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A Judeo/Christian Definition of Family-click to open.

11/25/2015

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​The Family
The human family is a concept conceived and defined by the Creator of the Universe-God. It is naturally inherent to be composed of a man and a woman which then bring forth offspring to further populate the earth.
Gen.1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
This is the clear command of God as seen in the admonition from Paul to Titus and Timothy regarding electing elders (leaders) in the church.
Titus 1:5 ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee:6 If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly. And in 1Tim.3: 2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behavior, given to hospitality, apt to teach;3 Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;4 One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;5 (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
Societies that have promoted and protected the family unit have prospered and those that did not protect the family, rose and fell.1
Focus on the Family has stated:2, 3
“Marriage is the only human institution that uniquely interweaves our private needs with the
public need for commitment to the next generation. The tapestry of a society will be only as
strong as the pattern of its threads. Marriage between a man and woman must be celebrated and
supported by communities, families and individuals who depend upon it.”
"An extensive body of research tells us that children do best when they grow up with both
biological parents in a low-conflict marriage... Thus, it is not simply the presence of two
parents, as some have assumed, but the presence of two biological parents that seem to support
child development."
1 The Minoan, Greek, and Roman cultures are examples of cultures that did not maintain a respect for the family.
2 http://www.focusonthefamily.com/socialissues/marriage/teach-your-children-about-marriage/woven-together
3 http://www.focusonthefamily.com/socialissues/marriage/teach-your-children-about-marriage/30-years-of-research.

Kerby Anderson commented in 2009 “Decline of the Family”4
“What about the moral decline of Rome? Do we see parallels in America? I have addressed this in previous articles such as ‘The Decline of a Nation’ and ‘When Nations Die.’ Let’s focus on the area of sexuality, marriage, and family.
In his 1934 book, Sex and Culture, British anthropologist Joseph Daniel Unwin chronicled the historical decline of numerous cultures, including the Roman Empire. He found that cultures that held to a strong sexual ethic thrived and were more productive than cultures that were ‘sexually free.’
In his book Our Dance Has Turned to Death, Carl Wilson identifies the common pattern of family decline in civilizations like the Roman Empire. It is significant how these seven stages parallel what is happening in America.
In the first stage, men ceased to lead their families in worship. Spiritual and moral development became secondary. Their view of God became naturalistic, mathematical, and mechanical.
In the second stage, men selfishly neglected care of their wives and children to pursue material wealth, political and military power, and cultural development. Material values began to dominate thought.
The third stage involved a change in men’s sexual values. Men who were preoccupied with business or war either neglected their wives sexually or became involved with lower-class women or with homosexuality. Ultimately, a double standard of morality developed.
The fourth stage affected women. The role of women at home and with children lost value and status. Women were neglected and their roles devalued. Soon they revolted to gain access to material wealth and also freedom for sex outside marriage. Women also began to minimize having sex relations to conceive children, and the emphasis became sex for pleasure.
In the fifth stage, husbands and wives competed against each other for money, home leadership, and the affection of their children. This resulted in hostility and frustration and possible homosexuality in the children. Many marriages ended in separation and divorce.
In the sixth stage, selfish individualism grew and carried over into society, fragmenting it into smaller and smaller group loyalties. The nation was thus weakened by internal conflict. The decrease in the birthrate produced an older population that had less ability to defend itself and less will to do so, making the nation more vulnerable to its enemies.
Finally, unbelief in God became more complete, parental authority diminished, and ethical and moral principles disappeared, affecting the economy and government. Because of internal weakness and fragmentation, the society came apart.”
4 https://www.probe.org/rome-and-america/

We can see these stages play out in the decline of the Roman Empire. But we can also see them happening before our eyes in America.”
But, we live in a corrupted world where many families have been fragmented. The
number of single parent families in the United States presently is about 27%.5 The
Bible has an answer for this problem:
1 Tim. 5:3 Honour widows that are widows indeed.4 But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.5 Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day...6 If any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be charged; that it may relieve them that are widows indeed.
James 1:27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
Thus, in a society where the family and marriage is honored, there will be stability and a stable environment to raise the next generation which further stabilizes society.
In the Images above several principles regarding family are portrayed:
  1. Adam and Eve were initially created sinless as reflected in that they did not notice their nakedness. Yet, Adam as the leader was accounted the greater sin of willfully rejecting God’s Command than Eve deception, but both suffered as a family because of the sin.
  2. The love of a mother and father for their child, as a God-fearing Jewish family, allowed God to miraculously preserve Moses (his Egyptian name).
  3. Naomi, a Jew, lost a husband and two sons. She was returning to relatives for support. Ruth, a Moabite, her daughter in law forsook all to follow her and her God. As a widow she was accepted as the wife of the Kinsman Redeemer Boaz, a Godly Jewish man. She would end up in the lineage of Jesus Christ. Thus, God had instructed the Jewish People how to care for the widow and orphan.
5 “The share of children who live with one parent only has tripled since 1960, from about 9 percent to 27 percent.” http://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2015/cb15-16.html.

  1. The birth of Jesus Christ, God Incarnate, was among a family unit of a husband and wife. Though he was NOT the product of conception by Joseph and Mary, they would subsequently have other children. God affirmed His design for family by having Jesus enter the world this way.
  2. A modern Jewish family from a picture of the 1800’s. Fragmented yet preserved, for among the Jewish People there is a high regard for the family. God honors that commitment.
There are many in the current society that would disagree that the family be defined this way but the Apostle Paul has a warning for the followers of the God of the Bible:
2 Tim.3:1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth...2 Tim.4 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.”

