Existence IS God

Thanks to the Judeo/Christian religions we have a  Bible that reveals there is a Creator...God.......the Bible reveals that God  ALWAYS existed and ALWAYS will. Since God always existed...it  means EXISTENCE   always was and always will be...duh!   The problem is understanding what Creation is.   Religion separated God from Creation which results in separating existence from EXISTENCE....a non-sequitur.  Creation is an infinite process NOT a beginning and Science is finally getting it right.

 The fundamental interpretation of Genesis 1 says "In the beginning..God Created heaven and earth. Obviously heaven was what the Bible writers could see with the naked eye,,.."they had no telescopes" ....they didn't even know the expanse of the planet they were on!  (Yes..God "rested" from His Creative work The Bible writers needed a beginning to  their limited Creation so they created one.    The gift of Science came to mankind and we became aware of our planets true nature and the vastness of the Cosmos AND Science said "IT HAD A BEGINNING" (Big Bang)  It was a revelation that verified the Bible writers "need" for a beginning.....BUT....Ironically...the Fundamentalists rejected the Science of the Big Bang just as they rejected Darwinian Natural Selection. (although they accept micro-evolution......obviously they have no choice because of the appearance of antibiotic resistant pathogens)

Now that Science has revealed an INFINITE Cosmos through the only "probe" left to understand reality.... ....(because it is impossible to break the Plank Limit (1 X 10-33cm) ......"mathematics." .... what  are the Fundamentals going to say now?  Fundamentals are not even aware of the fact that the Bible verifies INFINITY because they have no clue what Creation is.  They should have embraced "Big Bang" when they had the chance!   Frankly...most Christians.... including those of my own Faith, ....Catholicism.....don't even know the TRUE God revealed in the "flesh".2000 years ago in the Incarnation of Jesus Christ!  The reality of the TRUE God is  revealed in John4:24,John 14:8-23, Psalm 82:3-6, Galatians 3:26-28, Colossians 1:27, 1 Corinthians:3:16-17, 1 Corinthians 6:19-20,  and 1 John 4:16. 

(Incidentally..the ONLY way one can truly understand these Scriptures above is in understanding the Hebrew plural word "Elohim"  for God in Genesis. The "Trinity" is a Christian attempt to resolve the contradiction of monotheism vs polytheism...however....God the Father God the Son and God the Holy Spirit are NOT separate..they are manifestations of ONE.   You can "spin" it any way you want but it will not resolve the "Elohim" problem. Here's a "hint"....Jesus revealed that God is NOT separate from Creation....He is His Creation because He dwells WITHIN and works THROUGH His Creation and His PERFECT laws.) One last "hint"..."The supernatural is the undiscovered natural." (The Amazing Kreskin)

Science and Mathematics are NOT religion or philosophy,...,they are unbiased processes that reveal reality because they are repeatable by other people. The knowledge we learn from Science and Math builds upon itself and constantly results in clarifying and correcting previous knowledge.   The discovery of quantum mechanics has obviously given man a "new" tool to analyze the observed data  and correct possible errors made in previous theories as in the inflation of the Big Bang.  Correcting what was once thought as true theory is what Science is SUPPOSE to do...it doesn't or it SHOULDN"T cause people to fear and mistrust Science. Science is NOT evil...men are!  (sadly, the result of people mistrusting Science has caused them to embrace "pseudoscience" which suppresses TRUTH and enslaves human civilization to people who oppress human thought ,dignity and freedom. ie; man made global warming.

(A reminder.....much knowledge discovered by modern Science was first discovered mathematically and THEN verified later in the laborotory. ie;Einstein's Relativity)

 The Bible reveals that Jesus Christ will one day return to Earth exactly the same way He left 2000 years ago (Acts 1:8-11)  to restore the Kingdom of God "On Earth as it is in Heaven."  (some say to "consummate" the Kingdom already here in the hearts of believers.....frankly..I see no difference)....... Jesus said no one knows when but He did command us to watch for the "signs."  Throughout history, people have thought the "Second Coming: was imminent  .  Many people today are even more convinced the Biblical "signs" are evident and the return is soon. I suspect they are right.

