Genetic Clues from the Tower of Babel

"The Tower of Babel .....like the Creation and Flood accounts, there are only a couple of verses that apply to our model of genetics. But, like the others, these verses are as profound as they are simple.

“Now the whole earth had one language and one speech.” Gen 11:1

“And they said, ‘Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.’” Gen 11:4

It sounds like they were in a homogenous culture, but what do people in that situation do? Would you expect them to mix freely?

 

Note in Gen 11:4 that they knew about the potential for spreading
out and getting separated from one another and intentionally did the opposite! However, this was against the express command of God, who had ordered them to spread out (to populate the earth). So, He took matters into His own hands.

“’Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.’ So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city.” Gen 11:7–8

There are tremendous implications that come from the Babel account. 

---- It explains the amazing cultural connectivity of ancient peoples—like pyramid building, common flood legends, and ancient, non-Christian genealogies that link people back to biblical figures (e.g., many of the royal houses of pagan northern Europe go back to Japheth, the son of Noah).

 

From a Biblical perspective, the current human population easily fits

into the standard model of population growth using very conservative parameters. In fact, starting with 6 people and doubling the population every 150 years more than accounts for the current human population (a growth rate of less than 0.5% per year!). Population size would have increased quickly given the rate at which the post-Flood population reestablished agriculture, animal husbandry, industry and civilization. 

Q: So we must ask the question, “Why are there so few people in the world today?” 

A: The answer is that the world is young and we have not been here many thousands of years.

 

Q: When did the dispersion occur? 

A: Our best clue about the timing of the event comes from Genesis 10:25. In referencing the 5th generation descendent of Shem, a man named Peleg, it says, “in his days the earth was divided.” 

Q: To what is this referring? 

A: ....this passage is referring to the division of people at Babel.

There are 16 named sons born to the three brothers, Shem, Ham and
Japheth. If we assume about the same number of daughters, Noah had on the order of 30 grandchildren. At that rate of growth, there would have been about 150 children in Salah’s generation, about 750 in Eber’s generation, and about 3,750 in Peleg’s generation. Of course, these generations overlap, etc., so let’s say there were between 1,000 and 10,000 people alive at the time of Babel. This fits nicely with the available data. It is a high rate of growth, but wars and disease had yet to start taking their toll.

 

There is one more verse in this section that we need to discuss:

“These were the families of the sons of Noah, according to their generations, in their nations; and from these the nations were divided on the earth after the flood.” Gen 10:32

---At Babel, God did not separate the nations according to language. ---He used language to separate them according to paternal (male) ancestry! 

---This has monumental significance and is the key to understanding human genetic history. 

---Paternal sorting would lead to specific Y chromosome lineages in different geographical locations. Since males and females from the three main families should have been freely intermixing prior to this, it also leads to a mixing of the mitochondrial lines. 

*It is as if God put all the people into a giant spreadsheet and hit a button called “Sort According to Father.” He then took that list and used it to divide up and separate the nations.

 

We already saw that Y chromosomes have little variation among

them. We now add the fact that this little bit of variation is almost always geographically specific. That is, after the nations were separated according to Y chromosome, mutations occurred in the various lines. Since the lines were sent to specific geographical areas, the mutations are geographically specific. The current distribution of Y chromosome lines is a tremendous confirmation of the Biblical model.

 

Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) adds another confirmation. We have
already learned that there are three main lineages of mtDNA. We now add the fact that these three lineages are more or less randomly distributed across the world. Also, the various mutations within each of the three main families of mtDNA are geographically specific as well.

 

---In other words, as the three mixed mitochondrial lines were carried along with the Y chromosome dispersal, each line in each area began to pick up new mutations, just like we would predict." CMI

Genetic Clues from the Flood Account

"Like in the Creation story, there are only a few verses in the Flood account that help us with our model. 

---About 10 generations after Creation, a severe, short bottleneck occurred in the human population. From untold numbers of people, the entire world population was reduced to eight souls with only three reproducing couples.

“So Noah, with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, went into the ark because of the waters of the flood.” Gen 7:7

“Now the sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth… These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was populated.” Gen 9:18–19

We can draw many important deductions from these statements. 

