And into the holes of the ground [fleeing] From the terror and dread of the LORD And from the splendor of His majesty, When He arises to terrify the earth.

Isaiah 2:19 AMP 

At the 2nd Advent:

“When the voice of God awakes the dead, he will come from the grave with the same appetites and passions, the same likes and dislikes, that he cherished when living. God works no miracle to re-create a man who would not be re-created when he was granted every opportunity and provided with every facility. During his lifetime he took no delight in God, nor found pleasure in His service. His character is not in harmony with God, and he could not be happy in the heavenly family.” E.G.W.

Creation Moment 11/29/2025 - The Miraculous Moonseed and the “Molecular Archaeology” Myth

Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools.... 

Romans 1:22 NIV

"The Moonseed Enzyme:
Canadian moonseed is one of the very few plants on Earth that can attach a chlorine atom to one of its defensive molecules. 

Chlorine chemistry in plants is vanishingly rare, with less than five examples in all the plant kingdom. When researchers found the enzyme responsible by sequencing the full genome, they naturally asked where it came from. Evolution, after all, must explain novelty through continuity.

In other words, when stuff happens – in this case a plant-based halogenization – we must be able to explain its evolutionary lineage.

Q: From what did this unique enzyme (DAH) derive?
The Ancestral Guesswork Begins:
They picked flavonol synthase (FLS), an enzyme common across plants that performs a completely different reaction. FLS does not halogenate anything. It has none of the specialized architecture needed for chlorine chemistry. But it shares some sequence similarity with the moonseed enzyme, so into the ancestry slot it goes.
“Close enough.”
Reasonable. But this is where a little Socratic humility would have

helped. Something like, “We could be wrong,” or “There are other possibilities,” or “Maybe this gene has nothing to do with it.” Instead, FLS gets drafted into the story simply for being in the vicinity, like the guy at the crime scene who vaguely resembles the suspect.
And the narrative closes around it with an audible “snap.”

To test this evolutionary proposal, the authors reconstructed a hypothetical “ancestral” FLS enzyme using computational inference. Then they synthesized it in the lab and tested whether it could perform even a faint version of the moonseed reaction.
It did.

Northeastern, whose Weng Lab led this project said:

“We managed to recover around 1% to 2% of the halogenase activity by starting from the ancestral state. That means evolution really has taken a really narrow path to come to this newly optimized activity. There’s a lot of serendipity in the path and it took many turns, but it eventually found a way to achieve this reactivity in this newly evolved enzyme.”

Wait:
The reconstructed enzyme managed one to two percent of the modern enzyme’s (DAH) activity? In biochemical terms, this is indistinguishable from no function at all. Natural selection does not refine noise. A reaction operating at two percent of the necessary rate produces no meaningful effect inside a living cell. There is no selectable advantage. There is no evolutionary traction.

Yet the researchers embrace this flicker of activity as the starting point of a long evolutionary journey.
As some of my favorite old infomercials used to say, “but wait … THERE’S MORE!”

Enter “Molecular Archaeology”:
This brings us to one of the most remarkable statements in the Phys.org reporting:

“To understand what has happened in the past that leads to the current state of things in terms of cultures, countries and many other things, we rely on archaeology,” Weng says. “The work we took here is essentially molecular archaeology.”

I read that line three times to make sure it was not satire.
I’m a serious fan of archaeology. Archaeology digs up potsherds, inscriptions, bones, metalwork, clay tablets, walls and foundations of ruined cities. You brush away sand and find an object someone held in his hand three thousand years ago. You photograph it. You weigh it. You catalog it.
It exists.

And Then Comes the Certainty Game:
The popular article continues:

“They tracked DAH back to a gene found in other plants, flavonol synthase (FLS), giving them their first indication that DAH started as a much more common enzyme. They were then able to see how, over the course of hundreds of millions of years, moonseed underwent a gradual series of gene duplications, losses and mutations to reach the point where a once-regular enzyme could swap oxygen for chlorine.”

