"Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people."

 Proverbs 14:34

Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.

Let us all therefore repent before it is too late for us or our Nation.

Major US Cities Clamoring For End To Violence

 Major US cities and many other communities are having a hard time containing their panic about violent crime in or near them. Why are we so surprised at the violence, when so many millions of people in this Nation have pushed God away and embraced so many things that He hates? We are NOT going to save ourselves from ourselves nor from our sin nature unless we do it God's way.

Proverbs 11:10-11
¹⁰  When it goeth well with the righteous, the city rejoiceth: and when the wicked perish, there is shouting.
¹¹  By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted: but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.    

We MUST humble ourselves and ask for God's forgiveness for all of our personal and collective sin. We MUST do it God's way through the blood of His Christ by faith. Then and only then shall He hear us and heal us. Remember that if we attempt to add our own sin-stained works to His plan of salvation then He shall cast us off completely, for our sin-stained attempts mock the perfect life and self-sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ, Creator, and equal with the Almighty. He is the only one who came to call us out about our sin and at the same time He volunteered, in love, to take our punishment upon Himself, that we might have the opportunity to seek Him, accept Him, turn from our sin to Him, and receive Him by faith. This is not about eating or doing things, but getting outside of our normal worldly heads and hearts to look at Him in faith, "for without faith it is impossible to please Him".

Please turn from your sin, right now, and receive the singular salvation that the only Christ of God offers to you. Then and only then shall we begin to turn ourselves, our families, our towns, cities, and Nation back to wholesome living, instead of trying to legislate morality. Morality has to come from inside of us. All the laws in the world cannot do that. Laws only show us the things that are wrong and the things of which we are afraid, and then prescribe consequences.

Good human laws agree with God's Law. All else is unholy contrivance that God shall trash at His Final Judgment. Please trust God's Christ, today, for this world order is headed for the Lake of Fire, of which the Bible speaks. The Bible's books of John, Romans, and Revelation are loving but stern wake-up calls to every soul on Earth. Read them for they are God's warnings to us that we might choose life and not choose death. Choose God's ways for your life. Live forever in Christ.

Freedom, Crime, Punishment, and Unholy Choices

Popular modern news broadcasts from around the world, including from our own neighborhoods, States, and Nation, in the USA, are riddled with all manner of evil and malicious events. People, in general, based on their own frame of reference, clamor for law, order, decency, and security, but they also want their own freedoms, AND they do NOT want anyone messing with THEIR own ability to do anything they want to do when they want to do it. They want liberty, diversity, populism, perversion, handouts, and they don't want anyone telling their kids they're wrong when they misbehave. All the while they are ungrateful to God for all the blessings that He pours on them daily. They want everyone else to comply with their idea of politically correct things to do and not do, but they do NOT want any absolute standard by which to judge all things, for they want no one else judging them. Their feeling and convenience based social objectives have devolved a great portion of US society into a similar condition as the old Spartan State wherein it seemed as if almost everything was illegal, but, no one complained about individual responsibility as long as the citizens could figure out how to get away with their own proclivities, without getting caught and hauled into court. And, yet, our society is even more confused than that, legally and morally.

Today, huge portions of our society want to walk in self-worship and self-indulgence at their own convenience, to abuse and disenfranchise whomever they desire, to steal from one another with impunity (whether they are rich or poor), to murder unborn children while refusing to execute habitual or repeat criminals, and to pursue many other behaviors that are repugnant to God. Vile behaviors and the people who defend such evil are repugnant to God because such things violate His standards that are good for humanity. He wants people to godly standards, because godly standards are there to preserve and protect us from our own sin. Evil behaviors are, in truth, self-destructive of individuals and their communities. Those who know God agree with Him that all unholy behavior is and shall be forever condemned. Is there no hope for sinners?

Individuals, families, and segments of society that repent of their sin and choose godly living have rejected evil, but are usually looked upon, by evil-doers, as out of touch with modern society. Yet, God's Word says that even though evil things are now called good and good things are now called evil (by the society in which we live), yet, He shall set the record straight and none of those who have cast off His Word and salvation shall have any place in the holy pleasurable aspects of eternity with Him. On the contrary, all those who reject God's Word and salvation shall have their place in the lake of fire that burns forever. Those individuals and nations that reject God plan choose to damn themselves. 

God is in the business of seeking to redeem all who want to be redeemed, but people allow their sin nature, too often, to dominate and push away godly things. Sadly, most people love their sin more than they love God or His Word and His ways. In this, most people victimize themselves and try to blame almost anyone except themselves for their own bad choices.

Our only true hope, in this life or the next, is that God calls us to repentance and to faith in Himself, His Word, His Christ, and His only plan of salvation. He has already simplified all issues of faith and religion, IF we will but look to what He has said in His Word. It is people who love their sin who do NOT want God's simple ways, as they look for and complicate all things spiritual; they look for ways to circumvent what God has said. 

