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Would you please pray for us. The doctor says that Pauline has developed a wasting disease. I, Bryce, have been told I have a serious lung disease which the doctors say could be fatal. I was hoping to be around another 10 years or so to nurse Pauline. Please pray for us. Please pray for a miracle, that our conditions are not serious after all and I will remain well enough to look after Pauline.

Sadly, Bryce died at home on the morning of Wednesday the 8th of March 2006 from heart failure, having been diagnosed with lung cancer. Although we are shocked at the suddenness of his death, we are grateful that Bryce didn't have to endure a long and painful illness and that he was at home, which is what he really wanted. He is now with the Jesus he loves so much.

"We'll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing Him directly just as He knows us!"

1 Corinthians 13:12 (The Message)

Please continue to pray for Pauline.

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MORMON CHURCH PROVED TO BE FALSE!
GOOD NEWS FOR MORMONS ("Latter-day Saints") FORMER MORMONS AND THOSE WHO HAVE MORMON FRIENDS AND RELATIVES!

When you've been trapped in a cult, news like this is literally a 'God send'. Any former Mormon will be delighted at this news and if you are a Mormon reading this, it is proof the Mormon Church is false.

Any Mormon will tell you that the American Indians are really the descendants of a Jew named Lehi (the Book of Mormon people). For this to be true Jewish DNA will be present in today's native Americans. If it is not present - the Book of Mormon is false and the founder, Joseph Smith, lied. Therefore the Mormon Church is false, a deception.

EXTENSIVE RESEARCH has been completed taking DNA from tribes THROUGHOUT the American continent and it has been found that native Americans came from East Asia. None of them have Jewish DNA! To put it another way, none of their ancestors 2000 years ago can have originated in Israel as the Book of Mormon claims! 99.4% of them have DNA showing their ancestors originate mainly from Siberia and some from Mongolia (The remaining 0.6% had DNA from Europe acquired post 1492).

WHO CARRIED OUT THE RESEARCH? Yes, it was Mormon Scientists! All highly respected in their own field. Amongst them are:
Randall Shortridge Ph.D. molecular biologist, University at Buffalo (NY).
Thomas Murphy, Mormon anthropologist and scholar.
Simon Southern, Ph.D. molecular biologist and former Bishop.
Trent Stephens, Ph.D. Idaho State University, biologist and Mormon scholar.
Dr. David Glenn Smith, molecular anthropologist, University of California, Davis.
Dr. Dennis O'Rourke, molecular anthropologist, University of Utah.
Dr. Stephen L Whittington, anthropologist and leading expert on genetics of Central America, University of Maine.
Dr. John McLaughton, Linguist, Utah State University.

"We have a problem...." said Thomas Murphy. Another said, "This DNA evidence today would prove Joseph Smith a liar." It would be an open and shut case of fraud! The above have either left the Mormon Church or considering their position.

When confronted by this evidence by German TV, Mormon President, Gordon B Hinkley said, "It hasn't been determined yet. It is speculation. No one really knows!" WELL, THAT IS AS DISHONEST AS JOSEPH SMITH'S BOOK OF MORMON!

For more discussion on the above and where you can obtain more evidence and even obtain a video showing these scientists explaining their discovery. You can see Hinkley for yourself denying this discovery, click here.

One final point; I've just heard on the news that a local pastor somewhere in the West Midlands of England has been taken to court by the Mormon Church to stop him standing outside the local Mormon church and "shouting" at the people going inside. This is not the way to witness to Mormons - he may think he is doing what the Holy Spirit is telling him to do but he is listening to the wrong voice! We have to witness to them with love. If you witness to them like this, all you will be doing is confirming to them that they are, "the only true church". Mormons have a persecution complex which confirms to them their"truth". It will be totally counter productive.
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In this issue we have summarised the whole of the 13 part study of the Science of Creation that we have included in Challenger over the last two and a half years. It showed that the crack-pot theory of evolution cannot possibly have taken place – if you follow true science and not just atheistic propaganda.

"During the next few decades there will be two distinct moves of the Holy Spirit across the church in Great Britain. The first move will affect every church that is open to receive it and will be characterised by a restoration of the baptism and gifts of the Holy Spirit. The second move of the Holy Spirit will result in people leaving historic churches and planting new churches. In the duration of each of these moves, the people who are involved will say, 'This is a great revival.' But the Lord says, 'No, neither is the great revival but both are steps towards it.'

"When the new church phase is on the wane, there will be evidence in the churches of something that has not been seen before; a coming together of those with an emphasis on the word and those with an emphasis on the Spirit. When the word and the Spirit come together, there will be the biggest move of the Holy Spirit that the nation and indeed the world has ever seen. It will mark the beginning of a revival that will eclipse anything that has been witnessed within these shores, even the Wesleyan and Welsh revivals...."

I believe that revival is taking place now through the Holy Spirit and the Word showing that religious organisations are superfluous.. Since 1947 we have witnessed the decline of the “historic” churches and the planting of new Christian fellowships in every major town and city which were only steps towards revival. Most of the Christian fellowships have fallen into the same carnal trap as the traditional churches. These churches and fellowships are the greatest hindrance to revival.

COMMENT: Revival cannot be measured by numbers and how many join the churches (that is Babylonian Christianity) but by the quality of belief demonstrated by the Holy Spirit and the Word in the lives of the true followers of Jesus.

Imagine, like millions in the UK, you are an unbeliever but searching for the truth - searching for Jesus although you don't realise it. Perhaps you are wondering what is this thing people call “Christianity”. You immediately think of great cathedrals, church buildings, Sunday collections, flowing “reverends” and even on this day see the new Archbishop of York dressed as a pagan priest wearing a representation of the pagan sun-fish god Dagon (the head with open mouth worn as a mitre and the rest of the fish forming a cloak). Dagon was the god of Babylon and Philistia, (Judges 16:23, 1 Samuel 5:2-7 and 1 Chronicles 1:10). What are people to make of this performance? The most probable reaction will be one of a feeling of how irrelevant this pantomime is to today. Much as I respect and admire the person of Dr John Sentamu who will surely blow the cobwebs off the Anglican Church, there is no doubt what his costume represents is pagan. Like so many Christians, John Sentamu is caught up in Babylonian Christianity. (See future issues of Challenger.)

By complete contrast on the same day we saw the quiet dignity of Gee Walker standing outside the court declaring quietly that she forgives Michael Barton and Paul Taylor for killing her Christian son Anthony Walker with an ice axe. She explained that Jesus forgave His killers and she forgave them. She even said she admired one of his killers for expressing regret for the killing. Now I don't know about you but I find that rather overwhelming and am full of respect and admiration for her. I hope those who meet with her stand up when she comes into the room!

Father in heaven, help us to be true witnesses for Jesus. Help us to truly glorify Your son, our Saviour. Help us to understand what will give Him the glory and what will not – and help us to know the difference. Amen.

Remember we said in a recent issue of Challenger that it was the EU's objective to divide the UK (and other EU countries) into regions and eventually abolish national frontiers? The latest move towards this regionalisation is the Government's requirement that our 43 police forces of England and Wales be reduced to 12 regions, 10 in England plus 1 in London and 1 in Wales. These 12 police forces are based on the EU's regions for England and Wales (no surprises there!).

This is also confirmation that the rejected EU constitution has not gone away either. It will be introduced piece by piece surreptitiously by the “back door”. Our politicians seem determined to allow this Godless and corrupt institution to rule over us. Corrupt? Daniel Hannan MEP says he has reached the conclusion that the system is beyond reform. He was speaking of, “Chunks of the EU's £70 billion budget are being lost or stolen,” and that, “If a private company behaved this way... the directors would be lucky to escape prison.” The Background to this was that for the 11th year running the European Court of auditors refused to approve the EU's accounts!

The progressive Anglican organisation “Affirming Catholicism” has announced the publication of a booklet calling on the Church to welcome the development of gay marriage, which is now legal in Britain in all but name, as a means of listening to the experience of lesbian and gay Christians. Former Archbishop of York, Dr. David Hope, a deeply traditional Anglican on the Catholic wing of his church, whose own sexual orientation he once described as “a grey area”, has said that he cannot see any resolution to “the well-worn arguments” within the Anglican Communion about homosexuality and women priests in his lifetime.

Recently a further row broke out over a letter from Archbishops in the ‘Global South’ to the Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams, challenging his liberal views on homosexuality. They criticised him for not taking a firmer stand against the American Episcopal Church for consecrating a practising homosexual. They said this was “unrepentant sexual immorality” which is “an offence so flagrant that Paul insisted that the sinner be expelled from the fellowship and one of a type of sin which he said would cut the offender off from the kingdom of heaven.” Evangelicals in Wimbledon, in a further display in support of the Bible, invited a bishop from South Africa to ordain 3 men as they refused to use their own bishop, Tom Butler, Bishop of Southwark because of his unbiblical stance on homosexuality.

COMMENT: Praise God for these brave Anglicans who are upholding morality, for the Church in Ulster which has protested about Civil Partnerships and for the authorities in the Hebrides who have banned Civil Partnerships. As any follower of Jesus knows, Leviticus 18: 22 clearly states that homosexuality is wrong. Therefore there can be no arguments – well worn or otherwise. Remember Revelation 18: 4 when you put your money into the collection box, you are sharing in the Harlot Church's sins which are piled up in heaven!

A poll for a “Christian Church” recently showed that 54% of people said they believed in God but only 21% said they believed in a Christian God. 28% said they believed God rewards them for good works whereas only 3% said He would punish them for evil works. 64% said they believed in some form of life after death. 44% believed when they died they would go to some form of heaven and the poll was unable to register any who believed they would go to a hell. 19% said they believed in reincarnation. 70% said they believed in ghosts. A staggering 93% said they believed there was life elsewhere in the universe whilst 33% said they believed in the existence of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and 14% said they had actually seen a UFO. 11% said they believed the God of the Old Testament was a visitor from elsewhere in the universe. Of those who believe in ghosts, 31% admitted TV fiction had played an important roll in convincing them..

