Importance of Words

"Satan cannot read our thoughts, but he can see our actions, hear our words; and from his long knowledge of the human family, he can shape his temptations to take advantage of our weak points of character. And how often do we let him into the secret of how he may obtain the victory over us. Oh, that we might control our words and actions!" Messages to Young people p.328 E.G.W.

But I say unto you,

That every idle word that men shall speak,

they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

Matthew 12:36

IN the NEWS - EVIL Stalks NYC

Ax Attack Against New York City Cops Was Inspired by Terrorists, Police Say

"A man who attacked New York City police officers with an ax had converted to Islam in recent years and the assault appears to have been a lone wolf terror attack, police said today.

One officer who was struck in the head with the ax by Zale Thompson on Thursday is in critical but stable condition, Police Commissioner William Bratton said. A second officer was also injured.

Thompson, 32, was shot and killed by two other officers as Thompson charged them with the ax, Bratton said.

The commissioner said that Thompson had converted to Islam two years ago.

The ax attack occurred the day after a lone gunman shot and killed a Canadian solider in Ottawa before he was shot dead by the Parliament's sergeant-at-arms.

Miller said the acts of individuals who commit acts of terror on their own "is one of the phenomenon we are facing."ABC

For from within, out of the heart of men, 

proceed evil thoughts, ... murders,

Mark 7:21

Footsteps of Paul: Journey to Gentiles begins

Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers;

as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen,

which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted,

the Holy Ghost said,

Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work

whereunto I have called them.

And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.

So they, being sent forth by the Holy Ghost,

departed unto Seleucia; and from thence they sailed to Cyprus.

Acts 13:1-4

"Both Paul and Barnabas had already received their commission from God Himself, and the ceremony of the laying  on of hands added no new grace or virtual qualification. It was an acknowledged form of designation to an appointed office and a recognition of one's authority in that office. By it the seal of the church was set upon the work of God."

Acts of the Apostles p.161,162 E.G.W.

Creation Moment 10/26/2014 - When Germany Banned Evolution

"Many in Germany recognized the harm of Darwinism, and Nordenskiöld claimed the Prussian Minister of Education, even for a time in 1875 banned, its teaching:

Old Prussian Flag

‘ … the Prussian Minister of Education sent round a circular strictly forbidding the schoolmasters in the country to have anything to do with Darwinism … with a view to protecting schoolchildren from the dangers of the new doctrines.’" AIG

Nordenskiöld, E., The History of Biology, Tudor Publishing Company, New York, p. 522, 1935

An interesting question is,

would the Nazi holocaust have occurred if this ban had remained in effect?

The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the LORD:

Proverbs 15:9

IN the NEWS - Pham Ebola Free Now

"Nina Pham was the first person to catch Ebola on U.S. soil, and now, 13 days after testing positive,

she has been declared free of the deadly disease.

Her first order of business will be to hug her dog, Bentley, she said Friday.

She invoked God and science in expressing gratitude for her ongoing recovery from a disease that has no established cure.

"I feel fortunate and blessed to be standing here today," she said. "Throughout this ordeal, I have put my faith in God and my medical team."

Prayer sustained her, and she thanked people around the world who prayed for her, Pham told

Bentley

reporters Friday at the National Institutes of Health hospital in Bethesda, Maryland.

She said Friday that she looks forward to resuming a normal life and seeing Bentley, a Cavalier King Charles spaniel who has been held in quarantine -- just in case -- back in Texas. She said she's been through a "very stressful and challenging" time.

Without direct reference to the continent, she alluded to how Ebola has ravaged West Africa in an unprecedented outbreak that the World Health Organization says has caused almost 10,000 confirmed or probable cases of infection and a total of 4,877 deaths as of this week.

"I am on my way back to recovery even as I reflect on how many others have not been so fortunate," she said." CNN

Praise ye the LORD.

Praise God in his sanctuary:

praise him in the firmament of his power.

