Monday, May 8, 2017
The best idea that you may never heard
The solemn transactions between God and man, are sometimes called a
covenant, here a testament, which is a willing deed of a person,
bestowing legacies on such persons as are described, and it only takes
effect upon his death. Thus Christ died, not only to obtain the
blessings of salvation for us, but to give power to the disposal of
them. All, by sin, were become guilty before God, had forfeited every
thing that is good; but God, willing to show the greatness of his mercy,
proclaimed a covenant of grace. Nothing could be clean to a sinner, not
even his religious duties; except as his guilt was done away by the
death of a sacrifice, of value sufficient for that end, and unless he
continually depended upon it. May we ascribe all real good works to the
same all-procuring cause, and offer our spiritual sacrifices as
sprinkled with Christ's blood, and so purified from their defilement.
Wednesday, April 5, 2017
The principle of analogy
Since nonbeing cannot produce being (5) only being can product being. But a contingent being cannot produce another contingent being (6). And a necessary being cannot produce another necessary being (8).
So only Necessary Being can cause or produce only a contingent being. For to "cause" or "produce" being means to bring something into being. Something that comes into being, has being. A cause cannot bring nonbeing into being, since being is not nonbeing (4). The fact that Being produces being implies that there is an analogy between the cause of being and the being it causes (8). But a contingent being is both similar and different from a Necessary Being. It is similar in that both have being. It is different in that one is necessary and the other is contingent. But whatever is both similar and different is analogous. Hence, there is an analogy between Necessary Being and the being it produces.
Two things, then, are entailed in the principle that Necessary Being causes being: First, the effect must resemble the cause, since, both are being. The cause of being cannot produce what it does not posses. Second, while the effect must it must also be different from it in its potentiality. For the cause, by its very nature, has no potential not to be. But the effect by its very nature has the potential not to be. Hence, a contingent being must be different from its Cause. Since, the Cause of contingent beings must be both like and different from its effect, it is only similar. Hence, there is an analogical likeness between the Cause of a contingent being and the contingent being it causes to exist.
Such a Being is appropriately called "God" in the theistic sense, because he possesses all the essential characteristics of a theistic God; therefore, the theistic God exists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot7vyu0CPxA
So only Necessary Being can cause or produce only a contingent being. For to "cause" or "produce" being means to bring something into being. Something that comes into being, has being. A cause cannot bring nonbeing into being, since being is not nonbeing (4). The fact that Being produces being implies that there is an analogy between the cause of being and the being it causes (8). But a contingent being is both similar and different from a Necessary Being. It is similar in that both have being. It is different in that one is necessary and the other is contingent. But whatever is both similar and different is analogous. Hence, there is an analogy between Necessary Being and the being it produces.
Two things, then, are entailed in the principle that Necessary Being causes being: First, the effect must resemble the cause, since, both are being. The cause of being cannot produce what it does not posses. Second, while the effect must it must also be different from it in its potentiality. For the cause, by its very nature, has no potential not to be. But the effect by its very nature has the potential not to be. Hence, a contingent being must be different from its Cause. Since, the Cause of contingent beings must be both like and different from its effect, it is only similar. Hence, there is an analogical likeness between the Cause of a contingent being and the contingent being it causes to exist.
Such a Being is appropriately called "God" in the theistic sense, because he possesses all the essential characteristics of a theistic God; therefore, the theistic God exists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot7vyu0CPxA
Tuesday, April 4, 2017
The topic of Evolution, Part One
Evolution: all life on earth has come about through descent with modification from a single common ancestor (a hypothetical, primitive, single-called organism).
