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Thank you for rejoining us in session four of TheNewsBeats.com conference “The Church of What’s Happening Now” for a look at what is taking place in the visible church today. In session two, we began looking into the poisoned well conference billed as “New Spring Leadership Conference.” We were able to determine that the conference was not about building leaders at all, but was instead a scheme for developing menservants. In session three we compared the law of tithing to the law of circumcision, and asserted that the men who would hold others to the law of tithing could themselves be held to the whole law; as a rebuke.

This is all bold assertion for dealing with false teachers, and put very bluntly; but you’ll find that it’s in the Bible, and the Bible is bold in dealing with sin and false teachers. This is exactly what the Apostle Paul had to deal with when false brethren, who were brought in unawares, actually spied out his and Titus’ liberty which they had in Christ Jesus (Gal 3:3-5).

On these subjects, on circumcision as on the subject of tithing, these false brethren were not given place, and should not be given place, for even an hour!

These false teachers can now be told, by their own preaching that they are under the curse of the law because they have failed to keep all things written in the law to do them (a quick house inspection will reveal they do not keep all the ceremonial laws).

But now, that would be getting religious. Ah, but this is a religious conference. So let’s visit biblical giving for that saint. Here are Paul’s instructions to the church at Corinth, which were the same instructions for the church at Galatia:

Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye. Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come. (1Co 16:1-2)

Notice it’s a collection “for the saints,” and not for a bloated overpaid staff to build their careers and buy jet skis. Notice also that whatever percentage can be extracted here is bound in the phrase “as God hath prospered him.” The tithe is a terrible hardship for many poor saints who are extorted to pay it.

Consider the disparity. Ten percent of thirty thousand annual income cuts a lot closer to the bone that ten percent of three hundred thousand annual income.

Before we go any further, it is imperative that we here and now both expose and understand how this tactic of applying the law of tithing is actually used by these false teachers. There are predictable dynamics that follow in most of these cases. Let’s lay them out.

First, congregants are threatened with cursing from God on all their finances and usually everything else, health included, if they don’t give the pastor the tithe (this drama is even effective on unsaved members). They are told that only by observing this law will God bless them and ensure the remaining ninety percent of their money will go even further. When it doesn’t because they are not under the law, but under grace; their faith takes a beating.

After being compelled to pay the tithe before paying even living expenses, dept rises to strangle levels, and saints begin to wonder if they really are cursed by God. They begin to think that maybe there’re being cursed for something God hasn’t forgiven them for yet. They asked for forgiveness, but God is withholding it.

Over time, they begin to feel like fugitives who have been driven from the face of the Lord with nothing but the mark of Cain to protect them. God has spared them, but they’re under a curse. Maybe, they begin to wonder, it is because they haven’t tithed in the past.

And then they are forced by circumstance to take the next step; they being giving less the ten percent, but they still refer to it as the “tithe.”

The result is they are downcast, downtrodden, and demoralized. They are cursed by God, second class saints, and according to the false teacher, they have become thieves stealing from God. They dare not tell anyone, and in that they also become liars.

This is what has been done to them. The saints are bullied into living a compromised walk of faith, and to live in sin, and sin make cowards of us all; so they are now even more easily manipulated by the false teacher.

Now, don’t think for one minute that these false teachers are unaware of these dynamics. They depend on them.

These false teachers know of, and sometimes even moan about, studies that reveal average giving in churches is probably closer to two percent then to ten percent. But they will gladly settle for an average near five percent of the income from a house full of thousands of slaves under their power and control. They work these dynamics on them to horribly abuse them; knowing full well that tithing is crushing them and destroying their walk of faith.

They also know it is preventing them from having any opportunity to really serve the Lord in the spirit, and live life more abundantly.

They would deny them the opportunity to serve the Lord because the false teachers want to be the lords over them, and that means the last thing they want is group empowered by the Holy Spirit. God might take charge though godly empowered men, and then where would they be?

This is not a working conference with an exam at the end of the sessions, so test materials were not handed out to you, but the answer for that last question is: mercifully, they would be gone.

Their staying power can be explained by another set of dynamics employed. The absence of the spirit of God and a focus on man’s efforts having been emphasized through tithing and personal leveraging, the saints are reduced to carnal Christians. In that state, they are more apt to respond to carnal appetites.

This explains the use of rock and roll music complete with all the accouterments of strobes, pyrotechnics, and smoke machines.

False teachers reduce saints to walking in carnality, and then use rock music and its atmosphere to satiate them and further control them. In this, the false teachers are following the same cycle used by drug dealers. They dispense the sweet to sooth the sting they themselves have inflicted.

The ulterior focus of this expose has been on an appeal to saints who have found themselves enslaved in these churches to wake up and remove from them, and as a warning to others to avoid them. The aspect that these churches have been purposely populated by the unsaved has largely been ignored in this conference until now. Here we’ll address it, because it’s another tactic employed by false teachers.

This mingling of the saved and unsaved is the result of the gospel of community, and it provides a dynamic of control for the false teacher. The substance of this other gospel is spun on an intricate web of relationships, and invites the unsaved to take their communion through programs such as the Alpha Course, and 40 Days of Purpose, and others packaged as outreach efforts.

These ongoing encounters do more to form unequal associations than to evangelize the lost. The programs actually accustom the saints to fellowship with the lost, and to accept the unsaved in their condition. False teachers have even issued passports for them by creating such categories as “pre-saved” friends and “seekers” to enable them to move about the church freely.

Here’s the reason why: these populations of unsaved supply an ever ready contingent for the false teacher to leverage against the saints in worship using worldly music and devices. They also reduce the presence of the Holy Spirit and keep spiritual strength in the church weak. The false teachers don’t want you to know this, but now you do.

There is, however, a another secret and more sinister tactic than any that has preceded it in this expose, and one which they would most dearly like to keep concealed from you, and especially from their victims.

Lastly, there is the powerful tactic that has made these heretics infamous in Christendom, but which is largely misunderstood by those outside their fraternal order. False teachers will often turn their monologues into irreligious tirades where they rant against traditional Christianity and Bible believing Christians and pastors. While in many instances this does stem from their animus towards God and the truth, there is a even a darker underside to this tactic.

They will ‘preach’ in this punk and rebellious attitude to provide a means for the congregants to experience a catharsis, or to vicariously experience the rebellion that many desire to participate in, but cannot in their weakened spiritual condition. The abused saints secretly desire to rebel against the yoke of the false teacher, and by this tactic they are placated and neutralized. As the drama unfolds, they are made to feel that they have participated in a rebellion, and they experience a sense of relief. Thus, the would-be rebels are quelled. The unsaved are naturally rebellious, and they are satiated, or given their natural reward in this process.

Captured enemy espionage agents should be manipulated so well.

The gross manipulation of the saints through deceit and coercion, and the abuse they are subjected to is sacrilegious. False teachers who employ these tactics are in a word: diabolical.

In our last session of this conference, we’ll take a look at the other side of the tithing coin, and one more tactic used by these false teachers. Any one attending this conference who also attends, or is trapped in, one of these churches should be feeling stronger now, and more confident to stand up to these men, and to come out from among them. Now, you know what they are doing to you, and now you know why they are doing it, and, more importantly, you know how they are doing it. The lid is off. Spread the word.

Thank you for rejoining us in session three of TheNewsBeats.com conference “The Church of What’s Happening Now” for a look at what is taking place in the visible church today. In session two, we began looking into the poisoned well conference billed as “New Spring Leadership Conference.” We were able to determine that the conference was not about building leaders at all, but was instead a scheme for developing menservants. As menservants, conference goers will be trained to serve the leaders who will be speaking at the event.

We also deduced that the thrust of their conference will be about you exercising your power to bring them victims so that they can repeat the process as they build their kingdom on earth. The process they will emphasize will be on how you can obtain some worldly influence, and how you can take the influence you have gained to do this for them.

By your own efforts, if you attend their conference and follow their teaching, you will apply the pry bar at the fulcrum of opportunity and exert your leverage for their kingdom; using your own power.

Oh, the enabling of the Holy Spirit?

It’s interesting that there are always two extremes when it comes to misrepresenting the Holy Spirit. The first is complete antics. The second is complete absence. Here it is the latter. This is a movement of men, by men, and for men. This is also another conference, and collection of men, that relies on the formula of 10.10.10. as one of their tactics.

What that means is these pastors preach, teach, and demand the tithe from their victims; telling every person who sets under them they must give the pastor ten percent of their income every time they get it, bar none. This, lest they be cursed by God. It’s true:

Pastor Steven Furtick, Elevation Church, Charlotte, demands it,

and so do pastors

Perry Noble, New Spring Church, Anderson;

Pastor Judah Smith, The City Church, Seattle;

Rick Warren, Saddleback Church, Irvine;

Jud Wilhite, Central Church, Las Vegas;

and the rest are probably doing so too.

Consequently, not a one of them will ever preach the whole truth from the Bible, much less from Paul’s epistle to the Galatians.

