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      "body": "![Suicide is not a solution.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmdeGoLinWuZZQZpY1VvwtFmZab2X2Q1xy4xePc8WFnZMc/Suicide%20is%20not%20a%20solution.jpg)\n\nSuicide is only for fools who do not believe in the power of God. In this world, we will experience tribulations. Things that make us feel uncomfortable are all around us. You are not the only person troubled.\n\nJOHN 16:33 \nThese things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.\n\nStatistically speaking the incidence of suicide is constantly rising.\n\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that each year approximately one million people die from suicide, which represents a global mortality rate of 16 people per 100,000 or one death every 40 seconds. 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      "body": "![The Author of the Bible is Clearly the Wisdom of GodBlog.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmdiahH5v6A6GNtqEwNkw4GLCXvYGGKT9R9bJhQgPduZpK/The%20Author%20of%20the%20Bible%20is%20Clearly%20the%20Wisdom%20of%20GodBlog.jpg)\n\nForetold in prophecy by almost all the prophets of old is the Jesus of the Bible: Christ. Christ is a title, meaning“the Messiah,”or “the anointed one.”\n\n\nI PETER 1:10-11 \n10 Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: \n11 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.\n\nTwo dictionaries point to Christ as synonymous with Jesus of Nazareth: One is “An Introductory Dictionary of Theology and Religious Studies” by Orlando Espin (2007) and “A Dictionary of Jewish-Christian Relations” by Edward Prager (2005). \n\nProphetic Psalms and figures portrayed by the things of the law were fulfilled in the person of Jesus Christ.\n\n\nLUKE 24:44 \nAnd he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.\n\n“Me” talking here is Christ. All things concerning him that were written: 1) in the law of Moses, 2) in the prophets, and 3) in the psalms must be fulfilled. As such, He has an important role to play in the writing of these parts. \n\nActually, the paschal lamb being offered by the Israelites throughout the centuries before Christ is an antitype of Him. An antitype is something that corresponds to or is foreshadowed in a type.\n\n\nI CORINTHIANS 5:7 (RSV) \nCleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our paschal lamb, has been sacrificed.\n\nThe Son of God who became Jesus Christ in the flesh existed from eternity with the Father.Notice the time element involved here: “before the world was.”\n\n\nJOHN 17:5 \nAnd now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.\n\nWhen He was born in the flesh, the prophecy explicitly clarified His origin.\n\n\nMICAH 5:2 \nBut thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.\n\nHe is called the \"Son of God\" because He was born of God - before anything else came into existence.\n\n\nHEBREWS 1:4-5 \n4 Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. \n5 For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?\n\nPSALMS 2:7 \nI will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.\n\nHEBREWS 5:5 \nSo also Christ glorified not himself to be made a high priest; but he that said unto him, Thou art my Son, today have I begotten thee.\n\nEverything was created in Him, through Him and for Him. Him here is Christ.\n\n\nCOLOSSIANS 1:16-19 (RSV) \n16 for in him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or authorities--all things were created through him and for him. \n17 He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. \n18 He is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the first-born from the dead, that in everything he might be pre-eminent. \n19 For in him all the fulness of God was pleased to dwell,\n\nChrist is the power behind the creation of everything. For believers,Apostle Paul described Christ as the power and wisdom of God.\n\n\nI CORINTHIANS 1:24 \nBut unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.\n\nHe is the force behind every work of the Father Almighty.\n\n\nJOHN 1:2-3 (RSV) \n2 He was in the beginning with God; \n3 all things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made.\n\nJesus Christ, as the power of God, is the unseen worker in everything that the Father does! The Prophets and the Apostles preached and wrote with Christ being the unseen force that directed them, without which they can do nothing.\n\n\nLUKE 11:49 \nTherefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute:\n\nJOHN 15:5 \nI am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.\n\nThe truth is, the power or energy that moved the Apostles and the Prophets to preach and to write is the Lord Jesus Christ. Profoundly speaking, He is the author of the entire Holy Book! \n\nWhat is written in the paper pages of the Holy Scriptures is really intended by the Lord Jesus Christ to be written in the four chambers of the human heart!\n\n\nII CORINTHIANS 3:3 (NRSV) \nand you show that you are a letter of Christ, prepared by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.\n\nII CORINTHIANS 3:3 \nForasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.\n\n![Chambers-of-the-Heart.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmSKcXzXqX8ygN2wcNnyV88nN3vX79GoXqUPQDNtPZuE7D/Chambers-of-the-Heart.jpg)\n\nChrist, the beloved Son of God, is the center of the scriptures. Yet, He is the most debased personage in the Scriptures!\n\n\nI CORINTHIANS 2:6-8 \n6 Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to naught: \n7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory: \n8 Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.\n\nChrist is the Lord of glory.\n\n\nJAMES 2:1 \nMy brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons.\n\nHe is the wisdom of God ordained before the creation of the world. The wisdom by which everything came into existence is the very wisdom that caused the writing of the entire Bible.\n\n\nPSALMS 104:24 \nO LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.\n\nLet us take an example of the wisdom that was caused by the Wisdom of God to be written in the Bible. Long before human science discovered the cell, the building block of living things, with the intricate universe of activities, information, and mysteries within it, the Bible tells us the difference between cells of humans, animals, birds, and fishes.\n\n\nI CORINTHIANS 15:39 \nAll flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.\n\nIt is wonderful to note recent discoveries about the DNA and the chromosomes in man as different from those in apes. This discovery proves the accuracy of the information given by the Wisdom of God in the Bible! Apes are different from man, belying the theory of evolution! \n\nScience found DNA differences in human and chimp. \n![Nucleotides_Enhanced.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQma3tw8iXBc8Bq8wZefAJBH2HyVDNmGK9oKYv3Y14vxm1r/Nucleotides_Enhanced.jpg)\n\nLong before the invention of the Hubble Space Telescope and modern knowledge in astronomy, the Bible carried an advanced record of things that at the time of the writing of the Scriptures is impossible for a man to fathom and understand!\n\n\nI CORINTHIANS 15:41 \nThere is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory.\n\nNotice that some stars are a million times brighter than the sun – allowing for the fact that God made the sun just right for the benefit of man and his needs. \n\n![3.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmVaz6H4dRwHdaz9Dk3UX4aK6G3NkPfqvwKz16n5uhPK6M/3.jpg)\n\nThe Bible even informs us of a fact written almost 3,000 years ago but understood only very recently by human science:the cause and the existence of black holes.\n\n\nHEBREWS 1:10-12 \n10 And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands: \n11 They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment; \n12 And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.\n\nStars do age and become decadent.When a star grows old and dies, a black hole is formed.It means God did not intend stars to remain forever. Stars are God’s handiwork and he “folds them up” when the time comes. The decay of a star involves a black hole forming.Here’s an artist’s rendering of black hole. (http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2011/cygx1/cygx1_ill.jpg) \n\n![4.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmUamV2RMZ1Bk17J95QYzjDdr17NGTVFGk79Dbk9ajRZwU/4.jpg)\n\nThe National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is the United States government agency responsible for the civilian space program as well as aeronautics and aerospace research. Here’s its explanation about black hole. \n\n![Black-Holes_Enhanced.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmbjHc9ZyG2nwUi1iJza4EoUCsEYdZtKACHMDQ3qiGxVRw/Black-Holes_Enhanced.jpg)\n\n\nThese scientific discoveries prove the wisdom written in the Bible. These prove the accuracy of the Holy Scriptures. There is a purpose being worked out here on earth and someone is in charge. \n\nSomething accurate does not become inaccurate. Something accurate must not be tailored to pacify the conflicts popping up in the inquisitive human mind. But the friend asking these questions said:\n\n\n\" I, for one, have had to tailor my own beliefs to be able to survive the thousand questions that I have been asking myself over so many years.”",
