Cracks in the Tower

Jehovahs Witness have a history of false "end times predictions" that span over many years. (1914, 1919, 1925,...1975) They were founded by a man with little theologic background who wrote a series of books he considered to be the essential guide to the Bible, without it the Bible could not be understood. As much as any Christian mystic might he relied on extra Biblical sources for much of his understanding, baseing his predictions on his understanding of the pyramids. Then when he passed away another man who self proclaimed he was a judge took over and began predicting dates for end times. While others prepared for the end and went into poverty he spend his time vacationing. These are some of the long and disturbing history of the foundation of the Watchtower, a Jehovahs Witness handle and nickname.

While much can be said about the Jehovahs Witnesses and their ideas about Christianity, I really only want to address the simple idea of predictions. End time predictions, specifically. As Christians have no basis outside of the Bible so it is only wise to look there for answers. What do we find in scripture?

1. It is made very clear that the actual end time is approaching (Matthew 4:17).
2. It is also made clear that no one (not even Jesus at the time) knows when that will be (Matthew 24:36).
3. And lastly that it will happen when no one is expecting it (Matthew 24:43-44).

So, it does baffle me as I watched the video listed (and I think about other times I had studied the JWs); how can any attempt be made as Christians to claim an end times date? Isn't that plainly impossible given the above verses (and others). No doubt this is what happens when Christians trust the words of men over the Word of God as is the case with Jws.

Watchtower Exposed Documentary

X Marks the Spot...in Time?

So I was watching an episode of X-files the other night. It is a show I used to love back when it first came on. Yet I hadn't seen this one before so I was very intrigued. It was about a man who invented a form of time travel and used it to go back in time to prevent something from happening. As I watched it dawned on me, while it makes for an entertaining show it is a complete fabrication. No, I"m not aware of how to prove this through physics or other methods. Instead I am relying only on a Christian worldview.

Here's how this goes; I figure time travel is an impossibility because it would allow people to jump to the coming of Christ or the original fall of men. Clearly that would put the control of things like salvation and proof in the hands of men, yet this is so very far from what God has designed and specified to us.

I realize that is almost too simple and not of much relevance to the real world, but I believe it is sound none the less. Control of proof of God and control of who is saved will always be in Gods perfect and divine hands.

Infiltrated (Part 1)

I watched a movie the other night called Idiocracy. It was about a guy and a girl who were taking part of a military experiment of stasis and through a series of events woke up in the 2500s. Upon awaking and getting their bearings it becomes apparent that through commercialism and general breeding or "the wrong people" that the world has become, for lack of a better word, idiotic. Each person unable to think or act appropriately.

Now I hesitated to watch this movie because of the cover and the summary on the back. The cover has the main character standing in front of the infamous evolutionary chart of apes and man. In the summary is the statement of getting back on the evolutionary course, referring to what the main character has to do in the movie. Still, as a creationist and an apologist at heart I watched it.

The movie, within the first 2 sentences states that it is based on what is commonly thought of as evolution and treats it as fact. With a minimum of thought however, it is only referring to natural selection, which is not evolution at all. Natural selection is the documented process of filtering genetics through breeding. The strong survive and the weak perish in a game of whose genetics are the best for the environment. It adds no new information and as such is not evolution.

Fact:s: Natural Selection, Mutation, Adaptation
Fiction: Evolution

While all the "Facts" listed above exist independent of each other and in conjunction with each other, evolution stands alone. Unable to exist, it uses the reality of natural selection, adaptation, and mutation as a smoke screen. Ask around, many people you talk to will think these terms are interchangeable and that the truthfulness of the first three validates the fourth. This is the result of indoctrination and decades of published lies infiltrating the masses.

Why is this at all worth getting bothered about, as I often do? Simple, Evolution is anti-creation, anti-God, a secular religion, to blame for much of what is wrong with our society, and nothing but a lie people think is true. Any one of these reasons should suffice and as Christians all the more. That this movie promotes the confusion over what is true and what is not only aggravates the conditions we live in and believe me, the evolution confusion is in everything now. Cartoons, comic books, movies, schools, etc. Know your facts both for yourself and for those you will meet. I bet the more you learn the more you'll realize it's importance.

Winding ways and trailing thoughts

Ok, so I here the Secret has made it's debut on national TV. Having been endoursed by Oprah aught to send it skyrocketing into the best seller listings across the nation. Now would be a great time for a refutation book to also come out and hit the stands. (While hindsight is 20/20 I wish I had compiled a greater mass of information and material. I wish I had put out strong refutation of it as I know I can do, but didn't.) I also here it is now in the libraries around town. I'm tempted to check it out and keep checking it out so it cannot be read by those looking for what it claims it offers. How many people are out there looking for ways to connect themselves to the "spiritual" things? How many of those people realize that truth and good are absolutes or that without such absolutes all falls apart? Are these people really looking for help and purpose or are they looking for self satisfaction and validation?

In posts written previously I went over, in brief summary, the problems of the Secret. How it is a pantheistic belief rooted in both the false science of evolution and the pseudo-science of quantum physics. How it serves each person by promising personal desires at no apparent cost and how it utterly falls apart under scrutiny, but even having watched it and studied it the truth is that people just search for the wrong things when they search for God.

Now it might be a temptation to say, "Well, not all people search for the wrong things, right?" In all the world I'd like to think someone does, yet scripture tells us that no man is good, save Christ, and that the heart of man is sinful and wicked so why do we try to argue scripture? I think we argue that we came to God by choice because we want to feel that 'we found God' on some level. That even without meaning to say so we are pointing out that we have a say in whether we find God or not. That it only requires looking in the right place, a certain amount of brokenness, or the right mind set to find God, but all this is wrong. Evangelists know that it is not the evangelist whom converts a soul, but the conviction and work of the Holy Spirit in a converts heart and mind. Scripture tells us that we can not test for God and cannot hope to command Him or reveal Him on our own. That we have no means or power by which to 'find God' and should not take credit for what God does.

This raises all manner of questions however. Such as, do we have any power/choice/control what-so-ever? A very good question and not a simple one given the above mentioned things. Most of the time this question and those like it send Christians and seekers reeling and backsliding. No need as the answer is staring us in the face, but we look too hard and so miss it. Can we be converted without the Holy Spirit? No, and as such we cannot gain a true saving faith without Gods assistance. However, when seeking God we can and must look to God and submit to Him for the Holy Spirit to come into us. The submition and acceptance is our part in this, perhaps only real role I think. We can learn the Bible want to do "good" things and perhaps even truly seek God in our hearts, but without the Spirit all we have is death.

I'm not saying that God only comes to those who submit and accept, although we may at times be chosen by God, we have do not saving faith without Him first saving us. We have only a lifestyle or a belief until that day and (good as it may be) it will not necessarily save a person.

*This post changed topic three times in the course of writing it and that might be pretty obvious. Nothing really got accomplished in its production that I can see, but maybe it's still worth posting. Either way I don't feel like re-writing it...