The Wisdom of Man: “Foolishness to God!”

The Apostle Paul warns,

LET NO MAN DECEIVE HIMSELF. If any man among you thinks that he is wise in this age, he must become foolish, so that he may become wise. 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness before God. For it is written, “He is THE ONE WHO CATCHES THE WISE IN THEIR CRAFTINESS”; 20 and again, “THE LORD KNOWS THE REASONINGS of the wise, THAT THEY ARE USELESS.” 21 So then let no one boast in men. (1 Corinthians 3)

It seems that the emphasis, these days, is on man’s “reason” and “intellect”, as if his reasoning and intellect have gotten him anywhere at all. Oh yes, I know “we’ve come a long way, baby,” when it comes to electronic gadgets and plastic surgery. But as human beings, we have become less (human) than even our parents and grandparents: just take a good look at “gen x” and “gen y” and you’ll see a brood of hedonistic megalomaniacs who care little about anything other than themselves, what they want and when they want it. These so-called “reasoning intellects” will buy into anything materialistic science and Hollywood tells them to: evolution, “gay marriage”, anything that is ungodly and a lie! They are merely “naturally-selected”, aesthetically and Spiritually dead robots who live and thrive in a Godless, perverse and decaying society and world.

Yet the institutionalized “church”, instead of standing on the Truth of our Lord (and “calling a spade a spade”), panders to these cretins and their politically-correct and ungodly way of life, as the following article reveals.

December 18, 2009

Winning not just hearts but minds

by Jonathan Fitzgerald

The Wall Street Journal

On Dec. 8, some of America’s brightest contemporary intellectuals gathered at the New School to discuss the tenuous relationship between “Evangelicalism and the Contemporary Intellectual.”Sponsored by Brooklyn-based literary magazine n+1, the panel featured The New Yorker’s Malcolm Gladwell and James Wood and The Nation’s former associate literary editor Christine Smallwood. While these thinkers all grew up in close proximity to evangelicalism, there was one conspicuous absence from the conversation: an intellectual who still professes the Christian faith. The discussion was predictably thoughtful, though evangelical belief was treated as something necessarily dispensed with on the way to becoming a public scholar.

This feeling of intellectual distance from grass-roots Christianity is not new. It’s been almost 30 years since Charles Malik, a former president of the United Nations General Assembly and a devout Christian, gave a speech at Wheaton College called “The Two Tasks.” To the audience assembled for the dedication of Wheaton’s Billy Graham Center, he said: “The greatest danger besetting American evangelical Christianity is the danger of anti-intellectualism.” This idea was picked up by historian Mark A. Noll 14 years later in his 1994 book “The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind.” The “scandal” of the title, he said, was “that there is not much of an evangelical mind,” despite what he sees as a biblical mandate to better understand creation. Mr. Noll asserts that this lack is reinforced by the historical experience of evangelicals in America, whose churches and ministries have gained more adherents at the cost of fostering anti-intellectualism and bad theology.

In the years after Mr. Noll’s book was published, however, things had begun to change, as Alan Wolfe noted in “The Opening of the Evangelical Mind,” an article in the October 2000 issue of The Atlantic Monthly. On college campuses across the country student groups such as Manna Christian Fellowship at Princeton, Evangelical Fellowship at Yale and the Chesterton House at Cornell were formed to foster the life of the evangelical mind. (emphasis added)

via Religion News: Winning not just hearts but minds.

It isn’t necessarily the believer’s mind that needs to be opened, it’s the closed-off and arrogant (so-called) “intellectuals” who need to open their minds, and hearts, to the truth of our Lord and Savior. Having said this, I do, to some extent, agree with the main theme of this article, in that a large portion of the institutionalized “church” has placed its mind (intellect) on a political/”religious” shelf. And, thus, the “church” has become not only ignorant and blind to the corrupt world around it (and its current operator’s schemes) but also to the leading of the Spirit, which leads believers into all of the Lord’s Truth:

Yet we do speak wisdom among those who are mature; a wisdom, however, not of this age nor of the rulers of this age, who are passing away; 7 but we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God predestined before the ages to our glory; 8 the wisdom which none of the rulers of this age has understood; for if they had understood it they would not have crucified the Lord of glory; 9 but just as it is written,

“THINGS WHICH EYE HAS NOT SEEN AND EAR HAS NOT HEARD,
AND which HAVE NOT ENTERED THE HEART OF MAN,
ALL THAT GOD HAS PREPARED FOR THOSE WHO LOVE HIM.”

10 For to us God revealed them through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God. 11 For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so the thoughts of God no one knows except the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things freely given to us by God, 13 which things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words.

14 But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised. 15 But he who is spiritual appraises all things, yet he himself is appraised by no one. 16 For WHO HAS KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD, THAT HE WILL INSTRUCT HIM? But we have the mind of Christ. (1 Corinthians 2)

The Apostle Paul also tells us that only those led by the Spirit are the true sons and daughters of God. Therefore, we can spend a great deal of our lives seeking to intellectually discern the word of God, without the leading of the Spirit, and, in the end, we will simply remain as ignorant of and blind to the Lord’s Life and Truth as the unregenerate atheist.

Christendom’s Apostate Fellowship with the Pagan and Unregenerate World: Yet Another Example! (Follow-Up)

A "False Prophet"

This is a follow-up post to, Christendom’s Apostate Fellowship with the Pagan and Unregenerate World: Yet Another Example!

