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  1. Yes, my brother, you are right. I should have been more careful with wording. What I meant was that if a coin were to actually hang in the air for real, without any magicians or anything of that nature involved. In that case we would deal with something that cannot happen in this world, that overrides the laws of nature. But overriding laws of nature is one thing. Any Devine Gift is Holy and Precious, and in my foolishness I spoke about it in such a way, I repent! What I meant was that the idea of a cell originating due to natural processes and similar ideas are just as realistic as a coin hanging in the air. But I need to choose my words carefully and repent! PRAISE THE LORD!!!!!!!!!!!!
  2. Gonna add something here. Just a little testemony. I have been actively thinking about these subjects. Walking around and thinking. Reason - just doing anything I possibly can to please and to worship THE LORD!!!!!!! In the process of thinking about disproving abiogenesis THE LORD!!!!!!! blessed me with understanding of many things that I want to testify about in detail. Something all of us should know is that there is so many wonderful miraculous beauty around us. That beauty testefies about miracles of Creation. If we believe and pray and do everything we can to find GOD!!!!!!!!!!! then we are going to see that beauty.
  3. By the time pharaohs heart was hardened 2 things happened: 1) Hebrews have been enslaved for 430 years. And there was no single thought in pharaohs heart to free them and give them equal rights. Instead he 2) arranged that they would kill their own children. If not for Miraculous Intervention, they would have been tortured like that indefinitely. By The Great Mercy from Above pharaoh got way less than he deserved. Psalm 69: 26-27
  4. One thing we should remember, brothers and sisters is that GOD!!!!!!! is in absolute control of everything!!!! Even if some people tried to plan something, it is because GOD!!!!!!! created those thoughts/plans in their head. Just like David said in Psalms 69:27. And there are countless number of other examples that absolutely everything in our life, including our thoughts is under total and absolute control by GOD!!!!!!!!! You say people might have tried to plan WW2? But how would they plan making sure that nuclear weapons don't get into nazi hands? How would they plan that in 19th century if they had no idea what those weapons were? That's just one example out of the great multitude of examples that demonstrate that there is absolutely nothing that people could change or influence. What we all must do is pray, repent marvel and believe!!!!
  5. Obvious reasons such as "science" being flawed and biased and overwhelming evidence to back that up.
  6. How about this? http://www.shroud.com/latebrak.htm#debunk
  7. I wanted to write about this for a long time. For some reason I can't seem to find the right words. Yet I believe that this is something important that we all should focus on. And in order not to be guilty of not handing my money to exchangers in due time, I want to hurry and invite everyone to work on the subject that I am about to talk about. I am not a scientist, I just try my best to think rationally. How do you define a miracle? It is something that cannot happen naturally. It is something, therefore, that has a chance of occurrence equal to zero. For example, if we have a standard/regular/usual coin, and we toss it, what are the chances of heads/tails? Both 50 percent. What are the chances of the coin never reaching the ground and just hanging in the air indefinitely after it leaves our hand? Assuming there are no magnets/hidden strings/anything else that could keep it hanging? Assuming there is nothing like that and the situation is "plain", the chances are zero. Therefore, if we were to witness a coin hanging in the air in a situation like that we would say that it is a miracle. That is just an abstract example. Let's look at the world around us: Organic world: 4 levels of life: 1) Organic materials: molecules and materials that living organisms are made of. 2) Cells: single cell organisms and single cells within multi-cell organisms. 