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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

 

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 Description -This video is interresting because it gives a rare glimpes of something trying to escape from the ocean floor.  It was taken at the Deep Water Horizon site where it is thought that methane gas is escaping.

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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For our conversation [citizenship] is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself. (Php 3:20-21)

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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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Works Consulted:

Alexander Hislop, The Two Babylons, Third Edition (Loizeaux Brothers: 1916; 1943; 1959).

Boris Culik, Kiel, “Globicephala macrorhynchus Gray,” Whales & Dolphins, CMS, 2003 (accessed 2008). http://www.cms.int/reports/small_cetaceans/data/G_macrorhynchus/g_macrorhynchus.htm

G. H. Pember, Earth’s Earliest Ages, New Edition (Hodder Stoughton, 1876; Kregel Publications, 2005).

Phillip E. Johnson, Darwin On Trail, Second Edition (Inter-Varsity Press: 1993).

Phillip E. Johnson, Reason in the Balance: The Case Against Naturalism in Science, Law & Education (Inter-Varsity Press: 1995).

Clarence Larkin, Dispensational Truth: God’s Plan and Purpose in the Ages, Revised Edition (Rev. Clarence Larkin Est., 1918; Rev. Clarence Larkin Est., 1920).

Clarence Larkin, The Book of Revelation: A Study of The Last Prophetic Book of Holy Scripture (Erwin W. Moyer Co., 1919).

Clarence Larkin, Rightly Dividing The Word (Rev. Clarence Larkin Est.: 1920).

Clarence Larkin, The Spirit World (Rev. Clarence Larkin Est., 1921).

Merrell F. Unger, Biblical Demonology: A study of the Spiritual Forces at Work Today, (Scripture Press, 1963; Dregel Publications, 1994).

Merrell F. Unger, Unger’s Commentary on the Old Testament, (AMG Publishers: 1981; 2002).

Jonathan Wells, Icons of Evolution: Science or Myth? (Regency Publishing: 2000).

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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

 

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

 

 

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”]

Many civic minded individuals with religious convictions have joined together in the Manhattan Declaration to declare their opposition to abortion and support of marriage, among other socially redeeming values.  Except for other signers, it might be only the commendable exertion of civic duty on the part of the citizenry that could be praised much in the same way as their registering to vote, though garnering more of it from those who agree with their position.  What has turned this otherwise fair lesson in civics, however, into a debacle is the assortment of religious leaders who are now also in league together by their own declaration.

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