COMMENT: Interesting reading but apparently the poll was unscientific because 2,843 people were stopped at random in the streets of central London last September. Whilst the number sampled was OK, the randomness was questionable and a further 2,843 could be questioned showing quite different results.

The smoke of a great war is rising on the horizon of the Middle East. Some would say that the war is already here. Only recently rockets were fired at Israel close to the southern Gaza border. The Israeli army did not respond to that attack. However, after a second Qassam was fired at an Israeli Negev community, Israeli gunners returned fire with artillery rounds at areas from which Qassam and mortar attacks were launched from Gaza. The army said that Israeli forces will respond harshly to all Palestinian rocket and shelling attacks on Israel. Nevertheless, what we see today is only a foreshadowing of the great war to come as was the war in 1967.

We have all read the prophecy about Gog and his allies who invade from the north. His chief ally, Persia (Iran), is now believed to be a nuclear force with bombs hidden deep underground. Their President, Ahmedinejad, has called for Israel's total annihilation and claims the Holocaust was a Jewish lie. Iran seems determined to inflame the situation and to mobilise Muslims against Jews to gain control over the whole of Biblical Israel. Even within our own borders we see Muslims increasingly attacking Israel. Part of the Muslim theology is to eradicate the Jews.

In Ezekiel's famous narrative, we see that Israel will arise from the smoke of battle as the victor just the same as in 1967 when they were attacked. People seem to forget that it was the invasion by Arab countries in the first place which caused Israel to drive them back into Judea and Samaria (West Bank) and then occupy it. All this is the build-up to the events prophesied in Ezekiel which many thought was taking place in 1967 but that was just a skirmish by comparison. This time Gog and the Muslim nations will try to wipe Israel out completely.

Ezekiel tells of Judah and Israel being joined once more and the King would reign over the kingdom. Chapters 37-39 tell of the destruction of Israel's future enemies lead by Gog. The time is now, between Israel returning to the land and the start of the Millennium (not to be confused with Revelation 20: 8 which refers to a period after the Millennium).

WHO IS GOG? He is the prince of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal, the ancient names of Russia, Moscow and Tobolsk. They will advance south against Israel's unwalled towns and cities. Gog will swarm over the land of Israel and God's wrath will be kindled. There will be a great earthquake in the land and Gog and his forces will be terrified by fire, brimstone, rain, bloodshed and pestilence. Gog will meet utter destruction and his weapons strewn on the mountains will make excellent fuel

Dame Elizabeth Sloss, a High Court Judge in the Family Division, said that the Government is undermining marriage and the bringing up of children. She said, “Marriage remains the most stable of relationships between men and women.”

The Turkish gunman, Mehmet Ali Agca, who attempted to assassinate Pope John Paul II in 1981 has been released by a Turkish court after completing his sentence.

COMMENT: Are you a real friend? Is it the fear of rejection that stops you warning your friends of the judgment to come? It is certainly true that people themselves are condemned for not believing on Jesus the Christ as their Saviour and it is the individual's responsibility alone for choosing to believe or not. Yet Jesus warned us that one day we will see our dear friends in torment, who are not saved (Luke 16: 19-31) and we will wonder if we could have done more to communicate the good news. We must not put off telling our friends, brothers, sisters, mother or father. True followers of Jesus will be bursting with enthusiasm to tell others about Jesus. Our good works are not the means of our salvation, just a sign of it!

Just in case you have not heard the good news yet, as it has not been reported by the media; the Government have backed down over religious harassment. Following it's comprehensive defeat in the House of Lords, the Government has agreed to drop the religious harassment law from the Equality Bill. We give thanks to God for this wonderful answer to our prayers. The Government told the House of Commons that it will not seek to reinstate the harassment clause. Instead it will be referred to the discrimination law review for further scrutiny. Lord Lyell of Markyate, former Attorney General, said: “Under this Bill, John Wesley would have been prevented from preaching in most open-air areas”. Lady O'Cathain warned: “We cannot ignore the plight of the Christian hospice that could be sued for saying grace or the prison chaplain who is told he cannot initiate conversations about God with inmates..” The victory on religious harassment is a fantastic result. Thank you for all your prayers about this issue.

COMMENT: Please continue to pray about this. This ungodly Government will not give up. It is most important that the words; “likely to stir up religious hatred” not be included in any future Bill. The Lords made it clear to the Government that it had to be the speaker's intention to do so. Under the Government's Bill much in Challenger would be illegal! As for the Government's assurance that the law would not be used against preaching the gospel – it is not worth the hot air so produced!

The Emir of the conservative gulf state of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani. has, himself, donated land for Christians to build the first Christian church since Islam arrived in the 7th century. This $7 million development of the Church of the Epiphany in the capital, Doha, which will not have a spire or free standing cross, will begin early this year. The walkways and grounds of the church will have crosses and flower motifs resembling those used in early Christian churches. Qatar's Anglican community, which has held services in an English language school in Doha for decades, is estimated to number between 7,000 and 10,000 people. The complex will include conference facilities, temporary living accommodations, a library, and a café. Also in the works, with land again provided by the Emir, are church buildings to serve Catholics - who comprise the majority of Qatar's 70,000 Christian expatriates - Egyptian Coptic Christians and Indian Christians.

A small ceramic piece of shard was uncovered at Tel es-Safi, which is the Biblical city of Gath and was the Philistine city home to the Israelite's enemy, Goliath. An inscription was written on the piece of shard, more specifically two names, one of which was Goliath. Excavations were conducted under Bar-Ilan University. It is the oldest find from of Philistine presence in the land of Israel, once again giving proof to Biblical evidence.

The Publishers of Christian Herald newspaper have announced they will cease publication at the end of January 2006.

Israeli archaeologists have uncovered a third century church, which could be the oldest in the Holy Land. Ruins of the church were found during prison renovations in Megiddo, known in the New Testament as Armageddon - the site of the last battle at the end of this age. The church contains a well-preserved mosaic with references to Jesus Christ and images of fish that predates the cross. It dates decades before Roman Emperor Constantine legalised Christianity across the Byzantine Empire. "What's clear today is that it's the oldest archaeological remains of a church in Israel, maybe even in the entire region, whether in the entire world, it's still too early to say," said Yotam Tepper, the excavation's head archaeologist.

Two mosaics inside the church tell the story of a Roman officer and a woman named Aketous who donated money to build the church to the memory; "Of the God, Jesus Christ". The inscription, which specifies that Aketous donated a table to the church, indicates the house of worship predated the Byzantine era, when Christians began using altars in place of tables in their rituals and remnants of a table were uncovered between the two mosaics. The building - most of which was destroyed - also was not built in the Basilica-style that was standard under the Byzantines and after Constantine. Stephen Pfann, a biblical scholar and professor at the Holy Land University, said the second and third centuries were transitional periods where people sought to define their religious beliefs and modes of worship. Iconography and inscriptions found in Nazareth and Caperneum - places where Jesus lived - show that people went there to worship, but most did so secretly. "This was a time of persecution and in this way it is quite surprising that there would be such a blatant expression of Christ in a mosaic, but it may be the very reason why the church was destroyed," Pfann said. The dig will continue as archaeologists try to uncover the rest of the building and its surroundings, including what they believe could be a baptismal site.

However, Joe Zias, an anthropologist and former curator with the Antiquities Authority, questioned the dating of the find. “There is no evidence of churches before the fourth century”, he said. “The building may have been in use earlier, but most likely not for Christian religious purposes.”

We have been publishing Challenger now for five years and this is the 43rd issue. We have included many features prior to The Science of Creation which ends in this issue. These include; A Revelation of Time which explained Bible Chronology and lists dates for major Biblical events.

All of these and many more are on this web site so if you have missed them you can view them there. The next study covering the next few issues will be about the Harlot Church of Revelation 17 and 18 if you are ready to receive it!

Calls for controversial US televangelist Pat Robertson to retire are likely to intensify after the White House and Evangelicals sharply criticised the Christian broadcaster for suggesting that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's stroke was divine punishment for "dividing God's land." Robertson made his comments about Israel and Sharon on his television program, "The 700 Club."

Far-right Jewish activists said the death curse they put on Sharon in July was responsible for his stroke. "I take full responsibility for what happened," said Baruch Ben-Yosef. "Our pulsa denura (Aramaic for lashes of fire) kicked in. Nothing could kill Sharon and he said his ancestors lived until they are over 100-years-old but we got him with the pulsa denura." Head of the National Jewish Front Baruch Marzel called on the public to stop crying for the prime minister. "I am not praying for him," Marzel said. "Sharon uprooted graves and destroyed homes and I have no intention to pray for him." Yosef Dayan, another participant in the pulsa denura ceremony, said that while he wasn't certain the curse caused the stroke, he was sure that Sharon's evacuation of Gaza Strip settlements contributed to his health deterioration.

Christian couple have had to face a one hour, twenty minute police interrogation because they complained about gay rights to their local council. Wyre Borough Council in Lancashire sent the police around to see Joe and Helen Roberts to “educate” them that their beliefs were wrong. According to the Christian Institute the Council said the couple’s complaints had “displayed potentially homophobic attitudes.” The couple were given the impression that repeating their complaints could result in them being charged with an offence. The couple has had legal advice and they have been told that the actions of the police and the council appear to be a clear breach of Article 9 (freedom of religion) and Article 10 (freedom of speech) of the European Convention on Human Rights. Mr and Mrs Roberts have lodged formal complaints with the police and the council. The couple want an apology or an explanation of what legal grounds justify such actions by the police and the council.

Sir Iqbal Sacranie, secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain, is facing an investigation by police under the Public Order Act following a complaint about comments he made on the radio concerning lesbian and gay people, according to the BBC. In an interview on Radio 4's PM Programme on 3rd January 2006, the Muslim leader said that homosexuality was harmful and implied that it helped spread disease. He also criticised civil partnerships.