Jesus told his disciples,

“Many false prophets will arise and will mislead many. 12 “Because lawlessness is increased, most people’s love will grow cold. 13 “But the one who endures to the end, he will be saved. 14 “This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come. (Matthew 24)

With over one-third of the earth’s population claiming to be Christian, why, then, hasn’t the Kingdom of God been preached throughout this world yet?

{Note: this prophetic statement by our Lord and Savior refers to the end of this current age, so I am not suggesting that the nominal “church” (Christendom) will accomplish this task. It will NOT!}

Well, one reason, among millions, might be that those who claim to be the Lord’s representatives on earth (the so called “men of God”) are far too busy making money and being yoked with materialistic/atheistic “science”, as the following Pew Forum article shows:

December 15, 2009

Pope calls for action on climate change

by Alessandra Rizzo

The Associated Press

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI called for urgent action to protect the environment, saying Tuesday that climate change and natural catastrophes threaten the rights to life, food, health — and ultimately peace.

In his annual message on the Roman Catholic Church’s World Day of Peace, the pope argued that the world’s economic, social, and environmental problems are moral crises that require mankind to rethink its way of living.

“We can no longer do without a real change of outlook which will result in new life-styles,” he said, touching again on a theme that has earned him a reputation as the “green pope.”

Benedict called on advanced societies to adopt “more sober lifestyles,” reducing energy consumption and favoring energy-efficient policies. He encouraged research into ways to exploit solar energy, to manage forests and to improve waste disposal. (emphasis added)

via Religion News: Pope calls for action on climate change.

Here is the very definition of Spiritual and scriptural ignorance:

In his annual message on the Roman Catholic Church’s World Day of Peace, the pope argued that the world’s economic, social, and environmental problems are moral crises that require mankind to rethink its way of living.

First of all, the word of God tells us that peace will return to the earth ONLY when Christ returns, in great power and glory, to establish His dominion in heaven and on earth. So a “World Day of Peace” is nothing more than a political and economic hoax perpetrated by the Vatican: a mere papal advertising ploy (as well as a blatant sign of unbelief and willful, Spiritual and scriptural ignorance: apostasy) for a “church” whose pews are becoming, every passing Sunday, increasingly more empty.

The pope, with all of his “religious” (idolatrous) posturing, evidently still believes, as does any mere atheist, that man has the answers to the major issues which threaten his existence: “…the pope argued that the world’s economic, social, and environmental problems are moral crises that require mankind to rethink its way of living.” As opposed to discerning and applying the word of God to these problems, and realizing that the only solution is to seek the return of Christ, Benedict XVI (a traitor to the Lord), instead, seeks to align himself with this corrupt and blinded world system: “The ‘Green’ Pope”

Here are just a few scriptures that Benedict XVI should take to mind and heart:

Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness? (2 Corinthians 6: 14)

Therefore, since we have this ministry, as we received mercy, we do not lose heart, 2 but we have renounced the things hidden because of shame, not walking in craftiness or adulterating the word of God, but by the manifestation of truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God. 3 And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, 4 in whose case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. (2 Corinthians 4)

You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. (James 4: 4)

Here is yet another article on the subject of “global climate change” which reveals the apostate nature of Christendom:

Religion News: Churches blast Copenhagen summit for lack of agreement.

"Religious Diversity": Light and Darkness Do Not Mix!

Jesus told His disciples,

“Every plant (every religion of man) which My heavenly Father did not plant shall be uprooted. 14 “Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind. And if a blind man guides a blind man, both will fall into a pit.” (Matthew 15)

The Apostle Paul stated firmly.

Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or WHAT FELLOWSHIP HAS LIGHT WITH DARKNESS? 15 Or what harmony has Christ with Belial, or WHAT HAS A BELIEVER IN COMMON WITH AN UNBELIEVER? 16 Or WHAT AGREEMENT HAS THE TEMPLE OF GOD WITH IDOLS? For WE (called and/or chosen sons of God) ARE THE TEMPLE OF THE LIVING GOD… (2 Corinthians 6)

The following is a radio transcript from the Godless and, thus, confused NPR which makes a hero out of a Spiritually blind and lost man.

This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I’m Scott Simon.

The top prize in religion has gone this year to Chicago’s Eboo Patel. Mr. Patel teaches young people to appreciate religious diversity and to pass it on. His work just landed him the prestigious Louisville Grawemeyer Award. Eboo Patel is the founder of the Chicago-based Interfaith Youth Core and is one of President Obama’s advisors on faith.

Lynette Kalsnes of Chicago Public Radio has this profile.

LYNETTE KALSNES: Eboo Patel was only 22 when he was struck by an idea, what he calls a moment of clarity. He’s done a lot of volunteer work. But he was interested in what people of different faiths could do by working together, like his heroes, Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. So he attended an interfaith conference and noticed something: nearly everyone was in their 60s or 70s. Yet terrorists who were attacking in the name of religion were his age… (emphasis added)

The rest of the transcript can be found here:

Religion News: An Obama faith adviser preaches tolerance to youth.

“Valuing Diversity”, one of the main catchphrases (like, “Yes we can” and “Why believe in a god? Just be good for goodness’ sake”) of the totally blind (Spiritually) postmodern/Darwinian/atheist. These blind guides believe, erroneously, that if “naturally-selected” (evolved) man “values diversity”, then “naturally-selected” man can create and live in some type of “naturally-selected” humanistic-utopia (rose-colored-glass fairy-tale land) where “self-actualized” and “in-touch-with-his-feminine-side”, “naturally-selected” man frolics through the woodlands all day long, and without a care in the world: this “naturally-selected utopia”, by the way, has been sought after, throughout man’s existence (in his feeble attempt to circumvent the curse: see Genesis, chapter 3), but never found, no matter how Godless or “brilliant” the culture.