Psalm 150:1

3 Things to Strive for at the End of the Road

I have *fought a good fight,

I have *finished my course,

I have *kept the faith:

2 Timothy 4:7

The "Really" File - (Nun: "Like A Virgin"?)

And when people escape from the wickedness of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and then get tangled up and enslaved by sin again, they are worse off than before. 2 Peter 20:20 NLT

Why is a "nun" singing a cover of Madonna?

Ode to Madonna:                                         Singing nun to release Like a Virgin cover

"Sicilian sister Cristina Scucci, who shot to fame on The Voice of Italy talent show, says song on first album is ‘secular prayer’....

From the "Really" File

Her love of one madonna is no secret, but her appreciation of another may come as a surprise.

Suor Cristina Scuccia, the singing Sicilian nun who triumphed earlier this year in The Voice of Italy talent show, is about to release her first album. It includes a cover of Madonna’s pop classic Like A Virgin.

“I chose it myself. Without any desire to provoke or scandalise,” Scuccia, 26, told the Catholic newspaper Avvenire.

“If you read the lyrics without being influenced by what has gone before, you discover that it is a song about the capacity of love to make people new again. To release them from their past. And this is how I wanted to interpret it. That’s why we’ve transformed it from the pop-dance track it was into a romantic ballad a bit....."

The result, she said, was more of “a secular prayer than a pop song”.

What does Francis have to say
about one of his nuns remaking
this Madonna tune?

Scuccia strode into the public spotlight in flat shoes and her black habit in March when she auditioned before stunned judges on the Italian show. She went on to win, reciting the Lord’s prayer at the final in June, and to sign a contract with Universal for the album due out next month.

Scuccia’s version of Like A Virgin is one of its singles. But neither the track nor the video bears much resemblance to the 1984 hit, for which Madonna gallivanted around Venice, contorting her petite frame under bridges and cavorting with a lion.

In a nod to the original, Scuccia is also pictured in Venice for her video, but wears a habit and crucifix throughout and refrains from reclining on boats." TheGuardian

REALLY?

Creation Moment 10/25/2014 - Jubal's oligodendrocytes

"What happens in the brain when you learn a new motor skill? 
“To learn is to myelinate,” Science Magazine says. 
Learning a new skill switches on the production of oligodendrocytes, specialized brain cells that create myelin that sheaths certain neurons.  “The finding advances our understanding of brain plasticity and points to roles for glia and myelin in cognitive function,” Long and Corfas say about the research.
New evidence of myelin’s essential role in learning and retaining new practical skills, such as playing a musical instrument, has been uncovered by UCL research. Myelin is a fatty substance that insulates the brain’s wiring and is a major constituent of ‘white matter’. It is produced by the brain and spinal cord into early adulthood as it is needed for many developmental processes, and although earlier studies of human white matter hinted at its involvement in skill learning, this is the first time it has been confirmed experimentally." CEH

And his brother's name was Jubal:

he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.

Genesis 4:21

SDA Issues - Gleaning for Teaching....

What can we glean about teaching the Word of God from Christ, Paul & John?

@ From Christ, we learned that the first thing He preached was to REPENT, for the Kingdom of God is AT HAND.....

http://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2014/10/gospel-gem-first-preaching-notice-topic.html

@ From Paul, we learned that the first thing he preached was to persuade belief that Christ was the Son of God, in other words the Messiah.....

http://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2014/09/footsteps-of-paul-pauls-1st-preaching.html

@ From John, we learned that his letters were to point to the path of salvation & reinforce the faith....

http://master1844-dc.blogspot.com/2014/10/purpose-for-johns-letters.html

Q: What went along with a teaching of the religion of the true God?

A: Now for a long season Israel hath been without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.

