Creation of our Universe, Bible Credibility, Fulfilled Prophecy, Different Religions, Evolution, Genesis Flood, Anthropic Principle, Sylvia Browne, Evil Entities, Seances, Ectoplasm, Demon Possession
a. The latest scientific theory of creation was developed using String Theory and calculates the universe was 10 dimensional for the first fraction of a second and then split into 6 invisible dimensions and our 4 perceptible dimensions of length, width, height, and time. The 6 other dimensions remain curled up everywhere at every location within our 4 dimensions. See Section Five-1
b. Interesting article on atheism
a. The Garden of Eden was a real place in southern Mesopotamia, present day Iraq. As descibed in the book Historical Genesis by Richard Fischer, we (modern humans) are not all descended from Adam and Eve. We are not all descended from Naoh. Most of our earliest ancestors are from the Genesis 1:26-30 time, see "Modern Humans" below. Adam and Eve were a special creation much later, aprox 5,000 b.c. Adam is the father of the Adamites-Semites-Israelites-Jewish races. Adam and Eve and their early descendants had long life spans because they were a special creation. Then as they left the Garden of Eden they encountered Modern Humans, who had already established settlements, and as they married Modern Human women (who had much shorter life spans) their life spans decreased.
b. Modern Humans. A recent Y chromosome study based on studying the mutation rate and projecting back in time to the pure unmutated Y chromosome, came up with 50,000 years ago for the time Modern Humans migrated out of Africa. Their techniques are in their infancy and a more precise date will come sometime in the near future (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 97, 2000: 7354-7365). This will take mitochondral DNA and Y-Chromosome studies that go back thousands of years with large enough numbers of individuals and different locations and ethnic groups. The current evidence for human origins places it somewhere near northeastern Africa, which could include any region near the juncture of Asia, Europe and Africa.
UPDATE 3-20-2008 on Modern Human origins
CHRONOLOG OF THE GENESIS CREATION EVENTS:
a. Creation of the physical universe (space, time, matter, energy, galaxies, stars, planets, sun, moon, etc.) Gen 1:1.
The Earths first life has been found in marine rocks. Dr. Hugh Ross believes this was during Genesis 1:2, when the Spirit of God hovered over the waters. The Earth was initially completely covered by water.
b. Transformation of the earth's atmosphere from opaque to translucent. Gen 1:3. In the 1990's planetary astronomers confirmed that Earth's primordial atmosphere was indeed initially opaque. Then after a Mars sized planet and asteroid collisions into Earth,the atmosphere became translucent.
c. Formation of a stable water cycle. Gen 1:7
d. Establishment of continent(s) and ocean(s). Gen 1:9
e. Production of plants on the continent(s). Gen 1:11
f. Transformation of the atmosphere from translucent to transparent Gen 1:14
g. Production of small sea animals. Gen 1:20
h. Creation of sea mammals. Gen 1:21
i. Creation of birds, perhaps simultaneously with #h Gen 1:20-21
j. Making of land mammels (Genesis 1:24 "creeping things" Hebrew-"remes" refers to short legged mammels,
k. Creation of mankind. Gen 1:27 not insects. Insects are not mentioned at all in the creation account)
l. God rested. Gen 2:2 The fossil record reveals a turnaround in speciation with the appearance of humans. Before humans, new species came at the rate of about one per year. After humans appeared, none. In natural habitats undisturbed by human activity, biologists have yet to observe the production of even one distinctly new (physiologically incapable of interbreeding) animal species. Meanwhile extinctions continue.
The odds Moses could have guessed the correct order, even if he were given the events, amount to only one chance in 40 million. He also stated the initial conditions correctly and gave an accurate description of each event. For more details read The Genesis Question, by Dr. Hugh Ross. Please try to understand this!!!
I can' let my wife and family get killed over this, I can just pretend to worship the Roman emperor". Maby they were eye-witnesses to a great event, like the resurrection of Christ. Maby their life was transformed. See Sec.3-5
By the way, long life spans as recorded in Genesis, have also been found in Sumerian and Akkadian genealogies.