Q: Did you catch that? “They were then able to see how”?
As if they watched it happen?
As if the intermediate proteins were fossilized neatly in the strata and you could track the unfolding history?

In reality, they saw nothing. 

A computation aligned with an expectation, and an intelligently designed, laboratory-constructed enzyme managed to add a chlorine atom 1-2% of the time.

What these researchers “saw” was a narrative supplied by their paradigm, not by the data.

That’s not vision. It’s projection.

At some point my shock became clarity. There is a pattern here, and once you recognize it, you see it everywhere.

---Here is the workflow we just uncovered, stripped of its jargon:

*Find a modern enzyme doing something impressive.

*Assume it evolved from something simpler.
*Pick the nearest similar-looking gene as the “ancestor,” whether or not it performs anything like the required chemistry.
*Infer a hypothetical ancestor with a computer algorithm.
*Synthesize the imaginary ancestor in the lab.
*Test it, discover it barely works, and call the chemical static a “proto-function.”
*Fill in the rest with a narrative of slow, steady improvement over “hundreds of millions of years.”
*Use the language of observation (“we saw how it evolved”) to give the story the force of evidence.

That’s the procedure in a nutshell.

So readers, the next time an evolutionary paper announces that scientists have “reconstructed” a pathway or “seen” an ancient process unfold, you can smile, shake your head, and remember the moonseed enzyme."

CEH

Those 5 Verses

Galatians 1 [RV] 

1 Paul, an apostle (not from men, neither through man, but

through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised Him from the dead), 

2 And all the brethren which are with me, unto the churches of Galatia: 

3 Grace to you and peace from God the Father, and our Lord 

Jesus Christ, 

4 Who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us out of this present evil world, according to the will of our God and 

Father; 

5 To Whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

"THE first five verses form a greeting such as, with the exception of the first verses of the book of Romans, is not to be found elsewhere in the Bible, and, consequently, nowhere else in the world. 

---It contains the whole Gospel.

*If there were no other portion of Scripture accessible, this contains sufficient to save the world." 

E.J. Waggoner

Creation Moment 11/28/2025 - Endosymbiotic Theory of Evolution

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

Romans 1:22
"Endosymbiotic Theory as an explanation for the emergence of eukaryotic cells (cells with a nucleus) from prokaryotic cells (cells

without a nucleus), proposing that two different one-celled organisms came into a close, integrated, symbiotic relationship with one-another. ...believed that eukaryotic mitochondria were once free-living bacteria that were engulfed by other one-celled organisms.

Endosymbiosis, in the best of cases, can only explain a limited range of biological observations. It certainly does nothing to help explain the origin of animals and animal body plans in the Cambrian period." Stephen Meyer

Do we live Thanksgiving?

"In 1777, while America was still fighting for independence, the Continental Congress issued The First National Thanksgiving Proclamation, setting aside December 18, 1777, as a day of prayer

and thanksgiving. The proclamation urged Americans to gather in their churches to praise God for his blessings, confess their sins, and pray for his continued favor on the new nation. It clearly shows that Thanksgiving was never meant to be just a feast but a day of worship, recognizing that “it is the indispensable Duty of all Men to adore the superintending Providence of Almighty God.”

Then in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln made Thanksgiving a permanent national holiday, declaring the last Thursday of November to be a day to thank “our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.”

Understanding this timeline helps us see that Thanksgiving was never about turkey or parades—it was about a nation humbling itself before God in gratitude and repentance.
“Give thanks in all circumstances” (1 Thessalonians 5:18), do we live those words?" 

AIG

Creation Moment 11/27/2025 -The Term "evolution"

For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: Romans 1:20

"Recall that the term “evolution” can be used in at least three different ways.

Evolution #1: Change over time — small-scale changes in a

population of organisms (often called “microevolution”).

Evolution #2: Universal common descent — the view that all organisms are related and are descended from a single common ancestor.