3) Multi-cell organisms 4) Species/communities/etc. Now, let's think of the way things are connected and the way things are moving in the world around us in general: 1) The way things are connected: Observations: A) 4 fields, strong and weak forces in particular are connecting everything around us in non-organic, artificially untouched part of the world, as well as in the organic world. B) Things can be in 3 states: solid liquid and gas. Solids can preserve stability well, but are almost incapable of change. Liquids and gasses can change pretty well, but are incapable of preserving stability. When a thing is a solid then all its parts are stationary with respect to each other. That is why stability is preserved. With liquids and gasses it is the opposite. C) Even liquids and gasses experience strong/weak forces that cause them to gather together in groups/chunks that tend to be spherical in shape with smooth surface. Another way to phrase that would be that liquids and gasses gather in spheres that become single objects. The way things move: Fundamentally, in terms of Newton's laws, absence of an imbalanced force means absence of acceleration, which implies either staying at rest or moving in a straight line with a constant speed. When an imbalanced force is acting on something then that something is moving in the direction of the imbalanced force. It is moving exactly in the direction of the imbalanced force. What does the above imply? There is a short, one word answer: limits. Limits in terms of what kind of objects can be formed naturally. Consider the following example: you are on an uninhibited island. U walk on the beach and find: a watch, a pencil, a pen, and a brick. Is it possible that they formed naturally? Why or why not? Think in terms of what you know about the world around you. Think in terms of Newton's laws. Think in terms of how things stick together when they are liquids/solids/gasses. Consider the following points: - in nature when things separate that is because they are either broken, torn, or are liquid/gaseous, or become liquid/gaseous because of heating up. - Newton's laws describing simple objects also apply to movements of complex groups/processes. If a balanced system/group of things is moving in some way it is going to keep moving that way(or stay at rest) until some force puts it out of balance. When looking at a brick, think of the way clay is found in nature. Even if there is a fire that turns clay matter into "brick matter" how would a brick get its shape and separate from the rest of the clay? Remember, clay is found as one large "whole piece". Same argument could be applied to a pencil. In case with pencil we would also need to explain how graphite got inside the wood, how it obtained its perfect circular shape and how the ideal fit happened. Same arguments for our pen. In this case we will also need to explain how the ball is installed inside the pen and how it is able to move freely. Imagine liquid metal. When it solidifies it is usually one large piece, just like clay. It is one large piece or many disjoint pieces. There is never a possibility of finding any likeness of pen/ball combination in nature. Same argument could be applied to a watch. We don't need to be scientists to know that none of those things could ever, under any circumstances form naturally. If we look at living organisms what are we going to notice? A)Cells: Let's go to cells. Single or multi cell organisms - all cells. What do cells have? All cells have: 1) a wall - a solid cover, filled with, 2) correct me if I'm wrong, some special liquid - regular water would not do, and 3) nucleus with nerves connected to it, that 4)sends and receives electrical signals from other parts of the cell through these nerves. Am I right? Now, let's look at all non-organic matter that has not been artificially processed. What do we see? Everything in nature, rocks, sand, clay, water, air, and everything? In non-organic nature: 1) Do we ever see liquid inside a flexible container? 2) distinct "non-melted together" complex parts. Nerves and cell walls, and other parts of cells. Many of those parts are mobile too! B) Living beings. All living beings that are mobile are by far more complex than a pen, a pencil, a watch or a brick. They have a great multitude of organs that are shaped and connected together in a way that has never been observed in non-organic world. What I'm trying to say is that based on Newton's laws and on what we know about how things stick together due to 4 fundamental forces, and on other fundamental things like that we could develop axioms/theorems that could prove that abiogenesis is not just highly improbable, but completely impossible!
