Mysterious Plurality of One God

"This triune God (or Trinity) began to allude to this aspect of His

nature right in Genesis 1:26–27. There we read that “God said, ‘Let us make man in our image’ . . . God created man in His image.” Here God is a plural noun, said is in the third-person singular verb form, and we see both the plural pronoun our and the singular His referring to the same thing (God’s image). 

This is not horribly confused grammar. Rather, we are being taught, in a limited way, that God is a plurality in unity. We can’t say from this verse that He is a trinity, but God progressively reveals more about Himself in later Scriptures to bring us to that conclusion.

@ In Isaiah 48:12–16 we find the speaker in the passage describing Himself as the Creator and yet saying that “the Lord God and His Spirit have sent Me.” This is further hinting at the doctrine of the trinity, which becomes very clear in the New Testament. There are many other Old Testament Scriptures that hint at the same idea.

@ In Matthew 28:18–20 Jesus' command His disciples to baptize His followers in the name (singular) of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. John’s Gospel tells us that “the Word” is God who became man in Jesus Christ (John 1:1–3, 14)." 

AIG

Problem for the Anti-Trinitarians

"Based on their arguments, many Anti-Ts contend:

1) There is only ONE TRUE GOD—the Father.

2) There are only TWO primary beings in heaven: The Father and His Son. To many Anti-Ts, the teaching that there are “three living persons in the heavenly trio” is anathema, Catholic, and ultimately, pagan.

One problem with the Anti-T view is that the Word of God says “three.” 1 John 5:7, and Jesus Himself said we should baptize “in the name of the Father [1], and of the Son [2], and of the Holy Spirit [3].” Matt. 28:19. 

Not only that, but the SOP plainly says: “There are three [3] living persons of the heavenly trio; in the name of these three great powers—the Father [1], the Son [2], and the Holy Spirit [3]—those who receive Christ by living faith are baptized.” Special Testimonies, Series B, Vol. 7, p. 39. 

Some Anti-T’s seem willing to even die for their views, but what saith the Lord? To me, the above quotes (and there are many others) speak loudly for themselves." 

Steve Wohlberg/F7

1 John 5:7 Controversy pt. 1

"The Bible also says: “There are three that bear witness in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one.” 1 John 5:7 (NKJV). 

I realize many think 1 John 5:7 doesn’t belong in the Bible and was added by Erasmus in the 1500s. 

After looking at both sides of this debate, I now believe 1 John 5:7 is God’s Word. 

One reason is because old Waldensian Bibles (long before Erasmus) contained the full 1 John 5:7. 

I devote an entire chapter in my book to this controversy. The text says: “There are three … the Father, the Word [Jesus], and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one [united].” 

EGW herself confirmed this basic truth when she wrote: “There are three living persons of the heavenly trio; in the name of these three great powers—the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit—those who receive Christ by living faith are baptized … ” Special Testimonies, Series B, Vol. 7, p. 39." Steve Wohlberg/F7

1 John 5:7 Controversy pt.2

1 John 5:7 (KJV) For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.

"Obviously a clear proclamation of the triune nature of God, and a verse in partnership with John 10:30, it came under attack by Arians and other deniers of Christ’s deity soon after it was provided by the Holy Spirit. Due to this early and unrelenting violence against God’s revealed word in this verse, it is missing from the majority of Greek manuscripts (though not all).

Naturally, God’s promise to preserve His words was never in danger

of breach of contract, and the true wording of this valuable passage, now called by many the Johannine Comma, survived in thousands of copies and translations. Early editors of Greek New Testaments included the text as genuine, even if only after publishing inadequate editions that left it out, because among the believing Church there was never any widespread doubt as to its genuineness before the 19th century.

Over time commentators would discontinue using 1st John 5:7 as a powerful text that proves the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ and his personal unity with the Father and the Holy Ghost. The essential heresy of Arianism, already strong in these scholars, would eventually assert itself again among the many cults that have achieved great followings to this present day.

