Defending the Faith, Evangelizing the Eschaton
I was honored to speak with Clyde Lewis this week on what he has labeled the “alien cuckoo effect,” listen in, I think it makes a great analogy.
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Lazaro Hermida http://goo.gl/HfMA0B
File this one under “a nation under judgment”… you might think “so what?” old news right… well, yeah but I’ve been resisting theologically “going there.” After reading the following story, I just created a new Word Press category for this website “Nation Under Judgment” (incredible as it may seem, prepare yourself to morn for the morals of a decade ago) I do think this applies, (*in principle, not context) to our nation, the USA:
“For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their reasoning, and their senseless hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, … Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to immorality, that their bodies would be dishonored among themselves,(Romans 1:21–24)
According to the legal authorities of the state of California, we’re suppose to believe that a pubescent thirteen-year old girl is at fault for being repeatedly raped by Elkis Hermida, her twenty-eight year old math teacher. That’s right… she is held partially responsible rather than the twenty-eight-year old, college-educated, state-licensed professional who is paid by taxpayers (like her parents) to teach the young victim. When hired he agreed to a Code of Conduct which is available for all to examine. He egregiously violated that legally binding code.
The California jury was also brazen enough to decide that since the rape sort of seemed consensual the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) of was really NOT GUILTY of neglecting this young child while she was statutorily raped. …repeatedly. Of course, to those of us who remmeber what America used to be like something as blatantly stupid as this begs credulity… so much so I sincerely thing it must be supernatural – I suppose I refuse to believe otherwise sane adult human beings can be this stupid without a powerful supernatyrally evil influence. I call it the Paranormal Paradigm Shift and I wrote a detailed warning predicting this and much more in The Supernatural Worldview (click to order a new signed copy for less than Amazon list)
See: L.A. School Blamed Teen for Teacher Sex Abuse
* It’s probably no longer safe to send your young children to public schools in larger metropolitan and urban areas.
The Kentucky clerk of court recently jailed for refusing to issue same sex marriage licenses Kim Davis’ attorney, Mat Staver, compared Davis to Martin Luther King Jr. “She’s not going to resign, she’s not going to sacrifice her conscience, so she’s doing what Martin Luther King Jr. wrote about in his Letter from the Birmingham Jail, which is to pay the consequences for her decision,” (source)
Read one of the most important books of the year on this subject: Outlasting the Gay Revolution: Where Homosexual Activism Is Really Going and How to Turn the Tide
Seems that Judge parker is far more intolerant that Davis. So the bigotry falls squarely on the shoulders of the same sex marriage camp. While people with moral character are imprisoned, criminal lesbian activists like Judge Parker operate above the law with impunity and are even publicly celebrated.
I highly recommend these books:
The Same Sex Controversy
A Queer Thing Happened to America
In honor of Rob Skiba’s “having your cake and eating it too” position of being a “questioning globalist” while maintaining a website The Flat Earth Theory dedicated to popularizing intellectually bankrupt flat earth theories, I would like ask him a new question. In fact, the question is directed to all who question the spherical shape of the earth.
How can an airplane like the Rutan Model 76 Voyager fly without refueling or stopping, in straight course and end up right where it started, if the earth is not a sphere? It’s been done many times now. That is the challenge, please use diagrams and mathematics to show how this is possible given your flat earth model. see
Correction: the course was not perfectly straight, rather the navigated around mountains and whatnot but the heading was still relatively straight. Here is the exact course (which still falsifies a flat earth):
Guess what? It had already been done back in 1949, traveling straight without landing once, but they refueled in the air. The flight instrumentation is very precise and the pilots navigated a straight course around the globe, how so given a flat earth?
The first non-stop flight around the world was made by, again, a team of the US Air Force flyers in 1949. Taking off from Carswell Air Force base in Fort Worth, Texas on 26 February, Captain James Gallagher and a crew of 14 headed east in a B-50 Superfortress, called Lucky Lady II. They were refuelled four times in air by KB-29 tanker planes of the 43rd Air Refuelling Squadron, over the Azores, Saudi Arabia, the Philippines and Hawaii. The circumnavigation was completed on 2 March, having traveled 94 hours and 1 minute, covering 37 743 km (23,452 miles) at an average 398 km/h (249 mph). http://www.didyouknow.cd/aroundtheworld/flight.htm
What makes this all the worse, is that proponents of flat earth belief attempt to use the Bible to support the false belief. I agree that some passages imply a flat earth with a dome over it. But teaching earth science was not the purpose of those passages. God used ancient human authors and ancient human language to convey a moral/theological message. The original authors had a lot of backward superstitious beliefs but God still used them because he was not teaching a scientific message to modern people. To rip scripture out of its ancient context in order to answer a modern scientific concern–that would have not even occurred to the original author–is an abuse.
The Bible is a collection of 66 books by over 40 authors over a period spanning 1400 BC to 90 AD. The meaning of scripture is what the original author intended for the original reader and it is our job as moderns to learn what that was. It was not written to 21st century people, it was written to ancient people in ancient Hebrew and Greek, so it is written for us but not to us. It was written to the ancient folks, so we must endeavor to understand it in its ancient context not impose our own. Using the Bible to determine a scientific question like the shape of the earth is abusing the Bible the same way skeptics do in order to dismiss its moral authority. It’s about theology and morality, not science.
The earth was proven to be a sphere in around 170- 180 BC by Eratosthenes, a
Eratosthenes
Greek scholar that lived in 275-194 B.C. in Alexandria, Egypt. He invented the discipline of geography, including the terminology still used today. Please follow the links to learn about the incredible power of mathematics. God created a mathematically discernible reality that we can describe in equations. The rational intelligibility of the universe is one of the strongest evidences for intelligent design — creation was designed by a logical mathematical mind. Indeed, math is the language of creation, it is God’s language. If your beliefs do not agree with the math, you’re probably in error.
You can use high school level math and geometry prove the earth is a sphere for yourself. It’s not at all controversial.
I have some of the Contradict bumper stickers leftover from my presentation at the Pike’s Peak prophecy conference a couple weeks ago. I have 20 black ones left over and am offering them free with any book purchase from my Amazon store, linked here: On the Path of the Immortals, The Supernatural Worldview, Blood on the Altar, Exo-Vaticana, Petrus Romanus
In The Supernatural Worldview religious pluralism is discussed and found wanting in light of what Jesus taught:
Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few. (Matthew 7:13–14)
All religions can be false or one can be true and the others false but they cannot all be true. All religions make contradictory truth claims about God, Jesus, and the nature of reality. If you are troubled by the contradictory implications of the “Coexist” sticker then the Contradict sticker is the perfect response.
Limited to first 20 purchases, I will post a comment below when they run out.
I ran out of stickers 8/25/2015