In a move that will be welcomed by humanists and secularists, the BBC's Director General, Mark Thompson (who claims to be a Christian) has said that “Thought for the Day”, one of the bastions of religious broadcasting, could be opened up to secular contributors in the future, using non-religious contributors.

In this study over the past 13 issues we have seen that evolution is unscientific whereas the Bible is in perfect accord with science - that evolutionary theory is a crack pot idea and fulfills Proverbs 14:12. We’re bombarded with what amounts to atheistic propaganda dressed up as science. Evolution seems right but contradicts itself. It is illogical and irrational and only a belief. A great many people say they believe in evolution because they assume those with “greater knowledge” than themselves know what they’re talking about – but they don't! Even some Christians think evolution was God’s method of creating everything but they have been deceived. If there was death before Adam then there is no need for Jesus! It is just another way of devaluing our Saviour.

“IN THE BEGINNING...” It is believed that Moses abridged the book of Genesis sometime between 1639 and 1630 BC, from source material written by the patriarchs themselves. Even all this time ago, Moses was perfectly in accord with science: Gen. 1:1 says: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” This is perfectly in accord with the first and second laws of thermodynamics, the laws governing heat and work. Matter and energy cannot be created or destroyed. In other words there is nothing in the universe capable of bringing it into being. Therefore God must have brought about the universe from outside of it.

Secondly, the law of cause and effect says that every effect must have a cause and that the effect cannot be greater in size or in kind than the cause. “Every effect” includes the universe coming into being. It is an effect which must have had a cause. In other words the universe cannot be greater than it’s First Cause (God). Therefore according to the law of cause and effect the universe must have had a First Cause as it could not create itself - agreed? We can trace every effect back to it’s cause, even the First Cause. It follows directly from the first law of thermodynamics and is embodied in Newton’s laws of motion. No exceptions to the law of cause and effect have ever been observed. Therefore, the “Big Bang” theory also violates the law of cause and effect by creating matter and energy out of nothing. Evolutionists say things move onwards and upwards from the primeval soup to man. They believe in this fictitious and massive increase in order and organisation and in billions of chance changes in their fantasy world of natural selection with no input of information.

The second law of thermodynamics says that things move in a direction from order to chaos. There was a beginning to the universe. If it had always existed then by now it would have run down. If evolution is true and the universe has always existed then according to this second law it would be a mass of disorder now with no energy left. As it clearly is not, it cannot be infinitely old but must have had a beginning.

The third law of thermodynamics tells us that things are at a maximum at absolute zero. If you raise the temperature you are adding energy and it will reduce order. God told Noah to build an ark (Genesis chapter 6). Did he just add raw energy and hope for the best by throwing lots of trees in the general direction of where he wanted to build the ark? Of course not, he would just have ended up with a pile of wood. God gave him a plan to work to and he built a huge ship the size of our modern oil tankers. He did not use raw, uncontrolled energy - he had the addition of information, a plan. The two fundamental quantities of matter and energy referred to in the first law need information for something to be created. This is why the atheist’s “Big Bang” cannot have resulted in the universe that we see today. It is scientific nonsense! Darwin said sunlight and electric discharges would produce a living cell - what fantasy! Energy and chance will not increase order.

THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION IS UNSCIENTIFIC. It is directly at odds with the second law of thermodynamics that states things move from order to chaos. The “Big Bang” violates the first law of thermodynamics by creating matter and energy out of nothing. It violates the second law by creating an ordered universe from an explosion. It violates the third law too, raw energy added to an open system is not a recipe for increased organisation. It violates the law of cause and effect by creating matter and energy out of nothing.

I BELIEVE THE BIBLE SAYS GOD CREATED THE EARTH IN 6 DAYS. The account of creation was written in the book of Genesis which was abridged by Moses over 3,600 years ago. This in turn was taken from much earlier source material written by Adam over 6,000 years ago. Adam and Moses knew nothing about the laws of thermodynamics formulated as a result of studies in the 19th century.

SCIENCE HELPS US TO UNDERSTAND ABOUT GOD: The law of cause and effect states that the effect cannot be greater than the cause. Clearly the Bible is saying that God is the First Cause (the Creator) of the earth and universe which stretches beyond the limits of detection. This means God must be greater than that which He has created - agreed? Therefore there is no place in the universe free from God, the First Cause of space. He is everywhere.

GOD CREATED TIME so He must be outside of time in accordance with the same law. This is what the Bible says. He is eternal. He knows the end from the beginning. This answers the question; where did God come from? God has always been around - there is no time that can contain God. He is omnipresent in time.

GOD CREATED ALL THE ENERGY IN THE UNIVERSE. This includes the radiant energy of our sun and the gravitational attraction between the planets, galaxies and galaxy clusters. The First Cause of energy cannot be less than the sum total of energy in the universe! This makes God omnipotent according to the same law. This answers the question; can God really solve our problems!

Moses knew nothing of physics! Yet he wrote in accordance with science. God speaks; “In the beginning” so he has spoken TIME. He has spoken, “The heavens,” so He has spoken SPACE. He has spoken, “The earth,” so He has spoken MATTER. He has spoken, “Let there be light,” so He has spoken ENERGY into existence as well. How did Moses know that TIME, SPACE, MATTER and ENERGY cannot exist independently of each other? God created them all at the same time for this reason. 6,000 years ago the laws of science were being observed in the writings of Moses. God, the Great Physicist, inspired the writing of the Bible. Jeremiah 10;12, c625 BC, tells us that God created everything by His power, wisdom and understanding. That is energy plus information and that is scientific.

SOME FACTS FOR YOU TO CHECK: When people thought the earth was flat the Bible said the earth was a ball or globe and suspended in space (Job 26:7 and Isaiah 40:22). Ancient records show people believed there were only about 1000 stars. Yet the Bible said that Abraham’s descendants would be uncountable as the stars in heaven (Genesis 22:17). The book of Job circa 2300 BC says that Pleiades were bound and Orion was loose (Job 38:31). Now we are told Pleiades will always look the same from earth but Orion is indeed moving apart.

EVOLUTION BY CHANCE IS MATHEMATICAL NONSENSE. We tested the claim in a school “science” text book which stated that given enough time, a monkey tapping away at a typewriter would eventually write words, sentences and even whole books - that mathematically this is absolute rubbish using David C C Watson's test:

To hit the letters “PE” in that order would be a 1 in 60 x 1 in 60 = 1 in 3,600 chance.

If our Darwinian monkey typed at the rate of 3 letters per second it would take 450 years to produce “PEANUT”.

Charles Eugene Guye, a Swiss mathematician, has calculated the chances of a single molecule of a protein-like substance being formed by accident at 10/320 to 1. That means that the odds against even one molecule evolving would be: 1 in:

100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000000,000,000,000.

Doctor Meuller, another mathematician, estimated the probability of one horse evolving at 1 in 1 followed by 1 million zeros which would fill 15 A4 pages. Then our horse would need a female horse..... etc. etc.

“LET THERE BE LIGHT...” Genesis 1:3 says: “ And God said, ‘Let there be light’ and there was light.” When we speak out we either bless or curse - either create or destroy such as; “My stomach’s killing me.” “You’ll never be any good at that.” “I can’t believe it.” Speaking out has tremendous power and we must use it wisely. This is how God creates - He speaks into existence; “Let there be light.”

THE DECREASE IN THE SPEED OF LIGHT explains how evolutionists have got it wrong. When God spoke light into existence it was instant. Today it travels at the relatively slow speed of 186,000 miles per second. Ever since creation there is evidence it has been slowing down to it’s present day velocity. This means:

It will reduce the radiometric ages of rocks to a few thousand years from millions.

Light travelling from distant galaxies would take a few thousand years not millions.

It would wipe out the residue of radiation and therefore the “big bang” theory.

Radioactive decay “constants” changes the age of the universe from millions to a few thousand years. We explained this and looked at the evidence. The reviews of Barry Setterfield’s Invited Research Report for Stanford Research Institute International show a definite increase in the speed of light. the further back in “time” we go which reaches infinity just over 6,000 years ago! We also saw that THE RED SHIFT, or Doppler effect, actually shows that the universe is contracting - not expanding! The decrease in the speed of light shifts the frequency of light from distant galaxies to the red end of the spectrum. Many scientists say this is due to the expanding universe (the Doppler effect). However, Barry Setterfield calculates that the amount of red shift is more than the observed figure which means the universe is contracting, not expanding. This accounts for the so called “missing mass” of astronomy.

THE RATE OF DECAY IS FASTER and has the effect of squeezing it up more and more tightly the further back you go. For example dinosaurs are dated radio-metrically at up to 300 million years ago because the speed of light is assumed to have been constant. In fact they were around before the flood in great numbers c2470 BC and that it can be shown that radioactive disintegration rates are linked to the speed of light. Decay is much more rapid as the speed of light increases. This gives the impression that rocks are millions of years old when in fact they are only a few thousand years old. Those evolutionary millions of years are fairyland science.

WATER CANOPY: (Genesis 1:6-8) This scripture holds many keys to understanding all we have been discussing about evolution and so many other things. It even explains what really killed the dinosaurs! Here God created an expanse between the waters. In other words God has made the atmosphere for us to breath. Then instead of placing all the water below the atmosphere as it is now, He places half of it in the Thermosphere starting at 65 miles until about 185 miles high above the sky! God placed half the existing water we see in the oceans today above the expanse of the sky and left the other half here on earth. This would be very beneficial according to Doctors Farid Abou Rahme and David Rosevear. It would have created a greenhouse effect because water absorbs infrared rays. There would be a great deal more atmospheric pressure than today. This would enhanced health by reducing mutation rates. Wounds would heal overnight instead of taking a couple of weeks. There would be little memory loss and NO senility. Strokes would be rare. Some metabolic rates would be lower. This together with the benefits of increased speed of light would mean people would live much longer, be more healthy and intelligent. We must also bear in mind that when God created Adam He would not have given him a touch of arthritis, rickets and a touch of asthma and there could not have been any inherited diseases. I believe what the Bible says, that Adam lived 930 years.