2 Chronicles 15:3

SUMMARY:

So SDA's....* let's call people to repentance from their sins (so that doesn't mean running around trying to be "relevant" in this world compromising on the sin of gay marriage, etc.)-- * preach the 3 Angels Message (the kingdom really is at hand, for the 2300 days have been fulfilled & knowledge has increased such in just a century & a half since 1844 that we are now a global village, setting us up for the 3rd angel's message to begin soon)-- * prove with evidence, reason, logic & common sense that God really does exist & Christ was who He said He was (..Creation...)-- * point to the plan of salvation (which is laid out in His sanctuary)-- * use these to reinforce the faith-- * & of course hold up His Holy Law (which INCLUDES the 7th day Sabbath trampled on by the world)

Creation Moment 10/24/2014 - Just a Reminder

---Just a Reminder---

 "The Nazi doctors who performed atrocious criminal experiments on humans were all educated scientists — but they lacked religious and moral values." (Rabbi) GILBERT S. ROSENTHAL

For God shall bring every work into judgment,

with every secret thing, whether it be good,

or whether it be evil.

Ecclesiastes 12:14

The Wretched 2

Q: O wretched man that I am! (1-soul)

who shall deliver me from the body of this death? (2- body)

Romans 7:24

A: And that ye put on the new man,

which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. (1)

Ephesians 4:24

..... for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. (2)

1 Corinthians 15:52

IN the NEWS - Evil Stalks Canada

Terrorists End Canada's Innocence

‘We refuse to be silenced': Ontario premier Kathleen Wynne defiant in face of Ottawa shooting
Watch clip below of the attack
www.youtube.com/embed/cylQBgHH2Cg

"A gunman shot and killed a soldier at a war memorial in Ottawa, then ran into the parliament building where he exchanged gunfire with police.

One gunman has also been killed, but parts of Canada's capital remain on lockdown as police hunt for suspects.
At a press conference, police said the situation was "ongoing" and "fluid".
It came hours after Canada raised its terror threat level, after another soldier was killed on Monday in a hit-and-run attack by a Muslim convert.
The country earlier this month announced plans to join the US-led campaign of air strikes against Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq.
The latest incident began when soldiers guarding the memorial came under fire on Wednesday morning.
According to Reuters news agency, Prime Minister Stephen Harper was addressing Cabinet at the time.
Mr Harper "is safe and has left Parliament Hill", his director of communications later said.
One gunmen inside the parliament was reportedly shot dead and a second guard wounded, according to local media." BBC


"An unprecedented attack shook Canada on Wednesday as at least one gunman attacked parliament and the country's war memorial in the capital, Ottawa. 
A fundamentally quiet and orderly town, Ottawa rocked by the shooting of a uniformed Canadian soldier as he stood guard over the National War Memorial, located right across the street from Parliament Hill and the prime minister's offices at Langevin Block. 
It was the second attack inside Canada this week. The shootings come just two days after a 25-year-old man described by police as a "radicalized" Muslim drove his car into two Canadian soldiers in a city outside of Montreal, killing one and seriously injuring the other. Martin Couture-Rouleau, the suspect in that incident, was arrested in July while trying to travel to Turkey. Following his rampage, Courture-Rouleau was shot and killed." TheDailyBeast

The car that ran over Canadian soldiers a few days ago

"Buildings on Parliament Hill and many facing the Hill are on lockdown. Reports say the nearby Rideau Centre, Rideau Hall and the U.S. Embassy were also on lockdown.

Ottawa Police stations are closed to the public.

No public services are being offered due to the shootings, until further notice.

All interprovincial bridges in the area of Parliament Hill connecting Ottawa

and Gatineau, are also closed.

Ottawa U remains on lockdown at the downtown campus, and all classes have been cancelled. Students should not atempt to get to the campus.

All high school spots across Ottawa have also been cancelled today.

Ottawa Sun staff are on the scene and providing details via this live blog."

OttawaSun

For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders,

Matthew 15:19

Creation Moment 10/23/2014 - Case Study: Barash vs. Hedin

Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers,

2 Peter 3:3

For the invisible things of him from

the creation of the world are clearly seen,

being understood by the things that are made,

even his eternal power and Godhead;

so that they are without excuse:

Romans 1:20

Short Case Study of Academia & "Science"

"David Barash at the University of Washington and his piece in the New York Times summarizing the regular talk ("The Talk") he gives to his students about how evolution disproves religion. Well, not absolutely disproves it but very close.