Evolution #3: Natural selection and random mutation as the main cause or mechanism of change during the history of life — the idea that an unguided process of natural selection acting upon random mutations is sufficient to produce the new forms of life that appear during that history as well as the appearance of design that living forms manifest.

Neo-Darwinists affirm all three meanings of the term “evolution” and uniquely affirm the third meaning — the idea of the creative power of the mutation and natural selection mechanism. 

Sometimes, popularizers have conflated these definitions by treating evidence for small-scale change over time (evolution #1) as if it provided evidence for universal common descent (evolution #2) or the creative power of natural selection and random mutation (evolution #3)." 

Stephen Meyer

IN the NEWS - "death on demand"?

Since they thought it foolish to acknowledge God, He abandoned them to their foolish thinking and let them do things that should never be done. Romans 1:28 NLT

"In 2020, the Federal Constitutional Court, Germany’s highest judicial body, conjured a fundamental right to commit suicide, to assist, and be assisted therein. The ruling called suicide a “self-

determined death” — i.e., death on demand — regardless of the reason, and perhaps even, age of the person who wants to die, as the court ruled that the right to suicide “is guaranteed in all stages of a person’s existence.” Youth is a stage of a person’s existence. (Estonia’s highest court recently issued a similar ruling, while requiring competence.)

Now, famous German identical twins have committed joint assisted suicide — reported by the notorious assisted suicide pushers, People magazine — which oohed and aahed about the death of Brittany Maynard, publishing several cover stories on her doctor-prescribed death. From the story about the deceased twins:

"The Kessler twins — renowned German sisters who reached international stardom for their post-war entertainment in the 1950s and 1960s — ended their lives together.

On Monday, Nov. 17, Alice and Ellen Kessler died at age 89 in their home near Munich after choosing medical aid in dying, German newspaper Bild reports."

According to the outlet, the sisters “no longer wanted to live” and “they had chosen to end their lives together.” Police were reportedly notified after the process was completed.

Q: Did you get that? They just didn’t want to live — so they accessed death on demand.

For many among us, suicide is no longer considered a tragedy but is viewed as an empowering act. 

This is precisely the darkness into which the euthanasia movement is taking us, some jurisdictions faster, some slower. 

We should be debating whether becoming dead should be deemed a fundamental right, not the expedient nonsense we too often hear that it’s all about terminal illness (it isn’t) and that strict guidelines protect against abuse (they don’t)." 

MindMatters

IN the NEWS - History repeating itself with Decadence?

First it was aborting babies, then gay marriage, then legalizing theft up to certain amounts, then enshrining into law Trans-butchery of minors and now----as predicted---testing the waters on the path to softening towards pedophiles.

Truly these must be the times nearing the end as like before the last "end"  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

"Washington’s State Sentencing Guidelines Commission has voted 7–2 to recommend lighter penalties for adults caught in online child-sex sting operations, urging lawmakers to create alternatives to incarceration for cases they classify as having “no identifiable victim” , according to Seattle's 770AM.

The category includes “net nanny” investigations where adults take steps to meet people they believe are minors but are actually undercover detectives.

Rantz notes this isn’t an isolated shift. His show previously exposed legislation sponsored by Senator Lisa Wellman and several

Democratic colleagues that would have sharply reduced sex-offender registration requirements and community supervision for adults caught trying to exploit children online. When the bill drew backlash, Wellman pivoted to restructuring the Missing and Exploited Children Task Force.

The commission’s latest recommendation solidifies a trend: while state Democrats publicly champion accountability for sexual predators in high-profile national cases, their policymaking at home repeatedly favors leniency, treatment-first approaches, and reduced penalties for adults who attempt to meet minors for sex. Each new vote and proposal signals a political class more focused on protecting offenders than protecting children." 

ZeroHedge

Creation Moment 11/26/2025 - Lynn Margulis. Margulis said.....

Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have created it. Isaiah 45:8

"Eminent biologist Lynn Margulis. Margulis, who died in 2011, was

a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. 

She was also known for her outspoken skepticism about neo-Darwinian evolutionary theory — expressed succinctly in the quotation was this:

"Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn’t create … neo-Darwinists say that new species emerge when mutations occur and modify an organism… I believed it until I looked for evidence."

The quote is from an interview with Margulis in Discover Magazine published not long before her death." 

Stephen Meyer

Attacking the Image of God

"In the letter to the Ephesians, Paul wrote,
Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them. For it is shameful even to speak of the things that they do in secret. (Ephesians 5:11–12)

Queer activists are in the public schools, on social media, and even increasingly, in many churches. 

We need to be able to communicate, especially with our youth, the goodness of God’s design for men and women and that people are created in the image of God and known by Him. 

We need to be aware that some people hate God but can’t attack Him directly, so they want to do the closest thing they can—attack the image of God in humans.

Any surgery has risks, and surgeries involving the genital area have certain risks of infection, as well as the risk of compromising a person’s ability to urinate or defecate properly. 

A woman who has her ovaries removed at a young age will

immediately commence menopause and have a much higher risk of heart disease as well as experience overall lower levels of health and a shortened life expectancy. 

A woman given masculinizing levels of testosterone is more susceptible to blood clots and heart issues. 

A man given feminizing levels of estrogen is more likely to get osteoporosis, depression, and have a heart attack. These are not trivial surgeries." 

AIG

The "Really" File - (These are "Dolls"?)

"Each year Glamour UK magazine hands out “Women of the Year” awards to, according to their website, “celebrate the extraordinary women who have defined the last 12 months (and beyond) – the trailblazers, activists, visionaries and status quo-shifters who have made the world a little bit better and brighter for women.” 

Well, among the winners this year was a group called “The Dolls” . . . all nine of whom are men.

Yes, nine men won “Women of the Year” awards! These men, who work to “Protect the Dolls,” were specifically chosen because “these trailblazers work tirelessly to empower, uplift and celebrate trans voices.”

From the "Really" File

In other words, these men, who dress like women and call themselves “dolls,” work hard to ensure that women have no private spaces and that men who say they are women are treated just like women—which means there’s really no such thing as a woman at all! That certainly doesn’t sound like they are making the world “a little bit better and brighter for women.”
Our society continues to deny the reality of Genesis 1:27: “Male and female He created them,” which observational science confirms (males have XY and females have XX sex chromosomes)." 

AIG

REALLY?

Creation Moment 11/25/2025 - God was waiting for us all along

Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? 

James 3:13 

"New Atheism proclaimed that science had buried God. 

However, as new evidence about the surprising origins of the universe and its fine-tuning for life has emerged, perhaps God was waiting for us all along." 

Stephen Meyer

On the Streets of Babylon: Vampires spotted in the Pulpits

Babylon is fallen, is fallen,..

Come out of her, My people,
Revelation 14:8/18:4

There seems "Vampires" were spotted in the Pulpits on the Streets of Babylon....

"A Catholic priest in Germany is facing criticism for leading a

Halloween-themed prayer service on Halloween while dressed as Dracula, complete with a half-open coffin and a fog machine.
Father Michael Korell, the vicar of the parish, held the service for around 50 people inside the funeral chapel of St. George’s Cemetery. The event included prayers and hymns.
He told the French newspaper the Tribune Chrétienne that his goal was to “reach out to those who no longer have a connection with the Church” and that “I wanted to make it clear that we don’t have to be afraid of death.”
He later clarified that no Mass took place and that he wore his clerical clothing underneath the Dracula cape." 

Protestia

Savonarola: Attempt to Force the Chess Board in this Great Controversy?

