Plans for the new decade (the year of 2020)

I wake up and there is an new decade and an fresh start. I do not follow New Year's Resolution but it is an popular idea. I believe that people mean well but they efforts seems like an poor attempt.

We will all fail but the key is to keep on going forward. Here are some words that will help you to get 20/20 vision in the year 2020.

I desire to bless people, so I am writing this blog. I hope that you can conquer life because of the strong words. There are times when I leave God out and I am doing on my strength. We need to add God to whatever we are doing. When I am doing an activity, I try to ask God to help me.

I like the verse in Hebrews 13:16 and it says, "And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased." What is done in Christ will last. If you want to become an better listeners, and listen to someone. If you are doing it for Jesus, Jesus will be pleased with your action.

We are not islands but we need to be part of an community. The loner even needs to be part of an smaller group. The believer in Jesus needs to be involved with an church so they can go.  That believer can also influence other believer in that church. Hebrews 13:17 says, "Have confidence in your leaders and submit to their authority, because they keep watch over you as those who must give an account.  Do this so that their work will be an joy, not a burden, for that would be no benefit to you."

I will begin to break down verse seventeen. We need to have confidence in the leadership of the church that we are going. I will warn you, not all churches are good. The good church will honor the Bible and Jesus. They will teach the Bible correctly. The false church will be an cult that be the only one in town and everyone else is wrong among true, Bible believing churches. If you are involved in that type of church, leave that church.  I will feel bad for that false teacher before God.

When you are involved in an church, be nice. Adults are just big children and that is how many people act in church. It seems that people will do the bad actions and cause divisions an dumb ideas.
Make you are Spirit lead and not self lead.

I enjoy verse eighteen. It says, "Pray for us. We are sure that we have an clear conscience and desired to honorably in every way." If you are reading the blog, please pray for me. I desire to have an pure life that honors Jesus. Prayer is the key for victory in the believers life.

I will finish up with verse nineteen. The verse says, "I particular urge you to pray so that I may be restored to you soon." You can pray for me that I will do the Lord's will in my life. I am praying that you will do what the Lord wants for you in the year of 2020. May you have 20/20 vision in Jesus, this  year.

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Copying confusion

Molecules-to-man evolution requires the production of large amounts of new genetic information. In searching for possible mechanisms, evolutionists have sometimes pointed to the ability of cells to make, and retain, multiple copies of their DNA. If this were the source of evolution, one would expect to find a general increase in the amount of DNA as you move up the evolutionary tree of life. This, however, is not the case. Humans are certainly more complex organisms than bacteria and plants, but they have less DNA in general. The organism with the most DNA is actually a bacterium (Epulopiscium fishelsoni) that has at least 25 times as much as a human cell. There are also 85,000 copies of one of its genes for cell. If these extra copies of genes were indeed the raw material for evolutionary mechanisms to act on, this bacterium should be a hallmark of evolutionary adaptation-but it is still a bacterium.

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Set free from this life

The instructions and examples of ministers, who honorably and comfortably closed their testimony, should be particularly remembered by survivors. And though their ministers were some dead, others dying, yet the great Head and High Priest of the church, the Bishop of their souls, ever lives, and is ever the same. Christ is the same in the Old Testament day. as in the gospel day, and will be so to his people for ever, equally merciful, powerful, and all-sufficient. Still he fills the hungry, encourages the trembling, and welcomes repenting sinners: still he rejects the proud and self-righteous, abhors mere profession, and teaches all whom he saves, to love righteousness, and to hate iniquity. Believers should seek to have their hearts established in simple dependence on free grace, by the Holy Spirit, which would comfort their hearts, and render them proof against delusion. Christ is both our Altar and our Sacrifice; he sanctifies the gift. The Lord's supper is the feast of the gospel passover. Having showed that keeping to the Levitical law would, according to its own rules, keep men from the Christian altar, the apostle adds, Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp; go forth from the ceremonial law, from sin, from the world, and from ourselves. Living by faith in Christ, set apart to God through his blood, let us willingly separate from this evil world. Sin, sinners, nor death, will not suffer us to continue long here; therefore let us go forth now by faith and seek in Christ the rest and peace which this world cannot afford us. Let us bring our sacrifices to this altar, and to this our High Priest, and offer them up by him. The sacrifice of praise to God, we should offer always. In this are worship and prayer, as well as thanksgiving.



Hebrews 13:7-15

Remember your leaders, who spoke the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings. It is good for our hearts to be strengthened by grace, not by eating ceremonial foods, which is of no benefit to those who do so. We have an altar from which those who minister at the tabernacle have no right to eat. The high priest carries the blood of animals into the Most Holy Place as a sin offering, but the bodies are burned outside the camp. And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate to make the people holy through his own blood. Let us, then, go to him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace he bore. For here we do not have an enduring city, but we are looking for the city that is to come. Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise—the fruit of lips that openly profess his name.

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Trinity

Trinity simple means "triunity."  God is not a simple unity; there is plurality in his unity. The Trinity is one of the greatest mysteries of the Christian faith. Unlike an antimony or paradox, which is a logical contradiction, the Trinity goes beyond reason but not against  reason. It is known only by divine revelation, so the Trinity is not the subject of natural theology but of revelation but of revelation.