Barash

This is very helpful since I've asked before how it is that a scientist gets to evangelize for atheism at one public university while another at a different public university, Ball State physicist Eric Hedin, gets censured and silenced merely for apprising students of the existence of books offering scientific evidence for intelligent design.
Hedin is well liked by his students according to RateMyProfessors.com, and makes an interesting comparison to David Barash who gets complaints about how he is "definitely an atheist and has an agenda to push," "tries to throw dirt on those who believe in anything other than his 'marvelous' theories," has a "clear agenda to push, as he's always rambling off topic about how biology proves that God doesn't exist." EV&V

"ANOINTED ONE" - The Anointing & Clothing

CHRIST is Greek for "Anointed One"

But unto the Son he saith,

Thy throne, O God,

is for ever and ever:

a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.

Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity;

therefore God, even thy God,

hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

Hebrews 1:8,9

Birth...---... (1st Advent) Swaddling clothes & Mryyh

And she brought forth her firstborn son,

and wrapped him in swaddling clothes,

Luke 2:7

And when they were come into the house,

they saw the young child with Mary his mother,

and fell down, and worshipped him:

and when they had opened their treasures,

they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh.

Matthew 2:11

Death...---... Garments & Myrrh

And they gave him to drink wine mingled with myrrh: but he received it not.

And when they had crucified him,

they parted his garments,

casting lots upon them, what every man should take.

Matthew 15:23,24

Burial...---... Linen & Myrrh

..... and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight.

Then took they the body of Jesus,

and wound it in linen clothes with the spices,

as the manner of the Jews is to bury.

John 19:39,40

Return...---... (2nd Advent) Vesture & Blood

And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood:

and his name is called The Word of God.

And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written,

KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.

Revelation 19:13,16

A bundle of myrrh is my wellbeloved unto me;

Song of Solomon 1:13

Papal Notes - Healing those "wounds" alright

"Francis devoted his “general audience” to the issue of the unity of Christians, urging his listeners to take an active part in healing the wounds that still separate them.

We must not forget, he said that "there are many brothers and sisters who share our faith in Christ, but who belong to other denominations or traditions different from our own.” He challenged his hearers not to accept these painful divisions, which in the course of history have “often been a cause of conflict and suffering, even wars.”
“Are we resigned, or even indifferent to this division? Or do we firmly believe that we can and must walk in the direction of reconciliation and full communion?” he asked.
The Pope concluded hopefully, "Let us go forward towards full unity! History has separated us, be we are on the way to reconciliation and communion! And this is true! And this we must defend! We are all on a journey towards communion." Breitbart

And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death;

and his deadly wound was healed:

and all the world wondered after the beast.

Revelation 13:3

Creation Moment 10/22/2014 - I Know Someone Who Did

"How did life originate?
And can scientists create life?
If we can create artificial living systems,
we may not only understand the origin of life - we can also revolutionize the future of technology. 

Protocells are the simplest, most primitive living systems, you can think of.
The oldest ancestor of life on Earth was a protocell, and when we see, what it eventually managed to evolve into," (PAUSE-LOL...sorry I had to pause for an LOL...to think we evolved from a protocell to this level of complexity is rediculous) "we understand why science is so fascinated with protocells.
If science can create an artificial protocell, we get a very basic ingredient for creating more advanced artificial life.

However,
creating an artificial protocell is far from simple, and so far no one has managed to do that. One of the challenges is to create the information strings that can be inherited by cell offspring, including protocells. Such information strings are like modern DNA or RNA strings, and they are needed to control cell metabolism and provide the cell with instructions about how to divide."
PHYS.ORG
I Know Someone Who Did, at least create an actual, living cell - Thus saith the LORD that made thee, and formed thee from the womb,.... Isaiah 44:2

True.....