But, what of the evidence? What of the claims? What of the charges against this wonderful sentence in our Holy Book? Is it really true that it only exists because of the unscrupulous actions of an overzealous scribe? 

Was its inclusion in Canon just the error of an ignorant, unwitting Church for nearly two millennia; the Holy Ghost powerless to excise the work of a man’s meddling pen until the esteemed scholarship of Drs. Westcott and Hort entered the scene to rescue us from our belief in an inspired Book, and to sire more worldly scholars like Eberhard Nestle, Bruce Metzger, Daniel Wallace to continue “helping” us away from our immature reliance on a completed and delivered testimony from our Lord?

Well, no. The claims against this verse are false and do not withstand honest scrutiny. 

On this website I have posted an excerpt from Dr. Holland’s book that spends a brief dozen or so paragraphs disputing the claims of modern Bible correctors, which you should read. 

Also, in 1995, a tireless librarian named Michael Maynard, M.L.S., published an almost 400 page book called A History of the Debate over 1st John 5:7-8. That author exhausted the tomes of history in a valiant attempt provide the reader with every known discussion of this verse and its contents since the first century. Unfortunately, it is out of print, the author is deceased, and the book could cost you several hundred dollars to buy used due to its rarity.

Thankfully, a new treatment of this topic is available for our edification. Dr. C. H. Pappas, ThM, has produced for us a well-thought out and helpful book he calls In Defense of the Authenticity of 1 John 5:7 which is in its second edition now.

Pappas succeeds in demonstrating that the approach many have taken

on this topic is backwards. By that I mean that the critics have put

those who accept this verse on the defensive. But it is they, like the Arians before them, who have demanded that this verse be removed from the Bible. 

---It is they who must prove that it is spurious, and yet they only offer unsubstantiated theories as to how it may have been added. We do not really need to prove that it should be included. The Holy Spirit has seen to that for centuries! But regardless of that fact, Pappas piles on the Bible’s critics with ample evidence for its inclusion.

“…we have the record of the controversy in the Greek Church as early as AD 379 with the Arians seeking to remove the Comma. But when it comes to adding the Comma to the Scriptures, there is a dead silence. The Arians were not challenging Gregory for adding the Comma, but rather, Gregory challenged the Arians for omitting the Comma from the Sacred Text. This in itself is telling.”

--Re-read that and think about it. --

The early dispute over this verse was over someone removing it, not someone adding it. Those who would seek to remove this verse today are aligning themselves with the heretical Arians who did

remove it from their copies – and whose corruption is probably the primary cause of its absence in the relatively few copies of the passage in early Greek manuscripts that have been found. 

And remember, when these old manuscripts have survived, it is logically because of their lack of use. This is also a well-developed theme in the book and one I have often had to repeat over and over to people who just don’t seem to understand why “older is better” is not necessarily true.

The author offers a useful appendix containing “The witness of the Church Fathers,” “The Arian Persecutions,” the “Two Greek Texts” (introductory information for the whole controversy over Bible versions), and several more, including a brief section on Vaticanus and Sinaiticus, the two corrupt manuscripts that make up the basis for the majority of readings chosen against the King James Bible in modern versions.

It is sad to see that many teachers, when expositing on this passage of the Bible or on the topic of the Trinity, limp over this verse as if it is not there for their use and instruction. It is as if the marginal note in their Scofield Reference Bible has rendered them impotent. Even some of those who would regard the King James Bible to be God’s word in English seem reluctant to bellow this verse out with the vigor.

Luther definitely preached the God-head as being of three co-existing and equal persons in Heaven: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit." AV1611

SDA Issues: A "cunning lie from the serpent"

"Ellen White herself never used the word “trinity” even once. We should soberly consider this. So should Anti-Ts who seem obsessed with talking a lot about a term that the SOP never used.

Q: Some say that many SDA pioneers were anti-trinitarian. Is that accurate?

A: Yes, but as I said earlier, they mostly opposed a philosophical, highly speculative, and unbiblical Roman Catholic trinity. 