To set this up, Paul dealt with the very same sort of Judaizers who were following after his ministry which led men into the liberty of Christ to lead converts back under the yoke of bondage. The Judaizers were men who granted that salvation was by faith, but also held that Christians were still under the yoke of some old testament law; particularly circumcision.

One primary motive of the Judaizers was to make men subservient followers of them. They chose an ordinance from the Mosaic law and sought place it around the neck of the saints. The yoke is a wooden stock used to drive and steer animals. The contemporary Judaizers have replaced circumcision with tithing.

Paul confronted this practice of invoking Mosaic laws by rolling the ordinance of the laws back onto the Judaizers:

For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. (Gal 3:10)

What this means is the new covenant makes void the ordnance of tithing for Jews (Mal 1:1; 3:7), for it was never applied to the Gentiles, much less to the Christian, and thus needed not to be rescinded from them. This also means that anyone who dares to stand on a platform, and extort money by threatening form the Old Testament book of Malachi (written only to the Jews), can be asked to drop his pants on that same platform and be inspected for circumcision.

Here an aside for anyone joining this conference already in progress: this is not an attempt at sensationalism; it’s meant to be an affront to false teachers. It’s aimed at intimidating those guys for a change.

They stand up there and thunder that they are God’s man over God’s house and intimidate those setting at their feet. What chance does the little guy down there have? The pastor has got his wife in a small group, his kids in the nursery, and that’s for starters. The leadership team has got them all tightly woven into a web of activities designed for no other reason than to create interlocking relationships.

That is what Master Rick Warren has taught them to do in order to close the back door of the church so there can be no escape. They want walking away from these apostates to feel like peeling off layers of skin.

Most men are not up to the level of conflict, either with other members or at home, that would be required to get free from that church. So he’s got to go to that church and set there every Sunday and let this false teacher beat up on him, and he’s got to pretend he likes it.

Well, enough already.

Here’s some more ammunition to fight back with. The man on the platform can also be asked to prove, by the temple records, that he is a Levite priest; which were the only ones allowed to collect the Hebrew tithe (there go the Hawaiian shirts and faded jeans). Of course, we know that priesthood was abolished at the cross and the priesthood of believers took its place under one high priest who is now in heaven (Mat 27:50-51; 1Pet 2:4, 9; Heb 7).

It is no wonder why all the major denominations that have carried on this Protestant tradition and every ruffled-come-hipster upstart employing it are going, or start out as, apostate.   By claiming to act under the authority of the Levitical  priesthood in collecting tithes, these false teachers are, in effect, denying the New Testament made by Christ’s shed blood on the cross. That’s right.  That’s wrong.

In our next session we will look at the harm that is done to the saints by those demanding the Old Testament tithe.  We will examine the dynamics behind this practice that compromises the faith walk of the saints and causes them harm.

There is actually a rapacious, behind the scenes, process that these false teachers don’t want any one to know about, but in this conference we’re going to blow the lid off it.  We’re going to finally expose their tactics for the whole world to see what these evil men are doing, and how they are doing it.

I’ll look for you at session four, where pajamas and coffee are optional, but recommended.

[Resource: More on the Truth about Tithing HERE]

Thank you for rejoining us in session two of TheNewsBeats.com conference “The Church of What’s Happening Now” for a look at what is taking place in the visible church today. In our first conference session, we discussed the removal of the image for “Super Conference 10.10.10.” from the website promoting the event. I made the assertion that someone over there read my suggested captions for it and found them too strikingly accurate. If you’ve seen the image, you probably detected the evil leering sneers mingled with the rebellious conceited pomp in its circumstances.

Before retiring this group of heretics, we need to consider this Benny Hinn character. Not to worry, it’s going to be a short autopsy. He is so disgustingly repugnant even his image can’t be published here.

Here is a man who has made a fortune and lived a lavish lifestyle by lying to and stealing from crippled and diseased people. That’s his resume, which he calls a ministry. He is so evil he has to give every pretense of purity to offset his wickedness. That’s the explanation for him wearing white suits embossed with a dove while he performs his act.

How does his story end? Perhaps we can’t say for sure just yet, but it doesn’t look good. How long can a wicked man imitate the Holy Spirit and blaspheme the name of the Lord before he is turned over to Satan and his angles, and to demons, to be destroyed.

Here in session two, we’re going to look at another collection of suspects. Like the other group, these are arrested in this conference on suspicion of being false teachers causing harm to the saints. The detained are: Francis Chan, Mark Driscoll, Steven Furtick, Perry Noble, Judah Smith, Jud Wilhite, and Rick Warren. A few will be singled out, but we’ll deal with them as a group.

Their conference offering is “New Spring Leadership Conference.”

If you attended session one of this conference, you are familiar with TheNewsBeats.com policy on excluding some images from this platform, which is in effect here. To view this image you will need to use the link provided. [HERE]

This heresy conference is billed as: “A Full Day of Teaching Focused on Leveraging Your Influence to Preach the Gospel” (emphasis added). This conference, which by the way takes up the whole day (you get you out of TheNewsBeats.com conference in under twenty minutes), has as its theme personal influence.

They say: “The New Spring Leadership Conference is a full day of teaching focused on influence and how it affects our preaching of the Gospel.”

What this actually is: this is not a New Spring, but an old poisoned well. These ruffled-come-hipsters of the new paradigm are full of themselves. They were able to dazzle the illiterate to leverage their apostate quirks, which they pass off as personality, into money making careers.

Let us have a guess at what their curriculum will be, and their motives. Because this conference is not about developing leaders, that’s just a bribe thrown out there to flatter the unsuspecting. They’re not interested in any leaders being created, nor are they interested in your ideas. They have already made all the leadership decisions a long time ago, and the attendees are only the fuel to keep them going in the direction they have determined to go.

These guys are like vampires. First, they are going to squeeze you for your blood, and the only leading they want you to do form them is to go out afterwards and lead in more victims to them.

What the conference is about:

They are planning to make more money by explaining how they’ve leveraged their influence to occasionally be a Christ-name-dropper in public, perhaps in an airport terminal where they traveled first class. More importantly, how you too can get to work for them; filling their building and filling their coffers by leveraging your quirks, and preaching the gospel of community

The gospel of community is one which allows for any and all to attend their Saturday night performances and Sunday matinees where a needle can be inserted into their arms and the siphoning can begin

Of course, there are classes offered in their respective churches that will personality profile you using rubrics designed by godless men to discover what gifts God has given you which enable you to work for these men. Often, there are contracts that must be signed by this newly trained ‘leaders’ before they begin performing what they are told is their ‘ministry’ and what others have correctly identified as indentured servitude.

These men are building their kingdoms one human sacrifice at a time.

A peek into the situation room, or strategy headquarters for New Spring Leadership conference, and an examination of the graphs, charts, merchandising plans, and finance statements would reveal it’s really nothing more than a money making recruitment drive.

For any discerning soul, this would be expensive outing, a complete waste of valuable time and lots of your money, but you’re not going to that conference. You’re at this conference; and you will be able to take some real tools away from it too.

Conference season is back.  It comes after summer when many have taken vacations or have had time off, and have probably done a few things they know they shouldn’t have; so it off to a religious conference to cleanse the soul.  But wait.  This year, it’s finally going to be different.  You won’t have to squeeze your clothes into a small bags and wrinkle them.  No need for hotel reservations and flight plans.  No scrimping on cheap restaurant food to make it all work (and forget about that indigestion too).

You can attend a religious conference without leaving the comfort of your favorite chair, and you’ll be leaving your money where you probably need it most; in the bank.

Attend TheNewsBeats.com religious conference titled “The Church of What’s Happening Now” where seating is not limited, and where it can be said without any hidden strings and catches that it’s absolutely free.  No offering will be taken, and there is no merchandise with glossy covers and luring titles on display in the lobby.

The title for this conference comes from a television comedy that ran in the sixties, and was the subject of a comedic skit performed by comedian Flip Wilson.  The author does not endorse Mr. Wilson.  He made a teenager laugh, but the mature man does not know if Flip found God or if he eventually flipped out.

But like that previous satire, this conference will take a short look at the contemporary church, the visible church, and make some observations.  So, stay in your pajamas, get a good cup of coffee, and relax in your comfortable chair for this short conference.  Admission is free.

For our first session we’ll take a look at what you’ll be missing by attending this conference instead of traveling.

Many of you have already heard of the “Super Conference 10.10.10.” where prosperity heretics Benny Hinn, T.D. Jakes and Senior Pastor Paula White will be performing in Florida in October.  The first thing to notice is that they all have to share the same ticket.  How’s that prosperity gospel working out for them in these tough times?

Sure, there are logistical concerns.  News is pouring out that Hinn and White have been sharing the same ticket for a while now.  And that revelation seems to have put a strain on their finances.  It’s also got them looking over their shoulder.

For instance, a short piece proposing different captions for an image promoting “Super Conference 10.10.10.” was run on TheNewsBeats.com member site News Snippets From All Beats.  That piece contained a link to the original image (TheNewsBeats.com could not in good conscious publish that image on this platform).

It so happens that on the very next day the website where the image resided invoked member sign-in authorization to view that image.  They took down the image, which was a group photo (a collage really) of the heretics.