  8. The day of summer That was going to be the name of a new post that I initially wanted to start in the "testimonies" section. Then I realized that I just need to continue here; it fits here logically. Yes, the day of summer. That is what I call that day in my diaries. Here is why: That was sometime in May, so it was getting close to the summer. And I think it was one of the first days with summer temperature. But that is not why that day got imprinted in my memory as "the day of summer". Praise THE LORD!!!!!!!!!!!! Forever!!!!!!!!!!!! Again, I was on the same stop where I took the pictures that I posted in the very beginning of this post. That is a very big bus stop actually. It has many areas that are connected with overpasses. I was taking pictures of a bus again. And when I was taking those pictures I heard a girl laughing. I didn't look at her, I just sort of saw her with my peripheral vision. She was probably a teenager and laughing about something with another teenage girl. And the way our mind works sometimes is when we hear someone laughing we automatically assume that it might have something to do with us. And also, sometimes when we are destructed, the way our mind works is it runs different random thoughts "on autopilot". Like it starts a particular thought, which could be a little story - a little sequence of events, and it runs it further and further. Example: You are walking on the street and you see a door. You imagine that you enter that door. You imagine what kind of room it leads to. You imagine that someone you know will meet and greet you there. In reality the door leads to something totally different than the room you imagined. And the person you imagined meeting and greeting there has nothing to do with that place, and then you find yourself wondering why you ever thought of that. That is an example of what I mean. So, my thoughts produced "an autopilot story" as a result of the events that happened to me on the stop. And here is the story: I imagined passing by a girl that was laughing, assuming that she was laughing at me. I imagined the girl I saw in my peripheral vision. And then I remembered what my dad taught me long time ago, when I was concerned about school bullies. He taught me that if I feel insecure, and think that someone might be looking at me, or if I see someone laughing and I think they might be laughing at me, to just look them in the eyes with confidence. That should cause them to look away. So, that was added to the story my mind was playing. In my imagination after I saw the girl laughing I not only stared her straight in the eyes but did that in a mean and threatening way. I think, i even did some gestures like "what do u want?" kind of gestures with my hands. After that an imaginary guy, her companion, confronted me about that and asked why I was acting that way. Again, that is a story produced by my imagination "on autopilot". I replied to the imaginary guy, who was standing up for the imaginary girl, something like "my dad taught me to confront those who laugh at me that way". All of that took me about 10 seconds. During those 10 seconds I was walking through the bus stop and going up the stairs to one of the overpasses. Now, the real girl probably did not even notice me and her laughter had nothing to do with me. And even if I suspected that she was laughing at me, I wouldn't stare at her in a mean way, or anything like that, in reality. I would just smile and mind my own business. That is what a reasonable adult is supposed to do. But that is the story that my mind produced. And here is what happened next, 20 or so seconds later. I got up to the overpass and started crossing it. On the other side a guy entered the overpass and started walking in my direction. That guy looked homeless. And the next thing that happened was: the guy looked me in the eyes and started making faces. Yes, he started making faces! How often does that happen? And then I noticed a girl who was walking in the same direction as I was, which is towards the guy. I was walking pretty slow, and she passed me. That was when the guy was also passing me, walking towards me in the opposite direction. I was walking close to the windows and so was he. The girl passed between us. And the girl was from the same region of the world as the girl that I described before that, the one that was laughing. And the guy, after making faces to me switched to the girl. He looked her in the eyes and started sort of growling, like exposed his teeth, just as she was passing him. And he was sort of making gestures with his arms too. And he looked mean and angry. The girl tried to avoid eye contact with him and started walking faster, like she almost ran. After that the guy went his way, I went my way, the girl hurried to get on the bus - basically all of us went our way. Had that lasted longer, I would need to intervene in some way and defend the girl and restrain the guy in some way until emergency services would arrive - wouldn't that be a sin if I didn't? But thankfully, we all went our way peacefully. And that is the short version of the events. If someone asks, I could expand and do my best to tell the story in a full, detailed way. So, to sum up, I randomly thought of a very unlikely scenario, like how often do u see an adult making faces to strangers? Oh, I have to add one thing: before the guy started making faces to me and to the girl I sort of stared at him. Not even stared, but more like looked at him in an investigative way. The reason I did that was because I mistook him for someone else. Someone that had to do with one very sad and awful sinful story. But that story was not in any way related to these events. So, the guy started