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Holiday Ruling

A good parable:

An atheist  created a case against the upcoming Easter and Passover Holy days.  He hired an attorney to bring a  discrimination case against Christians and Jews and observances of their holy  days.  The argument was that it  was unfair that atheists had no such recognized days.

The case was brought before a judge.  After listening to  the passionate presentation by the  lawyer, the judge banged his gavel declaring, “Case dismissed!”

The lawyer immediately stood objecting to the ruling saying, “Your  honor, How can you possibly dismiss this case?  The Christians have Christmas,  Easter and others.  The Jews  have Passover, Yom Kippur and Hanukkah, yet my client and all other atheists  have no such holidays..”

The judge leaned forward in his chair saying, “But you do. Your client,  counsel, is woefully ignorant.” The lawyer said, “Your Honor, we are unaware  of any special observance or holiday for atheists.”

The judge said, “The calendar says April 1st is April Fool’s Day. Psalm  14:1 states, ‘The fool says in his heart, there is no God.’  Thus, it is the opinion of this  court, that, if your client says there is no God, then he is a fool.  Therefore, April 1st is his day. Court is adjourned.”

You gotta love a Judge that knows his scripture!

Worship news

I’ve got some news for you. As it was in the days of ancient Rome, so it is now. True Christians refuse to worship the Emperor, they refuse to follow popular cultural philosophy that contradicts God’s moral absolutes, they strive to overcome their own human weakness by submitting themselves to the service of the Creator of all things. The results may very well be the same as it was then. The result may be that pop culture will commit the ultimate hypocrisy and violate their own so-called standards by engaging in intolerance.

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The national anti-semitism begins

We conservatives tried to warn people that this would happen, and now it is. Even regular working guys like me and “Joe the Plumber” said that if Obama was elected, it would be bad for Israel. And now we see his true nature coming out. While he professes support for Israel, it’s mere lip service, and everything he is negotiating in the Muslim world right now is anti-Israeli, and he is falling in line with Islamic anti-semitism.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/06/04/obama-calls-new-beginning-muslim-world/

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Pray for God’s protecting on His chosen people.

To Israel from your Goi friend, a believer in Messiah Jesus, I am praying for you.

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New climate models – we need MORE CO2

http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/601/1

Turns out that the evidence shows that greenhouse gasses, specifically CO2, have been diminishing for thousands of years. This would explain the diminishing of the supposed tropical environment the now extinct mega-reptiles formerly enjoyed. This would explain the development of ice caps over where there was once jungle. And this would also point out that Al Gore and the koolaid-drinking, grant-money-grubbing pseudo-scientists that follow him, are desperate to make you and I believe.

Of course the scientists in this study take their evidence, provide a great interpretation, and then come up with a solution that isn’t much better wiser than Al Gore’s quest. Moreover, they make the same mistake that the global warming pseudo-science groupies do and create a virtual existence in a computer model. The problem with that is, that’s the only place that global warming really exists too.

The fact of the matter is that we humans have the tendency to believe and do what harms us, and the planet is going through what it goes through by divine design in response to our foolishness. “For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.” Romans 8:22

Not only do we need to stop the foolish pursuit of healing the planet (as if we finite creatures had the power to do so), but we also as individuals need to make things right with our Creator. “In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace” Ephesians 1:7

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Proof of life baby!

Featured in this Foxnews Article is the story of a boy who as a fetus displayed human contact with a doctor during surgery. Life starts at conception, and we need to stop murdering unborn children.

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How long was it?

6 literal days, not millions of years.  We have documentation from the eye-witness account of the Creator Himself.

The Bible jibes with the scientific evidence and fossil records better than evolution does.  Have you considered that an intricate design requires a Designer?  Have you studied the most basic information regarding the complexity of the cell structure of plants, animals, and people?   Even the most simple of cells is a magnificently complex system that reproduces based on an organized progSuppose program.  Suppose you were walking through the woods, wild and untamed, and you came upon a cabin.  Did it just happen?  After millions of years did the trees transmorph and come together to form walls, a roof, etc.  Did sand spin out of teh ground and form windows?  Did minerals refine themselves and form plumbing?  No, it’s a planned design, and a built structure.  It required a designer/builder to come into existence.  It didn’t just happen.

Why is is that we have such great faith to believe that matter and energy have always just existed, and by random chance came together to form the complex systems of the universe, atomic structure, cells, and life?  If this is plausible, then why isn’t the eternal existence of a Creator equally as plausible.  The fact is that it takes more faith to believe in matter and random chance than it does a Creator.

Our Creator exists.  Always has, always will, whether anyone chooses to believe He is or not.  Some may acknowledge He exists, but believe He set things in motion and left it to run by itself.  Not so.  Our Creator is still around, and He reveals Himself to us through his word.  He wants to be personally involved in our lives, He loves us, He wants to bless us, and rescue us from the mess we got ourselves into.

Come to know Him.

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1:1

The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Psalm 19:1

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of men. John 1:1-4

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him.  Colossians 1:15-17

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16

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Specious Species Speculation

I find myself failing to understand why environmentalists are so concerned about the extinction of one particular species or another.  My reason is because this position conflicts with their own core philosophy.  Most of these people are evolutionists.  They believe in Darwinism.  They believe in “natural selection”.  They believe in “survival of the fittest”.  So why then do they fight what according to their core philosophy is a completely futile fight?  This is a paradox.  This is hypocritical.  If they truly believe what they say and say what they believe as far as evolution is concerned, then they should shut up and let nature take it’s course.  Why try to save something that isn’t fit to survive?  It’s a waste of time and resources that could be spent on things that are going to stick around.  The factis that most the the species that have gone extinct have done so without our help through natural not man-made changes in the global environment.

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Perspective on the Crusades

The Crusades seem to be view by today’s secularist just another bunch of religious fanatics conquering and slaughtering in the name of their god. The Crusades are viewed much like radical Islam is viewed today. To the secular mind, there is no difference. It’s just the radical cause-du-jour. In a way, the secularists are right.

Indeed, the Crusades are a black eye on the name of Christianity. But the fact of the matter is that the people who perpetrated the crusades did so under false pretenses and did so for power and political reasons only. What many people today don’t realize is that while these military campaigns were supposedly conducted in the name of Christ, they were not led by those who were truly Christian.

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