Subject: 607 BCE Why it doesn't matter. (Jehovah's Witnesses.)

From: Thad Jones
Sent: Sun, October 2, 2011 11:55:21 AM

Click the chapter title to view the following verse in context:

Jeremiah 23

²⁹Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?

It deals with false prophets and teachers.

The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society bears witness to itself, not to the Person and work of Jesus Christ.

While attending a wedding on Oct. 1, 2011, I came across an issue of The Watchtower Magazine bearing that date on a park bench. Whoever placed it there certainly had no idea of the unintended consequences its placement in my path would engender.

"Defiance That

Commands Respect"

DURING his ruinous term as German chancellor, Adolf Hitler received tens of thousands

of letters. In 1945, after the Russians occupied

the territory surrounding Berlin, many of these

letters were taken to Moscow and stored there.

Historian Henrik Eberle has examined thousands of such letters in the Moscow archives in

order to study who wrote to Hitler and why.

Eberle published his conclusions in the book

entitled Briefe an Hitler (Letters to Hitler).

"Teachers and students, nuns and priests,

the unemployed and top businessmen, admirals and ordinary storm troopers—they all wrote

to Hitler," says Dr. Eberle. "Some revered him as

the born-again Messiah; others saw in him the

very essence of wickedness." Did Hitler receive

letters of protest from church officials concerning the outrages perpetrated by the National

Socialists, or Nazis? There were some, but such

letters were few and far between.

In the Moscow archives, however, Eberle

found a file containing a number of letters sent

to Hitler by Jehovah's Witnesses from different

parts of Germany, protesting against the conduct of the Nazis. In fact, Witnesses from about

50 countries sent Hitler some 20,000 letters and

telegrams protesting the mistreatment of Jehovah's Witnesses. Thousands of Witnesses were

arrested, and several hundred were executed

or died following ill-treatment by the Nazis.

Dr. Eberle concludes: "In view of the millions

of victims of the Nazi regime, this number [of

Witness victims] appears small. But it nevertheless testifies to an act of collective and

uncompromising defiance that commands respect."

14 THE WATCHTOWER ˙ OCTOBER 1,2011

The focus of this article is the supposed "superiority" of Jehovah's Witnesses over other Christian sects.Its an obscenity. What about Protestant Christian members of the Dutch Resistance who physically sheltered Jews and lost their lives, liberty and property as a consequence? They weren't Jehovah's Witnesses, so their selflessness and heroism doesn't merit notice?

Earlier that morning, I was blogging on the subject of the Third Reich with regard to George Washington's comment that "The event is in the hand of God."

The Word of God demolishes the self-proclaimed "Watchtower" thus:

John 7

¹⁵And the Jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned?

¹⁶Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.

¹⁷If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.

¹⁸He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.

John 15

²⁰Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.

²¹But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.

²²If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin.

²³He that hateth me hateth my Father also.

²⁴If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.

²⁵But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.

²⁶But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:

²⁷And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.

John 16

¹These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended.

²They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.

³And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.

⁴But these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them. And these things I said not unto you at the beginning, because I was with you.

⁵But now I go my way to him that sent me; and none of you asketh me, Whither goest thou?

⁶But because I have said these things unto you, sorrow hath filled your heart.

⁷Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.

⁸And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:

⁹Of sin, because they believe not on me;

¹⁰Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more;

¹¹Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.

¹²I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.

¹³Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.

¹⁴He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.

¹⁵All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you.

¹⁶A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go to the Father.

2 Corinthians 10

¹Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you:

²But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.

³For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:

⁴(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)

⁵Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

⁶And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.

⁷Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? if any man trust to himself that he is Christ's, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's.

⁸For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:

⁹That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.

¹⁰For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.

¹¹Let such an one think this, that, such as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such will we be also in deed when we are present.

¹²For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.

¹³But we will not boast of things without our measure, but according to the measure of the rule which God hath distributed to us, a measure to reach even unto you.

¹⁴For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though we reached not unto you: for we are come as far as to you also in preaching the gospel of Christ:

¹⁵Not boasting of things without our measure, that is, of other men's labours; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly,

¹⁶To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another man's line of things made ready to our hand.

¹⁷But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

¹⁸For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.