acting the way he did as a result of being stared at, initially by me and then probably by the girl. I dont know if she looked at him too, but she probably did because his initial reaction to my supposed staring probably attracted her attention. So, again: I'm thinking of a very unlikely scenario, a situation that happens very rarely - and the next thing I know is it happens right in front of me! A situation that I actually saw for the first time in my life. And one of the participants - the girl - was from the same cultural background as the girl that took part in my imaginary story. Again, how often do scenes like that happen? Once in a lifetime on average? Less frequently? How often do you see, if ever, scenes like that? Yet in that situation it happened some 25 metres and not even a minute after the thought randomly "played" in my head! And now I need to explain why I called that day "the day of summer": I have been listening to The Bible. The Chapter was Luke 4. I listened to it several times. This Chapter points to another Chapter in The Bible - ISAIAH 61. The first 3 blessed verses of this blessed Chapter! There were many miraculous events in my life associated with those 3 blessed verses! And there is a beautiful song associated with them too! In the song the first 3 verses are being sang in Hebrew up to the words "spirit of despair". That has been my favorite song since January 25th 2015 - the first miracle I saw that was associated with these verses, with the song that is! Why the day of summer: The version of The Bible that I listen to is the Russian Synodal Version. It translates ISAIAH 61:2 which is also Luke 4:19 in a unique way. I didn't find any other versions with such translation. It translates שְׁנַת רָצוֹן֙ as "favourable summer". I'm only a beginner when it comes to studying Hebrew, even though I've been trying for 4 years. I don't know if the word "shnat" could be translated as summer, if that is one of its possible translations. The internet translators gave me "second" and "you have changed". But the Light of the Miracle warmed me up! It brought me rejuvenation and hope! That is why I called that day the day of summer. Every one who was involved in the story could be looked at as a prisoner who dreams of freedom, just as the blessed verses say! The guy who was making faces probably struggled with addiction and/or mental health issues. The story that was unrelated to these events, that I briefly mentioned - everyone involved in it really needs help and healing. And myself, am a former drunk, struggling with fybromialgia and anxiety, as well as other challenges. Everyone, everyone needs Freedom to be proclaimed to them and we all need The Healing Light of THE SAVIOUR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  9. Daily Bible studies. Listening to the chapters over and over again and reading them at the same time. Understanding something new every day. Witnessing miracles! The less of the world - the better! All the time we have needs to be used for worship and spiritual growth!
  10. Oh, yes you right exactly. It's name is eastern lightning
  11. I ran into a sect recently. It was established in early 1990s and for some reason they are getting more active these days. They are attacking the authority of The Bible and portraying Christians as corrupt and dishonest in their videos. That's how I ran into them. I was looking for something good to watch on youtube. I typed in "Christian faith" and ran into one of their videos. That's how I learned of their existence. A week later a guy from that very sect befriended me on social media and tried to invite me into that sect. At first they pretend to be regular Christians. I deliberately don't want to mention their name or anything about them. I think that we as Christians should be reluctant at least when it comes to learning things about sects, that's why I don't want to mention anything about them. What we should learn is The Bible! What I want to say is that that particular sect's message is easily and totally disprovable by Mathew Chapter 24. That sect uses The Bible and The Message of The TRUTH!!!! as a foundation of their beliefs but they add a lot of unacceptable and unbiblical additions to the Blessed Message. What I want to say is simply this: read The Bible and believe! Pray for guidance and for mercy for yourselves and for everyone! Always walk the straight and narrow way and pray for those who don't.
  12. Praise THE LORD!!!!!!!!! There is something I want to say and am looking for the right words. I am afraid that I might say something wrong and sin that way. My only goal is to praise THE LORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I should repent in advance and in case if I say something wrong! Brother Alex, first of all, the most important is that we realize that THE MOST HIGH!!!!!!!!!!!!! IS always ABSOLUTELY JUST, LOVING, FAIR, WISE AND PERFECT!!!!!!!!! THAT IS ALWAYS ABSOLUTELY UNCONDITIONAL!!!!!!!! The most important part is that we realize that and believe that, and that is great that you do! That is most important! I just feel the need to point out some things in The Bible. Exodus 20:5 as well as Deuteronomy 5:9! GOD!!!!!!!!!!!! in HIS!!!!! ABSOLUTE WISDOM LOVE AND JUSTICE reveals to us who is being punished by HIM!!!!!!!!!!! Up to 3rd and 4th generation! People, however, are told to not punish fathers for sins of children and children for the sins of fathers, but everyone for their own sins. We are given limited minds and limited understanding, that is why we are not allowed to extend JUSTICE past those who are directly responsible for committing the sins. 2nd Kings 14:5-6, Deuteronomy 24:16. Also take a look at EZEKIEL 18:4 and 18:20.