Q: Was Girolamo Savonarola the "John the Baptist" of the 15th century OR a False Prophet?
A: Well we know he was a False Prophet because, if we test his claims against Scripture, we know he was either a liar or being misled by

the opponent of God.
For example, he claimed he had visions from God and visits from angels with messages. But we know when he claimed that in one vision from God he was shown the wicked lost burning in hell with their tongues torn out.
But Scripture tells us the dead are dead [For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing... Ecclesiastes 9:5] and the wicked dead will remain DEAD until the 2nd resurrection after the millennium [But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. The sea gave up its dead, and death and the grave gave up their dead. Revelation 20:5,13 NLT].
Another example of being a False Prophet would be his claim that he would no longer read the Bible for his theology but rather get his "light" through "Divine light" that would come to him. Sometimes from the virgin Mary [though Mary is DEAD in the grave and therefore can't communicate].

Q: Was Lucifer, who knew something like the Reformation was around the corner in the flow of history [And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days. Daniel 11:33] trying to get a leg up by creating a False Reformation based on truth and error?
Q: In other words, was he trying to force the chess board of this Great Controversy between him and God?
Q: Or was Savonarola just a mentally unstable man who sought personal political power?

"Girolamo Savonarola was born at Ferrara, the son of Niccolò Savonarola and Elena Bonaccorsi. He was educated by his paternal grandfather, Michele, a celebrated doctor and a man of rigid religious principles.
Savonarola arrived in Florence in 1490 already renowned for his

learning, yet it was his preaching that catapulted him into the center of Florentine reform and politics. Often from the cathedral in Florence, Savonarola would preach to thousands in the vernacular with powerful imagery and simple language.
His influential preaching, along with some remarkable events outside Savonarola’s control — the French king’s surprise invasion into Italy along with a devastating disease — suddenly elevated his influence in Florence. Equally important in his ascent as the city’s prophetic voice was the pervasive belief among ordinary people of an imminent, momentous upheaval related to the end times, especially as the year 1500 approached.
He began to claim that God was sending him visions of a kingly warrior who would cross the Alps and conquer Italy. In late summer of 1494, Charles VIII of France invaded Italy, seeking to conquer the kingdom of Naples. His arrival appeared to confirm the friar's prophecies.
It also placed Florence in peril. Piero de' Medici, the city's new leader, had refused to let Charles pass through Florence's territory. The king responded by threatening to sack the city. To preserve peace, Piero had to surrender important fortresses and towns within Florence and agree to pay Charles a large sum of money. The news of this bargain led to an uprising in Florence and forced the Medici family to flee the city. Charles entered Florence on November 17 and demanded that the Florentines restore the Medici to power. However, after an anti-French riot and a series of talks with Savonarola, Charles agreed to leave the city in exchange for a smaller payment than that promised him by Piero.
He predicted that Florence would join forces with the king of France

to lead the world into an age of universal Christianity and peace. Florence would be the center of a Christian empire, a New Jerusalem for the new age. In addition to his rousing sermons, Savonarola and his supporters staged processions and "bonfires of the vanities," in which citizens publicly burned books, paintings, clothing, playing cards, and other items the friar viewed as immoral.
In 1492 Girolamo Savonarola warned of "the Sword of the Lord over the earth quickly and soon" and envisioned terrible tribulations to Rome.
From 1494 to 1498, Savonarola fomented dramatic political and social change. His preaching became far more prophetic. Emphasizing Christ’s return, he called Florence to live as a new Jerusalem.
He closed the taverns and outlawed gambling, singing, and dancing.
He turned crimes like sodomy, previously merely punishable by fine, into capital offenses for which the sentence was death.
Public burnings on the Piazza della Signoria became common.
Savonarola was sending shock troops of children known as the "White Shirts" marauding across the city, the gangs forcing their way into people's homes at will and hauling off anything considered