What stinging oratory caused them to literally hide their faces?  Let’s have a look:

Super Fleecing Conference: 10.10.10

August 10th, 2010 by David Dansker

It is the policy of TheNewsBeats.com not to run an image of an ungodly reprobate, or of an evil man or woman; so long as another image can suffice with the content of an article, or when the subject is plainly too repugnant and blasphemous. Exceptions are sometimes made, but not in this instance. To view the image for which the following caption applies, readers must use the link provided.After viewing the link for “Super Conference 10.10.10,” read the caption: LINK

[UPDATE (8-11): Since this posting, sign-in authorization has been enacted to view the original image, but fortunately a screen shot exists HERE]

Appropriate Caption:

We will not be told by the Bible what to do.  If we women want to dress like men and call ourselves pastors to satiate our lust for power, we’ll do so.  If we want to wear religious collars to validate on the outside what does not exist on the inside, we will.  We don’t like Christ Jesus, and we don’t want to have anything to do with him.  We love ourselves.

We love extravagant vacations and expensive clothes, and luxury homes to return to.  We love your money.

We are nothing more than flashy orators and vocalists providing fleshly entertainment to disorient you in order to steal your money.  If all else fails, we will threaten you with a god we don’t believe in, much less serve.

We are a group of painted strumpets and cheap starlets and some demon possessed men, and we are a whoring after our other gods.  Won’t you join us?

Times are tight and most of our following fools are broke after taking our advice, so we had to team up on one ticket to increase the draw.

You will be able to gaze at the trappings of our material wealth and be awed by our style so that you can be made to believe that you too can possess all the things that you lust after by your brief association with us.  This is the substance of our unholy communion.

It is the communion you will take with us; a communion with demons at the Super Fleecing Conference.  On the scale of apostasy this is a 10.10.10.  Won’t you join us?

[If this caption isn’t the accurate one for the image, I’ll eat my own words (printed on chocolate to save a tree)]

It seems, ladies and gentlemen, that the truth cuts fast and deep when it’s run across, and these charlatans have been trading it under foot for a long time.  But the soles of their expensive shoes are wearing thin from being on the run, and the truth is beginning to hurt.

Having fun yet?  Next, we’ll look at another group of usual suspects.  Go get that second cup of coffee.

Atlantis

 Atlanticus Awdawmonus

David Dansker

Published by TheNewsBeats.com

Copyright 2010, all rights reserved.

Introduction

In the Gap

Restoration of Earth

Race of Awdawms

Origin of Demons

Doctrine of Demons

Calling Out a People

Redemption of Satan

Cause of Strandings

Habeas Corpus

Afterword

Afterword

Reverence -

The tone of this work was necessarily serious.  There is only one light quip in the whole of it, and that was almost edited out.  The focus was so keen and study so intense humor had to be allowed to explode elsewhere in other short pieces as a relief.  The word of God is the most precious thing a person can get their hand on, and after God, the Lord Christ Jesus, and the Holy Spirit, nothing is more deserving of respect and reverence.  The theory entertained herein includes speculations from portions of scripture, and has made assertions for consideration.  Great care was taken at all times to keep in mind the holiness of the material and keep its author in the author’s mind.  In spite of all this care, the author is painfully aware that other men would have produced a better effort.

Strandings -

The author built his work on the work of other men, and has contributed to that discussion.  The largest contribution has been the discussion herein on the phenomenon of whale and dolphin standings.  Because the treatment is unique and provocative, and deals with physical characteristics of elements and animals that can be directly measured, it’s reasonable to anticipate objections from a certain quarter that might be of the opinion that an unauthorized intruder should be shown the door. In the spirit of objective inquiry, let the question remain at the forefront one which asks how he got in.

The theologian has access to keys men of other specialties and pursuits cannot count on their chain.  Speculating on phenomenon is not the exclusive domain of scientists because they can tie an instrument onto a porpoise’s pasutee and track him. (Interestingly, the porpoise is alternately referred to in Old English as mereswine.) What results from those endeavors is, in some cases, fairly accurate data which can be accessed, and from which fin tales can also be spun. 

The Christian has a more sure database to explain the unexplained, and can rely upon it more than upon the changing graphs and charts from technicians and cartographers.  But let’s use for the time what they can explain.

Objection:

If the entrance to the Abyss, from whence demons are summoned to use whales to strike land, and where they are at times banished, is in the Atlantic Ocean; how did the demons, cast out by Jesus into the swine that drown, get to the Atlantic from the Sea of Galilee when it is a land-locked sea?

Let’s take the most difficult part of this objection first.

There are in deep seas caverns where channels of water run many miles through undersea caves and causeways.  There is also something underground called the water table.  Water from precipitation and run off infiltrates the ground and at some depth the ground reaches a saturation point where the water tables in the porous soil and sediment.  In some areas the water table is only a few feet below the ground surface, and in others it’s thousands of feet below.  It’s an underground sea that the Sea of Galilee would be in touch with.  The demons could have been made to have traveled to the abyss in those ways, or in a more obvious one. 

The climate in the Mediterranean area is temperate, but still seasonal, and the topography is not static.  Water and even the earth move. 

While the area surrounding the Sea of Galilee is dry, there is more water to form tributaries to it in the winter time. When Joshua crossed the Jordan River a fourteen hundred years before Jesus was baptized in it, there was enough water in it to chronicle a crossing requiring special preparation.  When John was baptizing, he found enough water in the Jordan for all comers. 

Today, the Jordan River, which connects to the Sea of Galilee from the north, is barely a trickle in some places and dries in the summer in others.  This is due partly to climactic change, ongoing geological change, and manmade obstructions from water projects like dams.  It is not the same today as when Jesus sailed on Galilean waters to meet the demon possessed Gergaseans, but historical maps show the existence of tributaries that appear to join, or be able to connect, the Sea of Galilee through the Jordan out to the Mediterranean Sea, joining it just north of the city of Tyre.

This would have formed an acceptable waterway. From the Mediterranean the demons would pass through the Striate of Gibraltar into the Atlantic.

Six Days of Creation -

There are other references in the Bible for the six days in Genesis and the work performed therein.  The key to their interpretation is careful study.  The Translators of our precious King James Bible were the best men best available for the task or probably could have ever been assembled for the task.  Their work was so thorough and accurate that we can study the individual words they translated into English, and even take issue with some of the choices they made to render them translated.  But nothing so technical is usually at point due to their brilliance and choice of the most accurate manuscripts for their work. 

For example we read in Exodus:

For in six das the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath, and hollowed it (Exo 2011). 

To better understand what this verse in not saying we may take a word that is in question and apply it to another process. 

When we assemble ingredients in their respective quantities  necessary to bake a cake and put them through a process that does indeed produce it, we say accurately that we made a cake; we do not say we created it.  Everything that  was required existed beforehand and only needed to be reorganized and processed.  The word that was translated “created” in Genesis chapter one, verse two, comes from the word  bara  which means create.  The word in the Exodus verse translated “made” comes from the word asah which has a broad sense and wide application and is used for ‘accomplish,’ ‘advance,’ ‘bestow,’ and ‘fashion,’ and does not mean to create.

Videos -

WARNING -The following video depicts clearly the worshiping of demons and the celebration of their doctrines. If you choose to view the video, you may wish to do so on mute so as to lessen the demonic nature of the experience.

By the looks on the faces of some of the men present, they are uncomfortable with the worship.  They should have stood and collected their families and walked out, but the success of the demonic doctrine of feminism which led to the ordination of  women pastors has decimated the headship of men in the churches, and there is little some can now do unless they are willing to leave the church where their wife pastors.

The men are emasculated and the churches go into apostasy.  Paul warned about this progression of demonic seduction that would result from women pastors:

But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression. (1Ti 2:12-14)

Video Description - The animals are led to the pulpit in a procession.  First, women - on both sides to the pavilion - usher bears, one black, one white,  forward in celebratory dance, and the women continue in a provocative urging until they get the bears to rise up on their hind legs.  The colors demonstrate the joining of opposites, and the standing at the pulpit demonstrates the equality of animals to mankind, and their cohabitation in the church as fellow creatures and worshipers (abstain from meats).

Notice that the Sun god high priest has right hand in gesture of Hindu Gyan Mudra, with index finger touching tip of thumb, used induce a state happiness and increased knowledge promised in exchange for worshiping demons.

Notice woman in prominent position behind Sun god high priest, with man in tow behind her amongst the children. Notice woman carrying peace offering.

Notice nature themed banners. Notice foul smelling animals in procession.  

Notice in background intricate images of red flames projected on the walls and encircling the audience to disorient them and to impart a spiritual experience, and used as an imitation of the Holy Spirit descending on the platform to welcome worship.

Notice the demon high priest gesturing to give the benediction over the people.  

Notice the design of sashes on parade here, of bright colors and pantheistic heathenism.

Notice it all ushered forth with ribbon sticks waved to distract the conscious from reason as was performed in the Babylonian mystery religions, and carried over in the pomp in the Roman Catholic Church of colored vestments and ornate robes.