The word Trinity is not used in the Bible, the concept is clearly taught in the Bible. The logic of the Trinity is simple. Two biblical truths are evident in the Scripture, the logical conclusion of which is the Trinity:

1) There is one God.
2) There are three distinct persons who are God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

I know that this topic is a big one so I will be talking about there is one God.
The central teaching of Judaism called Shema proclaims: "Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one" (Deut. 6:4). When Jesus was asked the question, "What is the greatest commandment?" he prefaced the answer by quoting the Shema (Mark 12:29). In spite of his strong on the deity of Christ (Col. 2:9), the apostle Paul said emphatically, "there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live" (1 Cor. 8:6a). From beginning to end, the Scriptures speak of one God and label all other gods as false (Exod. 20:3; 1 Cor. 8:5-6).

The Bible also recognizes a plurality of persons in God. Although the doctrine of the Trinity is not explicit in the Old Testament as the New Testament, nonetheless, there are passages where members of the Godhead are distinguished. At times they even speak to one another (Psalm 110:1)

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No friend to evolution is genetics

Mendel and Darwin were contemporaries whose theories were formulated in different ways and clashed with one another. Mendel used careful observation of traits and calculations to develop his theory of inheritance, while Darwin's ideas were based on erroneous ideas about inheritance. Four factors can be considered in genetic variation: environment, recombination, mutation, and creation. It has long been known that environmental effects on individuals cannot be passed on to offspring as the information is not contained in the DNA. Mendel recognized the constancy of traits with variation, while Darwin, to some degree, accepted environmental influence on variation. This is evident from Darwin's discussion of the giraffe's neck becoming longer by "the inherited effects of the increased use of parts."

Mendel showed that traits are reorganized independently when they are passed on to offspring. The variation would not always be evident, but it would only reappear if the trait was present in a previous generation. This amount of variation is limited by the information in the parents. Darwin's finches offer an example of this recombination of traits. Mutations are rare in a given gene, and the cell has elaborate machinery to correct mistakes when they occur. Mutations, when they do occur, tend to be neutral, but others are harmful. In the creation model, mistakes in the DNA would be expected to have harmful effects. In evolution, these mistakes are supposed to increase information even though in over 3,000 known fruit fly mutations not one produces a fly that has a survival advantage. Examples of mutations that are beneficial to the individual or population are shown to be a loss of information. Natural selection acts to preserve or eliminate traits that are beneficial or harmful, as the creation model would predict. Creation of organisms by a divine Creator is the only mechanism that is adequate to account for the variation seen in the world today. Each of the created kinds started with considerable genetic variability that has caused the variety of life we see today.   

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So be nice

 The design of Christ in giving himself for us, is, that he may purchase to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works; and true religion is the strongest bond of friendship. Here are earnest exhortations to several Christian duties, especially contentment. The sin opposed to this grace and duty is covetousness, an over-eager desire for the wealth of this world, with envy of those who have more than ourselves. Having treasures in heaven, we may be content with mean things here. Those who cannot be so, would not be content though God raised their condition. Adam was in paradise, yet not contented; some angels in heaven were not contented; but the apostle Paul, though abased and empty, had learned in every state, in any state, to be content. Christians have reason to be contented with their present lot. This promise contains the sum and substance of all the promises; I will never, no, never leave thee, no, never forsake thee. In the original there are no less than five negatives put together, to confirm the promise: the true believer shall have the gracious presence of God with him, in life, at death, and for ever. Men can do nothing against God, and God can make all that men do against his people, to turn to their good.

Hebrews 13:1-6

Keep on loving one another as brothers and sisters. 2 Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it. 3 Continue to remember those in prison as if you were together with them in prison, and those who are mistreated as if you yourselves were suffering.

4 Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral. 5 Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have,because God has said,

“Never will I leave you;
    never will I forsake you.”

6 So we say with confidence,

“The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid.
    What can mere mortals do to me?”

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The Swoon Theory

The swoon theory is the naturalistic view that Christ was not dead when taken from the cross and placed in the tomb. Therefore, he was not raised from the dead. It was proposed by H.E.G. Paulus in The Life of Jesus (1828).

This theory has serious failings as an alternate explanation of the resurrection, since there is strong evidence that Jesus experienced an actual physical death on the cross, and hundreds of witnesses who saw him in a fully whole and transformed resurrection body. Even the naturalistic work, A New Life of Jesus (1879) by David Strauss debunked the swoon theory:

"It is impossible that a being who had stolen half-dead out of the sepulchre, who crept about weak and ill, wanting medical treatment, who required bandaging, strengthening and indulgence and who still at last yielded to his suffering, could have given to his disciples the impression that he was a Conqueror over death and the grave, the Prince of Life, an impression which lay at the bottom of their future ministry.... Such a resuscitation could only have weakened the impression which he had made upon them in life and in death, at the most could only have given it an elegiac voice, but could by no possibility have changed their sorrow into enthusiasm, have elevated their reverence into worship. {Strauss 1,412}" 

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