The Christ said;

“I AM THE WAY, and THE TRUTH, and THE LIFE; NO ONE comes to the Father BUT THROUGH ME. (John 14: 6)

The Apostle Peter made clear to those who had crucified Jesus that…

“…there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name (except Jesus the Christ) under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved.” (Acts 4: 12)

The mealy-mouthed postmodern-relativist hates this kind of imperative, this ABSOLUTE TRUTH. The relativist loves a make-believe world where everyone thinks the way he does, since the way he thinks allows everyone else to do their “own thing,” that is, of course, unless their “own thing” is seeking the One True God, our Lord and Savior, and His truth. It makes little difference, however, what the relativist likes, or approves of, since what the Christ said, the Christ meant, and so shall it be!

“Religious diversity” may be “cool”, it may be the “in” thing to do or be this week, in the retro-grade-inversion land of Hollywood’s postmodern/Darwinian/atheism. But “religious diversity” doesn’t change the ABSOLUTE TRUTH of God, which is, there is ONLY ONE WAY to the Father, and THAT WAY is through our Lord and Savior, Jesus the Christ! Therefore, there can be no “religious diversity”, or the valuing of others’ “religions”, among those who have been purchased at a high cost, those few chosen out of the called:

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? 20 For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body. (1 Corinthians 6)

“For many are called, but few are chosen.” (Matthew 22)

Unfortunately, many, in the institutionalized “church” (Christendom), have bought into the relativist’s warped ideas about “religious diversity” and have, in fact, turned their backs on the Lord and His Truth! Our Lord is a jealous God, thus He demands that those who are His make a choice and stick with it: we cannot serve two gods! The Lord doesn’t care much for lukewarm hypocrites:

“No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon (the things of this world). (Matthew 6: 24)

—for you shall not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God— (Exodus 34: 14)

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever (Hebrews 13: 8… )

‘I know your deeds (the church), that you are neither cold nor hot; I wish that you were cold or hot. 16 ‘So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit (vomit) you out of My mouth. (Revelation 3)

“A Deluding Influence” IX

{I have decided, from time to time, to post certain items that I sense (through my Spirit, hopefully) speak to many of the issues I write on. These will be short snippets, and I’ve decided to call them, “A Deluding Influence” (2 Thessalonians 2: 11)}

Here is a revealing article from the Pew Forum:

December 17, 2009

PhillyDeals: Restoring churches’ faith in stocks

by Joseph N. DiStefano

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Big Christian churches buy and sell stocks and bonds for their building and retirement plans. But they sometimes feel bad about the awful things they can end up financing – gambling, drugs, war. So they’ve written guidelines to divide corporate America into sheep and goats.

Now an Oklahoma company is setting up investment funds it says are based on those sectarian guidelines. So investors will be able to track which U.S. Christian confession is most compatible with worldly success.

FaithShares Trust last week rolled out three exchange-traded funds (ETFs), portfolios that can be bought and sold like individual stocks, targeting Catholic, Methodist, and nondenomina-tional Christian investors. Baptist and Lutheran funds are in the works, too, says FaithShares Trust president Thompson S. Phillips Jr.

What’s the difference? (emphasis added)

via Religion News: PhillyDeals: Restoring churches’ faith in stocks.

Where do I begin to express my utter disgust for the subject of this article? I can’t, so I’ll let the word of God speak instead:

The Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14 And He found in the temple those who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers seated at their tables. 15 And He made a scourge of cords, and drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen; and He poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables; 16 and to those who were selling the doves He said, “Take these things away; stop making My Father’s house a place of business.” 17 His disciples remembered that it was written, “ZEAL FOR YOUR HOUSE WILL CONSUME ME.” (John 2)

“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. 20 “But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal; 21 for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

“No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.

“For this reason I say to you, do not be worried about your life, as to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor for your body, as to what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 26 “Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they? 27 “And who of you by being worried can add a single hour to his life? 28 “And why are you worried about clothing? Observe how the lilies of the field grow; they do not toil nor do they spin, 29 yet I say to you that not even Solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one of these. 30 “But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you? YOU OF LITTLE FAITH 31 “Do not worry then, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear for clothing?’ 32 “For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 33 “But SEEK FIRST His kingdom and His righteousness, AND ALL THESE THINGS WILL BE ADDED TO YOU.

34 “So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. (Matthew 6)

Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness? 15 Or what harmony has Christ with Belial, or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever? 16 Or what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God… (1 Corinthians 6)

The institutionalized and apostate “churches” (denominations & non-denominations) of Christendom, which claim to be the Lord’s representatives on earth, seek provision from a system owned and operated by Satan (Wall Street: corporate capitalism), as opposed to seeking first the Lord’s Kingdom and Righteousness, which would, then, lead to His blessings and provision. These “religious” aces-in-the-hole, which are the tools and fools (harlots) of the American greed and power mongers, are living right down to the Godless expectations established by Constantine, in pagan Rome, over seventeen hundred years ago!

If these denominations and non-denominations cannot find the money to operate their worthless and apostate forms of idol “worship”, without selling their souls to hades, then perhaps the Lord is trying to tell them something, like,

“A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a bad tree produce good fruit. 19 “Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 “So then, you will know them by their fruits.