As the "Preacher" of Ecclesisastes concludes:

Ecclesiastes 12

⁸Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.

⁹And moreover, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he gave good heed, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs.

¹⁰The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth.

¹¹The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.

¹²And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

¹³Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.

¹⁴For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

----- Forwarded Message ----
From: Thad Jones
Sent: Thu, October 6, 2011 9:19:20 PM
Subject: Re: 607 BCE Why it doesn't matter. (Jehovah's Witnesses.)

From:
To: Thad Jones
Sent: Sun, October 2, 2011 3:18:48 PM
Subject: Re: 607 BCE Why it doesn't matter. (Jehovah's Witnesses.)

Hi Thad,

The presentation of Jeremiah 23 by the NIV brings out the poetry much better.

I found the parallelisms interesting.

Jeremiah 25 is pivotal to the book. At chapter 23, Jeremiah is throwing barbs at the false prophets who claimed they are speaking in behalf of the LORD. This then leads into Jeremiah reiterating the warning that had been given for centuries that the LORD would destroy Judah (as he had done with Israel). Then Jeremiah adds the condemnation that the nations, including Judah, would serve Babylon for 70 years.

When we move to chapters 28 and 29, we see the pattern repeated. At chapter 28, Jeremiah contends with false prophets at Jerusalem, while at chapter 29 he rebukes prophets at Babylon. He then goes back to the 70 years, saying that they must not listen to false prophets who, in Jerusalem and in Babylon, were predicting a swift release from the 70 years of servitude, which they were already experiencing.

I presume you have seen my Critique of the October 1, 2011 Watchtower article on their "chronology".

Have you read James Penton's book on Jehovah's Witnesses and the Third Reich?

Have you read the book on JWs at Auschwitz, which is available from the Auschwitz Museum?

I had two relations murdered there, apart from others who were killed at other locations.

I am not well read, nor educated, in the "man of letters" sense. As brevity is the heart of wit, to reiterate:

As the "Preacher" of Ecclesiastes concludes:

Ecclesiastes 12

⁸Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.

⁹And moreover, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he gave good heed, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs.

¹⁰The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth.

¹¹The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.

¹²And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

¹³Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.

¹⁴For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

As our first parents found, knowledge often does more harm than good, when it is sought for narcissistic purposes. When it is sought for the love of God and the service of others, however, it can yield rich blessings:

1 Corinthians 8

¹Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge.Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.

²And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.

³But if any man love God, the same is known of him.

Does "winning" an intellectual, academic argument bring the "losers" to faith in Christ or closer to God? The subject of the e-mail is "Why it doesn't matter." While your compendium of information and your lamentable family history are of unquestionable significance, it appears I failed to make the point. This is one of the bitterest pills of the Gospel. The Cross of Jesus Christ is the last thing we are looking for and yet the single object we most desperately need. It is the only true mirror whereby we can see ourselves as God sees us: hopelessly condemned and pricelessly beloved. Jehovah's Witnesses are blind to both of these realities and therefore labor under the delusion that they can and must merit God's approval based on their performance. They don't need to be shown that they are wrong. They need to be told that it's OK. That God has offered and accepted Christ in their place. That Jesus Christ did not come to put them to work, but to give them rest. Is there any room in your busy schedule or your crowded library for that, sir? Or is that not complicated enough for you?

Matthew 11

²⁵At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.

²⁶Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight.

²⁷All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.

²⁸Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

²⁹Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

³⁰For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

I realize that my tone is hardly endearing. Popularity is among the things Jesus said His service would cost us. I endeavor to be effective in that which is unseen and eternal. There's a war on, you know. Perhaps Jesus' tone in Matt. 11:29 (above) will better express His intentions and good will toward us. It's also a good light in which to examine our own purposes and intents. (As the Father hath sent Me, so send I you...)

In re: Your critique of the 10-1-11 Watchtower, I've perused it.

In re: James Penton's book, the rank and file suffered heroically, but pointlessly.

Ditto for the JW's at Auschwitz.

The leadership, as always, is culpable in that. That is why the 10-1-11 Watchtower article on JW's in the Third Reich is obscene. It cynically promotes itself over other Christian sects on the basis of such pointless suffering and overlooking and suppressing the conscientious suffering of others under the same circumstances.

