What does not being "under the Law" mean?

Q: Does not being "under the Law" mean, as some Christians think,

that we don't have to keep the Law of God anymore?

A: No.----below is an explanation of what "under the Law" actually means, as Mr. Waggoner succinctly simplifies the debate.

Also, those Christians who misunderstand / misapply "under the Law" should read the Apostle Peter's Warning on the writings of Paul:

....even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; 

As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; 

in which are some things hard to be understood, 

which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, 

as they do also the other scriptures, 

unto their own destruction. 

Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked... 2 Peter 3:15-17


"The seventh chapter of Romans may be said to be Rom. 6:14 expanded. It is a masterly argument for the holiness and perpetuity of the law, and is all the stronger because the nature or the perpetuity of the law is not the subject under discussion......from Rom. 6:14; Gal. 5:18-23; 4:4, 5; and 4:21-31, that “under the law”

indicates a condition of condemnation on account of sin; and that persons are freed from the law, or redeemed from under the law, only through faith in Christ, by which they are thenceforth enabled to comply with its just demands. In this chapter the apostle carries out the figure of life and death, introduced in the sixth chapter, representing the one still under the condemnation of the law as alive, and the justified one has been dead. The relations of the man to his sins, to the law, and to Christ, are first indicated by an illustration, which we quote:—

“Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law), how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? For the woman which hath a husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress; but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.” Rom. 7:1-3.

In this illustration we have four terms, namely, a woman, her first husband, her second husband, and the law. 

The law says, “Thou shalt not commit adultery,” and thus defines marriage as the union of one woman and one man. Such a union the law sanctions. 

Not only does the law sanction such a union, 

but it binds the parties during life. 

While her husband lives, the law binds the woman to him; but when the husband dies, then of course the union is at an end. Now, says the apostle, she may be married to another man, and she will be no adulteress, because she is freed from the law that bound her to her first husband. 

Q: How was she freed from that law? 

A: By the death of her husband, which rendered further union impossible. 

Q: But did the law itself change in any particular? 

A: Not in the least: It performs the same office that it did before. 

---The law binds the woman to the second husband just the same as it did to the first; and if while her second husband lives she should be married to a third, the law will condemn her as an adulterous just the same as it would if she had married her second husband while the first husband was living. 

---Thus, we see that the law is the one thing that remains unchanged. Now read the application:—

“Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that

ye should be married to another, even to Him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. 

For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. 

But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead [or, “being dead to that”] wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.” Rom. 7:4-6.

Here, as in the illustration, we have four parties, namely, the man, his sins, Christ, and the law. 

In the first place, the man is united to his sins. That is when he is “in the flesh,” under the law (Gal. 5:17, 18), and unable to please God. Rom. 8:7. 

Here is a union in which the law holds him fast. “For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit and unto death.” 

The apostle says that the sins were “by the law.” This is the same as “where no law is there is no transgression.” 

---If no law existed, there could be no such thing as sin, and therefore Paul says that the motions of sin were by the law. “

The strength of sin is the law.” Now we say that the law holds the man fast in this union with sin. That does not mean that the law delights to have the man a sinner; nothing of the kind. 

The law has no choice in the matter. 

By his own voluntary action the man has transgressed the law and thereby become a sinner, and now the law can do nothing else than declare him to be such. 

If the man, through fear of the consequences of his sins, or for any other reason, wishes to escape from this union, he cannot. The law still reiterates, “You are a sinner.” If the law could die, or could be made void, then the man at it once would be free; but that cannot be.

*There is, however, a way by which the man may be freed from the galling bondage to sin, if he feels it to be a galling bondage, and that is through faith in the death and resurrection of Christ. He may be “justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus; whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in His blood, to declare His righteousness for the remission of sins that are passed, to the forbearance of God.” Rom. 3:24, 25. 

When “the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ,” has been imputed to the man, the law no longer calls him a sinner. He is justified, freed from the body of sin.

But this freedom from sin, and consequent deliverance from the condemnation of the law, has been accomplished only through Christ. “If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature; old things are passed away; behold, all things have become new. And all things are of God.” 2 Cor. 5:17, 18. Now the man is united to Christ, and by the same law which before held him to be a sinner.

“The wages of sin is death.” Rom. 6:23. The law demands the death of every sinner. But “God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” John 3:16. For Christ “bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sin, should live unto righteousness.” 1 Peter 2:24. 

