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UPDATED 11/8/2014 – Initially, we had intended in this blog a continual flow of the topic of Evolution, but here's a brief insert. Inasmuch as we have received comments that say the Bible is a fairytale; we deemed it necessary to lay the premise first that the Bible is not a fairytale but an exact and advanced scientific book. This blog was posted before and is reposted here for the purpose.

This letter came from a guy named Alastor, and I want to take this opportunity to answer his inquiries. I am printing the letter as was written.
Dear Bro. Eli,
Would there be any possible that what you teach is wrong? Or what people read is wrong? Because isn’t that the Bible is written by man. And man may commit mistakes. And man being man may have written additional, or omitted the lines in the Bible. Moreover, why should we follow the teachings in the Bible? Isn’t there any other book from GOD and/or by GOD? I am a person asking to be free from worries if what we’re reading the Bible to be the book that will save our souls. I want to know why we should believe in the BIBLE. I want to know why I should invest my soul on a book. And if there is any other GOD given MATERIAL that could save my soul. Please tell me.

What knowledge have man been pushed to live in/with/by the Bible? Because sometimes on the back of my mind (without any CONCRETE basis), it comes to my mind that GOD is good, and for HE is good, HE gave man freedom. (To do as he like, to decide, to… etc) And for that, man will be judged to what he was before judgment day. I believe that there is a SUPREME BEING (GOD) far more greater than of this world. But I am confused. So what, if there is a SUPREME BEING? “Ok, there is a Supreme Being. Now what should I do?” Is there any guideline? Then, it comes to my first paragraph on top. Again, why the Bible? Isn’t there any other guide? I am lost. I am sorry.
Thank You. I believe that somehow you can help me. I hope my presence is not your burden.

Alastor (alastor_trigex@yahoo.com)

Dear Alastor,

Why the Bible? The Bible is the one and only book on earth that carries with it an authority and authentication not coming from any human person, but from somebody whose knowledge is above nature and humans. This person is God. I will ask you some questions and try to answer them carefully and honestly.
·       What is the primitive belief of man regarding the shape of the earth?
(Ref. Reader’s Digest Library of Modern Knowledge book 1 pp. 14)
·       Do you believe that it is not bad to cry?
·       Do you believe that it is good to laugh and be happy?


This belief that the earth is flat was shared even by powerful people up to the middle ages. It was only very recently that we have had physical evidences showing the picture of the earth caught from outer space by the cameras of the series of Apollo spaceships that were sent to the moon. The pictures prove that the earth is round and spherical in shape. This truth is already revealed in the Bible, less than 3000 years before it was seen by man. In the book of Isaiah 40:22 the Bible says -

“It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in…”

And again in Amos -

 (Amos 9:6) “The One who builds His upper chambers in the heavens And has founded His vaulted dome over the earth, He who calls for the waters of the sea And pours them out on the face of the earth, The LORD is His name.” (NASB)

http://www.airspacemag.com/issues/2007/december-january/FEATURE-FirstPhoto.php
The information have been present in the Bible long before man has seen physical evidences with his eyes that the earth is round. This truth cannot come from any human source, but from Someone dictating to prophet Isaiah what to write. Just like the Prophet Daniel, Isaiah may not have known nor have any idea of the physical reality of the truth he was writing, but it was written for us to realize that wisdom contained in the Bible came from a Supernatural Being. 

(Daniel 12:8-10, 4) “And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things? And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end. Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand…”
“…But 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.”

The prophet Daniel wrote these passages, but did not have the slightest idea what a cell phone, a television, or a computer would look like when the fulfillment of the words “Many shall run to and fro and knowledge shall be increased…” come into reality. This further proves that there was someone who has the capacity to see what will happen in the future, dictated Daniel what to write in his book in the Bible. There is no possibility whatsoever that these advanced information, which the Bible calls ‘prophecies’, can come from human mind, but from Someone far more superior than humans in understanding and wisdom.

The Bible is the only book on earth that tells us things that will happen before they happen, many centuries ahead.

(Isaiah 42:9) “Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.”

And the intention of the Almighty God in putting this information in the Bible is for us to believe that the Bible came from Him.

(John 13:19) “Now I tell you before it come, that, when it is come to pass, ye may believe that I am he.”

Not only science, but also medical knowledge that man have learned very lately, and history, can attest to the authenticity of this one and only book.

Again, the Bible tells us that it is good to cry.

(Ecclesiastes 7:2) “It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.”
(James 4:9) “Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.”

Medical findings have proven that what the Bible says is true.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health_medical/article2437469.ece

Equally true is: We must not indulge in too much weariness and crying.
(1 Corinthians 7: 29-30) “But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none; And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not…”

This will mean that we have to laugh also and be merry.
(Proverbs 17:22) “A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.”

There is no contradiction in the preceding verses that I have cited. We have to laugh. We have to cry. It depends upon the situation. It is natural. It is healthy. So, the Bible speaks the truth! Why the Bible? Think of it over and over.
History and archeology also proves the authenticity of the Bible. Findings in archeology have proven so many times that what is recorded in the Bible are actual facts and truth. Roman coins found in Samaria authenticate the records in Matthew 22:17-21.