Q: For instance, based on Genesis 7 and 9, how many Y

chromosomes were on the Ark? 

A: The answer: one. Yes, there were four men, but Noah gave his Y chromosome to each of his sons. Unless there was a mutation (entirely possible), each of the sons carried the exact same Y chromosome. 

*We do not know how much mutation occurred prior to the flood. With the long life spans of the antediluvian patriarchs, it may be reasonable to assume little mutation had taken place, but all of Creation, including the human genome, had been cursed, so it may not be wise to conclude that there was no mutation prior to the Flood. The amount of mutation may be a moot point, however, for, if it occurred, the Flood should have wiped out most traces of it (all of it in the case of the Y chromosome).

 

Q: How many mitochondrial DNA lineages were on the Ark? 

A: The answer: three. Yes, there were four women, but the Bible does not record Noah’s wife as having any children after the Flood (in this case, girl children). And notice the claim in Gen 9:19, “These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was populated.” This is a strong indication that Noah’s wife did not contribute anything else to the world’s population. 

With no prohibition against sibling marriage, yet, one or more of the daughters-in-law may have been her daughter, but this does not change the fact that, at first glance, we expect a maximum of three mitochondrial lineages in the current world population. There is a chance that there will be less, if there was very little mutation before the Flood or if several of the daughters-in-law were closely related. At most, we do not expect more than four.

 

Q: How many X chromosome lineages were on the Ark? 

A: That depends. If you count it all up, you get eight. If, by chance, Noah’s wife passed on the same X chromosome to each of her three sons (25% probability), then there were seven. If Noah had a daughter after the Flood (not expected, but possible), there could be as many as nine X chromosome lineages. Either way, this is a considerable amount of genetic material. 

And since X chromosomes recombine (in females), we are potentially looking at a huge amount of genetic diversity within the X chromosomes of the world.

Q: Does this fit the evidence? 

A: Absolutely! 

 

---It turns out that Y chromosomes are similar worldwide. According to the evolutionists, no “ancient” (i.e., highly mutated or highly divergent) Y chromosomes have been found. 

This serves as a bit of a puzzle to the evolutionist, and they have had to resort to calling for a higher “reproductive variance” among men than women, high rates of “gene conversion” in the Y chromosome, or perhaps a “selective sweep” that wiped out the other male lines.

 

*As it turns out, there are three main mitochondrial DNA lineages

found across the world. The evolutionists have labeled these lines “M”, “N”, and “R”, so we’ll refer to them by the same names. They would not say these came off the Ark. They claim they were derived from older lines found in Africa, but this is based on a suite of assumptions 

It also turns out that M, N, and R differ by only a few mutations. This gives us some indication of the amount of mutation that occurred in the generations prior to the Flood.

Let’s assume ten female generations from Eve to the ladies on the Ark. M and N are separated by about 8 mutations (a small fraction of the 16,500 letters in the mitochondrial genome). R is only 1 mutation away from N. This is an indication of the mutational load that occurred before the Flood. Given the assumption that mutations occur at equal rates in all lines, about four mutations separate M and N each from Eve (maybe four mutations in each line in ten generations). But what about R? It is very similar to N. 

Q: Were N and R sisters, or perhaps more closely related to each other than they were to M? 

---We’ll never know, but it sure is fascinating to think about.

 

One more line of evidence crops up in the amount of genetic diversity that has been found within people worldwide. 

*Essentially, much less has been found than most (i.e., evolutionists!) predicted. 

The general lack of diversity among people is the reason the Out of Africa model has humanity going through a disastrous, near-extinction bottleneck with only about 10,000 (and perhaps as few as 1,000) people surviving.

 

-*-However, the reason for this lack of diversity is twofold. 

First, the human race started out with only two people. 

Second, the human race is not that old and has not accumulated a lot of mutations, despite the high mutation rate. 

Third, there actually was a bottleneck event, Noah’s Flood!""

 CMI

Creation Moment 3/5/2023 - The two verses on Genetics

"There are two brief passages in the Creation account we can use to draw some conclusions about human genetic history.