By baptism we show our belief in the death and resurrection of Christ, and our acceptance of Him as a propitiation for our sins. Indeed, by baptism we are joined to Christ: “As many of you as have been baptized in the Christ hath put on Christ.” Gal. 3:27. But we are baptized into Christ, by being “baptized into His death.” “We are buried with Him by baptism into death.” 

And thus it is that we receive the penalty of the law; not in person, but in figure. Christ has suffered for sin; and if we are “in Him,” we also are accounted as having received the penalty. And since it is by baptism that we become united to Him, we become dead to the law and united to Christ at the same time.

“Dead to the law.” 

Q: What does the apostle mean by that expression? 

A: Simply that we have (in Christ) received the penalty of the law, and that it now regards us as dead.

“For I was alive without the law once; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.” Verse 9.

The first clause of this verse presents to us a picture of carnal security. It is the confidence of the man who is insensible to danger. “Without the law” means that the law had not been driven by the Spirit into his heart. Many a man who has read the ten commandments scores of times, has never felt them searching his heart. Therefore his way is right in his own eyes, and he feels secure.

"For sin taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and

by it slew me.” Rom. 7:11. Sin is deceitful; it arrays itself in a pleasing garb so that to the unsuspecting one it appears to be good. But underneath its pleasing exterior it carries a weapon that wounds to the death all who come in contact with it.

Notwithstanding all that the law had revealed to Paul, he could say, “Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.” Verse 12. He would uphold the dignity of the law, and shield it from all blame for his present deplorable condition.

“Sold under sin.” This idea is carried out in many places. Peter says that the sinner is “in bondage.” 2 Peter 2:19. 

Paul says that he is in bondage “to the weak and beggarly elements of the world.” Gal. 4:3, 9. He is a slave to sin. Rom. 6:16, 17. 

“There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh; that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.” Rom. 8:1-4.

Verse 2 is a parallel to Rom. 3:21, 22. The righteousness of Christ being imputed to the sinner, frees him from sin and the fear of death. For a long time he may have tried to make himself righteous, but he found his best deeds so far below what the law requires that they alone would have been sufficient to ruin him. 

Even if he could have fulfilled the requirements of the law, that would not have removed past transgression. 

What the law cannot do is to make a sinner righteous. 

This is not on account of any defect of the law, 

but is solely owing to the weakness of the flesh. 

The law points out the disease and shows what a condition of health would be; then the man begins an ineffectual struggle to reach that high condition; the law goads him on until he finds that he has not power to accomplish his desire; and when he has lost all confidence in himself, he accepts Christ as the only source of help, and at once becomes free. 

Thus the law drives the sinner to Christ that Christ may free him from his past sins and enable him to keep the law." 

E.J. Waggoner

Creation Moment 11/19/2023 - Failed Predictions of Evolutionary Astronomy/cosmology

Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me. 

Job 38:3

"It is interesting that the entrenched belief in ‘deep time’ frequently undergirds the failed predictions/expectations.

Prediction: the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR)

should be lumpy, but it is extremely smooth. So, evolutionary cosmologists invented a miraculous period of ‘inflation’ (the rescue device) to try to account for this.

Prediction: there would be no preferential plane or axis or position in the universe (the cosmological principle; the universe is homogeneous and isotropic). However large-scale galaxy surveys point to our galaxy being in a preferred position; this is commonly referred to as the ‘axis of evil’, because it is such a problem for evolutionary cosmology.

Prediction: the universe contains a lot of ‘dark matter’, which is mysterious stuff that is very difficult to detect but nevertheless

creates a lot of gravitational force. Galaxies seemed to need this to explain the rotational speeds of stars. The big bang also needs this to have a ghost of a chance of forming any stars. The case for dark matter was considered so strong that all that was left to do was find it; hence a multibillion-dollar industry developed to build ever more sensitive particle detectors, which in 40 years have turned up nothing. Now it seems that a thorough application of Newtonian mechanics to galaxy star orbits explains them without dark matter. That leaves the hypothetical big bang cosmic evolution story as the only reason for keeping the notion of dark matter.

Prediction: a lot of ‘dark energy’ exists in the Universe. This is more mysterious stuff needed by big bang cosmology whereby the red-shifted radiation from distant objects is interpreted to mean that they are accelerating away from us. This acceleration needs energy: hence ‘dark energy’. There is no evidence for such dark energy, despite looking ‘hi and lo’ for it.

