To God Be the Glory
The above photo is only of a local cloud/rain burst in the SW US. But, can we imagine what it must have been like to have massive "gates of heaven" opening to flood the earth with water? As the song says, "We can only imagine..." In that song the singer was wondering about what heaven will be like, but there is also a side of God that judges sin. Each of us needs to repent of our sins and accept Jesus Christ as Lord and then to follow Him in the calling of Righteousness, Holiness, Purity, and Truth. See John 3:16. (Also see tab on Christian Theology and Evangelism on this website.)
To God Be the Glory
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This image is from an older text (1800's), but it shows the progression of butterfly development: Butterfly(15) lays eggs. Eggs (not show) hatch and develop into caterpillars (16) which then go into the chrysalis stage(17) and finally hatch into the butterfly stage. Then eggs are laid again and the cycle begins again.The code for all this is probably only contained in the DNA and the reading of it, transcription/translation into proteins and the assembling into each of the very different structures in each stage occurs. Very complex turning on and off of genes must occur in a precise sequence. Mutations occurring at any of these stages, at any level of the processes, can be debilitating and lethal. As all life forms show such great complexity the ideas (as they are not demonstrated) of evolutionary philosophy can not be adequately used to explain their development. Life forms demonstrate great diversity even within their given groups. These observations fit better into the creation philosophy as they support the divine design of life forms, the varieties seen within the groups, and the corruption of the mutational processes. In these corrupting processes life forms became susceptible to disease and carriers of disease. For the Christian and Jew this degradation began after the Fall of man (Adam) in his rebellion against God. For Romans 8:22 says, "For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now." God will redeem the earth one day.(See other pages on this site regarding DNA and mutations.)
To God Be The Glory Storms and rain are unique in the Southwest US.Often one will see rain in the distance and it will never come to where the person observing it is located. Other times it can be a fast moving storm dropping a significant amount of rain very quickly and causing flooding of the dry Arroyos (dry river beds). Yet, the sun shining through after the rain birst is beautiful and the sky clear blue. The pine and cider trees sprout light colored needles or buds the day after. It can be very beautiful. Yet, it still reflects the fall and groaning of the earth while it awaits its redemption.
(Chorazin 2009) Luke 10
2 Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest. 3 Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves. 4 Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes: and salute no man by the way. 5 And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace be to this house. 6 And if the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it: if not, it shall turn to you again. 7 And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house. 8 And into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you, eat such things as are set before you: 9 And heal the sick that are therein, and say unto them, The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you. 10 But into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you not, go your ways out into the streets of the same, and say, 11 Even the very dust of your city, which cleaveth on us, we do wipe off against you: notwithstanding be ye sure of this, that the kingdom of God is come nigh unto you. 12 But I say unto you, that it shall be more tolerable in that day for Sodom, than for that city. 13 Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which have been done in you, they had a great while ago repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. 14 But it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment, than for you. 15 And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted to heaven, shalt be thrust down to hell. 16 He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me. 17 And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name. 18 And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. 19 Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you. 20 Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven. Shiprock NM (Four Corners Area)
Shiprock is the remnant central feeder pipe of a once much larger volcanic landform. It is 1700 feet high, and is composed of breccias or fractured volcanic rock. It is thought to have reached only 1000 feet below the original land surface and to have intruded into the Morrison Sedimentary Rock Formation. If this is true, millions of cubic yards of strata have been removed since its formation. Up to 1700 feet thick strata, covering thousands of square miles around it, would have been erroded away. No present process does this at the magnitude needed (that I know of). As well, dating volcanic rock is problematic with highly variable isotope dates within samples of the same rock, and between different methods. Shiprock appears to be a remnant of a flood event in which there was widespread breaking up of the continents after watery earthy matter had been deposited, and with subsequent volcanic activity and mass erosion. |
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