Notice as a fertility dance is performed on platform. Notice priestesses bring elements to the platform that could represent the communion and raise them for blessing of demons. 

Notice , if you did not mute, the worship music is haunting and trance like to produces an altered state of consciousness and renders the audience more susceptible to the worship of demons, and to demon possession.

The demons hang from the rafters and sit in the pews. Waiting. For victims.

Video :

Opening Worship Processional - 219^th General Assembly, “The Lion King Meets the PCUSA,” (from tdallasw’s Channel, July 4, 2010). 5 min., 26 sec. (accessed on YouTube July 29, 2010). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4pr_E5Nbuc&feature=player_embedded

Video:

PropheticSeer, “Breaking News: Ocean Floor About to Explode,” (from YouTube, August 2, 2010). 2 min., 44 sec. (accessed on YouTube August 5, 2010) .http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5alY3-ydJ8&feature=player_embedded.

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Atlantis

 Atlanticus Awdawmonus

David Dansker

Published by TheNewsBeats.com

Copyright 2010, all rights reserved.

Introduction

In the Gap

Restoration of Earth

Race of Awdawms

Origin of Demons

Doctrine of Demons

Calling Out a People

Redemption of Satan

Cause of Strandings

Habeas Corpus

Afterword

Habeas Corpus

Now, it will certainly be argued that it is unreasonable to detect a time space between only two verses in Genesis that could  promote this much speculation about another cosmos and other living Awdawms.  Still, plausible supports are introduced in other scriptures (Jer 4: ; Isa 1:1; 2Pet 1:1), and we know of at least one other place in scripture where a remarkable time space exists. 

One Sabbath day, Jesus stood up in the synagogue in Nazareth to read, and He  read from the book of Isaiah:

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord. (Luk 4:18-19)

Here, Jesus closes the book and hands it back to the minister.  The passage in Isaiah that Jesus read is chapter sixty-one, verses one and two, but Jesus did not stop reading at the end of verse two.  He stopped in the middle of verse two at a comma. On the other side of that punctuation we read: “and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that moun” (Isa 61:2).

That comma is the place mark for over two thousand years and counting, and it is not in between two verses, but in between a single verse of scripture.  

As to the significance of time spaces in scripture, the most important event and developments to ever occur took place, and are still taking place, within this gap found in a single verse. 

As to the providence of God in the amount of information and the time in which it is revealed, we have the witness of scripture that even His own prophets were not informed about the creation of the Church, or fully comprehended Christ’s suffering, death, and resurrection.

I dare say we do not fully comprehend it now.

Even the angles desired to look into the mysteries which waited to be revealed to the Apostles and to us (1Pet 1:12).

The naturalists will most likely not be allowed an habeas corpus, or to produce the body from amongst the dead Awdawms and claim it an evolutionary ancestor of man.  Their destruction may have been on the order of the one reserved for Gog and Magog who Satan will lead in attack against the camp of the saints at the close of the millennium.  There, fire will come down from heaven and completely devour them; vaporized (Rev 20:7-9). 

It could also be that some knowledge was passed to demon possessed men as to the Awdawms and their country and how it was destroyed, and from this comes the legend of Atlantis which is supposed to have perished beneath the sea.  The bodies of the Awdawms could be entombed at the bottom of the ocean. If this were the case, it would shed light another curious scripture. 

On that final judgment day after the millennium, all the wicked dead, small and great, will stand before God and be judged.  The transaction to bring them before the throne of judgment will be, first, the soul will be summoned from hell, and then it will pass through the grave to be embodied so it can stand in its sins and be judged.  This is what is meant by “death [the grave] and hell delivered up the dead which were in them” (Rev 20:13). 

This description is complete to cover all anthropos, or human beings, but this transaction is preceded by one in which the sea gives up all the dead which are in it (Rev 20:13). 

This seems to indicate that a different race of Awdawms who are held at the bottom of the ocean are to be judged first.  Paul tells us that all things will be done in their proper order as to the resurrections (1Cor 15:23-24), and so it would make sense for the Awdawms to be resurrected for judgment first. 

Because their disembodied spirits did not go to hell but to the abyss, and their bodies may lie concealed under the bottom of the ocean (q.v.), their bodies and spirits would be collected before leaving the depth of the ocean to be judged.  This is why when the sea gives up its dead; hell is not included in that transaction.   

To further substantiate the connection between the Awdawms and Satan we learn reading the account of his future demise: “They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas” (Eze 28:8).  This cannot be an allusion to a drowning sensation Satan is to experience in the pit, for not every anthropos drown who was slain in the sea.

Here the slain in the sea are again most likely a special class who are in the middle of probably the Atlantic ocean.  We know that Satan will be bound and cast into the Abyss for a thousand years prior to being released one last time to tempt a rebellion before being cast into the lake of fire (Rev).  Here he is reminded that his fate is tired to the fate of the Awdawms which he led in his rebellion in the Pre-Adamite earth.

With this in mind, we may see that there is more of a poetic quality to Satan’s demise then has previously been entertained:

Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God; Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness. They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas. (Eze 28:6-8)

The passage has been rendered by the translators in mortal terms.  In light of this observation, and incorporating what scripture does tell us, a variant reading of the passage in the author’s paraphrase:

“Because of you purposed in your heart to be God, desired and sought to ascend to throne and rule as a god, the Awdawms will be the cause for you being cast into the abyss where the foreign, strange, and profane disembodied spirits of the Awdawms, who are exceedingly mighty and terribly violent as many troops of animals, and are as pervasive and inescapable as a flight of horrible supernatural locusts; there they will actually rule over you, and your beauty and wisdom will be the wound of your defilement, and that is the splendor you have exchanged your splendor for.   They will have power over you to do this for a thousand years, and after that time you will die the death of eternal torment with them in the lake of fire.”

Considering the scriptures being examined deals with Satan’s rebellion and destruction, and his destruction is not one that can be accomplish by men and their weapons; the words tending towards the supernatural rendering were chosen from amongst the verity of Strong Concordance definitions available for them.  Nevertheless, the author does not care for paraphrases, and does not recommend them.  

All of this reversal of fortune takes place while the called out ones are ruled over for the same period of time in splendor and peace by their righteous King whose throne will be set up on the restored earth He possesses. Poetic justice.

The foregoing is a theory to explain the old appearance of the earth.  Of course, none of this is necessary to explain why the earth looks so old.  It could look old because it’s old, and for no other reason.  Other theories have been postulated that connect the age of the earth to the speed of light.  It has to do with the idea that the speed of light is slowing down, and suggests that events transpired faster, and so in smaller increments of time only thousands of year ago. 

The author favors this theory because it, as good theories should, provides possible answers to other mysteries as well.

We should come away from this study more intrigued by the awesome reasoning of Him who subjected us in frailty so that we may reside in hope, and with a renewed appreciation for the scope of the plan of salvation and the intricacies in its transaction.  We should now be more apt to engage the scriptures than to entertain science fiction (such as evolution), and able to more clearly see the dissimilar nature of different things.

Demanding a young earth is not the same as defending God as the creator of all things, and accepting an old earth is not the same as accepting the theory of evolution.   

Nor is looking at an old earth theory the same as looking back on the destruction of Sodom and Gomorra contrary to divine instruction; you will not become a pillar of salt for doing so. 

We are witnessing a dividing in the Church over the subject of the age of the earth because it is presented as a package with two separate subjects which do not share the same compartment.  What is traveling therein is a misunderstanding that has mistakenly joined together a dichotomy and presented it as a tenet of Christian faith.  This harms two groups.

The saints are doggedly herded into a camp with unstable walls and told to bar the doors against an enemy that doesn’t exist; despite what their common sense tells them.  This behavior of placing faith in something questionable out of a conjured fear that doubting it would destroy the word of God can lead Christians into other areas of dissonance.

Over time, they will begin to tread lightly on their faith from a fear that standing firm on it would subject it to stress whereby its weaknesses would be revealed.

The scientists who are attacked to the gospel will stop short of accepting Christ as savior and hear Him only as philosopher so long as they  believe they must abandon the reality He has created to accept Him in reality.

We are comforted to know that those who are saved cannot be lost, and those who will be saved cannot be disappointed, but we are all nonetheless subject to scandal in this life, or treatment by it that prevents us from reaching many of what otherwise would be our attainments.  To this: woe to him who willfully causes scandal and correction to him who by error causes men to stumble.

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Atlantis

 Atlanticus Awdawmonus

David Dansker

Published by TheNewsBeats.com

Copyright 2010, all rights reserved.

Introduction

In the Gap

Restoration of Earth

Race of Awdawms

Origin of Demons

Doctrine of Demons

Calling Out a People

Redemption of Satan

Cause of Strandings

Habeas Corpus

Afterword

Cause of Strandings

The mark of the Awdawms’ sin was indelible and not to be removed.  They were destroyed in the wrath of God, and the Pre-Adamite earth perished in water. Water. Water is both a special and a peculiar substance.  At various temperatures, it can prepare our food or imprison nuclear submarines beneath its ice.  The human body cannot survive long in it unassisted before perishing, and so we cannot inhabit the seas.  Still, the history of mankind is one of trying to break this law.  Few have stopped to ask if the reason we are separated from the seas is because they also are used to imprison something else that is being kept separated from us. 