Prediction: distant galaxies would not be spiral galaxies—because they would be ‘young’ and not have had enough time to wind into

spirals. In similar vein, astronomers were surprised to discover a very distant (= ‘young’ in stellar evolutionary terms) galaxy with heavier elements present, which were not expected based on cosmic evolutionary theories (big bang, etc.). The findings of the James Webb Space Telescope have seriously compounded this problem.

Prediction: there would be no magnetic fields on planets that should be cold and dead due to their size and supposed billions-of-years age. They have magnetic fields." CMI

God's intent

"Exodus 20:8-11 makes a clear connection between the Sabbath day and the seventh day on which God the Creator rested. 

Sabbath observance therefore involves the affirmation that God is Creator and Sustainer of the world. 

And He said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath: Mark 2:27
Jesus gives an indication as to its true meaning. That is, He places it against the universal horizon of God's intent that it benefit all creation and not just Israel."
Baker's Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology 

Creation Moment 11/18/2023 - Darwin Can’t Find His TOL

And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind... 

Genesis 1:24

"The “tree of life,” a branching pattern of evolutionary diversification, was the only illustration in Darwin’s Origin of Species. In 1859, it only existed in his imagination as he speculated, with only circumstantial evidence based on similarities, that all living things descended from a common ancestor. The fossil record did not show such a tree. Darwin expected the record would be filled in by subsequent discoveries.

He could not have anticipated the revolution in genomics of the 20th century. Neo-Darwinists met these discoveries with great anticipation that Darwin’s tree of life would now become visible in the genetic codes impressed in the cell of every organism. Richard Dawkins predicted in A Devil’s Chaplain (2003, p. 272),

…there is, after all, one true tree of life, the unique pattern of evolutionary branchings that actually happened. It exists. It is in principle knowable. We don’t know it all yet. By 2050 we should – or if we do not, we shall have been defeated only at the terminal twigs, by the sheer number of species.

We are now at a stage where enough data have been published, including complete genomes of dozens of plants and animals, such that an assessment is now possible to see if a tree is coming into focus. In addition, we have decades of comparative studies of proteins from different organisms. A status report of sorts was published this week by Antonis Rokas and Sean B. Carroll in PLoS Biology. Though they began with Dawkins’ optimistic prophecy, the news is not good. They see multiple bushes, not a tree. These two evolutionary biologists admit that not only is a tree pattern indecipherable, it may never become visible, even as more data are added:

Genome analyses are delivering unprecedented amounts of data from an abundance of organisms, raising expectations that in the near

future, resolving the tree of life (TOL) will simply be a matter of data collection. However, recent analyses of some key clades in life’s history have produced bushes and not resolved trees. The patterns observed in these clades are both important signals of biological history and symptoms of fundamental challenges that must be confronted. Here we examine how the combination of the spacing of cladogenetic events and the high frequency of independently evolved characters (homoplasy) limit the resolution of ancient divergences. Because some histories may not be resolvable by even vast increases in amounts of conventional data, the identification of new molecular characters will be crucial to future progress.

--This frank admission by two believers in common ancestry demonstrates that molecular genetics has not delivered the hoped-for pattern: “Obtaining an accurate depiction of the evolutionary history of all living organisms has been and remains one of biology’s great challenges.”
 “The observed conflicts are not dependent on the optimality criterion used,” they said. The problem is real, and it’s pervasive."
David F. Coppedge/CEH

What is truth?

"There is a vast difference between truth and error; though through the influence of sectarianism many have come to the conclusion that the difference is quite unimportant. 

--It makes no difference, say they, what a man believes, if he is only

sincere. 

--But it seems quite evident if we take the Scriptures for our guide in the matter, that men may be left really and sincerely to believe a lie

and that, as a consequence, they may be damned "who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness." 2 Thess. 2:12. 

All admit that we must worship God in spirit, in order to our acceptance; but it is no less required of us that we should worship Him in truth. 

And as God's requirements are just, we may, notwithstanding all the jargon of sectarianism, attain to a knowledge of the truth. 

Very important, then, and interesting is the inquiry.

Q: What is truth? 

A: As Jesus came into the world to bear witness unto the truth, we will hear His testimony on the point. 