21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. 22 “Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’ 23 “And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS.’ (Matthew 7)

I’ll close with this statement from James, the earthly brother of Jesus the Christ:

YOU ADULTERESSES, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. (James 4: 4)

A Sign of the End of this Age?

Many on the pulpits of Christendom preach of the Christ’s return, but few, if any, exhort their held-captive pew-sitters to be seeking and watching for His return in great power and glory.

There are many events occurring, as I write, which are the beginnings of the fulfillment of the Lord’s prophecy. The most important of these beginnings happened in 1948 when Israel became a nation again.

The following Pew Forum article reveals the workings of Godly prophecy in Israel, at this very moment:

December 8, 2009

Israel official: religious law must become binding

by
The Associated Press

JERUSALEM AP — Israel’s justice minister said religious law must become binding in Israel, causing a stir Tuesday that reflects the divide between the secular and religious communities in the Jewish state.

Yaakov Neeman, an observant Jew, told a rabbinical conference on Monday that the Bible contains “a complete solution to all the things we are dealing with.”

“Step by step we will bestow religious law upon the citizens of Israel and transform religious law into the binding law of the state,” he said. Israeli newspapers said the rabbis attending the conference applauded him wildly, but some lawmakers on Tuesday attacked his remarks as anti-democratic.

Secular Jews, who make up about 80 percent of the Jewish population, are often wary of what they consider to be religious coercion by the Orthodox minority. (emphasis added)

via Religion News: Israel official: religious law must become binding.

It would seem that the remnant of Israel is starting to turn their hearts back to the Lord, so that He may come again and establish them to their rightful thrown on earth:

‘For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the LORD, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope. 12 ‘Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. 13 ‘You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. 14 ‘I will be found by you,’ declares the LORD, ‘and I will restore your fortunes and will gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you,’ declares the LORD, ‘and I will bring you back to the place from where I sent you into exile.’ (Jeremiah 29)

Then the LORD will be zealous for His land (Israel)
And will have pity on His people.
19 The LORD will answer and say to His people,
“Behold, I am going to send you grain, new wine and oil,
And you will be satisfied in full with them;
And I will never again make you a reproach among the nations.
20 “But I will remove the northern army far from you,
And I will drive it into a parched and desolate land,
And its vanguard into the eastern sea,
And its rear guard into the western sea.
And its stench will arise and its foul smell will come up,
For it has done great things.”
21 Do not fear, O land, rejoice and be glad,
For the LORD has done great things.
22 Do not fear, beasts of the field,
For the pastures of the wilderness have turned green,
For the tree has borne its fruit,
The fig tree and the vine have yielded in full.
23 So rejoice, O sons of Zion,
And be glad in the LORD your God;
For He has given you the early rain for your vindication.
And He has poured down for you the rain,
The early and latter rain as before.
24 The threshing floors will be full of grain,
And the vats will overflow with the new wine and oil.
25 “Then I will make up to you for the years
That the swarming locust has eaten,
The creeping locust, the stripping locust and the gnawing locust,
My great army which I sent among you.
26 “You will have plenty to eat and be satisfied
And praise the name of the LORD your God,
Who has dealt wondrously with you;
Then My people will never be put to shame.
27 “Thus you will know that I am in the midst of Israel,
And that I am the LORD your God,
And there is no other;
And My people will never be put to shame.

28 “It will come about after this
That I will pour out My Spirit on all mankind;
And your sons and daughters will prophesy,
Your old men will dream dreams,
Your young men will see visions.
29 “Even on the male and female servants
I will pour out My Spirit in those days. (Joel 2)

The Apostasy of Christendom II

If you attend an institutionalized (nominal) “church”, then you may find the following Pew Forum article interesting or, perhaps, even troubling.

December 16, 2009

Economic squeeze produces a new kind of seminarian

by G. Jeffrey MacDonald

Religion News Service

(RNS) When Newton, Mass. artist Paula Rendino needed fresh inspiration last year (2008), she sought her muse in an unlikely place: seminary.

Art school would have been “too boring,” Rendino explained. She yearned to bring fresh depth to her work by pondering spiritual themes. Now she does exactly that alongside dozens of ministers-in-training at Andover Newton Theological School.

“In seminary, you’re looking at philosophy, ethics or poetry and taking the time to really think about something,” Rendino said. “That’s so important because we live in a time where everything is fast, people write in short sentences. (They) don’t take the time to think about things.”

As theological schools cope with intense financial stress, they’re getting a much-needed boost from unconventional students such as Rendino. Enrollments are rising in several corners of theological education as people with no interest in pulpit ministry come to regard the training as a powerful career enhancer. (emphasis added)

via Religion News: Economic squeeze produces a new kind of seminarian.

First of all, there is no human hierarchy in the Lord’s true Church (His Body), beyond the elder (overseer) and deacon:

It is a trustworthy statement: if any man aspires to the office of overseer, it is a fine work he desires to do. 2 An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, prudent, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, 3 not addicted to wine or pugnacious, but gentle, peaceable, free from the love of money. 4 He must be one who manages his own household well, keeping his children under control with all dignity 5 (but if a man does not know how to manage his own household, how will he take care of the church of God?), 6 and not a new convert, so that he will not become conceited and fall into the condemnation incurred by the devil. 7 And he must have a good reputation with those outside the church, so that he will not fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

8 Deacons likewise must be men of dignity… (1 Timothy 3)

You will find no scripture that prophesies of a seminary or bible college! There were only two titles of human leadership (not authority) designated, as I have just shown through scripture, and these titles were to be given to men by the ecclesia (Greek: assembly, gathering), through the leading of the Spirit of God. The Lord never intended for any stranger to rule over His eccelsias. For example:

Now at this time while the disciples were increasing in number, a complaint arose on the part of the Hellenistic Jews against the native Hebrews, because their widows were being overlooked in the daily serving of food. 2 So the twelve summoned the congregation (ecclesia) of the disciples and said, “It is not desirable for us to neglect the word of God in order to serve tables. 3 “Therefore, brethren, select from among you seven men of good reputation, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may put in charge of this task. 4 “But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word.” 5 The statement found approval with the whole congregation; and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas and Nicolas, a proselyte from Antioch. 6 And these they brought before the apostles; and after praying, they laid their hands on them. (Acts 6)

Is this how your “church”, or “denomination”, or “non-denomination” works? I doubt it!