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      "body": "![Where to Start Thinking About What is TrueBlog.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmdeQYbvhLLxp5RveAwqxhoKpS5rezksXKx647J4GxuTBo/Where%20to%20Start%20Thinking%20About%20What%20is%20TrueBlog.jpg)\n\nA favored man has many questions. Educated as he is, he was puzzled by what he sees, and hear, comparing reality to some irreconcilable religious teachings around him. For almost a lifetime of search and consideration in trying to admit what almost every preacher in religion are saying, he ended up saying that he has to tailor his beliefs in order to survive the many questions popping up from his inquisitive mind as a human. Here are excerpts of his thoughts that I believe must be made public for the benefit of millions of souls who are in search for what is true. \n\nThis man rightly believes that “FAITH has to play a very important part in all our lives,” which is why he is seeking answers for his thoughts -\n\n\nWho wrote the Bible, God the Father?\n\nI have always wondered WHY Jesus never wrote anything. It was PAUL (later, St. Paul) who wrote about Jesus.\n\nFact is that the Church itself - is the product of MAN and by the changes that the Church has gone through, one can see that any interpretation made by man is imperfect.\n\nPope Francis (I do not know if your side of Religion even believes in the Pope or for that matter-THE VATICAN) has had to make dramatic and drastic changes in the 'ways of the Lord' that one realizes how imperfect \"man\" is and how ignorant we are in matters of interpretation.\n\nI, for one, have had to tailor my own beliefs to be able to survive the thousand questions that I have been asking myself over so many years.\n\nFirst, who wrote the Bible? Was it God the Father? \n\nWriting is an art, a science. I'm grateful first to God and secondly to history that the art of writing was learned by humanity. Humanity I say, because up to now, supposed ancestors of evolutionists like apes are still unable to write or record their history. Apparently, the ancestors of Charles Darwin and Richard Dawkins have no purpose of existence and saw no need of recording their history. Writing or recording history has for its purpose of educating succeeding generations, but we see none such for people as ancestors of “evolved animals.” \n\nWhenever I argue, I use God’s words for they are what are true. It is His nature that God does not lie. Here is what He had inspired to be written in Psalms -\n\n\nPSALMS 102:18 \nThis shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the LORD.\n\nThe accumulated knowledge and technology that humanity has developed in our times were not at that level 5,000 years ago. Excluding those that were written and recorded at the instance of man, all sacred writings that the Almighty God had caused to be written are profitable for instruction for all generations to come.\n\n\nII TIMOTHY 3:15-17 \n15 And that from a child thou hast known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. \n16 All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: \n17 That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.\n\nSo there is a man of God expected to be perfect after having been instructed in righteousness. The source is inspired Scripture and the way is through having faith in Christ Jesus. \n\nAt this juncture we have to especially guard our thinking on writings and records made only by men. Often times they are not truthful, not sincere, and under-written or cut short - especially when the writer is influenced by an inequitable power. What do I mean? \n\nThere are instances when truth is hidden because of pride - personal and national. Take for example the history of the Egyptian empire. Egyptologists - countless of them - have not discovered up to now records in Egypt that reveal the history of the empire recorded in the book of Exodus. We may conclude that it was intentionally not recorded by historians in Egypt who were apparently under the power of the Pharaoh. It maybe because of personal and national pride that the pharaohs prohibited the writing of such events humiliating the Pharaoh and his kingdom before the power of the God of their slaves - the Israelites. \n\nEven the name of Moses, given by the Pharaoh's daughter that is undoubtedly Egyptian was not found in the history of the Egyptian empire. Historians of today try to correct the lapse when they trace the identity of the Exodus Pharaoh who may have succeeded in repressing records. In “17 Reasons why Thutmoses III is the Exodus Pharaoh,” Moses name was explained as follows.\n\n\n\"Moses\" derives his name from Thutmoses I and the \"Thutmoses\" dynasty of kings. Thutmoses I was the father of Hatshepsut who named Moses. This is obviously where Moses got his name, not from the 19th dynasty era of Rameses II. Because archeologists generally dismiss the exodus as a Bible myth, they actually chose any variant of the correct, \"Thutmoses\" that breaks any connection with \"Moses\". These variant spellings include: Tuthmosis, Thuthmose, Thutmose. \n\nRemember that the name \"Thutmoses\" was written in hieroglyphics (pictures), but the name Moses is written in Hebrew and Greek. (http://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-exodus-date-1440bc.htm)\n\nThe text explained that Moses' name was spelled in English and that he got his name from the Hatshepsut, the daughter of Thutmoses I. The18th dynasty pharaohs are therefore \"Thutmoses.” The Thutmoses are a dynasty of kings of Egypt!\n\n\nEXODUS 2:10 \nAnd the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.\n\nHEBREWS 11:24 \nBy faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter;\n\nBut I have to thank God and history that there was an ancient record which was accidentally found written not by an Egyptian historian but a common man that reveals a hint of the truth and the authenticity of the record in the book of Exodus. Here’s an excerpt -\n\n\nIPUWER PAPYRUS\n\n![1.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmSJt72e12MVB2dkyJoUNEQEWJEyvzbw6ki3abBUwqrmsz/1.jpg)\n\nThe \"Dialogue of Ipuwer and the Lord of All\" is an ancient Egyptian poem preserved in a single papyrus, Leiden Papyrus I 344, which is housed in the National Archeological Museum in Leiden, Netherlands.\n\nThe sole surviving manuscript dates to the later 13th century BCE. The dating of the original composition of the poem is disputed, but several scholars, have suggested a date between the late 12th dynasty and the Second Intermediate Period (ca. 1850 BCE - 1600 BCE).\n\nThe theme of this work has previously been taken either as a lament inspired by the supposed chaos of the Second Intermediate Period, or as historical fiction depicting the fall of the Old Kingdom several centuries earlier, or possibly a combination of these. (http://www.pearlmancta.com/ipuwerpapyrus.htm)\n\nHere’s another source that collaborates this account.\n\n\nThe papyrus describes violent upheavals in Egypt, starvation, drought, escape of slaves (with the wealth of the Egyptians), and death throughout the land. The papyrus was written by an Egyptian named Ipuwer and appears to be an eyewitness account of the effects of the Exodus plagues from the perspective of an average Egyptian. Excerpts from the papyrus parallels with those in the Book of Exodus. (http://ohr.edu/838)\n\nRecorded history made by man can sometimes be lacking history or simply making tectonic of the inconsequential. In the Assyrian history there was no mention of King Sargon while the Bible mentions him.\n\n\nISAIAH 20:1 \nIn the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, (when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took it;\n\nFor so long a time, historians attacked the authenticity of the Bible because of this King Sargon information that is not found in the history of the Assyrian empire. This was supposedly an evidence for their claim that what were written in the Bible areinvented. But a recent find was the 4000-year-old copper bust of Sargon the Great, the Akkadian king being housed at the Museum of Iraq. \n\nNote: Museum-SecurityDotOrg now claims that one of the artifacts missing as an aftermath of the Iraq war is the 4000-year-old copper bust of Sargon the Great, the Akkadian king. The report said –\n\n\nMore than 170,000 priceless artefacts, including a 4000-year-old copper bust of Sargon the Great, the Akkadian king, examples of humankind's first writings and other treasures from the Uruk, Sumerian and Babylonian civilisations, are thought to be missing.