Month: January 2023

The Measure of Your Power Available to You NOW

And lest there are some fearful saints, who think the measure of our heritage must be confined within certain limits, then God tells us exactly what those limitations are: “…And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places…”(Eph. 1:19,20). There is the measure of the power that is available to the saints! ~ “Feast of Tabernacles”

Anyone who runs ahead without remaining in the teachings of Christ does not have God. Whoever remains in His teaching has both the Father and the Son (2 John 1:9)

Anyone who runs ahead without remaining in the teachings of Christ does not have God. Whoever remains in His teaching has both the Father and the Son (2 John 1:9) The teachings of Christ aren’t the Ten Commandments. They aren’t even the Bible, although Christ may speak to you through the Bible. The teachings of Christ are those words that Christ speaks to you in real time as you stand in His presence listening to Him. He leads, teaches, and corrects all who follow Him. When we start to assume, speculate, or rationalize, we are trying to run ahead of Christ. All theological debate is the result of at least one person reasoning without listening to Christ’s voice. All theological debate is the result of at least one person adding to or diminishing what Christ is saying.

Anyone who runs ahead without remaining in the teachings of Christ does not have God. Whoever remains in His teaching has both the Father and the Son (2 John 1:9) The teachings of Christ aren’t the Ten Commandments. They aren’t even the Bible, although Christ may speak to you through the Bible. The teachings of Christ are those words that Christ speaks to you in real time as you stand in His presence listening to Him. He leads, teaches, and corrects all who follow Him. When we start to assume, speculate, or rationalize, we are trying to run ahead of Christ. All theological debate is the result of at least one person reasoning without listening to Christ’s voice. All theological debate is the result of at least one person adding to or diminishing what Christ is saying.

Is evolution a fact? It depends on how you define “evolution.”

Is evolution a fact? It depends on how you define “evolution.” This is a case of confusing people by using a word with two definitions. The word “evolution” can mean the relatively small changes that occur from generation to generation. A scientific fact is something that’s been observed and there has never been any observation that conflicts. Scientists can observe changes from one generation to another. You can observe it too. It’s an obvious fact. They go into fantasy land when they make up a story that says those small changes add up to large changes. The live in a pretend world when they say those changes started with a single simple life form that changes from generation to generation until that simple life form morphed into all the living things we now observe. This story has never been observed. It’s not a fact. No one has observed one kind of living thing turning into another, so that story is just a story and not a fact.

Is evolution a fact? It depends on how you define “evolution.”

This is a case of confusing people by using a word with two definitions. The word “evolution” can mean the relatively small changes that occur from generation to generation. A scientific fact is something that’s been observed and there has never been any observation that conflicts. Scientists can observe changes from one generation to another. You can observe it too. It’s an obvious fact.

Evolutionists go into fantasy land when they make up a story that says those small changes add up to large changes over billions of years. They live in a pretend world when they say those changes started with a single simple life form that changes from generation to generation until that simple life form morphed into all the living things we now observe. This story has never been observed. It’s not a fact. No one has observed one kind of living thing turning into another, so that story is just a story and not a fact. No one has observed anything that could reasonably prove the billions-of-years part of the story. Billions of years is just a story that falsely called “science.” Molecules-to-humanity evolutionism is just a series of stories that are falsely called “science.”

The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil.

And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come into the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But whoever practices the truth comes into the Light, so that it may be seen clearly that what he has done has been accomplished in God.” (John 3:19-21) Some are coming to the Light. Some are running from the Light. Some want to stay in some sort of religious twilight. They don’t want to hear God’s voice. They don’t like what He has to say. They want to keep their old presuppositions. Like the Children of Israel at Sinai, they don’t want to stand in God’s presence. They just want to know some intellectually stimulating opinions. They want to be entertained.

And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil.  Everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come into the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.  But whoever practices the truth comes into the Light, so that it may be seen clearly that what he has done has been accomplished in God.” (John 3:19-21)

Some are coming to the Light.

Some are running from the Light.

Some want to stay in some sort of religious twilight. They don’t want to hear God’s voice. They don’t like what He has to say. They want to keep their old presuppositions. Like the Children of Israel at Sinai, they don’t want to stand in God’s presence. They just want to know some intellectually stimulating opinions. They want to be entertained.

“And the children go to summer camp, And then to the university, And they all get put in boxes, And they all come out the same.” ~ Pete Seeger

This meme takes the words to an old song that are true. “And the children go to summer camp, And then to the university, And they all get put in boxes, And they all come out the same.” ~ Pete Seeger This is about groupthink. It’s about society squeezing us into its mold. It’s easy to see why group-held worldviews control various groups of politicians, theologians, and scientists who use peer pressure to assure compliance and censorship. Often the coercion goes beyond just group pressure. Often the coercion destroys people’s lives and uses corruption in organizations or governments to force message-control.

This meme takes the words to an old song that are true.