  13. You are right, Alex. I pray that everyone who calls themselves Christians would pray, repent, and start applying as much effort as they can to worship, grow spiritually, and work for GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!! as much and as hard as we can! It is so easy to become lukewarm unfortunately. That's what happened to me. My life fell apart completely at one point as a result. By Mercy from The Above!!! I am still alive and well and very thankful in my prayers! Worldly things can lead us away from the right pass. If instead of working for GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!! we start living in a worldly way it's just sad. Like thinking about that always makes me depressed. Thinking about the worldly things I mean. There is always that depressing thought on the background that everything is so fragile and unstable and short and as a result hopeless. The ONLY HOPE IS GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! can fix everything and make it right and perfect and full of logic and meaning! HE!!!!!!!!!!!! can regenerate and restore everything!
  14. Oh, the blessed Deuteronomy 6:4!!!!!!!! The comandment found in the Old Testament says not to say THE HOLIEST NAME!!!!!!!! in vain! The commandment in the New Testement, THE FIRST and THE MOST IMPORTANT!!!!!!! we all know these commandments, brothers and sisters! So, THE FIRST COMMANDMENT!!!!!!! of The New Testament is found in Deuteronomy 6:5!!!!!!!! The verses from Deuteronomy 6:4!!!!!!!! to 6:9 are collectively known as SHEMA!!!!!!! - the most well known prayer in Judaism! I learned that while studying Biblical Hebrew. I am just trying to follow the commandments! I am afraid to say THE HOLIEST NAME!!!!!!! or THE HOLLIEST WORD!!!!!!! in vain. Or I am afraid that I might not be clean or worthy enough to say THE HOLLIEST NAME!!!!!!! or THE HOLLIEST WORD!!!!!!!! that is why I try to just say The FIRST COMMANDMENT OF THE NEW TESTAMENT!!!!!!!! or Deuteronomy 6:4!!!!!!!!!!!
  15. Going through Acts 12, studying the Chapter in depth. So much Mercy has been given to Peter!
  16. Oh, I forgot to mention JOHN 9:3!
  17. Thank you Alex, You are right in terms of wovels, this is the original word, I copied it from the Biblehub website: גִבְע֜וֹן the word is supposed to be transliterated as Giveon, with an "e" that is supposed to be very short. The second consonant is v, because there is no dagesh inside the letter Bait. At least that is what i think, i can only understand Hebrew on a very basic level, i could be mistaken. And here is the complete verse: http://biblehub.com/text/joshua/9-3.htm I am reading(listening mostly) to the Russian Synodal version of The Bible. It has been revised in 1994 and is said to be very accurate. The only thing, as we can see is the names. They are often slightly changed(or more than slightly) when the text is translated. That's the version I've been reading since I was a kid. In another version that they added later the names are different and they are a bit closer to the original ones I think. It is always best to try and read The original text. I want to get better at Hebrew as well as learn Greek and Aramaic if I can. Another thing to note here, while we read Acts 7, there is a reference to Genesis 15, I believe. And in Genesis 15 the 7 nations of the land of Canaan are named differently; different names are used to refer to them. When we read this wonderful chapter, it is important to focus on the main message here, which is faith. Paul mentions verses from Genesis 15 too when he talks about faith. And when it comes to wether or not someone is innocent, we must believe!!! Let's look at Lamentations 3:38 -40. There are no innocent victims when it comes to punishment From The Above!!!! We must always believe! GOD!!!!!!!!!!!! controls absolutely everything!!!!!! With absolute Love and Justice!!!!!!! The fact that those men who got hung ended up that way means that there was a reason for that. Nothing is random, nothing is accidental! Let's look at another event that had to do with Saul. He sent his servant to kill the priests and everyone in their city. There was only one survivor, Abiatar. But it was foretold to Eli, who was the high priest when Samuel was born, that because of the sins of his sons and because he failed to stop them his house will be purged - 1 Samuel 3:14. There are so many places in The Bible to show us that GOD!!!!!!!!!!! controls absolutely everything - our lives, our thoughts, everything around us, our decisions - everything!!!! Let's believe, brothers and sisters!
  18. I want to write little notes like this while studdying The Bible. This is not the first time I read Acts. But somehow this story completely slipped my mind. I forgot the story completely to my shame. When it comes to The Bible, nothing should be forgotten; we must study it delegently and with zeal every day! It's sad that my mind is so limited and my memory is so weak.... The most important thing is that we all should remember that THE LORD!!!!!!!! loves us and that HE!!!!!!!!!! Is the ONLY REASON!!!!!! for our life!!!