“And the Lord God formed man out of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living being.” Gen 2:7

“And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman, and He brought her to the man.” Gen 2:21–22

These simple statements have profound implications. 

---They put a limit on the amount of diversity we should find in people living today. 

---The Bible clearly says the human race started out with two people only. 

 

Q: But how different were these two people? 

A: There is an intriguing possibility that Eve was a clone of Adam.

The science of cloning involves taking DNA from an organism and using it to manufacture an almost perfect copy of the original. 

*Here, God is taking a piece of flesh, with cells, organelles, and, importantly, Adam’s DNA, and using it to manufacture a woman. 

Of course, she could not be a perfect clone, because she was a girl! Q: But what if God had taken Adam’s genome and used it to manufacture Eve? 

A: All he would have had to do was to leave out Adam’s Y chromosome and double his X chromosome and, voilá, instant woman! 

 

I do not know if Eve was genetically identical to Adam. The only reason I bring this up is because we have two possibilities in our Biblical model of human genetic history: one original genome or two.

Your genome is like an encyclopedia (almost literally). And, like an encyclopedia, the genome is broken down into volumes, called chromosomes, but you have two copies of each volume (with the exception of the X and Y chromosomes; women have two Xs but men have one X and one Y). 

Imagine comparing two duplicate volumes side by side and finding that one word in a particular sentence is spelled differently in each volume (perhaps “color” vs “colour”). 

 

*Can you see that if Eve was a clone of Adam, there would have been, at most, two possible variants at any point in the genome? 

*If Eve was not a clone, however, there would have been, at most, four possible variants at any point in the genome (because each of the original chromosomes came in four copies). This still allows for a lot of diversity overall, but it restricts the variation at any one spot to 2, 3, or 4 original readings.

 

Q: Does this fit the evidence? 

A: Absolutely! Most variable places in the genome come in two versions and these versions are spread out across the world. There are some highly variable places that seem to contradict this, but most of these are due to mutations that occurred in the different subpopulations after Babel.

 

*There are indications, however, that Eve may not have been a clone.
The ABO blood group is a textbook example of a gene with more than two versions. There are three main versions of the blood type gene (A, B, and O). However, many, but not all, people with type O blood carry something that looks very much like a mutant A (the mutation prevents the manufacturing of the type A trait on the outside of cells). 

*So here is a gene with more than two versions, but one of the main versions is clearly a mutation. This is true for many other genes, although, as usual, there are exceptions. 

 

The important take home point is that essentially all of the genetic variation among people today could have been carried within two people, if you discount mutations that occurred after our dispersion across the globe. This is a surprise to many." CMI

Just because others.....

"But numbers can never make wrong right, nor will the Lord remit the punishment due for the commission of crime, because very many are engaged in it. 

Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished. Proverbs 11:21." 

E.J. Waggoner

Creation Moment 3/4/2023 -See, they all really know.....

Have I not written to you excellent things of counsel and knowledge, that I may make you know the certainty of the words of truth, that you may answer words of truth to those who send to you? 

 Proverbs 22:20-21

 

"One must listen in on the smoke-filled rooms where the movers and shakers of the theory gather to wring their hands over the problems, fight each other’s solutions, and plan their strategies. 

Once in awhile, their deliberations are released in print where investigators can see what is really going on. 

It’s not that any of them are ready to junk the theory. They remain true believers, assuring themselves of eventual success. But the problems are ugly, nothing like what the public hears. 

Around 2007, I heard Dr Steven Benner at JPL admit to a group of scientists and other employees that the problems in his field are so vexing, it was almost enough to make one become a creationist. The audience chuckled nervously. Such an admission must never be heard by the public. 

---Benner listed problem after problem: 

chirality, 

genetic takeovers, 

accumulations of tar, 

and the difficulty of making ribose. 

---When Benner is on camera, however, he smiles and talks about all the progress they’re making." CEH

The "Really" File - (When Candy goes Woke/Wicked)

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

"Hershey’s has been hit with backlash and boycott calls after casting

a transgender activist in an International Women’s Day promo video. The chocolate manufacturer brought back its SHE chocolate bar on March 1 for International Women’s Day, but a biological male presented the candy bar in Hershey’s advertising campaign in Canada.

