VIEW THIS EMAIL IN YOUR BROWSER From the book SWITCH ON YOUR BRAIN Quantum physics has as its basic ingredients free will, directed attention as the result of a choice, and the effects and conseque…
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By Will Myers A free liberal democracy is a far cry from our apparatus for electing officials to govern our nation. The guidelines and policies that are in place are also a far cry from the daily …
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By Will Myers
A free liberal democracy is a far cry from our apparatus for electing officials to govern our nation. The guidelines and policies that are in place are also a far cry from the daily interactions of each of our lives; to experience a free liberal democracy is not a reality realized by the populace. We have thousands of laws on the books and they are continuously growing. These laws are mostly in the spirit of the safety for the people but as they grow in number we are allowing the government to intrude into the private life of each citizen. Now, the government is not only peeping into our bedrooms but is rapidly gaining the status of being our parent; so much for a free liberal democracy.
The corporate worldviews of the executives and CEO’s in our nation are becoming very much aligned as being the same setting of the stage to increase fascism. We could say that they are becoming very politically correct. Who defines politically correct? It’s the dark world that targets private citizens (Ephesians 6:12; “ For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”). These special interest groups are supported by an oligarchy who controls America. Some of these groups can destroy a person overnight. Corporate executives who serve the agendas of these oligarchies are promoted into high positions; mind you, corporate executives are becoming politically correct in the same identical socio-political worldview. This system is not a free democracy. Our democracy is being hollered out from within.
From the groups that target private citizens, AntiChrist shall emerge from within our so-called free democracy. He shall be home grown; he shall be very popular with the people. We are on course for the emergence of AntiChrist very soon. The unfortunate thing is that we can not stop His emergence. We don’t have the collective sense. The collective egos with greed and disregard for God are assuring the rise of the AntiChrist (Revelation 13:18; “Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.”). The formal also implies with an additional scriptural support that AntiChrist shall control whether we can purchase food or not according to the electronic retail system at the time.
The Republicans support the agenda of the corporate powers much more than the democrats. With fascism rising due to the unified spirits in the corporate world and the fascist being a surrogate of the controlling oligarchy, Donald Trump is going to increase fascism and help to usher in the AntiChrist.
By Will Myers
With the atheist making giant steps by pushing God and Jesus our of public schools thereby stigmatizing their names to our youth. This has set a course for the youth becoming an atheist. Christianity has faced an increasingly intense attack for the past 20 years at least. Our defense is the rock of truth in our spirit.
Our offense in which it has become time is the Word of God. I won’t claim that the bible is absolutely perfect, but I will say that it is acceptable to God because it recognizes His Son as our Savior and Lord. If we counsel with Jesus, the Son of God, concerning anything, we then become perfect in the spirit.
The Gospel means “good news” because it prescribes the truth for our lives which has results of gratification, love, peace, and material gains.
The tongue is very powerful in our secular world, but it is even more powerful in the Holy Spirit of God. The tongue holds the power of life or death.
James 3; “[Taming the Tongue ] Not many of you should become teachers, my fellow believers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly. We all stumble in many ways. Anyone who is never at fault in what they say is perfect, able to keep their whole body in check. When we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we can turn the whole animal. …”
2 Timothy 4:2; “Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction.”
Without love the person is a robot; without love, we have nothing even if we obey the scriptures. God is love. God’s works began at the beginning of creation predating the creation and development of mankind and that is to make people believe in whom he was planning to send.UspVsp=Q; the law of God’s righteousness in Jesus Christ; the Christ Mind.
Are we alone?
This question has intrigued humanity for millennia. Hollywood has made billions of dollars producing movies that speculate on the answer. Philosophers and theologians have spent countless hours debating this very question. Even late-night talk show hosts and tabloid journalists have joined the game. Only for the last few decades have scientists been able to contribute any hard data; but the data they provide make a compelling case that Earth alone is designed to support life. Here are two recent examples.
Science Daily ran an article with a great headline, “The Aliens Are Silent because They’re Dead.” The title refers to Fermi’s Paradox. If, as some calculations show, the galaxy is teeming with alien societies, where are they? Why haven’t we seen them here on Earth or at least detected some signals from them in outer space? Scientists have proffered many answers. Perhaps Earth is a big zoo where these aliens observe us in an undetectable way. Maybe after a cost-benefit analysis, the aliens decided against colonizing the galaxy. The people claiming to see UFOs assert that aliens arevisiting Earth, but Science Daily describes a more logical option.
Habitable Planets Need Life
From the moment life first appeared on Earth, it began altering the face of the planet. From changing the atmospheric oxygen and nitrogen, to enriching the oceans with nutrients and removing poisons, to recycling Earth’s biomass, life keeps Earth habitable. Now consider a recently formed habitable planet orbiting a star, and assume this planet actually hosts life. What would happen if that life did not change its environment quickly enough to counteract the dramatic astronomical and geologicalchanges that occur on a young planet? The planet would experience runaway heating or cooling and any life would rapidly die.
It seems that many (if not all) exoplanets with hypothetical life could see that life snuffed out before it makes the planet sufficiently habitable. The scientists involved refer to this as a Gaian bottleneck.1 Such a scenario highlights Earth’s remarkable characteristics, which enable our world to support a diverse array of life 4.5 billion years after it formed.