There is a strange phenomenon which takes place time and time again, and for which scientists have no agreed upon explanation. It is a case where otherwise healthy sea animals swim to shore and beach themselves on the sand to die; literally drowning in air.  In what has become to be known as ‘strandings,’ hundreds of whales and dolphins can be involved in a single incident in places like Tasmania. 

Scientists have postulated theories for this behavior that include sonar interference from ships and seaquakes disrupting the animals’ natural navigation abilities, and even climate change, but these are inadequate to explain the behavior.

Scientists do have one theory where they come closer than they realize to the cause of these strandings.  It is thought that military sonar mimics the sound of killer whales, and the other whales and dolphins beach themselves while running away from those predators.  It’s possible, but the part to actually take away here is the running away.

When Jesus arrived by ship to the country of the Gergesenes, he was met by two possessed with demons.  Those men had supernatural strength so that no man could subdue them, but when they saw Jesus “they cried out, saying, what have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time?” (Mat 8:29; emphasis added).  This encounter reveals several things. 

The demons are at some time in the future to go to a place of torment.  Many, such as the two thousand in this case, are apparently free to roam about and possess humans at times, or until that time.  Also, we learn that demons recognize the Son of God, and know that their time of torment did not begin at the first coming of Christ. 

Now we have the incident of the downing swine from this encounter, and the careful student will learn much more from it than what has been gleaned so far.

The demons try to broker a deal with Jesus.  If He is going to cast them out of the men, which they are sure He is going to do, then they ask if He will allow them to enter into the 2000 swine that are nearby (Mk 5:13).  They are hoping that Jesus will accept this abatement because He will get his cure of the men, and the demons will obtain hosts from which they can possess other men.

We learn a very important and indispensable detail of this encounter from Luke. 

The demons also pleaded with Jesus not “to command them to go out into the deep” (Lk 8:31). The word for deep used here is abussos from which the word abyss comes.  We are already familiar with an abyss which is the bottomless pit where Satan will be chained for a thousand years during the millennial reign of Christ (Rev 20:1-2), and from whence horrible demon-like scorpion locusts will be released to torment mankind during the tribulation period (Rev 9:1-11). 

It is possible that the demons referred to it here.  It may also be that the entrance to this abyss lies deep beneath the sea. 

When Jesus appears to grant the petition of the demons, they take possession of the swine, and they all run into the sea and down. 

Of the explanations put forth for this behavior of the swine, it has been suggested that the swine could not endure the demons and chose rather to die then to harbor them, or that they all went mad by the possession.  If that is so, it is strange that they all went mad in exactly the same direction. 

Rather, it appears that Jesus let the demons go into the swine to use them to send the demons to an abyss far beneath the water.  For sure, this was at the expense of the swine, but the Lord does not hold to the concept of animal rights as it is a doctrine of demons, and a damnable heresy when taught in the churches (2Pet 2:1).

What is revealed by this examination is that there is a special abyss beneath the seas where demons are held, and that some which are free to roam in the atmosphere are at times banished there as the Lord decides. 

Additionally, and to the point, demons may also be called forth from the abyss, or even escape.  And what is also revealed in comparing the Gergesene encounter with the Tasmanian phenomenon is that the demons cannot transition from the atmosphere to the water disembodied, hence the use of the swine; alternately, demons cannot transition from the water back to the atmosphere without an animal body, hence the use of the whales and dolphins.

Like the swine, whales and dolphins are air breathing mammals.  It makes sense that demons, which are disembodied spirits of terrestrial and air breathing beings, can only use air breathing mammals in their transition between the two environments.

Now, we might more accurately refer to standings, to whales and dolphins beaching themselves and downing from air on dry land, not as strandings, but as escapes or releases, or the Transitions of Tasmanian Devils (demons).  The word translated ‘demons’ in the plural in scriptures is always translated from the word daimonion; which means demons.

Some of the whales used in these transitions can dive to very deep depths.  The pilot whale, which is the species that most often mass-stands themselves, is nomadic, and they prefer to roam areas over deep submarine trenches.  Their distribution is from the Atlantic to all the other oceans, and they move north and south.  These whales can dive to depths of just under a mile, and they can remain submerged for nearly half an hour. 

As we have discovered, demons not only are able to possess mammals, but prefer to use them as vehicles.  If they are at times cast into the abyss or summoned forth, we may now know why, and how.  As to why efforts to reacclimate stranded animals back to the water are often difficult and mostly fail, it may be the animals were too wracked by the demonic experience, or were irreparably disorientated.

[Editor’s note: more on cause of strandings in Afterword]. 

Atlantis

 Atlanticus Awdawmonus

David Dansker

Published by TheNewsBeats.com

Copyright 2010, all rights reserved.

Introduction

In the Gap

Restoration of Earth

Race of Awdawms

Origin of Demons

Doctrine of Demons

Calling Out a People

Redemption of Satan

Cause of Strandings

Habeas Corpus

Afterword

Redemption of Satan

In the book of Ezekiel we are introduced to the magnificent King of Tyrus.  So stunning is the description of his perfection and so complete is the account of his destruction that we must conclude that he in none other than the person of Satan before his fall.  Notice that Satan started out in such a preeminent state that God says of him: “Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty” (Ez 28:12). Satan was originally created at the zenith such a creature could be made to attain to.

It does not appear that God provided beforehand for a transaction of redemption that would restore a fallen but repentant Satan as He later did for man, which “creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope” (Rom 8:20).  Hence, a restored Satan would have retained the blemish of his fall. 

The prospect of being marred by his fall for all eternity, and thought of the memory of his former splendor haunting him in the congregation of God, might explain the sealing up of his fate.  It was his beauty which originally caused hid heart to be lifted up against God (Eze 28:17). How different from God’s faithful and obedient servant who was willing to bear the marks for the price of our redemption in His hands and feet and in His side (Jh 20:27).

On the question of whether God extended an opportunity for Satan and his angels to repent, we may at least have an account of one for his angles. 

There is a curious scripture in Psalm eighty-two.  It appears there that, just as Satan and his angles presented themselves before God and accused Job (Job 1:6), his angles were at another time standing in the congregation of God when He made the offer:

A Psalm of Asaph. God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods. How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah. Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy. Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked. (Psa 82:1-4)

If this was an offer, we have evidence of its finale withdrawal here also. 

That they are angles we know because God said: “I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High” (Psa 82:6).  This is the way the angles are described in Job. In the next verse their doom is pronounced: “But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes” (Psa 82:7). 

It is also remarkable that the next and last verse to this Psalm is also the chief corner stone for all creation: “Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all nations” (Psa 82:8).  Although we do not know when this event transpired, it seems the rest of God’s plan which would now include the fate of fallen angels was irrevocable from the point.  And if such an offer could in fact be made to the angels, it follows that it could also be made to Satan.

This idea of an extended offer of repentance to Satan and his angels may also explain Christ’s words following his riding into Jerusalem as King (Zec 9:9).  It was near the hour of his crucifixion which would make possible the redemption of men, and Satan still opposed Him. 

Jesus prayed to the Father to glorify His name, and a voice came from heaven: “I have glorified it, and will glorify it again” (Joh 12:28). This may include the miracles Christ performed, but the scope of this glory could also refer to before His incarnation as redeemer and Holy One of Israel, and after His resurrection as Savior; an assurance.

It is upon this promise that the plan of salvation will not be hindered that Jesus responds: “Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast down” (Jh 12:31). This may be anticipative of Satan’s future doom, for he is not cast down yet; either from the heavens, to which he still has access until the middle of the tribulation period (Rev 12:7), or from his position over the kingdoms of the world.  Also, we know that the judgment day is future too, but still there may be a more immediate application to the statement. 

The world was about to be held accountable to the work of Christ on the cross, and everyone will be judged by that standard; have you received Christ so that you may be received of God, or denied him so as to be received in the lake of fire? 

Perhaps Satan, in addition to not wanting to be a marred creature in the redemptive state and choosing instead to rule as a god for as long as this age should last, also did not want to give up his power over death.  And so by needs sake he had to be destroyed when Christ rose from the dead to abolish death (2Tim 1:10), for we read:

Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; (Heb 2:14)

Satan was exalted as the covering cherub with many privileges.  He frequented the holy mountain of God, and the Eden of God’s garden that was in the same vicinity (not the Eden God prepared for man), and he walked up and amidst the stones of fire (Ez 28:13-16). 

It follows that he would have been the one to have also been given dominion over the earth.  That he has title to it today after displacing Adam there is no doubt, for he was willing to offer all the kingdoms of this world to the Lord if he would worship him.  Our Lord did not question the Devil’s authority to make that offer (Mat 4:8-10).

Satan most likely engineered the fall in the garden of Eden to retake possession of the earth after God gave it to Adam, and to doom God’s new creation because God destroyed similar creatures over which Satan had a charge. 

