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Who goes to Heaven?

Challenge yourself…

“The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.

Romans 1:18 (NIV)(www.laridian.com)

The bottom line claim from that passage in the Bible is that “people are without excuse”.

That was the question. What do you think?

That is God’s claim, coming from Paul.

God says that “what has been made”, that is the world around us as we see and feel it, is the evidence for his claim that he exists. And not only do we need to acknowledge that he exists, but also, that we will be held accountable to him.

I heartily and happily accept that, since I see his hand all around in the world, nature and the sky above. But, most don’t…

What are your reasons for not accepting his claims?

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Sighting of Dinosaurs

Secular evolution has it that dinosaurs died off 65 million years ago, and that no human has ever seen a living dinosaur. However, if you replace the word dinosaur with dragon, then it becomes a different matter.

It was in 1841 that dragons were renamed dinosaurs, and the search for their bones was begun in earnest. Now literally billions of their bones in almost all countries of the world have been found.

St George and the dragon

As for sightings, there has been much evidence of that through history. St George and the dragon would be the best known. Great Britain has the St George cross on its flag, even though George was from Turkey. Apparently he was an officer in the Roman army for one of the Caesars, and had converted from Paganism to Christianity.

A book that helped me understand dragons more is displayed. It has many pictures of drawings and etchings of dragons in many countries of the world from over the past centuries. There is no way that people could have just drawn them out of their imagination, or even from seeing scattered bones on the ground. The only reasonable conclusion is that people saw them directly, probably at a distance, and then drew them.

 

Photo by Pablo Heimplatz on Unsplash

Dinos on Noah’s ark? 

There only needed to be a male and a female from each ‘kind’ after all. The largest would have fitted in, not as fully-grown adults, but as young dinosaurs, later to mature and mate. Then, over time, natural selection would have diversified them into many more varieties, just as with dogs, cats, livestock etc.

Naval architects calculate that the capacity of the ark was enormous, at about 15,000 tonnes, so lots of room for fodder and the various animal ‘kinds’ as described in the Bible. That will be another Post…

Blood cells still present in a T Rex bone?

One of my most fascinating reads some years ago was from the prestigious ‘Science’ journal in 2005. Dr Mary Schweitzer, a palaeontologist from the US, presented pictorial proof of what she was astounded to find when she cut open a T Rex femur bone many times – soft tissue in which there were blood cells, blood vessels and soft elastic tissue. That is incredible! Realistically, the T Rex could only have died some few thousand years ago, and definitely not 65 million!

Bible’s mention of a couple of dinosaur-like creatures.

One of these is in Job 40:15 and is  called ‘behemoth’ (‘beast of beasts’) and the description could easily fit a sauropod herbivorous dinosaur. Its tail ‘sways like a cedar’, and its ‘bones are tubes of bronze’.

People like me who believe in Intelligent Design and the universal flood in the days of Noah are convinced that dinosaur graveyards are the result of that catastrophic flood not so many thousands of years ago. That’s why dino fossils have been found alongside ordinary objects like turtle shells, willow leaves, figs, crocodile bones and redwood cones etc.

You might like to check out these sites for more possibilities.

https://creation.com/

https://www.untoldsecretsofplanetearth.com/store/dire-dragons/#/

https://www.biblestudytools.com/esv/job/40.html

The voting board here from my day at the Market shows what those present thought of my question…

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Where have we humans come from? https://lifehope.blog/where-have-we-humans-come-from-origins-of-life/ https://lifehope.blog/where-have-we-humans-come-from-origins-of-life/#respond Mon, 06 Sep 2021 08:50:51 +0000 https://lifehope.blog/?p=417 Where have we humans come from?

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Origins of life

If we don’t know where we’ve come from, won’t it be much harder to know where we are going?

We’ve all been wising up to Evolution, and with it the ‘Big Bang’, since our early school years, right through till now.

However, have you ever stopped to think about whether this ‘hypothesis’ is correct?

Just a few questions…

Did everything really come from nothing? Did life really come from non-life? Did order really come from chaos?
Really? Take any other scientific experiment, and you will find that each one of those claims is non-scientific, non-observable, and non-reproducible at any laboratory level. When applied to the origins of life, they are a claim to a miracle or at least big-time magic.

I think we would all agree that, according to the natural world now:

Something never comes from nothing; life never comes from non-life; order never comes from disorder; information never comes from inanimate matter.

Natural selection

As amazing and powerful as it is, natural selection is not the whole of Evolution, even if it seems to be promoted that way. It follows on from the origins of life, and does not act until there is life for it to be acting on. It actually is more of a culling force, rather than a creative force. That’s why it is called ‘Microevolution’, and is very much a real and ongoing part of all life that is already living.

The cart is usually put before the horse

Macroevolution should come first, the claimed actual origins of life. After that, should come Microevolution, the true action of natural selection on the origins of life onwards to today.

Another key word in the discussion is mutation. This also is used incorrectly, as if it is a creating force, just like natural selection. However, it should be kept in mind that almost all mutations are negative, in that they cause a loss of genetic information, rather than a gain.

Charles Darwin

In his book, Charles concentrated on the origin of the diversity of life, the “by means of natural selection” part of his book’s title. This is Microevolution, and so is quite misleading, since the book and the great discovery, celebrated and still being spread triumphantly up to today, is supposed to be the “origins of” life.

He was pointedly avoiding the question of the origins of life itself. There are many who think that even now, regarding this, nothing has changed…

Oceanic primordial soup

That’s where the first living organism was supposed to have arisen from. After that, with so much time, and so much good luck, here we are today! A leap of faith is needed!

I suggest a much more believable and scientifically acceptable means of explaining the origins of life is that of Intelligent Design. This involves the God of the Bible, the description in Genesis of that incredibly preserved book, and the evidence fitting it far better than any other hypothesis.

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”

Genesis 1:1 (NIV) (http://www.laridian.com)

Why don’t you check it out? Down the track, I will endeavour to have a Post about it.

Here’s a link to creation.com

Here’s a link to answersingenesis.org

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