Thus, the whole clergy/laity system, which has existed for over seventeen hundred years, is not of our Lord’s design, will or purpose! This “religious” cast-system was instituted in the Roman “church” to enable the Roman emperor to rule the “church” he had created as he ruled his empire: every denomination and non-denomination since that time has been nothing more than a spin-off of this ungodly system.

The Apostle Paul, in his letter to the Galatians, warns of the deeds of the flesh, and one of these he described as “factions”:

Factions:

1. A group of persons forming a cohesive, usually contentious minority within a larger group.
2. Conflict within an organization or nation; internal dissension: “Our own beloved country . . . is now afflicted with faction and civil war” (Abraham Lincoln).

Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are: immorality, impurity, sensuality, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, FACTIONS, 21 envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, just as I have forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. (Galatians 5)

How else would you describe organized “Christianity” today, other than FACTIONALIZED? On every street corner there’s a “denomination” or “non-denomination”, and they all disagree with each other: “factions”!

The Apostle Paul also warned Timothy that certain men would rise up, in the Church, and seek their own desires:

But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. 2 For men (believers, not the unregenerate) will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, 4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 HOLDING TO A FORM OF GODLINESS, ALTHOUGH THEY HAVE DENIED ITS POWER; AVOID SUCH MEN AS THESE… 7 ALWAYS LEARNING AND NEVER ABLE TO COME TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH. (2 Timothy 3)

"Avoid Such Men as These"

These men HAVE A FORM OF GODLINESS, ALTHOUGH THEY HAVE DENIED ITS POWER (The Lord’s power). They are ALWAYS LEARNING AND NEVER ABLE TO COME TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH.

Sound familiar to anyone? Do you attend “church” every Sunday morning and Wednesday evening, and then leave your “church” wondering where or when you’re ever going to see the power of the risen Christ in your life, or any of those pew-sitters around you? Does the priest, minister, or reverend, every Sunday morning, teach from scripture, and drone on and on about “sin”, “fire and brimstone”, or (on the more liberal side) that God loves you without any expectations whatsoever? After you leave “services” or “mass”, do you find that you can remember little to nothing of the “teaching”, or that you remember it, but it doesn’t resonate in your heart and/or mind? If so, then I would encourage you, and anyone who attends the institutionalized “church” (Christendom), to read the material found in my God’s Wisdom page, and then see for yourselves if your minister, priest, reverend, or whatever they’re called this week, is what the word of God describes as an overseer (elder) or deacon. I would encourage all of you, who sense these things, to investigate books that cover the first one-hundred and fifty years of the true Church’s history (The Book of Acts: chapters 1-3 is a good place to start), and then seek the guidance of the Spirit to discern if your clergy and “church” are what they claim to be.

Most “church-goin’” folk will shun what I’ve written here. So be it! As the Lord states,

“Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it. 14 “For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and THERE ARE FEW WHO FIND IT…

“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, BUT HE WHO DOES THE WILL OF MY FATHER who is in heaven WILL ENTER. 22 “Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’ 23 “And then I will declare to them, ‘I NEVER KNEW YOU; DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS.’ (Matthew 7)

“For many are called, but FEW ARE CHOSEN.” (Matthew 22: 14)

The Apostasy of Christendom

False Christianity

Below is a scripture that points out succinctly how our Lord views unregenerate and “religious” man seeking to turn His Father’s House, the Church (the Body of Christ), into a commercial enterprise:

And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all those who were buying and selling in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who were selling doves. 13 And He said to them, “It is written, ‘MY HOUSE SHALL BE CALLED A HOUSE OF PRAYER’; but you are making it a ROBBERS’ DEN.” (Matthew 21)

With this scripture in mind, then, I wonder how our Lord would respond to the following Pew Forum article?

December 16, 2009

Christian goods spoof commercial brands or logos

by Jay Reeves

Associated Press

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. AP — Christian stores have just the Christmas gift for Facebook fans: A “Jesus Christ wants to be your friend” T-shirt that mimics the design of the popular social networking site.

Do you like shirts from teen retailer Abercrombie & Fitch? How about a Christian copycat that transforms the chain’s name to “Abreadcrumb & Fish,” a reference to the biblical story of Jesus miraculously feeding the multitudes with bread and a few fish?

American retailers sell about $4.6 billion worth of Christian products annually, and some are spoofs or spinoffs of commercial logos or brand names. Many such goods are illegal, trademark attorneys say, but companies often are unaware their names are being copied or don’t put up a fight for fear of being labeled anti-faith.

There are “iPray” hats to wear while listening to your iPod, and the logo for the popular “Rock Band” video game was tweaked for a Christian necklace with a pendant shaped like a guitar pick. Preachers are even in on the act: They can buy materials for sermons based on popular TV shows including “Lost” and “Survivor.” (emphasis added)

via Religion News: Christian goods spoof commercial brands or logos.