(I personally believe the BIGGEST "sign" is the count down clock that started on May 14, 1948..the fulfillment of Christ's "Fig Tree Prophecy"...... the restoration of Israel.....in the Old Testament..the "Fig Tree" is symbolic of Israel.....  I suspect anti-Semitism is blinding many from understanding this critical prophecy. Many have even replaced Israel with the Church,..Replacement Theology.... therefore..the State of Israel has NOTHING to do with Christ's return.)

BTW...142 years ago the French Chemist Louis Pasteur proved, ...in his "S" shaped flask  experiment....  the existence of God when he discovered God;s Law of Biogenesis..."Life MUST come from pre-existing Life"

"NO ONE WAS LISTENING"


IN CONCLUSION...The debunking of the single Big Bang Theory  for Creation and replacing it with an INFINITE Cosmos could very well be the LAST "sign" of restoration.   The planet has sure had ENOUGH misery and suffering!

In Christ..David Brown-Oswego,NY

WHEN?

  When what?   Restoration of Israel? (already happened)  Coming Kingdom? (some say it already happened?)  The Rapture? (some say it's fantasy) Second Coming of Christ? (some say at the end of the world) What ends? (world or world order?)

(AND what does the Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu have to do with it? ARTICLE FOLLOWS MY COMMENTS)

Many scoff at those who ask the question "when?"  Well.........


Jesus doesn't even know "when." (Mathew 24:36)........

HOWEVER.... Jesus also said to be attentive to the "signs" of the time of restoration. (alleged "end times.") (Mark 13)  The Disciples of Christ were very much aware that Jesus was not teaching about the END OF THE PLANET...heck..they didn't even know they were on a planet!  They understood that the "world order" would be destroyed and that the "Kingdom" would be RESTORED to Israel  "some day." One thing is evident..Israel did "exist" as a free nation during the time of Jesus...in fact it didn't "exist" until May 14, 1948  in spite of "some" Christians claiming the Body of Christ IS ISRAEL.  (NOTE: the Body of Christ...the "Bride"..the "Church" is God "grafting all people to the "Tree of Life"...the "Fig Tree." Even the Jews are restored to the "Tree" through Jesus Christ and the fast growing Messianic Jewish movement is a "sign" of that TRUTH.)


(Acts 1:6-11)

6 Then they gathered around him and asked him, “Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?”

7 He said to them: “It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority. 8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

9 After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.

10 They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. 11 “Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.”

Another  important "sign" of restoration is the parable of the "Fig Tree." Jesus gave two versions of the parable. One version where He says a "barren" fig will be destroyed because it produced no fruit and this parable He put into action by physically destroying a "barren fig.". This parable to the individual believer who does not "serve those in need" (bear fruit or you will be "cut off the Vine"..Jesus Christ!)  Some think Jesus was referring to the destruction of Israel because historically.... the "Fig Tree." is symbolic of Israel. The problem with that interpretation is that Israel was ALREADY destroyed by Babylon and then Rome by the time of Jesus. (Hitler kept it going to try and detroy the Jews period....heck it seems EVERYONE is trying to fulfill Psalm 83:4 to this day and after 1948 they have to deal with an entire very powerful nation of Jews!)  

The second version of the Fig Tree parable  is specifically about restoration. The Disciples knew  Jesus was not talking about "figs"in the parable.....they knew He was referring to the restoration of the Nation of Israel. Anti-Semitic Christians (oxymoron if there ever was one!)  insist this is the Christian Church. (Replacement Theology....what these Christians fail to undestand is that BOTH Jew and Gentile are restored to the Kingdom of God through the Blood of Jesus Christ. Obviously "anti-Semitism " "blinds" them from understanding and leads them to apostasy and I suspect these apostate Christians think the restoration of Israel means Jews are saved through the Jewish religion. That's NOT what the restoration of Isreal is about.  It's about Jesus and His return to Earth as King of Kings and Lord of Lords  exactly the same way He left 2000 years ago. (Acts 1:9-11)

Matthew 24 is the "stumbling block" for correct Christian eschatology.   Amillenialists (Replacement Theology)  believe the Kingdom of God was restored by 70 AD and in fact believe Matthew 24 and the Book of Revelation Prophecies  were ALL fulfilled at that time and Jesus is Reigning as King at this time. (He IS in our hearts for the believer..not the whole planet!) These apostates believe His return is about the "end of the planet" and the final judgement.  Actually....this interpretation seems feasible UNTIL you consider the Prophecy of Isaiah 2:2-4...11:6-9 and 45:17   THEY HAVE NOT BEEN FULFILLED!  AND..if you study IN CONTEXT Matthew 24:15-37 it takes quite an imagination (fueled by anti-Semitism)  to imply this was ALL fulfilled in 70 AD.....especially when "Israel" was destroyed "again" in 132 AD by Emperor Hadrian. Heck..Isalam is attempting that today as we speak!