That said, our pioneers also grew in their knowledge of truth as they kept searching God’s Word (see Prov. 4:18 But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.)—especially as more light came from the Spirit of Prophecy. 

I have closely studied EGW’s writings during the Kellogg crisis inthe early 1900s and discovered that, more than at any other time, the Holy Spirit led her to write about “the Godhead,” “the heavenly trio,” “three living persons,” and the Holy Spirit as “the Third person of the Godhead.” 

These statements brought a flood of light to Adventists during that time. 

Unfortunately, Anti-Ts sometimes twist SDA history by teaching that Kellogg brought trinitarianism into Adventism, and that we are now apostate for accepting it—which is a cunning lie from the serpent. The truth is that, while again, EGW never used that word, she did clarify the truth about the Godhead, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit at that time. 

Anti-Ts should humbly take a closer look at what EGW actually wrote in the early 1900s. If they do, they will discover new light previously hidden from their minds through false interpretations of the Kellogg era." 

Steve Wohlberg/F7

Book Review: Satan’s War Against the Godhead

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

Satan’s War Against the Godhead

by Steve Wohlberg

Whitehorse Ministries 2118 pages (2023)

"Our Savior tells His disciples to “Go, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.” Matthew 28:19. This Heavenly Trio is called “the Godhead.” Satan and his vast army of fallen fiends are warring against the Godhead and God’s Church; and as part of theirinfernal tactics, they are creating confusion, distraction, and division among the Lord’s people about our Heavenly Father, His Son Jesus Christ, and the Spirit of God.

Satan’s War Against the Godhead will clear up that confusion, protect you from falsehood, deepen your relationship with Jesus, and inspire you to do your part to fulfill His sacred commission so we can go home to a better land."

There are three that bear witness in heaven: the Father, the Word [Jesus, see John 1:1], and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one. 1 John 5:7

To Those Who See The Word "Trinity" Tainted By Rome....

Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device. 

Acts 17:29

"Due to its unfortunate baggage, when some Adventists even hear the word “trinity” they automatically think: ROME. 

But if one defines “trinity” simply as the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit being united in mind, character, and purpose, I can live with that. 

That said, due to present controversies, I much prefer the word “Godhead” because it not only appears in Scripture (Acts 17:29; Rom. 1:20; Col. 2:9; KJV/NKJV), but is also used many times in the Spirit of Prophecy. For instance:
“The Godhead was stirred with pity for the race, and the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit gave themselves to the working out of the plan of redemption.” RH, May 2, 1912." 

Steve Wohlberg/F7

Creation Moment 11/26/2023 - 20 Failed Evolutionary Biological Claims SERIES: Convergence Dilema

Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men... 1 Corinthians 1:25

"Prediction: independently originating similarities should not exist. That is, convergence is not predicted by evolutionary theory. 

*Evolution is ‘contingent’, as Stephen Jay Gould emphasized, so if the evolutionary experiment were run again, it would have different outcomes. 

So, the evolution of two very similar creatures with entirely separate phylogenies, would be so unlikely that it would not happen. 

And yet ‘convergence’ abounds." CMI

Precious Bible!

All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, 

and is profitable for doctrine, 

for reproof, 

for correction, 

for instruction in righteousness, 

that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. 2 Timothy 3:16-19

"Precious Bible! With the inspired Scriptures, men may become wise unto salvation through faith in Christ. 

*In the formation of your religious sentiments, come to the Bible; for it is profitable for doctrine.

*In cases of correction, or reproof, take the Bible. 

*Would you be instructed in righteousness? learn from the Word. 

He continues, For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears, and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

Q: To what time does he here refer? 

A: To the very time he had just described: namely, the last days. 

The last days, then, are characterized, 

1. As perilous, and the nature of the perils are seen in Paul’s description of the last days, where he repeats eighteen sins upon those who have a form of godliness. 

2. In the last days there will be very many religious teachers who will labor to defend popular fables, and the masses will follow their teachings. The Apostle says that they shall “heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears, and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.” 