“Preachers are even in on the act:” In on the act? “Preachers”, and their Spiritually dead audiences (congregations), are the culprits who have helped, greatly, to create this marketing empire: and my guess would be that most of these retailers are either (American) “Christian” or Jewish owned and operated! There would be no market for this kind of disgusting material, if it weren’t for the “preachers” and the nominal “church” (churchianity) creating the need, through their capitalistic/“having a form of Godliness” idolatry!

Consider these imperatives from the word of God:

Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness? (2 Corinthians 6:14)

And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect. (Romans 12: 2)

Our Lord and Savior is not a capitalistic magic genie, saluting the flag, and praising America, nor is He a no-talent “pop star”:

34 Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that GOD IS NO RESPECTER OF PERSONS: 35 But in every nation he that feareth (love and respect and obey) him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him. (Acts 10)

The nominal (institutionalized) “church”, which can be seen on almost every street corner, has been, from its inception, the design and work of unregenerate and “religious” men: men whose driving force is, as opposed to the Lord’s Will, Way, Truth and Life, their worldly needs and lusts. These men (and women) have no Spiritual knowledge of the Lord, nor do they desire to have His will accomplished in their lives or in this world: they like this world just the way it is, even though their sanctimonious protests, in regards to it, would suggest something much different. These hypocritical and fraudulent men, and their ungodly “church”, have always been the pawns of the governments and economic systems they find themselves placed under: they live to serve, without any Spiritual discernment whatsoever, the satanic machinery of this evil world-system. These men do not have the Spirit, nor the mind of Christ: they are either deluded “religious” fanatics, or they are disgusting frauds, it has to be one or the other.

But He (Jesus) turned and said to Peter, “Get behind Me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to Me; for you are not setting your mind on God’s interests, but man’s.” (Matthew 16: 23)

But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves. (2 Peter 2: 1)

“Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves. (Matthew 7: 15)

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. (1 John 4: 1)

“Get behind Me Satan…” “Beware of the false prophets…” Should we come to the conclusion, in reading these scriptures, that our Lord is trying to warn us of something?

Christendom's Apostate Fellowship with the Pagan and Unregenerate World: Yet Another Example!

Our Lord and Savior stated,

“See to it that no one misleads you. 5 “For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will mislead many. 6 “You will be hearing of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not frightened, for those things must take place, but that is not yet the end. 7 “For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and in various places there will be famines and earthquakes. 8 “But all these things are merely the beginning of birth pangs.

9 “Then they will deliver you to tribulation, and will kill you, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name. 10 “At that time many will fall away and will betray one another and hate one another. 11 “Many false prophets will arise and will mislead many. 12 “Because lawlessness is increased, most people’s love will grow cold. 13 “But the one who endures to the end, he will be saved. 14 “THIS GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM SHALL BE PREACHED IN THE WHOLE WORLD as a testimony to all the nations, AND THEN THE END WILL COME. (Matthew 24)

Unfortunately, what is preached in “churches” today is anything but the coming Kingdom of God (manifested: when Christ returns in great power and glory). The Lord’s Kingdom (in mystery), now, resides in each of us who are seeking first His Kingdom and righteousness:

“Do not worry then, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear for clothing?’ 32 “For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 33 “But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

34 “So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. (Matthew 6)

The institutionalized “church” (Christendom) is under the strong delusion that it is here to save the world for Christ so He can return. This is not what the word of God tells us. Christ saved the world when he was crucified, died and resurrected, but not all of humanity will believe nor accept His free gift of GRACE for salvation. This GRACE that leads to salvation (of the spirit, soul and body) has been extended to all of humanity since that time, and this offer has been made known throughout the whole world for the past two-hundred years, at least. What hasn’t been known is what Jesus said must be preached:

“THIS GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM SHALL BE PREACHED IN THE WHOLE WORLD as a testimony to all the nations, AND THEN THE END WILL COME.”

Thus we have a false “church”, claiming to represent the Christ, which follows after the temporal whims of unregenerate and pagan men! The following Pew Forum article is just one example of this confused apostasy.

December 8, 2009

Church bells to ring for action at U.N. climate talks

by Peter Kenny

Religion News Service

GENEVA (RNS/ENI) When church bells start pealing in Copenhagen and around the world on Sunday (Dec. 13), they will not be heralding an early arrival of Christmas but rather a call to action and prayer against global climate change.

More than 100 world political leaders, as well as faith leaders and environmental activists, are converging on the Danish capital. A crucial United Nations summit began on Monday to map out an international agenda on climate change.

On Sunday, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu and activists from around the world will present a petition to Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Mingling and working with many of the activist groups will be representatives of major faiths, including bishops, imams, rabbis and priests. Workshops, services and rallies will be held throughout the 11-day summit.

Churches will chime in for environmental stewardship by sounding their bells or other instruments 350 times at 3 p.m. on Sunday. The 350 chimes represent the parts per million that many scientists say is the safe upper limit for carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. (emphasis added)

via Religion News: Church bells to ring for action at U.N. climate talks.

Check this out! Now, all of a sudden, this planet’s shattering crisis, which will sink New York City into the Atlantic, and kill all the polar bears, has been reduced to merely being called, “Global Climate Change”. Less than one year ago, this Darwinian/naturalistic/atheistic fraud (fairy tale) was being proclaimed as “Global Warming”, that is until the real stats, which showed a cooling of the climate, started to come out, and the embarrassing emails were released.