In conclusion.....no one know "when"   but we better be aware of 'when it is close."    Matthew 24:21  "For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now—and NEVER to be equaled again.  Read any papers lately?  No..you don't have to watch Fox News....the news is everywhere...."YOU AIN'T SEEN NUTTIN' YET!"   "SIGNS; IT IS HAPPENING" (thanks M. Night Shyamalan!...OH....UFOs and bad ET's is just  fantasy?  really? ..read Ephesians 6:12)

Pray for the Peace in Jerusalem and Israel...


ARTICLE ON NETANYAHU........................

Last days? Heavenly signs abound during Netanyahu speech
'Our own nation will be judged depending on how it acts in this moment'
Published: 16 hours ago



Religious leaders are warning that the United States is nearing a day of judgment based on its treatment of the nation of Israel.

What’s more, they say, signs in the heavens are coinciding with what is shaping up to be an unexpectedly controversial address by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on March 3 and a fiercely contested Israeli election weeks later.

Pastor Mark Biltz of El Shaddai Ministries warns that “our nation will be judged” based on whether the United States sides with or against the Jewish state.

Biltz believes signs in the heavens and correlations with feast days on the biblical calendar show such a judgment may be coming soon.

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Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

“When Netanyahu speaks before Congress on March 3, this is the day before the Fast of Esther when the enemies of Israel, specifically Persia/Iran, had planned to destroy the nation of Israel,” he said. “The next day is Purim, which celebrates the day Israel achieved victory over Iran. The timing significance of this is just as important as the timing of the blood moon.”

Biltz, author of “Blood Moons: Decoding the Imminent Heavenly Signs,” warns that the next blood moon is scheduled to appear over Passover, which begins April 3, just one month after Netanyahu’s speech.

And this will be preceded two weeks earlier by a total solar eclipse on March 20, three days after the Israeli election, and coincides with Nisan, the beginning of the New Year according to the biblical calendar.

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Such total eclipses only happen on Earth where they can be observed.

These prophetic warnings come amid unprecedented tumult in the American-Israeli relationship.

President Barack Obama and other leading Democrats say they will not be attending Netanyahu’s speech, and the White House condemned House Speaker John Boehner’s invitation as a breach of protocol.

Rep. Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress, is circulating a letter signed by 22 other House Democrats urging Boehner to delay the speech.

Top staffers in the Obama administration are also heavily involved in the political opposition to Netanyahu, who faces an election on March 17.

“God tells us in Genesis 1:14 that the heavenly bodies were created to serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years,” Biltz said. “But the word seasons is better translated as divine appointments, and here we have a solar eclipse and then a blood moon falling on the New Year and Passover respectively – all at a time when the Jewish state is under great persecution. God is trying to tell us something about a divine appointment.”

Pastor Ray Bentley of Maranatha Chapel in San Diego, California, enthusiastically agrees with Biltz and warns that Christians need to be “praying like they never prayed before.”

“Rabbis have a saying,” Bentley said, “that the word coincidence is not a kosher word. These kinds of signs show we are in a powerful, phenomenal time, a time of great testing for both Israel and the world.”

Bentley believes Israel is facing a “second Holocaust” and that Christians need to become more vocal in their defense of the Jewish state.

Pastor Biltz agrees and says the fact that Israel has become a partisan issue is nothing less than tragic.

“This shouldn’t be political,” Biltz said. “This is about the survival of Israel. Iran is the issue of the day. It is developing nuclear weapons. And our own nation will be judged depending on how it acts in this moment.”

Both Biltz and Bentley cited Joel 3:2 to justify their positions. The verse says the nations will be judged by God for having scattered the people of Israel among the nations and divided its land.