In His prayer to His Father in behalf of His disciples, He prays, "Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth." John xvii, 17. The word of God is truth; and nothing He has ever uttered through the agency of prophets or apostles can have a higher claim to be called his word than the Ten Words which He spake from Sinai." R.F.C.

The "Really" File - (As Young As 8?)

.....know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts. 

Jeremiah 2:19

"Kim Petras, the transgender German pop star, said he wants his gay fans to engage in sex during performances of his current concert tour,

where children as young as eight are allowed to attend.

In a recent conversation published in Interview magazine, Kim Petras — who is a man but identifies as a woman — acknowledges that lewd and pornographic acts are taking place in full view.

“There’s definitely gay sex happening, which is lit,” Petras said. “In the crowd, and that’s the goal.....I come out in an iron maiden. Everything’s very symbolic for

From the "Really" File

my life and you really have to overanalyze it to get it all. And my obsession with Greek mythology and German fairytales and all of that stuff, all of my passions are very deeply in there.”

Ticketmaster shows that children as young as eight are allowed to attend Petras’ tour, which will make its way through the U.K. and Europe, following stops in the U.S. Those under 14 must be accompanied by an adult at all times, the site states." Breitbart

REALLY?

Creation Moment 11/17/2023 - Organized Core Machine of Earth

....and let the dry land appear: and it was so. Genesis 1:9

"The chemistry at the center of our planet has eluded scientists for centuries. But new research from Arizona State University has shone a light on these mysterious internal processes, suggesting the Earth's outer core may be more dynamic than we once thought.

Our planet consists of four distinct layers: the inner and outer core,

the mantle and, on the surface, the crust. The thickest layer—the mantle—begins at about 18.6 miles beneath the surface and stretches out for 1,865 miles, making up 84 percent of the Earth's volume, ....It is mostly made of silicates—a range of rocks that contain silicon and oxygen within their structure.
Between the mantle and the outer core, nearly 1,900 miles deep, exists a thin layer known as the E prime layer, which marks the boundary between the silicate rocks of the mantle and the molten metal in the Earth's core.

"For years, it has been believed that material exchange between Earth's core and mantle is small," Dan Shim, an Earth sciences professor said in a statement. "Yet, our recent high-pressure experiments reveal a different story."

"We found that when water reaches the core-mantle boundary, it reacts with silicon in the core, forming silica," Shim said. "This discovery, along with our previous observation of diamonds forming from water reacting with carbon in iron liquid under extreme pressure, points to a far more dynamic core-mantle interaction, suggesting substantial material exchange."

These findings represent an important advance in our understanding of Earth's internal processes and suggest that the global water cycle goes much deeper than was once thought." Newsweek

IN the NEWS - Chicoms Playing "God"... Again

In your patience possess ye your souls. Luke 21:19

"A “chimaera monkey” born with glowing fingertips and fluorescent green eyes has been created by Chinese scientists in a world first

stem cell breakthrough.

The male long-tailed macaque is the first primate to be made with cells from two embryos of the same species.

The animal’s original embryo was injected with enhanced stem cells from a donor that were made to glow thanks to fluorescent tags attached by scientists.

The breakthrough could also see animals being created with specific human-like traits....." SciTechDaily

IN the NEWS - Latin America Is Running Out of Water

Then said he unto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.... for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

Luje 21:10,11/Matthew 24:6

"Traffic through the Panama Canal is nearly half-capacity these days. Normally, 40 ships take the world’s greatest shortcut through its locks each day. Last week, the Canal Authority reduced daily

passages to 25, while predicting further cuts to 18 by February. The immediate cause is Panama’s driest October since recordkeeping began in 1950. 

Panama is not the only Latin American country currently facing water scarcity. To the contrary, the entire region is in the grips of a dry spell. A historic drought is ravaging Brazil's Amazon, with a record 3,858 fires ripping through the state of Amazonas this month. 

With their “river highway” drained, riverine communities face emergency-level shortages in food, medicine and drinking water, while endangered river dolphins and other species are dying en masse. 

Meanwhile, farmers from the Dominican Republic to Argentina are reporting millions of dollars in crop losses. The Dominican Republic sealed its border with Haiti over a water dispute. 

Mexico City is rationing water due to reservoirs at historic lows at the end of what is supposed to be its rainy season. Water supplies stored in the glaciers of the Andes are receding, reducing their ability to replenish drainage basins and aquifers with meltwater during warmer, drier months, leading western Bolivia to ration water. 