Habitable Planets Need Rotations
Another possible scenario that would make advanced life rare (or unique to Earth) relates to the circadian rhythms (internal clocks) that govern our bodies. Studies show mice with circadian rhythms out of sync with Earth’s rotation have dramatically lower survivability compared to mice with a 24-hour rhythm.2 If circadian rhythms could vary without bounds, then presumably life would simply adapt to the host planet’s rotation period. However, if bounds exist, then only planets with the proper rotation rate could host complex life. One relevant scenario where this would apply is on planets around M-dwarf stars. Since these stars make up 75 percent of all stars many scientists hold hope that exoplanets around M-dwarfs will host life. However, planets in the habitable zone around these stars don’t rotate. Consequently, it would be impossible to align the circadian rhythms of any hypothetical life with the planet’s clock. Given the unusual set of events that determine Earth’s rotation, such as the collision that formed the Moon, maybe otherwise habitable exoplanets could not host advanced life.
Astronomers still need to learn more before we can truly answer whether life exists beyond Earth’s confines. The advances they have made so far continue to support the idea that only Earth is designed to support life. Such an idea comports well with the biblical description of God who created and fashioned Earth for just that purpose.
Subjects: Astronomy, Exoplanets
“Who said anything about safe? ’Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you.”1
This line—from my favorite book in C. S. Lewis’s remarkable children’s series—makes it clear that Aslan, the Christ figure of Narnia, is no tame lion. But his being dangerous does not rule out his profound benevolence.
Like Lewis’ ferocious feline, ideas, including those of belief systems, can also be dangerous. And if Christianity encompasses ideas that are “not safe,” then is it not therefore a risky and hazardous religion?
One of my longtime friends, an atheist, agrees that historic Christianity includes dangerous ideas. However, from his point of view, the Christian faith affirms irrational and superstitious ideas that are not just unsafe, but harmful. He believes these ideas are injurious both for those who believe them as well as for those who are affected by them.
Alternatively, I believe Christianity’s distinctive and essential ideas (or doctrinal truths) are rational and in fact do correspond to reality. Though these Christian truth-claims are “dangerous” in the sense that they often challenge accepted consensus (especially in modern and postmodern eras), I would argue that they’re still good.
“Dangerous ideas” in such disciplines as philosophy, theology, and science often challenge the standard paradigm (accepted model) of the day. These so-called unsafe ideas have radical implications for how people view reality, truth, rationality, goodness, value, and beauty, and can sometimes contravene what many people believe. Not only do such revolutionary ideas threaten accepted beliefs, but they also contain explosive world-and-life view implications for all humanity.
Historic Christianity contains numerous beliefs that are theologically and philosophically volatile (in the best sense of the term). The Christian faith contains powerful truth-claims that have transformed the church and even turned the world upside down.
I’ve written a book titled 7 Truths That Changed the World that explores seven of historic Christianity’s dangerous ideas, and this article briefly examines what I consider to be the Christian faith’s most dangerous idea.
Not All Dead Men Stay Dead—the Resurrection of Jesus Christ
Naturalists (nature is the exclusive reality) believe that death is the final end of one’s life and existence and there is no escape from this inevitable consequence. In other words, the Grim Reaper doesn’t play favorites. Not only does everyone die but everyone also stays dead forever. There are no exceptions to this certain naturalistic fate.
From this perspective, any belief system that affirms life after death is sheer wishful thinking. Death is the great equalizer—it comes for everyone. This life is all there is so make the most of it. There is, then, no meaning to life other than what people can hope to create for themselves. Yet this bleak predicament fills men’s hearts with legitimate angst and dread. Everything that a person builds in this life is broken down completely and permanently by death.
In stark contrast to the naturalistic worldview’s melancholy and hopeless dilemma, historic Christianity’s most dangerous idea is that one man—Jesus Christ—died but didn’t remain dead. Following his public crucifixion, he rose from the dead on the first Easter morning. Therefore at the center of Christianity’s earliest preaching and teaching (kerygma) is the solemn proclamation that Jesus Christ lived on Earth, conquered death, and thus remains the living Savior and Lord.
Several strands of formidable evidence back Jesus’ historic bodily resurrection from the grave. These interwoven elements include the empty tomb, Jesus’ post-crucifixion appearances, the transformation of the apostles, the conversion of Saul of Tarsus, the change in the day of worship from the Sabbath to the Lord’s Day, and finally the emergence of the historic Christian church itself.
The implications of this perilous proposition are staggering and life-changing. Jesus Christ has accomplished what the collective testimony of humanity says is not possible—he rose bodily from the dead!
Here are two promising consequences of the resurrection for those who know Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.
First, Christ’s resurrection is the answer to mankind’s greatest existential predicament—death. The resurrection provides hope, purpose, meaning, and confidence in the presence of death (John 11:25–26; Romans 14:7–8).
Second, Christ’s resurrection is the pledge and paradigm for the future bodily resurrection of all believers (1 Corinthians 6:14; 15:20, 2 Corinthians 9:14; Philippians 3:21; Colossians 1:18; 1 Thessalonians 4:14). Because he rose, believers will also rise.
Unfortunately, many Christians do not genuinely appreciate just how shocking and dangerous the idea of Jesus’ resurrection really is. Christian philosopher Stephen T. Davis explains: “Christians today do not seem to be astonished at the idea of resurrection (after nearly two thousand Easters, we seem to have gotten used to the idea), but we ought to be.”2
If, as a Christian, this most dangerous of all ideas doesn’t rock your world-and-life view, then maybe your faith has become too safe. And if you’re not a Christian, welcome to Christianity’s dangerous ideas. Prepare for a venture into a historic faith that reveals even more incredibly explosive truths.
Our Bodies Compared
| Earthly Body | Resurrection Body |
| Mortal | Immortal |
| Dishonorable | Glorious |
| Weak | Powerful |
| Natural | Spiritual |
Endnotes
By Will Myers The Son of God, Jesus, is the flesh of God’s perfect Law, not as man’s perception of God’s Law which is in the spirit of error inherent with corruption. Man can neve…
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29 Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.
29 Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”
29 Yeshua (Jesus) replied to them, “God wants to do something for you so that you believe in the one whom he has sent.”
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