3. In the last days the plain truth of the word will be proclaimed. This is evident from the work of those who support fables. They labor to turn the people from the truth to fables; therefore the truth is proclaimed abroad in the ears of the people. Dear reader, are not these things beginning to have a fulfillment before your eyes?" JamesWhite

IN the NEWS - Green Papal Legates Visit White House

And he (USA) exerciseth all the power of the first beast (papacy) before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. Revelation 13:12

"A Catholic delegation, consisting of three US Catholic bishops and other church representatives, met with senior White House officials on November 17, 2023, to discuss the Pope’s message as outlined in Laudato Si’ and Laudate Deum prior to the start of COP28, according to The Tablet, a Roman Catholic news agency. According to the report, White House officials were “receptive” and took these faith leaders very “seriously.”

The Tablet reported the following:
 “Three U.S. Catholic bishops and the head of a conference of women religious, met with Biden administration officials Nov. 17 to discuss

the Catholic Church’s priorities for what Pope Francis has called ‘our suffering planet’.”
 “The delegation spoke with the White House’s John Podesta, senior adviser to the president for clean energy innovation and implementation; Ali Zaidi, national climate adviser; and John McCarthy, senior adviser for political engagement.”
 “We’re men and women of the church,” Bishop Weisenburger told OSV News. ‘And we echo what we find in Scripture, consistent church teaching — and brought into beautiful focus by Pope Francis in Laudato Si’ and Laudate Deum— that this is not just a scientific matter or issue. This is a theological and spiritual matter.”
“Ellis [a member of the Catholic delegation] was impressed by ‘how seriously the White House took these faith leaders’.”

The Vatican and the US are forming a new alliance, and it is very concerning to see the two superpowers of Bible prophecy—the US and Rome—uniting to advance the Pope’s agenda.

It’s official now. The US and the Vatican will work together on a shared vision—to promote the teachings of Rome in our nation and the world, exactly as Revelation 13 predicts. 

Three Catholic social teachings that are enshrined in the Pope’s message are the common good (a new just global order), ecological conversion (Sunday laws), and a universal fraternity (the three-fold union of apostate Protestants, Catholics, and spiritualism). These encapsulate the main points taught by Pope Francis.

In light of Bible prophecy, in light of this historical collaboration, in light of the dangers against true religious liberty, and in light of the law of God that becomes desecrated by the exaltation of papal falsehoods, Protestant America is truly becoming “an image of the Roman hierarchy” (Spirit of Prophecy, vol. 4, p. 278)." AdventMessenger

SDA Issues: Beware of LOVE REALITY

Watch out for yourselves and for all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God that he obtained with the blood of His own Son. I know that after I am gone fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock. Even from among your own group men will arise, teaching perversions of the truth to draw the disciples away after them. Therefore be alert, remembering that night and day for three years I did not stop warning each one of you with tears. And now I entrust you to God and to the message of His grace. This message is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified. 

Acts 20:28-32

"‘Love Reality’ is a ‘Once Saved Always Saved’ variation of salvation that has risen up in Adventism in the last five years. It is attractive to certain SDA youth, offering them a short-circuited religion robbed of responsibility & obedience. We refer to it as Hyper-grace.

At the 2023 Fall Council, Ted Wilson called ‘Love Reality’ a

“Dangerous false doctrine that should be avoided.” 

We believe he is correct....one of the directors of this “dangerous false doctrine” is an SDA Conference President — Erik Vandenburgh in Hawaii....
The reason it is called the Love Reality Tour is these individuals (and others) are traveling (touring) around to Adventist Churches trying to convince SDA’s of their ideas." 

Fulcrum7

Creation Moment 11/25/2023 - 20 Failed Evolutionary Biological Claims SERIES: Phylogeny & "Tree of Life"

Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men... 1 Corinthians 1:25

"Prediction: similarities, being due to common ancestry, would show a clear pattern of phylogeny (evolutionary ancestry), tree of life, etc. 