In Conclusion: Let us do all that we can to preserve the family unit for our sakes and for our societies well being and for future generations. For the family unit is a concept born out of the will of God.

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Variety in God's Creation-I think He had Fun with Lizards of the Southwest US

11/24/2015

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One Land Mass before the Noah Flood with Massive Deposition during and just post-Flood of Strata and Animal Life.

11/21/2015

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The Orphic Egg: Fruit of Evolutionary Thinking and Its Attack on the Glory of the True and Holy God Occurring From the Earliest Times of Mankind

11/20/2015

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​​Distortions from the True and Majestic Creator and the Beginnings of the Creation
 
“The world egg, cosmic egg or mundane egg is a mythological motif found in the creation myths of many cultures and civilizations. Typically, the world egg is a beginning of some sort, and the universe or some primordial being comes into existence by "hatching" from the egg, sometimes lain on the primordial waters of the Earth.”
Chinese: “In the myth of Pangu, developed by Taoist monks hundreds of years after Lao Zi, the universe began as an egg. A god named Pangu, born inside the egg, broke it into two halves: the upper half became the sky, while the lower half became the earth. As the god grew taller, the sky and the earth grew thicker and were separated further. Finally Pangu died and his body parts became different parts of the earth.”
"The Orphic Egg in the Ancient Greek Orphic tradition is the cosmic egg from which hatched the primordial hermaphroditic deity Phanes/Protogonus (variously equated also with Zeus, Pan,Metis, Eros, Erikepaios and Bromius) who in turn created the other gods. The egg is often depicted with a serpent wound about it. The egg symbolizes the belief in the Greek Orphic religion that the universe originated from within a silver egg. The first emanation from this egg, described in an ancient hymn, was Phanes-Dionysus, the personification of light"
Egyptian: “In the original myth concerning the Ogdoad, the world arose from the waters as a mound of dirt, which was deified as Hathor. Ra was contained within an egg laid upon this mound by a celestial bird.” From Wikipedia online 11-2015.

It should be noted that the concepts of evolution are present even in these distorted “beginnings”. As well, each of these cultures would have had a true knowledge of the Creator passed down to them by the sons of Noah who went into all the parts of the earth. Man chose not to retain a knowledge of the true God but turned to vain imaginations-even worshipping the creatures. See Romans 12:18-25. Within the symbolism there is even the worship of the serpent with a clear correspondence to satan (Lucifer) and other demon worship. This even occurred in those “sophisticated, enlightened” societies such as Rome and Greece. 
 

God’s Judgment Against such Beliefs
"Romans 12:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen." KJV

 

In Great Contrast the Bible says Regarding Beginnings
"Genesis:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.
14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day." KJV

See image below: Orphic Egg and Serpent from Wikipedia, public domain, drawing from 1700's.


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Genetic Relatedness Among Jews and Arabs Consistent with the History of Abraham as Father of Issac and Ishmael

11/15/2015

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​High-resolution Y chromosome haplotypes of Israeli and Palestinian Arabs reveal geographic substructure and substantial overlap with haplotypes of Jews
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Nebel A1, Filon D, Weiss DA, Weale M, Faerman M, Oppenheim A, Thomas MG.
​Hum Genet. 2000 Dec;107(6):630-41.
"High-resolution Y chromosome haplotypes of Israeli and Palestinian Arabs reveal geographic substructure and substantial overlap with haplotypes of Jews.Nebel A1, ​Filon D, Weiss DA, Weale M, Faerman M, Oppenheim A, Thomas MG.Author informationAbstractHigh-resolution Y chromosome haplotype analysis was performed in 143 paternally unrelated Israeli and Palestinian Moslem Arabs (I&P Arabs) by screening for 11 binary polymorphisms and six microsatellite loci. Two frequent haplotypes were found among the 83 detected: the modal haplotype of the I&P Arabs (approximately 14%) was spread throughout the region, while its one-step microsatellite neighbor, the modal haplotype of the Galilee sample (approximately 8%), was mainly restricted to the north. Geographic substructuring within the Arabs was observed in the highlands of Samaria and Judea. Y chromosome variation in the I&P Arabs was compared to that of Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews, and to that of North Welsh individuals. At the haplogroup level, defined by the binary polymorphisms only, the Y chromosome distribution in Arabs and Jews was similar but not identical. At the haplotype level, determined by both binary and microsatellite markers, a more detailed pattern was observed. Single-step microsatellite networks of Arab and Jewish haplotypes revealed a common pool for a large portion of Y chromosomes, suggesting a relatively recent common ancestry. The two modal haplotypes in the I&P Arabs were closely related to the most frequent haplotype of Jews (the Cohen modal haplotype). However, the I&P Arab clade that includes the two Arab modal haplotypes (and makes up 32% of Arab chromosomes) is found at only very low frequency among Jews, reflecting divergence and/or admixture from other populations."
Genesis 17: 15 "And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.
16 And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of people shall be of her.
17 Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?
18 And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee!
19 And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.
20 And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.

21 But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year."

Note: According to the Bible: The Jewish people are descended from Issac and the Arabic people from Ishmael. Abraham was the father of both boys; Issac by Sarah and Ishmael by Hagar. (See Genesis 16:1 Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.​ 2 And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the Lord
 hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.)" Yet Sarah did have a child that was named Issac. See Genesis 21:1 "And the Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did unto Sarah as he had spoken.2 For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. 3 And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac."
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