And as it was in the days of Noah,
so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
Luke 17:26

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.

And God looked upon the earth,

and, behold, it was corrupt;

for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.

And God said unto Noah,

The end of all flesh is come before me;

for the earth is filled with

violence through them;

Genesis 6:5,12,13

"....the world, ...is fast filling up its cup of iniquity. Violence and crime of every description are

filling our world, and Satan is using every means to make crime and debasing vice popular. The youth who walk the streets are surrounded with handbills and notices of crime and sin, presented in some novel or to be acted at some theater. Their minds are educated into familiarity with sin.
The literature that proceeds from corrupted intellects poisons the minds of thousands in our world. Sin does not appear exceeding sinful. They hear and read so much of debasing crime and vileness that the once tender conscience which would have recoiled with horror becomes so blunted that it can dwell upon the low and vile sayings and actions of men with greedy interest."
Testimonies for the Church vol. 4, p.471 E.G.W.

Health Note - Magnesium & Diabetes

"A Tufts study led by Adela Hruby, N10, MPH10, N13, found that healthy people with the highest magnesium intake were 37 percent less likely to develop high blood sugar or excess circulating insulin, common precursors to diabetes.
Among people who already had those conditions, those who consumed the most magnesium were 32 percent less likely to develop diabetes than those consuming the least.
The second association held true even when researchers accounted for other healthful factors, such as fiber, that often go along with magnesium-rich foods.
The study, published in Diabetes Care, followed 2,582 participants in the Framingham Heart Study Offspring cohort for seven years. The study subjects had an average age of 54.
Only half of Americans get the recommended daily amount of magnesium in their diet, which is 400 to 420 milligrams for adult men and 310 to 320 milligrams for adult women. You can find it in whole grains, vegetables, fish, nuts and seeds and dark chocolate." MedicalXpress
Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health,
1 John 3:2

Creation Moment 10/21/2014 - Myth Building of Evolution

".. another common misuse of evolutionary ideas: namely, the idea

that some trait must have evolved merely because we can imagine a scenario under which possession of that trait would have been advantageous to fitness... Such forays into evolutionary explanation amount ultimately to storytelling... it is not enough to construct a story about how the trait might have evolved in response to a given selection pressure; rather, one must provide some sort of evidence that it really did so evolve. This is a very tall order...." Austin L. Hughes, The New Atlantis, Fall 2012 

But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, 

even the hidden wisdom, 

which God ordained before the world unto our glory:

1 Corinthians 2:7

Purpose for John's Letters

These things have I written unto you

*that believe on the name of the Son of God;

a) that ye may know that ye have eternal life,

b) and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.

1 John 5:13

a) was to point them towards the path to salvation

b) was to strengthen the faith they already had...to reinforce it

Q: What can the Church learn from this verse as a purpose for pastoral presentations to the flock?

SDA News - Dr. Carson for "Ebola Czar"?

Watch below a clip of SDA Dr. Ben Carson (potential 2016 Presidential candidate) give his response to the question of whether he would accept a job offer from the President to be "Ebola Czar" if it was offered....a classic response.
www.youtube.com/embed/xTwpfJvrt2c

Is there no balm in Gilead;
is there no physician there?
Jeremiah 8:22
P.S.--in case you haven't heard...the so-called "Ebola Czar" that was appointed is a lawyer & a

Klain

political hack whose claim to fame isn't anything related to health, medicine or virus research---but rather was an advisor to Gore & Biden, worked at Fannie Mae & was involved with the sleazy Solyndra scandal as well as a lobbyist who lobbied to block or have reduced asbestos payouts.
In other words, Klain was appointed to 1) cover up mistakes & 2) spin & push back against critics of the administrations handling.

Book Review: 1177 B.C.