\n\nLiam McDougall, an Arts Correspondent, wrote the report titled, “UK database to track stolen art treasures. World's second largest criminal industry targeted.” http://www.museum-security.org/03/057.html). \n\nAnyway, let’s consider this account on Bible history -\n\n\nSARGON, KING OF ASSYRIA \nIsaiah the prophet, in one of God’s prophecies regarding a judgment against the nations of Egypt and Ethiopia, mentions an Assyrian king by the name of Sargon.\n\nThis posed a problem to archaeologists back in the earliest days of their field of study, because an obelisk stone with the names of all the Assyrian kings that had ruled that empire was uncovered which made no mention of Sargon. On its discovery the university of Chicago made a bold statement that they had found a glaring contradiction in the Bible. They assumed the Scripture was in error since Sargon’s name wasn’t found engraved on this stone.\n\nBut a funny thing occurred; you could say it was God’s little joke on men of science. Eventually they found the royal palace of Sargon, and a majestic one it was at that. How come they knew it was Sargon’s palace? Well, because the bricks lining the palace walls were engraved with his name.\n\nNot only was his name found, but his capture of the city of Ashdod as mentioned in Isaiah 20, was engraved on the palace walls as well. And not only that, but digs from the city of Ashdod itself later turned up fragments from a monument which recorded this victory.\n\nOne of the inscriptions read “Sargon, king of Assyria, who conquered Samaria and the entire region of Israel, he who made captives of Ashdod.” (ANET 284) (http://.www.biblehistory.net/newsletter/sargon/htm)\n\nBefore the Bible was written, men have learned the art and the science of writing, most ancient of which were the Phoenicians, Sumerians, and Egyptians. Moses, because he was reared in Egypt by the Pharaoh's daughter, was taught in all the wisdom in Egypt.\n\n\nACTS 7:22 (KJV) \nAnd Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.\n\nMoses knew the Egyptian way of writing and the Hebrew way also.Here’s a comparison of alphabets from Biblical Archeology Society Library (http://members.bib-arch.org/publication)\n\nNotice that the Egyptian hieroglyphic is more pictorial than that of the Hebrew. \n\n![2.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmWtfWPEYB6nQ6E32j6nvaG3smWcr6ctZaDk4iXwKgy5hm/2.jpg)\n\nMoses at Mount Sinai witnessed how the spirit of God through fire wrote the Ten Commandments on two tablets of stone.\n\n\nEXODUS 31:18 \nAnd he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.\n\nDEUTERONOMY 4:13 \nAnd he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.\n\nSuch commandments that were later called the Law of Moses became an integral part of what is now known as the Book of Exodus in the Bible. Historically speaking, it was God Himself who first wrote a part of the Bible and later instructed Moses to write the statutes and judgments that would be incorporated on the two tablets of stone recorded in the Books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.\n\n\nDEUTERONOMY 31:24-26 \n24 And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished, \n25 That Moses commanded the Levites, which bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD, saying, \n26 Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee.\n\nThe word Bible in English came from the word \"biblion\" or \"biblos\" in Greek, which means book. What is wonderful in the Bible is that it is not just a record of the past but also a record of information that humanity must know - of things and events that are yet to happen in the future. This is for the proper guidance and warning of those who fear and believe. In the Bible these are called prophecies.\n\n\nISAIAH 46:9-10\n9 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, \n10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:\n\nJOHN 13:19 \nNow I tell you before it come, that when it is come to pass, ye may believe that I am he.\n\nThe ability to foretell the future belongs only to the Creator who is able to see the future. The prophecies in the Bible are precisely exact. This one is noteworthy: Hundreds of years before it would happen, the war that destroyed the Holy City of Jerusalem was prophesied by Daniel and Jeremiah.\n\n\nDANIEL 9:2 \nIn the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.\n\nJEREMIAH 4: 11-13, 19 \n11 At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse, \n12 Even a full wind from those places shall come unto me: now also will I give sentence against them. \n13 Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are spoiled. \n19 My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace , because thou hast heard , O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.\n\nMATTHEW 24:15 \nWhen ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)\n\nIt is recorded in the Roman history that General Titus destroyed Jerusalem in 70 A.D. And this was commemorated in the Arch of Titus in Rome. \n\n![1284.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmeeY4iycRtCkSJw1bCxbxp5FE9ePvpBKKQ6FNtLdg4mgB/1284.jpg)\n\nThe Arch of Titus (Italian: Arco di Tito; Latin: Arcus Titi) is a 1st-century AD. honorific arch, located on the Via Sacra, Rome, just to the south-east of the Roman Forum. It was constructed in c. AD. 82 by the Emperor Domitian shortly after the death of his older brother Titus to commemorate Titus's victories, including the Siege of Jerusalem (AD 70)\n\nThis is part of tangible evidences proving the exact fulfillment of the prophecies of Daniel, Jeremiah and the Lord Jesus Christ about the destruction of the holy city of Jerusalem and the temple called by Christ as the \"Holy Place.\" \n\nAlmost 3,000 years ago the prophet Daniel wrote in prophecy what would actually happen in our present time: the advent of technology and advancement in science, the existence of airplanes, and space aircraft were foretold by the Bible.\n\n\nDANIEL 12:4 \nBut thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.\n\nISAIAH 40:31 \nBut they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.\n\nWith this concept the Bible is truly as unparalleled as a book - unequalled! There is no other book on earth that precisely foretells what is going to happen hundreds and thousands of years before they happen.\n\n\nMATTHEW 24:3-8 \n3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? \n4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. \n5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. \n6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. \n7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. \n8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.\n\nWe have seen that the God Almighty has written some of what are written in the Bible - especially his injunctions - but coupled with this declaration of his love for his people. 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      "body": "![Why God Can Hinder Pestilence But May Allow ItBlog.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmRQPFTBmqoQ3FHuMiTNdFQhHLfLJGKFQuYhLHsDK4soFg/Why%20God%20Can%20Hinder%20Pestilence%20But%20May%20Allow%20ItBlog.jpg)\n\nWhen pestilences struck Egypt, Pharaoh did not believe that they came from the God of the Israelites, a people whom he didn't want to liberate. As it is, Pharaoh believed in so many gods. “The Most Famous Atheist” Richard Dawkins does not believe in any one of them either because he is an atheist! \n\nComparing Pharaoh and Dawkins, in principle, Pharaoh is better because he did not accuse the God of the Bible being pestilential. It is just that this ruler of ancient Egypt cannot accept that the God of his slaves is more powerful than his gods! Pharaoh can even be considered having a better line of thinking and rationality than Richard Dawkins. It is but expected for a king to believe that his god is more powerful than the God of the nation that served Him as slaves. Richard Dawkins on the other hand has shunned all logic when he accused somebody who does not exist being pestilential! \n\nThe God of the Bible in reality may cause pestilences to come to people - people who do not heed his warnings. \n\nDEUTERONOMY 28:15, 21-22 \n15 But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:\n21 The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it.\n22 The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.\n\nDawkins is a known scientist. I will not guess when I say that he knows how pestilences happen. He knows that bacteria and viruses are the cause of pestilences. Considering that he is an evolutionary biologist and ethologist, he should not blame God for the pestilences that afflict humanity. He should rather blame his ancestors because he firmly believes that he came from single-celled organisms like bacteria, archea and protozoa. \n\nThere is another way of looking at the fundamental importance of gradualness for Darwin. His contemporaries, like many people still today, had a hard time believing that the human body and other such complex entities could conceivably have come into being through evolutionary means. If you think of the single-celled Amoeba as our remote ancestor —as, until quite recently, it was fashionable to do - many people found it hard in their minds to bridge the gap between Amoeba and man. They found it inconceivable that from such simple beginnings something so complex could emerge. Darwin appealed to the idea of a gradual series of small steps as a means of overcoming this kind of incredulity. You may find it hard to imagine an Amoeba turning into a man, the argument runs, but you do not find it hard to imagine an Amoeba turning into a slightly different kind of Amoeba.” (Richard, Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker, page 249).