CREATION, ASTRONOMY, EARTH SCIENCE, MEDICINE in Non-Biblical Sources
a. Buddhism and Hinduism both teach that the creation of the universe is cyclical, happening over and over again.
This was proven wrong since science has proven time had a beginning about 14 billion years ago and that this present universe began when time began. Also science has proven recently that the universe is expanding at an increasing rate and will never collapse back in again (high entropy, protron/neutron ratio, not enough energy to rebound, verifications of dark energy). Since the source for the reincarnating universe has been proven wrong, their teaching about the reincarnation of people isn't very impressive. A few people having memories that don't belong to them isn't reason to jump to the conclusion that reincarnation is correct, it's probably just a certain kind of spirit manifestation.
Hinduism teaches that the moon is 50,000 leagues farther away from earth than the sun. Night is when the sun passes behind a huge mountain. That we are in a seven layered universe. The earth rests on four elephants on a turtle that is swimming in a sea of milk.
Buddhism closely parallels Hindu ideas. Also, Buddhism teaches that the sun was crystal on the outside with a gold interior.
That the moon is made of silver and jewels. Eclipses are caused by a evil being swallowing the sun and moon, but given back on the order of the Buddha.
b. Islam's Koran-36:40 "It is not permitted to the sun to catch up the moon." 37:6 "We have indeed decked the lower heaven with beauty in the stars and to guard against obstinate rebellious evil spirits" 67:3 "He who created the seven heavens one above another..... and We have adorned the lowest heaven with lamps." In other words, Muhammed thought that the sun and moon were in the same orbit (same distance from the earth) and that the stars were closer to the earth than the sun, planets. Thought the earth was flat and at the center of the universe and stars were lamps. Some other mistakes in the Koran (Quran): It speaks highly of Jews and Christians in it's Meccan verses but condemns them in it's Median verses (this came after they rejected Muhammed as a prophet). It teaches that Allah can change his mind and that Allah won't change his mind. Mountains were created to keep the earth steady and prevent earthquakes, with all the people running around on the flat earth we needed mountains to keep it from tilting over. Meteorites are from when Allah throws rocks at demons. The human fetus starts as a clod of mud. Pregnancy lasts 6 months. Semen comes from the liver. The sun sets in a muddy slimy spring (Sura 18:86). Thunder is an angel like Gabriel and lightning is another angel. Genetic inheiritance comes from the mother's milk. Adam was 90 feet tall, Eve isn't mentioned at all. Confuses Mary the mother of Jesus with Miriam the sister of Moses and Miriam the daughter of Amram.
c. From the Koran, Sura 10:94-"If you are in doubt as to what we have revealed unto you, then ask those who have been reading the Book from before thee." The "Book" Muhammed was referring to is the Bible, the Christian Holy Book. Muhammed wrote this in the seventh century. We have records proving our current Bible hasn't been altered older than that. So it is ignorant for a Muslim to say our current Bible has been corrupted. If it was good enough for Muhammed, it is good enough for a modern day Muslim. (Thanks to www.emircaner.com)
d. Egyption scholars thought the sky was held in place by four mountains, that stars were deities or hung by cables, and the sun was riding in a boat on a river.
e. Confucius and the Chinese thought eclipses were when the sun was being eaten and that you should beat on drums to get the sun back. People were scared by eclipses, but Jeremiah 10:2 declares-"And do not be terrified by the signs in the heavens although the nations are terrified by them; For the customs of the peoples are delusion".
f. Up until the 1600's a.d. scholars said stones could not fall from the sky. Joshua 10:11 states stones did fall from the sky and today of course we know of meteorites, stones from volcanic eruptions and hailstones.
G. Keep in mind that the Bible was written at the same time as other religions or before and that it avoided the embarrassing
errors. The Bible did not teach an incorrect understanding of the sun and moon, did not deify the natural universe, didn't teach a flat earth, mix in astrology, count the stars, say the universe was eternal, say the earth was at the center, or teach the use of magic and omens. How did that happen?