This is not so; there are numerous ‘homoplasies’, which are

similarities that do not fit any pattern of common ancestry, or phylogeny. Homoplasies are so common that evolutionists invented the rescuing device of ‘convergent evolution’.

A comparison of the genes involved in bat and dolphin sonar found 200 similar genes. Since there is no possible sonar-equipped common ancestor of both, these similarities must have evolved independently, by chance mutations. This stretches ‘convergent evolution’ to breaking point. 

Another rescue device is horizontal gene transfer, which creationist Walter Remine predicted would be invoked by evolutionists. E.g., a key gene regulation system known as citrullination is said to have been introduced into vertebrate animals by horizontal gene transfer from cyanobacteria!" CMI

Here is a catalogue of eighteen sins resting upon the professed church of Christ

“This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be 

lovers of their own selves, 

covetous, 

boasters, 

proud, 

blasphemers, 

disobedient to parents, 

unthankful, 

unholy, 

without natural affection, 

truce-breakers, 

false accusers, 

incontinent, 

fierce, 

despisers of those that are good, 

traitors, 

heady, 

high minded, 

lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 

having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: 

from such turn away.” ” Verses 1-5. 

Here is a catalogue of eighteen sins resting upon the professed church of Christ— those who have “a form of godliness.” 

The word reproves all these sins. 

And if it be faithfully preached, believed and obeyed, it will put them away. It is the only remedy that can possibly reach the case." 

James White

Creation Moment 11/24/2023 - 20 Failed Evolutionary Biological Claims SERIES: J.B.S. Haldane

Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men... 1 Corinthians 1:25


"Prediction: no wheels would be found in living things. 

The famous evolutionary population geneticist, J.B.S. Haldane,

proclaimed in 1949 that mutations and natural selection (neo-Darwinian evolution) could never produce “various mechanisms, such as the wheel and magnet, which would be useless till fairly perfect.” But ‘wheels’ far more sophisticated than Haldane could have imagined, such as subcellular rotary motors, have been discovered.

A related prediction: there would be no magnets in living things, for similar reasons. Haldane was wrong about that too." CMI

A CALL TO GIVE THANKS

"On September 16, 1620, 102 passengers boarded a ship called the

Mayflower with the hope of finding religious freedom. After a 65 day voyage across the storm-tossed Atlantic the Pilgrims landed in Provincetown Massachusetts on November 21st. 

By the time spring came almost half of the people had died from poor nutrition and sicknesses. But despite the trials they endured, in September of 1621 they held a feast of thanksgiving after their first harvest.
Thanksgiving is the act of expressing gratitude for a favor or kindness which has been shown to you.
God's goodness:
O give thanks unto the LORD, for He is good: for His mercy endureth for ever. Ps. 107:1
Our salvation:
Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom He hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy; Ps. 107:2

There are four different groups of people called to thank God:
Travelers lost in the desert (Ps. 4-9), 

They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in. Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.

Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, 

and He delivered them out of their distresses.

Prisoners in bondage (Ps. 10-16), 

Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron; 

Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, 

and He saved them out of their distresses. 

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, 

and brake their bands in sunder.

Sick people made well (Ps.17-22) 

Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted. Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death. 

He sent His word, and healed them, 

and delivered them from their destructions.

and Sailors in a storm (Ps. 23-32). 

They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; These see the works of the LORD, and His wonders in the deep. For He commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end. 

Then they cry unto the LORD

 in their trouble, 

and He bringeth them 

out of their distresses.

He maketh the storm a calm, 

so that the waves thereof are still."

StephenWhitney

Creation Moment 11/23/2023 - 20 Failed Evolutionary Biological Claims SERIES: Vestigial Organs as ‘left-overs’

Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men... 1 Corinthians 1:25

"Prediction: vestigial organs as ‘left-overs’ of evolution. 

Evolutionists predicted vestiges of past evolution that are now useless

organs. They identified many candidates, such as the human appendix, tonsils, ‘tailbone’, etc. 

Because claimed vestigial organs have been progressively shown to be functional, some evolutionists have resorted to redefining what ‘vestigial organ’ means—an organ that has lost its original function and now has a different or reduced function. 