CLIMATIC CONDITION OF THE EARTH would be vastly different to today: The earth would have been uniformly warm and moist. There would be no arid heat or polar ice. There would be no (or very little) wind because there would be no weather systems. The first wind in the Bible was mentioned after the flood. There would be no rain. Mists watered the earth according to the Bible. There would have been a very high water table. There would have been no high mountains as this took place after the palaeozoic sedimentary layer was put down.

ANIMALS AND VEGETATION would have been different. Things would have been much larger than today as can be shown by the fossil record. Vegetation would have been lush all over the globe. This is why Mammoths are found in the frozen arctic with a meal of fresh lush vegetation in their stomachs. Giant reptiles flourished on the giant lush vegetation. This would have included those “Terrible Lizards” (Dinosaurs). Again remains found in the arctic baffle evolutionists. DINOSAURS would have thrived in such conditions before the flood in Noah’s time wiped almost all of them out. The giant, lush vegetation they ate accounts for much of our coal today. These fossilised dinosaurs lived before 2470 BC and the flood, not 65 million years ago. Some, a very few, survived the flood.

EARTH’S MAGNETIC FIELD IS DECAYING SHOWING THE EARTH CAN’T BE MORE THAN A FEW THOUSAND YEARS OLD. This has been accurately measured since 1835. Doctor Thomas G. Barnes, Professor of Physics at the University of Texas (El Paso) has completed the study. He says the time required for the magnetic field strength to fall to half it’s present value is only 1,400 years. This means that in 600 AD it was twice as strong and that in 800 BC it was 4 times as strong and 10,000 years ago the earth would not have been able to support life!

WHAT IS THE AGE OF THE MOON? We showed how the age of the moon was not very old, that equipment left there registers moonquakes, lava flows and gas emissions so it is still geologically active and not yet in thermal equilibrium, therefore young. Roche law and lunar dust prove the moon and the earth could not be anything like 4.5 billion years old but just a few thousand years, as the Bible says. We also showed why SPIRAL GALAXIES, GALAXY CLUSTERS and GLOBULAR CLUSTERS support the Biblical age of the universe. We discussed the so called, missing mass. It seems 98% of the mass that keeps the galaxy clusters together is missing. Some astronomers claim there are very many large black holes within these clusters to keep them together but we showed there is no evidence for this.

THE ROTATION OF THE EARTH is another problem for evolutionists as it has not always been 24 hours. It’s rotation is slowing by about 30 seconds per century. Extrapolate that back and you will see that 300,000 years ago the rotation would have been only a few minutes and would not have been able to support life.

GOD CREATED LIVING CREATURES just a few thousand years ago (Gen 1: 20-26) according to their own kinds. This is still the case as they only breed within their kinds. Dogs are still dogs and cats are still cats. Verse 27 onwards tells us how God created man and woman and thus created the sexes. Evolutionists have never been able to explain how the sexes began. Man has been created with an intellect, a moral and emotional nature which transcends instinct. We are able to communicate with each other - we are articulate with God too. Man’s soul is his mind, will and emotion. He has the power to reason. Only mankind is created in the image of God with a spirit. God tells them He gives them every seed bearing plant. He tells them that this is their food (not meat). He then says He also gives the green plants to the animals and birds for food (not meat). How remarkable! God says man, all animals, birds and creatures, in fact everything with lungs to breath are vegetarian - herbivorous (as opposed to the bloodless grass, herbs and trees). Yes, you’re right! Mankind, animals, birds and creatures were all created vegetarian. You see there was no death in the pre-fallen world. Finally, on the 7th day God rested to set us an example. Most cultures have a 7 day week and rest on one of them.

THE ALTERNATIVE? What is the atheist's alternative to creation? Well, that was set out by the god of the atheists – Charles Darwin: The reason most people believe in organic evolution is because they have been told it happened that way but it could not possibly have taken place. Darwinism can only exist in a fantasy world of preconceived ideas – a world of smoke and mirrors that have more in common with Alice in Wonderland than real science. NO EVIDENCE has been uncovered to support Darwin’s theory. Many scientists, after giving initial support, withdrew it because they realised it was flawed.

PRESSURE: I remember attending a lecture at Leeds University many years ago, when professor Verna Wright M.D., F.R.C.P., told us that virtually every scientist appointed to senior academic and public posts during the last 50 years was a Darwinist. Scientists receive funding for research only if their papers are published in academic journals and this only happens if you believe in evolution - so they keep quiet. However, some who have made it to the top have spoken out. The following are either past or present FELLOWS of the ROYAL SOCIETY who have put on record that they do not accept the theory of evolution and seek to show that Darwin was wrong: Doctor Malcolm Dixon, Sir Ambrose Fleming, Sir Cecil G Wakeley, Professor H. J. Lipson, Professor W. R. Thompson and Sir Ernst Chain.

Proverbs 14: 12 says; “There is a way that seems right to a man but in the end leads to death.” (spiritual death). Evolution fits the bill very well. It does seem right until one digs under the surface. This keeps people from believing in Jesus as their Saviour and this leads to spiritual death.

GENES: Some time ago I called on an aunt and uncle I had not seen for many years. They struggled to recognise me behind my beard grown in recent years. It was not until I had spoken that they recognised me. They knew the instant I spoke. My father had a deep voice, so have I and also my three sons. “Like father - like son” they say. We inherit through our parents genes but I am not a clone of my father. I have my mothers genes and grand parents and so on. “It’s in the blood!”. When changes occur, as a result of mutagenic chemicals, radiation or mistakes in copying, the resultant gene is usually incapable of functioning. Most mutations are harmful or lethal to the organism. No mistake can improve the functioning of a machine!

MUTATIONS DO NOT IMPROVE ANYTHING - THEY ARE MISTAKES! Yet we’re told that these errors are the basis of the evolution of such things as eyes, wings and brains. No true beneficial mutation has ever been recorded. In typing this magazine I occasionally make mistakes but I do a spell check to try see none go undiscovered. The “spell check” is the repairing enzyme. These mutations do not improve the message, in fact there is a loss of information associated with it. Following the evolutionist’s logic they would say that if I made enough mistakes in this thesis it would end up evolving into a recipe for stew and dumplings!

150 YEARS SINCE DARWIN AND THERE IS STILL NO EVIDENCE THAT ALL LIVING ORGANISMS HAVE EVOLVED FROM A SINGLE CELLED ANCESTOR.

The so called geological column equals approximately 6,000 years in the Bible. How can this be? Well, I’ll go further and say the bulk of the geological column was put down during the world wide flood of Noah’s time. Evidence on our side. This is known as “CATASTROPHISM”, as opposed to the evolutionist’s “UNIFORMITARIANISM” which they claim is the gradual laying down of sediments over millions of years. The fossil record and geology in general supports catastrophism not uniformitarianism. We showed that sediments are not laid down in these neat layers and looked at the evidence from MOUNT ST. HELENS, too long for this summary.

When I was a boy my father used to take me up into the Yorkshire Dales and we would survey the high fells, Whernside, Ingleborough, Dodd Fell, Pen-y-gent and try and take in the vast, bleak landscape. He would tell me they had taken millions of years to form. He would explain about glaciers carving out the landscape over these long periods. I can actually remember him on the top of Malham Cove, which he loved, waving his arms dramatically dispatching millions of years with one gesture as he described how my home landscape had been formed. I listened wide-eyed believing every word. Why? Because we had been told it happened that way. My science teacher told me that Kilnsey Crag had been formed in the Pleistocene period about two million years ago. Who was I to disagree?

In Washington State in north west USA similar stories were no doubt told by fathers and teachers about how their landscape was formed over millions of years. Then one day the top blew off of Mount St. Helens and forged out an identical landscape in just 24 hours! Now with trees and other vegetation growing my father would have stood up there and said that took millions of years to form. You can imagine the brave school boy who would correct his teacher by saying, “It only took 24 hours to form in 1980!” You can imagine the response of the teacher; “Don’t be silly boy......”

THE ORIGIN OF COAL. We discussed the work of Stuart Nevins, M. S., Professor of Geology who said; “Coal gives us one of the strongest arguments for the Biblical flood” and explained his thesis.

THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION in Washington DC houses 40,000,000 fossils, you will recall. If the theory of evolution is correct, how many of these should be intermediate? If Darwin was correct the fossil record would show millions of fossils showing a record of species changing into more advanced species, wouldn’t it? After all we’re all supposed to have “progressed” from a single cell to people. Surely some would show fins changing into legs and scales into feathers, fore limbs into wings. We would be able to see fish changing into reptiles and partly formed eyes and those half mice - half bats, wouldn’t we? We see on television these presenters of wild life softly speaking the words that this and that bird or animal was descended over millions of years from this or that fish. It sounds as if they know what they're talking about, but they don’t. Why don’t they say, “Go to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington where you will be able to see the fossil record of all this happening”? They should say there are 40,000,000 fossils all at stages of change to prove evolution. Why don’t they say that? Why don’t our old friends Professors Richard Dawkins or Steve Jones say that? Why? Because there isn’t one intermediate fossil in the whole of the 40,000,000 fossils in the Smithsonian Institution - not a single one! You see, in spite of all you might have heard to the contrary, the fossil record supports Biblical creation not evolution! 150 years after Darwin the “missing links” are still missing. That is true whether you like it or not!!

THE GEOLOGICAL COLUMN illustrated in an earlier issue of Challenger shows Cambrian rocks at the bottom which are the lowest sedimentary layers to contain fossils. Doctor Gish tells us there are virtually no fossils below this. Yet the Cambrian explosion of supposedly 500 million years ago, has a profusion of fully formed kinds. They say these sediments are laid down at a hairs breadth per year but fossils could not form under such slow deposition! Creatures, like today, would decay or be eaten by scavengers. These billions of fossils found in the Cambrian explosion are best accounted for by the Genesis flood. If there had been a slow progression from a single cell to complex invertebrates, billions of fossilised ancestors would be recorded in deeper sediments, says Doctor Gish. Not one has ever been found! Gish says in debates all over the world he has asked evolutionists to explain this. First they go silent then begin to talk about something else!