“And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription? They say unto him, Caesar’s. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s.”

The discovery of the tunnel built by King Hezekiah authenticates the passages written in the book of Kings.

 


(2 Kings 20:20) “And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

The discovery of a limestone with the inscription that bears the name of Pontius Pilate is another proof of the Bible’s authenticity.
 
(John 19:6) “When the chief priests therefore and officers saw him, they cried out, saying, Crucify him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Take ye him, and crucify him: for I find no fault in him.”?

The same account was mentioned in the history of the Roman Empire (Annals 15:44)




 
The Roman historian Tacitus wrote concerning the Great Fire of Rome, in book 15, chapter 44 of his Annals (c. 116): Auctor nominis eius Christus Tibero imperitante per procuratorem Pontium Pilatum supplicio adfectus erat…

Translated in English as:
Christus, the founder of the name, was put to death by Pontius Pilate, procurator of Judea in the reign of Tiberius:

Even in the book of Jewish antiquities, we can find this account:
About this time there lived Jesus, a wise man, if indeed one ought to call him a man. For he was one who performed surprising deeds and was a teacher of such people as accept the truth gladly. He won over many Jews and many of the Greeks. He was the Messiah. And when, upon the accusation of the principal men among us, Pilate had condemned him to a cross, those who had first come to love him did not cease. He appeared to them spending a third day restored to life, for the prophets of God had foretold these things and a thousand other marvels about him. And the tribe of the Christians, so called after him, has still to this day not disappeared.
(Ref: Jewish Antiquities, 18.3.3 §63 written by Flavius Josephus)

I may commit mistakes as men are prone to errors. But what I teach is the truth because it did not come from any man, but from God. The inerrancy of the Bible in the wisdom that it has, and the knowledge that it teaches are glaring evidences proving that they came from God.

Believe in the Bible, and you are not alone. With you are all the smart and intelligent people of the world, the respected, the responsible, the peaceful, and the moral men, and all the presidents of the United States of America.


The claim of our critics that we believe Eve existed 200,000 years ago is stupid! Wait for our answer, God willing.

God Bless.

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Pope Francis: A friend to Atheists, an Enemy of Truth





First, Pope Francis said atheists will go to heaven even without believing in God. In contrast, the Bible says that those who refuse to acknowledge or believe in God are not welcome to heaven!
II THESSALONIANS 1:8-9
8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
9 Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
II THESSALONIANS 2:11-12
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

Now, he declares that Big Bang and Evolution are real, and doesn't contradict the account of creation in Genesis! That is a lie – a blatant lie!
Evolution is absolutely in contradiction with the account in Genesis. The idea that man evolved from primates is contrary to biblical truth.
I CORINTHIANS 15:39
 All 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.

The word 'âdâm translated in the English Bible 'âdâm should be understood not mentioning the person of Adam but the human race or humankind or species. From Strong's Hebrew Dictionary -


'âdâm
aw-dawm'

From H119; ruddy, that is, a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc.): - X another, + hypocrite, + common sort, X low, man (mean, of low degree), person.

The proof is:
GENESIS 1:26
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

"Let them have dominion" would involve mankind or a human species that will dominion. The pronoun "them" refers to the ‘âdâm as the entire human race and not to only one man. Adam, the man, could not himself establish control over fish, fowl, cattle, creeping things upon the earth. That is not the sense of this verse. Man is to have dominion over beasts, implying a higher level of existence of the first over the second.
It must be understood that humankind was made by God after His own image and likeness, thereby rejecting the notion that mankind started from the image of a beast or a primate before becoming a man, like what the highest authority of the Catholic Church is trying to imply. In fact, even before Pope Francis started his babel about accepting evolution, Pope John Paul II came ahead.
When St. John Paul II addressed the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in 1996 he took it one step further, saying evolution is “more than a hypothesis,” and accepting the evolution of the human body.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2014/10/28/pope_evolution_francis_statement_on_science_echoes_earlier_church_pronouncements.html

This belief of the Popes is a gargantuan lie according to the Bible! The human body since its creation did not evolve to be another form of being as the definition of the word "evolution" implies.
ev·o·lu·tion
(plural ev·o·lu·tions)
Noun

Biology theory of development from earlier forms: the theoretical process by which all species develop from earlier forms of life. According to this theory, natural variation in the genetic material of a population favors reproduction by some individuals more than others, so that over the generations all members of the population come to possess the favorable traits.

The Bible declares that when the human body was made, it was made directly out of the dust of the ground.
GENESIS 2:7
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Notice that man was made with nostrils wherein the breath of life was introduced by God, implying that since its creation, man has nose, nostrils, the nasal cavity, the trachea, where air passes to the lungs. Many millennia have passed and yet we have the same bodily constitution! Was there any evolution that intervened? It's silly to think that man’s body has changed!
The present Pope declared - 
God created beings and let them develop in accordance with the internal laws that He has given to each one, so that they could arrive at their fulfillment.
http://www.cnet.com/news/pope-says-evolution-doesnt-mean-theres-no-god/
This is blatantly unbiblical and erroneous! If we have to accept this perverted idea of the Pope, it will mean that our present condition as humans, as "fulfilled,” is a product of evolution and not as an image of the Creator that is present in the human since he was created!
Man was created upright at the time of his creation. He did not have to change biologically from unfavorable to favorable.
ECCLESIASTES 7:29
Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

His condition is "very good" immediately after creation and doesn't need evolution to be fulfilled!
GENESIS 1:31
And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

In this narrative of creation where will evolution take place? It's imaginary to think it can. It is stupidity!  It is delusion!
Take note that after creation God brought unto Adam animals to be named under his dominion.
GENESIS 2:19
And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.