Thirty years ago, these same unregenerate and blind “scientists” were claiming a soon coming ice age. The inter-net is filled with materialists trying to do away with this truth, but many of us, like me, were in our early and late twenties and remember the hysteria that was rampant at that time: not surprisingly to me, this was at the very same time as the first oil and gas shortage scam. No matter what you read from these liars, go ask anyone who is at least fifty years in age, and American, and they will tell you that there was the same hysteria, then, as there is now over “Global Warming”!

Wake up sleeper, the devil is a liar, and anyone who is not of our Lord and Savior, no matter how educated or nice, is a liar also. This world, and its climate, belong to our Lord! The Lord is ultimately in charge of this world and universe, not some unregenerate, lab-coated pipsqueak! Satan has been given dominion by God until all has been accomplished, but Satan is bound by the parameters that have been set by his Creator! This world will be destroyed and, then, remade, but that will be accomplished through the will and power of our Lord and Creator, at the time He has predestined, and no mere human-being will be able to stop it!

“A Deluding Influence” VIII

{I have decided, from time to time, to post certain items that I sense (through my Spirit, hopefully) speak to many of the issues I write on. These will be short snippets, and I’ve decided to call them, “A Deluding Influence” (2 Thessalonians 2: 11)}

Jesus tells us that we will come to know those professing His Truth by their “fruits”: if they are of our Lord and Savior, then the proof will be in their actions and outcomes (actions and their outcomes speak louder than words).

“Beware of the FALSE PROPHETS, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are RAVENOUS WOLVES. 16 “You will know them BY THEIR FRUITS. Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes nor figs from thistles, are they? 17 “So every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 “A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a bad tree produce good fruit. 19 “Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 “So then, you will know them by their fruits. (Matthew 7)

Here is another example of the bad fruit of Christendom: bad fruit is evidently all it has to offer!

December 10, 2009

Survey finds complexity in U.S. religious beliefs

by William Wan

The Washington Post

Can you believe in Jesus and in astrology? The answer is a resounding yes, according to a study that shows Americans’ beliefs to be more complex than might be expected.

The survey — one of the first by a major polling group to tackle Americans’ belief in such things as “the evil eye” and “spiritual energy in trees” — was conducted in August by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.

The goal was to explore the complexity of faith in the modern world and the overlap between religions and other supernatural beliefs.

According to results released Wednesday, the overlap is considerable. Researchers found that 24 percent of U.S. adults sometimes attend services of a faith different from their own. (That figure doesn’t include people who go for special events such as weddings and funerals or attend services while traveling.) (emphasis added)

via Religion News: Survey finds complexity in U.S. religious beliefs.

It seems that most “God fearin’ Americans” really have no idea of what they believe. In this hedonistic and Godless society, is it any wonder that Sunday-morning pew-sitters would be attracted to a mix of ungodly religiosity, since Americans are always seeking to get what they want, when they want it, and with little regard for the overall outcome!

Here is yet another example of this apostate bad fruit of Christendom:

Image courtesy of Pew Forum

December 10, 2009

More U.S. Christians mix in ‘Eastern,’ New Age beliefs

by Cathy Lynn Grossman

USA Today

Going to church this Sunday? Look around.

The chances are that one in five of the people there find “spiritual energy” in mountains or trees, and one in six believe in the “evil eye,” that certain people can cast curses with a look — beliefs your Christian pastor doesn’t preach.

In a Catholic church? Chances are that one in five members believe in reincarnation in a way never taught in catechism class — that you’ll be reborn in this world again and again.

Elements of Eastern faiths and New Age thinking have been widely adopted by 65% of U.S. adults, including many who call themselves Protestants and Catholics, according to a survey by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life released Wednesday. (emphasis added)

via Religion News: More U.S. Christians mix in ‘Eastern,’ New Age beliefs.

The Apostle Paul prophesied of the people and the times that we live in:

I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His kingdom: 2 preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction. 3 For the time will come when they (believers) will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, 4 and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths. (2 Timothy 4)

Jesus warned,

“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. 22 “Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’ 23 “And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS.’ (Matthew 7)

The institutionalized “church” (worldwide, not just America), through Spiritual ignorance, deception and arrogance, has managed to raise up millions of apostate believers who are Spiritually ignorant of the truth found, through the Spirit, in the word of God. Is it any wonder, then, that most American pew-sitters can be easily manipulated by pagan, ritualistic thinking and believing: eastern religions and new-age gurus? Just consider the paganism and ritualism involved in Catholicism alone!

Darwin's "Natural Selection" (Evolution) & Galton's Eugenics: A Dehumanizing Legacy! (Follow-Up)

Charles Darwin: A Sullen Man Devoid of God

This is a follow up post to Darwin’s Evolution & Galton’s Eugenics: A Dehumanizing Legacy!

When unregenerate man’s “science” and philosophies/ideologies deny God as Creator, then life is devalued greatly among those (the unregenerate and pagan) who have been blinded in this age:

And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, 4 in whose case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. (2 Corinthians 4)

It can be no other way, no matter what the Darwinian-atheist claims, since the only value in life is its eternal nature, and the fact that a sovereign and benevolent Creator brought it into existence. Without this truth, human life becomes no more valuable or precious than a tree, a plant, a slug, or a piece of wood.

The following article (atheist rag) was written by Peter Singer, a man who cares more for animals than human beings.