The animus he would have over mankind could be explained by the fact that God had destroyed Awdawms in the old cosmos who Satan had some authority over.  Because of the multitude of his privileges and wonderful attributes with which he was created, Satan’s heart was darkened and he “sinned” (Ez 28:16). 

He probably involved the Awdawms in his rebellion, and for that cause they were destroyed, and God foreclosed on earth and put it in a watery bank. 

Inferences seem to point to some redemption being available to Satan and his angels.  In the hierarchy of created beings, Satan and the angles were created heavenly beings and thus far superior to the Awdawms who were created terrestrial beings.  Because they were not created specifically to be called out, or redeemed, the terms of their restoration was limited.  God is not limited, so He must have created them as such for His reasons in the Grand Design (s.v.).  Satan and his angels may have survived a restoration transaction, but not unscathed.  The lesser terrestrial Awdawms, with no special plan for redemption in play, could not negotiate such a transaction and survive it.

Atlantis

 Atlanticus Awdawmonus

David Dansker

Published by TheNewsBeats.com

Copyright 2010, all rights reserved.

Introduction

In the Gap

Restoration of Earth

Race of Awdawms

Origin of Demons

Doctrine of Demons

Calling Out a People

Redemption of Satan

Cause of Strandings

Habeas Corpus

Afterword

Calling Out a People

Unlike the Awdawms, Mankind is a unique race created for the purpose of God redeeming a people to himself.  The plan of salvation and redemption is an intricate one accounting for the inevitable fall, the effect of sin on the creature, and quickening of those mortal bodies in which redeemed spirits would reside.  The Lord’s redemption is a complete one.  Nothing and no one that belong to the Lord is lost.  Even the earth itself will be redeemed when the Lion of the tribe of Judah takes rightful possessing of its title deed (Rev 5:1-5), an act that will be contested by Satan over a period of seven years sometime in the near future. 

Entertaining the drama in large scale can often be made in smooth passage, but small details can present problems for us.

While we may easily accept that a spirit can be made to transition unscathed to heaven because we assign it an ethereal quality, it can be difficult to entertain a resurrected body that has undergone corruption, and understand it resurrect to be inhabited again by entity superior to it.   

On this intricacy, a question might be composed to be used only as a dull instrument to probe the wisdom of God. But what to do with a broken piece of fine china after that it is broken? 

The answer, of course, is to mend it, but the blemish of the restoration marks will always be present in it; hardly a glorious redemption.  If the plate were first placed inside another container that took the fall and received the mark, and a transaction could be designed to later remove that plate from the damaged body and place it high upon a self, it is in effect redeemed to an even more glorious creature. 

If that placement were of a divine nature, it would no longer be subject to the natural laws wherein the drama was played out to affect the transaction, but subject to different laws in a higher realm.  Then, the problem as to the blemish of sin is solved. 

This is why Paul could confidently state that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which is to be revealed in us (Rom 8:18),  and he goes on to reveal how God designed the transaction:

For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. (Rom 8:20-21)

The spirit of man is dead in trespasses and sins.  Nevertheless, the spirit lives forever.   We say that man is spiritually dead until he is regenerated by the spirit of God, because only God gives life (Tit 3:5), and those who are saved are said to be born again in God’s new life for them (Joh 3:3; 1 Pet 1:23). 

When the spirit passes thought its container of flesh by mortal death, and it has not been redeemed while it abode there; it is said to have died in its container subject to the law over that body, and to have died in its sins:

Then said Jesus again unto them, I go my way, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: whither I go, ye cannot come. Then said the Jews, Will he kill himself? because he saith, Whither I go, ye cannot come. And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world. I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins (Joh 8:21-24).

The death of the container affixes the one-way postage on the spirit to either its damnation or life with God, and as the spirit supersedes the body in hierarchy of design and existence, it is a small thing for God to glorify its lesser container in the process of the transaction. 

Think of it as the effect that a perfect physique would have on tailored clothes. Nothing and no one that belongs to the Lord is lost.  The Lord’s redemption is a complete one.

Those who have been redeemed live as heirs in bodies that are now vessels of hope until they are glorified (2 Pet 1:4; 1 Joh 3:2).  For we see that it is dying, but we know we have been sealed with a promise by the Holy Spirit (2Cor 1:22; 2Ti 2:19), and acting on this knowledge is an exercise of faith; and it is faith that saves us.  Precisely, it is faith in another transaction where the penalty for our sins was paid in full by the Messiah; Christ Jesus the Lord. 

Those who have this faith are now joint-heirs with Christ, to be glorified together with Him.  Our faith and our fate is settled and firm not because we are made spiritually alive, but how this part of the transaction takes place; the spirit of God actually comes and dwells in us (Rom 8:11) so that we have received a life for the spirit that is from God, and it is not the spirit of fear, but the power of God by which we are kept in salvation (1Pet 1:5).   

Even the wicked dead will be called out of hell and reclothed with their bodies of corruption to stand before God at the great white throne judgment, and they will be standing in their sins.   As they died in their sins, they will be, for the second time, disrobed of their mortal bodies and cast into the lake of fire to occupy their part there forever; and this part of that transaction is referred to as the second death (Rev 20:11-15).

Unfortunately, the out-of-this-world experience many are pursuing in sin will end up to be their second death just prior to this world, or cosmos, being completely changed.

With the scope of this drama so foundational to Adam, by whom all men die (1 Cor 15:22), it is hard to for some to entertain an older earth, much less one where a population of creatures, or Awdawms, existed.

Now, the Bible does tell us that by one man sin entered into this world, and death by that sin.  The Bible also makes it clear that the sin took place in this world, or cosmos, and that it was committed by an anthropos, or a member of this current race of occupants, and not by an Awdawm of the prior world, or cosmos (Rom 5:12). 

This cosmos is the current system and order of things under which mankind lives, and dies.  It is not the cosmos of the regenerated new earth, wherein the transaction that produces it this present cosmos will be dissolved by a fire of fervent heat; thus purifying it, and eliminating the necessity for seas (2Pet 3:7-10).  In this cosmos, the oceans are necessary to the planet and the type of creature that inhabits it, but in the cosmos of the new heaven (atmosphere) and new earth, they will not be required (Rev 21:1). 

Further, we know the fall of Adam introduced sin into this cosmos, and into man, but it was not the origination of sin; for sin itself existed prior to Adam and Eve.  We read in Ezekiel that Satan was perfect in his ways until inequity was found in him (Ex 28:15), and it was from his inequity that he engineered the fall of man.

As to what entered into the Pre-Adamite cosmos and caused it destruction by water, so that it lay completely under the oceans formless and void, we may speculate by the trend of scripture.   We know the Bible is a story of God calling out a people, and in it is revealed His plans and purposes, and many details by which He accomplished it, though some be hard to be understood (2Pet 3:16). 

A similar plan of redemption was probably not put in effect for the Awdawms, and this would explain why the destinations of their disembodied souls differs from those of the anthorpos of this cosmos.  We get a hint of this by turning our attention to Satan.

Atlantis

 Atlanticus Awdawmonus

David Dansker

Published by TheNewsBeats.com

Copyright 2010, all rights reserved.

Introduction

In the Gap

Restoration of Earth

Race of Awdawms

Origin of Demons

Doctrine of Demons

Calling Out a People

Redemption of Satan

Cause of Strandings

Habeas Corpu

Afterword

Doctrine of Demons

The demons, which may be the disembodied spirits of the Awdawms from the Pre-Adamite earth, are sentient.  They possess faculties of intelligence and knowledge acquired over centuries from direct experience and observation. They are better acquainted with us than we are with ourselves, and may pass on information about us to other demons residing in possessed men so that they may appear clairvoyant, or physic, and lead people astray following after them.  Demons are more knowledgeable about the Bible and God’s reveled plans then most of the human race (by comparative example, Satan quotes scripture).   

When Jesus arrived by ship to the country of the Gergesenes he was met by two demon possessed men, and the demons asked if He were going to torment them before the time; thus indicating they know there is an appointed time for their tormenting, and that it did not coincide with the first appearance of Christ (Mat 8:28-29).

The Demons resist the hastening of their fate by opposing Christianity.  They do this by opposing Bible doctrine.  Their strategy is to imitate and replace sound doctrine with their own doctrines.  They use great powers of seduction in getting their own doctrines taught even in the churches; to the extent that many depart from the faith (1Tim 4:1). There artifice is seduction, which they employ to conceive sensuality.  

Is it not a seducing spirit that preaches the doctrine of prosperity for obtaining wealth so that the flesh may be sensually satiated and pampered? 

As we draw closer to the end of the age, demonic activity continually increases (1 Tim 4:1).  This does not mean it can be spotted only in manifestations of demonic influences on isolated individuals, though reports that are hard to be censored due to their public nature are becoming more frequent.  Witness the attack on marriage to destroy it.  The abolition of marriage is a doctrine of demons. 

When demons take control of their victims, they cauterize, or sear, their conscious so that it is rendered unfeeling and thus completely supportive of the lies they tell which are contained in the doctrines of demons (1 Tim 4:2). 