This is yet another rescuing device that shows how evolution is not falsifiable in the minds of those who have a need to adhere to naturalism."

CMI

The Most Solemn Charge in the Bible

“I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom, Preach the word.” iiTim. iv,1,2. 

A MORE solemn charge cannot be found in the Book of God. 

The apostle Paul brings Timothy up in the presence of God, and of Christ, and before the solemnities of the last Judgment, as he gives him this solemn charge—“Preach the word.” 

James White

Creation Moment 11/22/2023 - Evolutionary Paleontology Fails

But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
1 Corinthians 1:27


"Prediction: “no organism wholly soft can be preserved”. Darwin said this in Origin of Species. This prediction has failed repeatedly and spectacularly. For example, exquisitely preserved jellyfish fossils are found in multiple places.

Prediction: the fossil record, according to evolution, should show

diversity first, developing into disparity, but the record is the opposite: disparity comes first (with all the major phyla appearing in the ‘Cambrian explosion’) and then comes diversity within those major categories. This is a serious failure.

Prediction: there should be found in the rocks many finely graduated organic chains of transitional fossils showing the transitions from one major kind of organism to another, but such are absent. Transitions between major body plans should be the most amply documented, but the fossils show no such transitions.

Prediction: fossils should not cut across many strata representing millions of years. The supposed slow and gradual rate of formation of the rock layers (or with episodes of deposition separated by millions of years) means that any organism would decay before being completely buried and preserved. However, such ‘polystrate’ fossils are common.

Expectation: sea creatures and land animals would not be commonly found fossilized together, again due to the localized, slow formation of rock layers in lake beds or the seabed. However, mixtures of sea and land fossils are common.

Prediction: “… no original protein and/or DNA fragments can be recovered beyond ca. 100 kyr [100,000 years] …”. However, they have been found in fossils ‘dated’ at many 10s of millions of years. The desperate efforts made to overturn Dr Mary Schweitzer’s

findings on dinosaur bones (proposals of bacterial biofilm to explain flexible blood vessels in dinosaur bones, contamination for proteins and DNA, preservation by iron compounds, etc.) underline just how problematic this is for the evolutionary storyline.

Prediction: fossils of organisms found in geological layers separated supposedly by many millions of years should not be similar and certainly not apparently identical. But similar fossils and lack of evolutionary change over many geological ‘eras’ are the rule; they are known as ‘living fossils’. Again, a rescuing device, called ‘evolutionary stasis’ was invented to try to accommodate these uncomfortable facts. Evolutionary stasis is an oxymoronic term (evolution = change; stasis = no change) pretending to be an explanation. Another rescue device: the living and fossil creatures only appear to be similar; their genomes ‘would be’ quite different! This is special pleading, and not falsifiable since we do not have access to the genomes of the fossilized organisms. And there are many living fossils!" CMI

Qumran Isaiah scroll

The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.,,, Isaiah 2:1

"The greatest Qumran treasure discovered dates to the 4th century BC. Only three centuries removed from Isaiah’s time and 26 centuries

removed from modern times, the text remained virtually unchanged compared to text a thousand years younger. It was also a single scroll, contrary to liberal claims that the book of Isaiah had two or even three authors. This demonstrates the painstaking accuracy of Jewish (and Christian) scribes who faithfully copied the Scriptures—and did not change them, as scurrilously charged by liberal skeptics." 

CMI

Creation Moment 11/21/2023 - Geology Failures of Evolutionary Predictions

And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. Genesis 1:9

"Prediction: paraconformities, or ‘flat gaps’, should be rare due to due to the extended timeframe of deposition of the layers, which should mean that there is ample time for erosion of the surfaces of underlying formations. 

However, the boundaries between layers often show no signs of erosion. Flat gaps are common.

Prediction: there should be little evidence of large-scale folding of

soft sediments involving many strata. Again, this expectation arises from the extended timeframe assumed, which means that the lower layers at least should be solid rock at the time of the bending. However, extensive folded sedimentary rocks around the world argue for their being soft before folding.