Turn from following those who reject or doubt God and His Word. He holds you responsible, so seek His truth in His Word, for He alone can show you the way of His only eternal redemption. He made that for you and wants you to receive it in faith on the terms that He created. That, alone, is our only hope for joy, peace, harmony, and comfort with God for all eternity. Please, let go of earthly things and choose God's ways.

Here is His only plan of salvation, the only hope for any of us.

Google Search Rats Out Fallacy of Carbon Neutrality

 Many people have no clue, beyond the buzzwords and pop-science, about what various carbon imprint jargon means both literally and practically. One of the favorite things that folks often toss around is "Carbon neutral", just like you can read on the bottom of the Google Search page online, where they claim that Google has been "Carbon neutral since 2007".

However, in order for anyone or any company to claim that they are carbon neutral, that means that they already overproduce carbon waste products. In order to achieve a negotiated level of Carbon neutrality, the overproducer of Carbon must purchase a balance of anti-carbon footprint credits from someone else. According to Bloomberg those credits can be falsified.

Check out this Google search of the carbon neutral topic. It is very interesting reading.

AA, OA, NA, and All the Anonymous Programs Know This Truth About Sin and Choice

 From having had decades of conversations with many people from various Anonymous Programs, I know that they know this basic truth of life, that one cannot escape the basic nature of one's being, though one can choose to act differently from one's self-destructive nature. AA, OA, NA, and all the rest know that no person can choose to live a constructive life based on wishful thinking, if one refuses to invest herself/himself in tangible action that is different from what one has been doing self-destructively. Feelings, history, politics, preferences, lust, predilections, peer pressure, and circumstances all have no bearing on changing one's behavior. Personal behavior change is a choice that only you or I can control. No one else, no religion, not even our oversized government, can change us, but we ourselves. Equally true, as someone once put it, the definition of insanity is to keep repeating the same unproductive or self-destructive behavior while expecting different results after each repetition of the same behavior.

I make this point because there is a lot of finger-pointing going on in our present world, and especially in the USA, whereby millions of people and many special interest groups are hell-bent on having their own way with society, but refusing to acknowledge eternal and historical truths that have been recorded and passed down to save us from having to repeat the mistakes of others, in the past. Some have insisted on tearing down statues or dumping books and rewriting histories to suit their own desires about what they want said. As long as any of us insist on letting any of our natural inclinations, unsavory history, our lusts, or our feelings drive how we get along in society, then was shall condemn ourselves to repeat the pain from which history and the recordings of our forebears would deliver us, including the Word of God, known as the Bible (I recommend the King James Bible). God is especially honest with us, more than any other historian, for God shows the strengths and weaknesses of even the most celebrated of those whom he put into positions of responsibility, down through the biblical record. By contrast, most of humanity wants to ignore the One Holy God but to worship sinful mankind and gloss over human failure.

I used to know, before he died, a very diligent man (a sinner like myself) who was challenged to prove the Bible wrong on any point he chose. Being an amateur historian, this man, Ron, collected all manner of histories, commentaries, Encyclopedia Britannica, science articles, and a host of sources by which he, as an ardent unbeliever and researcher, sought to disprove the Bible. Every time he read something he did not like in the Bible he'd research all available materials and sources to try to find flaws in God's Word. But, instead of supporting Ron's unbelief, all his research did was to tear down the lies on which he had been raised and turn Ron to agree with everything that the Bible says. That research project led Ron to trust the Bible and the Christ of God, Jesus, for the salvation that God offers to all humanity. IF we but lay our self-deceptions, false science, and false religion aside, and we examine and prove all things, by the voluminous evidence that God has left for us to acknowledge about His Deity, His Creation, our sin natures, and His only path of redemption, then we, like Ron, shall come to know, love, and trust God's Christ. Sadly, most people would rather follow the lies of the things, cultures, and religions that enslave them, rather than to be set free to see and do things God's way in Christ.

We shall all answer for how we each respond to the evidentiary call that God has put out there for us to examine and from which to deduce our conclusions about our need for a holy relationship with Him and His Christ. God is NOT going to excuse anyone for having rejected nor neglected His evidence, nor for ignoring nor despising His Christ. He says that we are "without excuse". So, I return to my initial premise that has undergirded the conflicts, savagery, cruelty, destruction, and selfish interest of mankind, that our sin nature must be dealt with by each and every soul, or else we shall suffer the consequences that God promises. "God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance." However, the contrary nature of our sin wants only to seek self satisfaction (which never really happens), unless we choose to be satisfied God's way. Furthermore, unless we choose to repent of our sin and accept and receive  God's salvation in Christ Jesus, by faith, we shall have condemned ourselves to eternal solitary misery.