Their doctrine of forbidding to marry is not one of celibacy (1Tim 4:3), but of discontinuing the relationship in order to be promiscuous outside it, and to engage in all manner of perverted sexual behavior.  The rise in divorce and the acceptance of homosexuality in the churches is the success of the doctrine of demons.

The command to abstain from meat is a doctrine of demons (1Tim 4:3).  A vegetarian diet makes a person more susceptible to spiritual forces, and this includes demonic forces as well.  The rise of the animal rights movement is the result of this doctrine of demons. 

The campaigns to reduce phantom carbon footprints by eating less beef, and the push to go to agrarian diets to lessen our impact on mother earth, are the products of this doctrine of demons.  The worshiping of the creatures more than the creator (Rom 1: 25), which is an integral component of the global warming fraud, and that is taking place in the churches, is the success of this doctrine of demons. 

The change in the message churches preach from Christian evangelism to green evangelism is made possible by the embrace of doctrines of demons.  Christians who remain in churches that preach that message are having fellowship with demons.  Those churches that preach that message and continue to take the cup of communion are taking communion with demons, and are partakers of the table of demons (1Cor 10:20-21).

The table of demons is a platform in churches upon which sensuous entertainments of sight and sound are performed in song and lurid dance.  False teachers invest in expensive sound and lighting systems and ply them on congregants to more easily seduce them into doctrines of demons.

These congregants are both acting as one body and are individually responsible for worshiping demons.  We have it on record that ignorance is no excuse for the saint: “Now the Spirit speaketh [teaches] expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils [demons];” (1Ti 4:1).  If you have the spirit of God, you are his, and the Holy Spirit ensures you should know better.  Come out from among them.

People who are fawning over these false teachers, and following them, and floating them financial, are worshiping demons (Rev 9:20).  Their apologists and defenders and disciples are themselves, if they are not possessed outright, under the influence of demons. 

In some cases, false prophets are finally given over to lying spirits to destroy them and their adherents just as the false prophets of old were who lied for Ahab (1 Ki 22:19-23; 2 Thes 2:11). 

Lying spirits are in the mouths of false prophets today who claim to serve the one true God, but teach heresies.  The demons hang from the rafters and sit in the pews waiting for victims turned over to them by the success of those teachers.  The horrible things they do to people once they seize them may, in part, stem from their animus towards us for succeeding them as a race with a special design in play.

By the activity of these spirits it is evident there is an altogether different dispensation of rules for their existence and application of laws which are not applicable to mankind.

There is a trend in scripture pertaining to anthropos, mankind in the lineage of Adam, where their spirits are immediately released upon death and dispatched to their respective destinations; from whence they cannot pass over again to communicate with the living. 

The penitent thief beside Jesus on the cross went to paradise where Jesus met him when he died that day (Lk 23:43).  Paul tells us that for Christians, to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord (2 Cor 5:8). The unrepentant die and go to hell. The rich man who had fared sumptuously, and who died and went to hell, was separated from the beggar Lazarus, who died and was carried by angles to Abraham’s bosom, by an impassible gulf; and he was not permitted to communicate even a warning to his brethren of the torment awaiting the unrepentant (Lk 16:43). 

The question naturally arises as to why demons, as the disembodied spirits of Awdawms, are not spirits confined in some prison, such as hell, but instead are free to roam about like familiar spirits and to communicate their doctrines (Isa 8:19).   

But here an aside must be taken which, though dealing with a different topic, is an important part of the answer.

[Editor’s Note: more on doctrine of demons in the Afterword.]

Atlantis

 Atlanticus Awdawmonus

David Dansker

Published by TheNewsBeats.com

Copyright 2010, all rights reserved.

Introduction

In the Gap

Restoration of Earth

Race of Awdawms

Origin of Demons

Doctrine of Demons

Calling Out a People

Redemption of Satan

Cause of Strandings

Habeas Corpus

Afterword

Origin of Demons

In his second epistle, Peter addressed an argument of the scoffers.  They argued that all things continued the same from the creation.  Certainly, Noah and the human race, and the animals, and the plants that Noah’s flood did not destroy, continued from the antediluvian world after Noah’s flood.  The scoffers did not have their eye on the flood of Noah, but they certainly were not ignorant of it.  If that were the case, Peter would not have described a flood where the world did not continue on its own from creation reproducing life, a flood where the world actually “perished” (ap-ol-loo-mee, G622, to destroy fully, 2Pet 3:6).   

If it were merely a case of the scoffers denying Noah’s flood, Peter would have certainly used Noah’s name in rebutting them.  His audience was as familiar with the account as we are, and so were the scoffers.  For Peter to give details of a flood that don’t include details of an ark, animals, and Noah and his family, also identifies it as a different flood.   

It cannot be said that Peter was generally lax in providing details when he knew them, or was unable to draw them into a small space.  In this same epistle, Peter recounts in succession the angles who had a particular falling, followed by the flooding of Noah’s old world and his deliverance, then the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrha and Lot’s deliverance; and identifying these all by their names (2 Pet 2:4-8).

The reason the account of the perishing flood, which took place prior to Genesis chapter one verse two, is absent of details is because the Bible provides no detailed information as the names of the Awdawms who inhabited it (q.v.), the names of their cities, its duration, or the cause of its destruction (though we know the means). 

The Bible does provide some details, as has been pointed out, and Peter was not only acquainted with them; he also held the scoffers to the same level of familiarity by claiming they were being willfully ignorant of it in making their argument.  The incident, then, appears to have been somewhat common knowledge, what could be known of it, during the time Peter was writing.   

Now we have a different flood, with different Awdawms who were all destroyed in it, and now we may have an explanation as to the origins of demons.  The fallen angels are not to be confused with demons. Angels have bodies.  Demons are disembodied spirits.

After Noah’s flood, God commanded Noah to “replenish the earth” (Gen 9:1), and curiously these are the same instructions given to Adam and Eve after God created them (Gen 1:28).  It is not so curious an instruction if we admit the earth was plenished prior to Adam and Eve, as it was prior to Noah’s flood.  That race of Awdawms may have resembled us closely in physical form, and had similar passions as we possess.  They also would have been living souls; souls that would have been unclothed by the destruction of the world that was in the heavens of old. 

As disembodied souls, they are unable to indulge themselves in their lusts, and this would explain why they take possession of humans, and why demon possessed people are given to satiating their flesh with all manner of sinful behavior.  Their manner is often so depraved that, in gratifying their physical sensualities, they wear their victims out in a horribly destructive manner. 

They also commit heinous crimes of the most brutal and diabolical nature for their own amusement. 

Demons exert power over their hosts by causing dumbness (Mat 9:32-33),  blindness (Mat 12:22), and driving them insane (Lk 8:26-35).  The Awdawms could have been much stronger than men, for when demons possess them they can obtain supernatural strength (Lk 8:29).  If this were the extent of demonic activity, as terrible as is, our attention might be confined rebuking their hindrance to the gospel, and to the physical relief and spiritual redemption of individuals. 

There is another communicable evil in demonism that is even more destructive, and which is a persistent opposition we continually wrestle against (Eph 5:11; 6:12).

Atlantis

 Atlanticus Awdawmonus

David Dansker

Published by TheNewsBeats.com

Copyright 2010, all rights reserved.

Introduction

In the Gap

Restoration of Earth

Race of Awdawms

Origin of Demons

Doctrine of Demons

Calling Out a People

Redemption of Satan

Cause of Strandings

Habeas Corpus

Afterword

Race of Awdawms

If we entertain now this other interpretation of the Genesis account, questions arise as to how long the earth remained a desolated ruin, and why the earth, created to be inhabited, became a desolation and ruin, and how the earth became without form, and void.  The first question cannot be answered, but the second may be speculated upon if the answer to how the earth became that way is accepted, and the details of the account are given their natural interpretation.

These details come in a vision the Lord gave to Jeremiah:

I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light. I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly. I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled. I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger. (Jer 4:23-26; emphasis added)

Here, the condition of the earth is described by Jeremiah exactly in the same way it is given in Genesis prior to God removing it from that condition, but with some added details. 

Again, we are presented with an earth that was “without form and void,” and there also was darkness as no light penetrated through the heavens.  The prophet adds that the fruitful place, or the fields, orchards and vineyards, were made into a wilderness.  Further, he adds that cities had also existed and were broken down. 

This destruction seems to have been accomplished by catastrophic earth quakes; which came about when the Lord God came and destroyed it all in his fierce anger, or wrath, and the destruction was so complete that no man, or no adam (aw-dawm, H120; human being, or person) was present or survived it.   

If we allow that the topography of the earth was different and the fountains of the deep that assisted in Noah’s flood were also accessible, it is easy to see that such earthquakes would precede a world flood.

Now from this vision given the Jeremiah, it would appear that the earth, originally created to be inhabited, was inhabited by a race of Awdawms, and that they, no doubt assisted, eventually did such evil as to provoke the Lord to destroy them off the face of the earth.  After the destruction of that race, the Lord put the earth in cold storage.

This interpretation would give scientists their due if they are actually able to date rocks, but that is all it would give them. 