Evolution is generally assumed to happen as a natural consequence of natural selection. However, no direct observational evidence supports the concepts of a fish turning, however gradually, into an amphibian. Evolutionists will argue that there has simply not been enough time to observe such changes. Man has only been recording information that would be useful for a short period of time relative to the immense amounts of time required by evolutionary theory. This raises the question, "Is evolution a valid scientific idea since it cannot be observed in experiments and repeated to show that the conclusions are valid?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcCsMxuAZAE
Evolution is generally assumed to happen as a natural consequence of natural selection. However, no direct observational evidence supports the concepts of a fish turning, however gradually, into an amphibian. Evolutionists will argue that there has simply not been enough time to observe such changes. Man has only been recording information that would be useful for a short period of time relative to the immense amounts of time required by evolutionary theory. This raises the question, "Is evolution a valid scientific idea since it cannot be observed in experiments and repeated to show that the conclusions are valid?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcCsMxuAZAE
Monday, April 3, 2017
All good things begin here
All good things past, present, and to come, were and are founded upon the priestly office of Christ, and come to us from thence. Our High Priest entered into heaven once for all, and has obtained eternal redemption. The Holy Spirit further signified and showed that the Old Testament sacrifices only freed the outward man from ceremonial uncleanness, and fitted him for some outward privileges. What gave such power to the blood of Christ? It was Christ's offering himself without any sinful stain in his nature or life. This cleanses the most guilty conscience from dead, or deadly, works to serve the living God; from sinful works, such as pollute the soul, as dead bodies did the persons of the Jews who touched them; while the grace that seals pardon, new-creates the polluted soul. Nothing more destroys the faith of the gospel, than by any means to weaken the direct power of the blood of Christ. The depth of the mystery of the sacrifice of Christ, we cannot dive into, the height we cannot comprehend. We cannot search out the greatness of it, or the wisdom, the love, the grace that is in it. But in considering the sacrifice of Christ, faith finds life, food, and refreshment.
Hebrews 9:11-14
11 But when Christ came as high priest of the good things that are now already here, he went through the greater and more perfect tabernacle that is not made with human hands, that is to say, is not a part of this creation. 12 He did not enter by means of the blood of goats and calves; but he entered the Most Holy Place once for all by his own blood, thus obtaining eternal redemption. 13 The blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that they are outwardly clean. 14 How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Bw9SgXQFUE
Thursday, March 2, 2017
Contingent being exists=Principle of Existential Contingency (Bc exists)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Axcva8wZvAY
Not everything that exists is necessary. For change is real, that is, at least some being(s) really change. And a Necessary Being cannot change in its being. (This does not mean there can be no change in external relations with another being. It simply means there can be no internal change in its being. When a person changes in relation to a pillar, the pillar does not change.) For its being is necessary and what is necessary in its being cannot be other than it is in its being. And all change in being involves becoming something else in its being.
But it is evident that I change in my being. I change from not being to being. By "I" is meant the self-conscious individual being call myself. (This is not to claim that all the parts or elements of my being are not eternal. There are good reasons to believe they are not because usable energy is running down and cannot be eternal, but this is not point here.) This "I" of consciousness around which these elemental parts of matter come and go, is not eternal. This is clear for many reasons.
First, my consciousness changes. Even those who claim they are eternal and necessary (namely, that they are a Necessary Being, God) were not always conscious of being God. Somewhere along the line they change from not being conscious they were God to belong conscious they were God. But a Necessary Being cannot change. Hence, I am not a Necessary Being. Rather, I am a contingent being. Therefore, at least one contingent being exists. Everything is not necessary.
Further, there are other ways to know one is contingent. The fact that we reason to conclusions reveals that our knowledge is not eternal and necessary. We come to know , But no necessary being can come to know anything. It either eternally and necessarily knows everything it knows or else it knows nothing. If it is a knowing kind of being, then it necessarily knows, since it is a necessary kind of being. And a being can only know in accordance with the kind of being it is. A contingent must know contingently and a Necessary Being must know necessarily. But I do not know all that I can know eternally and necessarily. Therefore, I am a contingent kind of being.
Therefore, one necessary, eternal, uncaused, unlimited, rational, personal and moral being exists.
Not everything that exists is necessary. For change is real, that is, at least some being(s) really change. And a Necessary Being cannot change in its being. (This does not mean there can be no change in external relations with another being. It simply means there can be no internal change in its being. When a person changes in relation to a pillar, the pillar does not change.) For its being is necessary and what is necessary in its being cannot be other than it is in its being. And all change in being involves becoming something else in its being.
But it is evident that I change in my being. I change from not being to being. By "I" is meant the self-conscious individual being call myself. (This is not to claim that all the parts or elements of my being are not eternal. There are good reasons to believe they are not because usable energy is running down and cannot be eternal, but this is not point here.) This "I" of consciousness around which these elemental parts of matter come and go, is not eternal. This is clear for many reasons.
First, my consciousness changes. Even those who claim they are eternal and necessary (namely, that they are a Necessary Being, God) were not always conscious of being God. Somewhere along the line they change from not being conscious they were God to belong conscious they were God. But a Necessary Being cannot change. Hence, I am not a Necessary Being. Rather, I am a contingent being. Therefore, at least one contingent being exists. Everything is not necessary.