Job 26:7-"He stretches out the north over empty space, And hangs the earth on nothing." Genesis 1:8-17 talks about an "expanse of the heavens". The Hebrew word for expanse is ragia, whose root meaning is the "spreading out" of the material under discussion. (See also Isa.40:22, Ps.104:2, Zech.12:1, Jer.31:37). Modern science thinks the universe is expanding, space can be said to be "spreading out".
It wasn't until 1865 a.d. that science came up with the first and second laws of thermodynamics and thought that the universe could not be eternal. Romans 8:20-21-"For the creation was subject to futility, not of its own will, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God." Matthew 24:35-"Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words shall not pass away".
Psalm 147:4-"He counts the number of the stars". Jeremiah 33:22-"As the host of heaven cannot be measured, and the sand of the sea cannot be measured...". Attempts to number the stars were being carried out as late as 1932. Modern science indicates that while there are more stars than man can count, there is not an infinite number of them. Once again the Bible nailed it!
So how did the Bible avoid these embarrassing errors? I'll tell you how. The Bible is inspired by God but the other sources are not, they are man-made nonsense, human error.
Job 38:16 -"Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?". Knowledge of the oceanic depths was almost non-existent before the modern era. The Bible stated it thousands of years before modern science verified it.The Bible talks about paths or currents in the oceans. Isaiah 43:16-"Thus says the Lord, Who makes a way through the sea And a path through the mighty waters".Job 38 talks about a way for the thunderbolt. Not until the 1900's did scientists discover that lightning follows a channel of charged particles.
Back when Egypt ruled the world only 30 percent of children survived to adulthood, the average life span in Egypt was 30 years. Egyptian doctors prescribed things like worms blood, asses dung, eating skinned baby mice.
Babylonian doctors prescribed swine's fat, dog's dung, urine, gall of scorpion, head of stork, human waste. Doctors diagnosed their patients using rituals, omens (such as the behavior of a falcon) and astrology. Divination by analyzing a sheeps liver was popular. Astrology has been described as the greatest obstacle to medical progress in antiquity. The use of amulets, incantations or conjurations were popular. One method found on a clay tablet was to lay a baby pig against the patient's head, tear out its heart and place it against the patient's head, smear the pigs blood on the sides of the bed, then cut up the pig and spread the pieces over the patient.
Hinduism ascribed all disease to supernatural demonic powers that enter the body. For example, these demons would take the form of worms and cause headaches. Demons would attack a person due to that person's bad karma from a previous life. The Hindu scriptures recommend dogs saliva, slime from teeth, spittle, and rotten fish in the belief that it would disgust the demon and cause it to leave. Buddhism doesn't say much about curing people, since it looks upon the human body as a hindurance having no value.
No prescriptions of any value are found in Taoist, Zoroastrian, Shinto writings either. The use of charms and talismans was popular.
Lets contrast all that with what was written in the Bible during the same time period. No absurd prescriptions are found. No divinations, astrology, magic or attributing all disease to demons. A medical historian wrote that the Bible was "surprisingly rational". The Bible did give strict sanitation laws, which stopped the spreading of disease. Proper sanitation stops diseases such as dysentary, cholera and typoid fever. Washing in running water, the process of quarantine and commands for the disposal of wastes are prescribed in the books of Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. Not until the 1800's was the importance of handwashing in running water realized. Numbers 19:18 prescribes the use of hyssop. Hyssop recently has been found to contain carvacrol, which is an antifungal and antibacterial agent.
About 2000 years after the Bible gave instructions on the use of quarantine, the scientific theory of contagious disease was finally given. Millions of people died of leprosy, the black plague, and syphilis. It was estimated that 60 million people died of the plague in Europe in just one century alone.
Biblical food laws were also given, such as not to eat already dead animals. A scientist wrote-"We know that carcasses may harbour fleas, ticks, lice; all of which are carriors of deadly diseases such as bubonic plague, spotted fever, or typhoid fever."
Biblical sex laws were given, which stop the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. Egyption, Babylonian, Hinduism, Shintoism, Muslim, Greek, nor Roman cultures gave no such restrictions and were ignorant as to the causes of certain diseases. For example, the prescribed cure for gonorrhea was to not eat peas, or to use a mercury salve, or be placed inside a large stove.Buddhism recommends total abstinence, but of course that would eliminate the human race.
