Deep Space

Here are some pretty amazing picture from the Hubble Space telescope. Pictures
The write up on the picture is located here
These stars and galaxies are billions of years old.

I'm posting this because there was a digg that was bashing Christians for being ignorant because they ignore things that don't fit there world view so I will post it here on my blog.

I'm not going to give you any answers but I'm going to give you some stuff that I've found.

Institute of Creation Research
to include the other side here is a wiki on Creation Science that I think is a good read

I don't like some of the arguments that ICR makes. Some seem to stem back to the first argument that the church made to Darwin (which is as far as I know are "Your wrong because the bible says so"), but they make some points the strongest is that evolution disobeys Newtons Second Law. Think of this, to follow Newtons second law before the big bang there had to be something more ordered and perfect hummmm let me think what could fit that.... Anyways that's just my train of thought. If you want to know what really happened ask someone who was there (lol).

To paraphrase something I heard that just because something is a myth doesn't mean it isn't true. The whole story about God wanting to create a world where there was such a thing as freedom and that people would have a choice. I would argue that God gave us everything and as the story in the bible says we messed things up. (Thanks for the idea Mark Kampen)

If your battling with whether the bible story is fact or not I leave that up to you and God because I can't give you an answer and a doubt anyone really can. If you read closly you actualy see two creation stories Genesis 1:1-2:3 and Genesis 2:4-25. I give you my prayers. For me God has shown himself to me to many times that it is impossible for my to even think that there is no God, unless I close my eye ears and all other senses and twiddle my thumbs (lol that came out funny, idea comes from C.S. Lewis).

Here are some words of advice "We live in a world where it is possible to believe there is no God, but it is impossible not to believe there is" It is like a perfect balance that just points back to the case that there has to be a God to create such a balance.

Long post and lots of links I guess it needed it.
God Bless

The Work done Together

Each one of us as Christians have been given a small part of God (Romans 12:6). Like a small part of a complete circle. We all see different parts of God If we choose, and believe me there is enough of God. There is a reason why the bible seems to contradict it's self many times, and the disciples complained about the difficulty of understanding Jesus (John 7:12 this verse doesn't fit 100% but it works for me), there is just so much God out there that it is hard to fit into the English language.

Let us take our bit and run with it in a way to win the race. Bringing my human spirit under complete control
Okay that is my paraphrase to read the real stuff look at the original verse 1 Corinthians 9:24 ish

I guess today is a bible verse day.

Why I don't like some of the new trends in churches

It feels like the new churches want to have a Corrie ten Boom faith with out the hardship of the Nazi rule. It feels like they ignore the pain and hardship out of the immediate church (sort of like how entertainment is). It feels like to me that they want to create heaven on earth. This is not the goal of the church at all. Heaven is saved for Heaven and I'm glad that it is there. I'm not saying that there should be no glory ... heaven like points but that is not the point of our life on earth. We should be focusing on following the will of God.

Overkill

I'm reading a book called Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America By Radley Balko. It make me angry at what the government is getting away with. It talks about how the SWAT teams are used in the United States. It talks about all the mistakes and people killed by the SWAT teams. How they are used to arrest white collar doctors, how they escalate the situation not deescalate it like police officers should and the list goes on. The book talks allot about how they like to show they have the power and want to scare the "Bad" people away. Radley Balko then goes and states that the lesson of history is the reverse, but we humans seem to like to play war. Hear is a quote "When the soldiers ride in, you should see those blacks scatter." said by an SWAT commander (Parenti, “SWAT Nation,” p. 16). So let us not try to escalate things but bring them down so we can fix the problem and not make it worse.

Fishermen

I've heard it said that "God helps those who help themselves" It took me a while to find the falsie in this. It seems very true to the physical mind but if you look at all the examples giving in the bible it doesn't fit any of them. All of them every single one except Jesus had problems and couldn't do it by them selves. I think this statement should be replaced with the statement "God helps those who cant' help themselves". Who would think a bunch of fishermen would be read about 2000 + years latter.

"Perfect" World

Sometimes we try to create a perfect world out of the imperfect world. For this world to be perfect everything would have to be cold dark and the same (absolute zero). It seems that God didn't want things to be perfect here because things are definitely not the same, not dark and far from -273 degrees Celsius. So let us not always try to make this world perfect and try to learn from the imperfections. C. S. Lewis says something along the lines that as nature reaches towards perfection it does not become more the same but becomes different from each other. He then compares it to good. Here is the actual quote "Good as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only form evil but from other good". This seems to be different then our current society. It wants to make every one the same, eat the same, live the same, .... It seems people are easier to control and make money when everyone is the same.

So God I pray that you will teach us to be different and that we can come together and all share a different part of you.

Can't afford to fill up the tank, to put something together

Things just don't seem to work this week so (and not because of the gas prices), so I'm going to leave you with a verse.
John 6:26
Jesus answered them, “Most assuredly I tell you, you seek me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves, and were filled.

Lift your eyes to the mountain from where your help comes from

I was thinking that allot of my previous post may make someone depressed because it is cutting away at everything that we as humans hold on to. I guess what I'm trying to say is that when you take anything other than God an put it as the center or your life it will fall apart but when you but Christ as the center you get everything back in ways you could never imagine.

Change

Life has its many twists and turns but I still see allot of the characteristics of the child hood me in my life. Some of them good some of them I wish I could throw away and have tried many times. It seems as adults we just learn different ways of hidding those things we dislike. I guess it is only God who can really change people because we don't know which way to go. I pray to God that he will change me.

Unoffical Post

Because all authors have exams for the next month there will be a blockade for new official posts. This message was written late because management had to figure out how to let people know with out making an official post. After many days they decided that this unofficial post was the best option.