“My name is Fae Johnstone, I’m the executive director of Wisdom2Action,” Johnstone said in the promo video. “We can create a world where everyone is able to live in public space as their honest and authentic selves. See the women changing how we see the future.”

From the "Really" File

 “As you may have already seen in your local convenience store, you can find special edition Hershey chocolate bars with our faces on them!” Johnstone tweeted.

“We still have a long way to go in the fight to end misogyny, patriarchy and gender-based violence,” the transgender activist continued.

The Hershey’s promo video ended up getting blow back, as the company now faces backlash and boycott calls from social media users upset over constantly seeing biological males in spaces typically reserved for women." Breitbart

REALLY?

IN the NEWS - 11 yr. old Child believes in two genders - kicked out of class....

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Proverbs 22:6

 

"Fox News reported Wednesday that Isle of Man (sorry!) authorities

have “suspended sex education at schools after a drag queen allegedly forced a student to leave class for refuting the concept of 73 genders.” It’s just great that they have forced the gears of the grooming machine to grind to a halt, at least for the moment, but how did it get this far? 

The ghastly incident took place at Queen Elizabeth II High School, and when parents heard about it, they began a petition drive. The petition called for the school’s head teacher, Charlotte Clarke, to begin an “immediate investigation” not just into the drag queen incident, but into the whole rancid curriculum that led to the drag queen being invited to the school in the first place..... the drag queen was teaching children as young as eleven years old, and informing them that there are not two, but 73 genders. According to Fox News, “one student responded that there were only two genders, which prompted the drag queen to say, ‘you’ve upset me,’ and ask the student to leave the class.” PJM

On the Streets of Babylon: Rainbow Sneakers Spotted on the Streets

Babylon is fallen, is fallen,..

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

There were some  "Rainbow sneakers" spotted on the Streets of Babylon...

  

"Two years ago, Dawn Bennett became an ordained ‘pastor’ in the thoroughly apostate Evangelical Lutheran Church of America

(ELCA,) in what is perhaps the strangest ordination ceremony we’ve ever seen. Bennett, who is a self-described she/her bisexual, queer woman.....Bennett, who ‘pastors’ The Table church in Nashville under the leadership of Bishop Kevin Strickland in the Southeastern Synod, has a long record of LGBTQ and pro-abortion activism, but it is her ordination ceremony that truly is unforgettable.

During her induction into the ELCA, a black choir belted out gospel tunes on one side of the sanctuary. On another, ten drag queens dressed as nuns, The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, sat and cheered. These performers are an LGBTQ+ protest group that uses religious imagery to call attention to sexual intolerance and satirizes issues of gender and morality.

The lecterns (those who read the scripture for everyone) comprised a “pagan wiccan priest who loves Jesus,” an agnostic best friend, and a gay pastor.

While they took communion, Former CCM star Jennifer Knapp sang some of her “old stuff” over them. Communion occurred while wearing her Rainbow sneakers- “holy shoes” that she only wears while she preaches to remind herself of the necessity of radical LGBTQ inclusion.

Her vestments were smattered with rainbow stripes and accessorized with rainbow pins.

.....her first Easter sermon was not about the resurrection of Jesus, but rather about not being afraid to affirm one’s true, authentic gay/transgender self while praying to “Holy Father, Holy Mother, Holy Parent,” thanking…"They….for our collective queerness.” Pulpit&Pen

Creation Moment 3/3/2023 - Amazing Creation of an interconnected world for life

....all the people sat in the street of the house of God, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain. Ezra 10:9

"In heavy rain, raindrops can hurt. 

But imagine that you are an insect, or the leaf of a plant—those

raindrops at terminal velocity are like bullets hitting your surface. 

Q: Why are small things not damaged?

A: It turns out that such biological surfaces have a structure at the microscopic scale that is hydrophobic (water repelling). 

Researchers found that the rain drops just bounce off such surfaces. 

Q: How?