November 18, 2009

Opinion: Voluntary consent is neglected in the euthanasia debate

by Peter Singer

The Daily Star

Of all the arguments against voluntary euthanasia, the most influential is the “slippery slope”: Once we allow doctors to kill patients, we will not be able to limit the killing to those who want to die. There is no evidence for this claim, even after many years of legal physician-assisted suicide or voluntary euthanasia in The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, and the American state of Oregon. But recent revelations about what took place in a New Orleans hospital after Hurricane Katrina point to a genuine danger from a different source.

When New Orleans was flooded in August 2005, the rising water cut off Memorial Medical Center, a community hospital that was holding more than 200 patients. Three days after the hurricane hit, the hospital had no electricity, the water supply had failed, and toilets could no longer be flushed. Some patients who were dependent on ventilators died.

In stifling heat, doctors and nurses were hard-pressed to care for surviving patients lying on soiled beds. Adding to the anxiety were fears that law and order had broken down in the city, and that the hospital itself might be a target for armed bandits.

Helicopters were called in to evacuate patients. Priority was given to those who were in better health, and could walk. State police arrived and told staff that because of the civil unrest, everybody had to be out of the hospital by 5:00 p.m. (emphasis added)

via Religion News: Opinion: Voluntary consent is neglected in the euthanasia debate.

Singer is a living, breathing example of what a Darwinian-humanistic-atheist amounts to: a desensitized, pompous and Godless robot who, being in some form of arrested development, cannot see the trees for the forest! For those who didn’t click on the links above, here are just a few samples of Singer’s perverse and upside-down philosophy:

“In Animal Liberation, Singer argues against what he calls speciesism: discrimination on the grounds that a being belongs to a certain species. He holds the interests of all beings capable of suffering to be worthy of equal consideration, and that giving lesser consideration to beings based on their species is no more justified than discrimination based on skin color. He argues that animals should have rights based on their ability to feel pain more than their intelligence. In particular, he argues that while animals show lower intelligence than the average human, many severely retarded humans show equally diminished, if not lower, mental capacity, and that some animals have displayed signs of intelligence (for example, primates learning elements of American sign language and other symbolic languages) sometimes on par with that of human children, and that therefore intelligence does not provide a basis for providing nonhuman animals any less consideration than such retarded humans.”

“Singer states that arguments for or against abortion should be based on utilitarian calculation which weighs the preferences of a mother against the preferences of the fetus. In his view a preference is anything sought to be obtained or avoided; all forms of benefit or harm caused to a being correspond directly with the satisfaction or frustration of one or more of its preferences. Since a capacity to experience the sensations of suffering or satisfaction is a prerequisite to having any preferences at all, and a fetus, at least up to around eighteen weeks, says Singer, has no capacity to suffer or feel satisfaction, it is not possible for such a fetus to hold any preferences at all. In a utilitarian calculation, there is nothing to weigh against a mother’s preferences to have an abortion, therefore abortion is morally permissible.”

Peter Singer – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Singer is the vile and sadistic product of evolution and eugenics, as were Hitler and Stalin. He views people as nothing more than happenstance creatures who, if not fit for life, are doomed to “extinguish”. Yet Singer has great respect for animal life: this is the retro-grade inversion of life, the life led by the enemy of our Lord!

Here is yet another sign of Darwin’s dehumanizing legacy:

One in 4 Teen Girls Has a Sexually Transmitted Disease.

Got that? 25% of American teenage girls are infected with a disease brought about by harlotry!

Perhaps America should lower the “age of consent” to eleven or twelve years of age, since this seems to be the age that “knowledgeable” (at least in a clinical sense) sexual activity begins in adolescents? Yes sir, we’ve come along way in our “enlightened”, “reasoning” society! We’ve come a long way towards turning the whole world into Sodom and Gomorrah!

We look at sexuality, and almost every other sin, as being a small thing in comparison to the other ills of this world (wars, famine, etc), but what we can’t comprehend is that the major issues are all connected to these supposed “lesser things”: the way we choose to live and what we choose to value can either bring us closer to the Lord or simply open the door for more and more deviance. “If it feels good, do it!” was a big joke in the late 1960s, but the consequences of that mentality, that mindset, are no joke today, as the above article sadly reveals!

In short, Darwin managed, in his Spiritual ignorance, to unleash a demonic produced hypothesis (a lack of Spiritual discernment brain-fart) on the world that would ultimately devalue human life. If we are descended from a “common ancestor” which ultimately, by “chance”, “mutated” into a puke-eating chimpanzee, then why would we value human life or be concerned with man’s “morals” and “ethics”? If man is descended from a slug that magically (through “chance” and “mutation”) became a chimp, and then us, then life is not precious in any way, and man’s “morals” and “ethics” are meaningless: after all, what mutated chimpanzee has the right to tell me, or anyone else for that matter, how to behave and live?

Our innate sense that life is sacred comes from our Creator, our Lord and Savior, Jesus the Christ! We are appalled at murder and young girls and boys being sexually active because of the Lord and His presence in and around us!

The curse placed on Adam and Eve, and all of creation, will be overturned when Christ returns in great power and glory. Man’s inadequate, arrogant and sophomoric “science”, “religions” and philosophies are not the answer to the “evil” found in fallen man and nature, only the Christ is!

Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you thinks that he is wise in this age, he must become foolish, so that he may become wise. 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness before God. For it is written, “He is THE ONE WHO CATCHES THE WISE IN THEIR CRAFTINESS”; 20 and again, “THE LORD KNOWS THE REASONINGS of the wise, THAT THEY ARE USELESS.” (1 Corinthians 3)