In the dining car of the express train to hell Ryan motioned for the waiter. When the waiter arrived he complained about the quality of the food saying, “Any decent chef would know how to prepare steak and don’t forget I’m riding your train first class.”
Sitting across the aisle from Ryan was a woman who escalated her protest of his butchery of sentient life forms as soon as she heard him order the steak special. Pointing to her with his thumb Ryan asked the waiter, “And could you, please, do something about that?”
The waiter apologized saying he would personally scold the chef, however, he regretted that he could not do anything about Ryan’s fellow passenger since she also held a first class ticket. Not wanting to further alarm the woman the waiter bent down and whispered an assurance in Ryan’s ear that shortly after reaching their destination he would never see her again.
Denise offers the prompt word “express” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
His promises He’s come to keep. Deception’s seen through flashy art as idols fall and drift apart. Where demons dug delusions deep the truth’s now clear. The liars weep. Here comes the morning freshly made as night departs and star lights fade. It’s now we fully understand. We are the bride. We take His hand. Our ransom long ago was paid.
Ronovan Hester offers the rhyme word “art” to be used in a B-line of a décima having rhyme pattern ABBAACCDDC for this week’s challenge.
The half-life of carbon-14 is under 6,000 years. No carbon-14 should be detectable in fossils claimed to be over 100,000 years old. But that is what has been found. Carbon-14 has been found in both dinosaur soft tissue and also in diamonds claimed to be many millions of years old.
Ian Juby shows how the presence of carbon-14 undermines the reliability of dating methods in the video below.
Weekly Bible Reading:Luke and John Commentaries: David Pawson, Luke, Part 4, John, Part 5Unlocking the Bible Bible Project, Luke 1-9, Luke 10-24, John 1-12, John 13-21 Weekly Torah Readings 6 Shevat, 5782, Bo: ParashatExodus 10:1-13:16; HaftaratJeremiah 46:13-46:28
Beatriz’ sister told her that she could get her six-year-old son healed from his stomach pains that often left him wincing and crying for a mere $70. The bill from the hospital had already reached thousands of dollars with no hope that her son would ever get better.
Beatriz had no doubt that what her sister offered would work since she knew many who were healed through those means. However, she also knew there would be hidden costs living under the charm of a deceitful lullaby.
Within two months her son breathed his last and was buried in the church cemetery attended by friends who had prayed for them seemingly without success. However, right up to her own death forty years later Beatriz was grateful for those prayers which gave her the strength to reject her sister’s screaming, blaming and hell-bound insistence that she exchange her and her son’s souls for temporary relief.
Dale offers the prompt “show us your Christmas” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge. I am posting some photos of the sunrise over the Atlantic Ocean on Christmas morning.
The evolutionary view claims that some transition from animal to man occurred over millions of years. There are four general objections to this view: (1) the small amount of fossil evidence allegedly confirming the transition is contested even by evolutionists, (2) radioactive dating of the age of those fossils exaggerates the amount of time between fossil layers, (3) genetic evidence shows we have less in common with animals than previously suspected, and (4) genetic entropy shows that random mutations filtered through natural selection, the supposed mechanism of evolution, leads to extinction, not evolution.
The following video is a presentation by Christopher Rupe, co-author with John Sanford of Contested Bones discussing the contested fossils.
The other author, John Sanford, added genetic entropy as evidence showing that there could have been no evolutionary path from animal to man through random mutations. Genetically we are too different from animals. Furthermore, random mutations are deleterious. What they lead to is mutational meltdown which precedes extinction.
Only from a Christian perspective is there any hope out of this mutational meltdown scenario for life on earth. We look forward to the second coming of Jesus, the new heaven, the new earth and our resurrection bodies.
After rereading this I wondered: Aren’t we already “animals”, even if evolution is false? To make sure I have a biblical worldview let me check what Genesis 1 says about creation order.
There I read that we were a separate created kind made in the image of God and specifically made as male and female on day six. We (adamאָדָם) have the same Creator as animals (behemahבְּהֵמָה) and we were made to live on the same earth where plants are food for both animals and us. This accounts for the similarities we have with them, but we are not animals anymore than we are birds or fish.
Weekly Bible Reading:Matthew and Mark Commentaries: David Pawson, Matthew, Part 2, Mark, Part 3, Unlocking the Bible Bible Project, Matthew and Mark Weekly Torah Readings 28 Tevet, 5782, Va’eira: ParashatExodus 6:2-9:35
He’s there for every foe or friend. The special gift of Christmas day foreshadows sacrifice and may our hearts renew, our false ways end. While there’s still time let praises send our gratitude beyond our tears. Rejoice! His Spirit watches, hears as we are blessed with penitence for wanderings that made no sense. We wait. Come soon – the Lord appears.
Ronovan Hester offers the rhyme word “friend” to be used in an A-line of a décima having rhyme pattern ABBAACCDDC for this week’s challenge.
Johnny didn’t trust anyone because he knew they were a lot like himself and knowing himself he knew better. He didn’t think there was anything wrong with his own behavior because when dogs ate dogs the rats better watch out.
After all, wasn’t it the point of the game, the purpose of life, to get more stuff than the other guy before one died? He just didn’t like it when someone pulled a fast one on him and wasn’t fair.
Surveying his wealth Johnny was proud of all he had been able to accumulate before he died. However, on the final day of his life, too weak to chase them off, he watched dogs fight over his treasures and rats clean up the crumbs.
Denise offers the prompt work “fair” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
Poetry, Short Prose and Walking 