Prediction: sedimentary strata should have limited geographical extent due to the localized nature of depositional processes (i.e. no global flooding cataclysms). 

However, continent-wide sedimentary formations are common, even extending between continents. There are six sequential ‘megasequences’ in the Phanerozoic (fossil-bearing strata) that are global in extent.

Prediction: there should be no carbon-14 in coal, oil, or diamonds that are supposed to be many millions, or even billions, of years old, but it is consistently detected above background levels. That’s because carbon-14’s half-life is only 5,730 years, and it should have decayed below the detection limit after about 100,000 years. Not only that, but coal samples ranging in evolutionary ‘age’ from 37–318 millions of years all proved to have the same amounts of carbon-14 (consistent with all the coal samples coming from plants buried during Noah’s Flood).

Prediction/claim: regarding the age of planation surfaces: “most of it is no older than Pleistocene” (less than two million years). This was based on the observed pervasive effect of the rate of erosion processes today that would not leave any flattish surfaces flat for long, especially when there is a variety of rock types differing in hardness. And yet, based on the evolutionary deep-time paradigm, there are now said to be many ‘very old’ planation surfaces. For example, the Kimberley Plateau of north-west Australia is said to be older than 540 Ma! Encyclopaedia Britannica notes: “There has been much scientific controversy over the origins of such surfaces.” Indeed so. The global Biblical Flood in Noah’s time would explain them nicely!

Expectation: bioturbation (mixing of sediments due to the activity of marine organisms) should be evident throughout the major fossil-bearing strata (Phanerozoic). This expectation arises out of the experimental observation that marine burrowing animals, which are evident throughout the Phanerozoic, thoroughly mix sediments to 10 cm depth or more within hours. Thus, if sediments were deposited at the very slow rate needed to match the deep time dating of the strata, they should all be thoroughly mixed; there would be almost no layering evident. This is not the case at all; a major fail." CMI

Lesson of Job's First Prayer

O that I knew where I might find Him! Job 23:3

"In Job's uttermost extremity he cried after the Lord. The longing

desire of an afflicted child of God is once more to see his Father's face.

His first prayer is not "O that I might be healed of the disease which now festers in every part of my body!" nor even "O that I might see my children restored from the jaws of the grave, and my property once more brought from the hand of the spoiler!" but the first and uppermost cry is, "O that I knew where I might find HIM, who is my God! that I might come even to His seat!"

Job's desire to commune with God was intensified by the failure of all other sources of consolation. 

--The patriarch turned away from his sorry friends, and looked up to the celestial throne.

--He bids farewell to earth-born hopes, and cries, "O that I knew where I might find my God!" 

Nothing teaches us so much the preciousness of the Creator, as when we learn the emptiness of all besides. Turning away with bitter scorn from earth's hives, where we find no honey, but many sharp stings, we rejoice in Him whose faithful word is sweeter than honey or the honeycomb." 

Charles Spurgeon

Creation Moment 11/20/2023 - Rules for Darwinian Storytelling....

But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; 

1 Corinthians 1:27

"Darwinians are well-known just-so storytellers, but if they get called on the carpet for lack of scientific rigor, they have additional techniques for avoiding blame and shame. 

Here are some of the unspoken rules for Darwin storytelling:

Say that the evidence “suggests” the story. 

Raise the perhapsimaybecouldness index as high as needed.
Use the cop-out that the subject is “still debated.” 

Make sure the only contending hypotheses are evolutionary.
Refer to a number of irrelevant details that have nothing to do with the proposition that the trait evolved.
Call it “research” instead of storytelling.
Use bluffing by referring to all the interdisciplinary Darwinian conspirators who participated, and the fancy equipment they used.
Claim that the story “might” lead to a better understanding of climate change or cancer.
Always, always state that “future research” is needed to confirm the story.

Since journals and peer reviewers are in on the scam, they get away with it—day after day, month after month, year after year." CEH