PUTTING THEIR BACKS INTO IT! What a transformation from an invertebrate (no back bone) to a fish (with back bone). Evolutionists claim it took 100 million years. There are billions upon billions of invertebrate (jelly fish etc.) fossils and billions upon billions of vertebrate (fish) fossils. If evolution is true there would be billions upon billions of intermediates between invertebrates and vertebrates - agreed? The fossil record would be teeming with them. None have ever been found! You see evolution has never happened and the fossil record PROVES IT!

REPTILES, MAMMALS AND WATER: Land reptiles are supposed to have evolved into marine reptiles. Four legged mammals are supposed to have ventured back into the sea in search of food or sanctuary and stayed there gradually evolving into whales and dolphins. This means their tails would change into flukes, their hind legs disappear and their front legs become flippers! Yet whales are wonderfully designed. They can hear directionally under water and their cries carry over vast distances. It dives thousands of feet and it’s skull is designed to withstand massive pressure. It’s mammary glands jet milk into it’s young. How would their young, or even the parents survive during these millions of transitional years? None of these transitional fossils are to be found anywhere! It is the same with FLIGHT Fanciful theory tells us flight has evolved four times 1] insects, 2] bats, 3] flying reptiles, and 4] birds. There is not a single intermediate fossil to be found to back up this theory!

RED HERRINGS. So fish evolved into amphibians did they? That’s what Darwin said but unfortunately for him that’s directly at odds with his own theory! For a fish to grow legs or develop lungs and pop out on the shore from time to time would not make it a better fish, would it? Yet Darwin said that fish mutate for the better and prosper. The fact that any mutation might be better for the fish in a million years time would not make that fish better at that time. Therefore it would not be selected, according to Darwin. You see Darwin’s own theory contradicts itself. That’s why it’s a crackpot theory! The only thing fish evolved into, to fool the atheists, is RED HERRINGS!

WERE OUR ANCESTORS APE-MEN OR HUMAN? Missing links are just that - missing! If evolutionists are correct there should be thousands upon thousands of missing links. No missing links have ever been found. These are some of those 'missing links' that have been proved to be quite the opposite and which we have discussed previously:

THE SOUTHERN APE, MIOCENE MAN, RAMAPITHECUS, 1470 MAN, NEBRASKA MAN, JAVA MAN, CALAVERAS MAN, NEAR MAN, COLORADO MAN, CRO-MAGNON MAN, PILTDOWN MAN, PEKING MAN, NEANDERTHAL MAN, CASTENEDOLO SKULL, GALLEY HILL SKELETON, FOXHALL JAW, and RHODESIAN MAN.

There is simply no evidence that mankind evolved from anything, let alone apes. There isn’t any evidence that apes evolved from ANYTHING either. Indeed there isn’t any evidence that ANYTHING evolved from ANYTHING! Atheist Doctor Lyall Watson says; “Modern apes, for instance, seem to have sprung out of nowhere. They have no yesterday, no fossil record. And the true origin of modern humans - of upright, naked, tool-making, big-brained beings - is, if we are honest with ourselves, an equally mysterious matter.” Atheist and anthropologist, Sir Arthur Keith gives us a clue: “Evolution is unproved and unprovable. We believe it because the only alternative is special creation and that is unthinkable.” Well, well! One thing is certain, it takes more faith to believe in evolution than in God.

WHAT REALLY HAPPENED AT THE 'FALL'? Adam was told not to eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil (Genesis 2: 16-17) but if he did he would die a spiritual death. This was his test of his obedience. God told him that if he did then he would immediately die but Adam thought he knew best. The devil knew he could not deceive Adam so we explained that he deceived Eve into eating the fruit by appearing as an angel of light..

When Adam saw his lovely wife had lost her glory by eating of the fruit, he should have gone to God and told Him, giving Him the responsibility. Instead he took it upon himself and ate the fruit when his wife Eve offered it to him. Known as the fall of Adam - he knew exactly what he was doing by eating the fruit - he sinned. Eve did not, she was deceived. Adam died the spiritual death - his spirit 'died'. Now he and Eve were soul and body only. In John chapter 3 Jesus said to be saved we have to be born again. When this happens our spirits are reborn - we go back to having a spirit, soul and body. Adam and his wife have now arrived in the sinful state (less than perfect). He had put himself (by choice) under the authority of the devil. His “father” was now the devil! (John 8:44).

God curses the ground, in other words he reverses the second law of thermodynamics to what it is today, that everything gets worse - goes from order to chaos (Gen 3:17). Weeds grow and God tells Adam he will have to work to live. Slowly Adam and Eve’s bodies begin to decay but ten times slower than our bodies do today because of the water canopy climate (Gen. 1:7) discussed previously. We have all inherited this “fallen” state. We are all separated from God by birth as children of Adam.

Adam and Eve lived in this fallen world. He toiled to produce food for them. What of Eve? Well, she bore Adam children, probably well over a hundred but there is no proof of this, just logic. Their sons married their sisters (there were no genetic mutations then) and they produced more children.

THE WORLD WIDE FLOOD: We explained how the flood happened. The people became very wicked and God brought a flood onto the earth. God told Noah to build an ark and he followed the directions God gave him. It took him about 100 years to build with his three sons and would have been the size of one of today’s oil tankers according to the measurements given in the Bible - 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high. It had three decks and air vents along the top. Doctor Farid Abou Rahme, an hydraulic engineer says the measurements of the ark given in the Bible are the optimum for stability. He says such a design would be almost impossible to capsize as the length to width ratio of 6 to 1 makes for stability, resisting vortex forces, pitch and roll and riding over troughs and waves because of it’s length. Computer simulations all favour the design of Noah’s ark. Proof of this is Brunel who in 1844 used similar ratios in the ship “Great Britain” (322x51x32½ feet). He was building on generations of shipwrights but Noah got it right first time and still prove correct today!

The Bible says that God brought the animals to the ark which would have had a capacity of 1,396,000 cubic feet, having a displacement of some 14,000 tons according to Doctor Farid Abou Rahme. We saw how there would have been enough room for all the animals of each kind and two of each just on one deck alone! And there were THREE decks! It was only after the flood that the fear of humans came upon the animals and birds (Gen 9:2-3). Then the “rains” came down, a deluge and the water covered the whole world literally (Gen 7:19-20), even over the mountain tops by 15 cubits (20 feet or 6.9 metres). We should realise that the mountains were nothing like the height they are today. Mountain building took place after the so called palaeozoic sedimentary layers had been put down. Ordinary rain would not provide the amount of water needed to cover the whole earth and we described that much of the “rain” was tectonic activity which always releases juvenile water from the earth’s crust. Another cause God obviously used was the water vapour canopy around the earth. Remember that half the water in our present day oceans were up in the thermosphere as superheated steam (Gen. 1:7). That came down on the earth. We studied what would have caused the deluge, too lengthy to repeat again here. We explained how the continents moved at the time of the birth of Peleg (c2,372) when the continents were formed. We saw that the Bible compliments good science.

RADIOMETRIC DATING. We believe God created the earth pretty much just as it is now and that there is no need to explain radiometric dating methods but to answer critics we explained various methods of dating and how inaccurate they are – too complicated to relate in this summary but we showed that radiometric dating and various other dating methods are shown to be grossly inaccurate. An imbalance of radio carbon proves the earth cannot be more than 10,500 years old. However, this is totally irrelevant as we believe God created the earth with an inbuilt age anyway.

We saw that historical sites help us too. Given that experiments show that the spinning earth had returned to a new angle when it had been suddenly deflected from it's original position around 2,345 BC, we saw evidence to support this when studying Egyptian temples and Stonehenge.

AFTER THE FLOOD: The waters covered the earth for 150 days. God sent a wind which is the first mention of wind and this is completely in accord with science. With the water vapour canopy now fallen to earth, weather systems would be experienced for the first time. In verse 22 there is also the first mention of seasons. This would be caused by the earth now tilted on it’s axis and with the water vapour canopy gone, seasons would now be experienced. In chapter 9:14-16 God set a rainbow in the sky for the first time, a reminder that He would never send a flood again. This is also in accord with science.

THE TABLE OF NATIONS: Genesis 10 lists the descendants of Noah’s 3 sons. A study of this reveals from where the peoples of the earth originated after they were scattered by God. For example the British are descended from Javan, son of Japheth who was the son of Noah. The English and Welsh Chronicles confirmed this. The Egyptians are descended from Mizraim, son of Ham, son of Noah. The Jews and Arabs are descended from Abraham, great x 5 grandson of Shem, son of Noah.

RECORDED HISTORY before the Roman invasion of Britain in 55 BC began many centuries of history before. People did not come from caves but went to them! One of the oldest civilisations in the world, the Chinese seems to start at the dawn of history with the Sage Kings already civilised. They did not dwell in caves. The oldest book on record, apart from the Bible, is the “Shu Ching”, that is the Book or Classic of History and the “Shih Ching”, the Book or Classic of Odes or songs were, it is thought, abridged by Confucius in 551 BC and known as the “Book of History”. Parts of this was the border ceremony dating back to the Emperor Shun, c2230 BC, one of the early Sage Kings who reigned immediately after the scattering of the people at the Tower of Babel. Some ancient records quoted in a previous issue seem almost identical to Genesis Chapter 1. Noah would have handed down copies of the ancient records. The ancient Chinese were monotheists, worshipping one God whom they called the Heavenly Emperor, Shang Ti (Hebrew = Shaddai, the Almighty) who was self existing, eternal and no image was ever made of Him - exactly the same as the God of the Old Testament. They even had a 7 day week! Old Chinese pictographic writing is based on Genesis which I will include in a future issue.