Please do the research of history and the Bible for yourself. Stop being lazy or relying on the popular lies about God and the Bible. God is going to hold you accountable for the choice you make about this. The choice is yours, so choose wisely, not based on culture, religion, peer pressure, religiosity, lust, greed, not by false science's religious mantra about faith in a big bang or evolution. I did all that, too, until I started reading and researching the truth of life's evidences and history and the Bible, for myself. Now, like Ron, I, too, am a Bible believer and have trusted Jesus Christ as my only hope and Savior. I now can see that I do not have to repeat the lusts, sins, and errors of prior generations. I do not have to live as a slave to my own flesh. With Christ living in me, "the hope of glory", I can live in joy and confidence each day, in God's only and very simple plan of salvation, no matter what happens in this life. You can, too.

Media, Blue Horizons' Launch, Life Forms In Space, and Killing Unborn Babies

 It is with great sorrow and concern for humanity that I listen to the pop media banter about Blue Horizon's successful launch and return of their human payload this morning. Not only is civilian incursion into space being discussed, but also a more energetic exploration for life forms in space. One commentator passingly touched on defining life forms. Humanity is drunk with self-defined success and dreams of what we can do and where we can go. 

By contrast, here is God's definition of success, a word that He only uses once in His written Word.

Joshua 1:8
This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.

We are increasingly pushing God away and seeking our own secular humanistic way of doing things, because we do not wish to be accountable to the Self-existent One who created us. We lust for freedom as long as it is for us and without responsibility. But, we need to acknowledge who made "all this".

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 

Psalm 121:2

My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.

Yet, humanity is chasing its own philosophies and religions, including self-worship, while refusing to give credit to our Creator. Just as we reject God Almighty and choose our self-centered ways, humanity dreams and seeks arduously for life forms and intelligence in space, willing to call anything 'life' that titillates our fantacy and fancy. \

As we egregiously abhor and attack the very life that God gives to us here on Earth, we butcher tens of millions upon tens of millions of unborn babies right here in the USA, without even counting how many around the world. We refuse to acknowledge that God says life is sacred and begins with conception. 

Isaiah 49:5
⁵  And now, saith the LORD that formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, and my God shall be my strength.

Jeremiah 1:5
⁵  Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.

We deceive ourselves into allowing women to slay their unborn young, all for convenience and/or health of the mother, without regard for consequences, temporal or eternal. We don't want to believe that we are accountable to anyone for our murder of these children.

How is it that humanity has grown so selfish and cold that we are willing to call hints of space viruses or bacteria life, but we reject and murder the growing life inside a mother's womb? Those growing unborn babies are unique and distinct living entities separate from the mother's biology. The womb is separate from the child's umbilical system that interfaces with the mother, but the interlaced tendrils of the womb and placenta are still two separate systems, though they interchange nutrients, oxygen, and wastes. To say that a babe in the womb is part of the mother is like saying that an astronaut is part of a spaceship. Both examples contain pairs of distinct entities with distinctly different systems.

We call ourselves civilized, but we idolize self, money, convenience, lust, greed, fear, doubt,  adventure, and we collectively choose to try to exist without the one and only real God who made all of Creation. Our modern societies are no different from any pagan culture that ever did the same things. The old religions used to sacrifice their children to wood, stone, or metal idols. We do the very same thing, but claim that ideas and convenience are not idols. You be the judge of that, now, for God shall judge us all for it. 

Our technologies do not make us better people, for we commit the same sins that have always been committed since Adam and Eve. What our technologies do is make it easier for us to deceive ourselves about who we really are and what we are really like. We worship our technologies and allow ourselves to feel good about ourselves when we should be repenting of our sinful practices and our rebellion against God Almighty.

Here is the key to who the only true God really is.

Here is the key to God's only salvation for humanity.

Did They Die By Fire or By Flood?

I've been watching numerous YouTube videos about the ideas, hypotheses, and research of Dr. Mary Schweitzer regarding soft tissue evidence she's found in multiple dinosaur bones from different geological sites in different countries; also, Dr. Steve Austin's theories, research, and observations about cataclysmic events and geological change, deposition, erosion, and fossilization (his hypotheses being confirmed by the explosion of Mt. St. Helens and the aftermath thereof). 

For over a hundred years, popular Darwinian and geological gradualism (developed by Hutton and refined by Lyell) had posited that rock layers supposedly proved the age of the fossils contained in those rock layers, and conversely, that the fossils supposedly proved the age of the rocks containing the fossils. Those gradualistic rationales form a circular conundrum that flies in the face of geological and paleontological evidences, because the fossil-strata interrelationships, within respective geological columns, vary greatly from one location to another around the Earth, as if different masons were mixing cement with differing techniques on different parts of the same job site. The differences in the mixtures of various strata point to differences in rates of mixing and different proportions of water to dry material being combined. Austin speaks of that in particular with regard to mudslide consistency, deposition, and erosion, during and after the 20th century Mt. St. Helens catastrophe.