In conclusion, How could one ancient book be accurate about creation of the universe, astronomy, earth science, and the medical arts but all the other writings from the same time period be full of embarassing errors? For more info on the above I recommend the book, Why the Bible Is Number 1 by Barfield.
and Scientific Errors in the Quran.
The source of unexplained ufo's is from a source beyond our physical universe. We believe they are a spiritual manifestation and are perpetrated by fallen angels. They probably get a big kick out of it, like a bunch of juvenile delinquents. People always say, ";With all these billions of stars there has to be life elsewhere". But these billions of stars were actually necessary for heavy elements to exist on our planet. It's not a waste. We suspect our Creator was more concerned about us than about hydrogen gas (what stars are made of). If
they do ever find life on Mars, it came from here, from asteroid impacts that shot chunks of Earth into space.
a. They leave no artifacts, even after crashing. They generate no sonic booms. They hover above trees without any movement of air disturbing the leaves. They change shape, size, and color at random. They always succeed in evasive action. They have physically injured and even killed people from an undentifiable physical cause. There can be like four people looking at the same spot in the sky and only one or two will see the ufo.
b. The source behind them prefers lonely roads in the middle of the night, is non-physical,powerful, deceptive, recorded throughout human history, likes to cause psychological and physical harm, selectively approaches people involved in occultic or New Age activities.
c. There is no evidence of a huge conspiracy or governmental cover-up.
d. They like to keep pace with human technology and science fiction. For example, ufo reports from 1896 described them as cigar shaped lighter than air machines driven by motors with propellars. The aliens used to claim they were from the moon, then Venus, then Mars, then Saturn, then nearby star systems. In modern ufo reports the aliens claim to be from another dimension.
The human brain, unlike that of chimpanzees or any other species, possesses structures that sustain spiritual activity, meditation, analysis, mathematics, logic, complex language and communication. Gene expression patterns responsible for these structures are unique to humans.
A cultural explosion has been discovered to have happened about 40,000 to 50,000 years ago. Sophisticated tools, axes,
hammers, harpoons, shovels, clothing, jewelry, advanced art, musical instruments, and evidence for complex language, religious ceremonies and practices has been found.
Seashells are found at high elevations because of plate tectonics. What is high now used to be submerged. The earth is billions of years old. (Young Earther's, there is no getting around the light travel time, those stars are billions of light years away, we can see their light, the speed of light hasn't changed.) See section five.
a. The value of space energy density could not have varied by more than one part in 10 to the 120th power.
b. The ratio of the gravitational force constant to the electromagnetic force constant cannot differ from it's value by more than one part in 10 to the 40th power.
c. The odds that any other given planet in the universe would possess the necessary conditions to support
intelligent physical life is now 1 in 10 to the 173rd power.
d. If the age of our sun, our distance from our sun, inclination and eccentricity of our orbit around the sun, our earth's rotation period/axial tilt/age/magnetic field/thickness of it's crust/oxygen to nitrogen ratio/carbon dioxide level/ozone level/soil mineralization, and Jupiter's mass and distance; were not just right, we'd all be dead.
d. We could go on, there are about 200 reasons like those above.
Sylvia Browne is a regular guest on the Montel Williams Show. Check out her fingernails and the way she laughs.
Concerning John Edward, isn't it alittle suspicious that for example a grieving daughter is there to find out about her mother, and all the mother has to say is basically, "I'm o.k., I'm still playing cards, bye";. We are told that the deceased is always watching over us, you would think that they would want to stay more than a few seconds to
answer questions before "pulling their energy back".
Didn't Nostradamus correctly predict Hitler? No, he wrote Ister, which the majority of interpreters admit refers clearly to a European river called the Ister River, a tributary of the Danube. An investigation of over 100 specific prophecies of Nostradamus found none to have come true.