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

(Review by  A. Bernard Knapp)

1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed
Eric H. Cline, Princeton University Press   237pp

"1177 B.C. seeks to explain the complexities that brought an end to the Late Bronze Age (LBA) in the eastern Mediterranean. The protagonists are the ‘Sea Peoples’, best known from contemporary Egyptian documents, and the main problem is the extent to which they were responsible for archaeologically attested destructions extending from the Aegean in the west to

Mesopotamia in the east. Cline sets the stage, literally, with a prologue and three ‘acts’ covering, respectively, the 15th, 14th and 13th centuries bc. Acts 1 to 3 provide a series of vignettes – e.g., the Trojan War, the Exodus, the battle of Qadesh – cleverly woven together .....

Cline’s story embraces the dramatis personae (kings, queens, pharaohs), as well as the merchants, ships and mariners involved in the extensive trade relations that characterised the 300-year-long ‘international age’ leading up to the ‘apocalyptic disaster’. In two eye-opening charts, Cline outlines the social network of relationships attested in Egypt’s Amarna Letters and the individuals involved in the correspondence of the merchant Urtenu at Ugarit in Syria. 

 The precise dates (including the title) are best guesses from a limited set of viable radiocarbon dates, some anchor points in documentary sources and circular reasoning, but it’s probably the best we can do at present."

The Sea Peoples are thought by some to be the Philistines.... And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. Judges 16:30

But then  again.....

And further, by these, my son, be admonished:

of making many books there is no end;

and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

Ecclesiastes 12:12

Creation Moment 10/20/2014 - During Sleep

"What makes sleep so mentally refreshing? University of Rochester neuroscientist Jeff Iliff addressed the crowd gathered at a September 2014 TEDMED event and explained his amazing new discoveries. The words he used perfectly match what one would expect while describing the works of an

ingenious designer.
Other organs rely on the lymphatic system to remove metabolic waste that builds up in the spaces outside cells, but no lymph vessels exist behind the skull. Since the brain uses a fourth of all the body’s energy, there must be some other mechanism at work to clear away brain waste.  
Iliff said, “We've found that sleep may actually be a kind of elegant design solution to some of the brain's most basic needs, a unique way that the brain meets the high demands and the narrow margins that set it apart from all the other organs of the body.”
During sleep, special cells found alongside blood vessels pump cerebrospinal fluid from the edges of the brain to its center. The brain’s neurons actually shrink to permit the fluid to rush through the tiny spaces between cells where it picks up and carries off metabolic waste products.
He used words like “elegant,” “beautiful,” “solution,” and “clever design” to describe how the brain—an “unimaginably complex mechanism”—bathes itself.
 The brain is amazing, but it cannot build its own parts any more than a computer can install new hardware all by itself." ICR

I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made:

Psalm 139:14

Prepare to meet your God

So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.

Romans 14:12

....prepare to meet thy God,
Amos 4:12
Not just for the pure in heart....but also....
   Atheists....
   Commandment Breakers...
   Worshipers of false gods....
Those with an evolutionary &/or pantheistic worldview.....

They will be condemned at the time of judgment.
Sinners will have no place among the godly.

Psalm 1:5 NLT

Footsteps of Paul: The dearth

And in these days came prophets from Jerusalem unto Antioch.

And there stood up one of them named Agabus,

and signified by the Spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world:

which came to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar.

Then the disciples,

every man according to his ability,

determined to send relief unto the brethren which dwelt in Judaea:

Which also they did,

and sent it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.

And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem,

when they had fulfilled their ministry,

and took with them John,

whose surname was Mark.

Acts 11:27-30/12:25

"The example of the followers of Christ at Antioch should be an inspiration to every believer living in the great cities of the world today." Acts of the Apostles p.158 E.G.W.

Creation Moment 10/19/2014 - Myth Vs. History

"But what is a myth? If we take, for example, the Babylonian creation myth Enuma Elish, found in a 600 BC library, we find the following elements:

1. The gods were created from water and earth.
2. Water and chaos were at the origin of everything.
3. The gods rebelled against their leaders.
4. The gods fought each other as equals.
5. A man-like god carved up a goddess to form part of the universe from her dead body.
6. Man was created from the blood of another god.