The juxtaposition of the Holocaust with the contemporary return of Jews to the land of promise is not a mere "parallelism". (It is so characteristic of the fallen human intellect to presume to scrutinize God from "above" as though He were under our microscope, rather than we under His.) The macro-historical focus of my blog post is the excesses of the totalitarian human impulse in the context of the sovereign mastery of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, Jesus Christ. It underscores the wisdom of due process of law, of checks and balances on state power, and the folly of imbuing Caesar with the prerogatives of God, all of which are expressions of the fear of God, which of course, is the beginning of wisdom. (To immanentize the Christian Eschaton.)

As the worn out saying goes,

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

(Oddly, the institutions for education and information in the United States of America

seem hell-bent on inducing historical amnesia in the populace. Do you suppose these are

the "ends" at which they are aimed?:

U.S. Constitution - Preamble

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the generalWelfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

I somehow doubt it.)

As human beings can dictate the means, but not the ends, the means are their ends, and the "event" remains, as the Father of the United States of America surmised, "in the hand of God".

-Thad M. Jones, blogger, on this first Sabbath of 5772

Sat, 1 October 2011 = 3rd of Tishrei, 5772

Hitler's Third Reich perfectly demonstrated this thesis. It rose to earthly power. It aimed to achieve as one of its ends the eradication of the Jewish People. It prescribed the means of concentrating and killing them in detention camps and employed its totalitarian powers to locate and apprehend them. The "event", or outcome, however, proved to be out of its hands, and, in fact, in the nail-pierced hand of the God it despised and presumed to defy. It was relieved of power by forces beyond its control, its ends unrealized, and its means, the only ends it ever had any real control over, exposed in all of their atrocious criminality for all the world to see.

"Hand of God ?" you ask. At the very threshold of the presumptive triumph of humanistic contempt for, as Psalm 2 puts it, Jehovah and His Anointed, or Christ, the Third Reich fulfilled a classic role in the Biblical pattern for the return of dispersed Jews to the land that God promised Abraham: a satanic preemptive attempt by the dominant world power to wipe them out actually contributing to the Divine "event":

An open letter to the people of the Jews.

George Washington Quotes

14 May, 1787, Speech at Constitutional Convention, Philadelphia.

It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair. The event is in the hand of God.

Broken Arrow.

Definition of EVENT

1

a archaic : outcomeb : the final outcome or determination of a legal actionc : a postulated outcome, condition, or eventuality

Definition of REPAIR

intransitive verb

1

a : to betake oneself : go b : to come together : rally

2

obsolete : return

Origin of REPAIR

Middle English, from Anglo-French repairer to go back, return from Late Latin repatriare to go home again, from Latin re- + patria native country — more at expatriate

First Known Use: 14th century

Definition of STANDARD

1

: a conspicuous object (as a banner) formerly carried at the top of a pole and used to mark a rallying point especially in battle or to serve as an emblem

2

a : a long narrow tapering flag that is personal to an individual or corporation and bears heraldic devicesb : the personal flag of the head of a state or of a member of a royal familyc : an organization flag carried by a mounted or motorized military unitd : banner 1

3

: something established by authority, custom, or general consent as a model or example : criterion standards>

4

: something set up and established by authority as a rule for the measure of quantity, weight, extent, value, or quality

5

a : the fineness and legally fixed weight of the metal used in coinsb : the basis of value in a monetary system standard>

6

: a structure built for or serving as a base or support

Hebrews 10

³⁰For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.

³¹It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

1 Peter 5

¹The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:

²Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;

³Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being examples to the flock.

⁴And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.

⁵Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.

⁶Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:

⁷Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.

⁸Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

⁹Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.

¹⁰But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

¹¹To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

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The single most significant piece of news in the past few days has received zero notice by the American News Media:

Washington Ramps-Up Focus on Jobs and the Economy

Obama touts jobs plan

WASHINGTON, DC
Monday, September 12, 2011

President Obama said today that Americans cannot afford Congress to play political games in passing his $447 billion jobs plan. The President sends the bill to Congress today.