\n\nGod’s part in pestilences is in allowing them to happen to make people realize their mistakes and rebellion against Him and to bring them back to Him and have a life that is pestilence-free. \n\nHAGGAI 2:17 \nI smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labors of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith the LORD.\n\nBeing obedient to God’s laws can set a peaceful communal life that merits His protection and care against pestilences. \n\nEXODUS 15:26 \nAnd said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for am the LORD that healeth thee.\n\nHow can a God who wishes to protect His people from pestilences be pestilential? It's idiotic to claim He is! Actually, the God of the Bible in His creation has outlined the well-being not only of humanity but the entire animal kingdom and the plant kingdom as well. \n\n It is a well-known scientific fact that bacteria and viruses are necessary for the ecological balance that sustains human life. Without bacteria and viruses, we will see a world full of carcasses of animals, humans and other living things. Take the case of the Fallen Monarch in the forest of the USA. Although it seems to be unaffected by the decomposition process carried out by bacteria and viruses, all scientists believe that someday it will finally decompose! But today, it is serving its purpose of being a tourist item. \n\n![1.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmRN8FCJLxCxZ961YuGn1MzWx1Co9hpNnfKQJarhF1D8Lr/1.jpg)\n\n\nII CORINTHIANS 4:18 \nWhile we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.\n\nThe aging and the final passing away of stars are scientifically recorded in the Bible even before scientists have known that stars die. \n\nHEBREWS 1:10-12 \n10 And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands: \n11 They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment; \n12 And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.\n\n![2.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmQmf7RmomKDFGaXtebDq8Pyq7yrr7neLYRWcoiLDR8HPW/2.jpg)\n\nGOD'S MEASURES TO PREVENT PESTILENCES \nUpon touching a dead carcass, animals or men, God’s people are commanded to clean themselves and wash their clothes in flowing water. \n\nLEVITICUS 11:27-32\n27 And whatsoever goeth upon his paws, among all manner of beasts that go on all four, those are unclean unto you: whoso toucheth their carcass shall be unclean until the even. \n28 And he that beareth the carcass of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: they are unclean unto you. \n29 These also shall be unclean unto you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise after his kind, \n30 And the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole. \n31 These are unclean to you among all that creep: whosoever doth touch them, when they be dead, shall be unclean until the even. \n32 And upon whatsoever any of them, when they are dead, doth fall, it shall be unclean; whether it be any vessel of wood, or raiment, or skin, or sack, whatsoever vessel it be, wherein any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the even; so it shall be cleansed.\n\nHe cannot just say that these animals who died by themselves are infected with viruses and bacteria because during those times people were not ready to understand. There were no microscopes or optical instruments for them to see what God was referring to. But He is simply speaking about the spread of communicable diseases that the unseen bacteria and viruses may cause! \n\nOne of His agents to prevent the spread of pestilences in animals and in humans is the creation of the vulture. \n\n![Turkey-Vultures_Enhanced.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmbBwCBgkmTLM5x2daFwkyDJJRc8TtHYTT9w216dLQwY38/Turkey-Vultures_Enhanced.jpg)\n\nGod’s prohibition about sexual perversion is simply His way of preventing the spread of gonorrhea, candidiasis, syphilis, and the like. \n\nLEVITICUS 18:23  \nNeither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion.\n\nThese immoral and perverse sexual practices of humans are blamed now to be the causes of AIDS, which scientists believe came from baboons. Here’s an excerpt from a research described by Hartford University - \n\nHIV-2 has been traced to the Simian Immune Virus (SIV) carried by sooty mangabeys. In fact, the genetic sequence of the two viruses are more alike than those of HIV-1 and HIV-2. During the 8th Annual Retrovirus Conference in February 2001 Beatrice Hahn and Eric Delaporte reported on cross species infections. They have documented nine cases in which chimpanzees, sooty mangabeys, and a mandrill passed SIV to humans. Antibodies to SIV were found in the victims' blood samples. They also analyzed blood samples of nearly 400 monkeys and baboons to assess the degree to which their antibodies bind to HIV. 18% of the samples exhibited strong binding and another 14% showed less strong binding. This result seems to indicate the possibility of further animal to human transmission! (http://uhavax.hartford.edu/bugl/hiv.htm)\n\nIf it is true that humanity evolved from monkeys, or chimpanzees, or primates, why is it that his immune system during the evolution period was not trained to produce antibodies against the AIDS virus, which is originally believed to have come from primates – his alleged ancestors? Dawkins, the atheist scientist, must explain this. \n\nThe BIBLE AS ALWAYS IS SCIENTIFIC \n\nPROVERBS 5:10-11 \n10 Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labors be in the house of a stranger; \n11 And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,\n\nAll animals prohibited by God to be touched and be eaten among the Israelites are animals found by science to be the cause of modern plagues in human society! \n\n In his report for CNN.com, Steve Osofsky in “How to keep viruses in the wild from finding humans,” (October 9, 2014) wrote - \n\nBats seem to be a unique source of zoonotic viruses (viruses transmissible from animals to people) -- from SARS and Ebola to Nipah and rabies -- just to name a few. Because of this we should work to discourage the capture, killing and consumption of bats, the disruption of their roosting trees, and the establishment of farms right where they defecate and urinate. (http://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/09/opinion/osofsky-ebola-wildlife/)\n\nLEVITICUS 11:19 \nAnd the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.\n\nCamels are one of the causes of MERS. News from the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) reporting on MERS cases (2/9/2015) said - \n\nThe WHO also reiterated previous warnings that people at risk for severe disease, such as those with diabetes, renal failure, or weak immunity, should avoid contact with camels, drinking raw camel milk or camel urine, and eating camel meat that is not thoroughly cooked. Also, the agency repeated its advice that those who work with camels should practice good personal hygiene and wear face protection and protective clothing. (http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2015/02/mers-persists-who-cites-hospital-linked-clusters)\n\nLEVITICUS 11:4 \nNevertheless these shall ye not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the hoof: as the camel, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.\n\nMeanwhile, pigs were found to be one of the causes of liver diseases. An article on “Hepatitis E Virus and Food” on the website of Food Safety, Authority of Ireland said - \n\nEmerging information on the causes of cases of hepatitis E acquired in Europe suggest that a possible exposure route could be contact with pigs infected with hepatitis E. Some recent studies suggest an association between hepatitis E infections and the consumption of undercooked pork products including wild boar. Studies in other European countries and the USA suggest that men above the age of 50 with pre-existing liver disease (e.g. cirrhosis ) are particularly vulnerable to infections with hepatitis E.\n\nThe information in a Q&A format can be found here (https://www.fsai.ie/faq/hepatitis_e.html). \n\nLEVITICUS 11:7 \nAnd the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be cloven-footed, yet he cheweth not the cud; he is unclean to you.