Further, there are other ways to know one is contingent. The fact that we reason to conclusions reveals that our knowledge is not eternal and necessary. We come to know , But no necessary being can come to know anything. It either eternally and necessarily knows everything it knows or else it knows nothing. If it is a knowing kind of being, then it necessarily knows, since it is a necessary kind of being. And a being can only know in accordance with the kind of being it is. A contingent must know contingently and a Necessary Being must know necessarily. But I do not know all that I can know eternally and necessarily. Therefore, I am a contingent kind of being.
Therefore, one necessary, eternal, uncaused, unlimited, rational, personal and moral being exists.
Wednesday, March 1, 2017
Adaptation and science, Part Three
Adaptation:
A physical trait or behavior due to inherited characteristics that gives an organism the ability to survive in a given environment.
Consider a woodpecker pair off the Ark. The pair may contain genes (information) for long and short beaks. As the birds spread out into the lush new world growing in the newly deposited soil, they produce offspring that contain both long-beak and short-beak genes. (Although the actual control of beak growth is complex, we will assume that long is dominant over short for this simplistic example.) Areas populated by trees with thick, soft bark would tend to select for woodpeckers with longer beaks. Areas where the bark thinner and harder would tend to be populated by woodpeckers with shorter beaks. Two new species, with slightly different adaptations, could arise if the two populations were geographically separated. The population of short-beaked woodpeckers would have lost the information for long beaks. No more long-beaked woodpeckers would be produced without a significant addition of genetic information affecting the beak length. The long-beaked woodpeckers would still have the ability to produce short-beaked offspring, but they would be less able to compete and those genes would tend to decrease in frequency in the population. Due to their isolation, two new species of woodpecker would develop, but within their kind. Observable science supports this type of subtle change within a kind but not molecules-to-man evolution.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ACCIu3jPrc
A physical trait or behavior due to inherited characteristics that gives an organism the ability to survive in a given environment.
Consider a woodpecker pair off the Ark. The pair may contain genes (information) for long and short beaks. As the birds spread out into the lush new world growing in the newly deposited soil, they produce offspring that contain both long-beak and short-beak genes. (Although the actual control of beak growth is complex, we will assume that long is dominant over short for this simplistic example.) Areas populated by trees with thick, soft bark would tend to select for woodpeckers with longer beaks. Areas where the bark thinner and harder would tend to be populated by woodpeckers with shorter beaks. Two new species, with slightly different adaptations, could arise if the two populations were geographically separated. The population of short-beaked woodpeckers would have lost the information for long beaks. No more long-beaked woodpeckers would be produced without a significant addition of genetic information affecting the beak length. The long-beaked woodpeckers would still have the ability to produce short-beaked offspring, but they would be less able to compete and those genes would tend to decrease in frequency in the population. Due to their isolation, two new species of woodpecker would develop, but within their kind. Observable science supports this type of subtle change within a kind but not molecules-to-man evolution.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ACCIu3jPrc
Monday, February 27, 2017
Have true freedom?
The apostle goes on to speak of the Old Testament services. Christ,
having undertaken to be our High Priest, could not enter into heaven
till he had shed his blood for us; and none of us can enter, either into
God's gracious presence here, or his glorious presence hereafter, but
by the blood of Jesus. Sins are errors, great errors, both in judgment
and practice; and who can understand all his errors? They leave guilt
upon the conscience, not to be washed away but by the blood of Christ.
We must plead this blood on earth, while he is pleading it for us in
heaven. A few believers, under the Divine teaching, saw something of the
way of access to God, of communion with him, and of admission into
heaven through the promised Redeemer, but the Israelites in general
looked no further than the outward forms. These could not take away the
defilement or dominion of sin. They could neither discharge the debts,
nor resolve the doubts, of him who did the service. Gospel times are,
and should be, times of reformation, of clearer light as to all things
needful to be known, and of greater love, causing us to bear ill-will to
none, but good-will to all. We have greater freedom, both of spirit and
speech, in the gospel, and greater obligations to a more holy living.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqiy9JRx-5w&t=3s
Hebrews 9:6-10
6 When everything had been arranged like this, the priests entered regularly into the outer room to carry on their ministry. 7 But only the high priest entered the inner room, and that only once a year, and never without blood, which he offered for himself and for the sins the people had committed in ignorance. 8 The Holy Spirit was showing by this that the way into the Most Holy Place had not yet been disclosed as long as the first tabernacle was still functioning. 9 This is an illustration for the present time, indicating that the gifts and sacrifices being offered were not able to clear the conscience of the worshiper. 10 They are only a matter of food and drink and various ceremonial washings—external regulations applying until the time of the new order.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqiy9JRx-5w&t=3s
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