“And the children go to summer camp, And then to the university, And they all get put in boxes, And they all come out the same.” ~ Pete Seeger

This is about groupthink. It’s about society squeezing us into its mold.

It’s easy to see why group-held worldviews control various groups of politicians, theologians, and scientists who use peer pressure to assure compliance and censorship. Often the coercion goes beyond just group pressure. Often the coercion destroys people’s lives and uses corruption in organizations or governments to force message-control.

Other sheep I have which are not of this fold.

Other sheep I have which are not of this fold: Them also I must bring, and they shal hear my voice; and there shall be one fold and one shepherd. John 10:16 People have wondered how Christ the body will come together. Here is the secret. We must all hear His voice and His voice alone. That will change us. Many of our preconceptions must fall away. The Spirit of Christ will continue to speak the words of Christ to us. He will lead, teach, and correct us until we have unity.

Other sheep I have which are not of this fold: Them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold and one shepherd. John 10:16 People have wondered how Christ the body will come together. Here is the secret. We must all hear His voice and His voice alone. That will change us. Many of our preconceptions must fall away. The Spirit of Christ will continue to speak the words of Christ to us. He will lead, teach, and correct us until we have unity.

Interpretation by Summarizing

One of the ways to understand information is to interpret it. One of the ways to interpret data is to summarize it. If you summarize, you state the most important points. You will tend to filter facts based on your worldview. That's why you need to pray for wisdom when you summarize. Let the Holy Spirit show you what's important and what's not important.

One of the ways to understand information is to interpret it. One of the ways to interpret data is to summarize it. If you summarize, you state the most important points. You will tend to filter facts based on your worldview. That’s why you need to pray for wisdom when you summarize. Let the Holy Spirit show you what’s important and what’s not important.

Insane Reasoning from a Religious Intellectual.

Insane Reasoning from a Religious Intellectual.

Someone of high stature in religious circles actually said this. This man is considered a great defender of Christian principles. He’s considered an intellectual. At first, what he said sounded very deep. You almost need a dictionary to decipher it. What’s he really saying? An axiom is something you make up and pretend it’s true. You treat it as if it were proven, but it’s not proven. A presupposition is like an axiom. It’s something you suppose ahead of time. To suppose is to think something is true with no proof that it is true. So, to say and axiom is a presupposition is to say made-up stuff is made-up stuff. Now, he goes on to say this made-up stuff is assumed true. To assume is to suppose. He’s redundant, but he messes with your mind by using big words. So far, he said, “I made-up some stuff and pretended that it’s true.

From this made-up stuff, he deduced theorems. What is he saying? He deduced theorems. Deduction is a type of logic that comes to absolute conclusions. It must have certain elements. The premises must be true. Nothing can be added to the premises or diminished from the premises on the way to the conclusion. The premises must prove the conclusion. A theorem is a statement that is proved. He didn’t tell us how he used deductive reasoning to get his theorem, but he did tell us his premises consist of made-up stuff rather than truth. In logic talk, that means his logic isn’t sound. His thinking is insane. He needs to check himself. That means his theorem isn’t proved, but he’s pretending it’s proved in a stuffed-shirt kind of way.

Next, he says, “It makes sense to use the propositions of Scripture as axioms.” If it makes sense, it’s sane. Propositions are just statements that are put out there. They aren’t necessarily true. The problem is that the statements in Scripture are absolute and true. And then, he goes back to the word, “axiom,” which is made-up stuff he treats as if it were true. He has said, “It is sane to use the tentative statements of Scripture as made-up stuff.”

How did such an intelligent man come up with such a ridiculous statement? There is no atheist who is stupid enough that he or she couldn’t dismantle this statement. The statement makes no sense. When an intelligent person drifts into poor reasoning, there is usually a strongly held belief behind the problem. In this case, this man was defending cessationism.

Cessationism is a kind of deism. It’s a kind of naturalism. An online site, GotQuestions, says this: “Cessationism is the view that the “miracle gifts” of tongues and healing have ceased—that the end of the apostolic age brought about a cessation of the miracles associated with that age.” Of course, there is no such age mentioned in the Bible as the “apostolic age.” The Bible says we will have apostles UNTIL we ALL come into the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. So that’s cessationism. Under cessationism, the Holy Spirit can’t reveal anything to you. There’s a huge problem with that.

The problem with the idea that the Holy Spirit can’t reveal anything to you is that then you can’t know anything. You can only have opinions, but you can’t know. The human mind can’t reason to truth. It can’t do it. It can fool itself and use deceptive statements like this intellectual used. It can’t know that the Bible is God’s word without error. The Holy Spirit reveals that the Bible is God’s word without error, but the fallen human mind has to either receive the revelation that comes from God or bounce around in irrational thinking. That irrational thinking is just as irrational whether the person is defending the Bible or attacking the Bible.

God is real. All who seek Him find Him. Seek Him. Find Him. Get to know Him well. Listen to His voice. Allow Him to lead you. Yield to His Spirit so He says His words and does His acts through you. Keep on keeping on. The best is yet to come.