Central Chile is buckling under 14 years of consecutive drought, which analysts have taken to calling a “mega drought.” 

Warmer surface waters block upwelling of nutrient-rich, cold waters from the ocean’s depths. Fewer nitrates and phosphates reach the surface, reducing the phytoplankton population. That in turn ripples up the food chain. Fish stocks plummet as species die or migrate, wreaking havoc on communities that depend on them for their livelihoods." MS

IN the NEWS - Islamic Atheist Leader turns Christian

Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. Isaiah 1:18

"Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a longtime critic of Islam and vocal atheist, has announced that she is now a Christian for both spiritual and civilizational reasons.

"I still have a great deal to learn about Christianity," she wrote in an

essay published this week. "I discover a little more at church..... But I have recognized, in my own long journey through a wilderness of fear and self-doubt, that there is a better way to manage the challenges of existence than either Islam or unbelief had to offer."

The famous Muslim apostate Hirsi Ali recalled that the Muslim Brotherhood had a unique ability to transform her and her fellow teenagers into activists almost overnight.

Amid strict prayer and fasting sessions, the Somali-born Hirsi Ali and her friends were taught to hate Jews and avoid indulging in early pleasures or else face the wrath of Allah.

She said that the "zero-cost escape" from a life of "self-denial" and "harassment" offered by atheism made the absence of belief appealing to her for a time. The atheists in her circle, like Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins, offered her a new circle of friends that were both fun and clever.

However, as Hirsi Ali witnessed the threats posed to Western civilization via authoritarian regimes like Russia and China, the rise of global Islamism and the "viral spread" of woke ideology, the benefits of atheism seemed inadequate to combat the issues of modern civilization.

"We endeavor to fend off these threats with modern, secular tools:

military, economic, diplomatic, and technological efforts to defeat, bribe, persuade, appease, or surveil. And yet, with every round of conflict, we find ourselves losing ground," she wrote.

The atheist doctrine of "God is dead," in her opinion, seemed now insufficient to find refuge in the "rules-based liberal international order." The solution, Hirsi Ali found, was an embrace of one's desire to uphold Judeo-Christian tradition.

She also praised the freedom of conscience and freedom found in Western civilization.

Hirsi Ali admitted that she found life without any spiritual aspect "unendurable," and atheism failed to answer the eternal question: What is the meaning and purpose of life?

The "God hole," as she described it, inevitably left a void that has been filled by a "jumble of irrational, quasi-religious dogma."

She believes without Christianity, the West cannot withstand China, Russia and Iran, cannot counter Islam with secularism and will be unable to fight "woke ideology," which she claimed is determined to "destroy civilization." FOX

Creation Moment 11/16/2023 - They were "Surpised".... at the SIMPLICITY of the COMPLEX

Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex!
Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.
Psalm 139:14 NLT

"Researchers at Auburn University have achieved a groundbreaking discovery, illuminating the process by which brain cells efficiently replace older proteins. 

This process is essential for maintaining effective neural communication and optimal cognitive function. 

The study, entitled “Recently Recycled Synaptic Vesicles Use Multi-

Cytoskeletal Transport and Differential Presynaptic Capture Probability to Establish a Retrograde Net Flux During ISVE in Central Neurons,” explains the transportation and recycling of older proteins in brain cells.

Dr. Gramlich adds, “Our work reveals a regulatable pathway that can be modulated to accommodate increased or decreased brain function. This prevents the degradation of neurons over time.”

“We were surprised to find that a single simple and regulatable mechanism determines when older proteins are chosen to be recycled,” Dr. Gramlich remarks, emphasizing the significance of their findings." SciTechDaily

The Cherubim Symbolize....

And thou shalt make two cherubims of gold,

of beaten work shalt thou make them,
in the two ends of the mercy seat.
...toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubims be.
Exodus 25:18,20

"The science of redemption is the science of all sciences;

the science that is the study of the angels.

The theme of redemption is one that angels desire to look into;

The study of the incarnation of Christ,

His atoning sacrifice and mediatorial work...."

Ellen White

Receiving the end of your faith,
even the salvation of your souls.
Of which salvation the prophets
have enquired and searched diligently,
who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:
Searching what,
or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, 

when it testified beforehand

--the sufferings of Christ,

--and the glory that should follow.

Unto whom it was revealed,
that not unto themselves,
but unto us they did minister the things,
which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven;

which things the angels desire to look into.