A: The droplets spread as they hit what looks like a rough surface, covered in micro-bumps. A shock-wave forms, creating tiny holes in the upper surface of the droplet. Then the holes join up, the droplet shatters and rebounds off the leaf or insect. This reduces the contact time by 70%." CMI

The Bad Tree--Good Tree

Let the people renew their strength. Isaiah 41:1

 

"All things on earth need to be renewed. 

No created thing continueth by itself.

Even the trees, which wear not themselves with care, nor shorten

their lives with labor, must drink of the rain of heaven and suck from the hidden treasures of the soil. 

God. As it is necessary to repair the waste of the body by the frequent meal, so we must repair the waste of the soul by feeding upon the Book of God.

   

When the whirlwind shall be loosed, woe to the tree that hath not sucked up fresh sap, and grasped the rock with many intertwisted roots.” 

Charles Spurgeon

Dangers of "Progressive" Adventism SERIES Dripping from their Cyberpens

 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, 

even denying the Lord that bought them...

A man that is an heretic after the first and second admonition reject;

2 Peter 2:1/ Titus 3:10

 

God through the Lens of Pachamama? 

https://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2023/02/dangers-of-progressive-adventism-series.html

The WOKE LENS

https://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2023/02/dangers-of-progressive-adventism-series_27.html

"Either--Or" 

https://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2023/02/dangers-of-progressive-adventism-series_26.html

Veiled Disdain 

https://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2023/03/dangers-of-progressive-adventism-series.html

Creation Moment 3/2/2023 - Ken Ham Nails It

"If you read Genesis 1–11 to a child, he or she will understand the
basic message and would never get the idea of millions of years from this account. No! The idea of millions of years comes from fallible man’s beliefs....

So what does Genesis mean? It means what it so clearly says!

“But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work” (2 Timothy 3:14–17)." AIG

You had Nothing to do with it.....

The seventh day which is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. 

Exodus 20:10

 "Man could not make a day holy if he tried

--but God made the Sabbath holy, 

--and He commands man not to desecrate it.

Man had nothing to do with." 

E.J. Waggoner

Dangers of "Progressive" Adventism SERIES Dripping from their Cyberpens: Veiled Disdain

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, 

even denying the Lord that bought them...

A man that is an heretic after the first and second admonition reject;

2 Peter 2:1/ Titus 3:10

 

Ripped from the Cyberpen of Loren Seibold at so-called Adventist Today (2/18/2023)...a psuedo-Adventist journal

 

"I just read that the death toll of the earthquake in Turkey and Syria

is estimated to have passed 46,000. It may be more. 46,000 people perished in a matter of minutes. Or maybe they wished it were minutes: for some, it was days of suffering, dying of thirst or slow blood loss, limbs crushed, while no one could reach them. Most pastors I know are drawn to a sort of technical, philosophical theology. They love using Hebrew and Greek words. They love showing off their knowledge of stuff like covenants and using words like soteriology and exegesis and hermeneutics. Can you believe that most sermons in Protestant history have been composed largely at this level of discourse? The people I admire most are the long-suffering church attenders who have sat patiently and listened to such nonsense for hours of their lives, hoping they’d get some meaning out of it."

So he begins with a tirade against having an understanding of Biblical Doctrines such as about the Covenants (which are in the Bible for a reason--to learn it) and salvation issues (soteriology). He uses as a backdrop for cover of the spewing his disdain the death of thousands in an earthquake.

Now let's keep this real.

1) There have always been earthquakes, whether 10 die or tens of thousands...how exactly is that minimized by understanding Scripture's teachings? It isn't.

This is veiled disdain for God's Word.

2) He opens with his first word of his piece...it symbolically says a lot. We'll leave it at that. 

 

"But I’m retired, and need no longer try to please you. I can say at last that I have a greatly diminished interest in philosophical theology."

Yes, he can now be honest about his disdain for God's Word, and God (which he will reveal in a moment) and not worrying about  getting fired before he gets his retirement package. Now that he's retired...he can unleash what lies under....sorry, but just keeping this real.

 

"And now I can also admit this: I’m having a hard time forgiving God for the endless suffering and death that’s happening on this earth, while God does nothing."

There it is....his ANGER at God on display. At his age, as long as he was a pastor, he should know better. 

He actually does know....but they don't satisfy his opening word of his piece.... Again, sorry but just keeping this real. 