unholy or corrupting—fancy clothes, jewels, and makeup, fine furnishings and other extravagances, musical instruments, works of ancient (i.e. pagan) writers and poets, any art that was not of a strictly religious nature, and any other display of distinctly un-pious ostentation and wealth—in short, "vanities."
They carted the lot of it to the center of town, heaped it all into a huge pile on Piazza della Signoria, and set a torch to the pile. They called this the "bonfire of the vanities."
Even the artist Botticelli—who, up until then, was most famous for his allegorical scenes out of pagan myth—got caught up in the religious fervor and is said to have tossed several of his paintings onto the fire to fuel the flames.
Girolamo Savonarola began to write poetry of an apocalyptic bent, notably "On the Ruin of the World" and "On the Ruin of the Church", in which he singled out the papal court at Rome.
He organized the youth of Florence to model and incite for reform, precipitating several “Bonfires of Vanities” in protest against the annual Mardi Gras Carnival. These youths led citizens in destroying instruments of temptation like carnival masks, playing cards, fine dresses, makeup, mirrors, and even musical instruments. The last of these occurred in the Piazza della Signoria at the center of Florence on February 7, 1497, just months before Pope Alexander VI excommunicated Savonarola.
In early 1498 one of Savonarola's chief followers accepted a challenge to test the truth of the friar's claims to divine favor. The test would be a trial by fire. If the flames did not kill Savonarola, it would prove that he was truly favored by God. On the day scheduled for the event, however, both sides argued so long about the details of the trial that rain eventually put out the flames. People took this as a sign of God's disapproval, and the city guard dispersed the angry crowd. The next day a mob attacked San Marco. The guard stepped in once again, arresting Savonarola and his two closest deputies.

They dragged Savonarola to the very same spot on the Piazza della Signoria where he had put the torch to the city's vanities, and sent him to his eternal reward atop a bonfire of their own.

On May 23, 1498, the three were hanged and their bodies burned.
The ashes were tossed into the Arno." 

Britannica/RI.com/wikidata

Creation Moment 11/24/2025 - Scientists have expressed skepticism.....

Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not. Job 42:3

"Scientists have expressed skepticism about the explanatory power of neo-Darwinism. 

For example, a 2008 conference, commonly named The Altenberg

16, convened sixteen scientists who discussed fundamental problems with the standard neo-Darwinian model, noting that the current model cannot explain the “arrival of the fittest.” 

A follow-up conference in 2016 at the Royal Society argued that 

--the modern synthesis focuses only on the variation and maintenance of biological features that already exist 

--but fails to explain how those novel characters, behaviors, and body plans originate.

All this makes it very hard to justify the position of theistic evolutionists, who claim God uses evolution to create life. 

In reality, the more we learn about the complexity and design of life, the less adequate neo-Darwinism is as an explanation." 

CaseyLuskin

IN the NEWS - Brazil's Plain of Dura

"The city of Crato, in northeastern Brazil, has just inaugurated the world’s largest statue dedicated to Mary. 

The astonishing monument towers 54 meters (177 feet) into the sky

—taller than Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro (98 feet). Standing at the height of a 15-story building, this colossal structure dominates the landscape and can be seen from miles away in every direction. This mega-monument is one of the tallest religious statues in the world. Its sheer size and towering presence are designed to inspire deep Marian devotion from the people and to establish this location as a major destination to venerate Mary.

What is happening in Brazil is precisely what King Nebuchadnezzar did on the plain of Dura. In Daniel 3, the Babylonian king erected an enormous golden image—90 feet tall—a tower designed to dominate the horizon and capture the loyalty, reverence, and obedience of the people. It was a monument to apostasy, demanding worship and allegiance under threat of death. By erecting this image that exalted human religious tradition above the authority of God, Nebuchadnezzar sought to define and unify the faith of the entire world under his command.

The Church upholds four major Marian doctrines: the Immaculate Conception, her bodily Assumption into heaven, her exaltation as the “Queen of Heaven,” and her intercessory role on behalf of sinners before God.