As Biltz puts it, “God says he will divide the sheep from the goats, one nation from another, and he will do it on the basis of those who supported Israel and those who didn’t.”

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140915bloodmoonsbookcoverLaurie Cardoza-Moore, founder of Proclaiming Justice to the Nations and special United Nations envoy for the World Council of Independent Christian Churches, said Israeli-American nations are at a crucial juncture.

“This is a critical turning point,” she said. “It seems that with Obama’s presidency, every year that goes by the relationship between Israel and the United States becomes more strained, and not because of the Israeli prime minister. The overwhelmingly majority of Americans support Israel and believe Israel has the right to defend itself against terrorism. But this president is trying to undermine Prime Minister Netanyahu.”

Cardoza-Moore believes Obama’s agenda goes behind simple opposition to Netanyahu.

“I see this as anti-Semitism,” she said. “The president of the United States has bought into the BDS movement.”

The BDS movement is the “Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions” campaign taking root on college campuses and in churches around the country. The goal of the campaign is to economically strangle the Jewish state to force concessions to the Palestinians.

However, Cardoza-Moore believes Netanyahu will receive a rapturous reception in Congress, “the body that really represents that American people. You will see standing ovation after standing ovation for this man.”

Pastor Bentley warns that “the nations will be judged collectively” on what they do in this moment. And he believes Christians need to be talking just as much about prophecies of the End Times as they do about prophecies of the past.

“We are told that Israel will be alone during this time,” Bentley said. “We may be seeing the beginnings of that process.”

Cardoza-Moore sees the controversy over Israel as core to the survival of the United States.

“There will be judgment upon this nation based upon how we act right now,” she said. “That’s all I can say.”

Did Adam and Eve have to eat before the Fall?

An interesting question raised in the article, following my comments,about eating food.........

 MY COMMENT...........

CONSUMING FOOD IS ABOUT  ENERGY.....(and growth) .....the "social aspects" in the article certainly adds to the "spiritual" .for humans and is a wonderful.. "gift" of God.....in sharing and love etc. ..Since the book of Genesis said that Adam and Eve could eat of any tree other than the "forbidden tree of knowledge"....animals..including man were vegetarians...why? ENERGY.. Primary heterotrophic nutrition (vegitatian/herbivores) is much more energy efficient than secondary consumerism (carnivore and predation)  which only )supplies 10% of the original energy of sunlight stored in  autotrophic life (green plants) through photosynthesis.  Because of the disobedience that lead to the "fall" in the Garden of Eden...secondary heterotrophic nutrition .became necessary for animals and man and energy flow in the food web became less efficient.

When the Lord Jesus returns to Earth..... (EXACTLY THE SAME WAY HE LEFT 2000 YEARS AGO...Acts 1:8-11) .... as King of Kings and Lord of Lords to restore the planet to the Cosmic Kingdom of God.....FOOD NUTRITION WILL BE RESTORED as well to the original energy EFFICIENT primary heterotrophic nutrition as Prophesied by Isaiah ....Chapter 11 verses 6-9.    (sorry McDonald's and Ponderosa etc!...change your menus!  we will no longer be omnivores)   BTW..those who INSIST in being obligate vegitarians today are not helping themselves or speeding up the transition because Jesus hasn't arrived yet for ALL life to be restored (Transfigured) to our "original state."  Because humans have been omnivores for such a long time.....there are some essential amino acids needed for protein sysnthesis that are found only in animal life and obligate vegitarians will suffer the consequences of nutritional deficiency.