Besides evolutionary and gradualistic conflict with God's biblical record of history, some evolution-oriented researchers have come to recognize the conflicts within gradualistic paradigms and hypotheses. Those observant enough to notice such ideological and scientific conflicts have shifted their attention, hypotheses, and research to a more cataclysmic view of geological and paleontological events, to try to explain the disappearance of dinosaurs, the carving out of things like the Grand Canyon, the rapid growth of mountain ranges, and the worldwide flood of which the Bible speaks. Often their ideas are based more on what-ifs, doubts, and maybe, instead of sticking to observable scientific facts.

The extinction of dinosaurs is a popular topic in certain circles. A great cataclysm or series of cataclysms (such as asteroid bombardment of the Earth) have increasingly replaced the gradualistic paradigm as the cause of dinosaur extinction, but still most evolutionary-minded scientists still fight the idea of God's testimony of a worldwide flood. The great failure of the bombardment cataclysm hypothesis is that most popularized fossils that are trotted out for the public are not severely damaged fragments but whole or partial skeletal remains. On those fossils, there is no evidence of widespread explosive or fiery damage to the masses of fossils found. On the contrary, soft tissue within fossilized bones, as well as, fossilized imprints of delicate tissues of small creatures are not charred, nor deformed beyond recognition by external forces. Instead, the fossils are entrapped in sedentary rock that was once water-borne mud or sand, as evidenced by the fact that said fossils retain exquisite, easily recognizable detail with which even lay observers of the fossils might identify creatures of particular types of animals, insects, or fish, etc. This last fact of paleontological preservation strongly supports a rapid watery burial with sedimentary entrapment of the creatures, as opposed to asteroid-precipitated or fiery cataclysms that are so popularly cited in movies, nature shows, and museums, today.

Well-preserved delicate soft tissue and soft tissue within bony fossils of large, medium, and minute creatures are all found within sedimentary rock layers around the world. Worldwide watery burial agrees with God's biblical record, that many call Noah's Flood. There are hundreds of cultural flood stories that branched across the world. Those resulted from the dispersal of the descendants of Noah, his wife, their three sons and the sons' wives (eight people who multiplied into the different cultures, languages, and nations, out of the biological genetic diversity that was in Noah's family). Despite some detail differences among those cross-cultural flood stories, the commonality is that they all speak of a totally destructive worldwide flood from which a new start began. That basic commonality agrees with God's record of Noah's family's survival. God said that He would make a short work of this Creation, not billions or millions of years. Jesus said that the last days were already starting when He walked this Earth during His ministry leading up to His crucifixion and resurrection.

Those who reject the worldwide flood often reject God's Authority and His claim that He holds His Word in higher esteem than His Name. If we do not or cannot trust God's Word as He gave it to humanity to write down, then we have no hope of anything. That kind of hopeless existence is what Satan relies on to break the spirit of humanity and destroy our hope of a true relationship with God Almighty and God's Christ, despite God's promise that His Christ came to set us free from our burden of sin. If we follow Satan's spirit of doubt, and live by, "Yea, hath God said?", then we shall eternally suffer as Satan and his minions shall suffer in pain, loneliness, and darkness. That suffering is NOT what God wants for humanity. Therefore, Jesus came in a human body as sinless the Christ of God, to live sinlessly, to take our sin upon Himself, to shed His perfect blood and die in our place, then  to rise from the dead on the third day, exactly as He promised in both the Old and New Testaments. He did that to give us eternal life with Him, IF we are willing to humble ourselves, repent of our sin, call sin what God calls it, and receive by faith the risen Christ of God into our lives. He promises to save all who will do this and call upon Him. He promises to never leave nor forsake us, because we have stepped from unholy sin and darkness into God's light of redemption that only He can guarantee because He comes into us to dwell within, "...Christ in you, the hope of glory." That is not religion nor can religiosity acquire that for you, "...it is the gift of God, lest any man should boast."

God bless you to choose God's Word and God's Christ. Always test and prove all things in life by His Word. Don't try to mold God into your image or to manipulate Him to do what you wish he'd do to let you get away with your sin. He is not a toy nor a magic lantern to be rubbed at our whim. Jesus said, "Ye must be born again.", and that by the Holy Spirit of the Self-existent Eternal God of Creation, not by the works of the law nor the works of man. 

I pray that you turn away from your own ways and the ways of the world, and rather that you choose God and His ways to save you. Let Him live and work in your life.