Under the U. S. Constitution, the elected representatives of the People of the various States in the House of Representatives and Senate propose, debate, and pass legislation, which is then submitted to the President to either sign into law or veto. Today, the President of the United States of America, reputed to be a scholar of the Constitution, has sent legislation to Congress for "passage".

United States Congress

Overview

Article I of the Constitution states "all legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and a House of Representatives." The House and Senate are equal partners in the legislative process—legislation cannot be enacted without the consent of both chambers. However, the Constitution grants each chamber some unique powers. The Senate ratifies treaties and approves top presidential appointments while the House initiates revenue-raising bills. The House initiates impeachment cases, while the Senate decides impeachment cases.^[2] A two-thirds vote of the Senate is required before an impeached person can be forcibly removed from office.^[2]

In 1868, the House impeached Andrew Johnson, but the Senate did not convict him.

The term Congress can also refer to a particular meeting of the legislature. A Congress covers two years; the current one, the 112th Congress, began on on January 3, 2011.^[3] A legislator in either house is a "member of Congress", though usually only representatives are referred to in speech as a congressman, congresswoman, or congressperson, because members of the Senate are almost universally referred to as senator. To avoid confusion, "member of Congress" is used to refer to members of both houses, and "representative" and "senator" to refer to members of the respective houses.

Congress reflects us in all our strengths and all our weaknesses. It reflects our regional idiosyncrasies, our ethnic, religious, and racial diversity, our multitude of professions, and our shadings of opinion on everything from the value of war to the war over values. Congress is the government's most representative body ... Congress is essentially charged with reconciling our many points of view on the great public policy issues of the day. — Smith, Roberts, and Wielen^[4]

Scholar and representative Lee H. Hamilton asserted that the "historic mission of Congress has been to maintain freedom" and insisted it was a "driving force in American government"^[4] and a "remarkably resilient institution."^[5]Congress is the "heart and soul of our democracy", according to this view,^[6] even though legislators rarely achieve the prestige or name recognition of presidents or Supreme Court justices; one wrote that "legislators remain ghosts in America's historical imagination".^[6] One analyst argues that it is not a solely reactive institution but has played an active role in shaping government policy and is extraordinarily sensitive to public pressure.^[6] Several academics described Congress:

Congress is constantly changing, constantly in flux.^[7] In recent times, the American south and west have gained House seats according to demographic changes recorded by the census and includes more minorities and women although both groups are still underrepresented, according to one view.^[7] While power balances among the different parts of government continue to change, the internal structure of Congress is important to understand along with its interactions with so-called intermediary institutions such as political parties, civic associations, interest groups, and the mass media.^[6]

Think of Congress as an automobile. While drivers of various skills can take the automobile in different directions on various types of roads, the internal machinery of the vehicle plays a crucial role in determining how smooth the drive will be, as well as how far and fast the driver can go.—Julian E. Zelizer^[6]

All members of Congress serve two distinct purposes that sometimes overlap: representation of local interests and lawmaking for the national interest.^[8] There has been debate throughout American history about how to straddle these dual obligations of representing the wishes of citizens and those of the nation.^[6] Compromise is often required.^[8]

Enumerated powers

Among the powers specifically given Congress in Article I Section 8, are the following:

One of many congressional powers is to "define and punish piracies on the high seas".

• To lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
• To borrow money on the credit of the United States;
• To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;
• To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, anduniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States;
• To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;
• To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States;
• To establish post offices and post roads;
• To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
• To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court;
• To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations;
• To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land andwater;
• To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years;
• To provide and maintain a navy;
• To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces;
• To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repelinvasions;
• To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, themilitia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the states respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
• To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten miles (16 km) square) as may, by cession of particular states, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the state in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts,magazines,arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings.

Ummm.

Broken Arrow?

Dismayedly,

Thad M. Jones

(Just like the wicked to give you no real choice and no opportunity to reason with them. That's why they use the state for their programs:

• Pick one: state-run indoctrination or state-run indoctrination after private education has been destroyed by our policies.
• Pick one: state-run health care or state-run health care after the private health care system has been destroyed by our policies.
• Pick one: Death with the Church or life under the State because the State has taken over everything through our policies and "separation of Church and State" means there's nowhere left for the Church to go.)

Romans 1

1Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,

2(Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,)

3Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh;

4And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:

5By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name:

6Among whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ:

7To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

8First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.