But psychics do occasionally get some personal information right (not counting cases of fraud) that couldn't just be a lucky guess. Most psychics, mediums, guru's, etc. do admit that they would be powerless if they didn't have help from their "spirit guides";. Sylvia Browne uses a spirit guide named Francine.
b. This brings up the subject of demons and what the Bible calls "familiar spirits" (a spirit that knew some things about the deceased). Genesis 6:4, "The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came into the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown." Enoch 15:8, "And now, the giants, who are produced from the spirits and flesh, shall be called evil spirits upon the earth, and on the earth shall be their dwelling..." This is speculation on my part and probably wrong but these verses could be referring to a very peculiar race of man that mated with Adamic women. When these hybrids died they had a different type of death existence. They are still invisibly here on earth. Their spirit quality gives them the ability to enter into willing people through the person's spirit and on into the person's mind. These "evil spirits", (i.e.demons) seem to still have some mental ability of their own once they get hooked up with a brain. This is the source of channeling, spirit guides, familiar spirits, haunted houses, occult doctrine such as reincarnation,etc. We suspect these evil spirits have access to and help from fallen angels.
Leviticus 19:31, "Do not turn to mediums or spiritists; do not seek them out to be defiled by them. I am the Lord your God."
She said Saddam Hussein will be dead before his trial, Saddam's trial has been going on for many month's now and he's still alive. She said Michael Jackson will be convicted at his child molestation trial and be put in jail, he was found not guilty and released. She said the tsunami death count will hit 417,000 (this was after the tsunami, which she didn't see coming), it's closer to 200,000. She said on the Coast radio show that John Kerry would win the U.S. presidential election and on Montel she said Bush would win.
exerpts from Out of Darkness by Ben Alexander p.38 "When I turned on the light we could see the ectoplasm pouring out of Jeff. It then shrank back so fast it sounded like a shotgun. It looked like a huge piece of elastic flying back into Jeff's stomach. Jeff screamed and fell from the chair, landing face down on the floor. Quickly we turned the lights on and found Jeff lying in a pool of water....p.41 Behind me was a mummy..it seemed ridiculous. I was seeing these things but I could not believe them. Many people say to me, 'Ben, I believe you, but you were probably hypnotized'. I was not hypnotized. We were allowed to take photographs of these things at certain times..no, they were real! p.119 Demons are real personalities; they are agents of satan sent out on a specific mission to destroy men."
exerpts from I Talked to Spirits by Victor H. Ernest p.32 "When the trumpet returned for my third and last question, I reviewed what the spirit had said. 'O spirit, you believe that Jesus is the Son of God, that He is the Savior of the world- Do you believe that Jesus died on the cross and shed his blood for the remmision of sin?' The medium, deep in a trance, was catapulted off his chair. He fell in the middle of the living room floor and lay groaning as if in deep pain. The turbulent sounds suggested spirits in a carnival of confusion. p.37 Apparently these familiar spirits accompany a person throughout life, becoming so well acquainted that they can convincingly imitate the dead persons mannerisms and knowledge of personal details...p.38 The spirits I encountered at seances were, for the most part, very moralistic..p.44 But these good and bad spirits serve the same master, satan, and serve him well, because they each give their followers what satan dispenses: A sence of goodness and of guidance without dependence on Christ; and a sense of power and self-fulfillment in defiance of God's commands...p.68 My experiences in seances taught me that satan is masterful in counterfeiting the one true and Holy God. In his frequent role as an "angel of light",satan is ingeniously active in promoting ethical and humane projects- whose final culmination is chaos and rottenness."
Kurt Koch in his book Occult ABC p.49-"Psychiatrists declare that Jesus and His disciples were children of their own age. They did not know any better. What they regarded as demon possession was in reality mental illness. I have heard this argument so often that I am weary of it. It is easy to refute...The reactions of mentally ill persons and those who are demon possessed are different...Here I mention only three of the chief ones: Attacks of madness which only occur when spiritual councel is offered...The trance. If one tries to pray with people..they go straight into a trance....Speaking in unknown languages..A person who is mentally ill does not suddenly speak foreign languages which he has not learned...
Demons do not react in these ways to nominal Christians."