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Thursday, 6 April 2023
Anthropomorphized Darwinism?
Politics and nationalism are just false Gods.
Revelation ch.13:4NIV"People worshiped the dragon because he had given authority to the beast, and they also worshiped the beast and asked, “Who is like the beast? Who can wage war against it?”"
Revelation ch.13:4NIV"ALL inhabitants of the earth (not a mere handful of "deluded cultists") will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written in the Lamb’s book of life, the Lamb who was slain from the creation of the world. "
Politics and nationalism are Just other false Gods.
Revelation ch.3:6NIV"Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches."
What is meant by 'Son of God'?
Acts17:28KJV"For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring. (or he is our Father)"
Luke 3:38NIV"the son of Enosh, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God."
John 6:57NKJV "57As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father(i.e the Father caused me to live), so(in the same manner) he who feeds on Me will live because of Me."
Luke 1:35NKJV"The angel answered, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God."
Acts13:33NKJV"God has fulfilled this for us their children, in that He has raised up Jesus. As it is also written in the second Psalm:
‘You are My Son,
Today I have begotten You.’" note please that JEHOVAH'S restoring of his Son's life is spoken of as his begetting him anew.
Proverbs8:22NJB"Yahweh created me, first-fruits of his fashioning, before the oldest of his works."
To be clear JEHOVAH'S Wisdom is eternal hence uncreated like its possessor. Thus the passage speaks of the initial expression of this wisdom and not the wisdom itself.
Proverbs8:30NJB"I was beside the master craftsman, delighting him day after day, ever at play in his presence,"
Then this living derivative of JEHOVAH'S Wisdom proceeds to glorify its source by doing praiseworthy work.
Colossians1:15_16NJB"He is the image of the unseen God, the first-born of all creation,
16 for in him were created all things in heaven and on earth: everything visible and everything invisible, thrones, ruling forces, sovereignties, powers -- all things were created through him and for him."
1Corinthians1:24NIV"but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God."
He is called logos one of the meanings of which is logic. He is JEHOVAH'S living rebuttal to those who accuse him of being a poor Father. He can only serve this purpose If he is truly a Son i.e owes his life/existence to his Father.
The supremacy of the Father permeates he scriptures II
John8:54NIV"If I glorify myself ,my glory means nothing. My Father,is the ONE who glorifies me." Once more Jesus identifies his Father as the one God of Israel. For Jesus and his fellow Jews the Father and the God were identical,the father was not a member of a collective deity. And can we even conceive of the Father claiming that if he glorified himself his glory would be nothing.(btw why is the Holy Spirit not glorifying him)
John:6NIV"I am the way the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." Here again we see that the Father and the God are the same person. Unless we wish to claim that Jesus is merely mediator between man and a subsisting member of the God. Also if all members of this Godhead are truly co-equal why is it that only the Father requires a mediator and the Son and the spirit don't.
John ch.14:28"You heard me say,"I am going away and am coming back to you." If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father,for the Father (the God) is greater than I" The Son's plain declaration that the person identified as the Father is greater than the person identified as the Son really ought to be the end of the matter,unfortunately we have had to witness the most cringe inducing mental gymnastics in connection with this text.
Hebrews ch.6:13NIV"When (the)God made his (third person singular)promise to Abraham since there was no one greater for him to swear by.." God is immutable, so the apostle's declaration holds true at all times and in all places.
John ch.6:57NIV"Just as (in the same manner that) the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father (or the Father caused me to live),so (or in like manner) the one who feeds on me will live because of me." If someone else caused one to live then one is most certainly not the one God of scripture. And the comparison with the way Christ will resurrect faithful followers should be a safeguard against attempts to needlessly mystify the verse. But who caused the Son to live The Father (i.e the God).
Luke ch.18:19NIV""why do you call me good" Jesus answered" no one is good_except (the)God alone."" Here is another verse that really ought to be as plain as day as to its meaning ,but regarding which Christendom's theologians have elected for the most appalling mental contortions rather than the plain reading of the text. The Father is good in a way that distinguishes him from even the very best of his Sons. And this distinction is a transcendent one.
Wednesday, 5 April 2023
Emperor Qin's tomb: a brief history.
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Playing God(again)
Pleistocene Park: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
The carbon atom:foundation of life.
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Crowdsourced smarts vs. crowdsourced stupidity.
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Yet another slippery slope?
In Belgium, Subjectivity Triumphs Over Biology
Tuesday, 4 April 2023
Still able to cheat?
Paralympic athletes and officials call for action on cheating and intentional misrepresentation
Monday, 3 April 2023
The science on U.F.Os?
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Just another false God?
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Sunday, 2 April 2023
George Orwell: a brief history.
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When it's cruel to be "kind"
Freeing Captured Orca Could Be Cruel
Darwin's theory of devolution?
Michael Behe on Why Lenski’s Experiments Show Devolution, Not Evolution
Saturday, 1 April 2023
Reductive materialists are still trying to have their cake and eat it too.
Dangerous Skating: Kauffman, Jaeger, and Roli on the Need for a New Teleology
For sale: immortal evil?
Pre-Order Immortality Now! (It’s Only 8 Years Away, Apparently)
Friday, 31 March 2023
Explosions are the rule in the fossil record?
Fossil Friday: The Triassic Explosion of Marine Reptiles
The new marine reptile groups appearing in the Triassic include, for example, plesiosaurs, placodonts (like the featured Psephoderma), nothosaurs, thalattosaurs, hupehsuchians, nasorostrians, ichthyopterygians, pleurosaurids, and enigmatic forms like Atopodentatus as well as marine turtles and marine crocodiles (thalattosuchians) (Motani 2009). Twitchett & Foster (2012: fig. 5) showed that these 15 families appeared within 9 million years “from obscure origins in the Early Triassic.” It is not like we Darwin critics make this stuff up. We just look at all the evidence and draw our conclusions from conflicting data that Darwinists prefer to ignore or explain away with ever more ad hoc hypotheses.
Thursday, 30 March 2023
And that's Ms.Great salt lake to you.
Let’s Declare the Great Salt Lake a Person?
Hideki Tojo : a brief history.
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Resistance is futile?
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