  19. Praise THE LORD!!!!!!!! I just wanted to write a little note. As I proceed with my Bible study i just want to note certain things in order not to forget them. Acts Chapter 8. Take a look at Acts 8:21. Notice how similar it is to NEHEMIAH 2:20. And in both cases the person spoken to appears to be a Samaritan. First of all, we know that all races are equal before GOD!!!!! Just take a look at when king Saul 's relatives were hung because Saul was committing a genocide against the Gavaonites! But why is it that 2 similar verses are spoken to the Samaritans? Perhaps it is because they are guilty of the similar sin! It says that the Samaritans, when they were first mentioned in The Bible were guilty of idolatry even after they were given the blessed opportunity to know The Truth; after the priest was sent to them to teach them. And in the latter case too, the Simon person was involved in some abominable sin, like sorcery. He lived in a Samaritan city. Later he accepted The Truth. But has he completely abandoned the abominable sin? Probably not. That is probably the reason for his attempt to "bribe" the apostles. And by Mercy From The Above he is given a second chance!!! What do we learn from this? We are reminded again: Deuteronomy 6:4!!!!!!!!!
  20. Praise the LORD!!!!!!! I just noticed another beautiful pattern! ZECHARIAH 11:14 to Revelation 21:14 - 11:14 to 21:14! I noticed while reading this: http://bmarkanderson.com/how-many-apostles-in-the-new-testament-12-or-25/
  21. There is another important thing to add: In the time of ZECHARIAH the tribes of Judah and ISRAEL lived together, those who were left of them, the remnant. The land that previously belonged to the tribes of ISRAEL was now occupied by the Samaritans. They, Judah and ISRAEL, had to face the hardships of survival together. The Isralites of what used to be the Northern Kingdom no longer had that land. They all, both ISRAEL and Judah had to live together and stand up against the outsiders to defend the land of Judea. With all that in mind it is really unlikely that they had any serious disagreements, the kind that would mean that the union between them is broken after the time of ZECHARIA
  22. Oh, I was just thinking that it is pretty unusual for someone to die when the cause of death involves a rope. Most people die of natural causes I would guess. If there is an accident it involves a fall of some kind. And back in those days most people who got executed or killed were stoned to death or killed by a sword. It is true, there were those who's death involved a rope, but it was an unusual way to go. But that is what happened to Judas. He could have died of natural causes or got killed in some other way. That is the first part that I thought needed researching. The second part that talks about him falling and his inner organs falling out. That is a very graphic and sad picture. But that tells us that it was either the rope that he was hanging on that broke, or that whatever the rope was attached to broke. The latter object is very likely a stick or a tree branch or something like that. Those 2 facts make his death unique. I don't think there is anyone else mentioned who first hang themselves and then fell because of the rope or the support breaking.
  23. That is an inspiring analysis! And the conclusions that you write are very inspiring too because they revolve around the recognition of our need to repent, believe and strive for righteousness. What a nice world would it be if everyone were to repent of their sins and pray in the NAME OF JESUS!!!!!!! if everyone would leave all the sins corruption and abomination like idols and atheism. And the money, if everyone would just try to spend what is necessary for them to survive and give the rest to the poor. MATTHEW 19:21
  24. Oh, that is a very helpful site, thanks ?
  25. After listening to the 11th chapter of ZECHARIAH there were more realizations that I've been blessed with! 1) bonds - bonds are a objects that are very similar to a rope. Judas hung himself with a rope! 2) broken staff - staff is an object that is very similar to a tree branch. In fact, it is logical to assume, that most staffs that were ever made by people were former tree branches. They were decorated and subjected to some carpentry work but they started their existence as tree branches! Now, how many deaths in ancient Israel, and on the whole Earth throughout the whole history for that matter, involved a rope or a rope like object and a stafflike object? I realize that it could be very sad and unpleasant topic to talk about. But the purpose of talking about it is to praise THE LORD!!!!!! I wanted to continue, I'll continue a bit later
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