For this task to be accomplished it needs perfect intellect and understanding which Adam had at the time he was created. Adam will not call a tiger as "liger" or a lion as "tigon.”  A clear mind and a good memory was in the being of Adam, otherwise, he might be calling a lion, "lion" this day, and tomorrow or some days after, he would call it "elephant"!
Adam had a perfect understanding and awareness about his being because he was made in the likeness of God. Not having the opportunity to see actually the reality in his being, he knew that he had flesh and bones, which is impossible for an ape to understand!
GENESIS 2:23
And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

Why? Because he was informed by his Creator and he believed in it. Adam was not an atheist!
Humans have been given dominion over animals because they did not come from animals!
JAMES 3:7
For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:

This dominion is God-given and not the product of evolution. The Bible correctly and scientifically uses the term "species" or "kind" to separate humanity from the animal kingdom.

GENESIS 1:20-25
20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and everything that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

From Strong's #4327 -


mı̂yn
meen
From an unused root meaning to portion out; a sort, that is, species: - kind.
If humanity or the human species evolved from animals, it will contradict the truth that in the beginning God created only one man!
MALACHI 2:15
 And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

I CORINTHIANS 15:45
 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.

If evolution were true, there should be many men and many women at the start of the human race. If evolution were true, it will contradict the very recent findings in science about the Mitochondrial DNA which gives us the assurance of the Biblical truth that all men descended from only one woman.

GENESIS 3:20
 And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.


And if evolution were true, won’t it mean that of all the apes existing before the start of the human race, only one ape succeeded to be a man and only one ape evolved to be a woman to allow the scientific findings about mitochondrial DNA?
Part of the guesses of the theory of evolution which the Pope believes is the following:
..."As many more individuals of each species are born than can possibly survive; and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it follows that any being, if it vary however slightly in any manner profitable to itself, under the complex and sometimes varying conditions of life, will have a better chance of surviving, and thus be naturally selected. From the strong principle of inheritance, any selected variety will tend to propagate its new and modified form."...

[Ref: Darwin, Charles (1859), On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, (London: John Murray) 5 (121): 502]

We will wait for the answers of the Pope and his fans club, the atheists.
The foolish idea of evolution as believed by its proponents is random. Can atheists give us the percentage of the random possibility of the success of producing only one woman and only one man from all the apes that exist before the start of the human species?
The possibility of an asteroid hitting with damaging impact on earth is one every 100,000 years. The possibility of being hit by a lightning is one in 3,000,000 people. The possibility of being struck by a falling meteorite is one occurrence every 9,300 years... The possibility of an earth-like planet is one in one thousand quintillion quintillion quintillion quintillion quintillion quintillion quintillion... The possibility of a man in our time reaching the age of 120 and above is one among 2 billion.
If we talk about the probability that a planet capable of sustaining life might exist somewhere in the universe, according to research, computing is not yet anything like an exact science. There is enough information though that the probablity is extremely low. Below is Dr. Hugh Ross’ (1998) “Estimate on the Probability of Attaining the Necessary Parameters for Life support.” (Ref: Design Evidences in the Cosmos, www. reasons.org).   Ross is an astrophysicist.





If evolution were true, is the possibility of evolving from an ape, only one man against all the apes that existed? 







The reality is that evolution is not "planned!" And no one is in control.
Here’s an excerpt on “Whale Evolution” written by Tom Mueller for National Geographic, November 2014.
The common ancestor of whales and of all other land animals was a flat headed, salamander-shaped tetrapod that hauled itself out of the sea onto some muddy bank about 360 million years ago. Its descendants gradually improved the function of their primitive lungs, morphed their lobe fins into legs, and jury-rigged their jaw joints to hear in the air instead of water. Mammals turned out to be among the most successful of these land lovers; by 60 million years ago they dominated the Earth. Whales were among a tiny handful of mammals to make an evolutionary U-turn, retrofitting their terrestrial body plan to sense, eat, move, and mate underwater.(Ref: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/08/whale-evolution/mueller-text/3)
According to atheists, evolution happened because of intervening circumstances in the natural world. For example, as discussed above, the ancestor of the whale was a four-footed animal like a salamander that hauled itself out of the sea. As it evolved, it improved its lungs and turned its fins into legs. As mammal from the sea it became land-oriented.
And many more similar stories.

Richard Dawkins in his book, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (2010) wrote,  “I must go back to the sea again.”  This hints on the atheists’ idea that land animals have evolved from fish.


How laughable!
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