 

"There was a time when I thought that the great controversy motif

was a good explanation for why people suffer and die. I don’t anymore. The story itself is largely mythological—it’s not in Scripture as such. (Prove me wrong. The passages used in Ezekiel 28 and Isaiah 14 are clearly about human figures, not heavenly ones, and you have to indulge in some serious contortionism to say they describe a proud heavenly angel who went to war with an omnipotent God—and won, sort of.)."

Well there it is...He rejects Biblical teachings about Lucifer in Ezekiel and wants nothing to do with the idea of a Great Controversy raging between God and His opponent. Not sure what he thinks is going on then on this space fabric of time.

 

"Why is it that we credit God with a whole range of infinite qualities, and yet we have to make excuses for why he’s constricted by our free will? 

Besides, what did my free will (or anyone’s) have to do with that earthquake? "

WOW. Unbelievable. Now he has a rant about free will and weirdly wonders aloud in cyberspace what free will has to do with an earthquake.

Well, Loren, the tectonic plates are out of whack because of the global flood--all because humans rebelled against God and became violent. Now those plates shift from time to time and you get earthquakes. The whole creation groans because of sin--then and now.

 

"No, I’m through making excuses for God. God can make God’s own excuses. I hope to hear them someday.....  

No, God doesn’t get off the hook by letting a few minor “miracles” happen, while tens of thousands suffer and die."

Notice, the suffering and death he attributes to God--whether directly or by lack of intervening--yet he doesn't want to blame the opponent of God. 

And the idea of him not letting God "off the hook" really speaks volumes of how spiritually dead this man is.

Picture the scene---one day Loren showed up for his very first day to his first class in college to be a pastor and serve God...Q: What went wrong since? Q: What has he imbibed on that made a shipwreck of his faith?

"But I think the time has come that we insignificant little preachers should quit making excuses for God. If we must, we will ignore that omnipotent but apparently very limited God and get on with the work of Jesus: helping who we can, as little as that is."

Pretty sure Jesus has a different view of God than Loren. 

Again, just keeping this real....but the "helping" is only about making oneself feel good and bantering around the name of Jesus, while dissing God, isn't what Jesus would do.

Creation Moment 3/1/2023 - An Upgrade from the Manufacturer vs. "highly evolved"

Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself. Philippians 3:21

 

"Scientific evidence for evolution is utterly lacking. 

Were evolution true, innumerable transitional fossil forms between basic kinds of creatures would clearly document the evolution of life from single-cell organisms to humans. 

Yet even among evolutionists there are no undisputed examples of these “missing links.”

Moreover, the spontaneous emergence of life from non-life has never been observed and seems absolutely prohibited by the laws of

physics and chemistry. 

Despite intellectual pretensions to the contrary, people accept evolution not because of scientific evidence but because of its emotional appeal.....evolution supposedly removes the possibility of future judgment. 

Also, evolution, at least as it’s popularly perceived, superficially holds hope for the future, with our descendants eventually becoming higher and better versions of us...... evolutionary story ends when the universe reaches a maximum state of disorder billions of years in the future. When this happens, our descendants will perish, regardless of any “more highly evolved” state they may have achieved.

There’s zero evidence we humans are becoming better and better

over time. But there’s abundant evidence we’re deteriorating mentally and physically, generation after generation, as taught by Scripture (Genesis 3; Romans 8:22-23).

If one thinks about it, this is the only way we humans can ever realistically hope to rise to a higher, more exalted state. Performance can only be improved with a design upgrade from the Manufacturer, not by random mistakes in the production process!" ICR

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Puritan Corner - Which was more Work?

"The doctrine of redemption by Jesus Christ is a glorious doctrine; it is the marrow and quintessence of the gospel, in which all a Christian’s comfort lies. Great was the work of creation, but greater the work of redemption; it cost more to redeem us than to make us; in the one there was but the speaking of a word, in the other the shedding of blood. The creation was but the work of God’s fingers (Psalm 8:3). Redemption is the work of His arm (Luke 1:51)."

by Thomas Watson (1620-1686) 

My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass: Deuteronomy 32:2