\n\nWhat about seashells? There are conflicting reports on shellfish but even travel spots warn their people on the dangers of shellfish. \n\nShellfish is known to be a bearer of food illnesses, such as E.coli, Salmonella, Norwalk virus, and Hepatitis A. Shellfish is a bottom feeder, and feeds on the sewage and wastes that are thrown into the ocean. (http://www.theluxuryspot.com/reasons-shellfish-is-unhealthy/)\n\nLEVITICUS 11:10 \nAnd all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you:\n\nTo be pestilential is to be capable of producing or tending to produce infectious disease, to be destructive as shown by what we have discussed here. \n\nIn sum, God the Creator has already forewarned man about certain plants and animals since the beginning. He was saying to man that these are an abomination and therefore implies a need for obedience to some law. First, physical life is not forever; it is fragile. Second, we need some intervention and that can only come from the creator. Therefore, when pestilence comes, one can be sure there were laws broken, and that God had a part in it. On that score he can be pestilential. 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      "body": "![Blog-thumb.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmeomDvVeJmZHEvZGGYPr5WivJegv1FH71HmsULQ8qmceH/Blog-thumb.jpg)\n\nThe God of the Bible is the most powerful being that exists. That is what “Almighty” connotes and it is not hard for believers to grasp that. He declares his being almighty. He declares his expectations and the result of coming up to his expectations. It is making sure that as Creator, his purpose is served. One day, he talked to the man he appoints for something great.\n\n\nGENESIS 17:1 \nAnd when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.\n\nGod’s power is revealed in His creation. It is not uncommon that while working in the laboratories scientists stop awhile, being awed by the wonders of what they discover. Man is then without excuse if he cannot see God through his works.\n\n\nTHE ROMANS 1:19-20 \n19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath showed it unto them. \n20 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:\n\nThings that are seen give us an idea of how powerful the Creator is. The enormous power of one of His smaller stars, our Sun, is calculated by modern scientists to last for another 10 billion years. But there are stars millions of times bigger than our Sun. Here’s an excerpt from a NASA publication.  \n\n![main-sequence.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmXLRxdMEdFn8nDMAs1XEcUKuPRHVv58ZKZ3zTW6u73srM/main-sequence.jpg)\n\nWhatever would happen, we can see that stars in the universe like the Sun are part of the handiwork of a great God and everything is not forever – but there are things eternal. Just as there are things seen, there are things unseen. Let us consider the unseen. It is said they are the eternal.\n\n\nII CORINTHIANS 4:18\nWhile we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.\n\nIf things visible can give us an idea of how powerful their Creator is, our entire faculty, including our brains, cannot fathom the power within the invisible realm of reality. That explains why we need faith in God to see things and understand.\n\n\nHEBREWS 11:3 \nThrough faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.\n\nThings that are seen were made from things that are not seen. This again proves the scientificity of the scriptures. Scientists believe with certainty that unseen things do exist in the universe. This belief prompted the construction of the LHC or Large Hadron Collider, an instrument used to study the smallest known particles.\n\n![Hadron.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmNg5GQeqoHv9CoYrdDF6pzNdR7arEeUm2oWC8jVwH6J8F/Hadron.jpg)\n\nIn an article written for The Huffington Post UK (03/07/2012) by Ted Thornhill wrote that a total of 10,000 scientists and engineers from more than 60 countries worked on LHC. The most powerful supercomputer system in the world cost £2.6bn to build, he said. The LHC houses 9300 magnets – pre-cooled to -193.2C, using 10,080 tonnes of liquid nitrogen. They are then taken down to -271.3C with liquid helium. What is the purpose of LHC?\n\n\nThe search for the God particle is a key task for the Large Hadron Collider, which straddles the borders of France and Switzerland, firing protons and lead ions around a 17mile circular tunnel. It was designed to reveal the secrets of the universe by recreating the conditions that existed immediately after the big bang.\n\nWhether they will be able to find out what they are looking for after all the expense, time, and energy, there is still the God of the Bible to contend with. Take him away from the big picture and your understanding will not be complete.\n\nCombine the fathomable with the unfathomable and it equals the power of the God Almighty! How can a God with unfathomable power be \"megalomaniac\" as charged by Richard Dawkins? By definition, is God someone with a psychological disorder with symptoms like delusions of grandeur and an obsession with power?\n\n The God of the Bible does not claim power – as power is inherent in His being! He is making known His power rather, through His creation. It is true to form that he has given man incredible brains but with limited understanding. This should make man realize that humans cannot in reality grasp the potentials of His power!\n\n\nISAIAH 55:8-9 \n8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. \n9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.\n\nGourav Gola wrote unbelievable facts about the human brain in UNB Facts (www. unbelievable-facts.com). Titled “10 Unbelievable Facts About Human Brain That Everyone Should Know” the article written July 2, 2012 mentions the first three important facts -\n\n\n1. Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles per hour. Ever wonder how you can react so fast to things around you or why that stubbed toe hurts right away? It’s due to the super-speedy movement of nerve impulses from your brain to the rest of your body and vice versa, bringing reactions at the speed of a high powered luxury sports car.\n\n2. The brain operates on the same amount of power as 10-watt light bulb. The cartoon image of a light bulb over your head when a great thought occurs isn’t too far off the mark. Your brain generates as much energy as a small light bulb even when you’re sleeping.\n\n3. The human brain cell can hold 5 times as much information as the Encyclopedia Britannica. Or any other encyclopedia for that matter. Scientists have yet to settle on a definitive amount, but the storage capacity of the brain in electronic terms is thought to be between 3 or even 1,000 terabytes. The National Archives of Britain, containing over 900 years of history, only takes up 70 terabytes, making your brain’s memory power pretty darn impressive.\n\nComparing the brain and the computer, the former is much, much bigger than any computer according to Chris Chatham. Writing about the important differences on www. Scienceblogs.com, his article posted on March 27, 2007, said among others –\n\n\nAccurate biological models of the brain would have to include some 225,000,000,000,000,000 (225 million billion) interactions between cell types, neurotransmitters, neuromodulators, axonal branches and dendritic spines, and that doesn’t include the influences of dendritic geometry, or the approximately 1 trillion glial cells which may or may not be important for neural information processing. Because the brain is nonlinear, and because it is so much larger than all current computers, it seems likely that it functions in a completely different fashion…. The brain-computer metaphor obscures this important, though perhaps obvious, difference in raw computational power.\n\nThe most powerful computer known is the brain according to another research. In an article titled, “’Minicomputers' Live Inside the Human Brain” (www.livescience.com) dated October 29, 2013, Charles Q. Choi Live wrote –\n\n\nThe most powerful computer known is the brain. The human brain possesses about 100 billion neurons with roughly 1 quadrillion — 1 million billion — connections known as synapses wiring these cells together.\n\nNeurons each act like a relay station for electrical signals. The heart of each neuron is called the soma — a single thin cablelike fiber known as the axon that sticks out of the soma carries nerve signals away from the neuron, while many shorter branches called dendrites that project from the other end of the soma carry nerve signals to the neuron.\n\nThe brain is therefore very powerful yet has its terminal points or boundary. And man keeps on trying to puzzle out secrets but some are reserved for the Creator, and therefore man is still searching about beginnings. God knows the capacity of man. He knows our limits, while most of the time we don’t. Our brains and the faculties in it and the extent of what they can do are exactly the perfect fit for the human – limited but enough for his needs. The limitation, though, is not what it is about but the end of what He had intended for man. Striving to go beyond the limits of thinking can be harmful to our person.