DID LANGUAGE EVOLVE? Animals lack the ability to imitate sounds. Yet birds have great abilities in imitating sound. When I was a boy about 11 years old I had a pet Jackdaw. It became very tame and used to sit on my shoulder, ride on my bicycle handle bars, follow me to school on the roof tops - I was the envy of all my friends. It lived in the shed in our garden and could come and go freely as it chose. I had it for many years until I was 15 years old. It quickly learned to talk. It could hear my father calling me to get up in a morning. He used to shout “Bryce, come on, get up,” often followed, with some exasperation, by, “Bryce, I won’t tell you again, get up.” I remember these words clearly, not because of my father but because of the Jackdaw which came to shout these words every morning at dawn in that order over and over again! It was able to say many other things but it was not talking of course - just imitating sounds. Some birds have great ability to imitate sounds and according to evolutionists it is they who should have evolved speech and now be speaking quite intelligently to each other but they remain how they were created..

There is an unbridgeable gap between animal and human communication and no evidence of a relationship between lower and higher stages of communication. Evolutionists claim that language evolved from these lower stages where vocal gestures were made to express emotion and that these evolved into basic language when they were supposedly able to express thoughts but there is no evidence for this. Humans alone are endowed with the ability to acquire language. Professor Avram Noam Chomsky, a international linguistic authority and an atheist tells us that; “As far as we know, possession of human language is associated with a specific type of mental organisation, not simply a higher degree of intelligence. There seems to be no substance to the view that human language is simply a more complex instance of something to be found elsewhere in the animal world.” In other words the claim that chimpanzees’ abilities in this respect are similar to those of a human baby are nonsense. There are great differences in the processes involved. Language and intelligence appear to be related but they are separate abilities. Professor Chomsky goes on to say it is a compete mystery how the human mind has reached it’s present complex state and innate organisation. Speaking of human’s ability to acquire language he says; “It is perfectly safe to attribute this to evolution, so long as we bear in mind that there is no substance to this assertion.” You’ve got to be determined to “prove” evolution to make a statement like that, haven’t you? Why not put it in plain language? LANGUAGE CANNOT HAVE EVOLVED BECAUSE THERE IS NO EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THAT IT DID!

WORLD POPULATION GROWTH AND THE AGE OF MAN. We studied evidence from the writings of Paul Nicholls, geneticist and evolutionist Professor Steve Jones, geneticist Professor Luigi Cavalli-SforzaI, Naoyuki Takahata and Jan Klien. All five agree that genetic studies of mitochondria show the worlds population has it’s origin in the same woman, the Bible says this was Eve.

IF EVOLUTIONISTS ARE CORRECT then Homo Sapiens have been around for a million years or more. Paul Nicholls calculates that at only a modest rate of growth per annum of only 1% then saturation point would have been reached in less than 5,000 years. What about the remaining 995,000 years (at least)? What also about those millions and millions of men and women who would have lived and died during this time? Where are their remains? Their tools and buildings are nowhere to be found. Has man only recently learned to build houses for himself and grow food and make tools - after 995,000 years? WHAT NONSENSE! This is beyond all reason!

CAN POPULATION GROWTH TELL US ANYTHING? Since 1801 the population growth of Great Britain ranged from 0.43% to 1.64% per annum (average yearly increase of 0.87%). He says the average growth of population in Germany over a period of 154 years was 0.81%. World population figures are harder to ascertain but between 1985 and 1990 the increase was 1.7% to 5,385,000,000. In the ancient world of Israel whilst in Egypt the increase was 2.13% per annum. Western European increases range from 0.4% to 0.9% whilst in Africa it is as high as 3%. For example Germany’s population of 0.81% per annum from a standing start of 2 people, the 1970 population of 77,068,000 would have been reached in a little over 2100 years! The Bible says that around 2,470 BC, 4,474 years ago, 8 people survived the flood of Noah to repopulate the world. To arrive at today’s world population Paul Nicholls takes the British minimum and maximum figures. A 0.43% increase gives a time span 4,738 years and a 0.87% gives only 2,347 years. Compare this with evolution theory: The lowest growth rate for Western Europe is 0.377% and apply that growth rate to only 50,000 years of the evolutionists time scale we get a world population of 10 to the power of 82, a ridiculous figure! This figure is more than the estimated number of particles in the universe! 50,000 years is only a fraction of the time evolutionists claim man has been on the earth! The world’s resources would long since have been used up. You can see that a modest 0.43% increase since the flood of Noah’s time gives us a time span of 4,738 years. The Bible says it is 4,469 years since the flood. This is within 269 years!

AGAIN WE SEE THE BIBLE IS CORRECT. WORLD POPULATION STATISTICS TELL US THAT HUMANS CANNOT HAVE INHABITED THE EARTH FOR MORE THAN A FEW THOUSAND YEARS AND CAN'T BE ANYTHING LIKE EVEN 50,000 YEARS, LET ALONE A MILLION!

ANCIENT GENEALOGIES CONFIRM THE BIBLE TO BE CORRECT. My friends will be eager to tell you there is nothing special about me yet I can trace my ancestors back to Adam and Eve over 142 generations and even covering between 1 and 4 lines. I'm not going to relay it all again in this summary. A great many genealogies will join established lines sooner or later - the rest is a matter of public record, no matter what evolutionists say. Many can trace their ancestry back to Adam. There are many old manuscripts available to study. Don’t forget many of these were written by people who had no knowledge of the Bible. The evidence is overwhelming that 142 generations ago my ancestor, Adam was created by God. He was not a half-breed monkey but fully man!

DID WE REALLY EVOLVE FROM APES? Did all living things really evolve from a primeval soup millions of years ago? We have seen that the evidence does not support Darwin’s theory. Yet in schools it is taught as fact. The fossil record does not support evolution. The “missing link” is still missing after 150 years of searching. We have seen that some evolutionists are less than honest with the evidence and some have actually fabricated it. Evolution is just a theory - an idea without evidence to support it. It has been around for two and a half thousand years at least. Many believe it to be true but numbers don’t matter - it is still only a belief. It concerns the distant past but it cannot be proved because no one was there when it “happened”. It is impossible for us all to be here as a result of blind chance, scientifically or mathematically. A book cannot be written by chance by tapping a key board at random. Energy, matter and information are fundamental quantities. A computer cannot be created by throwing all the parts up into the air and catching them - no matter how many times you do it. Neither could the universe be created that way. Indeed every time atheists postulate about the “big bang” they are proving there is a God! Many believe evolution took place because they’ve been told it happened that way. Few weigh the evidence for themselves. Those that do with an open mind find evidence supports special creation by a Creator.

WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO THE DINOSAURS? In the last issue we looked at what happened to the dinosaurs and I give here a brief summary of what we conveyed. Evolutionists tell us constantly that these creatures died out 60 or 70 million years ago. School children are told that dinosaurs are proof of evolution and that the earth is millions of years old. What rubbish! The Bible is quite clear as to what wiped out most of the dinosaurs and we looked at the evidence.

Any reference to the name “dinosaur” will only be from modern “discovery” in 1780. Before this we have to look to description or illustration. “Dinosaur” means “terrible lizard”. Since then many have been unearthed. What does this hard evidence tell us? That according to evolutionists, these huge monsters they named dinosaurs were not known to man before 1780. It is important to note that evolutionists claim this was the first known knowledge of dinosaurs. They claim that before this they died out 60 million years ago. To put it another way; evolutionists claim no person living between 60 million years ago and 1780 AD could possibly have known they existed or what they looked like - agreed? Yet there is a wealth of evidence to show that dinosaurs coexisted with people (although they were not yet named dinosaurs.)

We showed that there were some dinosaurs engraved on Bishop Bell’s tomb in Carlisle Cathedral. No one disputes that Bishop Bell died in 1496 and that he was put down in his tomb and sealed with brass which was then engraved. It is certain the engravings were made in 1496, it is a matter of Carlisle Cathedral record. Evolutionists say no one was supposed to know anything about dinosaurs at that time.

The are many references to unnamed dinosaurs. The oldest as far as I know is in the Bible. The Book of Job (Chapters 40 and 41) tells of a period around 2,200 BC and describes dinosaurs and even snorting and throws out flashes of light! Firebrands stream from it’s mouth! Sparks of fire shoot out! Smoke pours from it’s nostrils as a pot on the boil! If you’re still in doubt He goes on: It’s breath sets coals ablaze! Flames dart from it’s mouth! Can this be what we would call a dragon? We showed evidence that dragons did exist after all! In the Bible dragons were not known by their recently invented names or as dragons but by the name “Leviathan”.

We looked at the cases of Doctor Dmitri Kouznetsov is an award winning Russian scientist who has three earned doctorates, founded the group called the Moscow Creation Science Fellowship. This is a body of 120 Russian scientists who believe in the literal truth in the Bible and that the earth was created no more than a few thousand years ago. The other is a scientist who became a member, Andrey A Ivanov, Ph.D., B.S., M.S., who is head of the laboratory of modern research methods in physicochemical environmental studies, at the Moscow City Station for Sanitation and Epidemiology. He and his fellow scientists examined some dinosaur bones from Russia and America using their newly developed dating method - the laser mass-spectrometry method. This produced an age of not more than 28,500 years, as opposed to 60 million years! He had the bones checked by Arizona State University who did not know they were dinosaur remains and they confirm not more than 25,000 years. Doctor Ivanov has got the dinosaur time scale down to very near the Biblical time scale. The result was that he became a Christian.

Recently “prehistoric trees” were discovered only 100 miles from Sidney, Australia and reported on Radio 4. These trees were thought to have died out 60 million years ago. Even fresh (unmineralised) dinosaur bones were discovered in north western Alaska. Scientists from the Universities of California and Alaska discovered more bones and a buried forest of giant redwood trees in the Canadian arctic! The wood could be fashioned, sawn and burned. How could these bones have remained fresh for 65 million years? We looked at many other discoveries and examples of modern day dinosaurs and those in recorded history.