9For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers;

10Making request, if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you.

11For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established;

12That is, that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me.

13Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you, (but was let hitherto,) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.

14I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise.

15So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also.

16For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

17For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

18For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;

19Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.


From "Journey of the Universe":


20For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

21Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

22Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

23And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

It is quite appropriate that the commentator , Brian Thomas Swimme , in the video clip, above, goes from sunlit day into the synthetically under lit darkness of "Pythagoras' Cave" to descend into the abject counter-intellectual idiocy that then proceeds from his lips. In discussing the "evolution" of eyes, he attributes the development of sight to the subject creatures themselves.

"Life has learned to learn."
"Life has invented so many different ways of seeing."
"Beginning billions of years ago, the earliest cells began to develop a sensitivity to light. They could sense it and move toward it, and it was this capacity that led eventually to the development of the eye."
"The trilobite, intent upon piercing through the darkness, invented an eye using calcite, a mineral."
"An entirely different form of seeing was invented by the worms and carried forward by the fish."


What "cosmologist" Swimme is doing here is looking at reality and lying to your face about it.


According to what is readily observable, successive generations of living organisms are entirely passive and powerless over their own physiology and that of their progeny. A common sense example of this:




Matthew 5

36Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black.


Matthew 6

25Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?

26Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?

27Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?

Brian Thomas Swimme is exhibiting a clearly defined, Biblically illuminated principle of fallen human behavior. Unlike his romanticized trilobites, intent upon escaping God's Light, he seeks refuge in the darkness, affirming the testimony of Jesus Christ concerning our kind:


John 3

16For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

17For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

18He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

19And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

20For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

21But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.


Isaiah 50

4The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.

5The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back.

6I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.

7For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.

8He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me.

9Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.

10Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God.

11Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.
Some "made-up shit":


Pick one:

• Be saved according to the election of God.
• Be damned according to the election of God.

Romans 9

 1I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,
2That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
3For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
4Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;
5Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
6Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:
7Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.
8That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.
9For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.
10And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac;
11(For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)
12It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.
13As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
14What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
15For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
16So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.
17For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
18Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.
19Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?
20Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
21Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
22What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
23And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
24Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
25As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.
26And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.
27Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:
28For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.
29And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha.
30What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.
31But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.
32Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;
33As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.



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The video clip also shows an Emperor Penguin caring for it's young while lauding the evolution of the maternal instinct, leading to the deification of the feminine. With the image of the penguin squarely in the frame, this utterance is heard:

• "With the emergence of the fish's descendants, mammals and birds, maternal care broadened. Now the offspring weren't just protected from predators, but were nourished directly by their mother."

The Emperor Penguin

The Birth and Parental Roles:

After about 62-66 days of incubation and starvation of the male, the egg will finally hatch in July (Dargaud, 1993). The offspring then require constant care and will be protected by the father or through huddling with fellow offspring, as they are still susceptible to freezing. When the chicks hatch they are nearly naked of feathers, allowing for heat transfer from the father (Muller-Schwarze, 1984). The devoted father will keep the hatchling in his brood pouch until the chick is able to regulate its own body temperature (Sopel et al., 2007). Parents will recognize their own offspring through vocalizations, and the chick is born with a specific song that will not change until the chick is more independent (Muller-Schwarze, 1984). The adults recognize their chick through these calls when they are separated, and these calls will ensure that they feed only their own chick. The males continue to fast while the females are at sea, and if the chick has hatched before the mother has returned, the father will regurgitate an esophageal secretion known as ‘penguin milk’ (Campbell, 2007). The male patiently waits for the female’s return from sea, but if something prevents or delays her return, the male will eventually have to abandon his chick and take care of himself (Allport, 1997).




It's like shooting fish in a barrel.



Isaiah 44


18They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.

19And none considereth in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh, and eaten it: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?

20He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?

21Remember these, O Jacob and Israel; for thou art my servant: I have formed thee; thou art my servant: O Israel, thou shalt not be forgotten of me.

22I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.

23Sing, O ye heavens; for the LORD hath done it: shout, ye lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel.

24Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself;

25That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;

26That confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise up the decayed places thereof:

27That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers:

28That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.

The Sign of Jonah.