This summary shows some of the typical ingredients of myths: 

multiple heroes, 

no one in supreme control, 

unpunished violence 

and illicit sex amongst gods and between gods and men, 

inanimate and created beings as gods, 

and the stories or myths themselves were the invention of both men and gods rather than revelation from one God to mankind.

History, on the other hand, or to be more specific, the language of history is matter of fact and uses a recognisable style. 
          It is unified. 
            You can’t invent real history. 
              You can create a myth based on history. 
 Unknown to most people, history has to happen before myth can arise. 

 Those who create myths usually have to know or experience 
(a) what usually happens, or 
(b) what truly did happen on a specific occasion. 
Only then are they in a position to fantasise on the details and turn history into myth.

 It is relatively easy to take true history 

and turn it into false myth, 

 but it is not so easy to extract suspected truth 

out of any popular myth. 

If ordinary people obtain a copy of Enuma Elish, they will not automatically connect it with any reading they have done in Genesis. Only academics do things like that. Genesis 1 to 11 in contrast to Enuma Elish is matter-of-fact, and is unified. It was this unified composition of Genesis that was attacked in the 19^th century in order to try to establish that Genesis was a myth.
How do we know that Genesis is linguistically unified? A comparison of Dickens’ Tale of Two Cities, chapters 1 and 2 with Genesis 1 to 2:3 and 2:4 to 4.25 shows that Genesis is more uniform than Dickens. How do linguists decide this? Quite easily. The results are obtained by totaling up what English teachers call the ‘content’ words. These are words such as earth, road, create, and lay, which do one of the following:

• represent a picturable thing, person or action,
• summarise a quality,
• indicate a manner of doing something. After these are totalled, the amount of repetition in each section is calculated by counting the number of times content words are repeated. The number of repeated words is then expressed as a percentage of the total number of content words. In Genesis chapters 1 to 2:3, the repetition is around about 62.7 percent. In Dickens chapter 1, it is 23.4 percent. In the second section, Genesis 2:4 to 4:25, the repetition is 74.3 percent. In Dickens’ chapter 2a, repetition is 63.2 percent. What does all that mean? Simply that the first section of Genesis shows nearly three times the repetition of content words when it is compared with Dickens’ chapter 1. The second section of Genesis likewise shows greater use of repetition than Dickens’ chapter 2. In other words, Genesis uses an economy of style characteristic of the ordered presentation of fact rather than being a rambling discourse.

On the other hand, the extravagance exhibited in the early section of Dickens’ work manifests a poetic element.

Scripture contains humour, parable and fable (Judges 9:7-15) but not myth in either the scholastic or popular sense. Confusing myth with truth only serves the purpose of leading men astray. After all, ‘In the beginning’ is far more specific than ‘Once upon a time’!" CMI

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Genesis 1:1

IN the NEWS - American Heroine (keep her in your prayers)

Nina Pham is a 26 year old nurse & the first American to get ebola on American soil. She VOLUNTEERED to help with the African man who came to Texas & died of ebola.
She is the first American casualty on the home front in the war to stop ebola here in America. (In war a "casualty" doesn't mean only people that die, but those injured, or this case, sickened by the enemy).
Watch clip below of her before leaving for Maryland. She is about to go through the most horrific ordeal of her young life.....
www.youtube.com/embed/mL_WJfZfz7g


Pray for thy servants unto the LORD thy God,
1 Samuel 12:19

Question about State of the Dead

Question for those who erroneously believe that when you die you go to heaven rather than await in the grave for the resurrection:

Why, if we already have our new bodies in heaven, do we need to come back to earth to get earthly bodies?

Answer: Because we R NOT in heaven , but rather awaiting in the grave....

In Death - do  you lie in the grave until the resurrection -- or --float off
to heaven & just your carcass lies in the grave?

O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!

Job 14:13