1 Peter 1:9-12

Creation Moment 11/15/2023 - Christian Chemist Wins

That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ; Colossians 2:2

"The clock has run out. Dr James Tour, famed chemist at Rice University, challenged ten of the world’s leading origin-of-life researchers to put up or shut up with simple evidence, and they all folded.

Not since Louis Pasteur challenged proponents of spontaneous

generation to answer his evidence against it has such a dramatic contest been waged by a Christian or creationist against the evolutionary establishment. Like Pasteur, Dr Tour gained an easy victory. Belief in the spontaneous generation of the first cell by “chemical evolution” is today’s emperor with no clothes. Tour called their bluff, and they responded with silence. They should be shamed out of academia.

Dr Tour is an eminent structural chemist at Rice University who has made recent headlines with molecular motors, his flash Joule heating method of forming instant graphene from any carbon source (including coal), and a method of recycling lithium batteries cheaply in a flash.

For the past couple of years, Tour has bypassed the censors in the journals by posting detailed videos on his YouTube channel debunking “chemical evolution” with both depth and humor. These have become quite popular.

Last May, Dr Tour debated a YouTube fake “professor” Dave Farina, on the question of whether or not origin-of-life researchers were clueless about how life appeared on Earth. Farina relied on smirking smears, ridicule, and Big Lies about published papers to claim they were “not clueless” — words he dramatically wrote in large letters on the blackboard. Even some evolutionists were disgusted with Farina’s disrespect and bad manners toward the distinguished scientist.

Dr Tour put out a bold challenge on his YouTube channel. He

promised to admit he was wrong, take down all his anti-evolution material on his channel, and stop making more videos about chemical evolution—on one condition: that any one of 10 leading origin-of-life researchers—all chemists with intimate knowledge of the chemistry of life—would answer just one of 5 questions about how life overcame particular hurdles that had to be surmounted before a living cell could appear. The questions are explained in the video, and the names and portraits of the contestants are shown.

To make it even easier for the 10 contestants, Dr Tour took himself out of the judging and allowed three of the opponents to judge for themselves on whether they had succeeded. He published his challenge with flair in a video, wrote them all personally, and gave them 60 days to respond.

The clock ran out on October 24th.

We take you now to the link to the video Dr Tour posted yesterday of the results." CEH

Council of Trent admitted they teach the commandments of men

But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. Matthew 15:9

The Catechism of the Council of Trent:

"The Church of God has thought it well to transfer the celebration and observance of the Sabbath to Sunday." 

Catechism of the Council of Trent. p. 402, second revised edition (English), 1937. (First published in 1566)

Augsburg Confession Admits.....

But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: Exodus 20:10

The Augsburg Confession:

"They [the Catholics] allege the Sabbath changed into Sunday, the
Lord's day, contrary to the decalogue, as it appears; neither is there any example more boasted of than the changing of the Sabbath day. Great, they say, is the power and authority of the church, since it dispensed with one of the ten commandments." 

Art. 28. Augsburg Confession

SDA Issues: The Great Sin

Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee... Jeremiah 1:5

"The Bible is very clear that human life begins at conception. 

Early Adventists were unequivocally opposed to abortion. 

In a Review article titled 'A Few Words Concerning a Great Sin,' it called abortion 'the murder of unborn infants,' and said it was 'one of the most shocking, and yet one of the most prevalent sins of this generation,' and warned that 'God will not pass unnoticed the murder of such children.' - "A Few Words Concerning a Great Sin," Adventist Review and Sabbath Herald, Nov. 30, 1869." 

GerryWaggoner/F7

Creation Moment 11/14/2023 - So they just add a 2nd Big Bang....

But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise... 

1 Corinthians 1:27
---So basically, because they don't understand the existence of something, in their confusion they just add a 2nd "big bang".....

"The enduring mystery of dark matter has led some physicists to propose that it was forged in a distinct moment of cosmic creation,

potentially transforming our view of the early universe.... they say, that in the weeks after the big bang there was a second, similarly profound moment of transformation. 

This one may have spawned monstrous shadow particles trillions of times the mass of those that make up normal matter and could make sense of the mysterious, invisible matter that seems to hold galaxies together.
As outlandish as it might sound, the concept of a “dark” big bang...as cosmologists rewrite what we think of as the standard big bang to account for multiple distinct “phase transitions”, each leaving its mark on the cosmos." NewScientist