Some of the CONFUSION on original sin and DEATH is understanding what kind of DEATH original sin created.....for humans..it is Spiritual death which means "SEPARATION" from God...NOT Biological death. When we accept Jesus Christ as our personal Savior through repentance  ..we are "born again" spiritually and are no longer separated from God...HOWEVER..we obviously still experience Biological death until we are Transfigured through Resurrection or Rapture if we happen to be "alive" when Jesus arrives.......which is highly posible because of the fulfillment of the "Fig Tree" Prophecy of Jesus on May 18, 1948..the restoration of Israel.  I know many Christians have accepted the apostasy that the Body of Christ..the Bride..the Church have REPLACED Israel .....such belief is unBiblical and shows ignorance of Covenant Theology.  The New Covenant in the Blood of Christ does NOT nullify the Old Testament or nullify the Covenants made with the Israelites...IT  VERIFIES and FULFILLS THEM.    Gentiles become "grafted" to the "Tree of Life"....... (revealed to the Jews in the Old Testament) ......through the New Testament AND ALL people who accept Jesus are saved.(grafted) Does this mean Jews are saved by the Old Covenants?  ABSOLUTELY NOT ....ALL humans INCLUDING  Jews are restored to the Cosmic Kingdom through the Blood of Christ..John 14:6.    The acceptance of Jesus as the Messiah by the Jews was prophesied and we are witnessing this event today.  Does this mean all Jews are saved?    It means ANY Jew that accept Jesus Christ for remission of sin are restored just like everyone else.....muslim...Hindu....Buddhist....New Ager....Atheist.  The Blood of Christ saves everyone who repents and obeys Christ..PERIOD.   Since we do NOT know the hearts of other human beings...we must NOT get into judgmental arguments of who is saved and who isn;t......we are God's Children..NOT GOD.   We are told not to judge least we be judged with the same measure and the parable of the "workers" in the vineyard should warn us that we cannot know who accepts Jesus because they may have accepted Jesus in the LAST milli-second of a person's Biological life......"just like the worker who came in to work for the last hour and got the same pay as the one who started in the morning and the one who started at noon."

Our job is to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ with everyone in humility and LOVE.....when we judge..we may be condemning them and ourselves. We have two essential actions we must take if we claim to accept Jesus as our Savior....TO our enemies....."Father forgive them for they know not what they do."  and TO everyone......the TRUTH of John 14:6......


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Did Adam and Eve have to eat before the Fall?

Posted on February 9, 2015
Did Adam and Eve have to eat before the Fall?

In today’s feedback, CMI’s Shaun Doyle explores some questions regarding the coherence of Genesis 1–3.

G.S. from Australia writes:

    I had a friend ask me a question and I am stumped with how to answer it.

        “Why did Adam and Eve even have to eat in the garden? You believe there was no death or sickness before they ate the fruit, so why did they need to eat anyway? You can’t say if was to sustain life because there was no death at the time. You can’t say to keep them healthy because there was no sickness. So what was the purpose in eating?”

    I have been pondering this for about a month now and cannot come up with a satisfactory answer for him. I know we do not need to know the answers to everything, but this was a genuine (and might I add, original—for me) question and I was wondering if you can help me here

    Cheers

CMI’s Shaun Doyle responds:

Dear G.,

Thank you for your email.

The Bible doesn’t tell us whether Adam and Eve needed to eat to live and stay healthy before the Fall, but your friend’s questions can be answered regardless of which view you take.

First, let’s say that Adam and Eve didn’t need to eat to live and stay healthy before the Fall. Even if so, it’s obvious that Adam and Eve were made to eat. God permitted Adam and Eve to eat from every tree in the Garden of Eden (except the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil), which implies that He didn’t need to command them to eat. Moreover, our bodies are designed to eat and digest food, and there’s every reason to think Adam and Eve were no different. And we get more out of eating than just sustenance—eating (when the food is good) is a pleasurable experience, and meals are a common means of human fellowship. There is still plenty of reason to eat even if someone doesn’t need to.

Now, let’s say that Adam and Eve needed to eat to survive and stay healthy before the Fall, and thus were physically capable of suffering malnutrition and starving to death. Even if so, just because they could starve to death doesn’t mean they would starve to death. God can create a world in which they wouldnot have suffered malnutrition or died through starvation before the Fall. All He would have to do is create a world in which the desire to eat is sufficiently strong in Adam and Eve that they would always choose to eat sufficiently to stave off malnutrition and death. In this scenario, God planned not only the end (avoidance of malnutrition and death before the Fall) but also the means to that end—eating food. Thus, your friend’s objection that “You can’t say to keep them healthy because there was no sickness” has it backward—it was because they would always choose to eat that they would have always stayed healthy!

Either solution works, given the biblical data—which one you prefer depends only on whether you think God would make eating food part of the means by which Adam and Eve were kept alive before the Fall or not. But plumbing the depths of what God would do is beyond my abilities, so I leave you with both solutions.

Kind regards
Shaun Doyle
Creation Ministries International

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