\n\n\nTHE ROMANS 12:3 \nFor I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.\n\nThe existence of atheists like the species of Richard Dawkins displays the uncontestable truth that there are beings who have lost their sense of decency and reason - with habitual improper use of their brains or perhaps the lack of use thereof, or better still to say that they have reached the point of being psychopaths!\n\nDawkins, charging the God of the Bible as \"megalomaniac\" while believing that He doesn't exist makes him the worst psychopath ever! Dawkins will never win a case in any court of law considering the rule of estoppel!\n\n The Legal Dictionary defines estoppel as “a legal principle that bars a party from denying or alleging a certain fact owing to that party's previous conduct, allegation, or denial. The rationale behind estoppel is to prevent injustice owing to inconsistency or fraud.” This definition is echoed in the Encarta dictionary. \n\n![estoppel.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmU5yLHKmUAckEvN3kV3NUu6uDU6PhLHozeLYiemdn5yJ8/estoppel.jpg)\n\n THE ROMANS 14:22 (RSV) \nThe faith that you have, keep between yourself and God; happy is he who has no reason to judge himself for what he approves.\n\nNotice that Dawkins enjoys the veneration of atheists and therefore continues on disparaging God through his books and earning from them. The sad fact is that thousands and thousands quote and re-quote him, thereby propagating his foolishness. Because he cannot win in debates with the clergy, he advances that he cannot disprove the existence of God, therefore is more of an agnostic. The newfound god of the atheists, however, still wears the hat of Most Famous Atheist and he acts up to it with the books he churns out for his bread and butter.\n\n By the truth revealed in the Bible we can infer that Dawkins was never happy in his life, with a heart full of bitterness, delusions, and malevolent thinking. But take the case of water. There is power in water. Water, unable to speak, displays its power, but there is a power that water cannot subdue.\n\n\nSONG OF SOLOMON 8:7 \nMany waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.\n\nTake the case of knowledge. There is power in knowledge, but there is something that is above knowledge.\n\n\nI CORINTHIANS 13:8 (RSV) \nLove never ends; as for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.\n\nTake the case of the word of God. There is power in the word of God that Dawkins laughs at as fiction. By His word He is able to perform wonders – from creation to forming man to judgment. No matter how one lies, God can see through that man.\n\n\nHEBREWS 4:12 \nFor the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.\n\nGod's word will prevail over every existing creation.\n\n\nMATTHEW 24:35 \nHeaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.\n\nWhen the word of God said 3,500 years ago that \"a man shall die and neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand,” it remains uncontested to this very day!\n\n\nDEUTERONOMY 32:39 \nSee now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.\n\nHEBREWS 9:27 \nAnd as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:\n\nScience and scientists have their prophecies, their hypotheses since time immemorial, that someday death can be conquered by man's knowledge. This hope is hopeless though millions of scientists and their networks are working day and night to approach that dream! But this is a problem with no real solution because it was not meant to be. The physical death of man is part of God’s design. It has to come for a larger event in man’s life to take place. Take away purpose and you will never understand.\n \nREVELATION 1:18 \nI am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive forevermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.\n\nWhen the Bible said that animals are tamable, it is proven to be true!\n\n\nJAMES 3:7 \nFor every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:\n\nIf the Bible says that there is something untamable, it is equally true especially in the case of atheists and Richard Dawkins. People who talk a lot without understanding are with untamed tongues.\n\n\nJAMES 3:8 \nBut the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.\n\nOnly God can tame a tongue. Only when Richard Dawkins comes to know God will he stop speaking evil against him. His meager kindergarten Sunday school taught him nothing.\n\n\nPROVERBS 15:4 \nA wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.",
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      "body": "![The God of the Bible Forcing out the GenocidalBlog.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmQ93qoMXgHL6bQ2m7bH4i4Ek4Lv89fTLLMyVjwEpmbmrE/The%20God%20of%20the%20Bible%20Forcing%20out%20the%20GenocidalBlog.jpg)\n\nWe come to the other charges of an evolutionary biologist against the God of the Bible that He is genocidal, infanticidal, and filicidal. \n\nThese shocking definitions come from Richard Dawkins who, until lately, is known as the most famous atheist. In recent debates with some clergy, Dawkins has described himself as an agnostic and “cannot disprove the existence of God,” prompting the religious to call on atheists to look for another leader. Dawkins, after all, is not a militant secularist although he would like the world to believe he is one. For all his mudslinging at the God of the Bible, he admittedly “cannot disprove the existence of God.” \n\nNevertheless, in coming up with a book where has earned a fortune and still is, Dawkins called God, among other descriptions, “genocidal, infanticidal, and filicidal.” \n\n Genocide is defined in the dictionary as murder of an entire ethnic group: the systematic killing of all the people from a national, ethnic, or religious group, or an attempt to do this. \n\nInfanticide is defined as the act of killing infants or a newborn baby. \n\nAnd filicide means killing of one’s own child. \n\nThe -al variations, of course, are adjectives. If God were genocidal, infanticidal, filicidal, that means he is capable of doing all these, has done them, is doing them, or tends to do them – along the terms that Dawkins understands. \n\nBut all these charges of Dawkins against the God of the Bible redounds to him bull's eye! In writing for Daily Mail of UK (www.dailymail.co.uk), George Pitcher on December 16, 2011, exposed the mind of Dawkins who asked another atheist, Christopher Hitchens, 'Do you ever worry that if we win and, so to speak, destroy Christianity, that vacuum would be filled by Islam?' \n\nTitled “Professor Richard Dawkins makes a festive vow to 'destroy Christianity,'” Pitcher wrote -\n\nHitchens is thoughtful about CS Lewis and Christianity and rather leaves Prof. Dawkins floundering in his wake, occasionally interjecting little assents to show that he's still there, as he struggles to keep up.\n\nBut one of these interjections is most revealing. About half-way through, the Prof gets this in edgeways: 'Do you ever worry that if we win and, so to speak, destroy Christianity, that vacuum would be filled by Islam?'\n\nFor background, very few of the major atheists have come into the open, declaring that their purpose is to destroy Christianity. Their intent is usually limited to simple criticism, open dialogue. But here comes Dawkins. \n\nIn an interview with Christopher Hitchens, Dawkins queries the late atheist whether he has considered a scenario wherein they win and destroy Christianity. Should that happen, would the vacuum be filled by Islam? \n\nDawkins denied later on that he said this but George Pitcher stands pat on what he wrote. The reporter of Daily Mail said Hitchens was an atheist while he lived but did not have “destroy Christianity” as an agenda. \n\nSo, Dawkin’s unfulfilled plan to destroy all Christianity is definitely genocidal! If the God of the Bible were genocidal, no atheist would be alive today! \n\nAs part of the comments on George Pitcher’s article, a reader from United Kingdom said the speech of Dawkins should be monitored closely. Imagine having a dream of destroying Christianity, calling religion as virus, and impressing that teaching children about God is child abuse. \n\nThis kind of speech should be monitored closely. To \"destroy\" people, to label religious views as a \"virus\" and to bring children up in Christianity as \"child abuse\" are all things he has said. This kind of talk would not be out of place in Nazi Germany. We have to be very careful.\n\nKing David, after experiencing cruelty and bitterness from his enemies with whom he had done no wrong, prayed that God may destroy them all. \n\nPSALMS 109:4-5, 13 \n4 For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer. \n5 And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love. \n13 Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.