THE EVIDENCE TELLS US DINOSAURS WERE AROUND UNTIL QUITE RECENTLY. To the open minded this is the only conclusion to which we can come. These “terrible lizards” were called other names in history whether that name be “Leviathan” or “Grendel” etc. the descriptions are the same. We have seen that fire breathing dragons existed, that the dating of dinosaur remains is untrustworthy and that even unfossilised remains have been found. Traditions and legends also show of recent existence of dinosaurs. It is difficult to see what other proof is needed but if you don’t believe in God it is difficult to accept the evidence. Instead of dinosaurs proving evolution took place, they prove quite the opposite.

God is the Physicist. It is quite clear that according to the laws of science, evolution cannot possibly have taken place. Evolution is mathematical nonsense. It is only a belief but peddled as science when it is nothing more than atheistic propaganda. The earth’s magnetic field proves it cannot be more than a few thousand years old. Sediment in the ocean proves the earth is only a few thousand years old. The moon, comets, globular clusters, spiral galaxies and galaxy clusters all prove the universe is young. The earth’s rotation proves it is only a few thousand years old. Radiometric dating is shown to be grossly inaccurate. An imbalance of radio carbon proves the earth cannot be more than 10,500 years old. Many eminent scientists do not accept the theory of evolution and believe the Biblical account of creation. The fossil record supports the Bible - not evolution. There are no transitional fossils to be found anywhere showing evolution took place. There is no evidence that mankind evolved from apes. The so called missing links are still missing despite 150 years of frantic searching. Human remains are found in the “wrong” place in the geological column showing evolution to be false. We have seen that some evolutionist scientists bend the evidence to “prove” evolution. Vestigial organs are not useless left overs from evolution. Language shows evolution cannot have taken place. World population statistics show man cannot have been on the earth more than a few thousand years. Ancient genealogies show the Bible to be correct. There is a wealth of evidence about the dinosaurs showing they were around until very recently. Far from “proving” evolution took place, dinosaurs prove quite the opposite!

The conclusion is obvious. Far from being “irrational mumblings”, the Bible is supported by science. Glory to Jesus! I'm not clever, I just write what I believe the Lord tells be to write. As a follower of Jesus, He is in me and He is greater than all who are “in the world”. Come out of the world and to Jesus.

The Science of Creation was written for those who either do not follow Jesus or those who do follow Jesus and would like to take the Bible literally but do not have the confidence to admit it The Harlot Church study is written mainly for followers of Jesus who are not aware of what will happen to some of them and open their eyes to that great deception that Jesus said would come about and is now with us. You may think the book of Revelation is just symbolic language and that the Lord's warning about the Harlot Church and what would happen to those who consort with the “Harlot”, is not to be taken seriously but you would be making a grave mistake.

You may not be prepared for hearing this message and could take offence. At the very least, it will trouble most followers of Jesus as we are all victims of the Harlot Church in the Book of Revelation to some extent. However, it will be most troubling to those who depend on the counterfeit church system for their salvation or their livelihood and who find their identity, recognition, power and security in it. It will take you where you do not want to go. You will journey beyond the facade of the counterfeit church and realise you have been submitting to that great harlot Jezebel, one of the “strong men” to which Jesus referred. You will realise that it is Jezebel that prevents many unbelievers from being born again and accepting Jesus as Lord of their life. If you go the whole distance you may never be the same again because you will see JESUS, not your religion.

Did you know that many followers of Jesus of today would not know how to function in their belief outside of the influence of that demonic spirit – Jezebel! They have unintentionally given their hearts to this harlot church but they think they have given their heart to Jesus because they find it difficult to know the difference!

You should know, if you have not already read it, what will happen to the Harlot Church, her offspring and all who consort with the harlot and who have organised themselves according to Babylon – the world's system. Read Revelation 17:1-2; "Come here, I will show you the judgment of the great whore who sits upon many waters: with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication." Revelation 18; "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great!.... For this reason in one day her plagues will come... Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! For in one hour your judgment has come....”

This idolatrous Jezebel worshipping system, that monster, that temple of men's traditions is destined to be destroyed. Revelation 2:21-24 tells the rest of the story. "And I gave her [Jezebel] space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not. Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds....” (Did that register?) “...as many as have not this doctrine, and which have not known the depths of Satan, as they speak; I will put upon you none other burden." The world's system, of which the harlot is part, will crash. Have you mistakenly chosen Jezebel above Jesus? Hosea 4:6 says, “My people perish through lack of knowledge.” BUT those who forsake Jezebel and turn ONLY to Jesus, they will not have this burden placed on them. THE QUESTION IS: WHO (NOT WHICH) IS THE HARLOT?

(We dearly hope this item is out of date when you read this and Norman Kember has been released safe and well.)

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called the children of God (Matt 5:9).

You will have heard reports on the capture of the Christian aid worker Professor Norman Kember in Iraq. As a conscientious objector to war, Norman Kember was visiting the Middle East as a gesture of solidarity with the Christian peacemaker teams in Iraq and hoped to meet ordinary Iraqis of various backgrounds, Shiats, Suni, Christians and hear their stories, then come back and talk about it. In other words part of what he was doing was to help the Arabs! As is often the case, the kidnappers have shot themselves in the foot. Please pray for the safe release of Norman Kember and his fellow hostages, for his wife Pat and the families and friends of all the hostages involved in this wicked event.

Could we ask all followers of Jesus to contact everyone within your own circle of believers to pray for Professor Kember and his fellow hostages. If you wish to know more, visit the Premier website www.premier.org.uk.

The Church of England is to press ahead with the ordination of women bishops despite warnings that the move could tear it apart, reports the Times newspaper in London. According to a report leaked to the newspaper, the first woman could be consecrated as soon as 2012.

I feel so encouraged about the revival going on in the Christian church. Didn't you know about it? Well you are missing it then! Many cannot spot it and will just miss it. I am referring to the non-clerical family based church and it is being reproduced by thousands around the UK. Any group of Godly men who are committed to each other as brothers, who share the same scriptural understanding, who are prepared to submit themselves to one another in the Lord can begin this adventure of seeing a family-based church in their community.

The critical ingredient for successfully shaping a Biblical church is the attitude of the men of the group. They must be absolutely committed to the Lord Jesus and his Word, ready to submit their own minds and wills to Scripture. They must also be committed to one another, ready to yield to one another in love. They must not seek a place of prominence over the others. They must cultivate an attitude of sacrifice and service on behalf of the whole group. They should not be an elite but encourage any of the group to join them in prayer and decision making. No one should lord it over another. They should meet regularly to pray for the body, to discuss the spiritual and physical needs of families, to study the Bible and to oversee the little flock. Their priority should be to learn to listen to God and recognise who He is raising up amongst them as elders and deacons. Forget the "Reverend" business. The Lord chooses ordinary working men and makes them extraordinary. That could be you!

The life of Jacob and Rachel's beloved son is a prototype of the Messiah, who was also rejected by his brothers and accepted by Gentiles. We can see the special love Jacob had for his son Joseph: "Israel (Jacob) loved Joseph more than any of his other sons." We read about the two dreams Joseph had, when all his brothers, portrayed as 11 sheaves and 11 stars in his dreams, bowed down to him. This led to hateful jealousy among his brothers and they sold Joseph to a band of foreigners. Joseph ended up in Egypt, working for an officer in the king's guard, but eventually landed in prison when he refused the advances of Potiphar's wife. Although he was a young man, he fled from temptation, an example of how we should act. He remained faithful to God and was rewarded later. Joseph interprets the dreams of the king's butler and baker. All the while, God was preparing Joseph, through trials and temptations, for his ultimate purpose - to be the ruler of Egypt.

Jewish sages of the Talmud see a clear reflection of Jacob's life in Joseph. Jacob's mother, Rebekah, didn't give birth for many years, so too Joseph's mother, Rachel. Jacob's mother had two sons, as did Joseph's mother. Jacob received the birthright from his brother, while Joseph also was given his brother's birthright; Jacob was hated by his brother, Joseph was hated by his brothers; Jacob was separated from his father's house, Joseph ended up in Egypt; Laban, for whom Jacob worked, was blessed with great wealth, Joseph's master was also blessed with great wealth; Jacob's blessing came through a dream, Joseph was also appointed ruler of Egypt due to interpretation of a dream; Jacob told his children to make sure he was buried in Israel, Joseph made his brothers promise he would be buried in Israel.

Jacob took care of his son Joseph for 17 years (Joseph was seventeen when he was sold into slavery). Then Joseph took care of his father for the last 17 years of Jacob's life when he settled in Egypt (Jacob came to Egypt at the age of 130 and passed away at 147). Joseph's coming to Egypt was ordained so that he could be the saviour of his family and the whole empire of Egypt in a time of famine. It was God's plan! But it took 22 painful years of separation for Joseph and Jacob to realise the higher purpose - in the end God's ways became apparent.

This Parasha should be a lesson to us that nothing is by chance - God is always working behind the scenes. Whether it takes 22 years or a lifetime to realise one's purpose, it is comforting to know that everything is by Divine Providence. This is confirmed by the prophet Amos 3:6-8.
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Our minister says everyone is a sinner and if we sin we will go to hell. That is so depressing!!! How can they say that? I live my life and do my best but I'm not perfect. Will God condemn me for doing my best? I may as well give up and do a little sinning here and there. I was at church today and the minister listed seemingly all the things we should not do and should do. I realised I just can't live life that way. I'm just not capable. He even implied we ate too much and I'd got the roast in the oven! That's me in hell for a start. I came home quite depressed. Then later I was reading your web site again and it seems you agree with him. Francis I...