However, these doctrines stand in clear contradiction to the plain teachings of Scripture. The Bible affirms that Jesus Christ alone is the “one mediator between God and men” (1 Timothy 2:5). " AdventMessenger

The prophecies & the blissful MILLENNIUM

But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. Revelation 20:5

"The prophecies show that 

--the King should pass through the grave to His throne, 

--and that His kingdom also must itself rise from the ashes of this world, 

--and that His citizens also must arise from the dust, 

--to reach the inheritance of the exalted Son of God in His heavenly kingdom. 

--Under the ancient dispensation, every sacrifice on holy altars slain

pointed to His death, and, 

--under the present dispensation, every communion of His holy supper commemorates it, until He comes in the dispensation of the fullness of times, to receive the inheritance of the purchased possession, and to give it to the chosen seed, the saints in light, and to bruise Satan under their feet. 

Then is the blissful MILLENNIUM." 

H.D. Ward

Creation Moment 11/23/2025 - The Difference between Evolutionists & Creationists

He hath made every thing beautiful in His time.....

Ecclesiastes 3:11 

"Evolutionists find order in chaos, fire and destruction. 

Creationists find it in Mind: the omniscient, omnipotent mind of a good Creator who loves to make beauty and display His glory to creatures He made in His image." 

CEH

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Maranatha performed by Be Still Studios
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Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Revelation 22:10

Creation Moment 11/22/2025 - Epistemology

"Scripture calls Christians to practice discernment by taking steps to

discriminate between “the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error” (1 John 4:6).

“What is the basis of truth?”

When George Barna asked Americans this question in 2020, 15% said they didn’t know. Another 15% believed the answer lay in science, while others appealed to “inner certainty” (16%), tradition (5%), social consensus (4%), or God (42%). The remaining 5% claimed truth does not exist, although how they know this claim is true remains unclear.

By asking this question, Barna was probing Americans’

epistemology. Derived from the Greek term episteme (ἐπιστήμη), meaning knowledge, epistemology is a branch of philosophy that theorizes about knowledge and belief. The Blackwell Guide to Epistemology describes three key epistemological questions: “What is knowledge? What can we know? And how can we know what we know?” In other words, how can we justify our beliefs?

The divided responses to Barna’s survey question highlight our culture’s need for epistemic clarity. In response, this two-part article series introduces how a Biblical worldview (rather than human reasoning) yields the best basis for justified beliefs—the most intelligible epistemological framework.

Two types of knowledge include:Knowledge by acquaintance—having direct familiarity with a person, thing, or mental state.
Propositional knowledge—knowing about someone or something by means of a true proposition, or statement.
Anderson and Welty argue that the existence of logic requires the existence of God. To build this case, they first state that the laws of logic are necessary truths because “we cannot imagine a possible world” in which a law such as noncontradiction is false. In reply, one atheistic philosopher objects that perhaps we can imagine a possible world where at least one contradiction exists in an abstract (rather than concrete) realm. But can we in fact imagine this scenario coherently? 

The presence of a single contradiction in one possible world would contradict a strict law of noncontradiction. This outcome would render the strict law of noncontradiction false with reference to a certain possible world only by presupposing some version of the law’s truth (at least in its ability to judge itself) with reference to the same world. The argument against the necessity of noncontradiction thus serves to underscore the importance of noncontradiction as a generally applicable concept in every possible world.

Van Til elaborates by asking, “Anyhow why should one ‘rational being’ who had become rational by Chance, seek to lord it over another ‘rational being’ who also had become rational by Chance? In a world of Chance there can be no manner of self-identification and there can be no system of truth.”

A similar dilemma arises from considering that, for worldviews based on man’s word, humans inductively piece together beliefs based on information derived from sense perception. Using information from our senses to try discerning whether we can trust the information from our senses represents arbitrarily circular reasoning.

The trouble is that any argument based on naturalism must borrow concepts such as logic, knowledge, and morality to be intelligible. These arguments apply the laws of logic to contend that we can have warranted knowledge of the tenets of naturalism and that we ought to believe these arguments. But naturalism provides no philosophical foundation for the warranted use of these concepts. Theism, however, does." 

AIG