\n\nPSALMS 83:17\nLet them be confounded and troubled forever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:\n\nAlthough David was a favored man of God, God did not hearken unto him! Why? Because He is not genocidal. \n\nII PETER 3:9 \nThe Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.\n\nGod ordering the annihilation of the Canaanites was not being genocidal. The order was an execution of judgment against a people or a nation of infanticides and filicides! This is about a race needing to be blotted out because of what they did to their children (child sacrifice, free sex, child prostitution, and the like). Their culture did not merit being preserved. \n\nDEUTERONOMY 12:29-31\n29 When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land; \n30 Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou inquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise. \n31 Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.\n\nHow can a God that abhors infanticide, Himself be infanticidal and filicidal? In truth, it is Dawkins who is infanticidal and certainly filicidal when he advised someone in twitter asking a hypothetical question to abort her child! \n\n![tweet.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmPQVT7XJb7RaCyq3HbJ5bgED9ShufVvXKSUAcKRrG2TK8/tweet.png)\n\nGod would never agree to hurt an unborn fetus! Unlike Dawkins who arrogates to himself some authority as to who should live and who should die, here is what the God of the Bible says - \n\nEXODUS 21:22-24 \n22 If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. \n23 And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, \n24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,\n\nBy God's law Richard Dawkins merits death for being genocidal, infanticidal, and filicidal! \n\nForgetting Richard Dawkins, let us discover from the Bible the gentleness and the loving kindness of the God of the Bible. \n\nGod takes care of a baby from conception to adulthood until death. \n\nBefore a baby is born, the mammary glands of the mother works in preparing all the necessary ingredients of life and the defenses for the baby's well-being. The breast of a feeding mother is nature-tuned for her to remember that her baby must be fed at the right moment. \n\nAn authority on breastfeeding, Kelly Bonyata, wrote on August 31, 2011 (http://kellymom.com) - \n\nDuring pregnancy and the first few days postpartum, milk supply is hormonally driven – this is called the endocrine control system. Essentially, as long as the proper hormones are in place, mom will start making colostrum about halfway through pregnancy (Lactogenesis I) and her milk will increase in volume (Lactogenesis II) around 30-40 hours after birth.\n\nAccording to her, earlier researchers observed that milk volume is typically greater in the morning hours and falls gradually as the day progresses. Quoting Hurgoiu (1985), she wrote that fat content tends to increase as the day progresses. These observations are consistent with current research where babies were found to normally have longer sleep at night and gradually decreases the amount of time between nursing as the day progresses. \n\nISAIAH 49:15 \nCan a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.\n\nGod is protecting each growing child by his injunctions to parents to care for their children. He placed those paternal instincts in their consciousness. \n\nI TIMOTHY 5:8 (RSV)\n If any one does not provide for his relatives, and especially for his own family, he has disowned the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.\n\nEPHESIANS 6:4 \nAnd, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.\n\nThese laws are not only protective measures but penalties go with those uncaring and disobeying parents! \n\nREVELATION 21:8 \nBut the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.\n\nAn uncaring parent is worse than an infidel or unbeliever, and infidels are destined to the lake of fire. At the age of puberty, a virgin is placed under the protection of the father. \n\nI CORINTHIANS 7:37 (RSV) \nNevertheless he that standeth steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well.\n\nHow can the God of the Bible that cares for a human being from conception until adulthood be infanticidal, filicidal, and genocidal? \n\n Back to Dawkins, surely, he doesn't deserve to be a professor! He is a MONSTER!!! \n\nArguably, Dawkins is the most repulsive character around - not in fiction - but in the physical, spiritual, and mental reality!",
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      "body": "![Is God a Racist.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmT19D8gsLTmUwyrP4esCams86PbySYCMjJDRuYnHibDmK/Is%20God%20a%20Racist.jpg)\n\nThe God whose existence Richard Dawkins and atheists deny is the God of the Bible.  Dawkin’s accusation against this God is based on his misunderstanding of the scriptures! He charged the Biblical God of being \"homophobic\" because this Biblical God does not approve of the perverted sexual desire and practices of homosexuals.\n\nHomophobia is irrational fear or aversion to or discrimination against homosexuality or homosexuals. God, being the creator, is also the creator of homosexuals and has no reason to fear or discriminate against what he created. As explained in earlier posts, it is what homosexuals can do (activating their orientation) that is abominable to God.\n\nFor one to charge another as homophobic carries the inherent implication that one is a supporter, an adherent, a partisan, an advocator, a backer, a proponent, an exponent of licentiousness that some homosexuals engage in. It is safe to say Dawkins agrees with abominable and dangerous sexual perversion that science says is quite unsafe. The Bible warns -\n\nLEVITICUS 18:22\nThou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination. \n\nDawkins was indeed selective with whom to bushwhack while there are within the sphere of human religiosity, many \"gods\"!\n\nGALATIANS 4:8\nHowbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.\n\nThis crusading idol of atheists did not attack nor charge Buddha, the god of the Buddhists. He did not attack rats, the gods of some Indians, simply because rats can be seen and are hardly god to him. These rats mate with their mother or father, and they could be the ancestors of Evolutionist Dawkins and his peers.\n\n One of the most disgusting and stupid accusations of Dawkins against the God of the Bible is that He is a racist. A racist would believe that a particular race is superior to another.\nIS THE GOD OF THE BIBLE A RACIST?\n\nThe Biblical God as we have discussed in an earlier blog is a God who does not practice favoritism or \"is not a respecter of persons.\"\n\nTHE ACTS 10:34-35\n34 Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:\n35 But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.\n\nHow can a God, who is not a respecter of persons, be a respecter of race or a racist? Even before humanity came to the point of being divided into different races, God showed Abraham His loving kindness to all races that would be.\n\nGENESIS 12:3 (DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSION)\nI will bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curse thee, and IN THEE shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.\n\nHow can a God, who is willing to bless all kindreds of earth, be racist? This pronouncement of God to Abraham came with a promise even before there were races.\n\nISAIAH 66:8\nWho hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.\n\nWhat the God of the Bible wants to do is to bless races as He blessed Abraham. If there be any curse that befalls a race or a nation it is not God's desire but a measure of justice to wayward nations like those in Canaan at the time of the exodus! This necessary and fair act of the God of the Bible to maintain world order can hardly be understood by atheists and the likes of Richard Dawkins.\n\nISAIAH 60:12\nFor the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.\n\nThere is only one point in the Bible wherein God can be considered racist! This is where He loves the human race more than the angels. By that, He becomes racist – in the true sense - but again as with a managerial God, He has order. Among the human race however, the playing field is level: they who do not form or conform into his image lose their right to be a race worth preserving.\n\nHEBREWS 2:16 (RSV)\nFor surely it is not with angels that he is concerned but with the descendants of Abraham.\n\nGod loves humans more than anything in His creation!\n\nHEBREWS 2:6-7\n6 But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him?\n7 Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and honor, and didst set him over the works of thy hands:\n\nJUSTICE MUST PREVAIL\n\nThe Bible calls the Israelites as \"God's chosen people.” Chosen, why and for what? Certainly not because God is racist!  The Israelites were chosen for them to be the forefathers of the \"seed.” Notice that seed is singular, and it refers to Christ.\n\nGALATIANS 3:16\nNow to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.