Hello again Francis. It sounds as if you are just like me, the thoughts of trying to be perfect is quite daunting. Thank God we have Jesus. I know you are a Christian because you have told me before so Jesus will take care of the rest. We live in a fallen world and we are all imperfect (sinners). As God is perfect we cannot be in heaven with Him when we die. However, when we ask Jesus to take over our life and acknowledge Him as our Saviour, He pays for all those imperfections and in Him we become the equivalent of perfect. You are saved by faith in Jesus, not by your good deeds. However, you will be further rewarded by all your good deeds in addition to your salvation. My web site explains it. Whilst we should all strive for holiness to please Jesus, it is by faith in Him we achieve perfection. So cooking a perfect Sunday joint will not get you through those pearly gates. Bless you, Bryce.

Like your site friend but what fiction. Don't know who you think you're fooling, you don't fool me. How can you say with a straight face that the earth is just a few thousand years old? It is rubbish. Fossils show the true age of the earth as millions, not thousands of years. The danger is that when people read your site they will believe it. Everyone knows evolution took place and only a fool would not believe the wealth of evidence. But the truth is we all evolved and there's no evidence to say otherwise, that is all there is to it friend. John Benn.

Hello John, You obviously haven't seen the 40,000,000 fossils in the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC. If you are correct these fossils will show species changing into more advanced species – agreed? Fins changing into legs and scales into feathers, fore limbs into wings. Fish changing into reptiles and partly formed eyes and those half mice - half bats. Yet there isn't one intermediate fossil in the whole of the 40,000,000 fossils in the Smithsonian Institution - not one! Now don't you think that is strange? If evolution happened there would be oodles of them – millions - indeed the vast majority of them would show signs of changing into something else. What did you say about only a fool would not believe the wealth of evidence? Bless you, Bryce.

My sister gave me your magazine the other day as I've been thinking about becoming a Christian. I read it and also some of your website and it makes me wonder just how much money you Christians make. I could go along with a lot in the bible, I don't have much of a problem with it, then my sister took me to a service at the church. Before long a man stood there with a box, shaking it under my nose and the only thing I had on me was a £20 note so I put that in. At home I told my sister it was a bit dull and she ended up in tears – altogether a good evening, don't you think? I just think theres a lot of people making a lot of money. What can you tell me to convince me I'm wrong. Sandy.

Hello Sandy, well your email is not an unusual one. I've received many on that theme over the years and many from outside the UK. I think your question is a little cheeky, if you don't mind my saying so, but I will answer it in part anyway: We live on a pension and we don't make a brass farthing out of our magazine, quite the reverse as it is quite a drain on us to publish it....... – so you are wrong!

On your second point; I apologise on behalf of the real followers of Jesus for embarrassing you like that with the money. You should have just waved him by. These church buildings take a lot to upkeep and the ordinary ministers and Christians don't make much, I can assure you. They've just got themselves into this difficult situation. Don't confuse religion with the followers of Jesus, as many do!

Regarding your third point; I'm afraid you have been confronted with the religious system, not true Christianity. Most services are dull because Jesus is not present through the Holy Spirit. Doubtless your sister loves you very much and was upset because things went wrong. She would have been upset because she knows that if you don't come to believe that Jesus paid the price for all your imperfections by dying for you and rising again, you will experience the wrath of God on you when you die, which means, to put it bluntly, you will go down instead of up!

Regarding your final point; I wouldn't dream of trying to persuade you to become a follower of Jesus. I will try and answer your questions for ever more and explain things to the best of my ability but as to trying to persuade you, you have the Bible, you have prayer and God in His grace will witness the truth of the Bible through the Holy Spirit. I hope I don't sound hard when I say that the responsibility is on your shoulders only, not on your sister's or on mine, as to whether you let Jesus save you from the wrath to come. A person cannot, in my view, persuade another to become a follower of Jesus. Ask me anything you like and I will try answer to help you make YOUR decision. Bless you, Bryce

..... The truth you expound is your truth, is it not? Don't ridicule me when I say this but I believe the God of the bible, in Whom I believe, is from another planet. I believe that the bible is quite clear, particularly the Old Testament, that UFOs visited our earth in early times and gave us moral laws, although they were also war lords judging by OT history. The accounts of Adam, Abraham, Jacob, Moses, Elijah, the Gospels, Revelation and many others demonstrate quite clearly to me that the God we Christians worship is what we would call an alien of some kind. You will say, “rubbish”, I'm sure but this is no more fantastic than traditional Christian belief. In addition to this, there are many modern instances that help support my view..... Hilley.

Hello Hilley. I wouldn't dream of saying, “rubbish”. You raise an interesting point and are not the first one either. We are really talking about preconceived ideas here in my view. If you believe some beings from space have visited us and that accounts of these visits are published in the Bible, you will find all sorts of “proof” in Scripture. For example if you believe, as many do, that Elijah was swept from this earth by a UFO (2 Kings 2: 11) then that is what you will see in this Scripture, an attempt by a person of that age to describe a UFO.

The Bible can “prove” many things if you set out to prove what you believe in advance. My neighbour is a Jehovah's Witness and the Bible “proves” to his satisfaction that his beliefs are correct. I was a Mormon and can”prove” Mormon false doctrine from the Bible. Also the founder of the Mormon church dreamed up a doctrine that those who have died have a second chance to receive the Mormon gospel providing they are baptised by proxy on this earth and “proved” that to his satisfaction from the Bible (1 Corinthians 15: 29). Some believe that the God of the Old Testament is not the same as the God of the New and feel they can “prove” this from the Bible. Some believe Jesus was not divine, just a prophet and feel they can “prove” that from the Bible too. Some do not believe God is a triune Being and feel they can “prove” that as well. The Bible even says in two places, “There is no God.” (!). I could go on. This is cognitive dissonance; convincing ourselves we are right and if we convince as many others as possible that we are correct and they believe too, that will give us the assurance that we must be correct in our beliefs otherwise they would not have believed either if you follow me! If you don't believe me take a look at the instruction booklet next time you buy say, a washing machine - “Congratulations on your wise purchase....”

What shall we say then? How can we really know what is the truth? The only real way is to adhere to the teachings of Jesus and we will then know the truth and that truth will set us free from all deception. You see, it all boils down to faith in Jesus in the end, which is what the Bible says. Bless you, Bryce.

Hi, please examine more closely the evidence of the original Hebrew text of Genesis and you will find that the original Key-Word (3117: Strong's Number) which has been translated as "day" actually translates as AGE. This then does not mean that the entire Universe had to be created in 6 Earth days.... I am very sorry but it is incorrect information about the reality of the original biblical text and interpretation according to doctrinal bias that makes me feel very angry. Because of this inaccurate information people laugh at the Bible having not the right info. The original text covers many treasures that people need in the support of their faith and unfortunately because of bad bible translations people miss out. (Although I conceed [sic] that this means you can just as likely translate the Strong's Key-Word: 3117 as "day". I just feel this pushes common logic too far) But I should make it clear that I am a Christian, and have been for decades. I do not follow an anti-christ or satanic agenda. And I would not go as far as saying I am an evolutionist as anyway even scientists admit that Darwin was not right about everything as he did not explain the sudden leaps in "evolution". I believe that it is an absolute tradegy [sic] that certain God-rebelling people used Darwin's theory in the Victorian era when all the time the full information about the truest meaning of the Key-Words was not generally public. (Much damage was done unneccesarily [sic]) So that most scientist did not realise that 3117 also means AGE! I realise from experience that if you are a Creationist then it will be hard for you to change your mind. However, it is not worth us "arguing" about it in a negative way as we are both Christians and the World's eyes are on both of us. Most Respectfully in Jesus, Keith Bailey UK

Hello Keith, thank you for your interesting email. The first flaw in your argument: I think you have answered your own objection. I believe each Bible verse has to be read in context with those around it and more widely, the whole book. Quite clearly God here is talking about a time rhythm, six days work and one rest. As you say, the word in question can be translated as a "day" (so that's OK then) and in it's context, this is correct. How long is an "age" anyway? A year, a thousand years, a million...? The fruit trees God created on day three would have had to wait say three thousand or three million "ages" before the bees arrived if they were created on day 6 - they would not have survived their first generation.

The second flaw in your argument is you invoking logic! I learned long ago never to invoke logic in connection with the Bible. It is out of place. We cannot use our finite minds to outsmart our infinite God.

The third flaw in your argument is that if you believe there was death before Adam, then there is no need for Jesus! Not exactly "proChrist"! Bless you, Bryce

My church has just posted the budget for next year. The minister (4 years now) has decided to pay salaries to previously unsalaried people. This has caused the budget for next year to increase from £53,000. in 2002 to over £140,000! People such as the music director, the sound man, the guitarist, the babysitters, are all going to receive a salary! I thought they were donating their talents to Christ and our church, why would the minister decide to burden us with this? We only have about 100 members. In the budget he posted "benevolences and expenses" but I thought a benevolence was a gift? How could it be listed with expenses? Then there's a list of expenses: fuel, water etc. and apportionment! ..... I think something fishy is going on here, what can I do? .....

Hello.... and thank you for your email. I make that almost £27 per week from every single member - not household, i.e., a family of four would be expected to pay almost £108 per week! In Matthew 10:14 Jesus tells us to shake the dust off our feet and move on. It was a gesture of the time to show those concerned that they were making a wrong choice. Vote with your feet. I'm afraid this is typical of the Harlot Church of Revelation 17 and 18. Jesus says to come out of the Babylonian system: “Come out of her my people.” (Revelation 18: 4). Jesus also says that those who support the Babylonian Harlot church system will share in her sins! If you believe the Bible, these words are direct revelation from the resurrected Jesus (Rev. 18: 4-5) and you can't get more authoritative than that, can you? Bless you, Bryce.

hi there, how can you be so certain of everything. christians are right, buddhists are right, muslims are right, i'm an atheists and i'm right. you can't all be right. it is just foolish to think there is anything after death. no one knows, no one has come back to tell us. this life is all that matters. who do you think you are kidding. Harve

Hello Harve, There has been at least one Person Who came back to tell us but you don't believe Him. 1 Corinthians 2:14 says that the person without the Spirit of God (i.e., you) thinks these things are foolish, they can't understand them as they are spiritually discerned. You are fulfilling this prophecy! Bless you, Bryce.