Alternately, a preexisting earth that was populated, and that sank to such an evil state that every imagination of their heart was to do evil continually, so that God repented that he made them and decided to destroy the Awdawms and all the other creatures, would give more to the Christian.    

It’s true that the above scenario is borrowed from the era of Noah’s flood.  It’s not true that Noah’s flood is the one Peter references in chapter three of his second epistle (2 Pet 3:3-6)

Atlantis

 Atlanticus Awdawmonus

David Dansker

Published by TheNewsBeats.com

Copyright 2010, all rights reserved.

Introduction

In the Gap

Restoration of Earth

Race of Awdawms

Origin of Demons

Doctrine of Demons

Calling Out a People

Redemption of Satan

Cause of Strandings

Habeas Corpus

Afterword

Restoration of Earth

Instead of containing language describing the genesis of materials, the passage on the reorganization of the earth has the distinct tone of sorting out preexisting things.  In the first day, God turns a light on (Gen 1:2).  This is not the creation of the sun, or all the other stars, or even the creation of light itself.  It is the illumination of a planet which was shrouded in darkness bought into a resurrection day, and God called the darkness night, and the light day.

On the second day, God divided the waters to create the atmosphere which contains water in it and sometimes forms into clouds. Notice, of all the works in the six days this is the only one for which its end does not include the words “and God saw that it was good.” This may be because the Prince of the power of the air and his subordinate principalities, and the demons immediately, and in some case gradually, made the atmosphere their home (Eph 2:2; 6:12). 

On the third day, God gathered the waters on earth together in order for the dry land to appear, and not to be created.  Then, God commands that the seeds which already were “upon the earth” germinate and produce (Gen 2:11-13).

On the fourth day, the clouds break and the sunlight and moonlight can reach the earth.  When God says he “made” this happen, the word is not the same as the word “created” in verse one; it is an act of bringing something about, not creating things (cf baw-raw, H1254, to create; aw-saw, H6213, to do or make). 

God does not begin creating anything new until the fifth day where fish and fowls are created.  On the sixth day, God creates animals, and man.  Notice that all living creatures procreated immediately “after their kind,” and this is made very clear by the term being repeated five times.  There were no intermediate life forms.

This is only a brief description of the six days of restoration and creation, and it is from the perspective that earth was created earlier before this week of days.  The days of this week are literal twenty-four hour days, clearly identified by their components of mornings and evenings.  

Certainly, a reading of Genesis chapter one can easily produce the commonly held interpretation the earth was created in this week.  If that were not the case, then so many learned and reputable men would not have held the view.  Unfortunately, some of our learned men of today are unnecessarily beside themselves to devote study to what is germane to the subject.  

Of the contemporary arguments for a young earth, many articulate a defense aimed more at refuting Darwinian evolution then examining the text for variant readings.  Many are diverted to entering into another argument altogether over a popular theory in science which is by no means central to the examination, but the fear of it leads good men to see its efficacy looming so strong besides them that they are compelled to turn aside to address it. 

Consequently, a straw man receives too much attention, and Christians are admonished, at length, to accept a young earth explanation because it would make our lives less complicated, and because to consider an older earth would be tantamount to conceding too much valuable ground to the evolutionists.  From this concern, talks that are scheduled with provocative titles promising to explain why the earth looks so old spend little time on actually doing so, and degenerate into making contiguous all other Bible doctrines to a young earth,  and urging the door be bared against an old earth least evolution get its it foot in too and all the dominos fall. 

It is painful to witness some men of high stature so misapply their skills.  Fortunately, the bankrupt and easily discredited theory of evolution was not always so frightful to other men. 

In times past, other learned men in the faith did not see the earth’s creation in Genesis chapter one, verse two, nor feel threatened by scientists espousing naturalism.  The view that the earth was created before Genesis verse two is by no means a new one.  The interpretation is at least several hundred years old when dated by works from competent Bible expositors, and it appears to have been the view that was popular two centuries ago; in the first century church.  Further, a world that existed before this one, and was destroyed, may even be a fact that was known thousands of years ago by men inspired by God.     

Atlantis

 Atlanticus Awdawmonus

David Dansker

Published by TheNewsBeats.com

Copyright 2010, all rights reserved.

Introduction

In the Gap

Restoration of Earth

Race of Awdawms

Origin of Demons

Doctrine of Demons

Calling Out a People

Redemption of Satan

Cause of Strandings

Habeas Corpus

Afterword

In the Gap

Where the Bible is silent, we may speculate.  As long as that speculation does not contradict the Bible, and is consistent with the character of God and His plans and purposes for the ages; entertaining some speculations should not divide us.  There have been reputable and learned Christian expositors who have found silence between the first and second verses in Genesis chapter one.

The Genesis account that has been interpreted to be both an account of the creation of earth and the creation of man in short successive acts may only in fact be the restoration of earth and the creation of a new creature to inhabit it. 

Indeed, the first verse in the Bible identifies God as the creator, and when taken with the second verse we specifically learn that, in their respective beginnings, God created heaven and the earth, and he created man.  There is, however, something we are presented with in verse two that does not immediately follow verse one. 

When God sets about to create man we are at the same time presented with an earth in a condition that is uninhabitable.  Many have assumed that the account of earth’s condition changing from that point leading up to man’s creation was a part of the earth’s original creation process. 

Actually, the details associated with preparing the earth for habitation seem more consistent with a process of restoration rather than a process of creation.  The implication: the earth described in Genesis chapter one, verse two, is an earth which was created some time before in verse one, and it had become a desolation before being approached again in verse two:

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. (Gen 1:1)

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” (Gen 1:2).

The Bible tells us that “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth” (Gen 1:1).  Elsewhere in scripture we also learn the earth was created to be inhabited, and that the process of its creation did not include a period where it lay as a formless desolation:

For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain [to-hoo, 8414, “without form” (Gen 1:2); a desolation], he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD ; and there is none else. (Isa 45:18; emphasis and Strongs added)

It does not comport with the intention of creating the earth to place it for an indeterminable amount of  time as a waste and ruin; as is described in the second verse in Genesis, chapter one:

And the earth was without form, and void [to-hoo, 8414, a desolation; bo-hoo, 922, an undistinguishable ruin]; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. (Gen 1:2; emphasis and Strongs added)

This is the condition of the earth when God approaches it, the Spirit of God moves upon the face to the waters, and begins His work on it.  The earth and the deep were all created in another separate act back in the beginning, and here the Lord is performing a different act; one of restoration.  This is why no details are provided as to the actual creation of land, or of water (an indispensable feature for earth to support life).

Atlantis

 Atlanticus Awdawmonus

David Dansker

Published by TheNewsBeats.com

Copyright 2010, all rights reserved.

Introduction

In the Gap

Restoration of Earth

Race of Awdawms

Origin of Demons

Doctrine of Demons

Calling Out a People

Redemption of Satan

Cause of Strandings

Habeas Corpus

Afterword

 

Introduction

The idea that the earth may be older than a few thousand years is a heretical one for many Christians.  The concern is that if an additional number of years numbering in the millions, or even billions, were added to the age of the earth it would contradict the creation account in the Bible.  By tracing genealogies beginning at Adam, and allowing for the extra hundreds of years people live prior to the flood, the age of the  earth has been estimated to be anywhere from six to fifteen thousand years or so.   It is feared by some that not one, but two consequences of acknowledging that the earth existed many years before man was created on it would be a capitulation on the order of spelling the end of faith. 

In addition to seeing the Bible discredited, it would follow that the competing narrative for creation fills the whole space and thus reigns supreme.  It is thought that by pondering an older earth the evolutionists will be given a concession necessary to their argument that man was created by the process of evolving, and independent of any outside forces other then nature.  While it is true that a vast amount of time is an essential component to their theory, it is not sufficient to establish it as fact.

There are two other supports that must be obtained and established before evolutionists may rest their argument on a firm foundation, and these they will never possess.  The first of these missing elements is proof, and the second requirement is to demonstrate that God is a liar.

The litany of discredited artifacts and bones and supposedly replicated processes that were once advanced as proof, and that were later discovered to be misidentified, misdated,  invalid, or hoaxes, and which were nonetheless embraced by science until their unraveling is a subject for another paper.  The scandals have been addressed by competent authors and may be easily obtained.  The point has been made as sharp as it needs to be to puncture; there is no proof, and the Bible makes it clear will there ever be any proof of Darwinian evolution.   

The Bible tells us that God formed man from the dust of the ground, and that he was completely formed up to his nostrils before God breathed the breath of life into him (Gen 2:7).  As the word of God refutes the evolutionists, their theory is clearly a fraud, and as the theory allows for no evolution of inanimate objects, not even the heresy of theistic evolution can be coaxed out of creation account. 

As to the veracity of the account, we need only know that “God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?” (Num 23:19).  God is not a liar. 

With these unfailing assurances, we are unfettered to approach the Bible on its own terms.

[For a more thorough understanding of the immediate creation of Man and the biblical refutation of Darwinian evolution; see “Immediate Man“. Sciences disprove theory of evolution; see “Disease Disproves Theory of Evolution.” Media bias in reporting on evolution; see “‘Evolutionis’ in Three Murders has Deadly Past”]