\n\nTHE ROMANS 9:4-5\n4 Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;\n5 Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed forever. Amen.\n\nThe chosen \"seed\" coming from the race of Abraham will be the savior of all other races on earth!\n\nTHE ACTS 2:39\nFor the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.\n\nAs flashback, Israelites were said to be God’s people. There was the intention of God to make them be, but as history reveals, Israel failed with all their idolatry and sinfulness. The iniquities of the Israelites reached the pinnacle of His patience and leniency that He took from them His kingdom and promised to establish it among the very people whom the Israelites hated most – the Gentiles. This emphasizes that God is not a racist, but a God of justice, founded on reasons and equity.\n\nRemember that Israel was most favored by God at that time they were commanded to drive away the wayward Canaanites. Next, it was their turn to be deprived of blessings because of their hard-heartedness. This is a prophecy being fulfilled for the end times – and that is today – whether you believe it or not.\n\nMATTHEW 21:43\nTherefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.\n\nTHE ROMANS 11:25\nFor I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in.\n\nMALACHI 1:11\nFor from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts.\n\nISAIAH 65:1\nI am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name.\n\nA racist would disregard justice. God, however, practices justice which practice reverberates deep within the heart of an intelligent being like a human made from the likeness and image of his Creator GOD! But certainly not in humans who are descendants of beasts like Darwin.\n\nLet us consider these scientific findings.\n\n![Biologicall-we-are-all-brothers.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmc1RGFtX53EpoosZuN5nWK3vPnmgLDcECaLAzvCyFQLeN/Biologicall-we-are-all-brothers.jpg)\n\n Nature works within the human race. Naturally nature works with a common pattern for humans. Humans with short stature bear offspring of short stature too. But nature has extra-curricular activities!\n\nA dwarf is a short-statured person whose adult height is 4 feet 10 inches or under. Dwarfism can be caused by any one of more than 300 conditions, most of which are genetic and present at birth (http://kidshealth.org).\n\nDisturbed by a variety of factors in the environment, the work of nature can be unnatural. A misbehaving immune system maybe the cause of autoimmune diseases.\n\nAn autoimmune disorder occurs when the body’s immune system attacks and destroys healthy body tissue by mistake. \n\n..When you have an autoimmune disorder, your immune system does not distinguish between healthy tissue and antigens. As a result, the body sets off a reaction that destroys normal tissues.\n\nThe exact cause of autoimmune disorders is unknown. One theory is that some microorganisms (such as bacteria or viruses) or drugs may trigger changes that confuse the immune system. This may happen more often in people who have genes that make them more prone to autoimmune disorders. (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000816.htm)\n\nWhat is wonderful to know is that God's pronouncement or words in the Bible can over-power the workings of nature!\n\nGod prohibits man's unnecessary intervention in nature, like crossbreeding.\n\nLEVITICUS 19:19\nYe shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle engender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woolen come upon thee.\n\nWe can understand that this statute intends to conserve and preserve each particular species of animals and plants. Studies show that crossbreeding produce undesirable results, like genetically modified organisms, thus, proving again the scientificity of God's pronouncements in the Bible.\n\nBig Cat Rescue is an organization that makes a pitch against crossbreeding animals. It asks a critical question and answers it: “Where do Ligers come from? Irresponsible breeders is the short answer.” Here is its more detailed explanation -\n\nA liger is the result of breeding a male lion to a tigress. A tigon is the result of breeding a male tiger to a lioness. Since lions and tigers do not exist in the same areas, this is not something that happens in the wild. It is done in captivity by disreputable carnies to produce a freak that ignorant people will pay to see. These cats suffer from many birth defects and usually die young. Because ligers are usually larger than either parent, it also puts the tigress at great risk in carrying the young and may require C-section deliveries or kill her in the process. When the public quits paying to see these unfortunate creatures, the evil people responsible for breeding them will stop this inhumane practice.\n\nIn the campaign of Bigcatrescue.org, it warns the public of the evil motives behind this crossbreeding. It says –\n\n…Anyone who cares about animals knows that this is a despicable thing to do because the cats have to spend their lives in deprivation and confinement and are genetically so unhealthy that they usually die young. The only reason anyone breeds ligers is to create a freak that simple-minded people will pay to see.\n\nThis organization that is bent on conserving lions and tigers in their natural state posted a story written by Maryann Mott dated August 5, 2005. The title is, “Ligers Make a ‘Dynamite’ Leap Into the Limelight.” The obvious motive however is to justify the need to crossbreed, hence the novel products - ligers and tigons. According to Bigcatrescue.org, this story “attempts to make it sound like there could be some reason to breed lions and tigers for public amusement.”\n\nLigers and Tigons\nIt’s half lion, half tiger, and completely real. Now thanks to a cameo in the 2004 cult movie Napoleon Dynamite, the liger has leaped into the limelight, prompting fans to ask, what are they really like?\n\nThe faintly striped, shaggy-maned creatures are the offspring of male lions and female tigers, which gives them the ability to both roar like lions and chuff like tigers - a supposedly affectionate sound that falls somewhere between a purr and a raspberry.\n\nWeighing in at about a thousand pounds (450 kilograms) each, they typically devour 50 pounds (23 kilograms) of raw meat in a meal.\n\n“For the most part they’re really laid back,” said Jason Hutcherson, vice president of Wild Animal Safari in Pine Mountain , Georgia. “They like to swim and play in the water.”\n\nThe drive-through wildlife park is believed to have the country’s largest concentration of ligers, housing ten of the massive cats.\n\nSince 1999 the park has bred its male lion and female tiger many times, producing about 24 cubs.\n\nNot all of them have been healthy, though. We’ve had 3 out of 24 that, for all practical purposes, were normal but developed as they grew older some kind of neurological disorder,” Hutcherson said.\n\nAutopsies didn’t reveal what caused the cubs to develop “head shakes,” so park staff “chalked it up to a genetic defect,” Hutcherson said.\n\nAccredited zoos frown on the practice of mixing two different species and have never bred ligers, says Jane Ballentine, a spokesperson for the American Zoo and Aquarium Association, based in Silver Spring , Maryland. “Keeping the two species separate has always been standard procedure,” she said.\n\nThe story went on and on and one gets the feeling that the author is trying its best to be balanced, mentioning what health authorities said about these new breeds, but at the same time was gushing over such creatures of interest.\n\nBack to (heterosexual) mating, one thing is certain, God never prohibited the mating of a black to a white race, or to a red race, or to a yellow race, for Him to be a racist. The example of Moses marrying an Ethiopian woman clearly did not elicit disapproval from God.\n\nNUMBERS 12:1-8\n1 And Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman.\n2 And they said, Hath the LORD indeed spoken only by Moses? hath he not spoken also by us? And the LORD heard it.\n3 (Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth.)\n4 And the LORD spoke suddenly unto Moses, and unto Aaron, and unto Miriam, Come out ye three unto the tabernacle of the congregation. And they three came out.\n5 And the LORD came down in the pillar of the cloud, and stood in the door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam: and they both came forth.\n6 And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream.\n7 My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all mine house.\n8 With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?\n\nGod approved of Moses marrying an Ethiopian or a black woman. He who created mankind is not a racist. In sum, it is still God who gives the standard of what is right and what is wrong with his creation – not just anyone especially Dawkins who dares to measure God although believing that he had descended from animals.\n\nMore to follow.",
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