Dale offers the prompt “in the evening light” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
A couple weeks ago I went to the ocean to watch the full moon rise. The first photo shows one of the pictures I took.
The second photo was taken some years ago in Tiberias watching the moon over the Sea of Galilee. The third was back at the Atlantic Ocean.
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Forgive? Because? Because. Because!
His love will be and always was
and even now in all He does
His love has overcome.
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Ronovan Hestor offers the inspiration “survive” for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. To survive in style you have to forgive. Or, put it this way, if you should happen to survive without His love, what good is it?
Also posted on Poet’s Corner.
Romans 8:38-39 KJV – 38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Unable to naturally get there from here, Brian began mythologizing. He wasn’t sure if he should make it new-age spooky or stick to his usual pseudo-science.
Trying to make a good impression he began at the beginning with In the beginning the universe popped itself out of nothing and after an eternity it randomly evolved into what we see today.
He realized that no one in his right mind would buy that, but just how many people actually were in their right minds today nobody knew.
Just in case there were still a few around, Brian continued with Then the witch told the wizard that if you keep stirring the pot eventually no one will be in his right mind.
None of this is supposed to make any sense, so don’t worry except for the fact that Brian has been stirring the pot ever since.
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Denise offers the prompt word “impression” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
Psalm 14:3 KJV – They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Dale offers the prompt “pick a colour” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
Since I am near huge bodies of water at the moment, I’ll choose the color blue.
To add contrast I’ll also include the reds and yellows of a sunset and the dark silhouettes of trees and maybe even some people if they get in the way.
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I found the following video on Dianne Marshall’s blog post this morning.
It is filled with Bible quotes.
Glancing at the channel’s playlists I doubt that I would agree with everything they teach, but the above video I could find no objection to. If you do, let me know in the comments.
The Holy Spirit provides the wisdom we all need to discern the truth.
I plan to select some of the verses presented in this video to use with my photography, such as the following:
The grave is empty. Risen King,
the One Who saves, to Him we sing.
There isn’t a more joyful thing
than walking where He leads.
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Ronovan Hester offers the inspiration “release” for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. The grave could not hold Him captive. Also posted on Poet’s Corner.
Matthew 28:2-7 KJV – 2 And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.
3 His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow:
4 And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men.
5 And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified.
6 He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.
7 And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you.
“I know the Bible better than you do,” Brian taunted trying to rattle Mark’s brain.
“Even the devil knows the Bible better than I do,” Mark quickly countered unsure just how much the devil actually knew about anything.
“I am – NOT – the devil 😈 😈 😈!”
“How do you know the devil’s not running your month?” Mark wondered -unfortunately out-loud.
“How do – YOU – know 😠 😠 😠?”
Not having a good comeback for this, Mark wondered if perhaps the devil does know the Bible better than he does having heard it from every Tom, Dick and Harry he unsuccessfully tried to harass – not that such knowledge could ever, any more, do the devil any good.
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Denise offers the prompt word “rattle” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
Matthew 4:5-6 KJV – 5 Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple,
6 And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Yesterday John Hartnett provided a model based on historic measurements collected by George F. Dodwell of the change in the earth’s tilt1 confirming the biblical chronology that Henry B. Smith, Jr argued for in 20182.
The date Hartnett’s model estimated for the flood event was 3154 ± 191 BC. That range excludes Ussher’s flood date of 2348 BC3 but Smith, Jr’s date of 3298 BC still fits.
If we use Smith, Jr’s chronology, that would put creation at about 5500 BC, Noah’s flood at about 3300 BC, the Tower of Babel at about 2850 BC, the call of Abraham in 2091 BC, the Exodus from Egypt in 1446 BC, Solomon crowned in 971 BC and the birth of Jesus in 2 BC.4
The reason for the discrepancy between Ussher’s and Smith, Jr’s dates is due to conflicting dates provided in the chronologies of Genesis 5 and 11 coming from different manuscript traditions of the Bible. Smith, Jr argued that the Hebrew manuscript which became the Masoretic text was modified in the first or second century after the fall of Jerusalem in 70 AD to void prophecies that Jesus could have been the Messiah. The Septuagint, however, preserved the original text, but the Masoretic text became the preferred source for modern bible translations.
Hartnett’s model not only excluded Ussher’s date, but it also estimated a date for something which happened affecting the tilt of the earth at a time which aligned with the biblical chronology that Smith, Jr has promoted.
Poetry, Short Prose and Walking 